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Brisketexan

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  1. Resign? Dude is a MAGA god: "Fuck you, I got mine!"
  2. It's not complicated. He's just another embodiment of the Republican id. No loyalty to any values or person other than himself. An entire party built around the virtues of being a sociopath.
  3. Imagine a job where you literally only do the parts you like, and none of the parts that you don't, and you're not answerable to anyone for it. Now, imagine that among people in this state who hold that job, you are the most highly paid. If that sounds good to you, you should march down to APD hiring posthaste.
  4. Seriously. Everything about him is "petulant toddler," including his tastes. He's locked in on shit that 8 year olds like. Fuck, I remember thinking I liked musical theater because we took a school trip when I was 8 to see Oklahoma, starring John Schneider of Dukes of Hazzard fame. Turns out, I was just a fucking idiot 8 yr old who liked the Dukes of Hazzard. "Featuring John Schneider!" ain't nearly the selling point to me that it was when I was a kid. Trump? He never got past that mental era.
  5. But then, one would be mistaken to think of Tesla as a "major manufacturer." Seriously, they fail at much of the elementary blocking-and-tackling parts of being a car manufacturer.
  6. PREACH. Not entirely wrong, but some of us think the toxic stew of "entitlement but no accountability" that is the time-honored recipe cooked up by our leadership class needs to be tossed out whenever it can. And yeah, I get the irony that if more of us would just show up and vote against some of these candidates (don't blame me, I vote in every election) it would help. But I innately fucking bristle at the constant approach of "give me everything, and don't you dare expect me to account for shit." Actually.....going back to your first comment, that might as well be APD's motto. Give us all the money, and unlimited power, and zero accountability. In fact, if you subject us to ANY accountability, we'll "quiet quit."
  7. Be careful where you're treading, motherfucker.... Hitting a bit close to home and all that.
  8. ....until the Kennedy Center starts featuring a slate of wrasslin', UFC fights, and indoor monster truck rallies featuring the "Dildozer."
  9. This is la verdad, my friend. That said, when my wife pulled up to the house one day, and came in and asked me "what is that coat hanger sticking out the back of your car?" And I answered "you mean my new antenna?" She just shook her head and said "sometimes I forget how mexican you really are." I couldn't have been more proud. But yeah.....that's just classic working-class engineering all the way around. Which, again, is a class that Elon has nothing but contempt for.
  10. This works in Texas, too. And add "parking lot full of police cars" to the list of good signs. EXCEPT....for a super-shitty (and apparently, now-defunct) "barbecue" joint in Comanche. Saw 5 squad cars in the lot, and pulled over to grab a snack even though I'd eaten lunch. Was served a sad slice of gray, wet brisket out of a crockpot. It was actually worse than it looked. Every one of those cops should have their peace officer's license revoked for eating at that place.
  11. Also the home of Jackson Heights' own Randy Watson.... So, that's pretty good.
  12. You can bet against an AI bubble through various strategies like shorting individual AI stocks (especially those with weak fundamentals like C3.ai or BigBear.ai), shorting AI-focused ETFs (like AIQ), or using options like put spreads on high-beta AI stocks. Another approach is to invest in traditional, non-AI sectors expected to perform well during a downturn, such as utilities, commodities, or defensive sectors. A more defensive strategy involves reducing exposure to big tech stocks and rebalancing portfolios toward cheaper, more stable assets, like value stocks or bonds. I mean.....that's what Google's AI search result told me.
  13. Also, when you reach the "we're going to use some creative and maybe/maybe not legal 'financing' vehicles/mechanisms/schemes for the sole reason of avoiding transparency/mandatory disclosures" phase, you're entering the end-game. These schemes are not being deployed because the companies can't get financing, because there's no money, etc. They're being deployed so that the disclosed picture does not reveal the actual debt load behind the curtain. When you have to start hiding shit, things are about to get fucky.
  14. It'll be released. In two weeks.
  15. Pacman gets it. That's 100% the play. It will be allowed. And it will work.
  16. Seriously.....I've hugged plenty of women who aren't my wife (or very close family members) over the past 30 years. Close friends. Strong professional contacts, even. Never have I (1) put my hands on her hips like JD did, or (2) had her with her hand caressing the back of my head. Like....never. Not even close. That's....something.
  17. If you'll write me some Susanna Hoffs fan-fic involving young Brisketexan and some Popeyes....I'll read it.
  18. For real. The only thing the American people truly understand is their own pain. We've tried to warn huge swaths of them "don't dump over that pot of hot grease, you'll burn us all." They keep charging towards it, and people with decency keep getting in their way, getting burned in the process. No more. You want to dump over 2 gallons of burning hot oil? Go for it. See what happens. Are a lot of people going to suffer greatly? Absolutely. But that's going to happen no matter what. We can get out of the way, and let the path unfold that offers SOME chance of convincing SOME people to correct course. We need to do that. Sucks that people, and children, will suffer. But we aren't doing it to them. THEY ARE. The Republicans insist they'll shoot the hostage. Fine. Let 'em.
  19. Also, in "that is one of the most Brisketexan things ever" news, there's this: Cleaning out my parents' house after my dad's death. They kept....EVERYTHING. Seriously, like stacks of those little notepads my dad would carry in his shirt pocket. We have a million of those. Last weekend, we were really tackling all the papers pretty hard. I'm going through those notepads, and I get one that's from what looks to be around 1978. My dad was clearly pondering some investment ideas/ways to make money. His current job had him traveling to Louisiana for probably two weeks a month; he knew S. Louisiana like the back of his hand. So, I get to the page where he listed what he thought were his best three options. I can't even remember what the other two were, but there in the #1 spot was "Popeye's franchise?" Imagine that. Familia Brisketexan coulda been the folks who brought Popeyes to Texas. What coulda been....
  20. .....and in the current climate, we can't even have the fucking discussion. Do I agree that my house has an issue with too many spiders being in places where I don't want them? Sure. But I can't even have a fucking conversation with people whose sole proposals are "burn Brisket's house to the ground" or "hit the house with 10,000 gallons of poison, killing everyone and everything in it including Brisket and his family." No. There's not even a starting point in a conversation where people are intent on ending either my home or my family, and who are willing to completely disregard the law of the land (arson and murder are kinda illegal) to do it. Layer on the fact that we DID try to address the spider problem a year ago, through legal means, and those same people killed that plan dead so Donald The House and Family Destroyer could be elected. Fuck all the way off.
  21. In fairness, it's tough to tell what with the blurred genitalia and all.
  22. [laughs in Alito Thomas Kavanaugh Gorsuch Barrett]
  23. Dude. We're past tax cuts. What they want is a flow of tax revenues (paid by others, of course) TO them. And they'll get it. Why will they get it? Because they will use SOME of that revenue to "invest" in the regime's private interests. Want $1 billion in government funding? All you gotta do is buy $100 million in Trumpcoins, easy peasy. You won't pay any taxes. You will actually GET tax money sent to you. All you gotta do is pay the boss his vig. This has already happened dozens of times. I'm not telling you anything new.....
  24. Finish the sentence. They have that answer. But they 100% oppose imposing or funding that answer. So, the solution WOULD BE UBI.....but we cannot ever, ever, ever, have UBI or do the things that would fund UBI (like, you know, collecting tax revenue from the big winners in their new technodystopia). The most important commodity in this new world is not money, it's not technology. It's lies. Lies are the foundation on which the whole fucking model depends. Burst the bubble of those lies, and it ALL goes poof.
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