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Brisketexan

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  1. Counterpoint: a strong middle class is exactly the thing that "made America great" that so many folks want to "make great again." Post-war to the 1970s, that middle class was built on the back of America being a manufacturing powerhouse (auto industry etc.). As that dwindled, we ALREADY created a massive and unhappy "working class," as they were getting disproportionately left behind. Now, we're working on doing that with the next layer as well. Following a path that will take the country to a two class country of oligarchs and serfs (with a handful of remaining necessary functionaries who work to funnel all remaining dollars from the serfs to the oligarchs)....well, that won't turn out well.
  2. Here's the thing about "it's funny to piss off the liberals, sweet liberal tears" reasoning that so many of these fuckers employed. WHY does this shitbaggery "piss off liberals?" It's NOT because liberals are pissed about losing things for THEMSELVES. It is LITERALLY because "liberals" are concerned about how these policies affect everyone, INCLUDING "MAGA Lady Suzanne." I don't fucking depend on Medicaid, I almost certainly never will. Medicaid evaporating doesn't directly affect me personally, not in the slightest. But....it would hurt millions of my neighbors and countrymen, and I don't want that to happen to them. So, the idiocy of MAGA choosing a path of "I like to piss off group X, which cares about other people, by voting for policies that will hurt 'other people'" is so perfectly stupid, and the absolute bullseye capture of our times.
  3. The policy challenge isn't "stop some innovation from costing job categories X and Y." The policy challenge is the pivot - fine, jobs X and Y are going away. How are we going to equip our society, education systems, etc. to replace them . . . and if need be, during the transition period, soften the blow? There's functionally zero interest or momentum for that. We are all-in on enthusiastically fucking over society, and zero-in on doing anything that will actually help human society. These are dark times.
  4. For $1 billion, I will 100% volunteer to be the presidential nominee of the Musk Party, and will take whatever positions he wants me to. Because -- and let's be clear -- I have principles, and a deep sense of morality. BUT....I can definitely be bought.
  5. Those little portable small room units are selling like hotcakes. My daughter invested the £175 in one early in her stay in London, to make her room tolerable when they have a heat wave.
  6. I mean....let's not be so quick to judge here.... Sounds like a man with a soul most of us would recognize.
  7. Yes. Yes I do. Because big keys let you enter big data.
  8. In Texas, it don't make a shit. The Dems don't have a chance unless they run somebody who's good at the circus. So, a movie star or somesuch. That's it.
  9. What could go wrong? "Hey Grok, is Elon's TeslaXSuperBrainJuiceCancerCureAndFlavorPacket safe for all desired uses, and will totally cure all cancers, baldness, and even mild cases of the dropsy? What's that you say, "enthusiastic YES? Well then....APPROVED!"
  10. That would be at least 20% more effective than any current Dem campaign strategy. I'm not kidding.
  11. All in all, we've had worse Junes. Hell, we had a little shower at our house yesterday and it turned it downright pleasant in the evening. Whereas the boy is in central Germany....where it's 95 degrees, and NOBODY has AC. He draws his curtains all day, opens his window and cranks up a portable fan at night, and sleeps on top of the sheets. And is still hot. Man....god bless AC.
  12. Oh, fellas, we got us a fucking MATH WHIZ over here!
  13. I wouldn't worry. We'll just find a way to blame mexicans for AI, too.
  14. Yep. "Delete and block contact." You fucking asshole, all you did was hoover up money that COULD have been used to support candidates in other races who actually campaigned and had a shot at winning. Allred is a net negative in Dem politics. Fuck him in the goat ass.
  15. I still disagree. We the people WANT shitty. It's just all about who you are shitty TO. Give us a candidate who is a celebrity and promises to hunt down and imprison every Republican who voted to take away your medicare, or some shit like that. You have to promise pain and retribution. It's the only language America speaks now.
  16. See these together. That's my entire point: quit running on ideas, and policies. Run on the circus. The circus is what wins. It's the ONLY thing that wins. And if you don't win, then nothing else matters. Dems need to start with the basics: win. Then, and only then, can/should they work the rest of it.
  17. Smart, thoughtful candidates with great policy ideas that will actually help the people. In other words, LOSERS. The Dems cannot win with that shit. Pay attention to the voters, and what they want. They want performative bullshit. The Dems need to find a celebrity, stoke and feed his ego, and get him to run. Yeah, like a McConaughey type. That's it. That's the only prayer the Dems have in a statewide race for the next generation. Hate it if you you want, but it's true.
  18. Jimmy Swaggart's reaction to getting caught nailing ass: Nobody's reaction to Jimmy Swaggart's death:
  19. Stop asking any question that amounts to "so what if the American people DON'T get totally assfucked?" That's a hypothetical that will never happen. "We get assfucked" is the always and only answer.
  20. And I just got the name of a 20-inch metal-spiked dildo the circumference of a coke can changed from "The Rectum Wrecker" to "Little Love Lance." I'm sure that will make it feel better when the GQP rams it up our collective ass repeatedly. Jesus fucking Christ, the Monster Raving Looney Party in the UK is more worthwhile than the utterly worthless pile of medium-wet shit that is the Democratic party in the US.
  21. Don't overlook this. It's not ICE (and it's not just ICE, it's "Homeland Security" as a whole. It's a separate military force, controlled entirely by the POTUS, to be used exclusively INSIDE our borders, against people here in the US. And the size of that budget...is $175 billion. Where does that put it on the GLOBAL scale? It's the third largest military budget in the world, behind only the US defense budget and China's defense budget. It is well over Russia's budget. The GQP just funded/created the third largest military force in the entire world, and is turning them loose against.....us. I remember back when "libertarians," and "no government interference/no big government" types would have freaked out at the creation and funding of the third largest military in the entire fucking world, to be deployed entirely inside our borders....but today, crickets. Huh. Guess they didn't give a fuck about a single thing they claimed to care about all that time.
  22. "Suspect repeatedly struck the brave ICE officer's fist with his face, causing bruising of the officer's knuckles. Such acts of violent aggression by these criminal immigrant thugs are only increasing."
  23. This is a very, very good and important point. Gov't funded entities have limited resources (which are declining by the day -- DOGE, EVERYWHERE!). Everyone wants the thing/project that touches on them done perfectly. The street in front of MY house should be perfectly smooth! Cool, the city has 1200 miles of streets to repair and maintain, and a budget to maintain.....50 linear miles a year. So, each 50 miles can get touched - on average - once every 24 years. Sure, some higher-traffic stretches will get more frequent work....meaning that lower traffic streets like residential streets get stretched out to a 30 year schedule. DA's budgets are similar. We want them to take care of ALL cases, and get those thugs off our streets. But then we demand that they blow 70% of their budget on two "high profile" cases, leaving few resources to deal with the other 5,000 cases on the docket. Decisions have to be made, resource allocation has to be considered. Every public official I've ever talked to has said some version of "if you give me the money/budget, I will do exactly what you want - nothing would make me happier than repaving every street in town" (or words to that effect).
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