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Non-Texas weather. The all-encompassing thread
Brisketexan replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
1 -- it looks a shitload like the forecast and actual weather when I visited my daughter in Montreal in February when she was in college. 2 -- when I voiced my concern about it being negative eleventy billion degrees, she said exactly what Al said -- "it's fine if it's not windy." Fortunately, it wasn't windy. It was fine. Just dress for it. -
We're going to get an executive order making "Proud to be an American" our new national anthem, aren't we?
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Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
Brisketexan replied to PenelopeWitherspoon's topic in Cloak Room
Why should we spare you that? At this point, do you not believe that Elon Musk and his minions are directly plugged into every election apparatus that matters in every location where it matters? We've handed the keys to our entire system of government -- the whole goddamned thing -- to a deranged, evil tech billionaire. We have a fucking Bond villain running everything....you think we're going to have fair and functional elections? -
Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
Brisketexan replied to PenelopeWitherspoon's topic in Cloak Room
"We never thought the leopards would eat OUR faces!" -
I mean....this is how you get RESPECTED AGAIN. Turn over the country to a psychopath mentally dysfunctional billionaire while his toddler son cusses out the purported POTUS who sits sullenly at his desk and then periodically says random stupid shit. That, my friends, is how you project POWER.
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The show jumped the shark after we stopped having "Battle of the Network Stars featuring Lynda Carter." Prove me wrong.
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Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
Brisketexan replied to PenelopeWitherspoon's topic in Cloak Room
Because that's all any of these people are: performers. Almost none of them are actual executive/manager types. All they do is get their face on TV and say shit for likes. When it comes to actual roll-up-your-sleeves get-shit-done management.....they don't have the FIRST FUCKING CLUE WHERE TO EVEN BEGIN. -
"LED light for my camera." Seems like an odd product choice to replace the term "vibrating butt plug." No matter, we're all glad that it's showing up pronto to take care of your needs, and we don't judge around here. You do you, brother.
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Oh, wait....I didn't want to let that one go by. Actually, yes, it's about those things too, specifically. Projects that are underway, with local funds and resources committed based on pre-existing STATUTORY commitments of federal funds, are frozen, and contracts are in default.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Elon: "I FOUND FRAUD AND WASTE EVERYWHERE!!!!" America showing Elon the State Dept. spending $400 MILLION on armored Teslas: -
Because evil of the "oh shucks, I'm just for all the morally good things, and will never admit that what I propose will cause incredible suffering" variety is fucking infuriating.
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Just answer the simple question: when you burn it ALL down -- and "all" includes things like USAID and medical and food programs it actively operates on a daily basis in dozens of countries, payment systems like SS that actively fund people living day-by-day, programs that are the basis for the livelihoods of literally millions of Americans both indirectly and directly (example of "directly" -- Catholic Charities in Galveston just laid off 120 people in its refugee resettlement office - they now have no job or paycheck, and the refugees who were in process, promised their assistance, are high-and-dry), etc. ad nauseum -- your "burning it all down" necessarily means that those people are going to suffer, and some of them will die, correct? I mean, the fucking irony of you actively rooting for a course of action that will necessarily have direct AND collateral damage that = incredible suffering and death, in the name of your supposedly moral high ground of opposing....that exact sort of action. You beclown yourself, and you think that nobody sees it. It's the last part that's most pathetic. That you think you've fooled.....anyone. You root for something that is metaphorical area-bombing, claiming "hey, I never said a particular person should be hurt," and think that's absolution, when you spend pages here criticizing that exact moral calculus. It's fucking rich.
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Am I? When you root to burn the entire system down - the system in which 350 million Americans live, a system which is interwoven into our lives and livelihood, what DOES happen when you "burn it all down?" You have run away from that truth around here for as many years as you've been around. And nobody but you thinks you've put any distance between yourself and that obvious truth: the inevitable and necessary outcome is immense suffering. Shit, the gutting of USAID alone will, with a 100% certainty, result in a stack of people dying (not even Americans - people who depend on day-to-day food and medical aid that is now frozen). That's a real thing that is happening right now. And it always was going to happen when we "burned it all down." You may think you're being clever and fooling....someone, I have no idea who. But anyone who looks at the dude cheering for the house everyone lives into burn to the ground knows "fuck...a lotta people are gonna burn when that happens." Then when the dude says "oh, you're projecting"....do you really think anyone reads that and does anything but roll their eyes?
