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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Brisketexan replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
My wife LOVES Warren. Like, has the sign and the t shirt. My wife also has three degrees and is very smart. ANY Dem appealing to her is preaching to the choir. We don’t need to be speaking to her. We need to be speaking to the Hispanic males in the Calley who didn’t just turn towards Trump, they did so AGAINST THEIR INTERESTS. Trump sold macho bullshit and told blatant - but sweet - lies about how brilliant the economy would be under him, and how everything bad that has ever happened is due to Biden. Dems have to tell counter-lies (oversell what you can do on the economy, and WAY oversell how much Trump shit hurts, which is an easy sell). And run a man, who can sell man stuff. Because not only do men want a manly man…a lot of women do too (the demographic in this country LEAST likely to ever vote for a woman is a set of women, actually). On the shutdown, sell how the republicans are making your healthcare costs go up RIGHT NOW, to make billionaires rich. We’re just going to stand here until they fix what they’ve broken. -
QF emphasis. And if you want to know the biggest thing I criticize Biden about, it's that -- he was a chief architect and proponent of it (Senator from Delaware, bitch-boy for the financial services folks). The bankruptcy reform bill was and remains utter fuckery.
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What everyone needs to realize - universities, businesses, EVERYONE -- is that when "plata o plomo" is on the table (and that's absolutely what this, and all of the administration's garbage, is -- either appease us and be favored by us, or do not appease us and be punished)....you have a choice of HOW and maybe WHEN you will suffer, but not IF you will suffer. Defy the admin? Suffer now. BUT, maintain your integrity going forward. Appease the admin? Suffer more, later. Because now, THEY OWN YOU. And you are beholden to them. So the next demand they make . . . you won't even be in the position to defy/turn it down. You just have to keep bowing, and keep bending, lower and lower, until you are belly crawling for their amusement. Accept that there is no current "winning" move. But there is a move that sets you up to lose less. And that move is never, ever appeasement.
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Good memory, dude. It remains our only major "travel crime" incident. And now that the boy has multiple Ukrainian friends, that story gets told at one point or another, and every last one of them is mortified and apologetic. One "upside" that may come from this is the purposeful and deliberate accelerating rejection of Russian culture (which is one of pure corruption and crime) and a turn towards more western norms of the rule of law. The young generation very much wants to show the world "we're not all Russian-controlled corrupt bandits," and are going out of their way to make that distinction obvious. TLDR; nothing will make you turn away from a culture faster than that culture invading and bombing your country.
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You mean like the constant screeching of "we're seeing crime at levels no one has ever seen before!" in cities where....the crime right is and has been steadily DECLINING? You know, just to pluck an example out of the air at random.
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Other than "OU sucks," there has never been a truer statement posted on this board. Ironclad. All of the Trumpers around here who love to rant about the "free shit army" look right past the fact that -- particularly in terms of total dollars -- the Republican voter "free shit army" is the largest army the world has ever seen. But that's okay, because they are all patriots, and the backbone of America, and they paid their dues, and blah blah blah. They're white people who voted for Trump, that's the only thing that matters, and that's why they think it's super cool that our welfare spigot is turned even higher.
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I know, right? America was made great by Europeans, and all performances should feature the first European language spoken in the United States! Right?
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No thread about the rapey Texas megachurch guy?
