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  1. 24 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    You know you can make a half pot, right?

    I do.  But I like to keep it easy.  I have two cups of coffee on a Saturday morning.  So, I make two individual cups.  It's nice.  It's easy.  Sit on the sofa, shoot the shit with the wife with a Premier League game on.  I am a fan of "easy."

  2. 6 hours ago, Goredho said:

    I don't disagree, but this message from Talarico:

     

    Is essentially saying "I want to reconcile with my countrymen who I might disagree with politically so we can find a path forward together"  But it's coming from a Democratic Party member in a deeply red state, and Democrats are at their lowest point of appeal, power and influence in my lifetime.  So it seems pretty disingenuous and self serving coming from a member of the party that is, from what I can tell, on life support while the other party has a hand on the power cord.  Add into that the decades of conditioning that all things left, liberal and with a D attached to it are evil, and Talarico the Democrat isn't going to pull any meaningful number of voters from the right with that message at this stage of our devolution.

    For that idea to be embraceable by people who have been voting right, it's going to have to come from someone not on the left.  And for that idea to be embraceable by people who have been voting left, it's going to have to come from someone not on the right.  Maybe someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger (Republican, demonstrably not MAGA) could form a new party around that idea and get people to buy into it.  But, I dunno.

    Nope.  Nobody can.  Our society and culture is long-past the point-of-no-return on this.  We are committed to running the play of "let's go full-on hate-driven fascist authoritarianism."  There's no "lite" version of that.  We're going to run this play all the way to its natural and inevitable end.  The only questions are how long it's going to take to play out, and what will be the total toll of human suffering (lost liberty, terrorized population, bloodshed, the whole package you get with an authoritarian regime).  We've blown past "if."  We're firmly in "fine...how long, and how bad?" territory.

    Talarico doesn't stand a chance because we the people have zero fucking interest in decency or anything other than violence and cruelty.

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  3. 2 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

    Manifesto destroyed, now his best bargaining chip is to admit to what the government wants him to say, might be his only way out of the death penalty.

    He should hire Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney.  "I shot Kirk because I am a trans-loving leftist Democrat with a crush on Obama and Biden.  And my brain was warped by George Soros and antifa on MSNBC and Rolling Stone and the failing New York Times.  So really, I was driven insane, and I am asserting an insanity defense because trans antifa Democrats made me crazy."  And boom, he's pardoned, or at the very worst, sent to a club Fed for a coupla years on a plea deal.

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  4. 6 minutes ago, Red Five said:


    Non-zero chance we destroyed our economy because Russia told us to.

    I mean, I almost wish it was that linear and sinister.  But it's not.  We're destroying our economy because stupid narcissist.  That's it.  That's what's happening.

    An analogy that occurred to me out dove hunting yesterday was the Dallas Cowboys and Jerry Jones.  Jimmy Johnson coached that Cowboys to a stack of Super Bowl rings.  It was universally agreed that Jimmy had done amazing things, he was the primary driver of one of the most successful stretches in NFL history.

    Jerry Jones couldn't handle that Jerry was getting all the credit, and that people didn't think that JERRY was the most genius football person ever.  So, he fired Jimmy, to prove that he was actually the real super genius, and under his leadership, the Cowboys would soar to incredible heights.  But to distance himself from Jimmy and what he did, Jerry had to approach things differently.  So he did. And has.  And continues to do so.  And the Cowboys have wandered in the desert for 30 years.

    Trump could not handle the fact that October of last year, at the end of Biden's term, the near universal take was that the US economy had outperformed almost every expectation.  It was major cover-story material:

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    That fucking got under Trump's skin like you couldn't imagine.  Trump had to prove that his approach -- which would have to be very different from Biden's approach -- was light-years better.  That Trump was the greatest economic geenyus the world has ever seen.

    To do that, he had to take a different approach like Jerry Jones did.  And as a result, we are on the road to being the Dallas Cowboys of the next 30 years.  For nothing.  For no good reason at all.  Jerry could have left Jimmy in place, and shit, they may have won another 2-3 SBs (instead of the one gimme under Switzer).  Trump could have just continued the Biden approach, claimed credit for our continued success, and that would be that.  But his narcissist brain wouldn't be satisfied by anything LESS than "sir, with tears in my eyes, you're 10X the economic thinker Biden ever was."  So, here we are.  Burning it all down because hey, that's different than what Biden did, and that's what's most important.

