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Brisketexan

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  1. I mean…it would have to be a large caliber, but I’m going with “I’d fuck the gun.”
  2. Even if they were right. Gosh, nothing could be better for humanity than to be told, en masse, "you're completely unnecessary." Nothing makes people HAPPIER than being....not needed. Right? Jesus fuck. These people are fucking sociopaths, incapable of even grasping what it is to be human, so of COURSE they have no problem bulldozing and destroying the very essence of what it is to be human. Take all that away, and leave us to....what? Sit in basements, wallowing in a completely purposeless existence? And don't give me any bullshit about "no, now you're free to engage in creative pursuits!" -- pursuits of WHAT? Art? AI will do all that, too. Truth? Why, to what end? After all, we've already "solved" everything. And....with what fucking resources? Are you going to pay us and deliver us food for us providing the service of.....merely existing? A universal basic income that is indeed "universal," because NOBODY is doing ANYTHING that earns money? Destroy human purpose and dignity. And call it a success. MAdness.
  3. Yeah.....it's damning enough -- I'm talking "kill shot, and he should likely be in prison" damning -- that I need to see a lot more info to support the assertion that that is actually his email address.
  4. Well then, it's a good thing that global society is.....working together as hard as can to ensure a world run by and for oligarchs.
  5. Wait wait whoa whoa.....WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK? Is that accurate? Our secdef....has a fucking Russian email account? If true -- again, imagine this was ANY other administration. That would be "game over." There are zero, none, not a one, reason for him to have EVER had a Russian email address. If it is even remotely true, it is beyond clear that our entire executive branch is compromised and working as agents of a foreign power. Every person in that branch is an existential threat to the United States.
  6. Sure. See, she was just hired on to check the welds on the framework of a new hotel project there. She's a welding expert, really, highly in demand for expertise. These sorta things happen, welding's a dangerous business.
  7. ....and jdhorn still has that bra in the glovebox of his car.....
  8. Yep. Just like all things Trump everything he does can be summed up in one to two sentences capturing maximum idiocy.
  9. Well, but when you're part of the pathetic MAGA cult, it's important to show that you have some digit to make up for your utter lack of a functioning dick.
  10. This is largely a post-pandemic thing. In a very short period of time, it became all the rage to bring your damned dog with you EVERYWHERE. Dude, I'm a dog person, had dogs most of my life....but WTF? No, you don't need to bring your dog to the goddamned grocery store. And the Jiffy Lube. And the coffee shop. And the dry cleaners. And fucking everywhere else. I don't much care about some of those, but 1) we don't need dogs all over where food is sold and prepared, and 2) not all people love your precious Mr. Fluffywumps as much as you do. Some people have a phobia, or an allergy -- maybe think of them. They shouldn't have to wonder whether they are walking into a situation with a dog they are afraid of (I'm not one of them, I think it's "silly," but it's real) when they go to buy their groceries.
  11. It also applies to imported parts, which are used in most vehicles assembled here. It's fucking idiocy. Nevermind that on one hand, we bitch about Mexico not having enough economic legs, and its people should stay there and work there....and on the other hand, we're doing everything we can to utterly cripple and gut their manufacturing economy. We are in the dumbest of all timelines, and we are in utter free fall towards the total singularity of stupidity.
  12. See, Don....that's kinda the thing that those of us who aren't abject mouth-breathing idiots (so...we're not Republicans) fucking warned about with flashing red lights and the whole 9 yards: once an authoritarian has a power, he never, ever, ever surrenders it. Except by force. That's it. You've opted out of the rule of law, and now expect to use the rule of law to claw back power? That's not how it fucking works, you fucking cowardly cock gobblers.
  13. Good. Let Florida feel that collapse.
  14. The dead kids are what tells you the freedom is working!
  15. 100%. Hell, happens to us lawyers. “That’s not a good strategy, I’ve seen this before and you can trust me,” but nope, we also need to engage an expert to tell you the same thing, and when the expert asks me “why did you hire us to tell you something so obvious?”, I tell them “yeah, because you have P.E. or some such after your name, and prepared a written report.”
