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Brisketexan

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  1. Just another Kavanaugh stop. Of course, most mass shooters are white males. It's only reasonable for law enforcement to "briefly detain" any and all white males (and by "briefly detain," I mean "throw to the ground, beat up, handcuff, threaten, and toss in a hole for a day or two," which is what it means when the victim is brown) based on that factor. And that's a good, solid Kavanaugh stop. No problem there.
  2. It will be worse than that. It will be a bunch of candidates who got their PhD from Upstairs School for the Criminally Stupid, BUT swear total fealty to MAGA and Trumpism. They will be hired as department chairs. Just look at the parade of unqualified rejects who occupy senior positions in the Trump admin. These are people who couldn't make it to a middle management position at any competent enterprise. But, because they're willing to be loyalist warriors for MAGA, they are elevated to the very top. That's what UT will become, faster than you can imagine.
  3. I think that me going to Catholic schools, including a Jesuit school, somewhat insulated me from that. Not that I didn't see/experience racism and such - dude, it was Texas in the 70s-80s -- but because in my tighter circle, it not only wasn't tolerated, it was expressly taught AGAINST. My handful of classmates who were more openly racist actually stood out. And, we had scholarship students, and minorities, and they were generally treated well and well-regarded (again, sure, there was a divide between the really rich and snooty and the rest of us, but that was asshole-based, not race-based). So, as much as I was exposed to the full world, had family on both sides of the border, grew up among oilpatch types, etc., I was also pretty sheltered, and not only was I not really exposed to the worst impulses of the GOP, I was actively indoctrinated against them, by many people who were also Republicans. I was sheltered, had a small sample-size, etc. When I got to UT, I got to see more of the broad entitled rich white kid dynamic, and it did indeed start to open my eyes. And let's not forget that the Republican party in Texas actually pushed back against some of this nativist shit. I actually remember a meeting back when GWB was governor, and a guy showed up with a whole anti-immigrant screed (that would be moderate in MAGA world today). He was told to GTFO, in pretty plain terms. BUT, the precinct chair explained to me that those assholes had started showing up a few years back, and they were going to keep coming back. He was right.
  4. I mean....no shit, man.
  5. "See, to prove that arnarcho-capitalist libertarianism free of all government support and interference totally works.....we need our government to totally support and interfere with it."
  6. That is a man who is simultaneously a racist piece of shit and a compulsive masturbator to black-on-white cuck porn. As most of these assholes are.
  7. ^^^ sounds woke to me.
  8. We're just going to revert to the mean, I think. We lived through an era (80s-2020s) when UT rose to legitimate prominence, with a deserved reputation beyond being a mere "state U," approaching "public ivy" status. But 50-60 years ago, UT WAS just another big "state U." A fine reputation, but nothing very special. And that's where we'll be again, in short order. On par with Ole Miss, Alabama, etc.
  9. I mean....am I missing a major timeline event? The open descent into (1) racism that was (2) utterly disconnected from reality that was birtherism was rather jarring. And it popped up re his campaign in 2008. I'm not saying there weren't plenty of issues with the party pre-2008, but that was a pretty eye-opening break in 2008.
  10. Oh, there was a healthy base coat of same, but it lasted beyond my prime "young and stupid" years. I also grew up in a household that generally (not exclusively, but generally) voted Republican. My old man, while hispanic, was an army veteran petroleum engineer, and pretty straight-laced. But gotDAMN in their later years did my parents fucking HATE the GQP and Trump. Shit, some of my dad's last thoughts were regrets that he didn't live to see that sonofabitch die.
  11. Dude, this is an organization that: messages "WE'RE CURRENTLY CLEAN ON OPSEC" . . . . . . . . . . . on a Signal chat that includes a member of the press. These are the dumbest, least competent human beings to ever have any responsibility over anything, ever. Seriously, the lowest-ranked employee of the night-cleaning crew for the worst Popeye's franchisee in America is surely 10X more competent than this crew.
  12. Gonna just mail this to Davis, to give him a head start on picking our new color. Which one should be picked for "Cowardly Texas Yellow?" I like Sunnyside Up, myself.
  13. Yeah. They were lying about that, too. Shit, I'll give you the list of things they weren't lying about: .... ..... ...... WAIT.... ..... Yeah, that about covers it.
  14. Oh, I know. Just put it all over in the enshittification pile over there. It's the pile that has Mt. Everest looking at it and saying "DAAAAAAAAMN."
  15. Cool. So what should take 3 mins takes 15 mins. Just. Fucking. WRITE IT. I don't need your goddamned vocal inflections and vocal fry and whatever other bullshit you bring to the table in your video. Words. On paper/screen. That's it.
  16. Seems like they've now given plaintiffs sufficient basis to seek and obtain an injunction against ICE officers arresting people for non-criminal activity protected under the First Amendment. I hope that someone is preparing that suit (a similar suit was filed to protect members of the press in Illinois, and it succeeded, IIRC).
  17. Seems we need to change our school color from Burnt Orange to Coward Yellow.
  18. Oh, I wasn't slow to see that at all. I realized very, very quickly that electing Obama broke society's brain. The birther shit that started during the campaign told me that we were fucked, and I haven't looked back since then.
  19. I did love that particular line. So, here's where we are, theologically: Either 1) the Trumps are flat-out heretics, annointing themselves as having dominion over God, or 2) God is so fucking weak and pathetic that He needs saving by.....the fucking Trumps. I'm gonna go with 1), because if 2) is the case, why would anyone worship a god who is subordinate to the fucking Trumps?
  20. Countering this message plainly and obviously is important. For example, my signage and such is bedecked in multiple American flags. Because I am a patriot. Mike Johnson is a traitor. He doesn't get to claim a country that he betrays and sells out on bended knee. My family fought and bled for this country. We'll do so again, while Mike Johnson hides in his den of cowardice, groveling at the feet of an authoritarian who stands against every American value.
  21. Under this regime, the human suffering is the leading indicator that their plan is working. The cruelty is the point, and the suffering is the metric. They don't do anything to help ANYONE except the oligarch class, and the way they show that they're doing SOMETHING is.....hurt literally everyone else.
  22. Told y'all they'd be at this message right quick. Because -- and this is important -- hateful racism is not a problem for the GQP, it's their fucking entire platform.
  23. It's okay, y'all are old, so you'll forget I was mean to you pretty quickly.
  24. In short? Because we were (foolishly) convinced by a message of small government, but also respect for and protection of individual rights, that a regulated capitalist system provides broad benefit to all classes, etc. (seriously, just laying out broad strokes). And I DO believe that regulated capitalism does that -- it does so elsewhere, it's just that now, MAGA calls that approach "SOCIALISM!" If you want to make it even shorter....read some issues of The Economist for a basic center-right perspective. Most of us still agree with much of that. But realize that "center-right" actually INCLUDES things like some form of universal health care, actual regulations on capitalism, and being in favor of managed and reasonably regulated global trade. Today, MAGA literally calls The Economist a "leftist rag." So, we're Economist readers. For a long time, the American Republican party generally aligned (at least in its messaging) with the values and approaches voiced there, so it made sense for us to find a political home there. Did the Republican party ALWAYS have these flaws running through it? Of course it did. We're also pragmatic in knowing that all parties/movements have flaws. But now we live in a world where the GQP has given in to every last one of its worst impulses.
  25. Not that they care, but Plan II, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Law School will be getting a nice little "do not contact" letter from me. Not another penny to this university (I already don't buy season tickets to anything).
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