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Brisketexan

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  1. I mean, the lies aren't even plausible. Which, by the way, is part of the point and purpose in telling such lies. Telling outlandish, preposterous, clear lies sends the message of "we can say and do whatever we want, and nobody can stop us." If you testify today and say "today is not Tuesday, it's Saturday," and nobody holds you accountable, what you just accomplished is demonstrating that you CANNOT be held accountable, no matter how absurd the conduct. It's a version of "shoot a man in the face in the middle of 5th avenue and not lose supporters." The point is not the act, or the lie. The point is to demonstrate, in full view of all who are watching, that you are not accountable, and cannot be touched, no matter what you do. These are all textbook authoritarian plays they are running. Again, I haven't observed or predicted anything that requires a crystal ball. All you have to do is pick up any of the books (history, commentary, whatever) on "what does a rising authoritarian government do?" and read the fucking plays that are plainly laid out.
  2. Huh. You should probably be angrier at…Nazis.
  3. False. 1000X, FALSE. US gov't officials have had classified communications conducted properly in the cell-phone era a billion times. No wheel needs to be re-invented here. YES, it is LESS convenient than clicking open your personal device, opening an app, and sending all your buddies a picture of titties. Tough. Fucking. Shit. Having to be cleared for security clearance is LESS convenient than just "tell me all the shit." But hell, we've dispensed with security clearances, too, so fuck it, why not. Let's just dispense with OPSEC altogether. I never said they were genius criminal masterminds. I said they were criminals. "Moron" and "criminal" are a MUCH more common pairing than "genius" and "criminal."
  4. They are not "people" any more. They are officers of the US government, acting in that capacity. If they are unwilling to do so, including following all the laws that entails, then they should GTFO of MY government. Sorry that "governing is hard." If you don't want to do it, then fucking quit.
  5. Your first clause reveals that what I am saying is not a conspiracy theory, it's a fact. There are ways to handle such communications. All they have to do is ask any of literally hundreds of people inside the government "set me up a secure way to communicate with these people about this mission," and it will be done. They didn't do so, precisely BECAUSE they want all of their communications - in a governmental capacity - to take place "outside of the government." Which is -- say it with me -- a crime. They are criminals. It's not what they DO, it's what they ARE. People who have complete contempt for the rule of law are the exact people who are.....CRIMINALS.
  6. Because the very purpose of these chats is to entirely outside the government channels, because these people -- in flagrant and total violation of the law, by the way -- are attempting to avoid having records of actual government business maintained and accessible by the government. Which is how it works. All records of government activity conducted by government actors -- ALL OF THEM, EVERY FUCKING LAST ONE OF THEM -- are records of the United States government, and thus belong to the government and importantly, to "we the people." These criminals (that's what they are, all of them - they were right when they said it about Hillary's emails, and that means I'm right when I say it about them) are attempting to circumvent that requirement, which is a violation of the law. Laws for thee, not for me, exhibit infinity.
  7. FIF accuracy.
  8. 1) Imagine stating that about.....ANY thread here on Surly. 2) Then....realize that statement 1) would be more accurate than the statement the admin just issued. What an amazing timeline.
  9. Meh. Next turnover in administrations, they'll be pardoned. And so it goes.
  10. And the chances of that attack being domestic....and against some "den of evil wokeness," like a high-value target in California, are rather high. Fuck, I'm not kidding about the chances of Trump ordering the use of military force (like airstrikes) against US territory being a real number. It's a thing that you absolutely cannot rule out happening.
  11. Just one thing has changed: he realized that enthusiastically joining "Team hate all minorities" would be the key to him becoming the de facto president of the United States. He was right.
  12. Yeah, my wife flat-out said "we're filing for an extension, because why would we pay taxes [we do/will owe a little bit] to a country that may not even exist in a few months." Couldn't argue with her reasoning.
  13. No fucking shit. I don't understand how everyone doesn't have the impulse to get the fuck past every semi they are next to right quick. I hate getting stuck next to one, for that very reason.
  14. But see....what you need to understand is....Ronald Reagan was a cuck libtard. Seriously. If you just submitted his statements/speeches to the current Fox News crowd, they would at a near-100% rate say "fuck that cuck libtard." That is the timeline we live in. And many of us will die in, and right soon.
  15. That's preposterous. He'll call it "XJuice," not Brawndo.
  16. Make the billionaires the villain. The blame-game has to be aimed at people, not ideas. Use all the worst stories about them. They don't have to be true. In fact, ideally, they aren't true. "Elon Musk had slaves." "Elon Musk has stolen your private information and is selling it for profit." DARE him to sue you, by the way. Then.....DISCOVERY. Into DOGE, Tesla....all of it.
  17. The cause of inflation in the US? The same as it was everywhere else in the world: by and large, a supply shock. There is a decent argument that it was also materially demand-driven (the appropriate mix on those will surely be debated for a while to come), but the important thing is that the phenomenon was pretty uniform between the US and European economies. That is, we were seeing the same-timed spikes at similar levels. Of course it was something we were going to do - it's one of the tools in our toolkit, and we were surely going to use it. And, it wasn't without beneficial effect. While our inflation performance was similar to Europe's, it WAS generally better. Our economic effects that we were dealing with were things we had in common, and had some real overlap in causes, but we also had tools to deal with it that differed somewhat (although all western economies saw their central banks use the same tool in response -- raising rates). Hell, the bottom line is that we had a generally stronger economy heading into the post-COVID inflation, so we weathered it better than most.
  18. Y'all think that's bad? On the text thread that was supposed to tell the Houthis "surrender or die!", Hegseth "accidentally" sent them a buncha dick pics with "wadda think, bb?" messages.
  19. This was the early 90s. Everyone slow-clapped.
  20. More importantly, they control 100% of the United States government. That's the real fucking problem.
  21. Yeah.....that is fucking solid. Both of my kids live in places where they take transit everywhere, and both of them are young (in their 20s). They both know and promptly give up their seat to an older person. And the boy does so for women as well, even if they're not much older than him. I don't know if that's culturally local to them, but it's how they were raised here. Shit, I remember 10,000 years ago, taking a shuttle bus back downtown from Texas-OU. I had a seat with my now-wife, people got crammed on (mostly people our age, heavy on men, so wasn't immediately looking to give up my seat). I look ahead about three rows, and a very pregnant gal is there, standing....and nobody next to her was making any move to give her a seat. Fuck that. I got up, and started working my way up towards her to tell her to take my seat. Right after I got up, a dude makes a move to sit in my seat. My wife immediately blocked him, and said "nope, this seat isn't for you," and he started to get huffy. I work my way back with the pregnant lady in tow, motion her to my seat, and stared down the fucker, who fucking backed off as everyone else shame-stared him as well. WTF was wrong with that asshole? Oh, and yes, he was an okie.
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