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Brisketexan

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  1. Van didn't go over the flyover, it got pushed against and scraped against the guardrail. They want to get all victims and charges because that's what you're supposed to do. Odds are very good the driver will never come forward because....being an older model minivan, there's a good chance the driver is hispanic, so there's a good chance that no f'n way do they want to interact with any law enforcement these days.
  2. Blame billionaires, including the Guardians Of Pedophiles leadership who are getting richer while we all suffer (and using that money to sexually enslave children), and promise them free pie-in-the-sky shit. There. Done. We win the presidential race popular vote by 3-5% with that plan.
  3. Counterpoint: grievances and hatred may be the only real American values that exist.
  4. Maybe not for us on this board, but viral TikTok shit is a real thing for people under 30. Shit, we have two 21 yr old Brits visiting this week, and the other night we had to go to Olive Garden because the restaurant and its breadsticks are a GLOBAL TikTok viral thing. So, I’d believe it about Chili’s.
  5. Noem: “I needed a place with a yard big enough to shoot my dog!”
  6. What fungus were you sucking on, exactly? Point to the spot on the picture.....
  7. Zero disagreement with that. But counterpoint: that's the world we live in, those are the rules of the new order. Play according to them, and turn them to your advantage, or LOSE. That's why I'm all in favor of simple language lies, on repeat. They work. Turn the firehose on, crank it up to 11, and win. Yeah....you're not really rebutting my thesis here. "we've seen multiple cycles of the pattern of all sizzle no steak... But people keep thinking uncritically and ignore that it's ONLY sizzle because mAnY pEoPlE aRe SaYiNg" EXACTLY. Understand that the vast majority of voters are utterly stupid and gullible and easily played. So...PLAY THEM. Offer them free candy bars and unicorn rides. Whatever bullshit it takes to WIN. The only rule of American politics, 2025: WIN. Subpart (a) of that rule? WIN. Subpart (g)(2)(iii)? Also WIN. Nothing else matters if you don't WIN.
  8. Again, their $10.99 combo deal is genius, and my wife and I take advantage of it. Their smashburger is pretty damned good. I can get chips and salsa, burger, fries, and a drink....for $10.99. And honestly, it's enough food that my wife and I can even split it. Add an extra drink, we're up to like $14 for the two of us. When we do that, we tip well because we're taking up a whole table (one of the reasons we prefer to sit at the bar when we do that), but truly, it's a great deal for a decent-tasting freshly cooked meal. It may not be the greatest meal in town, but it's solid and affordable. And when we look at the demographic taking advantage of it, it works well. If you're working class, you can take the family out for a fresh sit-down dinner for $11-12 a head? That's an unbeatable deal.
  9. A measurable number of "progressives" either stayed home or did a protest vote for Jill Stein or some shit this last election for EXACTLY that sort of "progressive stand on uncompromising principles" or some shit. It isn't the majority of progressives, but it's enough of them. Dems are busy being divided by purity tests. Progressives won't compromise. Centrists won't work with progressives. Blah blah blah. Republicans are busy uniting around the worst human imaginable. So Republicans will keep winning, while Dems will keep losing but goshdarnit, they'll still have their principles. There is only one principle that matters: WIN. If you don't win elections, then your principles matter as much as my romantic entreaties to Sela Ward, and have even less of a chance of actually becoming policy.
  10. I guarantee you that most of the people in this photo would have been characterized as "decent people" by their peers at the time. The kind of folks who would bring over a meal unsolicited when a neighbor is sick. Honest, hardworking folks. Churchgoing. All that stuff. Also, super happy to be at a lynching. We're at the "so, other than being happy members of a lynch mob, they're really decent people" stage. Enough. Enough with the rationalizing, forgiving, etc. The people in the photo above are evil scum. In a just world, they would have been driven out of society altogether. Their spiritual heirs today are no different. Ya. Basta. Enough.
  11. I haven't gotten the full download, not sure where they actually ended up eating. I got two main pieces of feedback: they actually thought it was a really pretty city. I think they enjoyed the preservation of historical architecture, and they got a kick out of the mercado, and how genuinely "mexican" a fair amount of the city and its culture is. And also...they were fucking wilting from the heat. It was a hot-ass day, and their limey asses just ain't built for it. We warned them about that when they said they wanted to visit in August, but they said "oh no, we love warm weather!"
  12. Trump is no different. He's just extra sizzle. Like, the steak sizzle, then the giant fireball you got when you squirted a bunch of that liquid butter right into the flames at UR Cooks ( @Judge Roybeanbag). Seriously, he's a giant fireball of showmanship, with literally no substance underneath (well, that's not entirely true....he's a piece of shit, concealed by sizzle and said fireball, and we've all been force-fed a huge serving of said shit because idiots said "oooh, fire! let's have that!") We need to quit worrying about steak, and start squirting butter right into the fire.
  13. So....exactly what it takes to win elections.
  14. By the way, if any of you false "patriots" want to know what an ACTUAL "oathkeeper" looks like, that's it. That guy. Our grandfathers took that oath, and they shot fascists in the face. The oath hasn't changed. The only thing that's changed is where the fascist authoritarians are.
  15. Go get 'em.
  16. False. Quit using ignorance as an excuse for hate and evil. Enough. You choose evil, you are evil. "A lot of extremely decent people supported the nazis. They are just trapped in a feedback loop blah blah blah." Fuck that. You KNOW that demonization of the other for who they are is evil and wrong, and you embrace it. You are evil and shit.
