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Brisketexan

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  1. We are pissant shits compared to the Baltics. Those people have recent memory of what actual suffering and oppression looks like. We threw away nearly a century of progress because we thought the president was responsible for the middling price of eggs.
  2. Bin-fucking-go.
  3. And.....this. More than anything else, this. We have blown it all up, pissed it all away. EIGHTY FUCKING YEARS of post-war leadership and the prosperity that comes with it, poof, gone. AND FOR NO FUCKING REASON. A perfect summary from that piece:
  4. Huh. My old man was offered the job (heading up the SPR) like 25 years ago. He'd have been quite good at it. On a gov't salary. But, I mean, that's STUPID....where's the grift in that?
  5. Fabulous. Love that book. Isn't it pretty to think so?
  6. GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
  7. Melded to a tire, we presume.
  8. Cool. Do you think the new FDA leadership won't be as or more "politicized," as that is the exact term you used to convey the reason for your dislike of Marks?
  9. See the Economist piece I clipped on the CR thread -- the best strategy for the rest of the world is to 1) accelerate disengagement from trade with the US to the largest extent possible, and 2) seek new, rational trading partners/relationships to fill the gap. The US economy is big, but on the actual global scale, not so big that it can't be somewhat isolated, with engagement reduced to the bare minimum. A trade war is not the best play for the rest of the world. Slowly walking away is a much better play.
  10. I feel seen.
  11. Texans are like the majority of votes in every other jurisdiction in that they are voting for one thing, and one thing only: inflicting pain. They don't vote for policies, or ideas. They vote for the promise of hurting other people. The entire creed of the GQP is "we will hurt the 'other'....for YOU!" That's it. Every single thing they market themselves with comes down to that end point. Promise to hurt people. Keep your promise, and hurt people. Those are the keys to victory. Take them, start the car, jam down on the gas pedal, and start fucking inflicting pain. That's how you win.
  12. Wonder. Imagine. Fervently wish. Let's not get persnickity over word choice here.
  13. Say what you will, but there is no arguing anything but the truth that Olivier Giroud is a pretty, pretty man.
  14. Yes, the actress is. But not the character of Simone. Simone is pure, she is the perfect well-meaning vacuous 80s bimbo. I believe in characters, man. Envelope yourself in the mystery of movie magic, amigos. Next thing you know, you're gonna tell me that Matthew Broderick isn't REALLY as cool as Ferris. Fucking buzzkills, all of ya!
  15. I'd give my left nut for national leadership as wise and measured as Simone:
  16. This unvarnished take/news alert just popped up on my screen: Some gem quotes from the article: "Profound, harmful, and unnecessary." "Deluded." "Flat-out nonsense." "Pathetic." "Catalogue of foolishness." THAT is how you journalism. But also look at the last paragraph, which is more matter-of-fact. It offers the rather obvious strategy for every other player in the game: start playing the game by treating the US as a relatively minor player (which, on a global scale, it is). Within 5 years, the rest of the world can undo the damage done to THEM, and be well on their way to a prosperity that really doesn't depend on the US at all. What Lord Dumbass doesn't realize is that another way for the other parties to deal with the new "trade balance" where Trump wants a big F you to all of them, we will buy ZERO from you....is for them to buy ZERO from us. We are not going to see increases of US exports to "make things even" with the (former) level of imports from other countries. Instead, as his policies result in lowering imports from other countries, we will reach a new balance (a low one) because we will also see drastically lower EXPORTS to those countries. Bottom line, to the extent that elements of our economy are driven by selling things to other countries....be prepared for that to dry the fuck up. Like a kid on the playground who screams and hollers and smears shit everywhere if he doesn't get his way, the best and most obvious path forward for the other kids is to just go play without us. Sure, we sneer and say "but we have the best toys, and now you can't play with them." The other kids shrug, gather up the toys they do have, and leave us the fuck behind. Because we're a little fucking spoiled asshole, and literally everyone else on the playground will be better off to leave us to stew in our own shit rather than have to deal with us any longer.
  17. Yep. And man, I've confessed my youthful stupidity -- "trickle down economics" as a hypothesis appealed to my younger, not fully informed brain. BUT....I then got the experience of watching us try it in multiple iterations over the past decades. And like someone observing attempt after attempt at making a working flapping flying machine..... I keenly spotted the results and concluded "well, guess I was wrong. That doesn't work." I'm sure I was dumb for buying into the hypothesis. But once the experiment was run....repeatedly....demonstrating that the hypothesis is incorrect...I'd have to be dumber than dumb AND a psychopath for thinking it still should work. Yet, instead of reaching that conclusion.....we're deciding "hey, the reason our flapping flying machine didn't work is because we started off too low to the ground. Let's climb up that 1,000 foot cliff, and jump off from there!" The fucking impact with the ground is gonna be brutal.
  18. Yeah.....we're going to try the absolute WORST version of trickle down, because all of the last failures were because....we didn't fuck up hard enough. Goddammit we are so fucking stupid.
  19. Dude.....too soon....in EVERY possible way/context.
  20. And a whole lot of this. Look, the American voter responds to promises of punishment and vengeance. Cool. We need an opposition party to run on that. Win. And then fucking DELIVER. The rules of the game are now "use the full power of the office/the government to inflict maximum pain on everyone you disfavor." So, let's fucking PLAY BALL.
  21. No, see, when people are responding to the first ongoing, novel global pandemic in over a century, any after-the-fact criticism should subject them to the death penalty. But when they are under minimal pressure, and are simply choosing to cripple all vaccinations, vaccination programs, etc.....well, that's not politicization at all, that's just good stuff. Did you not get the memo? If RFK Jr. does it, it's good. Period.
  22. I mean....imagine this: 1) You are the world's richest man. You can pretty much have any woman/women you want. You can have 10 at the same time. There are no limits. 2) But your fucking dick is broken. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! I fucking LOVE this for Elon. Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.
  23. Yep. And they served some blue drink called the Skaggs Alpha Beta. Was it any good? I have no idea. Did women dig it, and then make bad decisions, and was college Brisket a bad decision? Yes on all counts.
  24. But....amp up the hate and contempt. No, MORE than that. MORE.
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