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  1. Have been reflecting on my comments lately re: Houston drivers from Austin drivers
    So, yes, Houston drivers are trying to kill you.  They will cut you off at 80 mph, make sure you never ever enter in their lane, drive like absolute maniacs anywhere, everywhere and across all 250 lanes of I-10.
    The more I pay attention, the more I realize Austin drivers will sometimes decide its OK to drive 55 on Mopac... or to stop in the middle of the road and wait to cut across two lanes of traffic to turn somewhere... or drive along Walsh Tarlton, stop in the road and F'ing hit reverse to back into a street.  People act lost or stoned (likely) or both and subsequently will throw you the weirdest driving move possible.  Baffling.

    The exact speech I’ve given for 30 years. I’ll take Houston drivers all day, because aggressive and homicidal is predictable. Austin drivers being stupid and pulling crazy ivans can’t be bothered predicted or planned for.
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  2. 3 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    If they would vehemently deny that our founding fathers did not practice nor have the same Christian beliefs that most Americans especially evangelicals have today. For the most part they didn’t believe in Jesus other than his moral teachings.  They also believed more in reason, logic and natural law rather than divine revelation.

    most importantly they were against widespread or large religious institutions.

    Counterpoint: history is fag talk!

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  3. 2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    I know a lot of guys in this exact situation. 

    And they are mostly fucking dumbasses who weren't paying attention to the facts that actually mattered.

    I should know, plenty of times in my life I've been a dumbass who wasn't paying attention to the facts that actually mattered, so I know exactly what such dumbassery looks like.

    And yeah, what DDD Dad said above is fucking infuriating.  ALL Western economies experienced SIMULTANEOUS inflation, GLOBALLY.  No official in any one country - ours or any other - caused inflation to go up, nor caused it to moderate in the past couple of years.  It was a byproduct of the global economy in light of the pandemic and supply chain contraction then expansion, etc.  And it was largely managed by standard tools (interest rate hikes set by central banks, which again generally are not controlled by a country's president/PM).  

    The idiotic, simple-minded tendency of people to say "economic thing X happened while person Y was POTUS means person Y made it happen" is maddening.....but we aren't going to change it.  You can't fix stupid.  You have to figure out how to harness stupid.  The Republicans are much better at it these days.

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  4. Just now, aggie08 said:

    C'mon, stop. The hard R wouldn't help him. But it would be depressing to see how little it hurts him. It would most assuredly lock up the election for Kamala, but in the sense that she'll win PA by 3 instead of 1.5, and Georgia will go from +1 Trump to +0.25 Harris. So yay, he lost, but holy shit our country is probably broken.

    The thing is, what I said SHOULD be hyperbole.  But there's a solid chance that it's not.  Shit like that will motivate the people who really want a guy who (wink wink) isn't afraid to "tell it like it is."  And I mean, look....look at the black-on-black crime, and Chicago, and the data shows they're just not that smart, and they ruin the inner cities, and blah blah blah.

    Come to grips with the fact that this country is much, much, much shittier than most of us thought/wanted to think 10 years ago.  We elected a black man president in 2008...and it set us back 50 years, sociologically.  Completely broke the brains of half the country.

  5. 45 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

    In ' 81, I convinced one of my dumbass cousins to try an incredibly stupid (and dangerous) jump on his bike by promisong I'd give him my "Fernando" baseball card.

    He tried the jump and fucked up the landing big time.  I can still remember the look in his eyes when he hit the ramp and realized that he had made a terrible decision.  When he landed, his bike just disintegrated into about 8 pieces.  Wheels came off the forks.  The frame broke in 3 places.  The handle bars came off the front fork.  I have no idea how he didnt seriously hurt himself.  He hobbled away from his destroyed bike and into my house where I gave him a Fernando ARROYO card.  

    He was not amused.

