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Brisketexan

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  1. Fuck that. People like him 1) enabled this regime, and 2) openly or tacitly support the murder of my family and people like me. The entire regime calls my family vermin, the regime wants to get rid of all 65 million of us (their exact words, and exact numbers). They need to be called out and held to account, because they are evil pieces of shit. And evil pieces of shit should be derided and hounded to the ends of the earth. For eternity. Giving evil a pass is how we got here.
  2. Amazing that MAGA is utterly silent when it's a shooter following the directives from MAGA about exterminating vermin (brown people in El Paso, for example). We don't need to do ANYTHING to get people inspiring racial violence off the streets. Nope. They just aren't a problem, and we need to keep supporting a regime that stokes those fires. Why? Because they agree with it. We hispanics are vermin to be exterminated. That's what they believe, it's what they support, and when we are gunned down, their response is to...keep supporting the movement that preaches that. Never, ever, ever listen to a MAGA when they tell you that any kinds of shooting are bad, and that the type of person and beliefs that led to it are a problem. Because as our country has faced a spate of acts of violence by MAGAs, not only have they done nothing to address THAT, they have doubled down and amped up the rhetoric and hate. So, fuck 'em. They have no rights or grounds to speak to any of this.
  3. The main upside for it was that one night, my wife really wanted bbq at dinner. There aren't many places that still have decent meat choices available after 8:00. B&G did, so we went there, and had a decent dinner. But it was never going to be a regular destination. And dear lord they spent so much money on that buildout. I have NO idea why so many restaurants are spending a kabillion dollars on their build, putting themselves deep into debt before they ever serve a plate of food. I have much more respect for places that occupy a recently vacated restaurant site (like an old Pizza Hut), decorate it with some shit from their garage, and serve killer food. Family-owned mexican and chinese restaurants do a great job going this route.
  4. It's as simple as I laid out some years ago: the Rule of Law is a compact. When one material party opts out of that compact, it is dissolved, and at that point ALL parties are opted in to "Rule of the Gun." That's where the GQP went on Jan 6th, unambiguously and without any hint of reservation. They chose Rule of the Gun. The rest of us failed to play the game pursuant to those new rules. When a nation is attacked by people acting outside the Rule of Law, the only response that will give the nation a chance of survival is to respond in kind. Had Jan 6 ended with a stack of terrorist mob bodies in the Capitol, we would have had a chance of surviving. Instead, we treated people who had opted out of the Rule of Law as if the Rule of Law applied to them. It did not. And that mistake has proven to be our undoing. But have no fear. Once a society has opted into Rule of the Gun, all matters will eventually be decided under that new set of rules. The only question is how big the body count will ultimately be.
  5. Which is why, as the mob broke through the Capitol doors, my immediate shout at the radio was "they have to shoot them, they have to shoot them NOW!" The choice not to open fire on a mob of violent terrorists openly bent on assassinating members of Congress and overthrowing the government was the pivotal mistake that meant death to the Republic. A nation must defend itself with full and lethal force in such circumstance, or demonstrate it to be a tissue-paper-weak entity that can be destroyed with minimal effort. We chose poorly. And it means our death as a country.
  6. So, postal services all over the world are suspending shipping of parcels to the US. Of particular interest to me (because in 2025 America, things only matter if they affect you directly), my kids living in the UK and Germany can no longer send me any packages. So, that's cool. One thing I can't find is whether the removed tariff exemption (the $800 de minimis exemption) applies to goods carried by a person when passing through customs. Like, when my wife lands today from our visit to London, and she has some snacks and small gifts in her bag (probably worth under $250 total), does she need to declare them and pay a tariff? Seriously, I legit don't know. EDIT - just did a bit of homework, and it seems that the personally carried items exemption is under a different statute that is (thus far) not affected by Trump's executive orders. This is all just so fucking stupid.
  7. My first real job was waiting tables at a Red Lobster. I never cremated anyone there. I was also young and naive, and didn't realize that the life-worn chainsmoking career waitress with a rose tattoo wanted to take me back to her place on my last night working there to....teach me things. I was clueless. Idiot. In fairness, I was a teenager. And also, an idiot.
  8. Fuck yes. And some of the best italian food I've had....was in a decommissioned Dairy Queen. "Used to be a" is a great place for family restaurants.
  9. “NO GESTAPO IN BASTROPO” turned into “WE WELCOME THE GESTAPO TO BASTROPO” in an instant. Seems they were never worried about authoritarian presidents at all. They’re just scared of the negroes.
  10. "And to show you how sincere our anti-woke attitude is, we've added calluses to Uncle Herschel's hands, which he earned by doing the hard work of whooping uppity negroes who didn't know their place. Just doing his part to Make America Great Again."