    It's so fucking stupid.

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  5. 4 minutes ago, field said:

    Chico's is not worth it.  

    Actually, it is.  It's worth going to and trying it.  No, you won't leave saying "holy shit, those were the best bite I've ever eaten -- I can't imagine visiting EP again and NOT having them every meal," but you'll enjoy the experience.  Not every experience has to be life-changing.  It's a bite of local culture and history, check it out.

    Kinda like how you oughta have fish and chips at least once your first visit to the UK (now, we happen to love fish and chips, but plenty of people end up at "okay, I tried it, it was fine").

  6. 4 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    People really want to neatly put a crazy person's politics into a familiar box. The reality is that about 10 to 15 percent of "politically active" Americans have a completely unintelligible set of beliefs, and most of the time their beliefs are not consistent with one another. Ryan Routh is a prime example.

    I have strong suspicion that Tyler Robinson is one of those people with unintelligible beliefs. Based on limited information, if I had to profile him, I would say that Tyler Robinson was raised to be proficient in firearms, to believe in American exceptionalism, to start a family as soon as possible and for that family to be as large as possible.

    He adopted many of those values, but secretly questioned big topics like religion and conservatism. Important to note, his high school and early college experiences were most likely overshadowed by COVID and lockdowns. Thus, his online social circle had likely expanded from people he knew from school to friends of friends of people he would game with, and through those people, he got exposed to a broader set of values and maybe even witnessed the core principles he'd been raised with getting mocked, alongside other principles he'd never adopted, with memes. Although he had never embraced left or left-leaning ideas, he probably rejected some of the more "cringe" ideas from the conservatism he'd been raised with because the sacred cows (religion, America, Trump) are common joke fodder. They say he is also very intelligent, with good grades and test scores. Free ride to Utah aggy. Intelligence and ego often correlate.

    Meanwhile, material conditions for him and people in his age group are poor and the prospects for improvement appeared (and, in truth, are) bleak. Career? Don't bother. College? Scam (even Charlie Kirk preached that). Family? As if anyone would date a guy who spends 16 hours per day on discord, except other people who spend 16 hours per day on discord. The kind of girl you don't bring home to mother, and aren't starting a family with. So, he started to believe that life is meaningless. The whole world is just a simulation, and not even a particularly fun or interesting one. Or, at the very least, he began to believe that his life is meaningless even though he had been given the gifts of high intelligence and a good upbringing.

    Once he'd internalized that belief, he became not apolitical but clinically antisocial. And it wouldn't surprise me if most of the people he would spend all day communicating with are also antisocial to different degrees. So on the one hand, his life was meaningless but on the other had he had that ego. It was that ego that pushed him to actually plan and carry out the crime, and it was his antisocial nihilism that prevented better judgment from intervening. His hatred of Kirk stemmed from something other than politics, even if it's true that he'd made his disagreements with Kirk's views known.

    So, at this point based on what limited information we have, I believe the most likely outcome is that, if we ever hear from Tyler Robinson about his motives, what he would say will be totally incomprehensible and bizarre, ala Ryan Routh.

    While - again, and it bears repeating - we don't have anything close to a clear picture of the shooter and his beliefs/motives at this point, the limited information that we do have AND the lessons of prior examples tell us this take is most likely pretty close to accurate here.  He isn't going to be a perfect, red-hat MAGA Trumper, who was all-in on MAGA from the get-go and never wavered.  Nor is he going to be a perfect right-wing extremist, who's pissed that MAGA and its acolytes aren't going far enough.  Nor is he going to be the perfect left-wing extremist, with a stated motive of making life better for minorities, gays, George Floyd, and Bernie Sanders.  

    The stewpot that these types are most often cooked up in regularly yields an inexplicable result like "vegan big-game hunter."  And as most of us would expect, adopting an identity of "vegan big-game hunter" can fucking mess you up.

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

    This reminds me of a documentary or news story I saw about the Columbine shooting.  They were interviewing Marilyn Manson because I guess the shooters listened to his music or something.  Anyway, I was afraid of Marilyn Manson.  He creeped me out.  But during the interview he was asked, "What would you say to the shooters if you had a chance to talk to them?"  His answer, "I wouldn't say anything; I would listen."  That was one of those moments for me, among many, of the realization that just because someone looks weird or scary that they aren't an intelligent, compassionate person inside.