    But this was also the cousin that a friend and I convinced to pee on an electric fence later that day.  And that was the 2nd time we had talked him into doing that.  He had peed on the fence a few days before.  

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  6. Just now, Js1 said:

    100% hit the wrong button and didn’t notice until the review screen. Or didn’t look at the review screen, hit print and then saw it. 

    Yep.

    But in MAGA land, Occam's Razor does not exist.  The truth is NEVER the simple and obvious answer.  No...it MUST have been that he entered his vote for Trump perfectly, and a signal from an Italian satellite using Venezuelan software was amplified by some swamp gas from a weather balloon that was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus right into the voting machine to change the vote from Trump to Harris.  DUH.  DO YOUR RESEARCH, SHEEPLE!

  7. Just now, The Dog said:

    there was ONE instance where a voter saw his ballot had Harris instead of Trump. they spoiled the ballot and he was able to submit another. most likley 100% CERTAINTY the dumb bastard fat-fingered it.

    FIF truth.

    Dumbasses often fat-finger and misread their electronic ballots.

    The strongest demographic voting Trump is "complete dumbasses."

    So, you can see how this could happen.

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  8. 11 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    How many county GOPs are going to be screaming this in the next two weeks?  It's their play.  Sow doubt among the populace and it makes it easier to claim fraud.  Again.

    100% this is the plan and the play.  The GQP is the party of lies, all lies, and only lies.  It's all they are, it's all they have.  They are going all-in on telling lies.  

    They will inspire violence.  They will cause unrest.  There will be attacks on government bodies.  We are going to have to shoot them.  It's what they want.  So FAFO.

    1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:

    Generally, there have been times when that was true. Presidents haven't done much if anything to fundamentally change how the country work or the principles of the republic. Things are different now.

    So much this.  It's a GENERALLY true sentiment ("who the president is really doesn't have much impact on me").  But it can change under an extreme outlier.

    Analogy: your local water utility has had a general manager of some sort your entire life.  Who that person is has very little effect on your life, precisely BECAUSE each of those GMs runs the utility in line with its established systems and norms.  They don't make any radical, irrational changes.  They tweak and improve processes here and there - some of their ideas work, some don't.  But at the end of the day, you turn on your faucet, and clean water comes out, no matter who is the GM.  BUT....when Insane Idiot GM takes over, shuffles all of the infrastructure maintenance dollars to contracts with his son, Jared Kushner, only focuses on getting clean water to the neighborhoods that supported him politically, and purposefully lets the system feeding neighborhoods that didn't support him go to shit, and implements draconian billing policies that he uses arbitrarily to shut off the water of people who didn't support him, you will notice the FUCK out of hwo your water utility GM is.  

    That's the whole fucking point.  A competent leader runs things so that you forget you have a leader (with some exception in times of crisis/black swan events).  If your leader is in the news every day, and you're not at fucking war, then HE IS A SHIT LEADER.

    1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Whatever this story is would be in an out of the news in less than 5 minutes. Regarding Trump, nothing matters anymore. 

     

    Bolded the only thing that matters.  The story could be Trump raping infants to death, on video, chanting "hail Satan!" while cupping Putin's balls......and he would probably GAIN voters.  Nothing matters.  Nothing.  46% of our country is irrevocably in thrall to a cult of insanity.  We have no way out, and their poison will eventually kill us all.

    1 hour ago, TexArcher said:

    And they have everyday Americans talking this way.  A buddy of mine taken in by Fox News talks openly about closing the border completely.  He's the son of an immigrant himself.  When I point that out, he just says it's different now, man.

    The bolded is a particular chunk of idiocy that doesn't get enough attention.  The economic devastation of an actual border closure?  Fucking hell, BILLIONS of dollars in no time.  Hell, when abbott implemented just a slowdown at the border, it cost the US economy NEARLY A BILLION DOLLARS A DAY.

    "Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's short-lived policy of requiring state troopers to conduct secondary inspections of trucks crossing into Texas from Mexico cost the United States almost $9 billion in just 10 days."

