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Brisketexan

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  1. We’ve spent the last 20 years with a shitload of people telling us “THE REASON WE HAVE A SECOND AMENDMENT IS TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT!” Fucking hell. Turns out they were right. Except it also turns out that they were much more interested in BEING the violent, oppressive government than protecting the people from it.
  2. If that happens, we’re done. We don’t have a viable opposition party.
  3. Just saw this. My “secret” for a great green chili stew: use Herdez tomatillo salsa verde for half your liquid. It’s got salt in it, so be light on your salt until you taste at the end. I brown pork, then sautee onions and garlic. Use salsa and chicken stock for your liquid. Simmer till pork is tender. Add as much green chili as you like, simmer a bit to blend. Maybe add a little comino, salt as needed. If you’re adding a starch like potatoes or hominy, do so and simmer appropriately. It’s a cold weather go-to for us. And chicken thighs will work too.
  4. Maybe that was suggested because w open you can get blue corn tortillas in Sam Diego. Didja think of that, smart guy?
  5. 
.which is the exact “negotiation” position that our own POTUS is using at home, right now. So, they do speak the same language.
  6. If he’s straight
he’s gonna do just fine with the ladies.
  7. Like the microburst storm we got here in Austin earlier this year. I’ve been through hurricanes, and it looked exactly like that as it was happening.
  8. Translation: “our CFO shouldn’t have said that out loud. No worries, our plan to make the US govt a completely intertwined entity with our oligarchies will continue unabated. We’ll just keep it from view, as we have been.”
  9. Alas, she’s back in Germany. But apparently
she’s coming to Scotland for a visit soon. This is his first serious girlfriend. We’ll see how it goes. He’s had an amusing time introducing her to Mexican and American food. He took her on a date to a real-deal bbq restaurant in Frankfurt (we got a brisket from there last year, and he was legit), and she loved it. But she also couldn’t figure out the right way to eat a pop-tart, so
it’s a process.
  10. Condemning as “not a good human”
.Joyce. Carol. Oates. Imagine being the kind of person who actually says that. I read another comment on that original post commenting on how sad, pathetic, and awful the lives of many of these billionaires (particularly the latest wave of tech billionaires, like Zuck, Musk, and Thiel) actually are. I mean, just imagine if somehow YOU had Elon’s money, and what you would do with it, and with your life. You could find joy. You could live a life of kindness and generosity. Dear God, if you gave me $500 billion
the hunger I could end, the basic medical care I could fund. Work with USAID as a force multiplier. And yes, I’d fish, and hunt
with my friends, and with people who otherwise wouldn’t have had access to them (pet cause for me: funding access to the outdoors). These people aren’t doing that. They are chasing being gods. And the saddest thing is that is unreachable. They will die having fallen way short of the only goal they’ve ever had. It’s truly a pathetic existence. I have .000001% of Elon’s money
.but I have a woman who loves me for real, I have a relationship with my kids, I pursue activities that bring me happiness, I give of my time and treasure to people and my community, and find satisfaction in that. He is infinitely wealthier than me. I am infinitely richer than him. Ultimately, he’s chosen to be a tragic, pathetic figure
and to harm humanity in the process.
  11. How are they different than the regular “you bake” corn tortillas? Because those seem to turn out fine? Or
just get fresh corn tortillas from most any Mercado?
  12. “Stupid kitchen shit I did while drunk/high” is 1) awesome and 2) independent thread worthy, methinks. We all have such stories. Perhaps multiple.
  13. See, we’re gonna spend $40 billion going to war with one Latin American country for no good reason, and we’re gonna gift another Latin American country $40 billion for no good reason. So
you know
some difference, I guess. What’s most important is (1) the “no good reason” part (unless you think “funnel money to Trump cronies,” “protect Trump’s ego,” and “distract from the Epstein files” are good reasons), and (2) better to blow $80 billion for no reason than use just a fraction of that to feed hungry children in America. I’m sure you understand why this is what Trump has to do.
  14. You know, I’ll say this: the near-instant and ferocious resistance and verbal abuse these fascist cocksucking pieces of shit face whenever they show up (in Illinois at least) warms my heart. Fuck fascists. Always. And forever.
  15. When the economy is such that long-standing fast food brands are taking a hit
sheesh. Gonna get tough for some other chains soon enough, I’d assume.
  16. This. And Trump invested his ego there as well. And no price - paid by the American people, of course - is too high to boost his ego.
  17. This. Two sides are at war. One side cares about its citizens, and their suffering. The other side’s strategy has long capitalized on that. They hold the American people hostage, and inflict pain on them, knowing that the Dems will cave to their cruelty because they care about the people (don’t make me put a bright white hat on the Dems, but compared to the GQP
this is hard truth). Good nation states lose wars to awful nation states for that very reason. But the good nation states start to have a chance when they swallow the pill and realize that they can choose suffering now, or more suffering later. The GQP has the American people held hostage, and is torturing them, thinking it will make the Dems cave to protect them. Don’t. In fact
let the GQP turn all those people they are hurting into their enemies. We need their commitment to the fight. Also, Gatorubet, your last point is spot-on. Reaching this conclusion is about as awful as I’ve ever felt. It’s the opposite of what I want, or have ever wanted.
  18. Your last point is the accurate one. What people need to realize is that our society has already failed. Any notion of it being good and decent again in our lifetimes is over. The most we can do is fight the battle to prepare a generation after us to build something. That’s the point. It’s already lost. You are fighting for an idea that the GQP gleefully killed. It’s dead. The ethical situation we’re in was observed accurately by Ronald Spiers: “The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.” We didn’t want this, we didn’t choose this. We begged and pleaded for them NOT to choose this. They chose it anyway. So here we are.
  19. You mean JBS, which paid $5 million, the single largest bribe, excuse me, “gift” to the Trump inauguration fund? Yeah
don’t waste too much time looking for any enforcement against them. They paid their protection money.
  20. Solid. I really like it.
  21. Yeah. You’re skipping over the part where the education commissioner decides when - and importantly, if - that transition back ever happens. It won’t. The party of “local control” turns out to be all about consolidated power and authoritarianist indoctrination. Shocking, right?
  22. Huh. I just had a cheap cabinet gun safe from academy when we suffered a break in like 20 years ago. Dude spent some real time trying to pry it open, but it held. I later upgraded slightly, but it’s still nothing fancy. It’s big enough, very heavy, and the lock is solid. Also from Academy.
  23. So, it never returns to the people.
  24. Fantastic. God this timeline is so breathtakingly stupid.
  25. He’s doing tremendous damage to the credibility and reputation of the ADL. Not just for going “full bigot,” but also for being stupid reactionary ninnies about it. They had one of his colleagues on NPR this morning, gave him multiple chances to explain why their unprecedented freakout about Mamdani was warranted
and all he could do was tell the same stories about Jewish people being harassed and frightened in recent months (stories I generally believe, by the way). But
he didn’t do anything to connect them to Mamdani. Given multiple chances
he didn’t do it. He just came off as shrill and as stupid-panicky as John Rocker. WTF? The ADL has historically been a relatively steady and reasonable organization. Not anymore.
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