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Brisketexan

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  1. Oh. Fuck. Although I still don't understand how there are wrecked cars on both sides of the semi at the bottom.
  2. Huh. PNG'd because he spoke the truth about TFG and Elon. What happened to "FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTISTS?" Huh? I do wonder what happened to all of those folks....crickets chirping....
  3. So....which one did the hitting, the semi or the box truck? Because....the box truck is out front. Honestly, I'm diagraming that scene in my head, and I can't make sense of it. Wrecked vehicles on both sides of the road, flanking the semi....but stuff wrecked in front of it. Or maybe the emergency crews moved vehicles all around for access already.
  4. I-25 between LV NM and Raton is closed due to high winds as well.
  5. Oh, and awesome. The truck driver's name is Solomun Weldekeal Araya. He ain't no real 'murican. So, this story is 100% going to become one of how a dirty immigrant killed 5 people......and 0% about how Amazon and Bezos privatize all gains and by using contractors for everything (with all of said contractors being LLC shells with no assets and the bare minimum insurance required by very generous laws passed by lawmakers owned by industry), but socialize the losses of multiple ended/ruined lives. That'll be a real nice topper to this awful story. It will be an excuse to further demonize and punish "the other," but in no way will it be used to even SUGGEST corporate accountability.
  6. You know those random texts from random numbers you get that are just "Hello," and then if you reply, they act like a chick to try to rope you in and get you to send them money or some shit? I instantly delete every single one of those that crosses my phone. But I delete every Dem fundraising text even faster. Fuck 'em. Why send ammunition to someone who's just going to throw it at the enemy if they even bother to do that much?
  7. Well, per the current definition, it's "any taxpayer dollar that doesn't go to paying/subsidizing an enterprise owned by Elon Musk." That's it. That's the whole definition.
  8. I have no doubts. Query: do you think that issue (waste/cronyism) will get better, or worse under this regime?
  9. Look, man....some folks had weekend plans.
  10. No worries. Per our Director of HHS, I'm sure that emergency air drops of cod liver oil are forthcoming.
  11. 1) Defense spending has its place. National defense is literally one of the core missions of any State's government. 2) It should be purposeful defense spending, as opposed to wasteful/just handouts to cronies. Our defense spending has long had problems on both the waste and handout fronts. 3) Any crippling of CURRENT defense contractors will have ZERO, NONE, NADA effect on our overall defense spending. Why? 4) Every dollar not spent on missiles from Raytheon or jets from Lockheed will instead be spent on Tesla Robotanks and SpaceX SuperAwesomeMegaMissiles, and AI robot mechazoid COOLBOT3000's from XRobotics (to be founded this week). Anyone who thinks that anything the Trump admin does is actually aimed at reducing grift and payouts to cronies is among the most delusional people the world has ever seen. Every single thing the Trump admin has done tells you that their highest focus is funneling taxpayer dollars into the pockets of the regime and its loyalists. Hell, even the cruelty isn't actually the point - the DISTRACTION that the cruelty creates is the point. While sane human beings are busy seeing and decrying the cruelty, and trying to ameliorate the effects of it....the regime is busy shoveling every taxpayer dollar it can into its own/its friends' pockets. Again, not a novel play.
  12. At this point, our only shot is for 1) invasion of Canada, leading to a hot war, which 2) leads to mutiny among members of the military and/or secession by multiple states that will not go along with the madness, leading to 3) civil war, and then 4) maybe when it's all over, and we've only used 3-5 nukes on our own soil, we can slowly reconstitute ourselves into a functioning nation with 5% of its former prosperity and power. I'm thinking that's our BEST case scenario, FFS.
  13. Well, she's tired of trying to figure out what kind of car to drive, so this seemed like a good Final Solution. After all, it's better to have your own wheels than to have to constantly heil a cab. I do understand that she'll Wansee the graffiti cleaned up, but that may take a bit of time. I hope when her initial führer dies down, she'll be able to find peace.
  14. Oh, zero argument from me. The opening sequence of the first episode was a jaw-dropping moment in entertainment history. The visuals, the feel, the song. I remember coming to school the next day and most every guy was all "DID YOU SEE THAT SHIT?" I mean, dude ran for 2,003 yards to hold the single season record for YEARS. So, you know....it's all good.
