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Brisketexan

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  1. This. We've got a pretty good litmus test of "if THESE are the people who hate him, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna like him" going here. Loomer, Bannon, Vance, Icono....keep 'em coming.
  2. I'm waiting to see Lively's and Baldoni's takes on the new pope before I decide which team I'm on.
  3. Continuing the list of "if these are the people who hate him, I think I'm gonna like him." Keep 'em coming.
  4. Says me, after eating two McRibs on the way back from the coast after a long day of fishing.
  5. Please, on this holiest of days, the term is cavus gloriosus.
  6. Only because I was never trying to hook up with a hot girl who was attending such a service. My college-age libido took me places I wouldn't go with a gun today.
  7. Not saying that it WASN'T pulled out of someone's ass, but actually....City garbage trucks actually have internal scales to weigh how much trash they have on board. It's part of the regulatory requirements on landfills, recording daily volumes and such. It's not as accurate as an ag department certified grocery scale, but it's close enough to satisfy regulatory requirements. Now, someone STILL might be bullshitting you, because people do that shit. But odds are they had a pretty good idea from the readings on the trucks as they headed off to the landfill.
  8. Pope "Go Ursus! I" woulda been awesome.
  9. "Where does Jesus say I should love a random person off the streets?" I mean....in literally the first fucking book of the New Testament? I mean, it's not even a vague concept like "love" -- it's a literal and direct call to action. And does Jesus mean everyone, even your enemies, fall under that group? In BOTH sections, the greek word is "agape," which is an action word, not a feeling word. It's all one of the more maddening things about MAGA Christians: how on the one hand, they wave the banner of "I'M A CHRISTIAN!" more aggressively than anyone else, while running away, as fast as they can, from THE ACTUAL FUCKING SCRIPTURES THAT ARE THE DEFINING TEXTS ON BEING A CHRISTIAN. There's no lawyering around the commands, FROM JESUS, in Matthew. The word used is agape, and it has meaning. It's one they don't like. But tough fucking shit, y'all keep telling us the Bible is inerrant, right?
  10. People who hate this selection: Icono, Texags, JD Vance, Steve Bannon. Couldn't ask for a better litmus test than that. And we'll get the same screaming criticism -- "he should be religious, not political!" in response to taking Francis-like positions....utterly ignoring the facts that 1) social issues (like, maybe feed the poor, and shelter immigrants) have been religious issues and stances for the Church since....the fucking Gospel of Matthew was made canon in the 3rd-4th centuries, and 2) THEY are the people who stridently insist on making EVERY social issue political.
  11. I wish this was sarcasm....but it's 100% gospel truth. And honestly....they wouldn't be that off-target...it IS absurd and stupid and shameful. FFS, it's VE day, there are only two letters in it, and he got one of them wrong.
  12. If he issues a Papal Bull ordering Whataburger to add the JCB biscuit back to the menu full-time, no exceptions....he'll be a true keeper of the faith.
  13. An American pope. So, I presume we can expect: 1 - the new Popemobile will be a jacked-up F-250 (the truck nuts will be covered, in a nod to Catholic decency standards) 2 - communion wafers replaced with Cheetos 3 - an Applebee's inside the vatican walls 4 - an annual blessing of the Stock Cars before NASCAR season kicks off
  14. Yep. More "sitting on the sidelines while Holocausts happen" is one of the Church's best looks, it should definitely repeat it.
  15. Macklemore fawning over Pope Pius XII is chef's-kiss perfection.
  16. Dude....you'll get the new Trumplandia alternative bags, and you'll like it....
  17. Over-promise AND under-deliver? Elon says...
  18. Here's what I hate about Nancy Mace: She's a middle-aged curvy brunette, a little rough looking but still in fighting shape. Pretty eyes, great figure. And clearly a good bit crazy. In other words: Brisket wheelhouse. BUT...her craziness manifests as batshit insane cruelty and meanness. And of the many varieties of crazy I find hot (and there are a lot of those varieties), "vile fucking cunt" isn't one of them. It really frustrates me. She has so much Brisket-endorsed potential, but destroys it all by being a weapons-grade twat.
  19. Has it occurred to anyone that maybe the Cardinals just made it through one side of Dark Side of the Moon?
  20. This. The current geopolitical environment has done more to incentivize nuclear proliferation than any sequence since the hottest years of the Cold War. At this point, any country even remotely capable of obtaining/developing a nuke would be foolish not to.
  21. Brisketexan

    LBGTQ

    I said "challenges and curveballs," not "awesome shit I do that I would totally brag about here." And calling her a wascally wabbit gets her all turned on, I'm not gonna question it, I'm just here to play the hits.
  22. Man....you sure know how to paint a picture of the dream.
  23. Brisketexan

    LBGTQ

    Are you growing? Are you trying? Are you failing anyway, but then trying again? Seems like all of those get a "yes," and honestly, that's all any of us can hope for - in ourselves or others. If we're being honest with ourselves, when we look into the mirror, we see both a good and a terrible person. I do, at least. Your current situation is one of those challenging curveballs that life, other people, and society tend to throw our way. I've shared some of those with this group, some of them I've kept to myself (maybe I'll share them someday, maybe not, maybe some of them, I'm still in the midst of sorting out). But know that everyone has to deal with one or more of those over the course of their lives. I do think that so much of it comes back to empathy. That doesn't need to be a namby-pamby word, or a command to enable bad/harmful/self-harmful behavior, and figuring out where that line is can be a challenge. But making the effort to look at things through someone else's eyes pays huge dividends. That's true whether you are trying to be helpful and kind, or whether they are your adversary you're trying to defeat. Then the next level - at least in social and political things - is to realize that in the long run, "defeating" those you disagree with isn't a great outcome. It may have to be done in the moment, but ultimately..... we're all in this together, and nobody makes it out alive. Or, as a pretty fair guitarist once said, You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other – our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That’s to help each other, not hurt each other. You're trying. You love your kid. Your wife loves your kid. You and your wife love each other. Keep walking. Keep learning and reasoning. Do the best you can. And keep doing the best you can. Help other people along the way with what you've learned, good and bad. Try to be better every day. Know that most days, you won't get it right. And try again the next day. That's all any of us can do. And that's all any of us should expect.
  24. Cancelling flights to Russia and telling Russians to fuck off? That's nobody's business but the Turks'.
  25. When a a voice who REALLY tries to be neutral and just call balls and strikes like Kai is using terms like "they're jerking our chain," that should give you some indication of what an utter shitshow this is.
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