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Brisketexan

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  1. Two things... I miss Charlie Robison. Goddammit. And second....I will never NOT be madly in love with Kelly Willis. Man. She kills me.
  2. Tom Sawyer was spotted lounging, watching the National Guard do their thing....
  3. Sounds like someone doesn't Texas enough.
  4. Yeah, but they're mostly brown Americans. So, you know....not Americans.
  5. I mean, I gotta tell ya.....if I was a public figure who regularly spoke on matters of race, and at my memorial, there were numerous people mourning and praising me because of my persona and reputation built on the subject matter on which I spoke, and those are folks who ALSO did things like released an album called "Make America White Again," and sang songs in praise of lynchings, and there were a shitload of other folks chanting shit like "white men fight back" in my memory....well, my ghost would sure as FUCK be reconsidering my life and choices. Because if you lived your life in a way that white supremacists specifically mourn your death and use it as a rallying cry to their cause.....you PROBABLY lived your life in a really, really shitty way.
  6. They know that they were handed a thing to believe that relieves them of any and all responsibility to be a decent human in this life. All you have to do is declare "Jesus is my lord and savior," and you get floaty time to happyland. Doesn't matter how shitty you actually are. You just have to hold out your "BUT I'M A CHRISTIAN!" declaration like this: .....and you win! Heaven and clouds and harps and all that, while all the dirty athiets and muslims and race-mixers are stuck down here on earth, fighting! Why would you do any investigating/digging around when someone hands you a giftwrapped excuse to be a completely horrible human, but still get the greatest reward?
  7. We just had (1) a massive memorial for a right-wing "influencer" whose death (2) has been and is being used to galvanize people to hate "the left" and incite people to retributive violence against "the left" and "democrats." Because "left wing violence" is the greatest threat our country has ever faced . . . even though MAGA is having a hard time cobbling together a narrative about the shooter that makes him a "leftist" or connects him to significant left-wing ideology. MEANWHILE, on the exact same day that Charlie Kirk was shot, a school shooter shot two kids at school in Evergreen, Colorado. And what do we know about THAT shooter? Hmmm. A good deal, actually. What's that? You haven't heard anything about it on Fox news, on any mainstream media, and certainly not from our Republican leadership? Well, I'm sure that's just an oversight, because.... A shooter, plainly inspired by racist/white supremacist rhetoric, actually spouting it and wearing its badges in connection with his shooting? Add it to the pile. The pile of both right-wing-inspired violent attacks, AND the pile of shit that the right 100% ignores and hides, and doesn't want you to know about.
  8. Remember how in those previous bubbles, anyone who dared call out the fact that it was all pump-and-dump/shell game shit built on vapor and/or irrational assumptions was decried as a combination of "too dumb to understand sophisticated business transactions/accounting," were "anti-capitalist," etc. etc.? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
  9. Follow that up with the facts that: 1) the entire doctrine was invented by one dude in the 1830s, and 2) it didn't acquire ANY real traction until the early 1900s when it was put into the Scofield Reference Bible. I guarantee you that 99% of the same folks who believe in the "Rapture" also say they are "strict textualists" when it comes to both the bible and the Constitution, yet they base their modern "faith" on a concept that doesn't fucking exist in the text they claim to revere. Dumbest. Fucking. Timeline.
  10. It's 2025. Assume the absolute worst of people. You will very rarely be incorrect.
  11. We're big on "be kind." Our son has an oversized heart, he beats himself up for not being kind enough. But nation-wide, at this stage, I don't need us to achieve "be kind." I'd be perfectly happy with "just acknowledge that other humans exist and act with a modicum of courtesy." You don't have to go out of your way to be kind....just don't be a dick. That alone would be a HUGE social improvement....which is opposed with every fiber of their being by our entire dominant leadership class.
  12. We need a massive, nation-wide education on basic "civics." It doesn't have to be complicated. It's a very short course. 1) Realize that there are other people out there, everywhere, just like you. 2) Don't be a dick to them. There, done. And if you proposed that simple lesson, say, to be taught in our schools, you would be fucking burned at the stake in 2025 America as a demon-possessed commie right from the pits of hell.
