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Brisketexan

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  1. Note how Ana and the Elon apologists are perfectly fine with this. Now, they'll come in here and say "it's just a tweet, don't be so alarmist." It's not "just a tweet." It is a statement....by the unelected co-president of the United States....on a platform that he owns....that goes to literally tens of millions of people.....calling for imprisoning any judges who dare rule against the regime. So remember, when they say "don't freak out, it's just a tweet," what they mean is "I agree with it, so I really don't want anyone taking any action based on this right now."
  2. Y'all notice how Putin and Trump fans call into doubt anything and everything that contradicts their chosen worldview/outcome, calling for a "full investigation".....then steadfastly ignore/pretend that the very thing they call for exists? I have. https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/04/21/ukraine-russian-forces-trail-death-bucha https://apnews.com/article/bucha-ukraine-war-cleansing-investigation-43e5a9538e9ba68a035756b05028b8b4 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/video/russia-ukraine-bucha-massacre-takeaways.html https://www.dw.com/en/ukraines-bucha-1-year-on-slow-progress-in-war-crime-probes/a-65182829 https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/6/21/inside-ukraine-war-crimes-investigations https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/05/ukraine-russian-forces-must-face-justice-for-war-crimes-in-kyiv-oblast-new-investigation/ And we could go on and on -- investigations by HRW, Amnesty, a rather diverse group of private journalistic outfits, etc. Remember, you're reading posts by a guy who claims not to know much about who Ian Miles Cheong is (and similar outfits and voices), and when called on it, consistently engages in the "tu quoque" logical fallacy to distract from the bullshit he promotes. There is zero intellectual honesty in Ana's posts. He preaches as holy gospel, chiseled into stone, that Ukraine was asking for it, the war is Ukraine and the West's fault, etc. But when indisputable evidence of Russian war crimes and efforts by Russia not to "improve its security" but to functionally exterminate a state and a people....well, we need to wait for "further investigation." And now, you'll see his reply where he says that none of the links I posted reflect any "investigation." Note that there is no such thing as an "investigation" of Bucha that would satisfy Ana. This is how they work. Pay attention.
  3. Don’t worry, this is coming to US waterways soon. With full “EPA” approval.
  4. Spoiler: it ends at an Esso station. It always does. The only question is the toll/cost we all incur before that ending.
  5. For a good example of something that seems to get broad support for reshoring.....semiconductor production. For both economic and strategic reasons. So, see the CHIPS Act as a good example of how to go about that. You can and should wield a comprehensive set of tools to accomplish such large-scale goals. Oh, and how long do they think it's going to take to have truly made a dent in reshoring chip production? YEARS. And not a couple of them -- like a decade. Similar large-scale manufacturing would take years as well. And of course, that assumes that the policies behind this are long-haul and broadly supported so they'll stay in place (they're not). People aren't going to make trillion dollar bets on the whims of a nutbar.
  6. THIS. That's the fucking madness here. THE USMCA IS THE DEAL THAT TRUMP NEGOTIATED. IF IT IS SUCH A BAD DEAL THAT WE NEED MASSIVE TARIFFS TO FIX THE FUCKERY....WHY AREN'T WE BLAMING THE GUY WHO CREATED THE FUCKERY? Goddammit this is such a stupid timeline.
  7. The elimination of birthright citizenship absolutely has this as the end-game. You say you're a citizen? Well, your birth certificate isn't enough. You need to show proof your PARENTS were citizens/legal residents when you were born. What, you don't have that paperwork? Then GIT OUTTA HERE, YOU DIRTY FOREIGNER!* * Please note that this will NOT be the way the law works....at least, it won't be if your name is John Smith, Bill Jones, etc. You only have to worry if you have a name like Juan Gomez or some dirty messican shit like that. And don't think I'm not looking at you, too, Maheer Abdul.
  8. I mean....read this idiocy: https://www.yahoo.com/news/dont-panic-over-stock-market-080358444.html TLDR version: Trump is making us great, because tariffs mean that we'll just start manufacturing everything over here, bringing back all them manufacturing jobs. And gosh, didn't you forget Biden, whose polices caused all that inflation (note that they never tell you what policies, exactly, those were. Nor do they observe the glaring facts that 1) inflation was GLOBAL (meaning....not just here in the US), and 2) the US had a LOWER inflation rate than most every other western economy. That is, when graded on the curve, the US performed WELL on inflation). That's it, folks. We're going to bring back all kinds of manufacturing jobs. They'll be here in a coupla months! How? Well....we're going to magically build thousands of giant factories, requiring trillions of dollars in investment betting on it always being the best, most cost-effective way to do things! Yep, investors will be lining up to put their dollars into a new plastic injection molding plant to make all those toy soldiers the Chinese done stole from us, etc. etc. etc. And they'll do so posthaste -- those factories will be up and running before the year is out! Dumbest. Fucking. Timeline.
  9. Because we live in the stupidest of timelines. The US is the most prosperous and influential nation since the heyday of the British Empire. And we are going to blow it ALL up. For.....absolutely no good reason at all.
