Everything posted by Brisketexan
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Fast Food guilty pleasures
I mean...this is and always has been a real thing. Except when we were in the "we have little kids in car seats" stage in life, we ALWAYS go inside. It's no slower. It's often faster. And I am 100% convinced they check your order more carefully when you're inside, because they know you can just stand there and make them fix it (which will make their life harder, so might as well get it right the first time). I only drive through for the simplest of things, IF the line looks short. Like, I'll swing through and grab a coffee or iced tea while running errands. Breakfast is something that's usually simple enough that you can risk the drive through. My wife made the mistake, while running our refugee charge around to soccer practices, of going through the drive through one night....at Popeyes. And yes, they totally fucked up the order. And yes, once they did, she laughed and explained "yeah...that's what we get for going through a Popeyes drive through."
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Non-political tariffs thread
He's going to give out "stimulus"....to an economy that doesn't presently need stimulus (although he's certainly doing the lord's work to get us to that point). He's going to give out something like $400 billion from a bucket that's collected less than $200 billion. Where are all my GQP deficit hawks? He's NOT going to use that $195 billion to reduce the deficit that he's caused to grow at lighting speed. Again, where are all my GQP deficit hawks? This is fan-fucking-tastic. We are a fucking joke of a country.
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Post a pic that makes you lol
Yeah….dont know how the dirty Dagos skated by.
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Post a pic that makes you lol
Still cleaning out my folks’ house. Dad had several of these in an old box of stuff. Guess this was a viral “that’s just wrong” meme of the 60s-70s era:
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Look for the guy eating ketchup coated boiled brisket and relentlessly posting memes about how he’ll protect Texas from….the mayor of NYC.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
That’s the Dems music right there.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Well, we’re certainly going to get to find out. When the bastion of defense is the wet tissue paper that is the Democrats, you’re going to get raped in every way imaginable.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Man, here’s how it is: you can have a house with a sex dungeon in it, or you can have a sex dungeon that you live in. Make the right choice.
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How Is That Chain Still Open?
Except…which fast food chain hasn’t?
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How Is That Chain Still Open?
Financial reports from places like Chipotle and Cava tells us that the economic issues having broader impacts on restaurants is a growing thing. We’re going to see more chains in real trouble. Except Arby’s, which is immortal.
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ICE activity/raids
We’ve spent the last 20 years with a shitload of people telling us “THE REASON WE HAVE A SECOND AMENDMENT IS TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT!” Fucking hell. Turns out they were right. Except it also turns out that they were much more interested in BEING the violent, oppressive government than protecting the people from it.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
If that happens, we’re done. We don’t have a viable opposition party.
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Soup, Stew, Chili, Gumbo (Cold weather eats)
Just saw this. My “secret” for a great green chili stew: use Herdez tomatillo salsa verde for half your liquid. It’s got salt in it, so be light on your salt until you taste at the end. I brown pork, then sautee onions and garlic. Use salsa and chicken stock for your liquid. Simmer till pork is tender. Add as much green chili as you like, simmer a bit to blend. Maybe add a little comino, salt as needed. If you’re adding a starch like potatoes or hominy, do so and simmer appropriately. It’s a cold weather go-to for us. And chicken thighs will work too.
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Shit HEB Makes (when its open).
Maybe that was suggested because w open you can get blue corn tortillas in Sam Diego. Didja think of that, smart guy?
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
….which is the exact “negotiation” position that our own POTUS is using at home, right now. So, they do speak the same language.
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Thread of good things in the world today
If he’s straight…he’s gonna do just fine with the ladies.
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Non-Texas weather. The all-encompassing thread
Like the microburst storm we got here in Austin earlier this year. I’ve been through hurricanes, and it looked exactly like that as it was happening.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Translation: “our CFO shouldn’t have said that out loud. No worries, our plan to make the US govt a completely intertwined entity with our oligarchies will continue unabated. We’ll just keep it from view, as we have been.”
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Shit I've Cooked Lately
Alas, she’s back in Germany. But apparently…she’s coming to Scotland for a visit soon. This is his first serious girlfriend. We’ll see how it goes. He’s had an amusing time introducing her to Mexican and American food. He took her on a date to a real-deal bbq restaurant in Frankfurt (we got a brisket from there last year, and he was legit), and she loved it. But she also couldn’t figure out the right way to eat a pop-tart, so…it’s a process.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Condemning as “not a good human”….Joyce. Carol. Oates. Imagine being the kind of person who actually says that. I read another comment on that original post commenting on how sad, pathetic, and awful the lives of many of these billionaires (particularly the latest wave of tech billionaires, like Zuck, Musk, and Thiel) actually are. I mean, just imagine if somehow YOU had Elon’s money, and what you would do with it, and with your life. You could find joy. You could live a life of kindness and generosity. Dear God, if you gave me $500 billion…the hunger I could end, the basic medical care I could fund. Work with USAID as a force multiplier. And yes, I’d fish, and hunt…with my friends, and with people who otherwise wouldn’t have had access to them (pet cause for me: funding access to the outdoors). These people aren’t doing that. They are chasing being gods. And the saddest thing is that is unreachable. They will die having fallen way short of the only goal they’ve ever had. It’s truly a pathetic existence. I have .000001% of Elon’s money….but I have a woman who loves me for real, I have a relationship with my kids, I pursue activities that bring me happiness, I give of my time and treasure to people and my community, and find satisfaction in that. He is infinitely wealthier than me. I am infinitely richer than him. Ultimately, he’s chosen to be a tragic, pathetic figure…and to harm humanity in the process.
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Shit HEB Makes (when its open).
How are they different than the regular “you bake” corn tortillas? Because those seem to turn out fine? Or…just get fresh corn tortillas from most any Mercado?
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Random kitchen ride or die
“Stupid kitchen shit I did while drunk/high” is 1) awesome and 2) independent thread worthy, methinks. We all have such stories. Perhaps multiple.
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Maybe we need an Argentina thread too
See, we’re gonna spend $40 billion going to war with one Latin American country for no good reason, and we’re gonna gift another Latin American country $40 billion for no good reason. So…you know…some difference, I guess. What’s most important is (1) the “no good reason” part (unless you think “funnel money to Trump cronies,” “protect Trump’s ego,” and “distract from the Epstein files” are good reasons), and (2) better to blow $80 billion for no reason than use just a fraction of that to feed hungry children in America. I’m sure you understand why this is what Trump has to do.
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ICE activity/raids
You know, I’ll say this: the near-instant and ferocious resistance and verbal abuse these fascist cocksucking pieces of shit face whenever they show up (in Illinois at least) warms my heart. Fuck fascists. Always. And forever.
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How Is That Chain Still Open?
When the economy is such that long-standing fast food brands are taking a hit…sheesh. Gonna get tough for some other chains soon enough, I’d assume.