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Brisketexan

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  1. This thread has aged like fine milk. Laced with piss. Left in a hot car. In August. In Hell.
  2. And as all state workers are being ordered to come back to the office....where there is not even parking for all of those people (because TXDOT has had some workers working remotely for YEARS): https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/txdot-parking-austin-return-to-office-abbott-state-workers/269-dd7fbbb0-ed93-4233-8431-01f716c0980c
  3. You should ask 77 million Trump voters.
  4. Fantastic post, all the way around. We do not want to re-shore jobs stitching together Nikes or making plastic toy soldiers or screwing together small low-cost electronic components. Industry that implicates national security provides higher wage jobs (read: "manufacturing jobs that require a bunny suit and/or real technical training")? You bet. And there are ways to do that...... Bingo. Capital is much easier to attract than it is to compel. Because once you've held capital at gunpoint, it correctly fears that you'll do so again, so it is loathe to commit itself long-term. Imagine spotting an attractive girl in a bar. She's been talking to another guy. So, you walk up to her, pull a gun, and say "you're coming with me. You are going to move in with me, we're going to get married, and have a long and happy life together." She will most likely go with you right then, because....you fucking have her at gun point. But the minute she thinks she can get away -- not necessarily to run back to some other dude, but specifically to get away from YOU, the erratic psycho with a gun -- she will. And she ain't coming back. We are trying to force capital to do things that don't make long-term sense at gunpoint. The only way that has any chance of success is to keep the gun on them, 24/7 for eternity. And even then....they'll find ways to game the system and get as much as they can far away from the barrel of our gun. We're doing this the completely wrong way. Which is maddening, because the CHIPS act was an example of how to do it the right way. And nevermind how counterproductive this is when it comes to immigration. We want people from south of the border to stay home. The KEY way to get them to do so is to help their countries become stable and prosperous. So, what do we do? Undermine their whole economy because they all are -- Mexico, Honduras, everyone on earth -- "ripping us off." We're being "ripped off" by a country with a per capita income of $6,650. Jesus monkeyfuck, the stupidity.
  5. Of course, the fact that you equate a comment on a SOCIAL issue as a POLITICAL comment is a big part of the fucking problem. Politics is a trailing indicator of social function. And our current dominant social ethos is "fuck you, me me me." Yeah, that translates to politics, but importantly for society, it is most directly seen in utterly stupid shit like this event, people acting like entitled, selfish dicks on the road, in the grocery store, at school, everywhere. Commenting on that real-deal social issue isn't "politics"....although the fact that it's taken as slamming a particularly sensitive segment of our political landscape is telling in its own right. A kid is dead, and another life ruined, because of some really stupid decisionmaking - multiple layers of it, actually, at the very least starting with the decision to bring a fucking knife to a track meet. FFS, it's one of the reasons I preach against carrying a fucking gun everywhere you go - because then, every confrontation has a real chance of escalating into a gunfight, and that's always a bad outcome. But it may also include bad decisions beforehand if there was some sort of beef. Bad decisions in the heat of the moment if two 17 yr olds bowed up to each other over nothing. Hell if I know what the whole story is. I just know that in cases like this, it's often a layer cake of bad decisions that gets us to the ultimate bad outcome. And woven through all of them is a focus on self to the exclusion of evaluating the social purposes and consequences of our actions.
  6. "Future elections."
  7. Oh my sweet summer child. We are going to have to ride this ALL the way down. MAGA won't change. Note that every single MAGA bitching about what happens also has a "but I still support him," or "but I'd never vote for a dumbocrat" as their creed. MAGA has tapped into the world's largest reserve of stupidity, and it is limitless.
  8. Fine, I'll help out with what people are looking for...
  9. Navarro deserves to be thrown under a bus. And by "thrown under a bus," I mean, "hung upside down at an Esso station." He is a psychopathic moronic LIAR (seriously...he literally made up a key source in his book), and he has wiped out AN AMOUNT OF MONEY/WEALTH EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN THE ENTIRE US GDP ACROSS THE WORLD IN A FUCKING WEEK. The US annual GDP is around $28 trillion. Losses coming into today, globally, were nearly half that. After the beating the Asian markets took today, I would suspect we're just about there. If another nation state had caused this level of collapse, we would already be at war with them. Instead, we are doing it to ourselves, driven by fucking Navarro. He is currently winning the "worst human alive" sweepstakes (man, Elon has gotta be pissed about being bumped down to the bronze medal).
