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Brisketexan

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  1. Also a bingo. Reliability and certainty - which are hallmarks of Rule of Law countries - are a huge part of why those countries prosper, compared to countries without such reliability and certainty. If you want to see a country and its economy crumble to dust functionally overnight (in a matter of months), we're doing exactly what you'd want to do to bring about that outcome. When the Rule of Law goes away, everything else collapses. Well, except for the wealth of the super-elite at the very top. We then look like every other klepto state, with a few rich super-oligarchs, and the rest of us hoping to steal a toilet someday.
  2. For the record, dude....this is not a real agency:
  3. No. Because see how Roberts has only partially neutered the SCOTUS: if a Republican president does something, SCOTUS will allow it to continue unless and until it decides the action is illegal (which they won't do)...if a Dem president does something, SCOTUS will promptly enjoin the action until it can decide whether it's legal. In any case, Roberts is the worst chief justice in history, because he has presided over the institution of the Supreme Court becoming completely irrelevant. He made the Court obsolete.
  4. It's not any more complicated than that. That's not quite correct. We are rapidly approaching the point where the only limit on the number of Americans they can black bag and ship to a foreign gulag is the operation of the Second Amendment. All the shit that the right-wingers used to masturbate about, jacking off to the idea of using their guns to resist an authoritarian state? Well, it's here. Fascinating that the liberty and "constitution-loving" right wingers are dead quiet now. Huh. Guess it was never about actual liberty or the constitution at all. If you don't possess a firearm now, you should probably remedy that situation quickly.
  5. I agree. Which means I'm right -- it's over. The Rule of Law is officially and completely dead. Because the thing about the Rule of Law is, for it to work, it cannot just be what the public thinks at a given moment. There have to be bedrock -- follow me here -- RULES. That are enforced, and stand regardless of the political winds at the moment. I'm a grown-ass man, I've never had any illusion that the Rule of Law is immune to political pressure, isn't shaped by it, etc. But it HAS BEEN something that stood as a foundation and thus contrary to public opinion. If "the Rule of Law" in the US is now just mob rule in the moment, then yeah....I am right. It's over. You should obtain and learn to use a firearm, and quickly. Because that's the only rule left.
  6. The speed with which we went from "the leader of the free world" to "just fine with disappearing our own citizens for any reason at all and with zero due process" surprises even me, the doom-and-gloom cynic. I grew up where we made fun of and looked down on countries that would disappear their people to gulags with no recourse. Now, we gleefully plunge headlong into being one of those countries, and our fellow countrymen are its biggest cheerleaders. I said it on here earlier, and it's only becoming clearer: it's getting real close to the point where every single person in this country should arm themselves, and make a deliberate decision of whether they will go quietly if/when federal forces try to grab them. When you extinguish the Rule of Law -- which disappearing people to a foreign prison with no due process and no way out absolutely does -- then you opt into a different set of rules. Everyone should at least consider whether they are going to have to play by them.
  7. Trump. Is telling us. What he will do. It is flatly illegal, and he is fucking coming for you. Dead fucking serious, he is coming for American citizens, no due process, black-bagged and shoved into a foreign prison beyond the reach of the law before sundown the day you're grabbed. And remember, every single fucking Trumpkin, including every one of his supporters/enablers around here, is okay with it. They are okay with the Regime disappearing Americans with whom it disagrees. Trumpkins are fucking fascist authoritarians, and are enemies of all free people - or people who would be free. We're going to have to fight for it, and filing papers in courts ain't gonna get it done anymore. We are outside the Rule of Law now.
  8. Oh....so you DO know how custom homebuilders operate. Insurance is it. That's the sole asset and recourse here. Maybe the builder had it (should have...but there's all kinds of stuff that custom homebuilders SHOULD do, but don't do)....maybe they didn't. That's why you call YOUR home insurer. You ain't gonna untangle all that mess. Let USAA's legal team deal with it.
  9. Sir, this besmirching the reputation of genuine practitioners of clownal and harlequinnish arts will not stand.
  10. @Ojo Rojo, please share with us how we're reading this all wrong, and how we aren't now a full-on authoritarian state that allows the Regime to ship anyone they want to a foreign prison with no due process and no recourse once they are imprisoned there.
