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Brisketexan

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  1. All it takes is for one time -- one fucking time -- for the Dems to call their bluff. The Repubs keep putting a gun to the head of the American people, saying "we'll shoot the hostage." And the Dems, because they actually care about the American people (to some extent at least) always fucking cave to the threat. Well, fuck that. Call the bluff. Give the Repubs two choices: (1) come to the table and restore the ACA spending, or (2) go ahead, shoot the hostage. The Dem mistake has always been that they've thought that capitulating could avoid pain. It can't. It just means the pain is slower and more insidious. Rip the fucking bandaid off, and make the Republicans be terrorists in broad fucking daylight.
  2. Yep. That's the evil hell of wars of attrition. It's less about who wins, than it is about who loses the most.
  3. This is the play. Militarily, Russia can continue to make gains -- small ones, but gains nonetheless -- at a heavy price. Ukraine's strategy is, and must be, NOT to recapture/capture territory, but to make the costs to Russia across the board so steep that their economy and/or regime collapses. Ukraine is not at war with the Russian military as much as it is at war with the Putin regime and the Russian economy. Defeat those things, and the Russian military becomes irrelevant.
  4. I'm thinking that the new training component is the "shoot American civilians if we tell you to, do not question your orders" part. That's the really, really important part. Truly the only important part.
  5. And if you’ve ever had to do that….yeesh. Not a fun experience. Cow juice up to your shoulders.
  6. Yeah, our family's shitty metal peeler from the 1970s had that. But the Oxo blade is serrated, sharper, and more robust, and the wider grip genuinely helps. But I peeled plenty of carrots and potatoes with this back in the day, it worked okay.
  7. Well, of course not. That's a tufted titmouse thing.
  8. That's genuinely one of our amusing side notes when we travel, esp. to northern europe: any of their takes on mexican or Texas food. It's usually.....quite sad and funny.
  9. First time I went shopping in the UK, I wandered the Sainsbury for 15 minutes looking for eggs. Finally gave up and asked. They were sitting on the room-temp endcap right next to me.
  10. I've been involved with a couple of MDL matters, but none where a suit was filed this late in the process. I presume their will be some movement to remove this new case to the live MDL?
  11. So....yeah....being that Paxton based his suit on RFK's positions, that quote will be the opener of multiple motions by the defense.
  12. Voted yesterday. Yes on 1, 4, and 10. No on everything else.
  13. And every single one of the Jade Helm No Gestapo in Bastropo types will masturbate furiously to.....EXACTLY what they were complaining about back then. Every "constitution-loving, liberty-loving" conservative is actually a simpering fucking liar. They love neither. Tread on me, daddy.
  14. If we're going to start giving naming rights to Texas schools, the sponsors should match the quality offered. Welcome to Dollar General Elementary. Do well, and you'll move up to Golden Chick Middle School.
  15. Vic Mackey's interest is piqued....
  16. Dude. Profits, PE ratios, all that shit? Those are for woke losers. It's all vibes, and only vibes these days. Do you FEEL like it should be worth $1 trillion? Then it IS worth $1 trillion! Which is actually a true statement and thing, but embedded in that is the bubble. Because profits and PE ratios are real things. They exist, are empirical, and do not change (that is, your PE ratio last quarter is what it is, and your PE ratio next quarter is what it is, based on actual measurable metrics). Feelings, on the other hand.....can go "poof." Today, we feel like it's worth $1 trillion, and it is. Tomorrow, we feel like it's worth $1 . . . and it is. That's how you bubble, that's how you burst, and that's how you crash.
  17. That McMahon quote isn't real, right?
  18. 100%. Checking out local grocery stores is a whole thing for us. Gives you a real snapshot into local culture and life. Some amusement from Finland, for example:
  19. Yeah, our Oxo is serrated. Forgot to mention that, it really helps. I don't use it a LOT, but when I do, it makes quick work of things -- mostly stuff like cucumbers and potatoes.
  20. But it also can’t hurt.
  21. This is what they all believe. ALL OF THEM. Every single person who supports these movements agrees with that.
  22. Brisketexan

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  23. Yep. Pick a theme, and HAMMER it. Trumpism did it with illegals and xenophobia. We need to do it with billionaires living the life and fucking you over while you decide whether you can afford Hamburger Helper this month. Show a picture of Trump's dining room And then a picture of the American people's dining room: a table with meager food, scared kids, and worried parents. "He doesn't care about you. They don't care about you. They've just been using you and abusing you." Over and over and over. "While he gave Elon a gold key to the White House, you were losing the keys to YOUR house [show family at foreclosure]." "Your home. Your kitchen. Your life. We're going to make sure those things are full again. And we're going to get your money back from the people who took it." and over and over and over.
  24. You're kind of right, but you're not paying attention to the economic destruction that is being wrought. Sawbonz posted this in another thread: Communities absolutely collapsing, families ending up homeless. That's a large part of the wreckage and suffering I'm talking about. Bombs are one way to destroy a country and cause suffering. Trumpism is another. The outcome is the same: communities and lives ruined, people suffering and yes, dead.
  25. Absolutely, and great post. For this crew to claim to be financial geniuses, nobody understands finance and economics better than me, they don't have any fucking understanding of ROI, multipliers, or the velocity of money at all. The very communities that voted for Trumpco at the highest rate are going to be the ones eating a 10-layer shit sandwich as a result of his regime's complete and total destruction of our systems.
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