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Brisketexan

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  1. 20 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Conflict drives attention. Attention drives reach. Reach drives votes. Call out the corruption, the hypocrisy, the fraud. Take big, countervailing stands. Make it visceral. Make it personal. Make it fun — the kind of thing people want to be a part of. We are just coming off a campaign cycle where failing to do this cost us: On our worst issue — inflation — Democrats from the White House on down never convincingly named a villain. Republicans and then voters happily made the villain us.

    Also....and this is very, very, very, very, very important: become comfortable, and right quick, with LYING.  Lie big, lie little, lie everywhere in between.  Lies are rocket fuel for outrage and thus energy and engagement. 

    "Donald Trump condemned puppies to die and laughed about it!"

    "Trump is ending your Social Security!"

    "Trump stole your retirement money and is building a secret island lair for pedophiles!"

    Whatever.  Workshop 10,000 such lies, then go with the ones that raise the temperature the most.  Fight fire with fire.  The ecosystem and rules have been established.  For the love of God, stop pretending that ANY of the old rules still apply.  The reason that the Dems keep getting hoisted on the standards of the old rules is because the Dems are the only fucking idiots who keep insisting that the old rules still exist and apply.  The Dems are old aristocrat-built armies in fancy uniforms with feathered helmets marching in a straight line into machine gun fire.  Fucking stop.  The old way is over.  Rules and norms are over.  All that matters is winning, because unless you do that, you can't save a single fucking thing that matters.

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  2. 11 minutes ago, royiv said:

    I can smell that picture.

    I had lived in Austin all of two weeks when I encountered a similar crowd at a free Joe Walsh concert in Zilker.  The sight of so many hairy female legs and the smell of so much weed and patchouli was a bit of a shock to my relatively sheltered Houstonian senses.  I realized I definitely "ain't in Kansas anymore."  Good to see that vibe still exists here, at least a little bit.  It's not MY vibe, but I'm glad it's around.

  3. Just now, Pancho said:

    That’s because the conservative was supposed to win but since turnip started with his 51st state shit, his numbers have nosedived to the point where he might lose tonight. This was supposed to be a cakewalk for the Canadian conservatives 

    Yep.  And all that the liberals have to do is paint Poilievre as a Canadian Trumpist (they say all the same shit)....which they did.  Effortlessly, really.

    I am not a man given to ANY hope these days.  But it is POSSIBLE that one silver lining of Trump functionally declaring war on the entire world (yes, MAGAs, that's what launching a trade war against literally every country (except Russia and such, of course), and characterizing those countries as our enemies (his actual word) does) is that in the rest of the world, Trump-style right-wing autocrat/fascist/racist candidates are much less attractive than they once were.  The Economist did a whole piece on this.  We'll see how it turns out, but if you are in a country that Trump has recently shit on and threatened your trade and/or sovereignty (so....every country), Trump is becoming a toxic brand.

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  4. 1 hour ago, SubliminalHorn said:

    This talk of shortages and small business closing, I’ve got to think that the cult of money will put an end to the cult of maga. The money cult has been around waaaaayy longer. Will it be too late by the time that happens? I don’t know but the suspense is killing me

    52 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

    I’m talking more about everyday people. Small business, entrepreneurs, white collar workers. The vast majority of people. You start fucking with people’s money and shit can turn real fast. The oligarchs are gonna oligarch. But I think the only way regular Americans snap out of this is them becoming poorer in a rapid fashion. Add in the coming shortages and that is ripe for lots of unrest. Does that finally break the maga fever? And again, will it be too late

    Dude....the everyday people are EXACTLY the people who don't fucking matter, and will get it right in the ass, as intended.

    Eliminate all small and local businesses.  Force consolidation of all enterprises under a handful of multi-billion dollar enterprises.  Local florists?  Local restaurants?  Local anythings?  GTFO.  You'll be eating at TeslaCafes and acquiring all goods from Amazon soon, and you'll take it like a bitch.

    Because remember, turning us into EXACTLY a Russian oligarchy is how you "Make America Great Again."  They have told us and shown us exactly what they are doing, and exactly what they intend to accomplish.  We should believe them.

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  5. fucking idiot
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    So wait…which is it…are we going make great, beautiful deals with 200 countries, so these tariffs that we are using for leverage will go down (and thus not yield much revenue), or are big, beautiful tariffs going to stay so high that they raise so much revenue (from US consumers, by the way) that they replace the income tax?
    Dumbest. Fucking. Timeline.
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  6. It is.  But so many seem so cowed by the administration.
    The good news is that even though the P2025 crowd is in full effect in their malevolent agenda, the competence in execution may actually be worse than Trump I.

    On a parallel note, I’m going to be sending both a contribution to Harvard’s endowment and a personal note to the Board of Regents. I’d suggest that this moment in history may be WHY Harvard was/should have been created in the first place. It predates the Republic. It helped form it. Now, it has to stand and fight for it. If they HADN’T stepped up for this fight, then they would have surrendered whatever institutional credibility they had.
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  7. It's CRAZY the difference in reaction between deporting citizens and stealing their ID along the way, and when DT had a collective REEEEEE over facemasks. All the biggest MUH FREEDUMS folks are AWOL on this issue

    Every. Fucking. One of them.
    It was never about actual Constitutional rights and the protection of liberty AT ALL. It was never anything more than toddler-level oppositional defiance disorder, usually layered with baked-in white supremacy.
    “Conservatives” have NO credibility on matters of Constitutional rights and protections. None. Zero.
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  8. I think that is a bit disingenuous to say its because they are not white. It is because there is argument around whether or not they are even citizens. I understand there are concerns arguments around constitutionality and human rights and all that. I am not trying to open that door. But by saying it's just because they "arent white" is lazy and youre looking to be as dramatic as the other side that screams they are all terrorists or gang members.  

    1) They’re already deporting citizens. Juvenile citizens. I thought you people were all-in on “WE MUST PROTECT THE CHILDREN!” Add that to the pile of lies.
    2) Fun fact: the protections of the Constitution largely apply to non-citizens as well. So, add “CONSTITUTION-LOVING CONSERVATIVE” to that Mt Everest-sized pile of lies.
    Oh, and add 3) funny that the “maybe they ain’t even no citizen!” panic is almost exclusively about people who don’t look like, you know, “real Americans.”

    It’s all white supremacy nativist panic wrapped up in a not-even-very-refreshed label. Own it.
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