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Brisketexan

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  1. Oh my friend....how 10 years ago of you. All a politician has to do now is create a shitcoin, have those who want to bribe him buy it at inflated prices, and voila, no laws violated and bribe paid. Or maybe he could just own, say, real property that can be rented at way-above market rates.
  2. Also, the one "upside" to tariffs I can think of is that our currency should get stronger. Cool, I need to do a lot of transactions in British pounds, this should be great! Except....the dollar has consistently gotten weaker. I could buy a pound for $1.23 on inauguration day. Today, it costs me $1.30 and climbing. Under Trump, all roads lead to Fuck It Avenue in the middle of Shitville.
  3. We should give Ukraine ERCOT to airdrop onto Russia. Then again, such an over-the-top attack might invite full nuclear retaliation.
  4. Joke's on you, my name's not Yakov.
  5. And Family Ties-era Justine Bateman was much better than 2025 methed-out-looking full-on MAGA Justine Bateman: Ain't nothing wrong with aging, even gracefully and naturally. But "hag" isn't just skin deep - it goes to the bone.
  6. You sound like a whore for Big Airplane. You should do your research. Here, watch these five videos made by complete fucking crackpots, and treat them as the end-all, be-all authority on the subject: (BLAH BLAH BLAH)
  7. Excellent post. And.... ^^^^ this. It's already done. The Rubicon has been crossed, there is no going back. Whatever comes next, it will be a far cry from the "Shining City on a Hill" that we liked to think we were -- or, at least (being realistic) we could aspire to be. America 2.0 is going to be super-shitty, for a long time.
  8. All of this because we have a breathtakingly stupid man who thinks that every transaction must have a winner and a loser. There is literally no such thing in his mind as a mutually beneficial transaction. My trip to HEB to purchase a gallon of milk this afternoon is no exception: either I'm fuckin getting ripped off, or HEB is getting fucked. In no world is it possible that I am happy to end up with HEB's gallon of milk, and HEB is happy to get my $3.50, in a transaction of mutual benefit. When the concept of "mutually beneficial trading relationship" is completely off the table and beyond your conception....then everything is absolutely going to end up FUCKED.
  9. Bingo. "Illegal criminals" are entitled to no due process. So all the gov't has to do is label...anyone they want to...as an "illegal criminal," and bingo, there's no way to even contest that finding because illegal criminals don't get due process. We are such a fucking shithole country.
  10. Bottom line, it has become glaringly obvious that billionaires are a plague.
  11. Yeah....buckle up. This is just so far beyond stupid, words fail me. There's no way to capture how utterly retrograde, misguided revanchist stupid this is. We are off the map.
  12. With this administration, we're probably going to see orders to make a bombing run sent by WhatsApp, with a fat-fingered typo, and just like that....we'll bomb this place: ...and Rankin will take its rightful place as the big dog of one of the most desolates stretches of W. Texas.
  13. If he STARTS by metaphorically ruthlessly slitting throats until the ground is too slippery to walk on....then he puts on shoes with better grip to KEEP slitting throats, then we might have something. Anyone within the Democratic party who isn't willing to play the game necessary to win? Begone. Anyone who has or retains any ties to the GQP? His singular focus should be on destroying them. When in an existential fight, maybe fucking act like it.
  14. Oh, my sweet summer child. See RFK Jr.....they're going to find a way to deliver a virus outbreak as well. But it'll be something cool and classic, like a variation of the flu, or maybe they'll find a way to make smallpox great again!
  15. Probably because she heard that dogs end up looking like their owners, and....well, you saw the photo of MIA upthread. You'd cry too if that was your destiny.
  16. Every point of this seems spot-on to me. Esp. #3. In fact, when you look at markets with the biggest declines...many/most of those markets were among the "hottest" in the 2020-2023 timeframe. Insane outside-normal-market-range increases in price are now being corrected. And yes, the other factors as well, including still-inflated housing costs (what once attracted many people to Austin (housing prices, which were lower than where they were coming from) is now the thing that causes more to shy away (because Austin is not a bargain). After this current correction, Austin will be....fine on the housing price front. We are not likely to see any great run-up in prices like we did in 2020-23, and we could well see more negative pressure from a recession, I think. But all-in-all, I think it's a good bet that we'll end up in the middle of the road as far as rate of price growth.
  17. We live in the naked quid pro quo era. Zuck is going to ask Trump to use the power of the US government against the EU to help Meta. In exchange, Trump will demand (and get) full compliance and cooperation by Meta with any and all communication strategies he has, including suppression of dissenting viewpoints/posts. You all know how this has gone, and will continue to go. The US government is now nothing more than a tool and toy for Trump to use, deploy, or withhold in order to serve his own individual goals and purposes. He treats it like his personal possession, and his party goes along with it. And the billionaire shitbags like Zuck eat it up, and encourage it. Zuck is a giant net negative on humanity, and the day he chokes to death on Trump's cheeto-stained dick will be a great day for the planet.
  18. RANK THEM, YOU COWARDS.
  19. What all of this glosses over is that when pushed far enough, laws are only enforced by the barrel of a gun. That's why opting out of the rule of law -- as the Republican party has done, without any hesitation or reservation -- is so fucking dangerous and stupid. We are going to have a resolution to this question in 2028-2029. The only question is how many people will die resolving it. I set the over/under at 100. If it spreads beyond DC.....I don't want to think about those numbers.
  20. Man. I love, love boudin. And I dig egg rolls. And kolaches. But the "boudin egg rolls/kolaches" trend just doesn't work for me. Doughy stuff inside of more doughy stuff. Each has their place, but not together. That said, I'll smash boudin on a saltine, so maybe I'm just a terrible hypocrite. Don't care, had boudin.
  21. We are minutes away from a widespread movement to ban airplanes, because they are fake news, everyone knows that things with wings cannot get off the ground unless those wings flap. Watch the birds, watch the butterflies, DO YOUR RESEARCH. Your bullshit about "camber" and "lift" are utter bullshit that BigAirplane wants us to believe. But I know what's real and true, and what's real and true is that wings don't make things fly unless they flap. We need to ban all airplanes right now, because they are doomed to kill everyone who gets on one. Stupidity is one thing. There have always been loads of stupid people. It's the WEAPONIZED stupidity, full-Dunning/Kruger stupidity, that's killing us. And "weaponized stupidity" is our national model right now, so...yeah, we're beyond fucked. We will be banning chlorine in water soon, too. Just wait for it.
  22. She should report him for pedophilia. He is a self-proclaimed "conservative Christian," and we know the overlap of that performative label and criminal sexual activity is approaching 100%, so it's a good faith call.
  23. But just to be safe, you switched to jerking off lefthanded, right?
  24. So....Val Kilmer was a Surly poster?
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