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Brisketexan

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  1. But you also realize that between this, Ukraine, and North Korea, we’ve also made the ironclad case for the proposition of “if you don’t have a nuke, you nest get one pronto,” right? There’s a comprehensive approach that would reduce the risk of nuclear proliferation. We’ve fucked up that approach for 20+ years.
  2. Yep. It’s not about the effectiveness of the initial/primary military action. It’s about all of the actions, reactions, consequences, and dominoes falling into dominoes that come next. Fortunately, we are led by a cadre that has proven not to be short-term thinkers and are brilliant at 12-D chess….furk.
  3. Maybe this goes in the unpopular opinions thread, but fuck IPAs. I like beer. I grew up on lagers and Pilsners and kolsch’s and such. Now, I go to a bar, and of their 40 taps, 3 are something OTHER than an IPA, oatmeal stout, or some other shit like that. I just want a goddamned beer. A good one. A cold one. A beer. I have to search the tap menu for five minutes to find their Pacific Crest Trail Summer Smile Happy Time Joy to the World Kumbaya Lager. Fucking hell.
  4. Within a few days, he’ll find a way to spin this as a brilliant move, and it’s what he’s always wanted to happen, actually. At worst, he’ll say it could have been done better…but the regime still has his unwavering support, as it has all along. Give him some time.
  5. 5 pints in a day is nothing for you. Oh, wait, that’s not beer? Nevermind, carry on.
  6. The “historic connotation” in which I was using the term was in connection with noted diplomat Darrell K Royal.
  7. I said there’s no real reason, perhaps a better term would have been “no compelling reason.” It’s just not a particularly necessary economic or geopolitical play, not like it was post-war. The US is doing fine without Iranian oil.
  8. I love that you seem to agree with my “it’s not just a simplistic ‘one thing’ as motive” observation….then immediately run back to “it’s nothing but a play to take their oil.” That play as the sole or even heavily weighted top motive doesn’t even make sense in the context of the modern/current energy economy. Sure, there’s wealth that can be exploited, and I’m CONFIDENT that the usual suspects will find a way to do so in the event of regime change, but there are multiple other compelling reasons to want regime change in Iran; shit, the other petro-states want it. Because Iran is a fucking cockroach that has destabilized the entire region for decades for no good reason. Chaos is bad for business.
  9. Yes and no. Oversimplification is your enemy, whether it be “they are bad guys who want a nuke and actively support terrorism” or “this is all about oil.” Both things can be true. Take oil out of the equation, and the world would still be better off if Iran wasn’t a violently hostile chaos agent. There’s no need for Persia to be so bellicose, particularly as to a nation they don’t even share a border with. The ramped-up Shiite hate against Israel and Jews is and always has been a transparent “let’s manufacture a perpetual enemy to keep our authoritarian government in power” move (FFS, we’re running the same play here in the US against Mexicans). It’s fucking pointless and has been almost 50 years of violence and bloodshed and exported terror. The world would indeed be much better off if Iran was governed by a regime that wasn’t singularly focused on authoritarianism and a pointless hatred and warfare against “Israel and the west.” But Iran of course would be much less important, and much less able to foment and support such assholery, if it did not have massive petroleum resources. And the history of western control and scheming for such control over those resources is a real thing. That said, there’s no real reason for “the west” to try to functionally capture Iran’s reserves. It’s a global commodity, China buys a bunch, etc. This isn’t the post WWII, Cold War, scramble for oil that set the table for the precious shenanigans in Iran. I don’t support US involvement in Iran in this conflict. I think this particular conflict is 90% driven by Bibi trying to save his ass and stay out of prison. I also think that Iran way fucking overplayed its hand, and got their ass handed to them in Syria and with Hezzbollah, and I shed no tears for either of those strategic losses. Iran is a bad actor, fucked around and found out, etc. I also think that the current conflict is unnecessary and is being fought for the wrong reasons by a bad actor.
