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Brisketexan

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
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    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.
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    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.
  8. 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.
  9. And English blood sausage. Very traditional UK breakfast item.
  10. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    Loving these last-second wins. Also..we sat behind Danny’s girlfriend and her mom. Jesus. Girlfriend is an 11, mom is a 9.5.
  11. Depends on where you’re staying. But find any of the following: chippies, kebab shops, Asian noodle joints. There are a million, plenty of meals for £10 or so to be found.
  12. Bingo. Set up an arbitrary expensive gate that you alone control. Provide for an entirely discretionary “exemption” mechanism. Walla, another nice “legal” bribery pipeline. All that Techbro Inc. needs to do is buy some Trumpcoin, or “invest” $100 million in some other Trump venture, and not only are their H1B apps exempted, but their competitors’ are blocked. These plays have all been run before, there’s no secret.
  13. Ok…this is the stuff we should have seen the last two weeks. Yes, it’s weak competition. THAT’S THE POINT. This is what you do. It builds confidence, gets you in the rhythm. I sure hope it sticks, and that whatever was messed up in Arch’s head is getting straightened out.
  14. Wife’s outta town, so I’m cooking stuff she won’t eat. Tonight, sweetbreads (mollejas).
  15. So. We’re moving the ball. Yet I remain unimpressed. I don’t like what this team has already done to my mind this season.
  16. Brisket family story: I was maybe 3, in the back seat with my folks up front. We get to a stop light and pull up next to a convertible with two women up front. Our windows are open. I look over and say out loud “look at those dumb bitches”…because based on what my dad taught me from his statements from the drivers seat, all women on the road were “dumb bitches.” Mom was not amused.
  17. What a shit non-call.
  18. FFS. So much this. We can have fantastic capitalism, that works for most, increases prosperity and makes lives better across the board....or we can have an oligarchical hellscape predicated on the proven lie of "trickle down." We keep choosing the second thing. And that's the hell of it, WE keep choosing it. Sure, the oligarchs control the messaging and thus persuasion, but goddammit. Wake the fuck up.
  19. Wait…it may be the case that an Elon venture is vastly over-promising and under-delivering? I’m utterly shocked.
  20. And, wife’s out of town, so breakfast just for me. Black pudding. And just black pudding. And coffee, of course.
  21. Plus…I hear those places are sex dens. So you’d have that going for you, which is nice.
  22. Today? 50-55, and at least two of them are divorced and in the midst of a sexual re-awakening. So….in.
  23. Wife is outta town for a week. Dinner, night one: Conan’s savage. Add anchovies? Fuck yeah. Add jalapeños? Fuck yeah. Could I get this if I was getting pizza with the wife? Hell no.
  24. But we’ll always get the crop report, right?
  25. Very familiar with her fine work. Spotted her on Poldark years ago.
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