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Brisketexan

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  1. In this new era where origin-based racism is a-ok, we can hate on the swarthy Greeks for that abomination, right? It's okay now guys, right?
  2. It is important to continue to call out the truth that functionally the entire "ZOMG IMMIGRANTS AND OUR BORDER!" script is a lie, based on lies. But, they are sweet, comforting lies, because they tell people that whatever is wrong in their life and their country can be blamed on some dirty, swarthy "other," and not on themselves, or the very people they continue to vote for who distract from their failed policies by pointing the finger at a weak "other." If you buy into the immigration issue, you are being played. Stop being played.
  3. I haven't been in years. That said, they still have the chuychanga with deluxe tomatillo and chips and salsa with creamy jalapeno as well. As long as they can still execute on those items, I'd have a fine meal there. Don't really give a shit about the rest of their menu. But then....I'm also not desperate for it, see the fact that I haven't been in years.
  4. I am truly glad to see people like Stassney embrace and admit who they are, and demonstrate that their belief system is utterly divorced from any real ethos. The things I listed are things that largely mirror the approach of the Economist. That match the rhetoric (at least spoken, if not genuinely practiced) of numerous conservative leaders from 30-50 years ago, including people like Reagan. Those outfits and people were "shitty conservatives," according to this movement. Because a REAL conservative.....is a Trumpist. Thank you for painting a clearer picture than I ever could.
  5. From a card-carrying member of a cult worshipping the worst American public figure in recent memory, I do enjoy the irony.
  6. I know it comforts people like you to believe such things. But nonetheless, our family is great. Son is home for an extended visit, he was very eager and happy to get home to us. And the night after he got back, he had a great dinner with his friends, which included two young refugees who he treats like his own brothers, all part of our family dynamic. Daughter is very much looking forward to my wife's visit in a few weeks (she doesn't know yet that I'm joining her, it will be a surprise -- she was disappointed when we told her I probably couldn't make the trip). As for my political beliefs, what the moron class doesn't realize is that most of them haven't fundamentally changed (some certainly have -- for example, when I was younger, I thought "trickle-down" economics made some sense. I've since seen -- by watching it actually tried -- that it doesn't work, not even a little bit). I grew up being anti-authoritarian. I grew up thinking that a "papers please!" government was a bad thing for people. I grew up thinking that we shouldn't demonize people because of where they come from. I grew up proud that we are a destination for refugees (FFS, Reagan himself proudly spoke of that in his farewell address). I grew up in a nation that, via a REPUBLICAN president, passed things like the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, which I got to see transform the air and waterways that I loved (grew up cleaning tar off my feet at the coast, now tar is incredibly rare). I've always thought that using the force of the state to wage a comprehensive campaign to go after your political rivals was chickenshit. I've always hated gerrymandering. I grew up believing in and expanding global market and free trade (subject to reasonable regulation). I grew up thinking that white supremacists, and phrases like "poisoning the blood of our nation" were bad. I have spent my entire professional life working towards preserving the rule of law, not the rule of whim or decree of a dictator. I grew up believing that we are a nation of laws, not a cult of a man. I grew up learning (slowly) about our real history with regard to slavery and race relations, knowing at once that we bear deep scars as a society because of those things, but pride that we continued to move forward positively, in fits and starts. I was a moderate conservative, with liberty leanings. I believed in all of those things, and all of those things were welcome in the Republican party of a time. Hell, most of them were welcome in the Democratic party of that time. Today....every one of those beliefs would render me an apostate to the MAGA cult. Shit, Ronald Reagan (a deeply flawed man and POTUS) would be a RINO, unwelcome in that cult. I'm good with who I am, and what I believe. Because I have both stuck with the core principles I've long held: I'm a patriotic American who believes in our nation and ideals, flawed as they may be. I'm a patriotic American who believes that we can be what we claim to be. That we can provide a good and prosperous future for all Americans, and can lead the world in doing so. I'm a patriotic American who is proud that we have been a beacon of hope and freedom for so many over the centuries, and believe that we should continue to be. But I'm also good with who I am because I'm not afraid to learn, and to change my opinions based on evidence and reality. I have never sworn blind allegiance to a party, or to a man, and I never will. BECAUSE I am an American. We don't do that shit. I want an America that manages to strike an amazing balance in working towards the common good while respecting basic individual liberty. I'm realistic enough to know that the balance is never perfect, and is often wildly off, but there has been a strain of "we're trying" for a long time. And like any of us, all of whom are flawed, fallen people, "not perfect, but trying" is pretty damned good. When I see the country embracing "not perfect, and fuck you, we're proud of it," it saddens and angers me. My family members each sacrifice of themselves to help others, in many different ways. It is ingrained in them. I am proud of them. Nothing that a desperate, sad soul like you says can change the reality of who they are, what they believe, and how they act on those beliefs. I'm not perfect. I learn. I try. I fail. I try again. I am an American, and in my trying, failing, and trying again -- and learning and getting better -- I am like America. Or at least, like she was. And I hope, like she can be again.
