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Brisketexan

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  1. This. Which is one of many reasons why the GQP is a terrorist organization.
  2. This is America, 2025. There's not much in the glass, but what is in there is pure poison.
  3. It won't be. We may be eating leaves out of our hats, enjoying electricity for 1 hour per day on a rotating schedule, and dying in droves from a viral illness that has a vaccine but our government banned it, and Fox News will run wall-to-wall stories about a trans kid who appeared in one girl's community basketball league game in Peoria, and it'll be a GQP landslide across the board.
  4. Fuckin' Andean foxes, always thinking they're better than everyone else. Elitist assholes.
  5. That wall at La Brea is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Shit, La Brea is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I'd been reading about it since I was 4, and I visited it for the first time in my late 40s...and I was agog like a little kid. And yeah, your summary is pretty much what I suspected here - lots of hype, but not lots of great science.
  6. Sigh. I am a pretty damned good prognosticator....and a terrible investor/actor on my predictions. I told myself a month ago "better dump as much as I can into cash/fixed return stuff, because shit's about to get wild." Yet....I didn't, so the equity portion of my portfolio has taken its lumps. I told myself two months ago, when it became apparent that we were shitting on our ties with NATO and the EU, "I bet european defense stocks will take off." But I didn't do anything about it. And sure enough, every one of them I'd looked at has taken off -- some have doubled, even tripled. Do I have any prediction right now? Not really. Just that shit is going to be volatile and messy and unpredictable. And I'm really not sophisticated enough to take advantage of it. I know a good bit about many things, but my investment savvy is pretty basic. So, in summary, I hate myself.
  7. QFFT. That's it.
  8. This. Something you feel comfortable with. Keep it simple and mainstream. A basic semi-auto, probably in 9mm for ammo availability.
  9. Yep. Remember how all the Trumpers wouldn't shut up about how we all need to be armed, because "that's the last line of defense against an authoritarian state - disarming the public was how them Nazis were able to run roughshod and kill all those people!"??? Turns out, the fuckers were right about that. They just didn't tell us that they were the authoritarian state we'd have to worry about. We're getting pretty goddamned close to "last line of defense" territory.
  10. At this point, he may as well just say "FINE. MY TARIFFS ARE NOW ELEVENTY MILLION BILLION TRILLION JILLIAN OCTOQUILLION PERCENT!" The world economy is being run - and ruined - by a temper tantrum.
  11. Economically.... And we're doing it to ourselves. Dumbest. Fucking. Trade war. EVER.
  12. "On the horizon?" Dude...the horizon is here. When asked about disappearing US citizens to El Salvador....our fucking dictator SAID HE LOVES THE IDEA. We don't have to guess, or surmise, or any of that shit. He fucking TOLD us. This administration openly intends 1) to grab American citizens, and 2) ship them to foreign prisons beyond the reach of US courts. Nevermind that it's horrific and unconstitutional enough to do so with regards to non-criminal aliens. The Regime is going to treat US citizens the same way. Your only remaining means of defense is....the ultimate and final means of defense. That's what "beyond the reach of the rule of law" necessarily means.
  13. I mean...I could also have posted that in response to "file a habeas petition" -- because there is no fucking way this Regime will actually provide anyone sufficient notice to allow them to do so. You are down to one mechanism of defense against being disappeared at the whim of this regime. The only question is "what caliber mechanism are you gonna have ready?"
  14. And you have lost your fucking Republic, you just haven't figured it out yet.
  15. Haven't actually happened yet? Dude. There's a guy. In a Salvadoran prison. Right now. The play has ALREADY BEEN RUN. All that has to happen now is....run it more.
  16. It all comes down to this -- these fucking morons think that all trade deficits are the devil, and must be eliminated. Which is among the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. We're going to hold out until Vietnam buys as much stuff from us as we buy from them. Jesus Tapdancing Monkeyfucking Christ, I don't have words for how stupid this is. We are waging an unwinnable war, and destroying ourselves in the process.
