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Brisketexan

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  1. Just wanted to toss out there a PERFECT encapsulation of Trumpism/MAGA. - There is a relatively prominent attorney. - He is super-Republican: pictures all over his social media with lots of GQP heavy-hitters. - The bulk of posts on his social media are images of various bible quotes, so he's obviously SUPER-"Christian." So, we've checked the key boxes -- GQP, very outwardly and show-y "Christian." He just got a "show cause" order from a Federal Court. That order tells him to show up in court, and give the court a reason not to cut his dingus clean off, because.....in response to a motion to dismiss one of his lawsuits as frivolous, he said (paraphrasing) oh yeah? Well, I have an EXPERT who examined my case and says it has meritorious facts. Here's an affidavit from him saying so! Problem: the affidavit was signed, and states as much, on a certain date. The expert? Well...he's been DEAD....for a year before that date....and the lawyer knew it. There is, literally, no way the expert signed that affidavit. So, this is how GQP MAGA Christian world operates -- just shamelessly lie and commit fraud on the court. The pathological dishonesty is a FEATURE, not a bug.
  2. Yet the guy you voted for made "Biden inflation" a cornerstone of his campaign. You are an idiot. A supreme idiot. The idiot topper on the idiot cake, layered with shit icing. Because of stuff that doesn't matter, or stuff the POTUS can't change....you voted "let's turn the country over to a dictator, ending the Republic." Idiot is too nice a word for you. Traitor. That's the better word.
  3. What I see is five future members of the Alabama state legislature. Perhaps a future Attorney General.
  4. Elon Musk is the greatest threat the Republic has faced since the Civil War. He is a clear and present existential threat to the continued operation of the United States as an actual democratic functioning Republic, as opposed to a nakedly wholly owned subsidiary of evil oligarchs. There is zero hyperbole in my statement above. For real.
  5. "Pick someone better than Trump." Cool. I pick... pretty much anyone who doesn't openly say they want to be a dictator and end the rule of law and constitutional checks and balances, because with that shit in place, nothing else matters. You don't like the fucking color of the carpet, so you burn the whole house down, and blame the OTHER party for not offering the color carpet you wanted. Fucking complete idiocy.
  6. The corruption in current Texas statewide government, after 3+ decades of one-party rule, is now complete and total. There is not a single aspect of our state government that does not have, as its first and highest mission, the mission of diverting dollars into the pockets of the favored few. That the lottery is among them should come as ZERO surprise.
  7. People who think like that are modern "conservatives," who have a single foundational belief: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. That's it. That's the whole thing. That's why they want a dictator: because they believe they're members of the "in-group," so they will be both protected and not restricted, but those OTHER people (you know who they are) will get what's coming to them, good and hard. And, those other people can't do a damned thing about it, because the law only protects REAL Americans, like us in the in-group, right fellas?
  8. The align perfectly when you realize that thought 1 applies ONLY to non-Republican non-fascist politicians, meaning that thought 2 is not incidental, it is their actual goal. Texasborn WANTS a fascist authoritarian dictatorship/monarchy. People like him don't believe in the Republic or the Rule of Law or "all men are equal under and subject to the law" at all. Like, their belief in those things is 0%. What they ACTUALLY believe is that they/their team should have complete and unchecked power to dictate to those unlike them exactly how things will be, with no resistance or option to dispute the outcome. And that, of course, makes Texasborn a fascist. Which anyone reading his posts could tell you.
  9. Naah, it's almost always a toxic stew of 1) self-loathing because of ambiguous inner sexual thoughts, like being attracted to a trans person once, and 2) good old-fashioned punching down: weak people feel powerful when they find someone to bully.
  10. Seriously. Person X visits with Person Y, and has an arms-length conversation. Person Z visits Person Y and gets down on his knees and suck's Person Y's dick and says "oh yes daddy, you own me." And Texasborn says "See? Person X and Person Z both visited with Person Y!"
  11. No, see, this is what Texasborn voted for. It's all worth it to make sure that Troph's TDL is switched back to "M." THAT'S what's really important here.
  12. I ain't got no cement pond. And seriously, a simple setup to warm your pipes only when the temp drops below freezing, triggered by a simple thermostat, so it's idle most of the season except for the handful of hours when it's needed, seems like a no-brainer throughout the south. Put our product in Wal-Marts, Buccees, and Dollar Generals, and.....
  13. Did he decide to SIDE with the USSR when he did so? Did he deem the Soviet leadership to be brilliant, and worth his emulation and admiration? That seems to be a pretty key fucking difference. You are the most obtuse motherfucker on this planet. Sadly, you have millions of counterparts who think and voted the same way.
  14. And also, when that guy takes power, he'll be a dictator/king and functionally end the Republic. But it's totally worth it so long as D3 women's sports are safe from a handful of trans persons. Jesus.....that he doesn't see how fucking destructively stupid that reasoning is continues to blow my mind.
