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Fall doesn't start in September. BUT, the first "cool spell" that knocks it below 90 degrees for a few days does. Now, as a dove hunter, I am pretty familiar with when that happens. It used to be around the 19th-20th of September. Now, it's about a week later, generally the 25th-26th. And it lasts about 2.5-3 days. But yeah....it's not until the 20th of Oct or so that we can usually say "summer heat is over." It can still be hot, but generally not "summer hot."
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Yep. I mean, I agree, it's insane to turn "pedophiles are bad" into a blindingly bright political issue....but that ship fucking SAILED. It was the SS Stupidity captained by Captain Dipshit McIdiot, but it sailed nonetheless. So, that's the kind of issue it is now. And it turns out that....in keeping with the theme of the times, with almost zero variation...."every accusation is a confession."
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The show was at MSG in NY, so we'd just had a coupla slices of pizza for dinner before hand. So it's not out of the question. Front of my shirt. Always on the front of my shirt. Or if I'm dressed for work, on my tie. My million-dollar idea is a tie made with a pattern of food stains, so whatever you do, it blends in. Have you seen the kind of people into the swinger scene? I'm right in the middle of that bell curve, looks-wise. And I ain't pretty.
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Wife and I sat next to the director (Margaret Brown) at a concert a coupla years ago. She found out we were from Austin, and wanted to talk to us about her project. She seemed rather impressed with herself and her work. And when she asked us about our memory and thoughts on the murders (we were here in Austin at the time, and recall it well)....she wasn't very interested in hearing our thoughts. I'll still check it out if I get the chance.
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It'll go deep, and long.....
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Those are indeed the two alternatives, "winning," and "making a tremendous deal" (understanding that "winning" can be achieved by "ending this stupid war" by "making a tremendous deal" -- see the insane recent statements in recent weeks about ending 5 or 6 wars). We'll see which alternative plays out.
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You forget that what Trump needs is not votes. It's worship and adulation, trying to fill the void in him that can never actually be filled. Our nation, and the world, will end up in flames, all because Trump's daddy didn't love him enough, and everything Trump has done has been to try to fill that black hole of approval and love that is impossible to fill via external sources. The world undone because of one man's psychosis. It's amazing. So, Trump still needs Cletus to show up at rallies telling Trump he's God. He'll buy Cletus's affection. That's his M.O., and he has never strayed from it.
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Bullshit. Cletus is white, and a Trump voter. There is a 100% chance that the admin and lapdog Congress will pass some sort of "True American Patriot Support" program to keep sending Cletus money so he can continue to buy meth and shitty processed food from Dollar General instead of getting a job. So Cletus can sit on the porch of his busted-ass trailer, high and eating cheetos while wearing his MAGA hat, while bitching about all those lazy goddamned mexicans taking our jobs.
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Yes, it's stupid. Yes, there's no sane reason that Ukraine would agree to it. Yes, there's no way that Putin would abide by it if the DID agree to it. So, there's a nearly 100% chance that our, umm, leadership....is going to insist that Ukraine agree to this "tremendously fair deal," and when they don't, punish them by withholding weapons or somesuch.
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Man. Drag queens are the worst, amirite?
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Brisketexan replied to Hagbard Celine's topic in Daily Texan
Your recent turn to somehow supporting everything this regime does more than tips the scale. At least I never lied about what I was. “Libertarian.” Somehow being relentlessly suppine for an authoritarian. That lie will never get old. -
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Oh, the projection. Mr “burn it all down” over the course of a decade plus disclaims any responsibility for…it all burning down. Fantastic. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
That’s a shame. -
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Brisketexan replied to Hagbard Celine's topic in Daily Texan
Naah. Only absurd suffering and likely bloodshed will fix it. But the reality is that once that happens, there is no "fixing it." It's over. You got what you wanted, Sheeeit got what he wanted. It's done. There is no governing this country any more. There is no concept of the common good, struggling though it might be. There is only power, and exploitation, and the idiots who enable it thinking it's somehow good for them when "other people" suffer. You know the scene from Force 10 from Navarone, when the Brit demo guy has set off his charges deep inside the dam? Nice boom. But nothing happens. His colleagues despair - their mission failed. He calmly puffs on his pipe. The dam was destroyed when he set the charges off. It just took some time for he cracks to spread enough to cause total, catastrophic failure. Our charges were finally detonated when we went irrevocably down the Trumpism road. There's only one ending, and its inevitable. The whole thing fails. You wanted it. You got it. You won. The human suffering we're going to experience for decades to come, until long past the end of the natural lifespan of most all posters on this board, will tell you it's working. Don't worry. We've just seen the leading edges of how cruel this country can be. -
Man....I miss YGIFS.