  10. Jesus fucking Christ. That’s amazing. I’m a fucking wreck. And I went down the Sam Fender rabbit hole, and everything about it was good.
  11. That’s something we have in common. For example, I won’t win a heisman trophy for rushing for 2,000 yards in a season, I won’t win a Pulitzer Prize for my amazing novel, I won’t win American idol. Now, I say that’s because the world has Brisket derangement syndrome. You may say that’s because I’ve never played college football, never written a novel, and cant sing for shit. But we all know what’s true, at levels never seen before.
  12. 100%. Puro leopard stuff. Tried to warn them.
  13. Huh. Then maybe a certain segment of our leadership should stop tossing lit matches of hate onto these explosive nutbars. That would be helpful. Stop feeding stochastic terrorism, and create fewer stochastic terrorists. Naah, that’s too easy.
  14. He'll find a way to obfuscate his way into supporting it. He always does.
  15. Damn. Didn't know this guy had a pilot's license.
  16. Whatever, they're all dirty mexicans from one of those many mexican countries. The office of the president of the United States has declared open war on every single person in the US of hispanic heritage. They have sent forth troops who are LITERALLY AND UNASHAMEDLY using "you look hispanic" as a basis for detaining and arresting people. It is now "probable cause" in the US if you.....are hispanic. You either are for that, or against it. Pick your fucking side right now, fuckers. History is going to judge the fuck out of you, as will I.
  17. Fucking hell. MTG is one person who could convince me to support the Talibanization of America:
  18. Oh.....my sweet summer child.
  19. I mean...we actually are. That's the world we live in. My kingdom for the wisdom, decency, and steady hand of GWB.
  20. I mean....imagine truthfully stating a scenario in which: - men in disguises, displaying no badges or other legitimate identification as actual law enforcement, refuse to identify themselves, and are just driving up and grabbing people and tossing them into vans. - those same men are pulling over people based solely on their ethnic appearance, saying they "meet the description of someone I'm looking for." - those same men are detaining, arresting, and even disappearing US citizens without actual charges, or allowing them access to counsel or even to inform their families where they are. - those same men are doing these activities in homes, schools, church parking lots, and the like. - they are doing so in furtherance of a policy where its proponents have stated that all 65 million members of an entire ethnicity are not entitled to exist within the United States (I'm not making this one up, by the way - one of the president's chief advisors, Laura Loomer, said flatly that there are 65 million illegals in the US -- that number is the number of all hispanics in the US) - authorities are gathering records of all individuals who speak a language other than the preferred language of the regime (again, yes, this is actually happening) for the purpose of arresting such people and saying that was happening in the People's Republic of Bumfuckistan, and all of our resident FREEDOM LIBERTY EAGLE FREEDOM LIBERTARIAN crowd would be saying "see, that's a shithole country, that's exactly the kind of shit we are ever-vigilant against, and it's why I carry my pew pew bang everywhere I go, no way am I gonna let that shit happen here!" Yet when it happens here.....every one of them lets that shit happen, and in fact cheers it on. The greatest political lie of the last 75 years is "I'm a libertarian." Fuck that, they were all always just fascists who dressed sloppy.
  21. Good sir, this is America. "Mouth-breathing idiots" is our core fucking brand.
  22. Fair....but not entirely fair. Subhuman? Oh, Texas kept playing that song till....well, what time is it right now? But the actual "property" part did end that day, as a practical matter. So, give Texas credit for the technicality win of "fine, we can't treat them like property any more....but we can still treat them like utter shit, just watch us." So.....hooray for enlightened Texas.
  23. Cool, cool. Halfway through summer, the chances of big fucking mean hurricanes goes up, and this winter, the chances of a cold and snowy winter goes up. Looking forward to the year of Harvey II, Fuck You Boogaloo, and Snowpocalypse the Second: the Return of Freezing Your Balls Off in Your House.
  24. I mean, the Taiwanese will only put pee-pee in your DIET Coke, so there's obviously a pretty big difference there.
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