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Brisketexan

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  1. Oh. You are one of those people who thinks that the November 4th election results actually mean something. Cute.
  2. They're too scared. I'm serious. He runs the country like he's a mob boss. Speak up against him? You'll have his DOJ all up in your ass, that permit you need renewed will go in the deep freeze, that product you need to get through customs will get held up forever, etc. etc. I'm not kidding even a little bit.
  3. I once litigated a case involving such processing, where a third party fucked up and caused the process to turn off for several hours. Didn't just lose the materials in process - it fucking wrecked the machinery. Stuff that was supposed to turn into refined product turned into hard plastic and/or super tar type stuff. To be dealing with stuff that looks like "brute force" kinda things, the processes are incredibly sensitive and even delicate. PTINS, you do a fantastic job explaining this stuff and educating those of us who know nothing or just a little (I have gotten to learn bits and pieces by virtue of what I do, and my old man the petroleum engineer occasionally explaining stuff like this at a very elementary level....but my knowledge level is first-grade level stuff). Gracias.
  4. He starts buying you drinks, you're gonna end up doing a lot more than "answering shit," you slut.
  5. So....y'all didn't already realize that we are never, ever getting BLS numbers again? They can't really fake those -- they are inherently based on underlying data, and if the data isn't there to support rosy numbers, it ain't there. So, the only alternative is....no longer gather data or release numbers. Remember, this is the regime that said "if you stop testing, there won't be any cases" during peak COVID. We're simply going to have an information blackout for at least the next 3.3 years. That's it. That's the whole story.
  6. And it's about done with the "easy pickings" of immigration enforcement. If only we had some precedent for "create a massive, active government apparatus, and then have it run out of things to do." Not like that's taught us things like "it'll find things to do....like start doing gestapo shit to the internal population."
  7. After a day in this DC, I think most any recovering alcoholic would be struggling not to attend a 13-step meeting, with the 13th step being "fuck this shit, I need a drink." Blessings to you, man.
  8. Yeah, I mean....how could you even tell? I mean, there's no f'n WAY you'll convince me this entire thing isn't AI-created: No human being has an accent that over-the-top fucking awful. It HAS to be computer-generated.
  9. The odds that you just wrote 90% of Trump's next Truth Social post are off the fucking charts high.
  10. Their entire narrative about.....everything....is this: The worst part? It totally works.
  11. Y'all get it. The off-ramps are there. The cult will take them.
  12. No shit. That's why these days, I only read Mack Bolan books.
  13. You're wrong. In an instant, they'll rationalize how it's actually a GOOD thing. See my other posts on this point. It's a cult. He has been elevated to God. That's how it goes.
  14. No. The GQP in total is ride-or-die with Trump and Trumpism. And that's actually the right move for them at this point -- they are so far committed to this thing, that they can't deviate even a millimeter from "Trump is an immortal God and we will do whatever he says for eternity." If he fucking dies behind closed doors, we won't even know about it for a year. They'll Weekend at Bernies and deepfake his ass for as long as they can. Trump is the GQP. The GQP is Trump. There is no Dana, only Zuul.
  15. "Shit....'future president,' that's all you had to say!"
  16. Fuck you, Grok says I'm awesome.
  17. The answer to "what good thing can happen?" in this timeline is always "nothing." So...yeah. Nothing.
  18. The lemur community is not amused by your shenanigans.
  19. Every post on the football board:
  20. So, what you're saying is that this thread title should be changed to "Fuck future POTUS, Bo French?"
  21. You are wrong. They like it. You know what's super-duper alpha? Imposing your will on others, and they can't do a fucking thing about it. This is the MAGA way. Displays of power, demonstrating that you are so powerful that you are above consequences, is an essential part of the brand. Raping minors and getting away with it is a MAGA triumph, not a MAGA flaw.
  22. Discussed this earlier with GOLL. On the defense side, I suspect a good bit of the work and strategy is going to be to try to protect the individual defendants and their assets. That is, a defense that focuses on the fact that the proper defendant is a corporation, and there's no good basis to "pierce the corporate veil." The corporate defendant is fucked. But the individual Eastlands and such may be protectable. We'll see.
  23. Haven't read enough King to have a truly encyclopedic take. I read The Body as a stand-alone, not as part of the Different Seasons collection. Read pretty much everything McMurtry wrote, though. And my mother was a trained dramatic actress (state champ, that sort of thing). I recall her reading Texasville aloud on a road trip one year; she did all the characters with different voices and inflections and whatnot (these were her people, after all). It was actually brilliant, and maybe my first "audiobook" experience after my childhood experiences of mom reading books to me as a toddler and such. On trips with my family to west Texas a few times, I read some Hank the Cowdog books aloud, same style (made sure to have a proper voice and approach for each character). We loved those experiences. But for the most part, the speed thing is what gets me. An audiobook that takes 8 hours to play out, I can usually read in 2-3 hours or less.
  24. The Shining movie IS better than the book. But the ONLY one? Stand By Me would like a word.
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