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Brisketexan

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  1. There are some shortcuts to figuring out which side is the bad actor vs. good actor (while acknowledging the human reality that nobody in any conflict in the history of ever has worn a perfectly white hat or perfectly black hat)....check in with the people who know the players best. Check with the people of Finland, which was invaded by Russia. Russia attacked, conducted a naked land grab, and still subjugates and holds Karelia. Check with the people of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, who have suffered Russian invasion several times, most recently in WWII, when Russia flat-out seized them as "Soviet Republics." Check with Poland, which was a client state fully controlled by Russia as a Warsaw Pact country during the Cold War. The overwhelming sentiment is that they fucking HATE Russia and the Russians. Sure, there are local sympathizers, but the great weight is "Fuck Russia." And it's not fucking subtle. Go to Estonia, and tell them "hey, just bend over and take it, let Russia occupy you -- after all, your mere existence, what with all of your talking with and cooperating with western powers, is an unacceptably aggressive threat, and you're really asking for it." Please do that. So I can watch some dude in Tallinn beat your ass. Do it in Helsinki, where they have every bridge between them and Russia rigged to position explosives to blow it, because they fucking know Russia and what Russia does. If you actually know Russia, and have experience with Russia - unless, of course, you are using Russian support to prop you up in power that you otherwise couldn't hold on to because your own people don't want you there (looking at you, Lukashenko) - you loathe Russia. To know them is to loathe them. Ana over here spouting Lavrov's daily newsletter word-for-word is perfection. True perfection.
  2. I mean....her pics look pretty normal. She's actually plenty cute enough, nice figure. Objectively, a woman who should have no trouble securing a dude who is NOT a murdering psycho. Yet, that's exactly what she goes for, citing all kinds of bizarre shit. Dear lord, can you imagine how batshit crazy she actually is?
  3. I suspect you're violating the shit outta their right #6, you asshole.
  4. Of course you do. Because that's what Lavrov wants....and you never once ponder why. Say....do we have a rather long, recent, and documented history of Russia interfering in and manipulating Ukrainian elections? Of course we do....which is exactly why Russia is bucking for them. Not because Russia thinks that's what the Ukrainian people want, but because Russia KNOWS they can manipulate the results in their favor. If you wanted free and fair elections, that might be credible. You don't, because while it is under relentless attack by Russia, including every asymmetrical angle possible, the prospect of free and fair elections in Ukraine is zero. Which, of course, you know. And of course you do. Because it would violate the Ukrainian constitution to hold an election during wartime. Even the Ukrainian opposition agrees. Again, the Ukrainian people and opposition are perfectly capable of putting their foot down and saying "enough, damn the Constitution, we need an election." They have not done so. The only party that has done so has been....Russia. And now its new ally, the Trump regime. Your unflinching and undistinguishable parroting of statements right out of Lavrov's mouth is perfection. It's not often someone makes my point for me as bullseye-accurately as you continue to do.
  5. If we're going to war against every country that has a man in it who Melania would rather fuck instead of donnie boy.....
  6. How about we let the Ukrainian people say when they've had enough of fighting for their homeland? It's their home. They get to decide how hard they want to fight for it. I can certainly see how they didn't want to seek terms of honorable surrender to Russia in 2022. Having your countrymen subjected to a cleansing operation tends to influence such things. I know that doesn't fit Lavrov's/Ana's narrative, but that's the difference in the approaches. The Ukrainian people have chosen to fight against an invader who began a war by butchering Ukrainian civilians, and continues to attack them functionally every single day. I believe we should support them. Ana, on the other hand, believes that we should reward the people who created the images above, and continue to do so every day. Because really, we can't blame them. They HAD to do it. They had no choice. Did you see what Ukraine was wearing?
  7. Huh. The draft bill I keep sending to my legislators in Austin is better...
  8. .....and of boosting the Russian threat to perform the exact same geopolitical function (incentivizing nuclear armament of any number of states) that he claims to be so steadfastly against when he can point his finger at the US. Ana is not in any way, shape, or form concerned about aggression by large, nuclear armed states incentivizing nuclear proliferation. He is 100% in favor of it, and openly favors REWARDING it and thus incentivizing it, when it's Russia as the actor. Russia does it = fully support it, and it's all the West's fault anyway, look how they were dressed, they were asking for it, you can't blame Russia for invading its neighbor, relentlessly attacking civilian targets, using systematic rape and murder of civilians in Bucha etc. as a tool. US does it = WARMONGERS! MAKING THE WORLD LESS SAFE! "Both sides" my ass. Ana has one side, and no guiding principles. Everything he laments happens and is evident in spades on his chosen side, and he whistles right past them. His posts could come straight from Lavrov's keyboard and you'd never know the difference.
