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Brisketexan

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  1. I watched UT win the 2002 College World Series at Johnny Whites Hole In The Wall Bar while drinking Bloody’s and they were TASTY.

    I’ve had drinks there at 4:00 pm.

    And 4:00 am.

    And many points in between.

    One time, in spring, they were boiling crawfish in the middle of the afternoon. It was like $7 for all you can eat, you just needed to buy a $2 beer with each big plate. Not a problem.
  2. Brisket has sounded the alarm bells that our “fragile” institutions (we aren’t Hungary or Poland Brisket) are under assault because of Trump’s rule via executive orders but did not call out Obama for creating this mess in the first place by enacting his signature pieces of legislation that way. What do you expect would happen when the other party came into power?  If you are trying to pretend to be non-partisan and above the fray you need to do a better job. I’m a life-long Republican who was voted Democratic for President only in 2004 and 2008 because I was a staunch opponent of the Iraq War. Trump has done a lot of dumb shit I don’t like. I will give him credit where it’s due. As crazy as it sounds, he has a much more coherent foreign policy advancing American interests vis a vis our enemies like Iran.

    1) I definitely criticized several of Obama’s exec orders as being beyond the scope of proper exec authority.

    2) we aren’t Poland or Hungary...until we are.

    I gotta give y’all this, we do arrogance and hubris like nobody else. “We’re bulletproof! Nothing bad can happen here!”

    There’s no fucking coherence to his “foreign policy” - it’s based on two things. 1) whatever someone persuasive just told him, and 2) if obama did it, it’s bad, undo it. There’s no long-game strategy. None. If you think there is, I gotta find a way to do “business” with you, because you’re one gullible SOB.
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  3. Yeah, it’s possible.
    So you remember the playmate Cohen settled up with for $1.6 million...on behalf of Elliott Broidy? 
    This is her. Miss November 2010.
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    Kinda looks like Ivanka.

    And like $1.6 million might have been worth it...
  4. Amazing



    It’s the perfect encapsulation of where we are as a country. Imagine the stupidest, most depraved, contrary to basic humanity and logical self interest decision that you can make. Then triple it. Then triple it again. And there we are.

    I know it’s been overdone, but it’s truly undeniable now - we’re a pure idiocracy.
  5. Not going to single out anyone on this thread, but...
    One hundred percent of the people who hate the Iran nuclear deal have no idea how it worked or what we got out of it.
    They're the same people who hated the Affordable Care Act but never read it, while it was available online the entire time.
    I'm not saying there weren't things to dislike about either of those deals.  I'm saying you don't know what they are.  You don't understand either situation, the deals, or the alternatives.  You can't even speak intelligently about *why* you don't like the deals.  You just parrot what you hear on Fox News.  It would be sadly humorous, if there weren't so god damned many of you.
    Disclaimer: not a liberal.
    Now...  prove me wrong.  Someone make one intelligent statement as to how the world is better off because of what Trump did today...

    Sir, it seems that you missed the post about “sweet lib tears” above. It’s the only metric that matters anymore.

    Retarded orange moose out front shoulda told ya.
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  6. Then that still begs the question: Why continue sleeping with him and subjecting yourself to “abuse”? Were they excusing his bedroom behavior due to his position of power and bank account? If we are going on the premise that they were afraid of the negative reactions and consequences, then OK. I don’t understand it, but it’s certainly a legit explanation. But why continue an intimate relationship? Perhaps Schneiderman was acting virtuous because he believed that he was not acting improper? That’s also a possibility. He has straight up said that he likes it rough and what happened behind closed doors took place between consenting adults. But, in these types of claims, there is no innocent until proven guilty. 
    I think he’s a piece of shit beyond his sexual activities. But I also think the #metoo movement has become a glorified witch hunt that creates victims seeking publicity rather than empowering women that thought they didn’t have a voice. That’s unfortunate. 

    Yeah...you really don’t know much about the psychology of these situations.

