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I caught that fuckup. Good. Fire up the P-38s and let's Yamamoto their fucking asses.
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Or....he's met Trump, and knows that he's a giant piece of shit perhaps the giantest piecest of shittest ever to merit a fecal metaphor.
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"Drop in US religiosity among largest in world" https://news.gallup.com/poll/697676/drop-religiosity-among-largest-world.aspx#:~:text=— The 17-point drop in,10-year period since 2007. Massive drop - 17 points - from 2015 to 2025. Gosh. What major trend took place from 2015 to present. Could it be the rise of the MAGA movement, which has thoroughly coopted Christianity? In America, 2025, if someone says "I'm a Christian," that is regularly perceived as "I'm MAGA." It has become, first and foremost, a political label. And . . . among people inclined to actually FOLLOW the tenets of Christianity, a most distasteful one. So, in a country where being "religious" largely means "I'm MAGA," it's not a shock to see a big drop in subscription to that religious belief (which remains our culturally dominant religion). TLDR: Nothing is worse for American Christianity than American "Christians."
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Truly an era of comic book villains. Plot twist: the American people side with the villains.
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Mentioned it on here before, but I drive downtown streets every day. Lots of Waymos on the road with me. They are among the best drivers -- and even among the most courteous -- in downtown.
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Taco Bell's glory days will always be THESE days: And I was a cheap-ass mo-fo; I NEVER departed upward from the 59 cent category. You could get 5 items for $3 plus some change from the sofa cushions to pay the tax. Sober, drunk, didn't matter. It was the value deal of the era.
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Well, but here's the depressing check: King Charles and the royal family have 1,000X more of a moral compass than anyone in the MAGA movement. Video of Trump raping a crying child could be played every day on every news show from now to eternity, and MAGA will not desert him. They won't even rationalize it. They'll tell us how it's actually a good thing. Again, just read the manual on cults, and you know every single thing MAGA and its enablers will do. That's one of the shittiest things about this timeline: it's all so boringly predictable.
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Cool thoughts, thanks. Yeah, load growth projections have become wonky as shit as multiple new adders have come into the mix. Was aware of accounting for charging EVs, but hadn't really seen/thought much about industrial and heat pump-driven growth. We'd all seen crypto mining already have an impact, but AI data center growth seems to be putting that to shame. What you say about what will happen to assets in any crash makes sense. Got a 25 yr old plant, with more expensive O&M and less efficiency, vs. a 2 yr old plant early in its maintenance life and quite efficient? When you have to drop generation assets, you retire that first plant every time. Tell me more about what you mean about getting electrical gear on the brown market?
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The story will quickly be that we want our leaders to be “alphas,” and there’s nothing more alpha than being a predator. These scumbags aren’t outliers in the GQP. They are its essence.
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Nice summary of the pitfalls and warnings from the Economist: Summary of the 7 deadly sins of our current economic era: Lust for Crypto Retail Envy Lazy circularity Furious dealmaking Debt gluttony Patriotic pride Avaricious fraud And what's coming: Judgment day For now, Wall Street expects the good times to continue. Credit spreads remain tight. Equity-market volatility is low. Retail investors show no signs of flagging. Last week Robinhood, an online broker, said that its clients’ borrowing had risen by 153% this year. The makings of a bubble often become clear well before it pops. Alan Greenspan warned of “irrational exuberance” in 1996, some four years before the next crash came. Yet in some corners the mood is beginning to sour. Take crypto. Earlier this year Strategy traded at more than double the value of its bitcoin holdings. As the price of bitcoin has fallen, the company’s shares have fallen even further. Its premium has eroded to around 20%. If it is unable to sell more shares, it may need to liquidate its bitcoin holdings to pay steep interest costs. As a large owner, and ever larger champion, of bitcoin, it risks ending up in a downward spiral. Worries about credit markets have grown, too. First Brands, a provincial manufacturer of spark plugs, borrowed more than $10bn before collapsing into bankruptcy. Its lenders now accuse it of fraud. Jamie Dimon, the boss of JPMorgan Chase, warned that more “cockroaches” would emerge. Since then a few have scuttled out from under lenders’ loan books. Some business-development companies, a type of private-credit fund, are trading well below the value of their assets. Shares in Blue Owl, a private-credit firm, have fallen by more than 40% from their peak at the start of the year. Markets and regulators have turned on Egan-Jones, one of private credit’s favourite rating agencies. The industry’s use of life-insurance policies to fund investments is also being scrutinised. Then there is the question of whether Silicon Valley’s colossal spending on AI will pay off before investors lose patience. If it does not, the punishment may be harshest for companies that have succumbed to the seven sins. The consequences, though, would ripple far beyond them. Losses for investors would spill over into consumer spending. Credit markets—and possibly the government—would also bear