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Brisketexan

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  1. That's the rub, ain't it? Get it, then sell it before the music stops, because when the music stops....
  2. This is the most inexplicable part to me. The other are just sub-optimal business decisions, the sort of thing that happens. But hyper-politicizing a major consumer product? I mean, even Michael Jordan observed "Republicans buy shoes too." Ford and Chevy and BMW and functionally every other auto maker don't tie the image and marketing of their products to a particular (and extreme and polarizing to boot) political ethos. Sure, there are political identities that identify more with particular products (I'm guessing that more Republicans buy Ford and Chevy trucks, and more dems buy Priuses and Accords), but the manufacturers wisely (well, actually, EASILY, because they don't get in that game to begin with) avoided having their products tied to a politically polarizing position. Elon....not so much. AND, he picked the dumbest group to cater to. Sorry, Elon....incels and blind fanbois aren't going to produce the sales figures you need to succeed.
  3. Bingo. They'll move to a burb, get a dead-end job, finance an $80k lifted truck they really can't afford, slap a "Fuck Joe Biden" sticker on the back of it, and keep on keeping on.
  4. Yep. While there's ALWAYS been a component of "item X has value because enough people say it has value" (tulip bulbs, Star Wars figures, the McRib when it is back for a limited time only, etc.), the bottom line is that the vast majority of things that can be traded have the value they have because of some underlying fundamental utility/aesthetic (yeah, even gold is shiny and pretty). Things like Tesla, DJT stock, crypto? They have value -- or a huge chunk of their value, at least -- because some people have decided that it should have value. Crypto is worth lots because it is hyped as being worth lots. Tesla is worth lots because of the hype and aura. DJT stock is worth lots (although much less) because it's about the personality of the brand and the cult behind it. For such things, almost always, the music eventually stops....and people are left holding it with no chair to sit in.
  5. Semi-related, sent you a PM re London. If you have time to check them.
  6. Alpine. Their communities and schools are dying painful deaths. GQP has passed policies and is pushing more policies that will make their problems even worse. But the communities continue to vote GQP at a 90% rate because better to have their schools collapse, their kids grow up with shitty education and limited opportunities......so long as they aren't exposed to any woke trans CRT bullshit! The wounds of rural Texas are almost entirely self-inflicted. And their response to being bullet-riddled and bleeding out? RELOAD!
  7. Look, man, I hate being hot and I’ll wear what I want.
  8. Yeah…we’re going to tomorrow’s show. Sounds super fun. Although now the wife and I can plan on a nice, late dinner. Then get to the show around 10:00, dressed pretty damned casually and comfortably.
  9. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, little lady. Now, don’t you have some biscuits to bake for your husband or something?
  10. And yall wonder why I live on the ledge.
  11. And the first reply is about “Islam-religion of peace”…when the killer was a generic white dude. Gotta love the predictability. On the bright side, shows you how those pussy Australians are. Had this dude been in the US, his crazy ass could have obtained multiple firearms and racked up 10x the body count. What a bunch of losers the aussies are.
  12. Demonstrating that he’s just as much an idiot about epidemiology as he is about…literally everything else. 1) Once a virus is no longer “novel” (meaning that most have been exposed to it and thus have some resistance), it declines dramatically in lethality. 2) the natural progression of most such viruses is that it gradually mutates into a more mild variety (it’s an optimal “strategy” - remain transmissible, but don’t kill the host). So…where COVID is now is EXACTLY where it was supposed to be. I’ll say it again: Elon is an actual fucking idiot. He’s not smart. He is stupid as hell.
  13. Bingo. Iran’s “enmity” for Israel is an entirely self-serving stunt by the islamofascist regime, with nearly zero historical basis. I won’t stan for the Shah or our blanket and blind support for him (autocrats ain’t good), and our limited strategic thinking in that respect helped pave the ground for the Islamic revolution. But the shittiness of the current regime is on them. What amazes me is to see people so blinded by their rage at Israel (which, again…is not without a great deal of merit) that they put a white hat on Iran as simply following international law, and Israel is the devil for killing IRGC leadership who were using an embassy as their planning grounds for further attacks on Israel (conveniently skipping past the finding this week that Iran was behind the attack on Israel’s non-combatant embassy in Buenos Aires…and then a bombing of a Jewish center that killed 85 civilians in BA). Yeah, Iran, super-champions of “international law.” Fuck that shit.
  14. It’s not reputable. Because it acquiesced to a massive stricture following zero standards with no real oversight…and they’ll do so again, in a heartbeat. Because aggy. And cult.
  15. So…it seems you’ve heard of planet earth and the vermin that is humanity. Needless death and suffering for insanely stupid reasons is our jam.
  16. Texas is shit. The only “old Texas” we’ve managed to keep is our worst racist, xenophobic, and christofascist impulses (we’ve always had them, we’re re-elevating them), and we’ve imported other shittastic ideas and traits from SEC country. We’re not even Mississippi with oil and Mexican food - Mississippi is nicer and kinder. Texas is the worst state in the union. And yes, I’m aware that Florida still exists.
  17. Iran must slurp my taint sweat. I’ve been fucking done with these fucking assholes since 1979. The only open question is WHEN the day of reckoning will be. This regime needs to be wiped from the earth. I’d much prefer the Iranian people take care of it themselves. But they’re running out of time.
  18. Sure. There are no restraints on the Iranian regime. There haven’t been for 40+ years. They sow war both directly and indirectly wherever they want in the entire region. A time will come when they need to be disabled as a regime capable of projecting violence. Don’t know if today is that day. But I think we can see it from here.
  19. Counterpoint: that’s just bad bull and woke bullshit from the sips in Austin, and real redasses won’t pay any attention to it. WHOOP!
  20. Tell that cunt I will personally shoot her when she starts her shit. But not a clean kill shot. I want her to feel her agonal breathing as her lungs fill with blood. I want her to experience those last moments, knowing that she fucked around with my country, and she found out. I’d say the same thing about any fucking terrorist who tries to overthrow my country by violent force. She’s worse than Bin Laden, and I hope her cocky ass meets his same fate.
  21. Maybe that’s an important question…but maybe it doesn’t fucking matter. The difference between “Iran-armed and trained forces attacking at Iran’s behest” and “Iranian forces attacking at Iran’s behest” is functionally zero. If Iranian forces are striking US targets, US forces should strike back.
  22. “Unprovoked.” Fantastic. I guess decades of Iran funding and training militants against Israel (including Hamas militants who committed an avalanche of war crimes on Oct 7), and even launching attacks with its own forces (IRG based in Syria)….is not a provocation. Fascinating. For all the shit one can say about Israel - and there’s a LOT of shit one can say - “Israel hasn’t been provoked by Iran” isn’t one of them.
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