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Brisketexan

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  1. This. Most everyone (sane) agrees that tariffs have their place -- 1) protect strategic capacity, 2) countermeasures against dumping/extreme subsidies, that sort of thing. The 2017 tariffs on solar panels, for example, had some rational basis. The metals tariffs....not as much...but most could at least see and understand the reasoning, even if they disagreed. And the damage they did to US ag interests was utterly stupid. The later Biden tariffs on EVs and semiconductors made more sense (semiconductors absolutely fall in that "strategic capacity" bucket -- the CHIPS act (incentivizing re-shoring of semiconductor manufacturing) was a perfect element of how you should approach the issue). An approach using tariffs like a rifle bullet (targeted, with thoughtful selection of the target and the impact of same) is nothing at all like using tariffs like 50 bombers full of 2,000 lb bombs. Fascinating that someone who regularly rants against indiscriminate use of military force (like 2,000 lb bombs that take out whole blocks) is cheering for the indiscriminate use of economic force against.....literally the entire fucking planet. Yes indeed, for him, it is all about "politics and teams," and it's refreshing to see him drop all pretenses, even if he also makes himself look silly as he tries to deny what he's doing in plain sight.
  2. Anti-immigrant fervor....to create an app....to shill crypto. Couldn't capture the zeitgeist any better if you tried. That's the perfect encapsulation of this entire era. The fucking meteor can't get here soon enough.
  3. He’s gonna “get his.” Yall are adorable. Say hello to your future senator or governor or somesuch. Epic assholery is rewarded now, not punished.
  4. You mean…targeted, industry/product-specific tariffs, which is pretty much THE way that most sane economists agree tariffs have utility? Yeah. Kinda different than “BLANKET 145% TARIFFS!”
  5. Wish I could rep this twice. But I have posting limits imposed on me here in Helsinki, Sweden.
  6. Absolutely not, those dollars are needed to educate our precious children. Now, PUBLIC SCHOOL dollars….yeah, we can use the hell outta those.
  7. Definitely bookmark this for when Ana defends whatever “study” RFK manages to pull off.
  8. Like hitting a bullet with a bullet, man. But I like the way you think, midget projectile-wise.
  9. Oh, I see you have heard of Brisketexan’s FreedomEagleJesusGunLiberty Academy of Freedom, Jesus, and Guns. We’re accepting applications now from truly outstanding applicants*. * Anyone who can pay $20k a year to have kids taught 100 at a time by an AI model regurgitating stuff from NewsMax with one proctor/supervisor in a cheap metal warehouse.
  10. May his bunker time end as all nazi bunker time should end.
  11. Doubling down. The Trump idiocy way.
  12. Understand that this will happen again. And again. And again. And again. Because the PRIMARY purpose is to make it clear that non-lily-white Americans....well, y'all aren't really 'muricans at all, you hear me? The purpose is to drive them into second-class citizen status. And yes, it's just a matter of time before it goes all the way, and involves shipping an American to a foreign gulag. Don't want that to happen to you? Best stay in your own neighborhoods, boy. Best keep your head down, boy. Our black posters around here can tell us all about how that goes. The Trump Regime isn't running a new play. They're running a time-honored play. Boy, it looks like you're someplace you don't belong....you're coming with me.
  13. Man, one of the chuckle-worthy, yet horrific ironies of this movement, is how they have screamed "NO MORE DEI! MERIT-BASED HIRING ONLY!".....and have then put on a clinic on how to hire the least-qualified chucklefucks in the history of chucklefuckery. These assholes would drive a decorated female F-18 pilot out of the Navy to replace her with a pimple-faced virgin who struggled to get past the beginner level of Microsoft's Flight Simulator. And then declare that a triumph of "merit over DEI."
  14. Garza sucks. You see little dissent here. But when your solution was to deliver us a DA that ELON paid for (Elon was openly behind the campaign to unseat Garza)....yeah, fuck that shit too.
  15. Fuck that shit. Fuck em all. I long for the day that I look out my window and see the giant plume of smoke that is that whole factory going up in flames....after which it will be revealed that Elon himself did it to cover for his failure and for the insurance, so he gets fucking nothing.
  16. There's an ocean of daylight between "a play needs to be run" and "the play actually being run." Shit, I noticed that we're getting some warm-weather spiders back in my house again. A play definitely needs to be run. This play, however, would be really, really, beyond fucking stupid: The play is to force China out of the global economic system - that's literally what the admin's mouthpieces have advocated. That is - and would be to any nation - an act of war. It's fucking stupid. Nevermind that my point was NOT just as to China, but rather as to THE ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD. He has started a fucking trade war, and irrevocably broken our national and trading relationship with fucking CANADA for fuck's sake. He has declared the EU and even the UK as enemies "out to fuck us over." Those relationships are fucked, not to recover in any near future. The dude can pretty much do no wrong in your eyes....and that says more about you than any number of posts you've made over the years.
  17. And you also see how his last name is hyphenated to have TWO "Z's," so he's EXTRA messican, meaning....well, you know...he ain't a REAL murican. Bottom line, the rule under the Trump Regime is not a mystery: If you 1) don't have a sufficiently "American-sounding" name, then 2) you are presumed to be an illegal alien, 3) even if you produce definitive proof of citizenship, because proof don't make a shit in a land where due process isn't a thing. So really, all that matters is items 1 and 2. Hope you like Salvadoran prisons! And my "you," I mean....my entire fucking family, which isn't exactly named "Smith."
  18. Bingo. Dude shouldn't have been born with a funny messican name, and he don't talk good 'murican anyway. Plus, word is that he once watched 20 minutes of "Boyz n the Hood" when it was on TV at a friends house, which pretty much makes him a gang member. TO THE GULAG!
  19. ....but not the man who put them in positions of power. Or the actions he's taken on their advice. Or the folks who don't meet your definition of "neocon" but who have led him to wage economic war against....literally the entire world. Or an entire admin intent on writing due process out of the detention and deportation process, including of "home-growns." Nope. When it comes to that stuff, well, it's just a head-scratcher indeed that we just need to give all those folks and the admin the benefit of the doubt and our full support. None of those people you claim to criticize so much would be in those positions were it not for the man who you steadfastly refuse to criticize putting them there.
  20. And instead of criticizing a regime rife with "eschatological clowns," Ana takes a victory lap for having someone in the room who will LOOK like she believes in restraint of force....so long as the potential targets are Russian affiliates/allies/pets. Somehow, Tulsi hasn't come up in any of the conversations where the Trump Regime has suggested taking Greenland, Panama, or Canada by force. Gosh, I wonder what the distinction is?
  21. Surly: where the ironic hyperbole actually turns out to be dead-on, balls-accurate.
  22. It's already been done -- any statement of support for a deportee is deemed terrorism, and folks who make such statements are subject to prosecution for conspiring with terrorists. Sebastian Gorka out front shoulda told ya.
  23. In this post, we see Ana taking a "victory lap" for the Trump Regime's incredible accomplishment of.....NOT starting one of the massive regional wars it's been toying with. That's right folks, Ana's triumphant message is very Greg Abbott:
  24. "Meatier Shower 2" won the audience polling as best gay porn feature of 2022. I saw it in a newsletter. That someone else signed me up for. I swear.
  25. That there is a man who cries while masturbating in the dark to pegging videos. Which may be the most dignified, relatable thing about him.
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