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Brisketexan

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  1. 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.
  2. I know, right? America was made great by Europeans, and all performances should feature the first European language spoken in the United States! Right?
  3. 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:
  4. 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.
  5. Your disrespect of Elvis Presto is duly noted.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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....
  10. Well, I mean.....October hasn't happened yet, so "zero homicides for the month" isn't exactly a great flex.
  11. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    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.
  12. 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.
  13. Well, yeah....now THAT fuckstick can pick up the tab for your kids at the State Fair.
  14. Because "MAGA" and "strategic thinking" mix less well than oil and water.
  15. 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.
  16. "Side of catfish" is sexy too. Hell, a threesome involving me, "side of fried chicken," and "side of catfish" sounds mighty fine.
  17. So long as the missus tells me all about it....slowly....
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. And soybeans are just an easy example. Add defense materiel to the list. Add a shitload of things to the list. When Party A shows -- under a bright shining spotlight of its own making -- that it is an unreliable, erratic, mercurial, spiteful trading partner.....then parties B through Z will respond rationally, and pursue a strategy of disentanglement from trade with Party A to the largest extent possible. Imagine that you are an HEB loyalist -- good store to shop at, wide selection, good prices, open pretty much all the time (yeah, HEB is open!). Then....HEB is acquired by new ownership. They start closing at random with little warning, so your plan to pick up your groceries this Saturday gets crushed. Then, when they ARE open, they close off random aisles, so you can't get your full list ("WTF? You closed off the coffee/tea aisle, and the dairy section? So now I have to go to another store for those?"). Also, they jacked up the prices on random items. The package of chicken breasts that was $7.50 last week is now $15, the package of toilet paper that was $10 is now $20. Again...when they're open. Oh, and the store manager walks behind you, insulting you and calling you a cheater and a liar the entire time you shop. I'm gonna guess that you're going to check out the nearby Randall's, or Sprouts, or what have you rather quickly, because HEB sounds like it fucking sucks to do business with now. And when it comes to things like large-scale commodities, supply chains, and long-term contracts (you don't buy a fifth generation fighter plane to use for a year, you buy it to use for 25 years), Party A is not going to get those sales back, for a generation or longer. We are destroying ourselves as a global trading partner. For no fucking good reason at all. It's fucking insanity, the harm is massive and irreparable. And for fucking NOTHING. We're lighting ourselves on fire for fucking NOTHING.
  22. The answer is "yes." Our Constitution has a failsafe: impeachment by the House, conviction by the Senate. But that failsafe utterly fails when those bodies are held hostage by an insane megalomaniac. Turns out, the Republic was that fragile. It existed and survived by an agreement that some norms and rules would remain in place and be enforced. When that agreement is dissolved, then the Republic is also dissolved.
  23. "side of fried chicken" is a beautiful turn of phrase.
  24. Oh, my friend. You know that it's going to be "both." A man who lives for temper tantrums, grudges, and vengeance, has decided that half of America is his personal enemy. And he has a whole military that he thinks (and maybe he's right) is there to do whatever he tells them to do. So he is 100% going to use them as an instrument of his vengeance to go to war with Americans. And then war against foreign brown people, because he thinks it makes him look tough to his pathetic cultist followers.
  25. Huh. We still don't have the director of the FBI tweeting instantaneously about every detail discovered about this guy, like his political and voting tendencies, political clothing he has worn, where his family members stand on hot-button issues? We don't? Man. I just can't understand why. I guess it's a mystery that we'll never sort out.
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