  17. ...yes....but also no, because of a couple of key differences. (1) Once the Irish "integrated" into American society, it was pretty much a done-deal. There was no REsurgence in anti-Irish sentiment. Once the initial hatred subsided, it wasn't really a factor any longer. Hispanics, on the other hand, are finding themselves back in the Juan Crow barrel in full. We are public enemy #1, with the president and his admin literally saying it's okay to hunt them down in the streets based solely on their ethnicity (see Tom Homan's open admission of that fact). (2) The phenomenon of (1) may be in large part because of skin color. The majority of hispanics...look hispanic. Just like the majority of Irish look like....regular white folk (they ain't all redheaded leprechauns, very few are, actually). It's easy to treat Irish like "real Americans," because they look like what a "real American" should look like. Brown-skinned hispanics, on the other hand....well, they's different, ya know? Sure, some of them can pass as white (yours truly included -- which has given me an interesting perspective, as I've been in rooms where people didn't realize I'm hispanic, and have said some truly loathsome shit), but most of them appear hispanic on immediate visual inspection. Humans love to sort other humans that way. Black people are ALWAYS going to be behind that 8-ball here. And so are hispanics. The fact that a shitload of us are too hopeful/dumb to realize that is its own tragedy. MAGA America actually hates us, for what we are -- or rather, for what we aren't: good, white, pureblood "real Americans." Our presence here is "poisoning the blood of our country" (their godking's exact words). Should hispanic voters think of Dems as their friends? Maybe, maybe not. Should they think of MAGAs (which is the entire GQP now) as their mortal enemies? Fuck yes they should. They are never, ever, ever going to think of us as real Americans. We are the enemy to them, even if they treat us momentarily as an ally of convenience.
  18. Well, to more accurately state their interpretation in light of Bruen (again, perhaps one of the most disingenuous, worst-reasoned decisions the Court has ever released), the finding will be that in 1791, there were no laws banning the possession of firearms by the criminally insane. Therefore, any law doing so now violates the 2nd amendment based on their "originalist" approach. To get an idea of how absurd that approach is, applying it to the 13th amendment would mean that the 13th amendment only bans slavery of black people of african descent, as freeing that particular group from bondage was the only intended purpose at the time it was adopted. Therefore, the new program to enslave hispanic immigrants is not barred by the Constitution. In our zeal to "protect gun rights," we've ended up taking some of the most nonsensical positions imaginable, and it's fucking suicidal. This dude never should have been allowed to be within a fucking mile of a firearm. Instead, he was in a household full of them, apparently.
  19. Signed, PvilleStang's wife
  20. Lemme summarize the worldview we're dealing with: Hating on people because of their ethnicity/where they come from? 100% ok. In fact, that's what all patriotic Americans should do (and don't give me that "no, just people who are here illegally!" lie -- the push to end birthright citizenship, arresting and revoking status for people who ARE here legally, etc., puts the lie to that. It ain't about having documents, it's about foreigners "poisoning the blood of our country" -- your king's words, not mine). Hating on people for what they DO, such as being racist pieces of shit? Well, that's bad. It's divisive. We shouldn't do that. FREEDOM OF SPEECH! Fuck her, fuck him, fuck all of them. Make all MAGA's suffer. Everywhere. In every way. All the time. If you choose to be an anti-social piece of shit, then you should suffer the consequences until you either die or crawl back in the hole you never should have left. Make no mistake, we should hate you. Hate has a place. That place is as a weapon against those who actually EARN it. And you MAGAs have EARNED it. Who says the meritocracy is dead?
  21. That can’t be real.
  22. Okay....so, we're doing a long weekend in London next weekend, last visit with the daughter while she's living there (she's moving away for grad school in a couple of months). Her mom is an expected visitor, I'll be a surprise. And mom will stay longer than I will, so our last night all together will be Sunday. Was thinking a nice Sunday roast dinner (we'll be going to a matinee show that day, can't even remember what, sure we'll eat a light lunch beforehand). Daughter lives in Hackney, we're staying near St. Pauls (closer to the river). We could do the great Turkish grill in her hood she took us to last time. More of a neighborhood joint, but truly an amazing meal. Or, we could do a Sunday roast. Up closer to her is the Hemingway pub, closer to us is the Jugged Hare. Any other ideas/suggestions for a Sunday dinner in that general area (e.g., not south London or whatnot).
  23. If only he'd actually beaten a cop at the capitol on Jan 6th, he'd have been promoted instead.
  24. That's when Gavin needs to walk out there, cameras rolling, and confront them. Call them cowards hiding their faces, sent by a coward, who's scared of the American people. "If you're afraid of the people, then you sure as hell can't represent them." Then walk up to one of them, tell him you're going to redistrict California to make up for his bosses' crimes, and what are you gonna do about? Either the jackboot steps back, or he lashes out. And either way, you win.
  25. That's when you walk out there with the cameras rolling, and give an impromptu press conference, going right up to them, saying "these gutless cowards are what a scared, weak man like Donald Trump looks like. He wants to intimidate you. But he's too weak to do anything." Walk right up to one of them. "I'm going to redistrict California. What are you going to do about, coward?" Either the jackboot steps back, or he he lashes out. Either way, you win.
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