  9. The fact that every one of these dipshits doesn't realize that "being brown/not being a perfectly white 'murican" is "probable cause" for detention/arrest by this regime blows me away. They are what they said they were.
  10. Well, to take the punches that I certainly deserve....I didn't really figure it out/click until 2008, when I realized that what I thought was fringe idiocy of people like Pat Buchanan actually became the dominant ethos of half of America. I've said it before, but it bears repeating: the election of Barack Obama in 2008 was the most catastrophic event to strike this country since Pearl Harbor. Not because of him, but because of what electing a black man president awakened and infuriated. I naively thought our country wouldn't/couldn't go full retrograde. I was so, so, so wrong. And, having felt the sting and responsibility for being so, so, so wrong....I've lived with my eyes wide open ever since. Once you see the horror unfolding, you can't see anything else, and you can't look away. And you can't understand how other people can't see it. It's a bit Fields of Dreams-ish - even Timothy Busfield, once he saw the reality in front of him in the cornfield, couldn't look away, and joined in the rest of the protagonists in not understanding how anyone could miss it. So, mea culpa. I was blind and stupid. But the only thing worse than having been blind and stupid would be to stubbornly continue to be blind and stupid out of pointless pride.
  11. This country's concept of "freedom" is the most broken-brained bullshit imaginable. We've completely lost any line between "can" and "should." Instead, we've turned "can" into "must" as a purity test. Someone in authority recommends that I do not hammer a nail through my dick. "Oh yeah? Well, I got the freedom to nail a hammer through my dick if I wanna!" BANG BANG BANG [resulting in bleeding dick with nail through it]. "See there? I done showed YOU!" Toddler-level oppositional defiance order is our national ethos. And it's every bit as stupid and harmful as you'd expect it to be. Also, on the pastor level....I do find it fascinating that on the one hand, these types scream from the pulpit about their flock's "FREEDOM! WE AIN'T GONNA DO WHAT THE GUBMINT TELLS US TO DO!"....as they simultaneously pour all of their effort and money into turning our government....into a Christian Theocracy, where everyone will...."HAFTA DO WHAT THE RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT OF THE LORD TELLS 'EM TO DO!" Dumbest. Fucking. Timeline.
  12. Your cover of Wang Dang Sweet Poontang is indeed transcendent, I'm not gonna lie.
  13. For my frozen dessert needs back in those days -- which were usually related to a date or somesuch -- I took a lady to Amy's or even Baskin Robbins on the drag. A shake from Mad Dogs or Players was also in the mix. I lived a couple of blocks away from TCBY for 4 years, and I truly can't recall ever going there. And when I drive by it now....I have NEVER seen a car there or person inside getting yogurt. Makes me wish I was an owner, because whatever the scam is....it must be lucrative as hell.
  14. Imagine thinking that a strategy that incentivizes numerous additional nation states becoming nuclear armed (if you don't have a nuclear deterrent right now, you should get one) is the one that's LESS likely to lead to nuclear conflict. We've had proxy conflicts between nuclear powers. Several of them....see the mid-20th century, including a complex and ongoing "Cold War" during that period. Nuclear proliferation was relatively limited during that period (some additional nation states acquired nukes, but a whole bunch did not). Hell, nuclear proliferation was REDUCED at the end of the Cold War by promising former Soviet Republics that their security and independence would be guaranteed if they gave up their nukes (Russia being one of the parties making that promise.....which it has broken the hell out of). If you are interested in making nuclear conflict LESS likely, then a path that draws the line here and now, and shows nation states that they do not need to obtain their own nukes to become a porcupine too prickly to swallow is the smart path. Ana is 100% opposed to that path. Indeed, he favors only one path: full capitulation to Russia (who has no fault or responsibility for anything that has happened, because the west was "asking for it" when......Ukraine actually resisted and fought back against a corrupt Russian puppet in Yanukovych -- you can't blame Russia for getting mad that it couldn't keep a completely controlled puppet government in place in a purportedly "independent" country!) Full capitulation....to nuclear blackmail. Yeah, that SURELY won't lead to other states worried about a similar fate getting nukes of their own (and why shouldn't they be worried -- our approach to Ukraine tells them "look, if you want to have a fighting chance, you best get some nukes of your own"). Nevermind the fact that this take -- which purports to be super-concerned about anything seen as anti-democratic or less than pure in Ukraine -- ignores the MASSIVE such failings and bullshit from Russia on the same front. Imagine 1) complaining about a country not having a perfect democracy, 2) having some dangerous/cruel ideology in segments of its society, 3) being combative......and then concluding YEP, Russia is the good guy! Log in your own eye, to cry about the speck in Ukraine's. Nobody is lily-white on this earth. But to relentlessly champion Putin's oligarchical autocratic kleptocracy....well, that certainly is a take.