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Brisketexan replied to Hagbard Celine's topic in Daily Texan
The "pendulum swinging" has next to nothing to do with actual policy and control of the borders. Again, but louder this time, because you can't seem to hear it: THE PARTY THAT IS SCREAMING THE LOUDEST ABOUT SECURING OUR BORDERS HAS SPENT THE BETTER PART OF THE LAST 20 YEARS MAKING SURE WE DON'T DO A SINGLE FUCKING THING TO IMPLEMENT ANY REASONABLE SOLUTIONS. Every single possible solution....they've torpedoed. FFS, this current iteration of the party stabbed noted libtard....GWB....in the back when he tried to implement perfectly reasonable approaches to immigration. The primary reason that our system can be characterized as "broken" is because the very people shouting about how broken it is...ensured that it broke and kept breaking, because brown people were much, much, MUCH too valuable to use as a political tool and expendable target for utter cruelty to actually solve any policy issue. This is not about controlling our borders. It never, ever has been. It is about nativist xenophobia as a tool of political manipulation. Tale as old as time. Fuck, you can read the exact same shit in newspapers from 140 years ago, just plug in "dirty mexicans" for "filthy irish" and such. The Chinese Exclusion Act wasn't about "controlling our borders" - it was about nativist racist bullshit. Stop giving nativist racism the cloak of legitimacy. If these people gave a single fuck about fixing our system, they wouldn't have opposed every single effort to address the issue for the past quarter century. -
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Said the man commenting on the flaws of the SDP when the Nazis rose to power -- "it's shocking that reasonably intelligent people actually think that one side (the SDP or Nazis) is more virtuous than the other." One is. The one that wants to end our Republic for good is the bad guy here. The one engaging in fucking everything we spent the last 50 years almost uniformly saying was "yeah, that would be some bad authoritarian bullshit" is the less virtuous party. Degree fucking matters. Nobody here ever claimed the opposition were angels, without flaw. But FFS, if you don't see the difference in degree, you are either lying to yourself or lying to us. Either way, take your bullshit and fuck all the way off. -
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No. Because I have a personal history with Jacinda Ardern. And I really don't want to talk about it here. Wounds are still too fresh. But I've also got kids who have had to navigate the immigration and visa process in, collectively, 4 different countries (with overlap between them in the UK and Germany). It's a hassle anywhere you go....but FFS, so is getting a driver's license here. It's navigable, and not unreasonable in the countries we have experience with....it's much harder here. Of course, this current regime also launched an effort to try to "de-citizen" people like my father, who were born in hospitals along the border back when records were not meticulously kept. So, fuck this regime. But, to the bigger "fix immigration" topic, it's been hashed and rehashed 10,000 times here and elsewhere. We don't have to reinvent the wheel. We've had a quite functional system in the past, with guest worker programs, all sorts of common-sense mechanisms. And now, in an age of electronic processing and payment, it should be even EASIER. We haven't done so, because we have zero interest in doing so. Because, for the 10,000th time....it's not about a system of laws and rules and good policy outcomes. It's about nativism, xenophobia, and nationalist/race-based division exploited for political gain and the joy and easy political tool of human cruelty. The cruelty and the suffering is the point. It's the entire point. Everything else is tissue-paper-thin window-dressing. -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Brisketexan replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
Yeah. Under Biden, the J6 insurrectionists were prosecuted. Sure, they had full access to counsel, had trials, all that stuff, but you know, they were PROSECUTED, so....you know, "both sides." -
Sigh. You probably don't even indulge in gas station gustation. I am among philistines.