  15. The truck company carries.....$750k in insurance. Wanna bet that it has next to no assets (bet the trucks are leased)? Amazon's shell game will yet again prevail.
  16. It's okay. We'll be distracted by the war with Canada before the end of the summer. So we have that to look forward to. And no, I'm not kidding. It has ratcheted up from "no fucking way" to "maybe it could happen" to "holy shit, it's really going to happen" in no time. You cannot demonstrate the level of belligerence that Trump has towards Canada and NOT end up in a shooting war. Dear God, this is all so dumber than even I could have imagined.
  17. No, see, they're Schrodinger's tariffs: simultaneously 1) generating trillions in revenue, because trillions in foreign goods will keep flowing into the US, thus providing a revenue stream that will replace all taxes on Americans, just as Trump promised, while also 2) causing the flow of foreign goods to STOP coming into the country, thus immediately boosting American manufacturing etc. so we will become the manufacturing economy we were in the 1950s. Both a massive inflow of goods, and no inflow of goods....happening at the same time. That's the Trump economic miracle! And we have fucking morons around here who still think that's great, although they insist that "they don't support Trump." FFS, they engage in magical thinking of the impossible.
  18. It was posted. And I posted the accurate version: "their unelected, senior appointees did." If Donnie was to implement his own version of a "Final Solution," Elon is EXACTLY the guy he'd have put it together....and then get all the lucrative government contracts for crematoria and the like. So, Elon is, yet again, the nexus of all evil that man can possibly have. He is, without fail, the exact person he claims to hate. The day of his death will be an incredibly positive turning point for humanity as a whole.
  19. Beau, standing as best men at the last wedding he attended...
  20. I'm a grown-ass adult male. There are standards. Barney knew them.
  21. I've also found that my heat tolerance has declined as I've gotten older. Last summer, we attended an outdoor wedding in Oklahoma. It was f'n hot, and I was in a suit, because I'm a man. I hydrated before -- nothing major, but also probably not enough, based on how I reacted. After the wedding, we went inside to the reception....and I promptly sat down and drank a lot of ice water because I was looking pale and felt clammy. Took me a good 20 minutes of cooling off inside and drinking lots of cold water before I felt back to normal. I can work outside in the heat if I plan for it, hydrate well, and take actual breaks. But I'm not as resilient as I was 30 years ago, when I could fix fence, feeders, and blinds all day in July. Oh....and the euros DO NOT FUCKING HYDRATE. It's something we comment on every time we visit. FFS, would you people drink some water? Water is not around or available like it is here, they don't drink it like they do here....and I get it, 7 months of the year are chilly and damp in Germany. But the other 5 months....are not. And even during those chilly months, you're often inside in artificially heated air that dries you out. DRINK SOME WATER.
  22. Yep. Young people on the roads is a recipe for parent terror. For real, it's one of the upsides of my kids going to college places where they don't have cars and use public transport. Go out and get drunk on a Saturday night? Cool. It's much safer to know they are stumbling/taking the train home than getting into someone's car at 4:00 a.m. Every mile the DON'T drive is a mile where they are much, much safer. Shit, I've started to adopt the same approach for us - if we can fly or take some other transport, that's just safer.
  23. Lifting the cap on contributions is easy pickings. And I say that as someone who would sure as hell take a hit on it -- I max out pretty early in the year. Just keep taxing me, and use the extra to make up for the shortfall elsewhere. People of current means/income can do more to lift things up. I'm okay with paying more in taxes if it actually means that fewer of my fellow Americans have to spend the last years of their lives eating cat food and living among roaches. I mean, do that later. For NOW, I want maximum suffering, I want the whole system to fail so that maybe the fucking idiots who vote for Trump and this shit will realize "gee, maybe we DO need a functioning government and society." But, once we are back on some sort of "so, society and the common good maybe matter a little bit" train instead of the "fuck everyone, rich people get everything and more of it, everyone else can get fucked, TRIUMPH OF THE WILL!" train, I'm all-in on that plan.
  24. "First, give me access to everything in the NSA's files, especially any information on people who disagree with Trump or me. You can trust me, I won't do anything bad with it. Oh, I don't have any other ideas, that's the only one -- I just said 'first' to make it sound like I had an actual plan."
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