  7. Bingo. There are now absolutely zero "public projects" that do not have as their SOLE purpose funneling wealth to favored people. It's not mostly grift, it's ALL grift. All of it.
  8. I can do that for you. It says "Lay's."
  9. His existence really makes this point rather clearly: how much utter destruction and pain is wrought on society by men carrying so much pent-up self-hate because they can't bring themselves to just be true and authentic, and suck ALL the dicks? Seriously, the amount of damage done by sexually repressed self-loathing pieces of shit is immeasurable.
  10. ICE seems to be having a bit of trouble recruiting enough members of the new gestapo, so they're dropping their standards. We're about to see some next-level stormtroopers....
  11. Fuck yeah.
  12. Everything else is just noise. Russia will demand that Ukraine give up its territory. Ukraine will say no, our admin will say Ukraine is being unreasonable, and it all goes right back in the shitter again.
  13. Wealth. All you need is and So tell those medicare scammers to begone, you've already GOT a plan!
  14. Gosh...I wonder what the other technologies to make America healthy might be? Yeah....no, I don't wonder at all.
  15. Wait until they have the same "glitch" on the physical copy maintained at the National Archives.
  16. There are three demos at Hobby Lobby: - children getting art supplies and such (this is probably what he was after, because church leader) - middle-aged women/moms who got into "scrapbooking" or some other craft-y thing that has them buying supplies there - old ladies buying throw pillows and candles and shit Demo 1 is illegal (so again, that's surely what he was there for), and demos 2 and 3....especially in Tulsa....are gonna be sad.
  17. Of the many awful, sad things about that story, "the dude was turned on by the talent at a Tulsa Hobby Lobby" may be among the saddest.
  18. Again, it's just another iteration, in practice, by a fucking GOVERNOR, of Wilhoit's Law: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." If you are a member of a group/race/ethnicity we (the MAGA government) doesn't like, then 1) they get to unilaterally declare that you're an illegal, and 2) disappear/deport/rendition you without you ever seeing a judge or anything of the sort. The flip-side, to fulfill Wilhoit's Law: you only get to see a judge and have the facts of your situation actually adjudicated if you aren't here illegally (a decision/status the MAGA government already made). TLDR; the only people who get due process are people the MAGA government has decided are entitled to due process. And there, above, I just wrote the opinion that Clarence Thomas will eventually write on a 6-3 vote.
  19. The awkward part is that whenever they have to hook up MIA for anything....an IV, chemo, even just taking a blood sample, he asks loudly with a creepy grin "CAN YOU DO THAT RECTALLY?" But I say to all of y'all "judge not lest ye be judged." Let MIA be MIA.
  20. ^^^ ...... in violation of a new Federal law sponsored by....this is fantastic....Ted Cruz. I'm sure the DOJ will get RIGHT ON enforcing the law here, right?
  21. "Beginning?"
  22. [googling more about Emily, who seems nice]
  23. I mean....are you new around here?
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