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Brisketexan

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  1. MIA, seen below, about to "fix the cable"....
  2. Pete Rose: by all accounts, an epic asshole, treated other people like shit, broke one of the foundational rules of integrity of the game, almost certainly committed statutory rape.....shit, a list of accomplishments like that makes him a shoo-in for the MAGA Medal of Honor.
  3. If you think that the MAGA GQP is the greatest threat the Republic has faced since the Civil War (and you'd be right about that), what is your most-likely-to-succeed path at derailing it? 1) Contribute your time and money to the Democratic party, counting on it to get its shit together and mount an effective opposition? 2) Join the Republican party, hoping and working to establish/build a counter-movement within the party to overtake the MAGA movement? At this point, I'm thinking the smart money is on option 2). I mean, neither will work, but 2) has a much higher chance (think 5% chance vs. 1% chance).
  4. He is the poster child for "'good' is the sum of all the bad things that didn't happen." He creates a situation in which near-infinite bad things could happen. Then, he backs away from the situation that he created, points out that most (but not all) of the bad things that COULD have happened DIDN'T happen....and says "see, what a gripping victory I have delivered!"
  5. Cons: will cost the state billions, cost each individual ratepayer hundreds, and increase the chance of outages. Pros: will make some campaign contributors, including a couple of very specific O&G types, lots of money. Yeah....everyone here knows that SAILS through, either this session or the next.
  6. Brought to you by the folks who will soon turn all educational institutions into The Donald Trump Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too.
  7. And it's devastating that they are 100% right about how dumb their voters are.
  8. NO DEI! MERIT-BASED HIRES ONLY!!!! Jesus. We live in the fucking upside-down.
  9. This. To defeat Nazis the first time, we sent fucking boatloads of weapons to this guy: I'm fine aligning with less-than-ideal-and-pure allies to defeat Nazis this second time.
  10. America, 2025.... Not obscene, and must be permitted and protected at all costs: characterizing brown people as vermin, claiming they are "poisoning the blood of our country," saying they should be exterminated, etc. Arresting and imprisoning someone for writing an op-ed. Shit like that. Obscene, and must be banned: pictures of tits. Yeah....we're a shithole country.
  11. I mean....a full 1/3 of what the US imported from Syria was antiquities...likely looted. So, fuck it.
  12. As a follow up....last year, the US did $12.7 million in trade with Syria. That is functionally.....zero. Any increase in trade with the US would help stabilize Syria. I mean, we won't DO that, because in idiot world, trade is only good if they are buying things from us, not vice-versa.
  13. "Tuesday." We call that "Tuesday."
  14. Actually.....broken clock can be right twice a day. There are some very good arguments for dropping sanctions against Syria once the Assad regime fell. If the world wants to give the new regime a chance to succeed, and to offer it a carrot and incentive to be a good actor, dropping sanctions is a good way to do it. In fact, keeping sanctions on Syria now that they've shaken off the shitty regime that was the reason Syria was sanctioned, would be unfair and arguably counter-productive. Now, did Trump reach that conclusion for that reason? Fucking OF COURSE NOT. But it's still what plenty of decent, objective international strategists would have advised and proposed.
  15. Only in the movie, though. However, I didn't know you dated her after your divorce....you both seemed to have moved on, though, which is good.
  16. Counterpoint: She afrikaan do whatever she wants, man.
  17. Unquestionably. We can't design ANY element of ANY system that won't have outsized advantages/disadvantages for some subsets. The virtue of agrarian society sucked for the disabled. The virtues of our new information economy suck for those with a below-median IQ. I'm really smart, and process information well and quickly....and also have lousy vision, and was never, ever going to be the most athletic/strongest man around. In early agrarian societies, I would have been far from a "top performer." Today, that same mix of attributes puts me in the top performer category. A society that prized warriors and strong laborers would not be a great society for Brisket, or anyone physically disabled. A society that prizes intellectual skills is much better for us....and is worse for Steve Strongman. And my bigger point is that we shouldn't make broad value judgments, like "strong manual laborers are better" or "high-IQ people are better," or "fully abled [or disabled] people are better." A high-functioning society has a place and mechanism for ALL of those people to live a relatively secure, dignified life.
  18. Bozo, seen here as I WISH he actually looked:
  19. The first sentence is key. To the extent manufacturing is "coming back" to America, it's not going to bring many unskilled jobs with it. You don't get a good job at the chip fab with an 8th grade education. And the second sentence is the much bigger picture. Historically, all human societies have had plenty of work for "unskilled" type people. And I mean, actual work. First, societies were largely agrarian, and much of farm labor (as that labor existed in the pre-large scale mechanized farming era) could be done by unskilled/uneducated folks. You don't need a high IQ and fancy learning to plow fields, thresh grain, gather eggs, etc. Sure, you didn't make much or have much, but it was a living. Then, as societies transitioned to early industrial, it was similar -- most manufacturing jobs didn't require high intelligence or lots of training. The US is no longer an agrarian society. It is also no longer an unskilled labor-heavy manufacturing society. Those ships have SAILED, and they aren't EVER coming back. That's true for most such societies (western Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea, etc. etc.). So the question is, now that many countries have economically moved beyond having lots of jobs for unskilled types....what do we do with our unskilled types? Yes, there will always be a real number of such jobs (putting on a roof in the summer sun, cleaning out stalls at the dairy farm, all that stuff), but not nearly as many jobs as there are unskilled people to fill them. And, we can't just tell that guy with a 100 IQ (or lower -- remember, 100 is the MEDIAN IQ - half of people are below that, as a matter of statistics) "learn to code! Or be a stockbroker! Get a degree in engineering!" He's not cut out for those things. He will fail. Just like if you'd told Brisket "if you want to make millions, learn to play football like VY!" It wasn't ever going to happen -- I don't have the tools in me. So, what does that guy do? What do economically advanced societies do with the 50% of their population with an IQ of 100 or below? We haven't even come close to working up a well thought-out answer to that question. And until we do, we're flailing, faking it, and getting it very wrong.
  20. Let me re-write that headline in accurate terms: Legislators who are owned by and do bidding of oligarchs pass law forbidding regulation of main financial activity of said oligarchs. This is straight-up bought-and-paid-for legislation, delivered to please their paymasters. But, you know, we've definitely "drained the swamp."
  21. Would smash. Then and now. Honestly, stuff like that was one of the first things I learned to cook when I started cooking at around age 14. Mom had a mid-life crisis then, and kinda stopped cooking. Coincidentally, I was 14, so that was when I was consuming food like there was no tomorrow. One of the first things I learned to cook for myself was a pot of white rice. Soon after, I started coming up with ways to jazz it up. Started simple -- ground beef, browned and then onions sauteed in the fat in the pan. Add various seasonings (Cavender's, maybe chili powder and similar spices), then add appropriate cheese (parmesan, or sharp cheddar, depending on the theme). Big pot o food is what I ended up with, and that was mi-t-fine for 14 yr old Brisket.
  22. Huh, he told me “prostate, digital”….but I think he was just bragging.
  23. Hey, fellow Gen Xers…just a reminder, we’re the fucked generation. For us, it only gets worse. https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/05/08/why-gen-x-is-the-real-loser-generation
  24. No, it wasn’t. Trust me, I know Japanese hippo porn. Wait, I mean…umm…hey, look over there, is that Earl Campbell?
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