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Brisketexan

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  1. "Regulated." The SEC and its enforcement mechanism - as anything independent of what they are directed to do/not do by Trump - no longer exists. There is no SEC. Insider trading by affiliates of the Trump Regime is not a thing, as no entity can enforce it. Are you starting to get it now?
  2. "Make hoarding commodities because everything else has gone to shit great again." My potato cellar is looking to be a pretty solid store of value, amigos.
  3. Wait....."IDEAS?" They are.....literally....."Thought Police?" I mean....credit for not even trying to deny it anymore, I guess.
  4. Also, here's a fundamental - and giant, potentially fatal - problem created by what the Trump Regime has been doing over the past week (and longer, but painfully evident the past week): they have set up the entire US economy, particularly the stock market, as a private casino where the Regime and its insiders are tipped off to the next cards to be dealt. There's a reason why insider trading is a crime: it creates winners (who cheated) and losers (who didn't have the benefit of the inside information, and thus sold for lower than they otherwise would have/bought at higher than they otherwise would have). When it's (1) a single or small group of insiders from an enterprise and (2) those actions are/will be prosecuted, then everyone else has reasonable confidence and faith in the fairness of the markets. HOWEVER, when it's (1) a large group of very wealthy people who have advance, inside knowledge of upcoming large market swings (to be caused by Trump's specific actions), and (2) not only will they NOT be prosecuted for it, but instead, their profit-taking is by design and is functionally a gift/reward provided by the Trump Regime to its favored parties but to nobody else, then nobody who is outside of that group has any faith in the fairness of the market. Why should I sink my money into a market knowing that, at any moment, the Trump Regime will tank the value of my investment in order to reward its chosen beneficiaries (who already had the necessary info, and set up to profit massively on the dip)? This is exactly how you kill a market. And not just to the little players, but also to the big players who aren't part of the Trump Regime Inner Circle. Trillions of dollars of money is starting to realize "wait....why should I place any bets at a casino where the game is rigged in favor of a handful of other players at my expense?"
  5. Buy generic cat food futures.
  6. In case any of y'all still wondered whether the plan includes flat-out "disappearing" dissidents (including US citizens). Sentencing people to life in prison.....without formal adjudication etc....tells you EXACTLY what these people are all about.
  7. Ripped from the pages of “NO FUCKING SHIT MONTHLY.” At this point - a mere 90 days or so into this admin - it’s no longer about the policies, it’s about the fact that the American ship of state is steered by a deranged and insane idiot. It doesn’t matter what direction we’re going in at any given moment; what matters is that the world sees that he can and will turn and steer it into an iceberg in an instant with no notice or reason. Nobody is getting on that ship. Anyone sane is getting the fuck OFF.
  8. In my years of experience, I’ve found that pretty much all tang is the proper tang.
  9. From what I’ve seen, they make em in .22, 9mm, and of course .45.
  10. I will bet you cash money right now that Paxton beats Cornyn in the primary by at least 8 points. It will not be close. You have no idea how utterly horribad Texas GQP primary voters are. "I am Donald Trump's cumsock, and I was used to suffocate a baby" (R) would be the dream primary candidate. And Ken Paxton is that kinda candidate.
  11. For realz, it's perhaps my wife's favorite object/monument on the planet....and when we go, she makes sure to camp out, and wait for the crowd to leave the area....so she can reach out and touch it, in violation of all museum rules and shit. Kinda funny to see her get all giddy and criminal-ish.
  12. The title of their first motion should be "And Trump Agrees, We've Done Nothing Wrong." These EOs are retaliatory, and an unconstitutional exercise of the power of the office to serve his personal goals. The fact that Trumpkins, and those around here who support him, excuse using the power of our government to exact retribution against law firms who had the temerity to take legal positions that Donald Trump personally doesn't like is as chilling as it gets. It's among the more horrific things this regime has done, and I don't say that because I'm a lawyer -- I say it because it's perhaps the most naked and flagrant 1) use of government power 2)in violation of the Constitution for 3) purely personal purposes (personal vendetta) I've ever seen. It's EXACTLY what a fascist authoritarian state would do, and if you support it, excuse it, or are in ANY way okay with it, you are a fucking fascist authoritarian and should meet your end at an Esso station just like your fascist gods. You and your guys are completely outside the law, and do not deserve its protections. Once you've opted out, you've fucking opted out.