  15. Oh, I have (it's been a while). Trust me, I know how to get punched pretty hard and bleed. Hell, that's why I decided I didn't like fighting much as I matured: even when you "win," the other guy usually lands a few, and punches hurt. Also, chicks hated it when dudes fought, and when I was out and about and tensions got high to where a fight was possible, I was also likely at a bar or somesuch trying to meet girls. End up in fight with random dumbass vs. chat up the cute brunette with the button nose at the end of the bar? No-brainer, man. But what I'm suggesting is not exactly novel. It's right out of the civil rights movement and Ghandi's nonviolent resistance. Make the oppressor take offensive, brutal action against you in the light of day. Those sorts of images turn the stomach of civilized people, or even people who like to think they're civilized. Images like this changed the world.
  16. I said it before, and people think I'm hysterical (that's okay, I'm used to it -- I'm also used to being right about this fucking guy)....but Canada should absolutely be in full-on top-speed preparations for violent conflict with the US. Preparing to blow bridges (both at the border and in the US interior -- get your sapper teams in here and have them biding their time), technological disruptions, blowing electric and petroleum supply lines (both at the border and internal), etc. Use their existing intel and military sharing connections to pre-plan sabotage of American equipment, communications, and forces. Canada can't win a war. But they can be a porcupine that TFG can't swallow. They would be fucking stupid NOT to be doing those things, and doing them right now. Yeah. We live in a world where the only rational move for Canada is to prepare for war with the United States. Jesus fucking Christ this is the dumbest timeline imaginable, and there is no bottom to its stupidity.
  17. Oh. I see that you are interested in the investment prospectus for Brisketexan's FreedomEagleGunJesus Patriot Academy for Young Patriots and Real Americans. Our curriculum will be focused on freedom, eagles, guns, and Jesus, and we will not allow any wokeness or DEI. All instruction will be provided by the greatest, most patriotic resource available: output from Elon's Grok. Tuition will be the full $10,000 per kid voucher amount. Costs will be $1,000 per kid, as all instruction will be conducted in a large warehouse we acquired at a bankruptcy auction, with two proctors/security guards on hand to ensure that they are focused on their trademarked FreedomEagleGunJesus lessons. We will also have a football team, because Texas. As superintendent, I will draw a small stipend, probably under $1 million, and the remainder of our profits - I mean, "surplus" -- will be distributed to the fine people who invested to Make Education Great Again. You better act fast, there's only a limited number of Class-A investor slots available.
  18. The TCBY on MLK by campus is still there. It has been there for what, 40 years? Number of people I know who have actually gone there for yogurt: 0.0 It HAS to be a front for something.
  19. Pretty sure she’s who we sat next to at a Killers show in NY a coupla years ago. When she found out we were from Austin, she started talking about her new project, asked us if we had heard of the murders (ummmm…yeah, we moved here then). I asked about any new info, and she of course didn’t seem to have any. I think we kind of annoyed her when we said “yeah, we know the story.”
  20. Not when his customers are the stupidest people to ever walk the earth: Americans.
  21. Dude. We’ve seen the “marketing” that works on the American people: it’s lies all the way down. A firehose of lies is THE thing that works. We should get one.
  22. Counterpoint: there is a time to hate.
  23. Ripped from the pages of “Duh, no shit monthly.”
  24. TLDR; Russia and the US are busy shooting themselves in the dick, and China is all
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