    36 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    It’s true. Men in Texas are not responding well to the 12oz roll or sage blend. There are indications that until the 16oz roll is returned to market they will go back to making their own sausage like they did thirty years ago, despite agreeing that it’s not as good.

    Good sir, perhaps you should be added to the newsletter distribution list for my new political party, the FUCK, I WANNA EAT, GODDAMMIT party.

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  9. 4 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    1) had you been consuming cheap breakfast tacos the morning you sat next to him?

    2) Can you talk about why he passed? I mean, is it a statute of limitations thing?

    I mean....he was 90 years old.  

    But yeah, I'm sure I had eaten cheap breakfast tacos.  I get my hair cut on Saturdays, and that's a go-to weekend breakfast.  But many, many other people have survived haircuts next to me.

  10. 16 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    So sad and disgusting. Adult children of parents who are declining - watch your parents phones and bank accounts.

    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFXMpxRM/

     

    13 minutes ago, wood said:

    Yeah I just saw the CNN story. Fucking assholes need an extra-hot place in hell.

    Whoa whoa whoa....slow your roll.  What you MEAN is "we should get Brisketexan that phone list, posthaste."

    Stop feeling sorry for MAGAs.  All of them.  Yes, even they old ones with diminished faculties -- they have enough faculties to know that they love and have a boner for a hateful candidate and movement.  They aren't getting rooked.  They are choosing to be shitty.  The "getting rooked" is just a happy byproduct.  Fleecing people who vote MAGA is a national service.  End up on the street, eating cat food?  The wages of sin, folks.

    I'm done with sympathy and empathy.  Mercy and kindness?  Those only get us more losses, racking up L after L.  MAGAs should be fleeced blind until there is nothing left.  All of them.  And every last penny.  It's your patriotic duty.

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  11. 2 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    You just can’t see why they would ever consider the administration that has funded the Gaza assault as evil. 

    No, I see them clear as day.  I absolutely see that.  So they see the Biden admin as evil.  And suspect they ALSO see the Trump admin as evil, they thus feel as if they have no good choice (and if your primary motivation is "I want to vote for a candidate who will do a 180 on 50 years of American policy, alienating a huge swath of voters in the process," then yeah....you don't have any good choices), so put in that "no-win" situation, they are NOT voting for the candidate who they think will follow the optimal (or at least the "least bad") path.  Instead, they are purposefully voting for pain.

    I get that they don't like what the Biden admin -- and every admin for the past 50 years -- has done.  And I get that they may even rationally grasp that a Trump admin will not be good, either.  But to choose Trump over Kamala.....they are choosing the objectively worse option.  And the reason you do that is petulant rage.

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  12. 1 hour ago, Stros121 said:

    Depends on the crime  the race and social status of the accused.

    Fixed it for the "in groups who the laws protect, but do not bind, and out groups who the law binds but does not protect" crowd.

    1 hour ago, Stros121 said:

    I want to see all the tapes and evidence on Jan 6. Who ever has them should release to the public.

    I mean....what the.....for fucks sake....I just......you know that.....holy fuck.....

    1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Welcome to a year go and Enjoy your 40k hours of footage

    .....THIS.

    56 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    A few years ago I printed a bumper sticker that said “I only believe what I hear at Sportsman’s Barbershop, and I vote!”

    Goddamn.  I miss the Sportsman.  Got my hair cut there once next to James Michener, last haircut of his life (he passed away maybe two months later).

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  13. 2 minutes ago, wood said:

    As a baseball coach of 12-18 YOs for many years, I heartily approve this statement.

    Followed closely by a compulsion to order them to "stop playing grabass!"

    I don't know what "grabass" is, exactly, but based on the voice-raised input I heard from many coaches over the years, it is apparently the most popular game in the world for males between the ages of 8 and 18, cuz they're playing it all the damned time.

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