Happy New Year You Surly Bastards!
Everything posted by Brisketexan
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News stories that remind you of Surly
What makes you think we haven’t?
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
You skipped the part where "but the voters always come back around, because resentment, hate, and wanting to hurt other people ALWAYS trump common sense, self-preservation, and even a scintilla of human decency." Understand the time we are in. Then understand that the only way out of this time is....more time....and more pain than any people should have to endure, but that's what we're going to get. You always skip over that last part. It's the most important part.
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Texas -- a failed state
I mean....FFS. You can buy smoked turkey legs at HEB for.....$4-$5 each. That price is just insane for what is supposed to be a family-friendly venue.
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Winter Weather 2025 - Arctic Blasts or Sweaty Ass?
We lawyers generally have a better collection of fashionable neckties.
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The Trump Economy
That's why I use the term "unimaginable levels." The pain has to be so bad that the people's reflexive response is "WE GOTTA MAKE A CHANGE!" Any change will do, just make a change. This is not a sophisticated play. Let the situation become so intolerable that they'll pull the lever for any change. When you're in a building being consumed by fire, you jump out. Well, we the people are in that building right now....we need more people to feel the scorching life-threatening heat.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
But...and hear me out: trannies and dangerous mexicans and lazy gangbanger blacks. Stop thinking in terms of logic and reason. They have no place in this timeline. Only hate, anger, cruelty, and pain have any value. Trade in the currency of value. And from the opposition perspective, the only currency available is pain. And at unimaginable levels to actually get a reaction.
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The Trump Economy
Fair. Bring balance to the Force and all that.
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Fast Food guilty pleasures
I just saw the news...it's back. I honestly have a soft-spot in my heart for it. Why? Because for some reason, when I was maybe age 9-18, my old man and I would drive down to Galveston to fish early, and then on the way back to Houston around lunchtime, we'd be starving. And we'd often stop at the McD's in Dickinson to grab....a McRib. I still don't know why. My dad was a food snob in a lot of ways. But goddamn, he loved that damned sammich. And I developed a taste for it too. So, it tastes like "being really hungry after fishing all morning with my dad." Which is good.
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The Trump Economy
God. Y'all who continue to have ANY optimism in this timeline blow me away. You are forgetting the ironclad rules of this century: It only gets worse. There is no bottom. Your fucking Pollyana optimism bullshit?
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The Trump Economy
Won't matter. Because there was once a trans volleyball player in Possum Pecker, Wisconsin, and brown and black people are scary. Oh, and ICE (which will by then be a fully functioning Trump Police Force) will actively terrorize and intimidate voters who would dare show up at Dem precincts in swing states/districts in 2026. Just pick up a book on "what right wing dictatorships do to seize and solidify power." We're literally running all the plays. There is no mystery here.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
This. Until it all crashes and burns, we're all just finger-fucking ourselves. The GQP wants to fly the plane into a mountain. Stop trying to protect the people from the consequences of their choices. You wanted this? Here you go. Enjoy the terrifying plunge and the agony of jet-fuel fire consuming you. You didn't want this? Guess you need to do even more to make sure this shit doesn't happen again. The only currency of any value in our current social economy is pain. Use it.
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The Trump Economy
He wants to bring us 50 year mortgages. And 15 year car notes. If you were to write up a plan for "make Americans economic slaves for life," it would look pretty much exactly like the last 10 months have gone. Fucking amazing. The biggest serial buttfucking ever administered to working Americans, and they fucking love him.....because he's mean to mexicans and black people. This country is getting everything it deserves.
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Winter Weather 2025 - Arctic Blasts or Sweaty Ass?
Oh, the super fun part is that these have been expensive enough to suck, but not so pricey that they were worth making a claim (below our deductible amount, or right close to it). So...yay.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
There is nothing on this planet less “alpha” than constant use of the term “alpha.”
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Winter Weather 2025 - Arctic Blasts or Sweaty Ass?
Yeah…was just doing the math with my wife. This is our fourth material weather calamity in the family, in our two homes a mile apart, in the past 4 years. 2021: big freeze left us without power for 6 days. Major plumbing damage (around $6k in repairs). 2023: ice storm took out our power. We were in literally the last 200 houses in town to get power back, again almost 6 days. Lucky in that we had no real damage, and we had a portable generator (bought it after 2021 storm), so no cost, just real inconvenience. 2025 spring microburst: hit my dad’s house dead on. Busted a skylight that we still need to fix. Power was out 5 days, lost several hundred bucks of food in the freezers. 2025 two weeks ago: lightning strike, $2500 in damage. Fucking hell. Four real weather hits in 4 years. That’s quite enough, thank you.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Damn….you musta bruised your dick from jerking it that hard. Jesus.
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Gooner or later, we’re in serious trouble….
What? No, she’s real. And she really likes me. We have a real relationship. A bot wouldn’t know me so well.
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Gooner or later, we’re in serious trouble….
Shades of “that stripper really likes me,” but accessible to everyone with a smartphone.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
You sound like a woke commie.
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Why so Syriaous (Syria Megathread)
All true. And the alternative is?
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Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
Or....I mean...you can just hit HEB and get this for around $3: Tastes like America and victory and freedom and bald eagles.
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Trump’s America
So....let me get this straight, from the most brilliant business mind the world has ever seen: "What I want is instead of going to the insurance companies [so, this money will NOT be going to the insurance companies. Got it.], I want the money to go into an account for people where the people buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out and negotiate their own health insurance [....by buying that insurance from...insurance companies. So, turns out, this money WILL be going to the insurance companies. Got it.]. Dumbest. Fucking. Timeline. Imaginable. Because, I mean.....yeah. Cletus and Lurlene are gonna sit at the table across from BCBS, and "feel like entrepeneurs," and tell BCBS "we'll pay you $300 a month for full coverage, and not a penny more! Take it or leave it!" Yep. That'll work. Fart of the deal.
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Trump’s America
Again....we have made a financially illiterate moron the master of the fucking universe. And we do so in the cause of "he's a brilliant businessman!" FFS, he's good at precisely two things: conning people, and going bankrupt.
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Trump’s America
At this point, we need to do everything we can to keep him away from Bill Blaze.... CALL STARKIST!
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
It's okay. We've just created a system where those people (1) wait till they get REALLY sick, and then show up at our local ER for treatment, (2) the ER can't turn them away (that seems like a pretty sane policy), but then (3) the government fucks the ER on getting any payment for those services that it required them to provide. Bonus point: this accelerating doom spiral will kill rural hospitals first (already has killed quite a few), so the REAL benefit of all of this -- dead Americans -- will accrue most acutely in MAGA country. Remember, when it comes to policy in this era, it's the suffering and dead Americans that tells you it's working.