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Brisketexan

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  1. ....and to deny and contest all claims. Because you thought insurance companies were dicks about denying claims, wait until you meet Elon Insurance.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Both of them shit the bed?
  6. 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.
  7. 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!
  8. ....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."
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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."
  12. 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."
  13. How that will work... Pharmaceutical executive, who likely also happens to be embedded in the current presidential administration: "We ran our new drug, HelpsIngrownToenailsButMakesYourDickFallOff, through an AI trial, and it came out just fine and practically no imaginary test subject's dick fell off. You can trust us, and our AI engine, the Aways-Approve-o-Max 5000."
  14. "I am an ACTUAL believer in freedom and liberty. And that means....leave people the fuck ALONE. I don't care how your neighbor worships -- you don't either. I don't care what color your neighbor is -- you don't either. I don't care what language your neighbor spoke as a kid -- you don't either. I believe what you do: that we should all have good education, real opportunity, and real freedom. The only time the government should knock on your door is to deliver the mail or help after a disaster, NOT with jackboots and facemasks because somebody wants to score political points by being a fucking dick."
  15. Maybe the problem is using pussy-ass weak language. Weird. Cruel. Fuck that. I just want one person to take to a podium, and say "These people are fucking dicks. My rule is simple -- don't be a fucking dick. I'm running to be your president. To lead the country. Not to be a fucking dick. Imagine what a fucking dick would do -- I'll do the opposite of that. A fucking dick would turn this country over to billionaires, screwing over you, the American people. I won't do that. A fucking dick will violate the law, claiming that he's just going to do it to hurt some bad people, but then he hurts you. I won't do that. Our grandparents saved the world from fucking dicks. We landed on beaches and shot fucking dicks. We dropped atomic bombs on fucking dicks. Be an American, fighting for what's right for the American people. Don't be a fucking dick." Repeat. Non-stop. Make CNN bleep you out 40 times per interview. GO ON THE ATTACK. RELENTLESSLY, AGGRESSIVELY, AND NON-FUCKING-STOP.
  16. Crazy south asian dude using the "all south asian dudes look the same" defense was not on my bingo card for 2025. But that's my mistake. Everything utterly insane and batshit should be on that bingo card.
  17. Especially considering the fact that 1) the Texas legislature has passed a law trumping any and all other regulation of driverless cars, and specifies that "the owner of the car" will have the same liability as the driver, and 2) the owner of every individual Robo-Tesla is guaranteed to be a single-asset LLC, something like "Owner of Robo-Tesla #356, LLC".....there will be nobody to send to jail, and no real money to pay for any damage they cause. File suit against that entity? Cool, it's immediately transferred to bankruptcy court, because that entity is now insolvent.
  18. No, see, this political movement is all about "draining the swamp," and "taking power back from the elites and giving it to the people." Did you not get the memo? That's totally happening, for real. Yeah....this is definitely NOT a classic trojan horse move on their part, not at all....move along, nothing to see here.
  19. LINCOLN’S DEAD??
  20. Okay…wait…hear me out…it’s American Ninja Warrior…but Mexican…and we make em cross the Rio with alligators and obstacles and machine guns and shit! Or wait, here’s my other one: hot chicks with big boobs wrasslin’ and ripping each others clothes off. Now, maybe it’s not Homeland Security-related, but importantly: tits.
  21. She’s a good creation. They should create more of her.
  22. You overrate the importance of those protests. You underestimate the nearly completed playbook they've run to complete a fascist takeover. You're talking votes and changing minds, when your thoughts should be on plans to shelter/help escape targets of the regime, and how and where weapons should be cached for what's coming.
  23. So.....high. All you had to say was "high," man.
  24. "LIE." It is the first - and perhaps only - principle of the movement. They bought their tickets, let em crash.
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