    And we presently live in a country where not a single member of the ruling party has the wisdom, decency, or humanity of....Marilyn fucking Manson.

    Stop this fucking ride, and let the rest of us get off this insane-o-tron 3000.

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  8. Just now, Captainant said:

    Tbh, you're better off with those reusable pods and grinding your own fresh. It's way better and way less plastic waste

    Agreed.  But....and this is important...I'm really freaking lazy.  As a compromise, we buy the brand we buy because they aren't full plastic pods -- they are recyclable/compostable.

  9. 31 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    What's the local chain with the drenched flautas?  I gotta try that.

    Chico's Tacos.  I mean, you've gotta have em at least once.  Are they the greatest thing you'll ever eat?  Naah, but they're plenty tasty, and again, an institution.

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    The whole menu is kind of an American treasure and a time capsule:

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    Bring cash.

  10. 3 minutes ago, coachherman'sgrill said:

    You probably oughta stick with saying nice things about our future Minister of Correct Thinking and Re-Education of Apostates, who will be given full executive authority and power, because the Constitution doesn't actually contain any words barring detention of people for dissenting against the regime and tossing them in re-education camps for a decade.  Go ahead, find that prohibition in the Constitution -- you CAN'T!  Therefore, Trump has that power!

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  11. 6 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    My Manservant says that the foie gras prices are now unacceptable.   He is wrong. They are fine.  What is NOT fine is his subtle passive-aggressive display of unhappiness when advised that his Christmas bonus will be his continued employment. 

    You're a fucking asshole.  It's like you've never even heard of the jelly-of-the-month club, the PERFECT Christmas bonus.

    And yeah....I don't shop for fois gras.  I do have some fresh boudin and some mollejas in the fridge, though.  I don't trust my manservant to make a proper selection in such important matters.

  12. 5 minutes ago, coachherman'sgrill said:

    Someone probably has a lawsuit

     

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    To be clear, she was fired because she discussed white men and violent acts.

    Meanwhile, Charlie Kirk is lionized, and compared to Christ himself, when he said "prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people."

    Just to clarify the absolutely insane double standard the "free speech conservatives" actually apply.

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  13. 10 minutes ago, coachherman'sgrill said:

    JD weighing in. Couches across America should be very afraid they don't get hate fucked

     

    Enchubben is fine with this.

    9 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Kirk called for Biden to be executed. I'm sure Enchubben will have an explanation for why that was fine, actually. 

    And Enchubben is fine with this.

    And see, Enchubben is very, very, very concerned about inflammatory political rhetoric, and anyone who speaks such inflammatory rhetoric is a no good very bad person.  ESPECIALLY when that rhetoric can be tied directly to acts of political violence.  So, all the people calling Kirk a fascist and a racist are very bad people who fanned the flames of violence.

    But when Kirk repeatedly and consistently referred to immigrants as invaders., AND a man inflamed by that exact rhetoric, stating as his actual purpose and reason stopping the "invasion" and eliminating the "invaders," drove to El Paso and murdered 22 people for that reason....well, see, that's different.  When Charlie says that, he was just speaking his mind, and you know, all those brown people ARE invading 'merica (nevermind that my family has been in this state since it was Coahuila y Tejas).  But when other people say "that Charlie dude is racist," THEY are the REAL problem.

    Enchubben is a card-carrying subscriber to Wilhoit's law: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

    That was Charlie Kirk's entire belief system in a nutshell.  Black people were better off when they lived under Jim Crow (yes, another thing that Charlie actually said).  It's good for that out-group to have been under a system of laws that bound them, but did not protect them.  THAT IS A GOOD THING TO CHARLIE KIRK.

    Enchubben is fine with all of this, because that's what he believes, and what he is.

    Enchubben will say he's not fine with the slaughter of 22 people in El Paso, but you can't pin that act on the inflammatory rhetoric of Charlie and those like him who used the same terms (even though there is no doubt as to the connection - again, the killer wrote a fucking statement that used the exact same vocabulary).  However, you CAN pin Charlie Kirk's murder on the "inflammatory rhetoric" of people calling someone who said Jim Crow was better for black people a racist.  It's not complicated.  Rules for thee, not for me.  Wilhoit's law.

