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Brisketexan

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  1. You know, I’ll say this: the near-instant and ferocious resistance and verbal abuse these fascist cocksucking pieces of shit face whenever they show up (in Illinois at least) warms my heart. Fuck fascists. Always. And forever.
  2. When the economy is such that long-standing fast food brands are taking a hit…sheesh. Gonna get tough for some other chains soon enough, I’d assume.
  3. This. And Trump invested his ego there as well. And no price - paid by the American people, of course - is too high to boost his ego.
  4. This. Two sides are at war. One side cares about its citizens, and their suffering. The other side’s strategy has long capitalized on that. They hold the American people hostage, and inflict pain on them, knowing that the Dems will cave to their cruelty because they care about the people (don’t make me put a bright white hat on the Dems, but compared to the GQP…this is hard truth). Good nation states lose wars to awful nation states for that very reason. But the good nation states start to have a chance when they swallow the pill and realize that they can choose suffering now, or more suffering later. The GQP has the American people held hostage, and is torturing them, thinking it will make the Dems cave to protect them. Don’t. In fact…let the GQP turn all those people they are hurting into their enemies. We need their commitment to the fight. Also, Gatorubet, your last point is spot-on. Reaching this conclusion is about as awful as I’ve ever felt. It’s the opposite of what I want, or have ever wanted.
  5. Your last point is the accurate one. What people need to realize is that our society has already failed. Any notion of it being good and decent again in our lifetimes is over. The most we can do is fight the battle to prepare a generation after us to build something. That’s the point. It’s already lost. You are fighting for an idea that the GQP gleefully killed. It’s dead. The ethical situation we’re in was observed accurately by Ronald Spiers: “The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.” We didn’t want this, we didn’t choose this. We begged and pleaded for them NOT to choose this. They chose it anyway. So here we are.
  6. You mean JBS, which paid $5 million, the single largest bribe, excuse me, “gift” to the Trump inauguration fund? Yeah…don’t waste too much time looking for any enforcement against them. They paid their protection money.
  7. Solid. I really like it.
  8. Yeah. You’re skipping over the part where the education commissioner decides when - and importantly, if - that transition back ever happens. It won’t. The party of “local control” turns out to be all about consolidated power and authoritarianist indoctrination. Shocking, right?
  9. Huh. I just had a cheap cabinet gun safe from academy when we suffered a break in like 20 years ago. Dude spent some real time trying to pry it open, but it held. I later upgraded slightly, but it’s still nothing fancy. It’s big enough, very heavy, and the lock is solid. Also from Academy.
  10. So, it never returns to the people.
  11. Fantastic. God this timeline is so breathtakingly stupid.
  12. He’s doing tremendous damage to the credibility and reputation of the ADL. Not just for going “full bigot,” but also for being stupid reactionary ninnies about it. They had one of his colleagues on NPR this morning, gave him multiple chances to explain why their unprecedented freakout about Mamdani was warranted…and all he could do was tell the same stories about Jewish people being harassed and frightened in recent months (stories I generally believe, by the way). But…he didn’t do anything to connect them to Mamdani. Given multiple chances…he didn’t do it. He just came off as shrill and as stupid-panicky as John Rocker. WTF? The ADL has historically been a relatively steady and reasonable organization. Not anymore.
  13. Sorry, Pedobear is no longer a meme. I’ve been informed that he’s now a ranking member of the House Ethics Committee.
  14. Sorry, and certainly understand why what I suggest is awful and upsetting. This timeline is that dark and ghoulish. Some awful pain now, or even more awful pain later, for a longer time. Those are the choices in front of us. We didn’t ask for them, we voted and worked against them. But this is where we ended up just the same. Which is why I will forever hate, and never forgive, MAGA voters.
