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Brisketexan

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  1. Geez. It's like you guys don't know when to hit suburban/nice urban HEBs at the right time, when the yoga pants mafia - many of whom you know - has finished their workout and needs to hit the store for a few things. If you can't enjoy that, your life is a joyless existence.
  2. FIF accuracy. You damned well know that "maybe not" isn't even on the table as a possibility anymore.
  3. Pretty sure that exact market, or one nearby (it was in NYC) is where my daughter did her first real "bargaining." She was 13, on an NHS trip. They went into some sketchy-ass shop, and one of her friends wanted a knockoff Coach bag. Guy wanted $50. They talked him down to $40, he wouldn't budget. My daughter tells her friend "we're walking." As they walk out, he says "wait, I'll do $30." She turns and says "$20 or we're outta here." Her friend got it for $20, and she called us that night so proud, talking about how her inner mexican mercado kid shined through. We were amused.
  4. Oh, we get it. And we look to historical precedent, which matches up. We KNOW that the masses won't actually become alarmed until it's much, much, much too late. When the regime starts killing their friends and neighbors, that sort of thing. That's what gets Ollie Oblivious to go "what the hell? That's some bullshit." But by then.....it's been too late for a long fucking time. We know how this is going to go, and the toll that it will levy. That's why those of us who ARE aware are so fucking pissed. We see it happening. We know what's going to happen. And we have zero chance of stopping it. Then, when it's as bad as it can be, we'll have to deal with these fuckheads actually saying "why didn't someone say/do something?" Oh for fuck's sake.
  5. Matt's is....fine. Molina's is....fine [interesting note: it was the first restaurant I ever went to. Mom took me as a 6 week old baby] Los Tios is....fine (although that puffy queso thing is awesome). Tex-mex is one of those foods that can be done "fine" pretty easily, and plenty of places pull it off. Shit, my wife loves La Mancha. Which is....fine.
  6. And a stack of Highlights magazines. Oh, what trouble will that Goofus get into THIS time?
  7. Or doing fascist shit in general. Like in the 5th circuit, if the defendant is a cop who was cracking skulls? QUALIFIED IMMUNITY. But if the official was a non-partisan board member who voted for a policy to maybe not treat people like shit, THAT'S A VIOLATION OF THE LAW, NO QUALIFIED IMMUNITY. You could ask me how I know, but judge Edith Jones would do a much better job of explaining how that super-serious and very real distinction isn't arbitrary at all, for reasons.
  8. We're willing to erase the Constitution and end the Republic because of it, so it seems like it's pretty serious business. LAW AND ORDER! (Just don't look at the never-ending parade of bribes and shit and flouting the law from the admin. No, what's really a grave threat is a fake Coach purse).
  9. Gosh. Is there any better, more enticing word to describe a sandwich than "wet?" Yeah, I didn't think so.
  10. Bingo. There's facts and logic and experience.....and then there's dirty mexicans and queers and that one trans kid who played badminton in Michigan. GOTTA VOTE AGAINST WOKE!!!! These people are scum. All of them. They may have a moment of clarity, but don't worry -- it will pass. You can't overcome the lizard-brained hatred for others, the conclusion that the only valid policies for anything are those that hurt people, that dominates their thinking. It's too much, it cannot be overcome.
  11. Don't worry. On the WAY off-chance that there's ever a Dem president again, they'll dial it WAY back....tied to the specific facts of that presidency or somesuch. But yeah, as long as the POTUS is GQP, they intend for him to have greater powers than any king. Seriously, check out the fucking Magna Carta, the goddamned English king had more restraints on his power than Trump does.
  12. This is where it all breaks down, because what we've seen is "fuck no they don't." Most people just want to hurt other people, thinking that's the pathway to advantages for themselves. The social contract is not only disposable, it's an impediment to our actual American ethos. A contract has mutuality. Most people don't want that, they don't want anything even close to it. They want "rules for thee, not for me." And they are getting it, in its purest form. They're just too stupid to realize that in every such scenario, almost all the people who THINK they're in the "me" group are actually in the "thee" group.
  13. Emphasis on the "now."
  14. "They're also fucking assholes" isn't a stellar defense.
  15. Wait till he says that about Americans who disagree with him. You probably won't have to take long. Fortunately, he doesn't have anything to worry about, as he has complete "presidential immunity." Declare everyone who opposes the MAGA agenda to be a terrorist, then "perform the duties of the office of President" by killing all of those people, and he won't even have to break a sweat.
