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Brisketexan

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  1. Brisketexan: "It would be fair, in order to apologize for rudely failing to join Brisketexan for a passion-filled weekend at a mountain cabin with a hot tub and killer views, for Sela Ward to to join Brisketexan for a passion-filled weekend at a mountain cabin with a hot tub and killer views." I mean, that logic is pretty unassailable.
  2. So, anyone have experience with the TSA process at ABIA during a gov't shutdown? Wife and I have a flight on Friday, trying to figure out how much of a cluster it will be.
  3. And soybeans are just an easy example. Add defense materiel to the list. Add a shitload of things to the list. When Party A shows -- under a bright shining spotlight of its own making -- that it is an unreliable, erratic, mercurial, spiteful trading partner.....then parties B through Z will respond rationally, and pursue a strategy of disentanglement from trade with Party A to the largest extent possible. Imagine that you are an HEB loyalist -- good store to shop at, wide selection, good prices, open pretty much all the time (yeah, HEB is open!). Then....HEB is acquired by new ownership. They start closing at random with little warning, so your plan to pick up your groceries this Saturday gets crushed. Then, when they ARE open, they close off random aisles, so you can't get your full list ("WTF? You closed off the coffee/tea aisle, and the dairy section? So now I have to go to another store for those?"). Also, they jacked up the prices on random items. The package of chicken breasts that was $7.50 last week is now $15, the package of toilet paper that was $10 is now $20. Again...when they're open. Oh, and the store manager walks behind you, insulting you and calling you a cheater and a liar the entire time you shop. I'm gonna guess that you're going to check out the nearby Randall's, or Sprouts, or what have you rather quickly, because HEB sounds like it fucking sucks to do business with now. And when it comes to things like large-scale commodities, supply chains, and long-term contracts (you don't buy a fifth generation fighter plane to use for a year, you buy it to use for 25 years), Party A is not going to get those sales back, for a generation or longer. We are destroying ourselves as a global trading partner. For no fucking good reason at all. It's fucking insanity, the harm is massive and irreparable. And for fucking NOTHING. We're lighting ourselves on fire for fucking NOTHING.
  4. The answer is "yes." Our Constitution has a failsafe: impeachment by the House, conviction by the Senate. But that failsafe utterly fails when those bodies are held hostage by an insane megalomaniac. Turns out, the Republic was that fragile. It existed and survived by an agreement that some norms and rules would remain in place and be enforced. When that agreement is dissolved, then the Republic is also dissolved.
  5. "side of fried chicken" is a beautiful turn of phrase.
  6. Oh, my friend. You know that it's going to be "both." A man who lives for temper tantrums, grudges, and vengeance, has decided that half of America is his personal enemy. And he has a whole military that he thinks (and maybe he's right) is there to do whatever he tells them to do. So he is 100% going to use them as an instrument of his vengeance to go to war with Americans. And then war against foreign brown people, because he thinks it makes him look tough to his pathetic cultist followers.
  7. Huh. We still don't have the director of the FBI tweeting instantaneously about every detail discovered about this guy, like his political and voting tendencies, political clothing he has worn, where his family members stand on hot-button issues? We don't? Man. I just can't understand why. I guess it's a mystery that we'll never sort out.
  8. Normal, sane people don't do this. They NEVER did this. The idea of "I gotta fly a flag of my favorite presidential candidate/president" was never, ever a thing....until a fucking America-hating batshit insane cult was born. You might see a bumper sticker of a candidate I support on my car. Maybe a yard sign. During the campaign. That's it. That's what normal, sane, not-in-a-fucking-cult people do.
  9. That there is a nice plate of
  10. And some American service members too. Maybe not many. But some. For absolutely no reason. None. Other than Trump needing to create a distraction. Remember how all the Trump voters said one of the great things about him was "he won't get us into any foreign wars?" And now, he's literally looking around trying to find a fight to start?
  11. "Pantsless at Pluckers" is the working title of my newest VERY niche work of erotic fiction. It's not for everyone. But I bet most of y'all would like it.
  12. "Some" drugs. 50% "average" discount. Licensing fee paid or use of Trump name - almost certain.
  13. This is the techbro paradise that we've asked for, and they are delivering it in spades.
  14. I guess we saved that part of your timeline for your adult years. So you've got that going for you, which is nice.
  15. Just following up on this. Expecting the head of the FBI to be tweeting in real-time every detail they find on the Michigan LDS shooter. What? What's that? He's not? Gosh. I just can't understand why that is.
  16. And so much this. It's not just that we're absolutely taking a wrecking ball to this country in every possible way. It's that we're doing so for no fucking good reason whatsoever. It's goddamned collective insanity, and presuming that when it's all over, there is a world left in which books are written, the book on the self-immolation of the United States is going to be one where future readers put it down and say "that can't be true. That can't be what really happened. Not a single bit of it makes any sense."
  17. I know it feels naive. But, we also know that there ARE a shitload of senior officers who do indeed remember their oath. These are people who got a real education, went to West Point or the Naval Academy. They are not suckers.
  18. We live in a world where there is no way to tell the difference between his actual words and satire like this. It's fucking insane.
  19. He's a fucking lying psychopath. I mean, and not little lies. Huge ones. Insane ones. And there are people on this board who think that's leadership.
  20. There is a very high chance that last night, when a few of these guys got together in small groups to share a glass of whiskey, there was a very brief comment of "we all remember our oath, right?" They nodded, and that was that. There MAY have been a couple of even smaller side conversations about "so, we have some ideas about what to do if we get an illegal order," but even those conversations were very short and to the point I'd suspect. And it's absolutely this - that's not how it starts, but it's 100% how it ends. He wants to deploy the military against Americans. Again, let's get that very plain and straight: Donald Trump is champing at the bit to deploy the United States military, with orders to use deadly force, against Americans. He is an existential threat to the Republic.
  21. Fucking this. And social media has already become overwhelmed with AI garbage -- bots and spam accounts sending it all over, and then idiots (you know, your parents' generation who 25 years ago were forwarding every stupid email they got) amplifying and boosting that AI garbage. "Here's an inspiring post/video about some celebrity/hero/whatever"....that never actually happened. The tech lords are rapidly making internet spaces suitable only for idiots who fall for AI bullshit. It is even further distilled idiocy. Before, the internet was distilled 90% proof idiocy....it's approaching 180 proof at a breakneck pace.
  22. No ATC? What could go wrong?
  23. So....what did this do to TSA last time? I'm flying Friday and Sunday, and I guess I'll build in extra airport time.
  24. He's a dork cosplayer addressing real, honorable, career military. How else would you expect it to go?
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