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Brisketexan

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  1. Y'all get it. The off-ramps are there. The cult will take them.
  2. No shit. That's why these days, I only read Mack Bolan books.
  3. You're wrong. In an instant, they'll rationalize how it's actually a GOOD thing. See my other posts on this point. It's a cult. He has been elevated to God. That's how it goes.
  4. No. The GQP in total is ride-or-die with Trump and Trumpism. And that's actually the right move for them at this point -- they are so far committed to this thing, that they can't deviate even a millimeter from "Trump is an immortal God and we will do whatever he says for eternity." If he fucking dies behind closed doors, we won't even know about it for a year. They'll Weekend at Bernies and deepfake his ass for as long as they can. Trump is the GQP. The GQP is Trump. There is no Dana, only Zuul.
  5. "Shit....'future president,' that's all you had to say!"
  6. Fuck you, Grok says I'm awesome.
  7. The answer to "what good thing can happen?" in this timeline is always "nothing." So...yeah. Nothing.
  8. The lemur community is not amused by your shenanigans.
  9. Every post on the football board:
  10. So, what you're saying is that this thread title should be changed to "Fuck future POTUS, Bo French?"
  11. You are wrong. They like it. You know what's super-duper alpha? Imposing your will on others, and they can't do a fucking thing about it. This is the MAGA way. Displays of power, demonstrating that you are so powerful that you are above consequences, is an essential part of the brand. Raping minors and getting away with it is a MAGA triumph, not a MAGA flaw.
  12. Discussed this earlier with GOLL. On the defense side, I suspect a good bit of the work and strategy is going to be to try to protect the individual defendants and their assets. That is, a defense that focuses on the fact that the proper defendant is a corporation, and there's no good basis to "pierce the corporate veil." The corporate defendant is fucked. But the individual Eastlands and such may be protectable. We'll see.
  13. Haven't read enough King to have a truly encyclopedic take. I read The Body as a stand-alone, not as part of the Different Seasons collection. Read pretty much everything McMurtry wrote, though. And my mother was a trained dramatic actress (state champ, that sort of thing). I recall her reading Texasville aloud on a road trip one year; she did all the characters with different voices and inflections and whatnot (these were her people, after all). It was actually brilliant, and maybe my first "audiobook" experience after my childhood experiences of mom reading books to me as a toddler and such. On trips with my family to west Texas a few times, I read some Hank the Cowdog books aloud, same style (made sure to have a proper voice and approach for each character). We loved those experiences. But for the most part, the speed thing is what gets me. An audiobook that takes 8 hours to play out, I can usually read in 2-3 hours or less.
  14. The Shining movie IS better than the book. But the ONLY one? Stand By Me would like a word.
  15. Didn't want to have to give away your seat on the ledge.
  16. Dude, are you me? I'm a fast reader, and I can paint imagery and nuance in my head, as I read, better than most any audiobook I've ever listened to. When I read something that's just incredible prose, I may read it multiple times. Not because I don't understand it, but because I want to feel it wash over me in different ways.
  17. Except in just the past few years, we have examples of massive, deadly floods at "unprecedented" levels that happened in identical geography just a few miles away (talk to folks in Wimberly). Any reasonable person (esp. one living in/near the hill country) knows that "unprecedented" flooding doesn't mean "impossible" flooding -- it actually means "the kind of shit that is happening with increasing frequency." And "nobody could have known this would be this dangerous or could have done anything to protect against the outcome" isn't going to sell when upstream properties literally DID anticipate the risk, monitor the risk, and take real-time action to protect life and property. Not only could it be done, it WAS done. Just not by Mystic.
  18. Fuck that. It's like you haven't heard of this thing called "all the alcohol."
  19. FUCKING YES. I've given that rant on plays (esp. Shakespeare, who I love) since I was 14. We read Taming of the Shrew. It was fine. Then I saw a live performance, and I GOT IT. In fact, I LOVED IT (it remains my favorite SP comedy). Making people read something that is meant to be either watched or performed is stupid.
  20. I didn't take Classic Civ till fall of 90. The semester I started dating my now-wife, who was BIG into Classic Civ. I was, ummm, not a particularly focused student. Had a test coming up on the Iliad, which I 100% had not even cracked open. Thought I'd hit up this cute girl to give me the story. Dumbass I was. She decided she wanted me to learn. So, she starts with "okay....so you've read the Odyssey, right? And you know that's about the trip back from the Trojan war. The Iliad happens before the Odyssey, so....what do you think it's about?" Displaying my best Brian Reagan face... I answered "uhhh......Ilia?" 35 years later, she has NEVER let me forget that.
  21. You should be worried about both. America is a perfect toxic stew of stupid and evil right now, and it tastes like it.
  22. Shades of "Soviet solider at the Katyn Forest Massacre implored his colleagues to slow down on the killing, they're running low on ammo, so he's a hero." Fucking hell. "I was aware of massive child sexual abuse, but hey, I asked the abuser to stop" is pretty much the perfect "I'm the good guy" moral flex for this wretched era. It will work.
  23. I'm pretty sure there were 400 separate IP violations in that clip. Didn't license the song, didn't license the clip from car commercials, movie sequences, etc., to be used for political purposes....in violation of the Hatch Act. At this point, the administration's consistent, repeated, and flagrant disregard for intellectual property -- layered on using it for illegal purposes -- merits a blanket injunction against using ANY licensable material without prior consent. Seriously, there's a viable suit to be filed and pursued there.
  24. Aunt Mavis knew what was UP.
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