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Brisketexan

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  1. Well, that would suck. I was last there a year ago. But Yelp has reviews from just. A couple of months ago. I dunno.
  2. When I go for work, I usually stay at the hotel Indigo. But bottom line, you’re safe walking a few blocks in downtown El Paso. Seriously, it’s quite safe. And also, I can’t recommend this place strongly enough: Seriously, outstanding stuff, if you like tacos and beer. Which I do. And L&J is an institution, worth a visit.
  3. She preaches several times a year at a church where she is associated. Not formally on staff, but formally associated with it (it’s a particular kind of thing, not found everywhere). I’ll share her particulars via PM.
  4. She was not so sure. At all. She was quite aware of, and anxious about, the risk that the message she was sharing would not be well received. She agonized about it with me the last several nights, always ending up at “this may go terribly, but I can’t NOT say it.” And all I could tell her was “if that’s what you feel called to share, then I have your back no matter what.” Walking up to a pulpit to share a message that may result in you getting run out of the room is a pretty unnerving thing. Who knows, there may have been some people who are upset and angered by it, and she’ll hear about it later. But there were, thankfully, quite a few who found it meaningful and were supportive. It’s a good congregation.
  5. My wife had to preach today. It was really fucking hard, she wrestled with her sermon from the beginning, and come Wednesday, it got even harder. Let’s just say she didn’t go the same direction as your priest. She also didn’t go anywhere near “it’s good that he’s dead.” She spoke to bodily autonomy. And how your life, and physical body and existence are a gift from god. And who are we - or anyone - to take away that autonomy, up to and including by ending a life? But don’t think it’s limited to that. Limiting bodily autonomy is a particular problem in these times. Quite a few people thanked her after, and there were some pretty strong emotions. Anyway, preparing and giving that sermon was one of the hardest things she’s ever done, and she left it all on the field. I’m in awe of her, and her ability and courage to listen to the spirit when called, even and especially when it’s hard.
  6. A cooler revolution would have voted on OnlyFans. Count the number of sharpies up the butt, there’s your winner.
  7. Seriously. I will now list all of the consequences that conservatives have faced for literally calling for the death/execution of homeless people, people they don’t agree with, immigrants at the border, and others: ….. ….. ….. Yep, I think that about covers it. Now, we could list the consequences actually imposed on non-conservatives for even daring to suggest that, while there is no supporting or excusing the violent act against him, Charlie Kirk was in fact not a good guy and is not worthy of the canonization he is getting from MAGA: [insert 50 fucking pages of people getting fired, getting stacks of death threats, and the like] It’s fucking insane. It’s Wilhoit’s law writ large.
  8. Remember…this is how we treat our ALLIES. Why would anyone invest in any relationship with the US beyond what is absolutely essential?
  9. Here’s some fun. They are actively trying to kill the dollar as the dominant/reserve currency. This is purposeful sabotage and self-destruction…for fucking what? Why? It’s just so…fucking…stupid. As a direct data point, the day before he was inaugurated, I could buy a pound for $1.22. Today? $1.35. The dollar is weaker against every currency. In large part because nobody has any faith in the country or economy behind it. Sofaking stupid.
  10. Dude. You know that’s not true. Wait 15 minutes, max, and it will get more embarrassing. Repeat ad infinitum.
  11. Well, yall heard it. Nicole needs to go back to drinking. But she won’t. Because it takes her eye off the ball of killing men on Rainey Street.
  12. We became, in a staggeringly short amount of time (historically speaking), the dumbest nation in the history of the planet. Just self-immolating at every possible turn. And I’m including when countries like El Salvador and Honduras went to war with each other over a soccer match.
  13. Also…I like how me doing things like quoting Charlie Kirk’s own words about whipping foreigners and such is “my opinion.” I’m sorry if the guy you desperately want to canonize was actually a pretty shitty person. Again, “being a shitty person who I disagree with” should not result in murder, state-sanctioned punishment, etc….which 1) seems like it should be a non-controversial take, and 2) is the opposite approach as our current regime is taking in response to Kirk’s death. I’m curious…do yall have as much of a problem with THAT, the state literally saying that anyone on the left should be punished and exiled from this country, as you do with me just quoting some of the worst things Kirk actually said? Because I assure you, I am much less a threat to this republic than Stephen Miller is, but I’m the one you’re pissed at. I think I’ve spotted one of our many, may problems.
  14. For the record, this is me pos repping and agreeing with Ana. So, write it down. But… https://clarksvillenow.com/local/apsu-fires-professor-over-resharing-social-media-post-about-shooting-of-charlie-kirk/ And some scoffed when warnings of impending fascism were made, …it doesn’t matter, because this event has dissolved whatever constraints were remaining as to full state-sponsored fascism. It’s Katie-bar-the-door now. Daring to speak of the dead in any words OTHER than those they meet the after-the-fact approval of the regime and those beholden to it means that you are sent to the gulag in one way or another.
  15. Trump said he wanted us to put “kill switches” in the F-35s we sell. What level of absolute fucking IDIOT would you have to be to buy such a product with that threat even being a possibility? It would be politically and criminally negligent to your people to do so.
  16. Perhaps if the people lionizing him, and making him a holy saint and martyr stopped after “political violence is wrong,” I wouldn’t need to voice a rebuttal of that. Do you have similar criticism of the thousands/millions/political leaders who have said thousands of words about what a good and holy man he was after they said “killing is wrong?” Because letting their false canonization go unchallenged would be irresponsible and dishonest. Right? Or do they get to literally portray him as seated at the right hand of god, and the rest of us must sit silent? Let me know if the rules only apply in one direction, so I can follow them in the future.
  17. Dude. Shooting someone is wrong. Period, full stop. But stop whitewashing him. Most important thing was “family?” How “pro-family” is it to tell every black pilot (or any trained professional) that you question their qualifications BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK? How “pro-family” is it to put a professor on what YOU CALL a “hit list,” and then when your followers understandably issue death threats to her, you’re silent (and thus functionally supportive)? How “pro-family” is it to say “Of course you should be able to use whips against foreigners that are coming into your country. Why is that controversial?” Do “foreigners” not have families? Fuck whitewashing him. Two things can be true: he was a hateful scourge on humanity, and NOBODY has the right to choose to take his life.
  18. Charlie put her on what he LITERALLY CALLED a “hit list.” She faced a cascade of death threats. That’s not “honest dialogue.” It is the textbook definition of “stochastic terrorism.” So, stop whitewashing this shit. Nobody should be shot for their statements. Nobody should face death threats for their statements. Nobody should be murdered because someone so demonized them as to make their murder inevitable. Decent humans believe those things are true. Conservatives and Charlie Kirk fans only believe those things in one direction. Just stop.
  19. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    Yep. They were discombobulated from the opening whistle. And they have real, consistent “maintaining possession” problems. They can’t maintain a passing sequence to save their lives. I don’t mind playing a decent match and ending up on the short end. I do mind playing sloppy, stupid soccer, and that is their brand these days.
  20. Get this dude on Surly stat, cuz he’s one of us.
  21. Apparently, one of the side effects of your chemo is that our offense sucks. So….
  22. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    Sigh. Just shitty soccer.
  23. One of those slices of spam is more accurate than Arch.
  24. Back in the late 80s, I went on a lot of duck hunts hungover as hell. I mean, puking over the edge of the blind. Even then, my accuracy was better than Arch.
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