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Brisketexan

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  1. Popper? Naah, I find Blues Traveler annoying.
  2. This is a dress rehearsal. Congress won't be meeting as much or doing as much in the coming years. Because they are irrelevant. We are governed, totally and completely, by a single despot. He doesn't need Congress, or legislation. They might as well pack up their tents and go home. I'm sure they'll still come to DC, to grandstand for cameras and such, but their role as one of the three co-equal branches of government is just about done. We have an absolute monarch now. Who is completely fucking malevolent and insane.
  3. When Trump says stupid things, they're not stupid. They're genius. You live in upside-down world, man. How have you not grasped that yet?
  4. Here's the problem: When a normal, sane person does something absolutely batshit crazy, that's news. When a batshit crazy psychopath does something crazy, that's just a Tuesday. Ho-hum. Seriously, think about it. How many disheveled, homeless types have you walked past in an urban center as they are ranting at a wall or whatnot, without giving it a second thought? Now, imagine a guy in the middle of the sidewalk, wearing a nice suit, yelling at you that the people from Neptune are coming to rape us all with frozen fishsticks. You're going to be genuinely surprised and disturbed. Trump is a batshit crazy psycho. Everyone knows it. Including -- ESPECIALLY -- those of us who hate him. So, when Trump does crazy shit....it's not news. It's just Trump being Trump, metaphorically yelling at the wall somewhere downtown. Its not news, it's just something you walk past on your way to meet your colleagues at happy hour.
  5. Woof. I mean....I guess we can linger in line someplace.
  6. What time of day did you get to Red's, and how long was the wait?
  7. ....and makes a giant percentage of Americans smile with outright glee. We are beyond saving. And truly, we aren't worth saving. Not if this is who we are. And....this is exactly who we are.
  8. You know I agree with you, and we've been in agreement for some time. Now that we're in the full-on "they're saying all the quiet parts out loud" stage, more people are waking up to that truth. And there's the difference between you and me. I have no hope about the world we're in, and I have no hope about the world we'll have when the dust settles. We tried this exercise once or twice before. It didn't solve a goddamn thing then, it won't solve a goddamn thing now. The "utter depravity of man" is our natural low spot. Like water, we will always and forever flow towards and seek that low spot, and find it. We literally bombed the last round of Nazis into submission, leaving them with little but piles of rubble and suffering. And here they are again. There's no getting rid of them. We can just knock them back - at hideous cost - every few generations, at best. I hate them. Because all it takes is one relatively small group to decide "let's take humanity on a ride to a pure hellscape," and we all have to go along with them. We have no choice. They are the turd in the punch bowl that turns the entire contents of that bowl into a bowl of shit punch. It takes most everyone opting into democracy and humanity to make those work. It just takes a small percentage -- think 15-20% -- opting for authoritarian, racist, violent hell, to make that the order of the day. They will continue to do so, time and time again. They want pain and suffering. And they're going to get what they want.
  9. 76 years old. He shoulda lived longer. Too much clean livin', I guess.
  10. Wife asked me who we were pulling for. We are Astros fans. I explained "fuck the Dodgers. Always, fuck the Dodgers." Old habits die hard.
  11. My advice to you: stop trying. They want to slit our throats. They say just that, in open and proud terms. They offer no window for compromise, no quarter, no chance for a peaceful outcome. This is where we are, and you know it as well as I do:
  12. I presume that when you stop, it will be a Monday. Because you hate Mondays.
  13. Let me succinctly summarize the policy analysis here, and for every single thing the Legislature does. "Cui bono?" Who benefits? If the answer is "billionaires, hard-right reactionaries, or evangelical religious fundamentalists," then the legislation will PASS. If the answer is "the people at large, human beings, including ordinary, non-wealthy people," then the legislation will FAIL. There's no real profit to be made here, other than awarding a few contracts that aren't even that large to a few big campaign donors. No profit, then it's bad policy. That's the Texas way. Government is only for private enrichment, not for public good.
  14. Such innovation, much future, much wow.
  15. Yeah....no idea. I quoted @MagicSoccerSpray, from his post. Which is still amazing to actually read.
  16. I mean....most folks were pretty pissed at Hamas for the brutal slaughter of civilians. That made them....what is the word? Oh yeah...."bad." Pretty clean and clear, unambiguous. So....tell me how Israel hunting Palestinian civilians "over a baited field" of food aid...is ANY different? Seriously, imagine that Israel had experienced some crisis, its citizens were desperate and lining up for international food aid, and Hamas forces did to Israeli civilians exactly what Israel is doing to Palestinian civilians in Gaza. We would -- correctly -- be calling Hamas terrorists, animals, etc. Sorry, you want to ignore the plain fact that Israel as a state has become, and actually embraced becoming, everything it purports to hate. When you purposefully mow down civilians lined up for food aid, you're a terrorist state. Hamas. Israel. In terms of "we're good with slaughtering innocents," tell me what the difference is between them?
  17. They’re gonna skip over old Bob Lee. Compared to the culture they’re building, Bob was woke.
  18. Jesus. I’ve driven over that crossing a zillion times, although it’s been a few years. I’m sure whenever I pass that way again, it’ll be overwhelming. And I’m just a person who spends time there. The trauma so many folks must feel. It breaks my damn heart.
  19. Yep. Wanna place wagers?
  20. The DOJ’s sentencing filing might as well have just said what they meant: “Why ruin his life? All he did was kill a n——r.”
  21. Again…it’s as if this regime was making an affirmative effort to check all the same boxes. And our media ignores it…while 40%+ of the country cheers it. Because we’re a fucking Nazi country.
  22. Huh. Could have sworn I sent you my "It only gets worse....and there is no bottom" newsletter. Did you not get it?
  23. Man....without going too far down that rabbit hole, that is a perfect encapsulation of everything that's fucked up about American Christianity. Culture that 1) hates gays, and thinks that men should dominate women, who should be submissive and obedient wives, and also 2) is built on open kleptocracy, corruption, and violent suppression of any contrary thought? Well, that's SUPER CHRISTIAN! Seriously. Seems like as long as you profess open hatred for tha gayz, doesn't matter what other sins you openly practice and endorse, you are a Good Christian Soldier. I say the more of these people who want to move to Russia to sacrifice their bodies on the altar of Putin's violent ego, the better.
  24. This. Christianity in America, as a political motivating factor, is mostly a smokescreen, not an actual set of convictions. You win by running a performative over-the-top personality. Period. That's it. We the people have spoken loudly and clearly. Bring on Dem nominee Wooderson, or the Rock or Colbert or whatnot. That's it. That's where we are. Ideas are for fucking losers. Fireworks and insanity is how you win.
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