  13. Yeah...Winged Victory is the shit.
  14. Well, whatever you do....don't ask Austin to send a team of advisors on how to make things better. You'll get two years of a process that involves appointing a committee to select the leadership of the agenda-creation committee for the great charrette of 2027 to have a community discussion of whether they should create a committee to consider how to make the permitting process more bicycle-friendly.
  15. Budget deficits are fine if managed. History says we can do reasonably well under a Dem president. Healthy functioning economy, not subject to insane volatility or a recession caused by shooting our own dick off, a tax plan that actually brings in decent revenue, spending that (and this is the shocker, contrary to GQP rhetoric) that is more conservative and better managed.....these are the things you get when you "just say no" to GQP fiscal mismanagement. We're not driving off a cliff. Correction: we WEREN'T, until the deranged genetically freakish demonic lovechild of Thelma, Louise, and the clown from "It" took the wheel.
  16. Musk is a horrible loathsome toad, but with respect to his attacks on Navarro as a completely insane utter moron....
  17. See, I find those pics of Whitmer from today in the oval office HOT. Because that look of shame and regret is EXACTLY like the look I imagine she'd have after a session of sweet, sweet loving with old Brisket. HAWT.
  18. If the deficit is actually your concern, history tells you that voting GQP is not the answer: Almost without fail, deficit amount goes up under a Republican, and declines under a Dem. Because of course, slashing spending and slashing tax revenues (every single GQP plan to "attack the deficit" has those two pillars) DOESN'T FUCKING WORK. The "budget deficit" is a creature of our overall economy and is related to GDP and overall economic health, as well as on spending and incoming revenues directly. You can keep trusting the people who have 1) run on the issue, yet 2) consistently fucked us on it for forty fucking years, but I sure as fuck wouldn't.
  19. Step 1) Various schemes to further enrich Trump and his cronies. Step 2) Various schemes to further concentrate wealth in the billionaire class. Step 3) Fuck you, pay me. In short, that is the only plan, there is zero plan to prevent an exploding deficit. Firing a few hundred million dollars worth of government employees who actually do things doesn't solve the deficit, and passing an additional multi-trillion dollar tax cut sure as shit doesn't solve it - it makes it massively worse. Anyone who says or even thinks that Trump and the GQP give a single shit about the deficit or being fiscal conservatives should do the planet a favor and drink cyanide, because anyone that stupid should eliminated themself from the gene pool.
  20. Yeah....I mean....we literally have our national leadership willing to go to economic war with the entire fucking planet for the privilege of getting sweatshops back here. They fucking SAID SO.
  21. Problem: America's cancer isn't the leadership. It's the electorate. We elected the worst president in history. Then said Then...fucking did it. And we're still saying A country full of....American voters....is not a reliable or trustworthy ally, trading partner, or even a casual acquaintance you have drinks with.
  22. And these. "I really wanted a blowjob last night. So I pulled a gun on my wife and she caved and gave me one." Wulaw: "WINNING!" Sane people: "Holy fucking shit, that explains why she immediately filed for divorce, is going to take you to the cleaners, and has filed criminal charges that will see you put away for 10 years. And also, she told everyone in your professional and social circles about it, and now nobody wants anything to do with you." Wulaw: "But don't forget -- HE GOT A BJ!"
  23. This. The "problem," as repeatedly stated by the administration and its mouthpieces, is that we have trade deficits (for goods....note how they are silent on services, for which we run a trade SURPLUS) with many countries. That's it. That's the problem. Now, they attribute that to "cheating" and such, but "cheating" is just the mechanism they blame for creating the "problem" - that problem being "we buy more goods from Vietnam than Vietnam buys from us." The "problem" is fucking dumb, stupid, and idiotic. A trade deficit per se is not a problem. It is a state of relationship between two trading partners who have differing needs and resources. I will always run a deficit with HEB. That deficit is not only not a problem, it is a mutually beneficial arrangement. This whole conversation, using only the words of the administration itself, is dumb layered on stupid layered on moronic topped with insanity icing.
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