  16. When the citizens and city council demand that you look into burying the lines - even though you know the answer, you’ve told them, but they won’t listen and trust you - you do a study so you have something objective to release to convince them that yes, this is a terrible idea. That’s not something unique to Austin. Happens at the Lege, in every city and town, etc. “Why don’t you just resurface all of our roads? And keep all the swimming pools open? And have snack bars in the libraries?” Telling people the obvious - there aren’t enough dollars - doesn’t get them off your back. So, you have to show them hard, objective data. “Repaving all streets will cost $3 billion, and require raising taxes 25% for 10 years - it’s right here in this study.”
  17. Also.....duh. People always say shit like "we should just bury all the power lines," and "to prevent floods, let's just build a new dam and reservoir!" These are multi-billion...sometimes multi-HUNDRED-billion dollar projects. Which have to be paid for. Usually by the people who are demanding them. Want to avoid power outages, but have your rates go up 3X? Then bury your lines, by all means.
  18. To hear my wife tell it, the reason that people are getting married these days is to create Instagram content. Seriously, she's super frustrated with Gen Z. They are WAY higher-maintenance than any other generation she's married (she's married plenty of Gen-X, and a ton of millennials - a generation she actually thinks highly of), they are rude/dismissive of other people's time/demands, and EVERYTHING is focused on how it will look on the 'gram. She has one coming up with NINE attendants on EACH SIDE (so the processional itself is going to take a full 5 minutes), and the couple has told her "we've only allotted 15 minutes for the wedding ceremony." FFS, a marriage by the JP at the courthouse takes 15 minutes. And they aren't shy about telling her what to wear so it will look right in photos, how and where to stand to create the perfect scene, etc. The whole fucking thing is about the "content" it will create. So, she's about done with the headache of dealing with them, of dealing with people who really don't give a shit about the actual marriage ceremony and vows at all, and spending her Fridays and Saturdays on the road to rehearsals and ceremonies. Instead, she wants to hang out and have morning coffee with me, maybe we go to some Longhorn baseball games and Austin FC matches, and chill.
  19. Following…we just started talking about a July trip to Maine, starting with a weekend in Boston (wife is beside herself to see a game at Fenway). So, reading this and may have some specific questions as we refine a plan.
  20. Counterpoint: Brazil is 10x the democracy/functioning republic that the US is.
  21. Wrong. The LAST thing that will happen is decay of precious football stadiums. See, this plan has two steps (I'm not making this up, this is exactly what Republican states are asking for): 1) stop federal funds (which actually have to be used for certain purposes, like....educating students, including those with disabilities and such), and then 2) divert those funds to unrestricted "block grants" to states to use however they want. So, the $500 million that USED to go to your state for special education, and the most underfunded schools? Well, now that $500 million is going to be used to build the most incredible football stadiums -- in white, suburban districts only -- that mankind has ever seen. As a practical matter, they just voided Brown v. Board of Education AND Plessey v. Ferguson. Our new national motto is "Separate and AWESOME - Whiteville High has a Godzillatron bigger than any university now!"
  22. I'd say we're a joke of a country, but jokes should be funny. We're just fucking pathetic. I don't know what's worse, the fact that we are repeatedly shooting ourselves in the dick, or that a majority of voters, as each bullet rips through another shred of our dick, yells "AGAIN!"
  23. This admin is literally killing people. And the country is cheering it on. We deserve EVERYTHING that is coming our way. Every bit of it.
  24. 1) We have Secret Police here in the US. 2) They are grabbing people off the street and "disappearing them" (when you take someone into custody and don't reveal where they are being held, that is being "disappeared") 3) The reason for doing so (if this story is accurate, and she did not commit any physical crime) is because they have voiced opinions -- not a call for violence, but opinions -- that are not favored by The Party. Literally all of the shit we called East Germany, the USSR, Nazi Germany "shitholes" for......we are fucking all-in on, and it is supported and cheered by posters on this site. They see an American Stasi, and they can barely contain their glee. And y'all say I'm out there for saying this fucking Republic is over, dead, and gone. We are fucking East Germany with nukes.
  25. Well, see, when civilians wear masks, they are per se terrorists and criminals. When the Gestapo wears masks, that's just good government. I gotta tell ya, among the many things I was wrong about for much of my life, my belief that the character of this nation was NOT one of "we fucking LOVE licking the boots of fascist secret police" was one of the things I was wrongest about. All those years of mocking nazis and soviets and the Stasi on pages and the screen, and it turns out that they main emotion Americans felt about that was....jealousy? Fucking hell.
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