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Brisketexan

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  1. Dude…that ship has SAILED. Fuck em.
  2. They won’t raise taxes to fix their own community. But they expect a shitload of donations from the rest of us, and for piles of state and federal taxes (paid by the rest of us) to help. They are approaching point “fuck ‘em” at breakneck speed.
  3. So…the post where I celebrated the IDF flat-out murdering civilians getting aid…I know I’m getting older and my memory ain’t great, but when exactly did I do that?
  4. Goddamn, if that don’t capture the times, I don’t know what does.
  5. He skipped class to goof off with airmen O’Malley and Rodriguez.
  6. Yeah. That’s why you’re demonized. It’s totally not because of you wearing the gear of totalitarian genocidal death camp-running jackboots we had to fight a whole fucking war against.
  7. I mean, if you can't laugh about posters here openly excusing, even celebrating, a vastly superior military force happily and purposefully slaughtering 100 civilians lined up out of desperation for scraps of food, well, you just don't know funny!
  8. So....for my $10 prescription.....the pharmacy will now be paying ME $100? I mean, I'm not so sure about that business model, but sign me up - I'm gonna git while the gittin's good.
  9. Worse options than that? What, is your Abba 8-track cassette busted or something?
  10. Popper? Naah, I find Blues Traveler annoying.
  11. This is a dress rehearsal. Congress won't be meeting as much or doing as much in the coming years. Because they are irrelevant. We are governed, totally and completely, by a single despot. He doesn't need Congress, or legislation. They might as well pack up their tents and go home. I'm sure they'll still come to DC, to grandstand for cameras and such, but their role as one of the three co-equal branches of government is just about done. We have an absolute monarch now. Who is completely fucking malevolent and insane.
  12. When Trump says stupid things, they're not stupid. They're genius. You live in upside-down world, man. How have you not grasped that yet?
  13. Here's the problem: When a normal, sane person does something absolutely batshit crazy, that's news. When a batshit crazy psychopath does something crazy, that's just a Tuesday. Ho-hum. Seriously, think about it. How many disheveled, homeless types have you walked past in an urban center as they are ranting at a wall or whatnot, without giving it a second thought? Now, imagine a guy in the middle of the sidewalk, wearing a nice suit, yelling at you that the people from Neptune are coming to rape us all with frozen fishsticks. You're going to be genuinely surprised and disturbed. Trump is a batshit crazy psycho. Everyone knows it. Including -- ESPECIALLY -- those of us who hate him. So, when Trump does crazy shit....it's not news. It's just Trump being Trump, metaphorically yelling at the wall somewhere downtown. Its not news, it's just something you walk past on your way to meet your colleagues at happy hour.
  14. Woof. I mean....I guess we can linger in line someplace.
  15. What time of day did you get to Red's, and how long was the wait?
  16. ....and makes a giant percentage of Americans smile with outright glee. We are beyond saving. And truly, we aren't worth saving. Not if this is who we are. And....this is exactly who we are.
  17. You know I agree with you, and we've been in agreement for some time. Now that we're in the full-on "they're saying all the quiet parts out loud" stage, more people are waking up to that truth. And there's the difference between you and me. I have no hope about the world we're in, and I have no hope about the world we'll have when the dust settles. We tried this exercise once or twice before. It didn't solve a goddamn thing then, it won't solve a goddamn thing now. The "utter depravity of man" is our natural low spot. Like water, we will always and forever flow towards and seek that low spot, and find it. We literally bombed the last round of Nazis into submission, leaving them with little but piles of rubble and suffering. And here they are again. There's no getting rid of them. We can just knock them back - at hideous cost - every few generations, at best. I hate them. Because all it takes is one relatively small group to decide "let's take humanity on a ride to a pure hellscape," and we all have to go along with them. We have no choice. They are the turd in the punch bowl that turns the entire contents of that bowl into a bowl of shit punch. It takes most everyone opting into democracy and humanity to make those work. It just takes a small percentage -- think 15-20% -- opting for authoritarian, racist, violent hell, to make that the order of the day. They will continue to do so, time and time again. They want pain and suffering. And they're going to get what they want.
  18. 76 years old. He shoulda lived longer. Too much clean livin', I guess.
  19. Wife asked me who we were pulling for. We are Astros fans. I explained "fuck the Dodgers. Always, fuck the Dodgers." Old habits die hard.
  20. My advice to you: stop trying. They want to slit our throats. They say just that, in open and proud terms. They offer no window for compromise, no quarter, no chance for a peaceful outcome. This is where we are, and you know it as well as I do:
  21. I presume that when you stop, it will be a Monday. Because you hate Mondays.
  22. Let me succinctly summarize the policy analysis here, and for every single thing the Legislature does. "Cui bono?" Who benefits? If the answer is "billionaires, hard-right reactionaries, or evangelical religious fundamentalists," then the legislation will PASS. If the answer is "the people at large, human beings, including ordinary, non-wealthy people," then the legislation will FAIL. There's no real profit to be made here, other than awarding a few contracts that aren't even that large to a few big campaign donors. No profit, then it's bad policy. That's the Texas way. Government is only for private enrichment, not for public good.
  23. Such innovation, much future, much wow.
  24. Yeah....no idea. I quoted @MagicSoccerSpray, from his post. Which is still amazing to actually read.
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