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Brisketexan

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  1. And if you want to know why "Christian" has become a fucking toxic brand for many people with a shred of decency and humanity, you've nailed the issue. The loudest, most aggressive and adversarial "Christians" (PROTECT CHRISTIANS! WE ARE UNDER ATTACK! OUR VALUES ARE UNDER ATTACK!) are the exact same people who practice cruelty and a complete lack of basic human decency with near-religious fervor. The most sacred American "Christian" belief is the belief in the absolute right -- nay, obligation -- to be a complete and total fucking dick.
  2. Make Humanity Diseased as Fuck Again. We're getting rid of food safety laws and inspections (all the unpasteurized milk you can drink! No more inspections of food plants/operations!) We're functionally getting rid of/drastically reducing the very vaccines that have saved millions upon millions of human lives, and eradicated or nearly eradicated horrific diseases. Things were obviously much, much better when the average lifespan was about half of what it is today -- Make America 1860 Again!
  3. We respect you for that, but we have doubts about your marketing plan to exclusively sell the product out of white vans in big-box store parking lots, claiming that someone else "placed a messed up order, and now I have to unload these for whatever I can get for them."
  4. This. This is the immutable truth. For the foreseeable future, we will be led by Trumpist Republicans, or Dems who have finally figured out how to play the Trumpist game. Either way, populist, lie-based idiocy, practicing cruelty against the opposition is our only possible future.
  5. She’s gotta keep the white shrimper boots on….
  6. “Moderate” means “I only want to expel all minorities from the country, not kill them.” And “independent” means “I once voted for a Dem for a local office because he was an old friend of mine.” Those labels are lies.
  7. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    My wife is all about “they aren’t playing together as a team.” I’m all about “nobody in this world is better at killing their own momentum than this team.” They get an advantage or breakaway…and if it’s not PERFECT….they seize up and start back-passing, killing any scoring chance they may have had. It’s MADDENING. It’s a cousin of how our forwards insist on 4 touches at the goal when a one-touch flick, imperfect as it may be, could score.
  8. Dude…that ship has SAILED.
  9. Yep. My gen z son liked Tim because…that’s the kind of men he’s had modeled for him (not just by me - by all the men he’s been around, hunting, tailgating, building a deer blind, rigging up a tractor, doing a church service project, disaster relief work, etc). He IS a man’s man. And funny enough, in terms of “modeling things that help young men get laid,” my son assures me the Walz model puts him light years ahead of his competition. Confident, competent men who treat people with the decency that a non-fragile man who isn’t trying to project false bravado can bring to bear…well, they can get all the dates they can handle. We’re failing our young men because what we’re modeling for them as a society makes things worse for them, not better. It makes them LESS successful, and LESS desirable.
  10. Because…and this is very, very important, and very, very true…it’s not about legal status. And never was. It’s about purging an entire ethnicity as “not real Americans.” The veil is gone, the justification has been dispensed with. It is about ridding this country of ALL dirty browns. It always has been, they’re just being honest now. A Hispanic person voting for a Republican is empowering your own executioner. It’s suicidal.
  11. Daughter was just sharing the London mixed bag today. Yesterday was beautiful and sunny, she and a friend walked the city, went thrifitng, great day. Today…a damn half marathon through her hood, she went to Stratford, and now has to muscle through 9 million people to get home, packed streets.
  12. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    16 shots. No goals. Maybe their best-played match of the season….but Jesus, you gotta finish.
  13. ....and to deny and contest all claims. Because you thought insurance companies were dicks about denying claims, wait until you meet Elon Insurance.
  14. Zero kidding here -- I'd absolutely prefer Col Jessup. Because, while he was completely wrongheaded about it, his motivation at least included a genuine goal of protecting the country. Col. Jessup wasn't looking out for Col. Jessup (well, not only looking out for himself), he genuinely intended to serve the greater good, even if his vision of how to do so was twisted. There is not a single atom of Donald Trump that is not singularly focused on feeding his selfish ends.
  15. And...this is where you circle back to the point I made above, and have been making for 10+ years now: THE RULE OF LAW IS MADE UP. IT IS JUST AN AGREEMENT. AND WHEN ONE SIDE OPTS OUT, IT'S OVER. THERE'S NO SAVING IT. Trying to use "the Rule of Law" to save.....The Rule of Law, which has ALREADY been taken out back and summarily executed....well, it's exactly as pointless as it reads. Demanding that our profession save something that society already killed is fucking maddening. We are supposed to fight the death of something using the thing that is already dead. The thing is, many of us ARE charging into the breach with our cardboard sword and shield. You should just set your expectations accordingly.