losses. Parts of the financial system that have hitherto been untested would come under strain. Engineers would be put out of work. But the financial engineers would be to blame. ■ One thing it left out was the transformation of the American economy, in large part, to a fasicst loyalist economy. Want to get your merger approved? Pay the vig to the regime. Want to get regulatory approval for a permit, license, etc.? Pay the vig to the regime. Want to keep the DOJ out of your obviously shady business? Vig. Etc. etc. etc. Large enterprises have to pay the vig both to obtain favorable treatment, AND to avoid punishing treatment. They must pay both protection money AND bribes, with the same dollars. That phenomenon skews the fuck out of the market. The correction crash here is going to be insanely chaotic and wide-reaching, and here's the cherry on top: when it happens, we have literally the least competent, least qualified regime and operators within it in our nation's history. Our plane is going to hit a flock of geese and flame out all engines, and instead of having Sully on the stick, we have a team of deranged monkeys in ill-fitting pilot suits in the cockpit.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
I hate everything about this. To me, it manifests most visibly in any number of posts, emails, etc. I get that do NOT contain words, but rather a link to some 30 minute video. First, I can read all the words from that video in 3 minutes, so stop wasting my time and yours. Fucking read, it's faster. Second, why are we even referring to some "personality" who is aggregating (poorly) actual fact-based reporting and information about a subject? Point me to the source material, not what Joe Rogan fucking says about it. The dumbification of everything continues not just unabated, but accelerated. EXACTLY as Musk wants it to be. Because really, the only way for him to be "super smart" is to ensure that everyone else is super dumb. Problem is, he drinks his own kool-aid, and is dumbifying himself along with everyone else. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Used bookstores -- and curvy brunettes with freckled shoulders -- are my kryptonite. Wherever we travel, if we come across a book shop, we stop in. And spend some fucking money. Every time. There are worse vices to have, I think. -
Guys.....find yourself a gal who looks at you the way a fat white racist Karen cunt bitch looks at Trump. Told y'all the "well, actually" excuses were forthcoming. Stache gets it. Again, within a few days, we're going to be beyond mere excuses and rationalization -- we will have reached the point of "actually, this is a good thing." There will be some discussion about how we want our leaders to be virile, "alpha males," and any virile alpha male type naturally lusts for the fresh ripe body of a teen girl -- who, we remind you, would have been prime marrying age and the foundation for creating tribal alliances through most of human history -- so Trump's penchant for hot teen girls is a good thing. It proves that he's the kind of manly leader we need to save us from woke socialists.
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I would....but I sold all my stories to Peterman.
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"puff, puff, pass"
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Did I ever tell y'all about the weekend I had some Wendy's chili and got a hug from Susanna Hoffs? Good times, good times.
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Tylenol is poison. Ibuprofen is poison. Vaccines are murder. But...Ivermectin cures....literally everything. All medications will be Ivermectin from here on out. Got a headache? Ivermectin. Cancer? Ivermectin. Heart disease? Ivermectin. Any and all viral illnesses? Ivermectin. Staph infection? Ivermectin. We are in the dumbest timeline. But don't worry, it gets stupendously dumber every fucking day.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. No. They were not. He allegedly contributed something like $130 million, which would pay each service member like $100. That money, if it was actually sent, did not go to pay any soldier anyway. It almost certainly went to pay some sort of special no-bid contract, whereby "Trump Military Services Inc." provided "consulting services" to the Pentagon, which of course cannot be discussed because, umm, they're Classified, got $130 million cash, free and clear. Y'all really don't get that we're in an open kleptocracy now, do you?
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Once the population has opted for "authoritarianism all in the name of hurting people I hate," the flavor of it becomes largely irrelevant. Loyalty tests, purges, secret police, silencing/imprisoning dissenters, requiring payoffs to party leadership in order to do business.....these traits are common to both left and right authoritarianism. Trump and MAGA haven't opted for conservatism. They've opted for garden variety corrupt authoritarianism using "conservative values" as their cover. Any cover will do going forward. This is our concern, dude. I don't want Mussolini, I don't want Pol Pot or Stalin either. And the differences between those folks are pretty meaningless at the end of the day.
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You think you hate it NOW, wait till you see whatever they do next!
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Yeah....not sure if that goes here. I suspect it will end up being "Google settles suit with text message scammers insuring Google gets a cut of the action."
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Brisketexan replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
Bill signed. Shutdown over. Release the Epstein files. -
Do not insult my GI tract like that. It produces top-notch results.
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Told yall. They’ll be to “fucking teenage girls is good” within a week.
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