Brisketexan replied to Gil Bang's topic in Daily Texan
And be a member of the favored class. If he'd have been trans or someone who once wore drag, how do you think it would have gone? "He's a good Christian man" works about like this in this era: -
What I find fascinating is that this great "crisis" in higher ed is almost entirely made up. For real. To get an accurate picture, measure things RELATIVELY. Yep, academia has more hippie-dippie leftist types in it.....just like it did in the 60s, 70s, 80s, etc. FFS, it was a discussion and a real thing when I was on campus, back in the days of popped collars and sorority girls wearing wind shorts. Is it materially greater/worse, than it was before? Nope. Higher education typically leads to more nuanced, moderated thinking. Sorry, conservatives, that's just the way it be. Kind of like traveling makes it much less likely that you'll be a xenophobic bigot. Foreign students? Same deal. DEI and affirmative action? Well, first....the venom for "DEI" is utterly insane bullshit. DEI efforts do not grant admission preferences. Instead, they do things like increase recruiting at historically underrepresented high schools and communities, offer college readiness/prep to students in those schools, and provide resources for them when the get here because they have fewer such resources than students from college-educated families. Sorry, guys, but the reality is that the American legacy of racial discrimination has a LONG tail when it comes to education, success, and family wealth. We locked black people out of home ownership/owning homes in valuable neighborhoods for generations, so their ability to build equity wealth that passed on was sharply limited, and that takes generations to fix. And no, the students at Westlake and Alamo Heights don't need to be recruited, don't need to be offered college readiness assistance. Honestly, I think that UT's top 10% (or top 5% or whatever it is these days) does a decent job of getting a diverse student body, but the kid who is top 5% at Shit Hole High still needs to know what UT has to offer, and may need some help navigating UT once he gets here, because he's the first kid in his family to go to college. "Merit-based" but "ignore that some people are born on 3rd base while others have to sneak into the stadium" is a shitty approach to building an educated population. And I say this as a college-prep educated kid, son of a college grad with kids who were raised by people with 5 degrees between them. Cool, my kids had every advantage, and they will find success. But we're also helping a refugee, first-gen American with few resources navigate the college process now, and it's a very different game. If America in the next generation is going to prosper, that kid needs to get the full benefits of higher ed as well. We should all be in favor of that. Tuition? Now THAT is a worthwhile conversation. Relatively speaking (I really like the metric of "how many hours a week would you have to work to pay your tuition, room, and board?"), it's gone way up. Real action needs to be taken, some of it shouldn't be pleasant (e.g., free flow of student loan dollars had a "pump up the money supply, you inflate prices to match" effect). But this shit? It's thought control bullshit, and that's their open goal. Stop pretending it's anything but that.
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Your disrespect of Elvis Presto is duly noted.
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Ok…he wasn’t parked….but dear lord, did he hit the douchebaggery hard. I introduce you to…the man with the smallest dick in the world.
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VERY humble. We were definitely on a budget that trip. And the flight from Kyiv to Yerevan? Shit, there may have been livestock on it.
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Huh, cool artifact I found in the back of our closet (we’re cleaning all of it out). 2017 flight to Kyiv on UIA. We already avoided any routing that took us over eastern Ukraine, because fuck Russia shooting down civilian planes. No idea why I kept it.
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Bend the knee? Dudes. IT's much more than that. Y'all must have missed where we changed the UT motto from "Disciplina Praesidium Civitatis" to....
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Well, I mean.....October hasn't happened yet, so "zero homicides for the month" isn't exactly a great flex.
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When Uzuni is shooting them, we have a shitty conversion rate. I put twice as much pepper on my PKs, and I’m old and I suck and I’m not getting paid $12 million.
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Tell him I kicked the shit out of Koch last I went up against 'em. They're bullies, but not nearly the strategic thinkers they make themselves out to be. In my work with people in that community, the uniform assessment of any senior Koch employees was "yeah, they really expect you to drink the kool-aid over there." Sounds like your friend is a perfect fit.
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Well, yeah....now THAT fuckstick can pick up the tab for your kids at the State Fair.
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Because "MAGA" and "strategic thinking" mix less well than oil and water.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Brisketexan replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
This guy knows what's up. And remember, every single Trump supporter on this board is going to be 100% ok with that. All of it. Every last bit of it. See, e.g., @Enchubben. He may tell you today that he wouldn't support that....but when it actually happens, he'll both diminish it and back it. -
"Side of catfish" is sexy too. Hell, a threesome involving me, "side of fried chicken," and "side of catfish" sounds mighty fine.
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So long as the missus tells me all about it....slowly....
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We're dealing with the idiocy of an approach of "there are some flaws in a global free trade system, including the fact that certain people in certain economies do not get what they feel is a fair share of the benefits of that trade" [this is true, by the way], so the solution is "blow the whole fucking thing to smithereens." It's the internet joke of solving the problem of a spider in your house by burning your entire house down. The house/global trade has brought us tremendous prosperity, jobs, and opportunity. Yes, it has done so in ways that are uneven and require adjustments. Any complex system will do that -- have pros and cons. But when you look at the MASSIVE pros....and instead look right past them, to the cons, and looking ONLY at the cons, decide "let's trash the whole fucking thing," it's insanity. Truly, it's among the dumbest moves I've ever seen.
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Brisketexan: "It would be fair, in order to apologize for rudely failing to join Brisketexan for a passion-filled weekend at a mountain cabin with a hot tub and killer views, for Sela Ward to to join Brisketexan for a passion-filled weekend at a mountain cabin with a hot tub and killer views." I mean, that logic is pretty unassailable.
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So, anyone have experience with the TSA process at ABIA during a gov't shutdown? Wife and I have a flight on Friday, trying to figure out how much of a cluster it will be.
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