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Brisketexan

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  1. The Dems didn't just get their asses handed to them in the presidential race. They got it across the board, downballot, etc. Partially true, but also partially counter-factual (thus proving that just fucking lying is really, really, really important to any winning approach) -- inflation had almost completely leveled out. In terms of inflation and interest rates, the whole world was actually marveling that the US looked like it was executing a "soft-landing." But the narrative was "MUH EGGS!" and that's all it takes. Just fucking tell your story and lie about how bad it is, what the cause is, etc. Dems need to do more of that. Much, much, much more. Except......it's almost entirely a made up issue (seriously, statistically, there is not and has not been ANY "massive immigration" crisis. The numbers simply aren't there). Again, the right just makes up a narrative, demagogues on it, and wins. The Dems need to do much, much more of that. Completely manufacture an issue, paint the GOP as the villains, and do it directly and in simple language, on repeat for a decade. Dems cannot win by being traditional centrists. "Traditional centrists" are people of reason, facts, logic, and policy. Not only do NONE of those things matter anymore, they are a fucking millstone around the neck of any campaign that actually wants to win. Instead, accuse the GOP of raping chipmunks, create fake videos of them raping chipmunks, and make sure they saturate every social media outlet known to man. Utterly stupid shit like that is how you win.
  2. And the results speak for themselves. There is no counter-argument to the fact that October 7th is the best thing to ever happen to Bibi's political career. A criminal leader with eroding support was gifted the opportunity to be a "wartime leader," which he can extend indefinitely by ever-extending new maximalist goals in the war in Gaza, and now the war on Iran. There is a very good chance that Bibi is functionally "leader for life," as Israel continues a forever war against Gaza....and Iran....and the Palestinians in the West Bank....and arab citizens in Israel...until he both establishes an entirely jewish Israel, including all of the territories, and full regime change in Iraq. And if those take another 20 years to achieve, then gosh darn it, I guess that's how long Bibi needs to remain at the top (and remain out of prison). So, yeah....Bibi absolutely actively supported Hamas and allowed October 7th to happen (he had real intel about it, he decided to stay vulnerable so the attack could happen and he could have all the reason he needs to remain leader for life). Criminal autocrats are bad for humanity. The Bibi, Putin, and Trump out front have been telling us for years, but we humans keep letting them have power.
  3. This. I cashed out like 400 pounds last time we went to the UK. Towards the end of the trip, I was trying to spend as much as I could. Still had 260 when I got home. Put it in an envelope and split it between the kids as part of their Xmas present.
  4. And hell, I don't know if it will win or not. But the Dems have tried the "be a middle of the road, rational party" route, and they've gotten their asses handed to them by a LITERAL narcissistic psychopath with zero governing principles other than "me me me," selling messages of extreme xenophobic hatred and dissolution of the Republic to install an absolute monarchy. It's been a completely winning message. So, we know what the winning path in America 2025 looks like. Might oughta try walking it.
  5. I'd love to say you're wrong, but all signs point to you being correct.
  6. Well, some later-stage parenting-dadding going on here. Daughter graduated college a couple of years ago, and realized that the "plan" she thought she had for after graduation wasn't a plan at all (parents did a shit job of pushing her on that and asking questions -- we just assumed she had it figured out, because she always had everything else figured out). Out of desperation, she applied to a shitty grad school (and got in)....and we told her that we weren't going to cover grad school just because she didn't know what to do and was afraid of growing up. Led to a tense several months at our casa, as she came home and was adrift and lost. She started digging herself out, working with a research project and leader in her field here in Austin for several months. Then, she started looking for her first "big girl" job in earnest. For what she was looking for (something to use her language skills), those jobs were almost all in NYC or DC, but there weren't many. She realized there were a lot more in London. So, she up and moved to London, activated her UK visa (she was eligible for one because of where she went to uni), and busted her ass to find an entry-level job. She found one, and it's actually called on her to use her three languages other than english. Pay was shit, job was meh...but hey, "first job." Took her some time to adjust to and learn to like London (she's not living in central London, that's too expensive -- she's up in Hackney). But she's come around on it. And now, after working for a couple of years (in total), it's time for her to take a next step to move up in employability, and get a usable master's degree. With her fluency in Germany, she applied mostly to programs in Germany, and just today she was accepted into her first choice, the University of Bonn. So, starting this fall, she'll be living and studying in Bonn for two years. It's good, and I'm excited for her. But I'm also worried about her selling herself short, and settling for a career path that doesn't feed her. She still has some significant maturing to do (fucking hell, your 20s are hard). But she's moving the ball. She got into her top choice. And I'm happy for her. While I worry like hell about her at the same time. This parenting shit doesn't stop.