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I just go with a pre-written Hallmark card. Doesn't change the fact that when you yearn for the entire house to burn, countless charred humans is what you wanted.
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The coup thread. Fuck the traitors to the Constitution.
Brisketexan replied to Willfully Horn's topic in Cloak Room
It's actually an incredibly effective technique to gauge whether the decision you're contemplating actually makes sense. If it can lead to an absurd outcome that would undermine the very fabric of the Republic, then yes....you should fucking second guess yourself. It doesn't mean that your decision is ultimately wrong. It DOES mean that if your decision would yield an absurd result, that is a strong sign that perhaps you are missing something in your analysis. It's a "temperature check." Yeah....so, they literally banned all of the evidence that could be used to consider whether it was a crime. Of course they didn't ban evidence OF the act. You can introduce the order "Dear Air Force: drone strike terrorist Cal Creditor at his villa in Cyprus." You can introduce the video of the villa going boom. You can introduce a photo of Cal. Whoop-de-fucking-do. All of it irrelevant to....anything. Motive is what MAKES it illegal. Most every other government official, at every level, can be subject to sanction/prosecution for committing an otherwise lawful act for an unlawful purpose, AND evidence relevant to that purpose is admissible. The POTUS is now singular and unique among all 350 million of us. So to answer your question: ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY THEY DID, BECAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID AND THEY KNEW IT. "Dear executive: you have supreme, limitless power [seriously -- the executive literally has the unilateral power to end all human life on earth with nuclear strikes]. And we are making it against the law to even question your use of that power." What the fuck is that OTHER than a declaration that he is a monarch, answerable only to the God who placed him in office where he acts by divine right? -
Oh....fucking bullshit. Nobody has ever said our society or ANY of our systems -- private, public, local, state, federal, etc. -- are perfect. Far from it -- we have long offered plenty of criticism of their various failings. But you are a the classic throw the baby out with the bathwater burn it down type. You ignore the fact that all the things you hate....also perform a metric shitton of workaday functions, reasonably well, that make the relatively prosperous life we have possible. Clean water, sewage treatment, roads, functioning courts to enforce contracts, laws, and the like, a social safety net apparatus that has helped drive down stark poverty (yes, SS really works), etc. etc. ad infinitum. You 1) dismiss every bit of that with a handwave, 2) focus on only the failings (without conceding that all of your criticisms are valid, presume they are), and propose as a solution....3) burn the whole fucking thing down. FFS, my wife is an incredibly positive part of my life. She provides strength when I need it, she co-parents, she feeds me intellectually and emotionally, she helps keep our house running, all of the good stuff. She is ALSO fiscally irresponsible when it comes to buying purses (she has more than enough, just stop). She drives me mad with her preference to drive on surface streets instead of taking faster and more efficient freeways. Her refusal to see any movie that involves lots of violence or horror limits the fuck out of my movie choices. You would characterize my wife as an unreasonably picky, fiscally irresponsible, inefficient driver....ignoring every single good thing I listed first. And would thus be happy seeing her tossed out the door and onto the trash heap. It's fucking insane and psychopathic. So, now you've gotten what you always wanted: we are burning down our collective house. And for years, plenty of us have warned about exactly what's happening -- the house in engulfed in flames, with a shitload of people inside, who are going to suffer immensely. You. Don't. Care. And you do so for the stupidest of reasons. Because our system is FLAWED.....all of it, the good and bad, must be destroyed. And damn the suffering. That was ALWAYS going to be the outcome. If you burn down the house that 350 million of us live in, lots of people are going to be horrifically burned. Burned people is what you have always wanted.
