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Brisketexan

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  1. blah blah blah women saying "I didn't vote for this." Pulp Fiction gif here.
  2. Wow. You're going with the "Christ-killers" angle? For real?
  3. Correct. The ability of Americans to connect actual policies to their actual effects.....versus attributing vague "gubmint did something" as the cause of everything bad in their lives, is astounding to me still. They at once blame the government for shit it didn't do and doesn't control, while looking right past the actual real-world effects that government action has on their lives. We deserve all the stupid shit we are getting, because we the people are mind-bendingly stupid.
  4. Bingo. BINGO. BINGO.
  5. But he also has a hard and known floor. “Hey, if we run a psychotic, crooked criminal, how low will it go?” We know that. He wins. No matter what. He could buttfuck a puppy to death on live TV, and not go below that floor. AND…the MAGA base LOVES him…BECAUSE he’s the type of guy who would kill a puppy to own the libs.
  6. Agree. I grew up going to the Alley, saw amazing productions.
  7. This…the Austin restaurant scene has surged, but largely in all the wrong ways. We add 10 douchetastic overpriced Instagram joints for every 1 real-deal good new place. That said, believe it or not, the burb corridors are adding Houston-like quality and diversity. REAL Asian places, Georgian, Persian, all kinds of stuff…up 183, towards RR, etc. But also, don’t underestimate how much deeper Houston is when it comes to the arts. My wife grew up following ballet in Houston. When we moved to Austin, we ended up going to the ballet some years later. It was like watching AA ball after growing up watching MLB quality. Houston has it going on.
  8. Bottom line, “money talks, wealth whispers.” I’m a member of neither group, but have been around both of them plenty. Each has some negatives….but all in all…wealth. Go with wealth. They’ve been there before, they understand power, and how it is a long-term play. Wealth builds. Money tries to gorge, and takes stupid risks and makes foolish displays. It’s the contrast of “let’s run down there and fuck one of those cows” and “naww, son…let’s walk down there and fuck ALL of em.” As a nation, we are a weird amalgam. We are power and wealth…but we aren’t one of the OLD great powers (UK, France). So we managed to walk our own path at the leadership level that acknowledges our newness but reflects our established power and wealth. We’ve chucked that, and gone full-on ostentatious new money gaudy compensating for not being “one of the old guard.”
  9. Yeah, f that, remember when the menu was 59, 79, 99. Show up with $3 plus a coupla coins for tax, and you got 5 items.
  10. The truth is a liability. No truth is as comforting or enticing as a riveting lie.
  11. It will be voided, by "executive order" or some shit, before the 2026 election.
  12. Dude. You missed a really huge problem Hunt has: The motivated nutbars are the entire GQP demo in the primary in Texas. There are no fucking "normies" GTFO with that shit. Anybody who started out as a normie and still votes GQP has drunk ALL the fucking kool-aid, and is now a fucking nutbar. Paxton wins whatever office in Texas he wants. Easily.
  13. If it had been underage gay porn, you would have been ADDED to GOP fundraising lists.
  14. Well, I mean....he doesn't yet have the well-known multi-year track record of crimes and corruption like Ken, but I'm sure he can catch up. What I'm really saying is that Paxton trounces him in a primary too. Paxton is unstoppable. Because Texas Republican voters are not turned OFF by a shameless lying crook....voting for a shameless lying crook gives them a fucking boner that the Viagra folks would study for years.
  15. This is what I've been saying. We need to follow the playbook that works. Lie. Lie big, lie loud, lie often -- like, relentlessly. Spout the lies at machine-gun pace. And make them outrageous, outlandish, inflammatory lies. "Donald Trump stole $500 billion from you taxpayers, and used it to pay for sex with underage girls." Shit like that. Seriously, not only does the truth no longer matter, the truth is an anchor tied around your waist as you plunge to the inky black depths. Shed that fucking anchor, break free to the surface, and win under the new rules. Lie like nobody has ever lied before, and never apologize or admit you were wrong. Instead, repeat the lie. Inflame the people who will vote your way, and feed those fucking flames with new fuel 24/7. TLDR; do whatever it takes to capture the gullible idiot vote, they're the only demographic that matters.
  16. Baby A's purple ritas. $1 happy hour ritas at El Arroyo. Everclear ritas at Nasty's. A significant percentage of young Brisket's poor decisions can be tied to Austin margarita consumption back in the day.
  17. It's another chapter in their "brown people are murdering all the people everywhere!" story that is always a top story on Fox News. These are the people we know, who when we've mentioned that we're taking a trip to London, or France, or Germany, or Sweden respond "oh my God! Please be careful! The muslim terrorists are killing people all the time there!" When you respond with "yeah....you know the murder rate in Paris is less than one fourth the murder rate here in the US, and the most dangerous part of our trip is going to be our 20 minute drive to the airport"....they just won't hear it. No, you're guaranteed to be raped and murdered by all those roving gangs of muslim terrorists everywhere! Just like in American cities, all the illegals are going to kill everyone before the year is out. Don't bother showing them crime stats, facts only anger them.
  18. So, so much this. There is only one genuinely effective solution to a decline in a country's native-born population in the modern era (that is, declines in population that aren't caused by some massive externality, like the plague): add to your population by immigration. You can rage against it all you want, you can introduce all the incentives to have kids you can imagine.....but that approach has been shown to have minimal effect. Is changing the makeup of your population by importing people from elsewhere going to change the "make-up and culture" of your country? Of course. But you need to pick your outcome. Either a) rapid and continuing population decline, or b) stabilized population/moderate growth via immigration. Every other point raised on the issue is just noise and delaying the conversation about the only real options. And as to the dumb old people, Russia is following its standard play: Russia is suffering. Russia does not win by stopping its own suffering (that's not even on the table). Russia wins, instead, by making other countries suffer more than Russia. Russia is losing 2% of its population a year? Then Russia will pursue actions that make sure any rival countries lose at least 3% of their population a year. And good old-fashioned nativist xenophobic bullshit ALWAYS works. Always. So, better that Japan whither away and disappear, then stabilize itself for the time being with dirty Filipinos and whatnot.
  19. Just agreeing with you. Just be happy I didn't go off on the tangent of recalling the sizable Lebanese population in Houston, and the.....formidable and impressive attributes of the women of said group. Had me more than one crush back in the day.
  20. I mean....the analogy ain't that far off. And yeah, knew and went to school with some Nigerians when I grew up in Houston. They were rocking it. Great guys, successful families, incredible amount of hustle. Small sample size, but not so small as to be far off the truth.
  21. It's a real triple-decker layer of shit. And that's without mentioning Israel's turn from "holocausts are bad" to "let's openly holocaust the fuck outta Gaza."
  22. Damn....now you're making me all nostalgic.
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