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Brisketexan

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  1. This guy knows how MAGA land works.
  2. I dunno, which one of the Bobs is "Big Balls," an utterly unqualified unelected 19 year old sociopath given near limitless power. Because THAT'S who MAGA thinks should be in charge of.....everything. So you should definitely trust MAGA's judgment here.
  3. In America, 2025, the "stupid multiplier" breaks the machine, because it simply can't multiply by infinity.
  4. What if he had his camera phone out to record himself getting a blowie from a stewardess? I presume that is still allowed, even encouraged.
  5. The fact that all of these ROI discussions purposefully exclude externalities is the fucking problem. Imagine energy source A -- can power 10,000 homes for a year for $10 million. Energy source B -- can power 10,000 homes for a year for $7.5 million. No brainer, right? But.....energy source B, to operate at that level of performance, will pollute the primary water source for the area. And, it will emit toxic emissions that will cause an additional 100 fatal cancer cases a year. The relevant question is not the relative EROI of A and B. The relevant question is the external costs of obtaining the $2.5 million a year in savings by choosing source B. The cost of saving $2.5 million is an unusable water source and 100 extra deaths per year. Are THOSE costs worth the money? Of course, we all know the answer. The savings could be a dollar, and the cost 1,000 additional deaths, and the obvious choice would be "save a buck, because shareholder value and we've convinced consumers that saving an extra few cents is worth making things a hellscape."
  6. Kyrie is all good, he was at a party at my house on Saturday with his wife. All is well.
  7. Certainly a healthy number of them. There is no shortage of mercenaries of all stripes and professions who have perfected the art of privatizing gains and socializing costs for massive profit and shareholder value. It's the American way. And dealing with such folks, as I sometimes have to do is.....frustrating.
  8. My warmth routine when duck hunting has always been to 1) wear neoprene waders and 2) fart in them frequently. Works pretty well.
  9. Dude. Destroying public education so that all that is produced is a mindless consumer class, easily manipulated by the oligarchy that now literally officially runs our country, is the benefit.
  10. Having met JD....can we blame her?
  11. Seriously. The one thing we KNOW about MAGA is that being a pedophile, or rapist, or molester, or violent abuser is not just not a dealbreaker, those traits are QUALIFICATIONS. “He’s an abuser, just like me!” And the MAGA rants against those things are of course just “every accusation is actually a confession” 101.
  12. My wife wears her clergy collar at every protest/demonstration she has taken part in, including in DC and Tornillo. And, she decided a while back to opt in to being a member of the group willing to be arrested. Because make the regime arrest clergy. That’s one thing. There are 10,000 others. Others of us use our law licenses to throw sand in the gears (I won’t discuss how I do so here). Use the unique/uncommon privileges and skills you have first, those have the most value.
  13. Counterpoint: hot food menu brought to you by @Steel Shank and Brisketexan.
  14. Now what? What the German people should have done in 1933, instead of not just going along with it but actively joining the team: be sand in the gears for the regime at every possible turn. I’m talking all the way down to sitting through a green light if an ICE vehicle is waiting behind you. Everything from big down to tiny.
  15. Bingo. Are we EXACTLY like Germany in 1933? Of course not. But does that mean that we’re “nothing like Germany in 1933?” Nope. That’s a wildly irresponsible and myopic thing to say. Again, this was a few years ago. My entire family of four visited the German history museum in central Berlin. They do NOT whitewash the 1900-1945 series of exhibits. Very matter-of-fact, featuring contemporary news pieces and the like, showing EXACTLY how it all came about. All four of us went through at our own pace. We then reconnected outside, where each of us indecently said that was the scariest thing we’d ever fucking seen, because the parallels were glaring. We are absolutely heading down that road. We just careened past a sign saying “authoritarian state, 20 miles ahead,” and some folks are saying “see, we’re not in an authoritarian state!” Maybe not this minute, but for FFS the signs plainly say it’s not that far ahead, and we’re in a car with the pedal to the metal. The time to stop it is now (really, many yesterdays ago)….it is not “once we get there.”
  16. Oh…he’ll just take money from one place and send it to the red states as a direct cash transfer. That’s how dictators buy favor. Well…then let’s get ready for crashing the value of housing, the primary store of value/equity for many Americans.
  17. Yeah….you don’t get that. If you want to discover searches for particular terms that are relevant to the subject matter of the dispute, MAYBE you get some specific results. But you don’t get to just go fishing and try to find something embarrassing but irrelevant.
  18. Yeah. I mean, it’s literally the plan they’ve said out loud.
  19. And you'll be beaten for your troubles by the new Presidential DOGE Enforcement Troops, operating under the command of DOGE and its Senior Military Officer, Big Balls.
  20. The irony of course being that it turns out that, misattributing shit or not, the NRA may have been right. And the irony of THAT is of course the truth that the NRA is only interested in the people rising up against a democratic government. If the government is a fascist authoritarian one, the NRA gameplan is for those citizens to become that government's violent enforcement arm, not TECHNICALLY part of the government, so not restrained by the Constitution or similar nonsense.
  21. Of course. But now we have real-deal oligarchs, who succeed in such endeavors 100% of the time, because no rules apply to them. Rest assured, they will also be able to develop, and massively profit from, further construction in wildfire-prone areas. They take their profits, leave, and then let the poor bastards who bought a home deal with the fallout a decade later.
  22. This is the fundamental way of the new oligarchy: laws for thee, not for me.
  23. Nothing that functional power-merger with the US, thus enabling Russia to grow demographically by conquest, won't solve. That's the play. It's the whole play. And it has worked. Just waiting on it to fully play out, but the die is cast.
  24. This. It's not any more complicated than this. You don't have to trust me: they have fucking TOLD us as much -- see the efforts by Wyoming legislators to have all federal land (save Yellowstone, no idea why it should be excepted) in the state turned over to the state. Where it will be sold off and/or developed. This is about bolstering and finishing the job of a system that 1) transfers immense wealth to a class of increasingly untouchable billionaires, then once they have sufficient cash, 2) converting the property of the commonwealth into property to be sold in bulk to...untouchable billionaires. In short, this is about transferring the actual ownership of the United States of America -- not theoretical or metaphorical, but actual -- to a handful of untouchable billionaires. Nothing belongs to "we the people." Nothing. Not a single thing. Every bit of it is already owned (metaphorically) or will be owned (actually) by a handful of billionaires who are entirely above and untouchable by the law.
  25. Which gives Ana an uncontrolled erection. But, you know…both sides. Just a coincidence that every single thing that favors the rise and entrenchment of authoritarian fascism gets him rock-hard.
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