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Brisketexan replied to Hagbard Celine's topic in Daily Texan
Except 1) we aren't even doing that (we have blown all the way past "we're just concerned about people who broke the law), and 2) as has been discussed re immigration eleventy billion times, when you purposefully create a broken system, human nature and the laws of economics will go right around it, as they should when the laws are absurdly stupid. Set the highway speed limit at 10 mph, and all you'll do is create an infinitely large class of "illegal drivers." Attacking the problem by.....prosecuting every last person who drove at 11 mph or greater on the highway....is abject stupidity. Libertarians understand and understood that. FFS, Ronald F'n Reagan understood that. But we live in an era where 1) we actively work to have stupid and terrible immigration laws, 2) we then take the position that the most important thing is....to FULLY ENFORCE those actively stupid and terrible laws, and 3) oh nevermind, it's not about the laws anyway, we're going to arrest people following our current laws (as stupid as they are), arbitrarily change the law/status to criminalize hundreds of thousands of people who the second before that happened were indeed here legally, oh and we're also going to just say fuck all and repeal birthright citizenship. Because....it's not about "follow the rules." It never, ever, ever was. It's about nativist xenophobic idiocy to rile up the idiotic masses. Which worked. See posts above. -
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TLDR; "Both sides," which - and this is the most important outcome of that approach -- justifies and excuses every. single. thing. the current admin does. I can be plenty critical of the prior administration, of every admin we've ever had, on any number of issues. I've never claimed that Biden's record on immigration was a smashing success, but I also know that 1) the "let in massive amounts of fentanyl" is a lie (almost all fentanyl comes in at actual ports of entry (not sneaking across the river and whatnot), most of it has historically come from China, and most of the smugglers of fentanyl at land ports are . . . US citizens). I also know that the Biden admin and Dem allies actually worked to pass meaningful legislation on the issue.....which Trump and his toadies purposefully killed to keep the issue alive to campaign on. And I also know that the language and purpose behind "ZOMG immigration is the debil!" has next to nothing to do with fentanyl or humanitarian issues or ANYTHING but "purifying the blood of our country," and I also know that it has next to nothing to do with "just do it the right way and don't break the law, this is just about ILLEGAL immigration" because 1) they have blown right past that and are arresting people who are following the law to the letter (e.g., showing up at their immigration hearings), 2) they are YANKING legal status away from hundreds of thousands of people who are presently here legally, and 3) they are flat-out banning birthright citizenship. Come on. It's a racist, xenophobic movement. It uses "drugs and crime" as the thinnest of veneers. What it is, all the way through, is nativist, xenophobic bullshit, and you've bought into it because you AGREE WITH IT. -
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And there it is, folks. "Both sides" at its best. See, Dems have told lies before. Therefore, dismiss the fact that the current regime is engaged in an unprecedented campaign to use the full force of the US government to 1) promulgate absolutely false information, and 2) squash dissent. FFS, he fired the head of the BLS because the BLS reported numbers using the exact same data and methodology it has used for decades, he just didn't like those numbers....so he's going to appoint toadies who will only produce the false info that pleases him. But, you know...."both sides." As for "both sides will rally around their leader," no, that's fucking insane. Just look at the Epstein files situation happening right this second. The party that fucking CAMPAIGNED on releasing them, intimating that they would reveal the great dem pedophile cabal, has now closed ranks to protect them. And they have the gall to tell dems "oh yeah, you won't like it -- Bill Clinton and such are in there." Almost all non-MAGAS say "cool! Release them, let the chips fall where they may! If there are dem bad guys, hang 'em too!" Fuck this false equivalency shit. They hypocrisy of the right and its gymnastics to justify all manner of misdeeds is unmatched in American history. And you can't help but beclown yourself in service to the cause. -
Goddamned nanny state Florida! MUH FREEDUMBS!
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Brisketexan replied to Hagbard Celine's topic in Daily Texan
And you're still off (from your own source): Migrants in ICE detention Data current through August 1, 2025 56,579 29.1% with criminal convictions 24.7% with pending criminal charges 46.8% listed as "other immigration violator" 11.9% fast-tracked for deportation So, here's why your numbers continue to be fucked. The 56k are ONLY the relatively small number that are currently in ICE detention (that is, it doesn't account for those already deported - which looks to be (estimates vary) around twice as many (in the 90-120k range). Second, the "with criminal convictions" (making up that 29%) includes....literally everything, including traffic violations. I have such a criminal conviction, I suspect that you do too...I suspect that 95%+ of the posters on here do. We aren't dangerous criminals, and neither is Jose who got a ticket for going 60 in a 55 on the way to his landscaping job. Third, the "435,0000 immigrants with criminal convictions" has the same flaw -- it includes traffic violations. The bogeyman you love -- immigrants are disproportionately rapists and murderers and such -- has been proven wrong so many times it's not worth fucking going over it again. Suffice it to say that STATISTICALLY, if I put your family in a room with 1000 random non-citizen immigrants, and then in a room with 1000 random US citizens, they will be exposed to MORE violent criminals in the room full of American citizens. US citizens are more likely to be violent criminals than immigrants are. Want to crack down on violent criminals? Then crack down on violent criminals. A victim doesn't much care about the immigration status of the person who rapes/murders them. Go after bad guys. This admin isn't doing that, and you know it. You know exactly what is happening, and why it is happening. It's about "purifying the blood of our country" (when these people tell you EXACTLY why they are doing something, you don't get to pretend they didn't say it). And you are good with that. Because a whiter America is a better America. Own it. Own what you are. Wear it proudly. Quit trying to be clever - you're not.- 438 replies
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