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Brisketexan

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  1. What I don't understand is how DOGE isn't being DROWNED by FOIA requests from news outlets, members of the public, etc. It is unquestionably part of the US government. It thus is subject to FOIA. Demand.....EVERYTHING.
  2. Well, the inputs (purposeful cruelty of the ignorant masses) ARE predictable....so my response certainly should be. That's the point. We are running time-honored plays. They are proven to turn out the exact same, predictable way. And the only way to turn away from those plays is the way that it's happened before, thus making THAT path predictable. That's my whole fucking point. Nothing new is happening here. We're walking down a well-worn path, with well-worn pathways. We KNOW where we're going, and we KNOW how this ends. Yet....we're doing it anyway. Which is so, so, so fucking stupid and self-destructive.
  3. Clearly, that's Biden's and Zelensky's and DEI's and the Deep State's fault. Russia can't help it. This will result in our regime doubling down on its punishment of.....Ukraine.
  4. This. It is absolutely a way for people/enterprises in the regime's favor (and favor can be purchased for the low, low price of a $20 million "reservation" at Mar A Lago or somesuch) to obtain special treatment (hey, YOU don't have to pay the tariff). It's a path to grift and bribery. All roads lead to grift and bribery. That's how regimes like this work. But folks like Ana, who are TOTALLY against corruption, and think we need to "burn it all down," think this is fantastic and brilliant and 20-D chess. The fact that adult humans cannot see the obvious in front of them continues to amaze me, no matter how many times it happens.
  5. Oh, and of course, let's not ignore that our AG and leadership has openly stated that they are looking to take a case to SCOTUS to overturn Lawrence v. Texas, which if accomplished (and under this SCOTUS, chances are high), will immediately criminalize same sex couples from engaging in oral or anal sex. Not later, not after debate, IMMEDIATELY, because the law is still on the books. But, you know.....touch grass. Just make sure you don't touch ass of someone of the same sex, or you could face decades in Huntsville.
  6. Sure -- we're not to throw the gays in prison yet.....but we are ABSOLUTELY at the "make being trans a felony" stage: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/texas-bill-identify-transgender-state-felony-rcna195642 They have told you who they are, and what they intend to do. You should believe them. Because they have followed through pretty much every damned time.
  7. Oh, “jaded” doesn’t even scratch the surface. I believe that humanity is beyond any redemption, and that we fundamentally like it that way.
  8. "Make mercury emissions great again" is certainly a position.
  9. Fuck him. I hope he loses it all and dies of despair. They have declared war on all of us. And as their God Elon tells us, empathy is evil. So, none of you fucking Trumpers gets to say "oh Brisket, where is your empathy, where is your humanity?" You fuckers took it out back and shot my empathy, and then raped its corpse, laughing the whole time. Empathy is for those who deserve it. As is suffering and torment. He chose....poorly.
  10. I had a buddy who did the same. In no time, we all made fun of him because we saw his bare ass on an episode of The Red Shoe Diaries.
  11. Oh....that's the price for the first couple of years. Then, once you're locked in, and all possible competition is vanquished, the full enshittification of raising both prices to $19.95 and $25.95 respectively, falls into place.
  12. I mean.....it was my dating M.O. sophomore year, with a decent success rate. I'm not proud of it, but it's the truth. Signed, Brisketexan....my dad is part owner of the Dallas Mavericks, I can totally get us courtside seats next weekend
  13. Dude...the Accuweather guy already has that path locked up. You think I'm kidding....he has actively worked towards this, and has made a shitload of political contributions towards it, for years. We are completely and totally governed by oligarchs, in no small part because Trump is handing them the keys to different aspects of the country as fast as he possibly can. That's how it's done. He's just following the post-Soviet model, letter-for-letter.