  10. When you understand that the Dems' plummeting approval isn't because people who support policies different than the admin have dwindled, it's because people are disgusted with how piss-poor a job the Dems are doing of fighting for the American people, it makes a little bit better sense. But still....that over 40% of Americans approve of DJT....that's something we will never recover from. We are too far gone, the cancer is in every place, every system. This is how Republics die.
  11. Understanding this is easy: all of our former allies are now our enemies. We will treat their citizens as if they were citizens of an enemy state. Also, expect reciprocal treatment sooner than you think. You might want to get that Europe travel out of your system in the next 30 days. It may soon become very difficult for Americans to enter countries that we have a hostile relationship (which will be.....all of them except for Russia and a handful of others).
  12. In college, my buddies and I once saved up for a mid-week AYCE feast at CL. Didn't eat dinner the night before, didn't eat that day. We went. We gorged. One of my buddies weighed himself before and after. He gained 9 lbs at dinner. Now, some of that was iced tea weight, but still....man, when we were 19-20, we could put the grub away something serious. And we thought it was the best shit ever. BBQ in Texas, and in Austin in particular, has come a LONG way in 30 years.
  13. We're headed for (we're already in) another 2011-ish drought. This is becoming the new normal. Get used to it. Also, it looks like the water infrastructure funding pitch at the Lege is going to get cut to half-assed levels. Because if there's one thing we're good at in Texas, it's sticking our heads in the sand. On the bright side, we are building up an ever-increasing supply of said sand, so....yay.
  14. It really is amazing. You can buy so, so, so many things. But whether you are "a man" or not....shit, not only does money not buy that, having too much money may lead you down the wrong path of THINKING that you can buy it. As just one example: Nobody is a genius/god-level at EVERYTHING. A perfect example of Elon not getting that is his stupid and utterly pointless bragging about being one of the top players in the world of Diablo IV. I mean....WTF? Who fucking cares? Be good at what you do, and what you are, and have the confidence to laugh and NOT be good about other things that maybe you enjoy, but you don't have the time to dedicate to it. I'm really good at certain things. Top of my game, recognized in my field, all the things that a man of a certain age should be. But there are PLENTY of things I'm not good at, including things I enjoy. Shit, I remember when my son would invite me to play Mario Kart with him when he was young. It's fun as hell. Also, I didn't play it frequently, so I wasn't that good at it. As he'd beat me, we'd laugh our asses off. I didn't get mad, I didn't try to brag about how good I was at it. I had better things to do with my time than become a Mario Kart expert. And my ego was just fine with being lousy at it and being schooled by an 11 year old. I'm also a mediocre to bad fly caster. Don't care, still love to fish. Can and do admire a good caster when I fish with one, and can laugh when I manage to pop myself in the back of the head with my own fly. Elon can't do ANY of that. If he does any activity....he has to insist that he's god-level at it. No, Elon, you're not. The only thing you're god-level at is being pathetic. You can have $440 billion. You can have $eleventy trillion. All that proves is that you're good at exactly one thing -- gaming the system to make money (a nifty skill, good for you). But all the money in the world won't make you a man, because you'll never be comfortable in your own skin and comfortable with your own limitations. Instead, you'll lie about them....which is also something that a real man doesn't do, and doesn't feel the need to do. TLDR; if you are a loser, all the money in the world won't change that. You'll just be a rich loser.
  15. It was glorious. All though the 90s, we thought it was a divine experience. Went for a dinner there a coupla years ago. It was utterly mid.
  16. Well, these fellas needed something to set them apart. Something that said “sure, we dress like SWAT, but we’re virgins.” They coulda just worn aggy hats and that would have covered it. But swords work, too.
  17. Fortunately, OK doesn’t have many MAGA idiots who are reflexively antivax because stupidity is the brand.
  18. Especially when you may need their military assistance against a former ally.
  19. Well…we should bring back that vibe.
  20. It’s the era of cognitive dissonance. They realize the truth - every specific thing sucks. But they also have a religious belief in the divinity of Trump, so they simultaneously believe that trumps America is great.
  21. Meh. I think that empathy, kindness, and being protective are a good package deal. The problem is when you use your capacity for violent protectiveness as an identity and a badge of legitimacy. Which is what these fake alpha bro types (who Elon fancied himself one of, he’s pathetic) fancy themselves as.
  22. I don’t disagree with that. Many of us don’t. What idiots like Elon don’t realize is that many such people are not on his side. A toast to Luigi.
  23. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    And our first goal was a freak bounce. That said, they’re shooting, with actual potential, a lot more than they were last season. So, that’s a positive.
  24. And note that we’re purposefully targeting citizens of our allies, like the UK and Germany. We are a hostile nation to all of our former allies now. And an ally to only a handful of nations, including Russia and Hungary. Bottom line, we completely switched sides overnight.
  25. Flatly and plainly unconstitutional about 5 different ways. And SCOTUS will surely allow it to stand. The Constitution is dead and buried, in case yall missed it. The only rule is “whatever Trump says.”
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