  16. Those networks "flood the zone" so completely as to be impenetrable. They create such a density, a singularity of unreality, that not even a photon of reality can enter.
  17. Both of them shit the bed?
  18. There are no popular democrats right now. Seriously. The "most popular" democrats right now have slightly more support and popularity than the "most popular Surly posters." And about as much significance on the national stage. The GQP propaganda efforts worked. All Dems are literal demons who drink the blood of children and require schoolkids to undergo gender reassignment surgery at random over the lunch hour.
  19. It's true. The ONLY financial requirement is that the car/owner carry the liability insurance minimums required by the state. That's it. That's it. Can each car be "owned" by a single-asset entity? You bet your ass. Does that entity need to have a human being who has legal, even criminal, responsibility? Nope. Does that entity need to have a penny to its name other than 1) the car, and 2) the minimum insurance policy? Also nope. Each car is a judgment proof death machine carrying jack shit in insurance: "Texas law requires you to have at least $30,000 of coverage for injuries per person, up to a total of $60,000 per accident, and $25,000 of coverage for property damage. This is called 30/60/25 coverage." An Elon Death Taxi can kill you dead, and your family gets $30k. So sorry!
  20. ....because it isn't draconian ENOUGH. It doesn't END Medicaid. It doesn't budget $50 trillion to ICE. It doesn't cut taxes for the wealthy ENOUGH. The modern GQP is the perfect blend of "the opposite of fiscal conservatism, but also over-the-top cruel and destructive to humanity."
  21. Sounds great. But it's a bit different than your Dr. example. I'll cite you to the law -- the law of unintended consequences. "Make it easier to get rid of bad lawyers." And "We define 'bad lawyers' as lawyers who act to undermine the rule of law." Sounds good. Until the Bar, which absolutely can (and in numerous instances and locations, has been) trumped, usurped, and/or made subject to state law. As in....Dan Patrick and crew are now going to define what "undermining the rule of law" is. And that definition will pretty much be "taking any position that opposed Trump/MAGA." Don't create a nuke that is just going to end up in the hands of the other side. And it WILL end up in their hands (FFS, they're using the weapons they have -- and even weapons they don't actually legally have -- to go directly after lawyers who have dared piss off the regime). There are very, very, very good reasons to make it very, very, very hard to disbar an attorney for taking a politically unpopular position (and one would hope "trying to destroy the Republic and the rule of law" is such a position). That's because opposing politicians can and absolutely will, with 100% certainty, use such a tool to disbar attorneys for taking the unpopular position of "making America more dangerous by representing dirty illegals who are all rapists and criminals," and "undermining the will of the people by opposing the edicts of our King and Savior, His Majesty Donald Trump." There is no good or easy answer here. I agree that lawyers who support the admin in undermining the rule of law are betraying at least the spirit, if not the letter of their oath. But understand that right now, no question about it, the regime and its allies think the opposite: lawyers who have opposed the regime are acting in an "un-American" manner and should be punished and taken out of action. It is ALREADY weaponized. My suggestion is....we shouldn't hand them upgraded weaponry so they can finish the job.
  22. Reason number eleventy billion to hate this timeline: no Rowdy Roddy Piper. Fucking Merle Haggard and Don Williams are dead. Anne Murray retired years ago. I mean, fuck this moment in time.
  23. Pssstttt.....there are no "normies." Not anymore. Just psychopaths/sociopaths, those who are under their spell, and sane people who are frozen and feel helpless because we don't know how to speak even base-level "absolute nutbar batshittery."
  24. I believe you - truly, I do. I have navigated more than a few inefficient/ineffective bureaucratic systems in my day (for myself and for clients). My stand here is a direct one, and is consistent with one I took long ago in opposing a light rail proposal in Austin that would have (and eventually did) put the program under CapMetro's control: I don't oppose the concept, and agree there is a need for (better transit operations, a better system at FDA, what have you)....I just oppose 100% any plan to put these people in charge of doing it. Any actions taken by this regime in this field will serve one purpose, and one purpose only: faster and easier funneling of dollars to billionaires. And the other side of that coin is just as true: that will always come at the expense of everyone else, including smaller enterprises, consumer/patient safety, and the like. You know it's true. Any "improvement" will be incidental, confined to small parts of the process, and will be dwarfed by the bigger mission of "complete regulatory capture performed on behalf of the oligarchs who own the regime."
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