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Brisketexan

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  1. Pope "Go Ursus! I" woulda been awesome.
  2. "Where does Jesus say I should love a random person off the streets?" I mean....in literally the first fucking book of the New Testament? I mean, it's not even a vague concept like "love" -- it's a literal and direct call to action. And does Jesus mean everyone, even your enemies, fall under that group? In BOTH sections, the greek word is "agape," which is an action word, not a feeling word. It's all one of the more maddening things about MAGA Christians: how on the one hand, they wave the banner of "I'M A CHRISTIAN!" more aggressively than anyone else, while running away, as fast as they can, from THE ACTUAL FUCKING SCRIPTURES THAT ARE THE DEFINING TEXTS ON BEING A CHRISTIAN. There's no lawyering around the commands, FROM JESUS, in Matthew. The word used is agape, and it has meaning. It's one they don't like. But tough fucking shit, y'all keep telling us the Bible is inerrant, right?
  3. People who hate this selection: Icono, Texags, JD Vance, Steve Bannon. Couldn't ask for a better litmus test than that. And we'll get the same screaming criticism -- "he should be religious, not political!" in response to taking Francis-like positions....utterly ignoring the facts that 1) social issues (like, maybe feed the poor, and shelter immigrants) have been religious issues and stances for the Church since....the fucking Gospel of Matthew was made canon in the 3rd-4th centuries, and 2) THEY are the people who stridently insist on making EVERY social issue political.
  4. I wish this was sarcasm....but it's 100% gospel truth. And honestly....they wouldn't be that off-target...it IS absurd and stupid and shameful. FFS, it's VE day, there are only two letters in it, and he got one of them wrong.
  5. If he issues a Papal Bull ordering Whataburger to add the JCB biscuit back to the menu full-time, no exceptions....he'll be a true keeper of the faith.
  6. An American pope. So, I presume we can expect: 1 - the new Popemobile will be a jacked-up F-250 (the truck nuts will be covered, in a nod to Catholic decency standards) 2 - communion wafers replaced with Cheetos 3 - an Applebee's inside the vatican walls 4 - an annual blessing of the Stock Cars before NASCAR season kicks off
  7. Yep. More "sitting on the sidelines while Holocausts happen" is one of the Church's best looks, it should definitely repeat it.
  8. Macklemore fawning over Pope Pius XII is chef's-kiss perfection.
  9. Dude....you'll get the new Trumplandia alternative bags, and you'll like it....
  10. Over-promise AND under-deliver? Elon says...
  11. Here's what I hate about Nancy Mace: She's a middle-aged curvy brunette, a little rough looking but still in fighting shape. Pretty eyes, great figure. And clearly a good bit crazy. In other words: Brisket wheelhouse. BUT...her craziness manifests as batshit insane cruelty and meanness. And of the many varieties of crazy I find hot (and there are a lot of those varieties), "vile fucking cunt" isn't one of them. It really frustrates me. She has so much Brisket-endorsed potential, but destroys it all by being a weapons-grade twat.
  12. Has it occurred to anyone that maybe the Cardinals just made it through one side of Dark Side of the Moon?
  13. This. The current geopolitical environment has done more to incentivize nuclear proliferation than any sequence since the hottest years of the Cold War. At this point, any country even remotely capable of obtaining/developing a nuke would be foolish not to.
  14. Brisketexan

    LBGTQ

    I said "challenges and curveballs," not "awesome shit I do that I would totally brag about here." And calling her a wascally wabbit gets her all turned on, I'm not gonna question it, I'm just here to play the hits.
  15. Man....you sure know how to paint a picture of the dream.
  16. Brisketexan

    LBGTQ

    Are you growing? Are you trying? Are you failing anyway, but then trying again? Seems like all of those get a "yes," and honestly, that's all any of us can hope for - in ourselves or others. If we're being honest with ourselves, when we look into the mirror, we see both a good and a terrible person. I do, at least. Your current situation is one of those challenging curveballs that life, other people, and society tend to throw our way. I've shared some of those with this group, some of them I've kept to myself (maybe I'll share them someday, maybe not, maybe some of them, I'm still in the midst of sorting out). But know that everyone has to deal with one or more of those over the course of their lives. I do think that so much of it comes back to empathy. That doesn't need to be a namby-pamby word, or a command to enable bad/harmful/self-harmful behavior, and figuring out where that line is can be a challenge. But making the effort to look at things through someone else's eyes pays huge dividends. That's true whether you are trying to be helpful and kind, or whether they are your adversary you're trying to defeat. Then the next level - at least in social and political things - is to realize that in the long run, "defeating" those you disagree with isn't a great outcome. It may have to be done in the moment, but ultimately..... we're all in this together, and nobody makes it out alive. Or, as a pretty fair guitarist once said, You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other – our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That’s to help each other, not hurt each other. You're trying. You love your kid. Your wife loves your kid. You and your wife love each other. Keep walking. Keep learning and reasoning. Do the best you can. And keep doing the best you can. Help other people along the way with what you've learned, good and bad. Try to be better every day. Know that most days, you won't get it right. And try again the next day. That's all any of us can do. And that's all any of us should expect.
  17. Cancelling flights to Russia and telling Russians to fuck off? That's nobody's business but the Turks'.
  18. When a a voice who REALLY tries to be neutral and just call balls and strikes like Kai is using terms like "they're jerking our chain," that should give you some indication of what an utter shitshow this is.
  19. Brisketexan

