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Brisketexan

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  1. Mexican nationals? They'll be shot on sight as soon as they try to cross the border to help.
  2. Who does Dear Leader want to serve more: 1) American workers and oil producers, or 2) Putin? Yes, that was a rhetorical question. I truly can't imagine the level of idiot you would have to be to answer 1).
  3. I mean....we laugh....but Zorg is 100% his role model. He absolutely wants a world where he is the true head of state/head of everything, aside and apart from -- and thus not answerable to -- the actual voting public. He openly wants a corporate autocracy to fully replace our democratic Republic. He's not shy about saying so. He is an enemy of the state, in the truest and most dangerous sense.
  4. Still gotta get past the mines and UO. Expensive equipment going boom (and it's expensive/impossible to insure against stuff that goes boom as a result of a war) is not a good business move. Sure, once that's done, they can build camps and such, and fix airports...but that alone actually sends some economic juice to the area. Of course, there's also the very, very important point that Ukraine has absolutely no intention of sticking with that agreement. Any deal made under such duress is garbage, and one made with Trump is a whole garbage scow.
  5. I mean....you gotta give the people what they want.
  6. A whole lot of this. Think that US Extraction Co wants to invest hundreds of millions to extract minerals in an area that hasn't been cleared of mines and unexploded ordinance? Without housing for employees? DJT is bargaining for a "prize" that nobody with the ability to grab it actually wants right now, or anytime soon. Give it to him, because who gives a fuck?
  7. Duh. Have you not been reading my newsletter?
  8. "Independents." There is no such thing. If an "independent" watched Trump speak, that person is a Trumper who likes to give themselves a label that makes them feel smarter. But the approval numbers are where the proof is in the pudding. Self-declared "independents" are Trumpers. Always.
  9. Alito and Thomas have literally no commonly recognized guiding principles. They are pure Calvinball -- does an outcome serve their psychotic "conservative" goals? Then that's the right outcome. They have no use for the law, separation of powers, obligations based on that separation, etc. None. Zero. They are rogue judges who are a cancer on the country.
  10. Still doesn't matter. Promise him whatever he wants. Knowing that you have zero intention of keeping your promise (just like your counterparty). There are plenty of cultures that conduct business that way, he doesn't exactly have to reinvent the wheel here.
  11. This. Violence, and the violent response by the State and (this next part is very, very important) non-State actors who have the full endorsement and protection of the State, is a FEATURE, not a bug of the Authoritarian playbook. So, the answer is...those protests need to put the 2020 protests to shame. They should be much, much, more....shockingly more....violent. Violence IS going to happen. That much is guaranteed -- the regime has guaranteed it.
  12. Amazing how quiet the "we have guns to protect against a tyrant destroying the constitution" crowd got when we have....a tyrant destroying the constitution. It's almost like it wasn't about that at all, and never was.
  13. Oh. You think state sovereignty is still going to be a thing a year from now. You are adorable. Those parks will be taken, by military force if necessary.
  14. That's a whole lotta words to say she's Woke, and she's gotta go.
  15. You can eat your Texas Strip as you celebrate that darkness means the freedom is working.
  16. This is and always has been the smart play. Promise Trump whatever he demands -- not like you're ever going to keep that promise. "You want me to promise you a delivery of 1,000 unicorns and a working X-wing fighter in 5 years? Done deal. I've got the best unicorns and X-wings around, you're gonna love 'em." It's all pretend shit because the promise a pretend promise. Promise whatever you have to TOMORROW to get whatever you need TODAY.
  17. [Brisketexan, moving to the RGV so he can vote for Bateshorn multiple times]
  18. That's one of the most enraging things about it -- it's not even a negotiation. There's nothing sane he wants from Canada. It's as if he slapped tariffs on Brisketexan until Brisketexan stops having threesomes with Sela Ward and Susanna Hoffs. Ummm, I'm already not doing that, and have no prospects of doing that.....so.....what exactly do you want me to do here?
  19. You describe the challenge presented by the distinction between patriotism and nationalism. I am a patriotic Texan. I love my homeland, I would like to see it continue to thrive and become even better. Those are goals that require introspection, and admissions that some things continue to need improvement. Texas today is dominated by a stupid, cruel, "nationalist" Texan impulse. Tribal bullshit, anger at the mere suggestion that maybe we shouldn't hurt people, tribalism at its worst. Texas is one of my parents. We are bonded for life. But it turns out that one of my parents is a giant, abusive piece of shit, and he really needs his fucking ass kicked.
  20. As I stated above: the greatest cowards the world has ever seen are MAGAs. There's not even a close second.
  21. The fascinating thing is that literally ALL restraints and constraints are gone. There are none left. We have no laws, no guardrails, nothing at all. The POTUS can straight-up require that people pay him (via his businesses) huge sums of money in order to get favorable treatment. He can set up crypto scams/grifts that allow him to make many more millions off of insider info. At this point, he could absolutely require Vladimir Putin to deliver him several billion dollars in exchange for the US deploying military force AGAINST Ukraine, and it would happen, with nothing to stop it. There are some things you can't come back from, and can never recover from. This Trump presidency is such a thing. We will never have a non-corrupt, non-oligarch State again.
  22. Correct. Because in times of absolute economic crashes and carnage, there is exactly ONE class of people who do well: those with loads of money. They can go out and buy distressed properties (in this case, up to and including US National Parks and other Federal installations) for pennies on the dollar. The current plan is, quite simply, a plan to deliver ownership of massive swaths of the US, including the US government itself, to a handful of billionaires. I'm not making that up. The billionaires have literally said that's their plan (read up on fucking Curtis Yarvin).
  23. This. This the whole thing. This ethos governs our nation right now, and there's no way to get off of this ride. We will literally fucking destroy ourselves in order to hurt "the other," with the people getting their faces eaten only meekly complaining "wait, I didn't want you to hurt ME, just hurt THEM!", which won't even slow down the train that's rolling over us all. We DID have one of the greatest countries in the world. And we're going to destroy it to chunks of rubble because we just couldn't handle the idea of there being some people who also lived here who we don't like for various stupid reasons.
  24. Oh. Like the Constitution is still a thing. You can either have an imperial/monarchical presidency, or you can have the Constitution. You can't have both....and the matter has already been decided. A congress that LITERALLY says "we work for the president" and a SCOTUS that blessed a limitless imperial presidency out front shoulda told ya.
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