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Brisketexan started following DOGE: America Fucking Around and Flooding the private sector job market
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Wait....wtf? It crashed on land. The wreckage is relatively intact. How are 7 of the 10 "missing?" They just walk off into the tundra or some shit?
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Worst immigration experience our family ever had was my daughter's process of getting her student visa for her college studies when she entered Canada. Mind you, she/we are as "no worries" an applicant as you could have. Everyone has clean records. You have to show that you have enough money in the bank to fund her education -- we had WAY more than was needed. But when we applied beforehand, for some reason, we got a "denied" with no explanation. In conversations with the authorities, they advised "do what most people do -- when you fly up here to move here for school, bring all the paperwork, and we process the application right there at the airport." She did that. And she got an immigration official who was an absolute dick. He berated her, asked her why the hell she even came here if they already rejected her application (umm....because that's what y'all told her to do), and as she was an adult, she went through that all by herself, my wife sitting across the terminal. Finally, a nearby official took pity, came over and said "let me handle this," calmed everything down, looked at her papers, and a minute later printed out and handed her a student visa. Shit, my son got a citation from German immigration (dumbass overstayed his visa by 8 hours), and it was a much more pleasant experience. Don't fall for the "all Canadians are nice" bullshit. Their immigration can be pointlessly draconian.
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Just to make it perfectly clear, we have now fully and completely normalized, excused, and made okay, naked and shameless racism. There are no consequences, repercussions, or other negative impacts of being a complete racist piece of shit. The Vice President of the fucking United States actually said: "If" he's a bad dude. Here are things Elez ACTUALLY SAID, which in the eyes of VPOTUS, do NOT make him a bad dude, meaning that you can say these things and hold these positions, and you are a perfectly ok dude, in VPOTUS's eyes: Open and proud racism? You're an ok dude, and you should NOT be fired. But you know who VPOTUS and Elon think SHOULD be fired? The journalist who committed the following act: discovered that Elez said those things, and wrote an article about them. BEING a racist? A-ok. Pointing out actual things a racist said? NOT OK. FIRE HER. We're done. It's over. We are rapidly becoming the worst society we can be, and then getting even worse.
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John Lewis did it. One of our many problems is that we elect members of Congress who are 10,000X more interested in nice dinners at the Old Ebbitt Grill (great oysters) than they are in serving the fucking public.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
You crammed an incredible amount of utter bullshit into a short post. That's a feat. Fuck off, not going to waste my time rebutting the absolutely irrational and unsupportable conclusory bullshit you posted. Elon is a fucking evil sociopath, he has repeatedly done whatever China tells him to do/will give him advantage with respect to his businesses there, and he is "surveilled" by fucking who, exactly? He IS the US government now, and his conflicts of interest (see post above) are staggering. Zero vetting, just handed the keys to....everything. If fucking George Soros was handed the keys to literally every piece of sensitive and secret intel we have, you and everyone else would (rightly) be screaming about it. But Elon....he gets it all, with nary a peep of protest. Fuck off. -
Well, my wife went last administration, and is ready to go this round as well. She was in the group that wore wristbands indicating they were willing to be arrested. But the punch here, in this particular instance, has to come from members of Congress being assaulted as they try to enter federal buildings. Ordinary folks like you and I do not have regular access to such sites. Members of Congress often do and should. To be denied access, violently, makes the case. If the day comes for me to get my ass beaten for the cause, so be it. I have long taken the position that I will not respond to any "papers please" inquiry by immigration (since Arizona was the first state to pull that bullshit). I am an ideal section 1983 claim plaintiff, so law enforcement detaining me on such basis would be a very good case to set up.
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This. Learn from the Civil Rights movement. They won because they forced the shitbags to use violent force against them in front of cameras.
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Afterthought? Your A, B, and C are expressly designated as ENEMIES of the current process. Again, the very same people who screamed about "unelected bureaucrats controlling our spending!" are happy to hand over control of all of our spending to.....an unelected oligarch and his band of sociopath child interns. Fucking hell.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Yes. Absolutely. Audit the Pentagon, go for it, good idea. Assign the task to a psychopath oligarch who is indisputably beholden to/friendly with multiple hostile foreign powers, necessarily granting him access to literally the most sensitive military and security information our government has.....NO GOOD, TERRIBLE, VERY BAD IDEA. Nobody is against the idea of scrubbing every nook and cranny of the government for spending waste/efficiency. Nobody sane is in favor of delegating the task to Elon fucking Musk and a band of his sociopathic fucking INTERNS WHO BARELY FUCKING SHAVE. The "who" of such things matters just as much as the "what." Fuck. That. Shit. I wouldn't trust Elon with my fucking library card number. -
"Grant applications featuring happy negro slaves dancing with joy about the Declaration being signed - you know how those people love to dance, they're a very musical people - will receive priority."
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Brisketexan replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
So....what IS the tariff on a knockoff dildo these days? Asking for @Pescado_Rojo -
Good thoughts, but see the highlighted part. There is no reason for such optimism here. I've seen/been part of (before, during, after) multiple such shifts, reorganizations, disruptions, etc. over the years. Sometimes they're successful, sometimes they're failures.....often, they end up about where they started out, because while it may seem like they aren't being run/organized as well as they should be....it turns out that processes and approaches that developed over decades of experience developed that way for a reason. When they succeed, it's almost always because the people in the new regime are competent, smart, and can dispense with and get past legacy personal interests/investments/ossification of processes (e.g., the organization does it this way because the accounting team came up with that approach, and they are personally invested in seeing their approach vindicated). I've definitely seen it happen, including an example I'm thinking of (a Texas entity) which got a pretty Republican GM appointed by a Republican governor (to show y'all that this isn't about partisanship). He came in, took a birds-eye view of things, made some targeted but significant personnel and process changes, resolved long-standing disputes, resulting in a streamlined, efficient, less-bullshit entity. And when they fail....its ALSO almost always because of the people leading the charge. People who come in enamored with their "I'm an outsider" mindset, who don't bother to take the time to understand the core mission of the entity (including consideration of whether that SHOULD be the mission) just start moving shit around and breaking shit without understanding what those things actually do, or why they're in place. It results in whatever longtime staff is left having to scramble to try to keep important things running (with mixed success), and a shitload of pain for a good period of time. And then eventually, the powers at the top (a board, senior political officials, etc.) get tired of hearing the valid complaints of the people served by the entity, and they bring someone in to right the ship. Disruption for the sake of disruption, without putting a keen eye on things and truly listening and learning, significantly increases the chance of failure and short-term harm to people who don't deserve it. TLDR; shake-ups can be bad, they can be good, depends on the motivation and skillset of the people driving it. Being that this is being driven by a psychotic narcissist and 20 year old know-nothings with similarly giant narcissist egos.....gives me reason for nothing but pessimism.
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Brisketexan replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
Yep. My son came down with it when he was 17 or so. At one point, I actually thought he was choking, and started to treat him as such. It was wild to hear. Doc diagnosed it, and it ran its course. It sucked for him, but it wasn't nearly as dangerous as if he'd caught it as an infant -- just super annoying. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Brisketexan replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
That was the part I loved the most about that story -- that there is an actual charge called "defrauding an innkeeper." It's like having one of those old school charges for "being a scallawag," or "aggravated ne'er do welling." -
Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Brisketexan replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
That community is also responsible for this, which we used to buy when we drove by their farms in Chihuahua, but now you can get on the shelves at HEB: It's fucking delicious, perfectly melty for a quesadilla. I guess you gotta pasteurize it to get rid of the measles, though.
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