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Brisketexan

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  1. Without derailing the whole thread into a tariff discussion, tariffs are not blanket good or bad. Judicious and appropriately targeted tariffs have their place, and can have a positive overall effect. And, blanket, non-thoughtful application of tariffs can be economically costly and devastating. They are a powerful medicine, to be administered deliberately and sparingly. See, e.g., the solar panel issue. China was vastly undercutting and dumping. Trump imposed tariffs on them, Biden left them largely in place, and further supported the domestic solar manufacturing industry via the Inflation Reduction Act. As a result, American manufacturing of solar panels, a good of great economic and strategic importance, has taken off and prospered. "I'ma tariff EVERYTHING!" is stupid as shit.
  2. I mean, you already said he was a boy. So....standard practice there.
  3. Last night, I had a late meeting across the street from Randall's. Needed to grab a quick dinner. They had these marked down half-price: Let's just say that the finished product.....did NOT look anything like that. More of a pizza soup sorta thing, all watery and shit. I should have stuck with the classic...
  4. But every one of them is telling you to jerk off to pictures of Bea Arthur.
  5. Wait....you DIDN'T shout "MULEDICK!" as you dropped your ballot? Way to invalidate your vote, dumbass.
  6. QFMFT. Incredibly well-said. Every package of how we see the world comes with advantages and disadvantages. As an adult with some experience and wisdom and scars, this cartoon (which is of course simplified for effect) rings true: The way my memory/brain works suits me very well in certain contexts (I can think quick on my feet, can draw upon a diverse memory bank of resources, evidence, etc....so it really helps in my chosen career). But it comes with downsides and shortcomings. The way my wife's brain works suits her incredibly well in what she does, which is slower, more deliberate, and process-oriented. Two different types of people living together for so long has forced us to have grace with each other. She gets annoyed as hell with my fifth-gear anxiety, thinking ahead, visualizing all possible permutations and outcomes of every scenario (it often is a shitty way to go through life)....but she knows that's how I process information, so she is patient, and gives me space. I get annoyed with her need to close the loop on any particular piece of information, and her insistence not to proceed until she gets that last piece of the puzzle (she is uncomfortable proceeding on what she sees as incomplete information). So, I've learned to be patient, and to give her time and space to get that info. Thanks for posting what you posted. Grace is important. Some of us (me) are pretty shitty at it on a regular basis.
  7. It would help if the dominant segment of our society didn't relentlessly characterize teachers as demons bent on hurting our kids. Do a job that doesn't pay well? I mean, maybe. Do a job that doesn't pay well...AND have crowds of screaming banshees calling me the devil? Fuck that shit. Teachers are the enemy now. That's a guaranteed recipe for disaster and the destruction of public education. Which, of course, is the goal of the people actually driving that agenda. We aren't going to make life better for public school teachers, because we want to end public education.
  8. What you fail to understand that women suffering and dying is a feature, not a bug. What is the most effective way to send the message to an entire demographic that they have no worth except whatever worth you deign to allow them to have? Take their lives in your hands....and end them...with no consequences. We (Texas Republicans) literally have the power to decide whether you live or die. You have no say in the matter. THAT'S power. This is just a message being sent. It will be sent repeatedly until you inferior serfs get it through your heads: anything you have is subject to the whims of the GQP; they can and will take whatever they want, whenever they want...including your life.
  9. If that happens, they have to. If the GQP simply opts out of the rule of law, and voids an election, then yeah....there's no other option. They continue to choose paths that put us on the road to ruin, so damn right they'll choose that stupid one, too.
  10. Actually, I've always liked to tell people I have a pornographic memory -- I remember everything just like everyone else does, except everyone is naked.
  11. Yeah....it's definitely a thing. For most of my life, my memory functioned (and mostly still does) like your dad's. Seriously, during exams, I could just recall the board, or a page of the book, and "read" the info I needed to get the answer. I can describe places I've been in painstaking detail (like "there were this many tables, the chairs had curved backs, and at the table in the corner, they hadn't fully re-set it because one of the chairs was pulled out"). That ability has declined in recent years as my overall memory ability has declined, but it's still there to a large degree. I also have synesthesia (as does my daughter), where different senses/ways of perception intersect. For example, numbers have colors, and always have. Funny enough, as I got older.....the colors changed. Wanna guess what to? The fucking color of numbers on the balls on a pool table. When I realized that, it made me chuckle. When I was real little, numbers also had music that matched them. Just a few notes, but I knew and could hum the notes that went with the number 4 (that went away by late elementary school). And like I mentioned....it makes for a cluttered, harried place in your head.
  12. Michigan is a great law school. So is Texas. I know dumbass lawyers from each place. The admissions process can only screen for so much. Some dipshits get through. And once you are IN such a law school, there are two things that are really hard to do: end up in the top 5%, and end up in the bottom 5%. But there are people who end up in each slot.