  10. "Before the president makes a big mistake based on bad math." Dude. Who in the FUCK do you think you're talking about? "Big mistakes" and "bad math" are the core of his very being. Nope, you fuckers hated uppity minorities and queers SO MUCH - about shit that really didn't even affect you, except you couldn't use slurs in the workplace - that you had to vote for Trump. And we hear talk of "kitchen table issues," which is things like prices, and income levels, and educational availability, and the ability to retire without having to eat cat food. NONE OF THOSE FUCKING MATTERED, AT ALL. IT WAS A LIE. And now, those people who SAID those things mattered ("muh price of eggs!") aren't going to have kitchen tables anymore, much less stuff to put on them. God we are so fucking dumbstupididioticmoronicgalacticallyfuckingstupid.
  11. But what this thread presupposes is....maybe the victim ISN'T really dead....
  12. you are wrong. BurntEyes and Twice are right. Using a deadly weapon clears the "intent to cause serious bodily injury" bar. And, he didn't just "use" it, he used it AS a deadly weapon, stabbing. If you stabbed someone, you 100% intended to cause serious bodily injury. Maybe you didn't start your day wanting to do so, but when you committed the actual act....come on, man. A self-defense argument might make more sense (if there are facts to back it up at all). But "I didn't intend to cause serious bodily injury when I took a knife and stabbed someone in the chest" is laughable.
  13. The admin will have him murdered in prison before they allow him to be returned. We are already disappearing people. If you think that systematic extermination of enemies of the regime isn't coming, you haven't ready a single history book.
  14. Bingo. The issue is not that we don't have jobs. The issue is that our entire economy has tilted in a way where the wealth those jobs created does not go to the people performing those jobs. That's it. "Bringing back" jobs sewing shoes together doesn't fix that problem. It doesn't even scratch the surface. This admin defined the problem wrong, measured it wrong, and came up with a "fix" that is SO wrong...it's not just wrong because they're trying to fix the wrong problem, it's wrong even if they defined the problem correctly. God we are so fucked.
  15. "Going all South Korea" isn't going to get it done. The only solution will be some version of going all Romania 1989. A madman has taken the country and world hostage, and is destroying both in massive fell swoops. This ends in either the death of this regime, or the death of millions. Maybe both. History tells us so.
  16. 100%. Russia's goal has NEVER been "make Russia great." It has always been "make everyone else rubble, and then Russia's wooden shacks with no heat or indoor plumbing will seem luxurious in comparison." Russia is getting everything it ever wanted, and more, on a silver platter, served up by the most evil, moronic leader the world has ever seen.
  17. Well, I have good news and bad news, then. We have identified the problem. But, ummm, there is no solving it. Stupid has won. It has won completely and totally, and there is no going back. We have to ride this ALL the way down. At this point, hoping that we don't end up in a nuclear conflict with someone for absolutely no fucking reason is where we need to place our hope. But I wouldn't hope too hard.
  18. Nobody. Thus my point. You have no idea how bad this is going to get. It's all on the table. The worst-worst case scenarios? All on the table. All the way up to unprovoked use of nuclear weapons. A fucking insane person has the keys to....everything. And anyone who has the power to stop him has chosen, instead, to DEPEND on him for power. Perhaps you missed my newsletter "HOLY FUCKING SHIT IT'S EVEN WORSE THAN I PREDICTED AND IT'S GOING TO GET EVEN WORSE."
  19. There is no winning over the stupid. The only way to get them is to go MORE stupid. It's a race to the bottom. And the trophy is the death of the Republic. Stupid won. It's over.
  20. Yes. They should stop voting for a madman intent on destroying America because Fox News told them a trans person plays volleyball. Yes, that is 100% what we are saying.
  21. BECAUSE IT IS A FUCKING DOOMSDAY CULT.
  22. This. He has to be stopped, and now. It is not an overstatement to say that the survival of humanity is at stake.
  23. Those are both spot-on, and absolutely correct. This regime is not just on "the path to perfect lawlessness." It has arrived at the destination, unpacked, and made itself right at home.
  24. You order a senior immigration official responsible for the action to appear in court for a "show cause" hearing, and you jail them until they comply.
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