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Brisketexan

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  1. And Hitch, I repeat -- to stick with the thread topic. Answer the question, you gutless coward.
  2. Google it, you disingenuous piece of shit. FFS, the results cascade for multiple pages.
  3. You are not a serious person. If you don't know anything about that, it's purposeful ignorance. Of course, you DO know, and you're just trying a thread derail. How about you tell us how the EXACT same people who said that the deployment of the military on US soil was wrong and illegal...is now good policy, and should be defended?
  4. [YES YOU DID!] goes here. For the millionth time. This is him being exactly who he is, was, adn always has been.
  5. I mean, just a few years ago, we lived in a world where he had a pretty commonly held American belief that deploying the military in American cities as a show of force was a bad, unconstitutional, and illegal thing. Conservatives, including MAGA conservatives, actually led the charge on those beliefs (no gestapo in bastropo, Kristi Noem's statements, etc.). Then, like a switch flipped....DOTARD says "I'm going to militarily occupy American cities," and those exact same people are all for it. Which reveals that they NEVER had a problem with government overreach, abuses of power, the use of the military, violations of the constitution, etc. They only had a problem with anyone but their chosen Fuhrer doing those things. When HE does them....all of them are not just okay, but they are good, and to be defended. That's where we are. The group of people leading us, and voting for that leadership, has no guiding principles other than "all the power, and only I get to wield it." I mean.....everywhere? Unless you're cool with adult men fucking teenage girls. Which, of course, as a member of MAGA, you are.
  6. And which party has majority control in almost all of the cities seeing the largest DECLINES in crime? Including one of the cities he ALREADY sent the military into for no fucking reason, by the way.
  7. SMALL GOVERNMENT! And also, they believed exactly the opposite....just a year ago: Fascists believe in one thing: absolute, unchecked, and unlimited power....by their chosen authoritarians. And no power, rights, or abilities for anyone else. That's it. That's the whole belief system. Hitch is an archetype of this group.
  8. That's the thing....the facts DON'T matter. The facts just make them mad. "you gotta stop all them chemtrails!" Fact: "Those are chemtrails. They're contrails. They happen when planes fly through air under certain atmospheric conditions." Law bans chemtrails. The contrails still occur. "Why haven't you stopped them chemtrails! I still see em!" Fact: "That's because they are what they always were -- just regular old contrails. They've been happening as long as we had airplanes flying at good speed." "BULLSHIT! LIAR!" You can't fix criminally insane stupidity. What you CAN do is co-opt it to make it your voting base, as the GQP has done.
  9. Y'all should listen to Mac. He's an investment advisor, and has quite the extensive portfolio of, ummm, assets.
  10. Y'all realize he's completely fucking insane, right? I mean he might as well have said "I would have sent down the moon men with their cheese cannons to put the fire out, and there would have been no fire, because unicorns are strong."
  11. That is one of the things that cracks me up about the crypto bros and the goldbugs stocking up on those things "in case of total societal collapse." Dude. In the event of total society collapse, the only currency of any value are (1) ammo, (2) food, and (3) drugs.
  12. Saw that, but it's takeout only. Makes it less attractive.
  13. I mean, we COULD have pursued a path with India that could have gotten some incremental movement TOWARDS our position and goals, instead of a path that's nakedly adversarial and confrontational thus pushing them hard further into the arms of our adversaries. I dunno, seems like that's something of an issue.
  14. "A man trap." AKA...a woman.
  15. Last time I ate there was 2017, after spending a weekend on Harvey cleanup with my son. Before we headed back to Austin, I took the boy for a pilgrimage to one of our Houston haunts from growing up. It was still perfect. We had one here in Austin for a few years (middle of Congress between 6th and 7th), and we hit it plenty. Even went there for my wife's birthday one year when the kids were really young. JCI was one of her favorite places as a kid, and that's what she wanted, so we went, and everyone was happy.
  16. This item is found on the Steel Shank Value Menu:
  17. This. It's not just Occam's razor (people in charge were faced with a novel, deadly virus spreading in pandemic fashion, and cobbled together the best path they could on the fly, as they were dealing with huge buckets of knowns (overwhelmed medical system, high body counts) and huge buckets of unknowns (too many to count)). They took approaches that included a significant element of caution. In RETROSPECT, now that we have more info and better data, they got somethings right and some things wrong. I know this because I was literally "in the room" as decision-makers (at lower levels -- think local governments and such) were grappling with what to do, how to do it, where to find the resources to do it, etc. These were just ordinary human beings, wrestling with an incredible responsibility, facing horrific outcomes (yeah, some of the conversations were absolutely about where do we store all these bodies, shit, where can we even park the trailers we're using to store all these bodies? Bodies that included their friends and neighbors, BTW). There was no sinister conspiracy hatched in a mountain lair. Just human beings, doing their imperfect best to handle an unprecedented crisis. That, yes, killed literally millions of people, so it was sure as shit a real thing.
  18. I dunno. I'd probably pick up an order of McDumplings every now and then, if such an item were on offer.
  19. I dunno....maybe DON'T pursue policies that encourage "flexible" nations to openly and aggressively align with Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran? India is going to act in its self-interest (hint: all nation states do and will). Based on its size, geography, history, and pre-existing interests and relationships, India is not likely to become a 100% "yes Mr. American boss, whatever you say boss" state anytime soon. So, maybe take approaches that will get India doing as much of what we like as possible. And realize a good bit of that is a long game. As in not just months/years, but decades. But nope. We'll just walk into the room, bluster, throw a punch, and then act surprised when the other party leaves the room and disengages with us, ESPECIALLY when there is a tempting alternative right next door. We used a threat (tariff) with a financial downside that wasn't as significant as the financial upside of the alternative (running into the arms of Russian petroleum products, purchased at a discount). If you say "if you don't do what I want, I'm gonna charge $5 extra to you," and I have an alternative that says "come over here and do business with me, and I'll save you $7," well.....people all over the world can do math. It would be smart to run those numbers BEFORE you do the bully routine. But we don't do smart. Not anymore, at least.
  20. Dudes were Mexican. Thats proof enough. Yes, I know they were Venezuelan. Thats the joke.
  21. The shit was not intended to take out a small boat. The shot was intended to create a cool video to make the most pathetic human being to ever walk the earth feel like a big man.
  22. We don’t. But it is.
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