  13. So, without watching a long video....what's the relationship? Because I have both (or at least elements of both). I definitely have a detailed internal monologue - I speak things in my head, I remember voices perfectly, can pull up a song in my head, all of that, quite easily. And I have a photographic memory (although it doesn't function as well as it used to...age has degraded it a bit). When studying, I could truly pull up an image of the page of the text book and read what I needed during the test. When I read a novel, I visualize the story (often with sound/verbalization included) as I read. In other words, as I read Lonesome Dove, I had a whole movie playing out in my head that - if i had any artistic skill - I could have sketched out in detail. My wife has a different memory, she uses different mnemonic devices to remember things, and it's really effective - just different. Pretty sure my son's head works that way too. My poor daughter...her brain works just like mine. It can get....noisy and cluttered. The funny thing is, I imagine for all of us, it's functionally impossible to imagine how other people do it. I can't imagine how it would be NOT to have an internal monologue.
  14. Asked.... ....and answered. Legacy media is absolute trash. It's beyond a double-standard.
  15. Should have shot him. That's what we should do with terrorists. If he'd have been shouting "Allahu Akbar," they would have shot him right there. Fuck terrorists.
  16. F torchy's. Always and forever. The cruelty is the point. Bitches, you best know your place. And what is that place? At the fucking bottom -- you bitches best understand that the state can kill you now. So shut the fuck up, or we'll make it even worse for you.
  17. This, unfortunately, matches with what the boy is reporting. Recall that he has quite a few Ukrainian friends at uni. His message in texts today was that Ukraine's "ability to take the gloves off is diminishing. My insider Ukrainians said the mood in the country is souring and they're finding it hard to replenish manpower." In other words, exactly what the articles above pointed out. Ukraine very much needs the US to get through this election (and for the election to go the right way, of course). The hope is that a solid win by the side that supports Ukraine, with no looming counter-electoral pressure in the near-term, can offer Ukraine more unfettered assistance. Also per the boy, Ukraine's FPV drones are doing so much of the heavy lifting. He's donated a few hundred bucks to his friends' fundraiser to acquire more....and more young people (including him) are looking into learning to fly them. The FPV drones really are helping Ukraine to hold the line, where it's able to hold the line. I think that Ukraine's best hope is for both significantly increased air defense AND long-range strike capabilities, and full clearance to hit Russian air assets far behind the lines.
  18. Understood. Still doesn't matter. Not a single voter will move based on her messaging. She's irrelevant.
  19. Not really. Any woman who was planning on voting for Trump already has zero self-respect or intelligence. Calling her a cunt won't even move the needle.
  20. If the POTUS is doing his job, there are loyal senior officers around Flynn who have orders to take action against him when it becomes necessary. And it WILL become necessary. He was involved in Jan 6th non-response (they tried to lie and say he wasn't....he was there in the fucking room when calls were being made about support). He's a traitor, and if he lifts a finger against the Republic, should be shot immediately for waging war against the United States.
  21. The bolded is EXACTLY what they are going to do, because 1) it is actually the best play they have available, and 2) they are gutless cowards, so they were going to pick that play regardless of whether it was the best play. There is only one viable strategy for the GQP to get past Trumpism.....wait for Dotard to die. Dotard will anoint Don Jr., but he doesn't have anywhere close to the juju that daddy has, and he can easily be bought off. The GQP actually CAN co-opt and control Don Jr., because he's an easily manipulated moron with a very low ceiling. That's the play. This is the essence of the GQP. This is where they have brought us. They are a terrorist movement, and should be treated as such. I hope that every one of those rifles is zeroed in, and the shooters have boxes of extra ammo on hand. Nothing will change until the Republic starts dropping GQP terrorists in their tracks. Can he cite any specific, verifiable examples? No? Then fuck off, you diaper shitting spineless fuckwad. WHATEVER. THE FUCK. HE WANTS. PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, BITCHES. THE FASCISTS FORGED THAT SWORD. TIME TO FUCKING SHARPEN ITS BLADE AND USE IT AGAINST THEM. He should have been shot on sight. He's a terrorist. If he'd had on a turban and been yelling Allahu Akbar, he would have been shot right there. START TREATING TERRORISTS LIKE TERRORISTS. Everyone here knows that Trump and Republicans can say and do whatever they want. "We should shoot all mexicans on sight." Wouldn't even make the papers. A Democrat says "maybe Trump voters support some bad things," and it's the scandal of the century. The double-standard is insane, and the legacy media should burn to the fucking ground for creating it and indulging in it. "Will try?" The effort is already underway. The chances that the anti-MAGA part of this country is going to have to resort to force of arms to secure the election win that the voters obtained is greater than 10%. Be fucking ready for that.
  22. You didn't finish the story. "DePape was recently listed as a top choice to be Donald Trump's National Security Adviser."
  23. Let them bleed ALL the state parties dry. How many times do we have to go over this? A split GQP cannot win elections. It is a marriage made in hell. The "country club" Republicans CANNOT get enough votes to win shit without the rabid MAGAs. And the rabid MAGAs can't get enough votes to win shit without the country club Republicans. They HAVE to stay together. And the way that works in their dynamic is that one side will have to completely compromise all of its values and sell out for the sake of power...which the country club Republicans have already done. They are married. Forever and ever.
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