  13. Perfect example. When someone pulls an asshole maneuver like that, ask yourself "is that what someone who is the only person in the world would do?" 99% of the time, it's a quick "yep, that's exactly what they'd do." You do not exist. You do not matter at all. Because you are not ME, the only person who matters.
  14. Sounds like Jesus should have taken the yoke.
  15. It permeates everything. What is "it?" Our toxic individualism at the expense of -- and in purposeful opposition to -- any other possible ethos. "ME ME ME." Our national ethos now is 100% "I'm the only person in the world." Take that attitude, and see how you drive. And shop. And treat your neighbor or co-worker. Etc. etc. ad infinitum. We are literally governed by a movement that has its "leaders" repeatedly and consistency condemning empathy as "evil." Any idea or thought that hmmm, maybe we should do something in furtherance of the common good? Not only is it not supported, it's attacked as COMMUNIST SOCIALISM MARXIST COMMUNIST SOCIALISM!!!! It all comes down to "the individual is god, the community is the enemy." Install that belief system as your OS, and you get all the shit that's gotten to be truly awful this past decade or so.
  16. Yep. What is the purchasing power of your accounts today compared to January 19th? That's it. That's what matters. Dollars are just a means to an end. On January 19th, $100 translates to "2 gallons of milk, sack of produce, package of chicken, laundry detergent, bag of coffee, and pound of cheese." Today, you have $110, and it translates to...."2 gallons of milk, sack of produce, package of chicken, laundry detergent, bag of coffee, and pound of cheese"....are you actually any "richer?" Fuck no you're not. The purchasing power of Americans has at best remained close to stagnant (and that's for Americans who have real money in the stock market...most Americans do NOT have real money in the market. For them, their purchasing power has DECREASED). But, you know, "winning." The 48% is made up of people who see people they don't like getting hurt on Fox news, which means they MUST be doing better. "Other people hurt" = "I'm winning." It's that fucking lizard-brained.
  17. I also heard her speech days before filled with venom and hints of vengeance. You give these folks the benefit of the doubt. I do not.
  18. THISTHISTHIS. The dirty secret (which is now out there in the open, for all to see) is that any system incorporated the Rule of Law necessarily relies on some baseline level of good-faith. That is, it requires the vast majority of people living and acting within that system to believe in it an abide by it. If you have a criminal class of 5% of your population? Well, the 95% deals with them, using the agreed-upon rules and norms. If you have 30% of the population that opts out of the Rule of Law? You're fucked. And we, friends, are fucked.
  19. Don't forget the bolded addition. It is very, very, very important. They want government to hurt people. That is the #1 purpose and function of government, to the GQP voter. The only time they get mad is -- and these are their words -- when he's "hurting the wrong people." That's it. Not that it hurts people, but that it hurts the wrong (white) people.
  20. Problem: to take your position requires that you believe her. You should not believe her. The entire movement is about grievance, punishment of the other, and revenge. Believe them when they tell you who they are, over and over and over and over and over.
  21. Here's the thing that just doesn't work for all the "CHARLIE KIRK WAS NOT A RACIST!!!" folks: if Charlie wasn't a racist/white supremacist....why do all the white supremacists and racists love him so much? Rallies after his death had people chanting "white power." That MAGA rapper dude, immediately after Kirk's death, put out a song literally extolling the virtues of lynching. Dude was at Kirk's memorial, commanded an audience outside. Maybe YOU don't think that Kirk was a white supremacist....but all the white supremacists sure do. So....yeah. He was a bad person who thought and sold bad ideas that were rooted in and fed white supremacy. If that's the movement you want to associate yourself with so passionately, if you are happy to be on team "hang 'em up high at sundown" and think “we ought to do it like they did it way back in the day because grandaddy’s way works best,” referring to getting a "tall tree and a sort rope," then just fucking own it already.
  22. Brisketexan

    Pizza

    Agreed…but it feel that way about deep dish, and regular/chain pizza. If it’s a good NY style thin crust, I like it warm and crispy. Man, I used to love a Godfathers deep dish sausage and mushroom slice for breakfast.
  23. Brisketexan

    Pizza

    I’ll try it, but for thin crust, my cast iron griddle is hard to beat. Crisps the crust, and if I manage the temp, it heats all the way through till the cheese bubbles. Did it for a slice for breakfast this morning.
  24. In process, and the results. Ordered 100 Pemaquids for 4 of us. One dude popped up with Covid, so it was up to the three of us. We polished off 95. Leaves 5 for me to have with dinner tomorrow. They remain the king of oysters to me.
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