  15. THINK however you want. Take action (like voting), and you fucking have to answer for it. You decided that throwing the Republic away because Troph's license says F instead of M was a good deal. You are an idiot, who inflicted your idiocy on the rest of us, and there's no going back. You took action that is turning out to be fatal to the Republic because you are worried about the genitalia of a handful of people. God, I can't imagine a decision much stupider than that.
  16. Maybe. Maybe not. The question is....is THAT concern worth LITERALLY scrapping the Republic and the Rule of Law? Because that's the choice you made. There are LOTS of things in our society that I don't like, some that really piss me off and actually impact my life....but also don't come anywhere close to the level of "if I could eliminate those things, and all it cost me was irrevocably destroying the Rule of Law and the continuation of the Republic." Proportionality is a fucking thing. Jesus tapdancing Christ. It pisses me off when restaurants offer cobbler, then charge extra for ice cream (no, you fuckers, cobbler COMES WITH ICE CREAM, IT'S PART OF THE DESSERT). I'm not ready to trash the Constitution in exchange for a law requiring that they be served for one price. And that lack of proportionality is why Trump voters are pieces of shit. Upset about little shit that in the grand scheme of things doesn't fucking matter.....they trashed the ONE THING that actually DOES matter: the fucking Republic.
  17. Just keep one of these in the bathroom:
  18. Yeah, I grew up in hurricane country -- filling the tub before a storm was part of the routine (didn't use a liner -- the plan was just to boil whatever you needed for drinking, the water was fine for every other use). Now, we have to do so when there is a risk of the grid crashing for an extended period of time. This fucking state. I'm kinda serious about these exterior pipe protection setups. Why don't they exist? They should, and they'd be super cheap to produce (I know a guy in manufacturing in Gyna).
  19. Yep. This. Q: "There is this amazing Republic. It has been through wars, strife, and incredible tests. And through it all, and because it has a relatively resilient political structure that both allows for it to evolve but also maintains the rule of law and predictability, it has incrementally improved, becoming the most prosperous country the world has ever seen. What political/cultural development could POSSIBLY cause you to choose to throw that all away?" A: "People who were born dudes being able to say they are chicks on their drivers licenses. Also, I understand something like 5-6 of em might play college sports in the women's division." Dumbest. Fucking. Timeline.
  20. They're not very good, but they're very loud.
  21. Yeah, I thought of rigging something up like that, but it requires action when the temp is threatening. The thermostat trigger and "set it and forget it" element is really helpful. That way, as the beginning of cold weather season approaches, you just go out, clamp on/wrap the warmer around the pipe, plug it in to an exterior outlet, slide the housing/shelter over the setup, and you're done for the season. No worries at all if you're out of town when a freeze sneaks into the forecast (happened to us in January, had to ask the neighbors to go over and drip faucets for us). Once the threat of hard freezes is past, you just remove the setups and put them back in your winter prep box. This should be easy. Again, depending on electricity is a weakness/risk, but for the MOST part, winter power outages are short and shouldn't affect the overall effectiveness. And, if you see a massive outage coming like we had in 2021....just shut your fucking water off. That's our plan. Fill up pots of water for drinking and washing, and 5 gallon buckets to fill toilet tanks for flushing.
  22. And just like that, "Surlywarmers" was launched, making millions that ended up being squandered by the company founders.
  23. That 100% looks like an album cover for a metal band that is regionally popular in, say, Minnesota.
  24. So, I have some of these (bought in planning for the 2021 freeze): They work great -- when it gets below 35 or so, the internal thermostat trips and they throw off moderate heat, enough to keep any pipe they're in contact with from freezing. But, two issues....1) they depend on electricity (so, in 2021, fuck me -- my whole "keep shit from freezing" plan was electricity-dependent), and 2) they are long and really designed for protecting longer lengths of pipe. What I would LIKE to find is something like that in a much shorter length -- like 18-24 inches. You can then wrap that smaller length around the exposed exterior faucet, cover it with something simple (seriously, I used coffee cans and whatnot) to make a shelter from the wind and something to retain the heat), and then pretty much "set it and forget it" for the season. When it's not freezing, they are dormant. When it drops to freezing, they trip on, and warm your pipes. They should make a Texas version of these for just that purpose. I've found a 3-foot length, but that's still a bit too long. Oh, and we re-routed a faucet that ran through the garage to an exterior wall - we installed a shutoff valve for that right next to the interior wall of the house, so we just shut that pipe off and drain it. That's the main pipe that burst on us in 2021, so we just eliminated the risk.
  25. This. That said....a combined approach of 1) reducing carbon emissions as much as possible, 2) preserving as much existing forest with large trees as possible, and 3) plant as much forest as possible - seriously, it's a planet-saving project, "expensive" should not be an obstacle. We won't do any of that. Because that's woke commie bullshit, anything that isn't just massive profit-taking and creating "shareholder value" is evil work of satan.
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