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Brisketexan

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  1. Oh. You think state sovereignty is still going to be a thing a year from now. You are adorable. Those parks will be taken, by military force if necessary.
  2. That's a whole lotta words to say she's Woke, and she's gotta go.
  3. You can eat your Texas Strip as you celebrate that darkness means the freedom is working.
  4. This is and always has been the smart play. Promise Trump whatever he demands -- not like you're ever going to keep that promise. "You want me to promise you a delivery of 1,000 unicorns and a working X-wing fighter in 5 years? Done deal. I've got the best unicorns and X-wings around, you're gonna love 'em." It's all pretend shit because the promise a pretend promise. Promise whatever you have to TOMORROW to get whatever you need TODAY.
  5. [Brisketexan, moving to the RGV so he can vote for Bateshorn multiple times]
  6. That's one of the most enraging things about it -- it's not even a negotiation. There's nothing sane he wants from Canada. It's as if he slapped tariffs on Brisketexan until Brisketexan stops having threesomes with Sela Ward and Susanna Hoffs. Ummm, I'm already not doing that, and have no prospects of doing that.....so.....what exactly do you want me to do here?
  7. You describe the challenge presented by the distinction between patriotism and nationalism. I am a patriotic Texan. I love my homeland, I would like to see it continue to thrive and become even better. Those are goals that require introspection, and admissions that some things continue to need improvement. Texas today is dominated by a stupid, cruel, "nationalist" Texan impulse. Tribal bullshit, anger at the mere suggestion that maybe we shouldn't hurt people, tribalism at its worst. Texas is one of my parents. We are bonded for life. But it turns out that one of my parents is a giant, abusive piece of shit, and he really needs his fucking ass kicked.
  8. As I stated above: the greatest cowards the world has ever seen are MAGAs. There's not even a close second.
  9. The fascinating thing is that literally ALL restraints and constraints are gone. There are none left. We have no laws, no guardrails, nothing at all. The POTUS can straight-up require that people pay him (via his businesses) huge sums of money in order to get favorable treatment. He can set up crypto scams/grifts that allow him to make many more millions off of insider info. At this point, he could absolutely require Vladimir Putin to deliver him several billion dollars in exchange for the US deploying military force AGAINST Ukraine, and it would happen, with nothing to stop it. There are some things you can't come back from, and can never recover from. This Trump presidency is such a thing. We will never have a non-corrupt, non-oligarch State again.
  10. Correct. Because in times of absolute economic crashes and carnage, there is exactly ONE class of people who do well: those with loads of money. They can go out and buy distressed properties (in this case, up to and including US National Parks and other Federal installations) for pennies on the dollar. The current plan is, quite simply, a plan to deliver ownership of massive swaths of the US, including the US government itself, to a handful of billionaires. I'm not making that up. The billionaires have literally said that's their plan (read up on fucking Curtis Yarvin).
  11. This. This the whole thing. This ethos governs our nation right now, and there's no way to get off of this ride. We will literally fucking destroy ourselves in order to hurt "the other," with the people getting their faces eaten only meekly complaining "wait, I didn't want you to hurt ME, just hurt THEM!", which won't even slow down the train that's rolling over us all. We DID have one of the greatest countries in the world. And we're going to destroy it to chunks of rubble because we just couldn't handle the idea of there being some people who also lived here who we don't like for various stupid reasons.
  12. Oh. Like the Constitution is still a thing. You can either have an imperial/monarchical presidency, or you can have the Constitution. You can't have both....and the matter has already been decided. A congress that LITERALLY says "we work for the president" and a SCOTUS that blessed a limitless imperial presidency out front shoulda told ya.
  13. And don't think you'll beat the system by sharing that data, or the forecasts it produces. A minimum prison sentence of 10 years in the Trump gulag is mandatory for violating the WeatherX terms of service.
  14. What you mean is that the building hasn't burned down YET. But it's already over. The fire has been set. It has damaged numerous critical support systems already. You think that because you don't see massive flames pouring out of the upper windows, it's not burning down. Nope. Fire destroys from the foundation, and it does so faster than you think. It's already done. The smoldering rubble will come, it takes time for large, redundant structures to completely collapse. But remember the rule about how things fail. They fail two ways: 1) very slowly, then 2) all at once.
  15. Daughter is applying to Master's programs in Germany. Odds seem pretty good that she will make her career and life over there. And if that's where a kiddo is....we can at least see spending a lot of time there. We already own a place in the UK, and plan on keeping it - at the very least, as an escape hatch temporarily. But...our friends, and our network, is here. And the idea that fascist pieces of shit will run all the decent people out of our country royally pisses me off. So, maybe all in all, I'd rather go down shooting fascists dead in a civil war.
  16. Days. For real. Just days. "Just-in-time" inventories and all that.
  17. And....what the hell are we gonna do with all of this bacon?
  18. I am 100% on board with Troph needing to wear comfortable shoes, because she's already like half a foot taller than me, and when she wears heels, it's even worse. I mean.....I gotta tell ya, being socially sensitive has already taken away two euphemisms that always made me chuckle: "queerer than a football bat" and "queerer than a three dollar bill." Next thing you know, you're gonna expect me to treat broads with dignity and respect.
  19. Fucking THIS. Defense contractors in our allies (correction: FORMER allies) would be gutnumbingly stupid if they didn't take drastic measures to disentangle themselves from US tech, and posthaste. A few months ago, we were laughing about countries bailing on Russian tech and weaponry because it sucked. Today....everyone else should be laughing at us as people bail on US tech and weaponry, which is absolutely the smart play. We cannot be trusted. Once you break trust, it's game fucking over. And another giant DING DING DING. It is about both grift, and control. Elon wants the entire US government beholden to -- and functionally owned by -- him. He is the most dangerous man on the planet, and the current regime is just handing him the keys to the Republic.
  20. Well, in fairness and in the interest of accuracy, there's also a number in their for likelihood of contracting measles. If you get a vaccination, there's a 100% chance you are exposed to the risks of the vaccine. Your chances of being exposed to the measles (not contracting it, but being exposed to it) are much lower (note that we don't know how many people are actually EXPOSED to an infectious dose, because almost all vaccinated people will not....catch the measles, so we won't be able to account for them). So, there's some numerical chance of exposure. Ironically, the more successful the antivax crowd is in their evangelism....the more prevalent the disease will become, boosting this number significantly. Then, once exposed, what are the chances of an unvaxxed person having serious complications/death? But in the end, the math is still outsized. The ONLY way the numbers work in the anti-vaxxer's favor....is if they can successfully tag along on the herd's immunity. But their efforts to get people not to vaccinate, ironically, lead to destroying the very thing that protects them: the immunity of all the smart people who DID get vaccinated. So, the more successful antivaxxers are, the more likely their kids are to die. Like I said....bad at math, bad at thinking.
  21. THISTHISTHIS. Of the world's major economies, who was the BEST performer in terms of inflation? The US....under Biden. More actual gains were made in bringing strategically important and lucrative manufacturing back to US shores than in decades....via the CHIPS Act...under Biden. None of that shit mattered. None. Because trannies and "DEI" (a term MAGA doesn't understand, and simply used as an excuse to "Make White Supremacy Great Again") and dirty beaners who ruin our country what with all their hard work and building things and picking vegetables.
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