  14. Over the last 50 years, your generic plastic army men (you know, these guys): Have been stamped the following things, in this order: Made in Japan Made in Taiwan, ROC Made in China Made in Vietnam (I think that's the new locale) The point being that jobs in factories that make cheap injection molded plastic toys are NOT first-world country jobs; they move as economies develop. We are never getting "cheap injection molded plastic toy jobs" back in the US....nor do we want them. Because the choice is either a shit job paying a sub-par wage, or a job in American conditions paying a good wage, in which case your $5 bag of plastic army men just became a $15-$20 bag of plastic army men. Now, do the same for plastic car parts, electronic components, etc. etc. ad infinitum. Americans DO NOT WANT THOSE JOBS. How do we know? Well we can look around at OTHER really hard, low-wage jobs: picking strawberries, installing roofs, working low-level construction jobs....and see that Americans don't want those jobs, either. That's why millions of hard working brown people are doing them. AND.....American consumers don't want to pay for goods, products, and services at the high prices that would follow such jobs paying the wage necessary to draw Americans. If you hated $7 eggs, you're REALLY gonna hate $8 lettuce, and $10 strawberries, and a new house that costs $300k instead of $240k. You can bring back 90,000 cheap injection molded plastic toy factories.....not one job will result. Or you can force the issue...and the factories will still close, because nobody is gonna buy the $20 bag of plastic army men. Sure, there are some manufacturing opportunities and jobs that can and should exist in the US. And yes, globalization has left some people behind. But what is happening here is the elevation to god-like status of "mediocre white men." What, oh WHAT will we do with all of our mediocre white men? We yell at EVERYONE ELSE to "better themselves...learn to code!" and all that shit. But for mediocre white men? Nope, they should stay EXACTLY as they are, and we should just jump into a time machine to take us back to a time when 1) we had the the only major economy left standing after WWII, thus making us a manufacturing center, and 2) they didn't even have to compete for most of the decent manufacturing jobs because minorities and women largely need not apply. The Trump administration is trying to turn back time. All that they'll accomplish is wrecking shit that will take decades to repair. Fucking idiots.
  15. All those kids who needed special ed teachers should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps. They are leeches and freeloaders, and we should celebrate Elon taking a chainsaw to them. MAGA!
  16. Your reading on both leaders is dead wrong. Zelensky isn't pursuing a resolution to get approval ratings and "keep his job." It's not about him holding on to power. And Putin isn't going to cash in his chips now. He has a 100% owned asset in the White House. He KNOWS he can get better terms out of Trump, because Trump is a TERRIBLE negotiator when someone else at the table has actual strategy and power. Putin is holding out for.....everything he wants, and nothing less than that. And Trump will find a way to cave and give it to him. And Putin KNOWS that. Why would he cash in now?
  17. Also, that the "pro-Israel" crowd doesn't see this as plain as day is baffling to me. You are being USED. That's it. You are a tool of the autocracy -- you think that you are using them, but you have it bassackwards.
  18. FIF accuracy. Because only THEIR immense suffering offers us any hope of righting this ship. It's a slim hope, but it's the only hope we've got.
  19. If by "forever chemicals and other hazardous waste" you mean Dollar Generals and meth, why then....yes.
  20. 1) Nobody rational would argue against the concept that we need to take a much more vigorous approach to the garbage that is processed foods. 2) Except we have to exclude from group 1) the entire Republican party, which flipped the fuck out when Michelle Obama suggested eating more vegetables as "COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT CONTROL!" The GQP and anyone in it has NEGATIVE credibility or standing on this issue. BELOW ZERO. Fuck their hypocritical asses with a pitchfork coated in Red Dye No. 5.
  21. Highlighting the important language. "Mixed bag" means that there were 1) violent criminal acts that took place (true, not disputed) and 2) peaceful protests/statements of a position that differs from yours (also true, should not be disputed). The existence of item 1) does not give carte blanche to treat actions under item 2) as crimes. Agreed? Because if you do agree....then you should be troubled by the administration's rhetoric and approach.
  22. The man stretches the bounds of insulting yiddish. That...is an impressive feat. I mean, he's also a zorch (did I get that right? Been a long time since I learned all the dirty yiddish terms).
  23. Groovy. Arrest and charge any individual who committed a crime. Do NOT arrest and charge people with a crime for having a political position you disagree with, no matter how vehemently. Can we have that agreement? No, we can't? I mean, the administration seems to be firmly in your camp, so hooray for you. Just remember, "first they came for" is an ironclad rule of authoritarian regimes. It goes in the "be careful what you ask for, you're going to get it good and hard" drawer.
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