  11. You haven't lived till you've been on a cheaply sourced Chinese spaceflight delivered to you overnight by an Amazon Prime delivery driver working a 20 hour shift.
  12. Remember how the entire GQP movement had a multi-year hissy fit about "PEDOPHILES! CHILD TRAFFICKING! RAPE!"? I remember. Amazingly, they seem to have forgotten - overnight - that those things are a big deal. Huh. It's a mystery as to why.
  13. Fucking. THIS. Economic effects of a global economy and factors outside of the Executive's control? BLAME BIDEN. Economic effects caused SOLELY by the erratic, mercurial, juvenile, and pointless acts of the Executive, and the Executive alone? CRICKETS CHIRPING.
  14. The boy texted us today to 1) confess that these have been his go-to freezer snack after coming home from drinking for several months and 2) to lament that they've just been recalled because they contain plastic. I'm confident that the plastic in them is the healthiest thing about them.
  15. Meanwhile, this fuckhead is actively tanking the dollar. It was $1.23 when he took office. Now up to $1.32. I was hoping for $1.28 or better before I buy my next traunch of GBPs. At this rate, fuck it, I'm hosed. The strongest currency in the world....and he's fucking strangling it and holding its head underwater. Because....reasons.
  16. Ho-hum. Just more stochastic terrorism. But you know what the REAL problem is? People writing op-eds saying "maybe don't genocide Palestinians" and people boycotting buying Teslas.
  17. Here's a thought: there is no written agreement. It was entirely verbal, we shipped Bukele cash and prisoners, he agreed to take them. There, those are the entire terms of the agreement. I genuinely think that may be the case. And yes, an agreement to ship people detained in the US to a foreign power is not and cannot be "classified," because of its inherent due process/constitutional implications. Again, that same "agreement" could be utilized (and will be -- the admin has said as much) to snatch you, me, or anyone else off the street and have us in a foreign prison before anyone even knows we're missing. Hell fucking no -- that agreement cannot be deemed classified.
  18. They may have the liability....but that's for your insurance company to pursue, not you. That is, if you're interested in small things like getting hour house restored to livable condition any time soon. You turn the claim into your insurer, and it's up to them to go after the responsible party. And this. And of course, you don't know the policy limits for any of them. Wouldn't surprise me to have limits of $1 million, and with the number of homes damaged and the degree of damage....wouldn't surprise me to see that entire amount exhausted pretty quickly. The damage to TK's house is probably in the 6 figures, easily. And that's just one house.
  19. Sigh. Our value skyrocketed from 2021 to 2022. Then it dropped a bit in 2023, and a good drop in 2024. Now? Almost exactly back to where it was in 2023, about a 7% increase. We’ll protest. We’ll see what happens.
  20. Fucking pinche Tik Tokkers, thinking they invented shit that Texas messicans have been doing since the goddamned invention of fire. This shit is almost as bad as whatever epic dumbass coined the phrase "Austin-style breakfast tacos." Fucking hell. A kabillion Texas messicans are looking at all this shit and thinking "FFS, I had that for dinner on random Tuesdays in 1977 on a regular gotdamn basis."
  21. Bingo. How we can't do the simple math of "a state actor that has openly rooted for the United States and the West to fall into decline and lose power and influence - and still does - wants the US and the West to do X. That state actor is conducting numerous activities to accomplish X. SO....we should probably do all we can to AVOID X, BECAUSE X IS WHAT OUR ENEMY WANTS"....well, it still blows me away. If Russia genuinely wants us to do something, that should be enough to convince us "nope, we shouldn't do that." Instead, one of our two parties - ironically, the one that built a reputation on RESISTING Russian efforts to fuck with the US - is now all-in on doing exactly what Russia fucking wants, to the fucking letter. For the millionth time, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
  22. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    But…I mean…the mouse is ok. So, there’s that. Horribad, across the board. No bright spots. Even Dani’s shot from distance, just emphasized that it’s about the only kinda shot he takes.
  23. Bingo. Stop overthinking this shit. This is the play. They even told us they’ll run it. The only defense left is lead. Once they grab you, it’s over. So your only choice is not to let them grab you. That’s where we are.
  24. Now This is the content we came here for.
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