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Brisketexan

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  1. ...I'll be home by dinner time or so. https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/business/chuck-e-cheese-adults-arcade-spinoff "Inside each Chuck’s Arcade will be a mixture of immersive virtual reality games and classic games like Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Mortal Kombat, Donkey Kong and Centipede." Yep, once there's one of these nearby, I'll be killing time there one weekend afternoon for sure. Yeah, I go to Pinballz sometimes, but shit....that's the good stuff.
  2. This. Between 1) being happy because other people are suffering, and that's the most important thing to them -- hurting other people, and 2) finding a way to blame Biden and Obama for whatever ill befalls them, they'll lose not .00000000001% of their enthusiasm for Trump and Trumpism.
  3. We'll get there. Faster than you think. We've already gone from "we need leadership that won't get us into any wars" to "fuck yeah, bomb em all, America fuck yeah!" We're only accelerating towards the inevitable outcome. Practicing those? FFS, we have declared every one of those the enemy of all that is right and good, and downright un-American.
  4. Well, we were actually pulling off -- with middling success, but some success nonetheless -- a transition to a next phase of a functioning economy. Yes, leaning on white collar employment. Now? We're being pitched one of two options: 1) eliminate most white collar jobs with AI, and/or 2) return to a mostly low-end manufacturing society (we're gonna bring back Nike factories so we can all stitch shoes for a living). I'm not chasing a dragon. I'm suggesting that perhaps we shouldn't pursue a dystopian vision with such enthusiasm and fervor.
  5. The answer to your question is "yes." We live in a timeline where our POTUS is a perfect singularity of idiocy and lies. He has achieved a density of stupidity and lying so intense that not even light can escape it.
  6. Got dragged to ZTejas plenty back in the day. Eventually, discovered the navajo taco on the menu. It was pretty good, and was my go-to order every time after that. Wasn't anything I was dying for and demanding to go to ZTejas to get, but I was always perfectly happy eating one. That said....can't remember the last time I went to a ZTejas, and haven't missed it.
  7. Counterpoint: a strong middle class is exactly the thing that "made America great" that so many folks want to "make great again." Post-war to the 1970s, that middle class was built on the back of America being a manufacturing powerhouse (auto industry etc.). As that dwindled, we ALREADY created a massive and unhappy "working class," as they were getting disproportionately left behind. Now, we're working on doing that with the next layer as well. Following a path that will take the country to a two class country of oligarchs and serfs (with a handful of remaining necessary functionaries who work to funnel all remaining dollars from the serfs to the oligarchs)....well, that won't turn out well.
  8. Here's the thing about "it's funny to piss off the liberals, sweet liberal tears" reasoning that so many of these fuckers employed. WHY does this shitbaggery "piss off liberals?" It's NOT because liberals are pissed about losing things for THEMSELVES. It is LITERALLY because "liberals" are concerned about how these policies affect everyone, INCLUDING "MAGA Lady Suzanne." I don't fucking depend on Medicaid, I almost certainly never will. Medicaid evaporating doesn't directly affect me personally, not in the slightest. But....it would hurt millions of my neighbors and countrymen, and I don't want that to happen to them. So, the idiocy of MAGA choosing a path of "I like to piss off group X, which cares about other people, by voting for policies that will hurt 'other people'" is so perfectly stupid, and the absolute bullseye capture of our times.
  9. The policy challenge isn't "stop some innovation from costing job categories X and Y." The policy challenge is the pivot - fine, jobs X and Y are going away. How are we going to equip our society, education systems, etc. to replace them . . . and if need be, during the transition period, soften the blow? There's functionally zero interest or momentum for that. We are all-in on enthusiastically fucking over society, and zero-in on doing anything that will actually help human society. These are dark times.
  10. For $1 billion, I will 100% volunteer to be the presidential nominee of the Musk Party, and will take whatever positions he wants me to. Because -- and let's be clear -- I have principles, and a deep sense of morality. BUT....I can definitely be bought.
  11. Those little portable small room units are selling like hotcakes. My daughter invested the £175 in one early in her stay in London, to make her room tolerable when they have a heat wave.
  12. I mean....let's not be so quick to judge here.... Sounds like a man with a soul most of us would recognize.
  13. Yes. Yes I do. Because big keys let you enter big data.
  14. In Texas, it don't make a shit. The Dems don't have a chance unless they run somebody who's good at the circus. So, a movie star or somesuch. That's it.
  15. What could go wrong? "Hey Grok, is Elon's TeslaXSuperBrainJuiceCancerCureAndFlavorPacket safe for all desired uses, and will totally cure all cancers, baldness, and even mild cases of the dropsy? What's that you say, "enthusiastic YES? Well then....APPROVED!"
  16. That would be at least 20% more effective than any current Dem campaign strategy. I'm not kidding.
  17. All in all, we've had worse Junes. Hell, we had a little shower at our house yesterday and it turned it downright pleasant in the evening. Whereas the boy is in central Germany....where it's 95 degrees, and NOBODY has AC. He draws his curtains all day, opens his window and cranks up a portable fan at night, and sleeps on top of the sheets. And is still hot. Man....god bless AC.
  18. Oh, fellas, we got us a fucking MATH WHIZ over here!
  19. I wouldn't worry. We'll just find a way to blame mexicans for AI, too.
  20. Yep. "Delete and block contact." You fucking asshole, all you did was hoover up money that COULD have been used to support candidates in other races who actually campaigned and had a shot at winning. Allred is a net negative in Dem politics. Fuck him in the goat ass.
  21. I still disagree. We the people WANT shitty. It's just all about who you are shitty TO. Give us a candidate who is a celebrity and promises to hunt down and imprison every Republican who voted to take away your medicare, or some shit like that. You have to promise pain and retribution. It's the only language America speaks now.
  22. See these together. That's my entire point: quit running on ideas, and policies. Run on the circus. The circus is what wins. It's the ONLY thing that wins. And if you don't win, then nothing else matters. Dems need to start with the basics: win. Then, and only then, can/should they work the rest of it.
  23. Smart, thoughtful candidates with great policy ideas that will actually help the people. In other words, LOSERS. The Dems cannot win with that shit. Pay attention to the voters, and what they want. They want performative bullshit. The Dems need to find a celebrity, stoke and feed his ego, and get him to run. Yeah, like a McConaughey type. That's it. That's the only prayer the Dems have in a statewide race for the next generation. Hate it if you you want, but it's true.
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