  11. Seriously. Bribe a Russian captain, tell him you're getting around sanctions. He gets $5 million now, $5 million when the cargo arrives....unopened and untouched. He will have already bought $10 million of vodka in his mind when he docks, and the containers' roofs pop off to launch the salvo.
  12. Blue states need to start creating their own militaries, and deploying them in opposition to the federal invasion. No orders to engage. Just local forces, fulfilling their duty. Dare the feds to open fire on local forces who just happen to be blockading the road Trump's troops want to go down. Create the opportunity for the fascists to go too far and lose legitimacy. Do it over and over. They can't help themselves, so give them the rope to hang themselves.
  13. If Jacque tells me to do it that way, imma do it that way. Dude is a god. I never watch one of his videos without going "fucking hell, he makes it all look so easy."
  14. "Engineering ethics." In 2025. Dude. You talk like a fag and your shit's all retarded. "Engineering ethics." That's a fucking good one.
  15. Whatever. Technology makes everything better. Why do you hate progress, libtard? Seriously....taking all humanity and morality out of the mix (which is an inevitability with a non-sentient intelligence), what could go wrong? At the end of the day, AI is just math. Just more 1s and 0s spitting out more 1s and 0s. We are in the process of turning over the most human of our thinking and functions to it, and all of the things that can go wrong, especially morally, are starting to happen. It's not like we need to conjure up such scenarios; sci fi writers have been doing a damned fine job of spotting these weaknesses for 100 years or so. It's all there for the reading. But we're going to make ALL of the mistakes anyway, because the greatest force in the universe is actually human hubris.
  16. Whatever, dude. Rabbis are well-known anti-semites. Duh.
  17. Had him for Plan II physics. Yet again, his was a class I naively walked into thinking "how hard could this be? F=MA and shit, right?" Then he immediately starts in on relativity and quantum shit. First exam, I got a 17....and with a curve, that was a B. A 21 got you an A. Furk. Had to bust my ass for my B in that class. It was really fascinating, though, and he was a genuinely amazing teacher, even if it all largely baffled me.
  18. It's like you've never even SEEN a small town insurance office in the old Pizza Hut. Or a funeral home. https://usedtobeapizzahut.com/
  19. I'm sorry. I hate him so, so much. Mea culpa. BTW, my retainer for such matters is tree fiddy.
  20. It's more than one photo, dude, and you know it. QE is openly and proudly MAGA. Tell us, what do MAGAs generally believe and support? I'm not the one supporting a movement built in cruelty. So, I'm comfortable about my position on political dysfunction. Don't start shit, won't be shit.
  21. What do MAGAs support? Tell us. And where, oh where, would I get the idea that they support the regime nabbing people on the street, subjecting them to violent arrest, for no crime OTHER than a suspected immigration violation, then shipping them off to CECOT for torture without providing for due process? Gosh. It's a mystery. I guess I just made it up. You excusing MAGAs (and you becoming one) is what enables this shit. Shit people doing shit things, and getting rewarded for it. That's how you kill a society, and fast.
  22. What does the MAGA movement stand for? Here's a hint...they have fucking told us, over and over and over and over and over and over again. ICE gestapo rounding up brown people anywhere and everywhere by any means necessary and tossing them in CECOT is what they want (how do we know this? Again...they have told us...and then when Trump does those actual things....they support him even more). QE is MAGA. MAGA and Trump are all about hurting anyone and everyone they deem to be an "other." It is their foundational belief (well, that, and lying about everything imaginable, even shit that doesn't matter). That's who QE is. He should get a taste of his own medicine.
  23. Some of you need to stop giving shit people who take genuine pleasure in the suffering of others a fucking pass and a license to be shit people. Maybe, just maybe, have a standard of "other people suffering is bad," so this shit doesn't gain purchase from the get-go. Because once society embarks full-scale on "nope, taking pleasure from the pain of others," then there's no end to that game that doesn't involve those same people taking their own goddamned medicine.
  24. And there's where you have yet another massive swing and a miss. I have (and had) plenty of issue with W. But I sure as shit didn't and don't think that he wanted to end the Constitutional Republic and end free and fair elections and such (I'm disappointed with his silence during the Trump regime). FFS, immigration is actually an issue that W was damned near perfect on (he was defeated, of course....by your guys who really, really need foreign enemies to rally against). I've always been anti-authoritarian. Interestingly, for a long time, that actually saw me align more with GOP leaders. And then....inshittification, and cowards who used to be for things like free trade, free speech, and the rule of law.....happily abandoned those things in a fit of servile, pathetic simping, all to feed the hate engine. I gotta admit, my failure and embarrassment was that I naively didn't see it coming until it was too late. What I also didn't see was how many people would happily embrace it.
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