  17. Who is your guy? Austin local? I'm probably doing a boil May 4th, trying to figure out where I'll buy from.
  18. Dicta which is meaningless. Once the government does an end-around that and does not provide notice before removal occurs (which is exactly what they have been doing, and will continue to do), you will be in a prison in El Salvador. And now, it's too late -- no remedy is available, because you are out of US government hands. That is the fucking play. How do we know? Because they are actually running it, right now, in real-time. The court alluded to a solution that the Regime will not allow to be implemented. You still. Don't. Fucking. Get it. (I'm referring to Ojo, not you Wildcat).
  19. This. The complaint is "you're snatching people off the street and shipping them to a foreign prison without due process and without even notifying anyone that the person has been detained and shoved on a plane." The solution from the court is "well, file a habeas petition in your local district court before they ship you off to El Salvador, because once you're shipped off, it's too late and you're fucked." Ummm....how in the blue fuck am I supposed to pursue the solution IF I DON'T EVEN FUCKING KNOW MY CLIENT HAS BEEN SNATCHED AND SHOVED ON A PLANE UNTIL AFTER IT'S OVER? And again, the really, really key part of this is that the effect of the ruling is NOT limited to "illegal aliens." It's not even limited to "aliens." It applies to persons who the government contends are criminal aliens. I, Trump official Brisketexan, have determined that @Ojo Rojo is a criminal alien. We're grabbing him in the next five minutes, and we'll have his hogtied ass on a plane to El Salvador within an hour. Now, Ojo is going to scream "you can't do this, I'm a citizen!" And maybe Ojo's attorney will show up in a court tomorrow or the next day filing a Petition for Writ of What the Fuck, You Just Sent a US Citizen to a Foreign Prison, Get His Ass Back Here, but goshdarnit, it's too late. We have no power over him anymore. Maybe send a nice note to El Salvador and see what they'll do for you. If you don't realize that the blueprint being created here is 100% the path to "disappearing" anyone and everyone the Regime wants to get rid of, you are not paying any fucking attention.
  20. And they should. We are absolutely making European defense manufacturing great again. Any and all of our former allies would be fools if they aren't IMMEDIATELY pursuing a plan to "de-Americanify" their defense purchasing/arming. We are an unreliable and untrustworthy seller, who may well be at war with any one of them at any moment, on the whim of a fucking psychopath. A European power buying an F-35 from the US at this point would be as dumb as buying SU-34s from Russia.
  21. And the executioner. That's how this ends. It's just a question of who is on the receiving end of the axe. Right now, signs point to "us" as the recipients.
  22. So be aware, surlyites. ICE and CBP are looking for fuckin any reason to stop and interrogate anyone. Duh. We have a Stasi now, the Regime can disappear anyone it wants. It’s just a matter of time before it happens to someone here or a family member.
  23. You know they fucking won’t. Just stop. You know as well as I do: the rule of law is dead. This regime could grab YOU, sitting on your couch watching basketball, hogtie you, put you on a plane to a foreign prison, and you would be getting your head shaved and ass beaten before tonight’s trophy presentation is over….and there’s NOTHING YOU OR ANYONE ELSE COULD DO ABOUT IT. The admin will say “so sad, too bad, we can’t get Twice back,” and it’s done - YOU’RE done. “Disappearing” people - any person, for any reason - is now functionally legal. You have no way to stop it, save one: arm yourself. And defend yourself. That’s where we are left. Stop pretending that any vestige of the rule of law remains.
  24. This is what I’ve been saying: If there is no means of obtaining redress through the courts…then what does a person have left? The only rational course of action is to ensure that the regime does not take you into custody at all, because if they do, they can disappear you, and it’s over. You’re done. Much better to fight by any means available on the front end. That’s just simple logic, and the main negative of opting out of the rule of law: all that’s left is rule of the gun.
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