    How many times should we ask “why doesn’t that gal leave the guy who beats her?” Yet it happens all the time. It isn’t a conspiracy. It’s how humans work.
  7. We’ve got at most, a billion years before the oceans start to boil off and the earth resembles something more similar to Venus than earth. We’re already about 80% of the way through the earth being a habitable planet. 

    Well, shit.

    I really need to get to work on my starship.


  8. The idea that Christian conservatives are against helping those in need is absurd. There are studies that have shown that conservatives give more to charity than liberals. There are other studies that re-swizzle the numbers and nerf their contributions to their churches, but even still they drive just as much charitable giving to the needy.

    What they don’t like is the federal government dictating how that giving should happen. I can’t really argue with that.

    It’s not an idea. It’s a truth. For fuck’s sake, listen to their rhetoric.

    If the modern evangelical movement is a friend of the poor, with friends like that, who needs enemies.
  9. Whatever!  This is the Russian troll we’ve been waiting for.  He puts Brisket to shame.

    Dude...I ain’t Russian. I’m a whiskey man, not vodka.
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  10. the irony is that most republicans are dyed in the wool christian who love wearing their religion on their sleeves.  i guess they are christians except for helping poor and the ones in need.  jesus kinda had a hard on for helping the poor and the needy.  but what does he know??????

    Jesus would be roundly loathed and reviled by GOP “Christians.” Dirty middle eastern hippie troublemaker.
  11.  
    When the richest country in the world won't give the poorest children or the oldest health insurance, its time for assassinations and bombings.

    I certainly don’t agree with calling for those things to happen.

    But I agree that we’re careening towards that being a likely outcome. And I and plenty of others have so warned - all falling on deaf ears.

    The other we’re on has a likely outcome - history doesn’t repeat, but it sure rhymes. Nobody cares.
  12. I can get not wanting to be as pessimistic as Brisket, but it still somewhat boggles my mind that educated people can look at the fact that we're entirely controlled by a political party that is indistinguishable in its behavior from pretty much any fascist political movement that has ever taken power anywhere in the world, and which happens to control the greatest military and the greatest intelligence apparatus the world has ever known, and not be extremely fucking worried. I can understand being optimistic about taking back some power in 2018 and 2020, but the blase "no big deal" nonsense so many people are expressing is exasperating. We've seen this story play out before, yet so many people believe we're somehow immune.

    For the record, I never WANTED to be this pessimistic...I’ve just gone where the evidence has led me.

    Time for more scotch.
  13. Our military should "Sadat" Trump.

    Hell no they should not.

    You wanna kill our Republic for certain, that’s the one guaranteed way to do it.

    If we ever get to a point where the praetorian guard option is actually our best choice....the republic is already lost.
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  14. lmao.  They are going to elect a moderate after they get burned for engaging with the international community? 

    Seriously. “Being moderate and playing the west’s game” just got blown up in their face...and folks think Iran will DOUBLE-DOWN on that strategy?

    Here’s a hint: the response to “fuck you” (what we just told them) is ALWAYS “well, fuck you too.”
  15. A nice civil war that ends up being won by a group of fundamentalist assholes or a brutal strongman.


    Bingo. The biggest favor you can do for a country’s warmongering extremists is to give them a clear external enemy actually harming them. Done deal. Good job.

    Iran played Obama the naive fool like a fiddle. Remember him writing letters to Khamenei and basically begging the Islamic Republic to play nice? Obama was out of his depth when it came to foreign policy. Who can forget his support of Morsi in Egypt.


    Oh, I’m sorry...you seem to be under the impression that this was a bilateral Obama-Iran deal. I guess the UK, France, Germany, China, and the EU all got played too?

    Fuck, if Iran pulled that off, I don’t want to punish them - I want to become Iranian, a citizen of the country that played the whole world. Those are winners, man.
  16. Saudi and Israel. Same thing in Syria with the "chemical weapon attack" response.
    It's no surprise Macron was called. He bows to the same masters.

    Dammit. Meant to include Saudi in this - if you think that they weren’t playing Trump too (all with the Yemen conflict in mind), I’ve got a bridge to sell ya.
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