  16. Arch began by boycotting accurate passes some weeks ago. He's a real forward thinker.
  17. Or while watching ummmm....a documentary....
  18. Or, you know, maybe just start with realizing that some poor people who buy a coffee in addition to the sparse food and clothing they buy aren't the ones fucking us all over -- oligarchs and a government that has now gone all-in on a fascist oligarchy are. First, identify the problem. Then your menu of solutions can be targeted. You're focused on some gal on SNAP who bought a frappucino. And you look right past the POTUS's son reaping tens of millions on government drone contracts, and pardons of people who literally laundered money for Al Qaeda being sold for a billion or two in crypto investment in the POTUS's crypto venture, or all of the oligarchs who are now married to the government pursuing maximum dollar extraction from the people with not only zero gov't oversight, but actual government assistance in that mission. Turn your fucking head and see the monster that's right fucking there.
  19. Why? No rules, norms, morality, or ethics apply to or bind Republicans. So, it's a non-story.
  20. Gee. If only we had any data to look at on that issue. Wait, what's that, the past 4 decades provide dead-on data showing huge gains in productivity, with nearly zero of that benefit going to workers, and nearly all of it going to the top 1%? Well golly gee, will wonders never cease?
  21. Make them watch every offensive series of the Texas-Kentucky game on repeat?
  22. Man.....and I was just looking into Lockeed's "December to Remember" promotion....slap one of these bad boys on top, and the wife will swoon:
  23. You ignorant piece of shit. ALL THAT YOU ARE is a consumer of Starbucks, cigs, entertainment, all of it. It is your sole purpose for existence, and the only value you bring to society. You are a resource, from which dollars are to be extracted. That's it, full stop. You have no rights, you have no independent dignity or value, other than the value you can deliver to the captive corporate machine. And yes, the irony is that much of that is circular (the government extracts tax dollars, distributes them to people and enterprises, so those people and enterprises can spend them on goods and services to enrich oligarchs). See any echoes of that in the current AI investment infrastructure, where outfits like Nvidia are financing enterprises that will purchase their chips? Hmmmmm.....wonder where they got that model? Stop thinking that we the people have any agency or value in this system. We are simultaneously the product from which value should be extracted, and cost-centers that should be eliminated. The irreconcilable tension between those two things has injected insanity into the system, and it's breaking down. But that doesn't matter. Profit must be made until the last piece of rubble hits the ground. And you go along with it. Because you blame the people who don't have a pot to piss in, instead of the people who built and control the whole fucking system. You fucking idiot.
  24. The problem is how fascism works, and how we are in the end-game now. One of the key elements is to (1) create oligopolies that cannot be avoided, and (2) intertwine them with the government. An super effective tactic would be to boycott all the companies that donated to Trump's vanity project ballroom. Here they are: Altria Group Amazon Apple Booz Allen Hamilton Caterpillar Coinbase Comcast Hard Rock International Google HP Lockheed Martin Meta Micron Technology Microsoft NextEra Energy Palantir Technologies Ripple Reynolds American T-Mobile Tether Union Pacific Railroad Good luck boycotting all of them. I'm typing on a computer with a MS operating system. My phone is an Apple. My internet provider at the office is Comcast. My printer is an HP. I am consuming electricity generated (in part, because of how ERCOT works) by NextEra. Half the goods I have in front of me and will buy this week traveled via Union Pacific shipping. I have no choice. These massive, functional monopolies/oligopolies completely occupy multiple layers of necessary functions for everyday life and business. You CAN'T turn away, you CAN'T punish them....because there's nowhere else to turn. And that is by design. The fascist machinery has completed their task of creating a system where people do not own these businesses....the businesses own the people. And Trumpco, at the top, owns the businesses. He has demonstrated that he can, in an instant, deliver massive profits, or total destruction, to any of these enterprises. We the people have been delivered to the fascists on a silver platter.
  25. Counterpoint. The Rule of Law is dead. The new rule is "yeah, I just locked up your piece of shit gestapo troops. What are you gonna do about it?" What we need is for Trumpist Federal Forces to open fire on masses of civilians, state officials, or both. Make them go full fucking Fascist for all the nation and world to see. Force the issue. Make them show everyone EXACTLY what they are. We need to read some Ghandi on non violence. Make the brutal oppressor be brutal in the light of day. It works.
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