  7. We all saw 100 versions of the above over the last 10 years. Shit, we saw people on this board say it. They were all wrong. Turns out, a mainstream party can be coopted into any brand of nutbar extremism. Worrying about garden-variety progressivism as "political suicide" is quaint, but no longer applicable in America, 2025. "Running to the combative extreme, and knowing that the rest of the party will follow" is the recipe. I do think that it would be MOST successful bundled in the package of an older white guy, but even that may not be important anymore.
  8. It is when the person making the report is a sponge-brained pussy-ass coward (e.g., Joe Rogan).
  9. BABY BASKETS FOR NEWBORNS! AN IDEA RIPPED FROM THE SOCIALISTMARXISTCOMMUNIST HELLSCAPE THAT IS.....[lemme google that]....Finland. We are firmly at the point in the timeline where, if a policy idea is NOT a funnel of wealth directly into the pockets of billionaires, it's EVIL SOCIALISM AND MUST BE STOPPED. The way you can tell any policy is a horrible, no good, very bad thing is by discerning whether it helps anyone. If it does....it's VERY VERY BAD.
  10. Succinct and spot-on.
  11. And that's our bottom line. You don't need 51% of people to be fascist-loving asshole cultists to ruin a country. The threshold number is probably around 30%. We're at 40%. We are fucked, and there's no unfucking us. They are firmly dedicated to sinking this ship, and taking all of us down with them.
  12. Counterpoint: AIDS afflicts the queers and the blacks. Thus, any treatment for it is DEI, and we've banned DEI. Seriously, across the board, we have a new national policy of "anything that - even just statistically - benefits a minority/out group more than good American white people, is DEI and must be banned." It extends to literally every public policy area - see, e.g., public health and the post above. It's fucking jaw-dropping how awful and evil it is, but there we are.
  13. Oh, my sweet summer child. It's like you don't even LISTEN to noted vaccine expert Jenny McCarthy.
  14. Science is woke communism, libtard.
  15. CSB: she was my actual landlady when I was in law school. She was pretty good lookin’.
  16. Or…how about this? What is this shit? Either of my parents owned a guitar or ever even tried to play one.
  17. Yeah…there’s just one personality: utter narcissist asshole.
  18. I’d argue if I could. I think their CD and cassette collection has some good country, but dear god…there are probably 1,000 of them. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
  19. Pro tip: sticking your dick into the soft serve machine is frowned upon. Trust me. @atomheartbevo told me.
  20. FIF, umm, other people around here.
  21. Don't worry. The progression isn't done. They're going to go back to the "actually, he was a No Kings leftist" and finally "he is a political prisoner, pardon him." It's an unbroken pattern.
  22. I love how "woke" is now just a word that means "anything that doesn't support the Trump narrative." The MAGA ability to just make up definitions for things that has no tie to reality: woke, DEI, CRT...it's impressive to watch.
  23. "Castrated" would have been a better verb, but the judges will accept "neutered." Oh, and he'll be fine. He has in hand the personal data of every single American, which he will be using to reap enormous profit in the coming months. Big Balls will be doing just fine, don't you worry about him.
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