    LBGTQ

    Dead-on. But, contrast that with the dominant political ethos of the moment: Elon Musk: "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." Two two competing approaches aren't "different paths to the same destination," they are polar opposites. Metaphorically, we are arguing between "should we douse ourselves in gasoline and light ourselves on fire, bathing in the cleansing flames? Or should we NOT light ourselves on fire?" There's not really a middle ground. And right now (see yesterday's post string), we are in full-on self-immolation, because when I light myself or others on fire, it makes stupid libs scream "NO!", and that means I'm winning. The right approach doesn't mean that hard choices can't be made. It doesn't mean that people won't end up being hurt, one way or the other; in imperfect systems (as all systems are), that's inevitable. My bigger-picture fear -- and current conclusion -- is that we have to put empathy aside for the moment. First, we have to fight back and defeat the monster that is hate and cruelty. And that....requires dirtying our hands. I sure as shit never wanted it to be this way, but here we are.
  20. Brisketexan

    LBGTQ

    Look at MC and Troph (and others) having a real, honest, thoughtful conversation about a genuinely tough issue. Which can happen, in the absence of politicized trolling. Truly, if you wanted a study in contrasts to perfectly illustrate how broken our society is, vs. how it SHOULD be, the contrast between today's post string and yesterday's (but for MC's initial post) captures it perfectly. There's a rational, decent, medically and psychologically sound way to approach this particular issue. No, it will never be perfect (in complex matters, you hardly ever hit the bullseye of "we got it exactly right"), but it will be a lot more so - and create a lot less collateral damage - if it is not politicized, but instead is based on a decent mix of humanity and reason. MC and Troph are impressive, good, and kind people. And it pains me to see them experiencing or even remembering the challenges and pain their experiences involve. I can't want anything but the best for both of them and their families. And . . . shouldn't that be the goal for ALL of us, for EVERYONE? I don't want to be "right" - I don't give a shit, what I personally take from the "debate" doesn't make a shit, as I'm not personally affected by it. I just want the folks who ARE in it to have a fair chance to get it "right" for them and theirs, and to be supported and not harassed/berated by society in doing so. Seriously, what's so fucking wrong with us that we can't simply settle on that approach?
  21. There are some really good and key observations in there, though. Not praise for the situation, or Vance, just observations of the current reality. - We thought we could shove the Silicon Valley ethos of "move fast and break lots of things" down literally everyone else's throat. And that is "simply not acceptable to them." - We have utterly fucked ourselves on defense sales. We are not a reliable partner, in any respect. Would you entrust an unreliable, even backstabbing, partner with things essential to your security and survival? You'd be an idiot if you did any more than you absolutely had to. We can't really unfuck ourselves here. - you can broligarch (perfect word for our current government) your way to the highest echelons of power in the US, but apparently that doesn't help you change things in Europe. Not that the system in Europe is perfect - far from it - but it IS at least still somewhat designed to reflect some will of the people and an interest in a common good. That is utterly incompatible with the US approach. - but really, most of the above comes down to this: "the first victim of Trump's disruption was trust. It was a very expensive commodity that was built up through decades of hard work and it will be very tough to regain." That's really it. Every choice is "what do I lose, and what will I gain." Strategic entities make trade-offs. Truly, I don't see much of anything of value that we will gain by Trump's approach. But let's imagine that we marginally improve our trade deficit in the immediate term, and we call that a gain. What will we have lost? We will have lost the currency that allowed us to make favorable deals - trade, military, strategic, intelligence, everything - for 80 years: TRUST. We are erratic, untrustworthy, and frankly, openly hostile (walking back the tone by JD doesn't change what everyone already knows because of the many words they've already said: this admin is openly hostile to and dripping with contempt for Europe). We are not trusted. We will not be trusted again in my lifetime. And that's the absolutely correct decision by Europe. We have lost so much.....for fucking what? To keep with the chess metaphor, we aggressively brought out capital pieces to knock over a couple of pawns, and now we're strutting around the room bragging about the brutality we wrought, we captured two pieces, they captured none! When long-term, we just set up the board in a way that our capital pieces are now fucked in future moves. They are going to spend the next decades either neutered because they will be on the defensive, or they're going to get outright taken out because we stupidly put them in a vulnerable, indefensible position. We just traded our get of two pawns today for our loss of our bishops, knights, and queen in the next 15 moves. Stupid.
  22. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    Yeah. Cool. That was fun. They still suck. A lot.
  23. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    Puro basura. No gols. No me gusta.
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