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  14. Enshittification acceleration should be the term of the day.  It's not just enshittification, it's that it's happening fucking everywhere, faster and faster and beyond the human capacity to keep up.

    Even my wife, who doesn't really pay attention to grocery prices, came home from a trip to HEB yesterday and asked me "what the fuck?"  She'd just bought a single bag of groceries, and spent over $100.  Granted, $42 of that was on....coffee.  See, we use keurig coffee pods (San Francisco Bay co. breakfast blend), because it's just the two of us, we don't need a whole pot.  A few months ago, a box of pods was $14.  Today, it's $21.   Every single thing she bought has noticeably gone up in price (but coffee was definitely a beating).  Prices on everything goes up.  Quantities go down.  Quality goes down.  Experience gets worse.

    And fuck you, what are you gonna do about it?

    It's so fucking demoralizing, and to be clear, we have the money, it doesn't matter to us whether a quick grocery run is $70 or $100.  But it sure as shit matters to a whole lot of people (and we can damned well remember when it would have mattered to us).  But shut up and take it, everyone.

  15. 3 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that this is off the table.  Maybe that's naive.

    Yeah....you really haven't realized that this is the plan?

    3 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

    Slavery but with detained immigrants. 

    See the 13th Amendment.  They won't even have to repeal it, just really put it to use:

    "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

    Make all immigration offenses (no matter how small) a crime.  And, because you can't deport everyone, and thus you have to "detain them indefinitely," boom -- you have a convict labor force as big as you want.  And here's the fantastic irony:

    Before, Jose, Jorge, and Mario worked at the meat packing plant earning $15 an hour.

    Now, detainees Jose, Jorge, and Mario are part of a detainee crew, managed by PrisonCorp....working in that exact same meat packing plant.  Except now, PrisonCorp is paid $10 an hour for their labor.  The meat packing plant saves $5 an hour.  PrisonCorp is making bank on Jose, Jorge, and Mario's labor.  And Jose, Jorge, and Mario are essentially slaves to PrisonCorp and the meat packing plant for life.

    WINNING!

    44 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    This era will go down as a worse own-goal than Brexit

    I keep saying it, but we’re at the tip of the iceberg. It’s going to get so much worse 

    100%.  And truly, it's going to be an own goal that blows Brexit out of the fucking water.  Taking the economy that was the envy of the world, and completely fucking kneecapping it....for no sane or good reason at all.

  16. 19 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    MAGNA, Utah — Two men have been arrested after allegedly leaving an incendiary device underneath a FOX 13 News vehicle and then forcing an evacuation of a Magna neighborhood when the FBI served an overnight warrant on their home.

    It's all a ruse.  We've seen this before.

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  17. 2 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Not here to get in an argument of “what is worse” and at the current political moment, right-wing extremism is the pressing threat. But sane societies should completely reject edgelords who edgily try to recast authoritarian monsters and traffic in their aesthetic. Communism is one of the most nightmarish ideologies ever to happen to millions of real people no matter what variant you choose and these type of photos should be looked at similar to smirking in front of Mussolini or Pinochet exhibits. 

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    Sure - tankies and left-authoritarians are shitbags all on their own.  Shit, the differences between left authoritarianism and right authoritarianism are a lot smaller than I thought when I was younger and naive.

    Of course, none of them are literally in charge of our current government, and controlling almost all media, and openly promising to use the power and apparatus of the state to punish, repress, and "exile" the political opposition.  If and when any of them threaten to do so, I'll absolutely turn my attention to them.

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  18. 7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    So Tiktok is owned by a staunch Trump ally.

    Happy Don Rickles GIF

    Check another box on "this is what fascist regimes do."  Co-opting and working in partnership with corporate interests to advance (and importantly, absolutely protect) the regime's interests is literally textbook.

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  19. 8 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    So we are on Day 4 now since Tyler Robinson was arrested. Where are the actual updates and evidence on motive outside of vague sources from the FBI that have trickled out to the press? What's taking so long? 

    The reason you aren't getting any real evidence - just hints and intimations - is because the regime isn't getting what it wants, and doesn't like what it's found thus far.  If his motivation is anything BUT "leftist violence," we will never, ever find out about it.  This story has a real chance of going fucking silent/dark, and right soon.  Which will tell you all you need to know.

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