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Brisketexan

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  1. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    But…I mean…the mouse is ok. So, there’s that. Horribad, across the board. No bright spots. Even Dani’s shot from distance, just emphasized that it’s about the only kinda shot he takes.
  2. Bingo. Stop overthinking this shit. This is the play. They even told us they’ll run it. The only defense left is lead. Once they grab you, it’s over. So your only choice is not to let them grab you. That’s where we are.
  3. Now This is the content we came here for.
  4. You know....I actually may give this a whirl. For shits, giggles....and a delicious lottery ticket.
  5. "I'm Brisketexan. I'm not a customs agent....but I play one on Surly." Seriously, I have little fucking idea as to the details of exactly when/how a tariff is applied, if it's FOB delivery, etc.
  6. This. It's not hard. "Administration, you broke the law by shipping someone with legal status to a foreign gulag. Bring him back." There. Done. Which is pretty much what the trial court's order said and did. Leave it be. When a lower court gets it right -- which it did -- the job of appellate courts is to SHUT THE FUCK UP. THERE IS NO ERROR TO CORRECT, SO SHUT THE FUCK UP. But nope, SCOTUS has to make sure they fight a rear-guard action to secure -- at all costs (literally... ALL costs) -- Donnie's supreme divine-right-of-kings power to do whatever the fuck he wants to whoever the fuck he wants. "No remedy" = "you are fucked." It doesn't matter what else the court says or writes; our posts on this board have as much real-world import as the words SCOTUS writes that are not tied to an actual remedy. Unless the end of what they say is "therefore the admin is ordered to bring him back," what they wrote is a nothing. Real-life is not aggy, there are no fucking moral victories. Either you get a remedy, or you lose.
  7. There were a few nights at Dallas nightclub back in the day when I definitely spent a long amount of time scoping out a particular prospect to see if it would be practical to do the old "747 piggyback." Vic Mackey woulda been proud.
  8. Primarily by following this easy-to-execute maxim: We're shooting our own dick off. China's first good move is to stay out of the way, and give us a clean shot. Long-term, it will be to fill the vacuum created by the US's absence of a trade penis, which it already shot off. As an immediate example, see China's new conversations with the EU about removing/reducing tariffs on Chinese EVs.
  9. Oh, this is spot on. You think our SCOTUS will ever issue a ruling that "shipping people detained in the US to foreign prisons that are out of our control, resulting in the US losing the ability to provide the requisite due process, is in and of itself a due process violation?" Good. Fucking. Luck. The Regime can do as it wishes. There are no guardrails, there are no restraints. The only way to guarantee yourself any "due process" anymore is to enforce your right with the barrel of a gun. That's the rule: when society opts out of the Rule of Law, it necessarily opts into Rule of the Gun.
  10. Sawbonz gets the play. It hasn’t just been telegraphed…they have literally said they are going to run it. Believe them.
  11. She is super smart, and makes excellent points. Also, I’d like to spend some nekkid hot tub time with her. Discussing philosophy and shit.
  12. And what is your trust level that this man won’t reverse THAT within a week…or do something else equally unstable in a week, a day, or an hour? Is that trust level sufficient for you to make, say, a billion dollar investment in building a manufacturing facility? This is the problem: not so much what he has done, but that he’s demonstrated that he will do all manners of irrational shit, with no warning or provocation, then change course in minutes, creating an environment with zero predictability. Capital hates that.
  13. 2025: “due process” = “whatever Stephen miller says.” It’s not any more complex than that.
  14. Love the casual hand wave as to…everything. And ffs, on #4, that’s literally from business owners themselves. Incoming China trade is rapidly shutting down. No inventory, no business. Nobody in the world except Ron Vara thinks we’re not in a crisis.
  15. Add in the comparison to the rates for other countries’ debt. Add in the market crash. Add in the complete collapse of consumer confidence to levels not seen since 1952. Add in the complete destruction of hundreds of thousands of American businesses built on our current trade environment. And keep going. Fuck off with your bullshit.
  16. Read the fucking bond yields above. It’s a crisis.
  17. Let’s put this in terms we can relate to: Court: “Trump Regime, you snatched a Surly poster, a US citizen, off the street and sent him down to a Salvadoran gulag immediately. You now admit that you did. It have a legal basis or right to do so. Return him.” Trump Regime: “Gee, sorry, we can’t.” Court: “Provide me daily reports of your effort to get the Surly poster back.” Trump Regime: “LOL OK. Here’s my report: we didn’t do shit. Result: it is 100% allowed for the Regime to disappear anyone it wants, and there is no remedy.
  18. Excellent. We told both our kids straight up that the school may do what the school does, but they will never ge tin trouble at home for def diff themselves or someone else. Because that’s how we should be. Good on your boy.
  19. Kai Ryssdal’s joke was that at this point, the tariff rates might as well be “infinity plus one,” because they are now high enough to functionally shut down all trade between China and the US. This is just idiocy.
  20. Summary of SCOTUS take: 1) humans have rights under the Constitution. 2) this guy’s rights were violated. 3) but there is no remedy for that, the Regime can violate anyone’s rights with zero repercussions, answering to no one. So you can frame the “people have rights” part of that decision and put it on the wall, it’s a pretty decoration and that’s it. What matters is the remedy - can you get one? No? Then nothing fucking matters.
  21. Fucking. BULLSHIT. The SCOTUS is a collaborator with the Regime in cementing its authoritarian powers which cannot be questioned or reversed. They have created a king, completely above the law, because they want it that way. It was not and is not an accident.
  22. This too. My wife related that the solo manicurist she uses is fucked - her products largely come from China, because that’s who makes such things. So, 1) she’ll have to raise her prices a LOT, and 2) as shit goes south, people will cut back on “unnecessary expenses.” This shit is going to wreck her business. Multiply that by literally hundreds of thousands of businesses nationwide. But fuck those people, they don’t count or matter to this admin, because they’re not billionaire oligarchs.
  23. To be fair, being able to outmaneuver this clown show doesn’t require a chess master on your side. Just someone who can exercise modest restraint and patience, and not smear shit on themselves.
  24. Next you’re gonna tell me students don’t cure their hangovers with vitamin G from G&M Steakhouse.
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