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No, those too. Imagine the scenario -- Musk commits a crime in New York, and somehow foolishly goes to NY and gets arrested. Trump will deploy his personal armed troops to go free Musk, by any means necessary. Yes, including shooting any NY personnel who get in the way. Trump will declare the actions of NY "anti-democratic terrorist actions." Thus, his actions will be an exercise of "presidential power," and he will have full immunity, both during and after his presidency (spoiler -- there won't be an "after," because he is being anointed king). The rule of law is over. Rule of the gun is all that's left. That's it. Those are the two options, and the regime has opted out of option 1.
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American Airlines flight 5342 (CRJ) collides with Army UH-60 at DCA.
Brisketexan replied to UnivTex34's topic in Daily Texan
I bet the dolphins did. -
"To go into." Praytell....where exactly did Ukraine....go? I mean, I get this guy -- they were just sitting there, asking for it.
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The coup thread. Fuck the traitors to the Constitution.
Brisketexan replied to Willfully Horn's topic in Cloak Room
1) the court need not adjudicate the question of a POTUS-ordered hit on a rival/creditor/etc. They DO need to consider that as a possible consequence of their decision. 2) and...in doing so, MAYBE they shouldn't have issued a blanket ban on considering evidence behind a purported act of presidential powers. That's the real fucking point here. They set up a rule that 1) if the act is of a character that puts it within the president's powers (e.g., a drone strike on foreign territory), then that's it. Full-stop. There can be no consideration of any facts or evidence of the act to determine whether it was truly an exercise of presidential powers, or was it a use of the resources of the US to perform a personal mission that is wholly against the law. Think through the impact of your decision. That's what any decent court does. Not only did SCOTUS NOT do that....they barred any future court from considering evidence that could be relevant to determining the impact of their decision. They knew what they were doing. They created a king, entirely above and not subject to the law. That decision is already having consequences, and it will have many more grave consequences to come. Because once you have a king, there's only one way to remove them from power. This sets up an outcome that is necessarily violent and bloody. -
Nancy Mace: Sexual assault survivor or cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?
Brisketexan replied to C-Man's topic in Cloak Room
Counterpoint: UNDEFEATED. -
Nancy Mace: Sexual assault survivor or cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?
Brisketexan replied to C-Man's topic in Cloak Room
This is accurate. The problem is one that comes up with respect to ANY statement/allegation. Once a person has REPEATEDLY demonstrated that they are a lying psychopath.....then their credibility is already destroyed. It's not destroyed because of what her current allegation is. It's destroyed because she long ago acted in a way that got here tossed in the "oh...so she's a lying liar who lies all the time" bucket. It's the boy who cried wolf bit. It's why we lawyers tell our clients and witnesses over and over NOT to lie on the stand. Because once the jury figures out you told ONE lie....they tune you out because they conclude that everything else you say is a lie as well. Once you tell a lie...then you're just another liar. -
My man. The term you're looking for is "Quonset hut," by the way. And that would be perfect.
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To my point.....for the most part, the delta of "how delicious is this?" among all of the "higher-end" BBQ joints is so small as to not matter at all. For those of us who remember the days of there being maybe 8-10 really good bbq restaurants in the whole fucking STATE, the fact that there are probably 15 places in Austin alone where you can get a bite of BBQ that would make anyone who is not a deeply experienced BBQ snob say "holy shit, that's fucking amazing" is huge. Put it another way, get in a time machine, and drop Terry Blacks in Austin 20 years ago. It would be the most celebrated restaurant, not just bbq restaurant, in town. For good reason -- it's fucking delicious. And SO much this. Because in the end, in spite of how ridiculously snobbified it's become, and how high the prices have soared....it's still fucking BBQ, man. Find a long-abandoned Dairy Queen, add some second-hand picnic tables outside, and go to town.
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The Blake Lively (Ryan Reynolds's wife) Controversy
Brisketexan replied to chainsaw's topic in Daily Texan
[Brisket, bookmarking this page to see who folks say is her Matt Nordgren]
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