  15. Sadly, she kinda does. She realized long ago what a dark fucking place we are in, and the horrific shit we're going to have to see and go through to get out of it. There is NO getting out of this without awful, awful shit happening. Temporary relief is just masking the symptoms, which leads to the underlying disease being untreated even longer. The only way out is pain. It's why we never should have started on this path. But here we are. In the fucking darkness of it.
  16. You'll get there. These are brutal fucking times, and the shit that needs to happen is not good for anyone with a weak stomach. We need an angry mob. It's genuinely the Republic's only hope. There's no better way to get there than having the people go hungry. And have them not able to visit family. And losing their jobs. We're getting there. Let the fever keep rising.
  17. And now Donald has taken away our fat girl. Vic Mackey:
  18. Apparently, precisely as stupid as at least 40% of Americans. A level of stupidity that, for the sake of convenience, the rest of the world just calls "American."
  19. Yep. The GQP position on the Dems' ask is this: "we'll commit to think about it later." Fuck....ALL the way off with that shit. "Give me your car. After that, then I'll consider negotiating with you about whether I'll pay you anything. And obviously, you shouldn't pay ANY attention to the fact that every time this dynamic between us has come up in the past, I have totally fucked you and not agreed to do anything.' Yeah....
  20. Oh, we will all feel it. We already are. It's already hurt my family. Shit, the chances of my daughter ever living in this country again are low as hell, and that breaks my goddamned heart. We will ALL suffer because petty, vengeful morons with a fucking room-temp IQ decided it was more important to be performative and choose a path based on it hurting other people than to choose a path that might help all of us. Thus, my hatred of them will burn for eternity. The harm they have done can never be undone. And the only way they grasp it is when that harm comes to them. They are incapable of acknowledging that other human beings exist. Fuck 'em. Also, I literally just got an email from the chair of the Travis County Democratic Party urging all of us to donate to our local food banks. NO. DO NOT DO THIS. The American people learn only through this pain. Relieving the pain creates the illusion that we are not being gravely harmed. No. This has to hurt. A LOT. And yes, there will be collateral pain -- people who opposed this will suffer (see my point above -- everyone is already suffering). We need the fever to get hotter, not be controlled. The GQP has injected our society with a deadly disease. We need to not mask it with ibuprofen and shit. No, it needs to hurt. Then maybe -- MAYBE -- we'll actually go seek a cure for the disease.
  21. Incomplete. Remember, he's an "ADJUDICATED LYING PUSSY-ASS BITCH." Seriously, it seems that all the locals need to have pre-made signs ready to go -- "LOOK AT THIS ADJUDICATED LYING PUSSY-ASS BITCH OVER HERE!" Another reminder I like is "YOUR GRANDCHILDREN WILL ERASE YOUR NAME." You're going down in history. And your name will be shit for eternity. You have one chance to get right with the lord. You'd be wise to take it.
  22. I like the fact that "dreadnought" and "battleship" are also acceptable terms for.....bigger gals. @Vic Mackey
  23. Bottom line, it's how deals get done when the Rule of Law dies. Because the dirty secret is that the Rule of Law isn't the power to force courts to make people do what they promised. Having the Rule of Law and the courts there to enforce it is a REMINDER that we keep our word and follow through on our deals. The guy you signed a contract with to deliver your new Buick doesn't deliver the car because he's afraid of getting sued. He delivers it because....that's just what you do when you make a deal to deliver a car. Imagine a world where what deters people from killing someone is NOT the underlying ethic of "murder is wrong," but rather strictly the threat of suffering a reprisal killing from his family if you kill him. Well, you don't need to imagine much longer. That's where we're going.
  24. Oh. Someone told him we have anti-trust laws. How amusing. It's okay - he managed to make it a xenophobic exercise. This regime turning everything into hating foreigners is like gratuitous sax solos in 80s songs - no matter what, it finds a way in there.
  25. 62. At least one source says he's a retired cop. Fucking perfection. He'll walk. Because see, his "years of training and experience" informed him that this was a threat, and he had no choice but to use lethal force to defend himself and his castle.
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