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Syndicate.  Yep, right by the tracks on the southern side of the street.  Got a real weird vibe the second we walked in.  Happened to me again about 15 years ago at a "club" at the base of the then newly built Monarch tower downtown Austin.  Got invited to some wine tasting and within 90 seconds, knew the place was wrong.  Obviously they are all over the place, but I'm too old to go to joints like that anymore.  But I used to have a penchant for knowing them and sure enough, they'd close a few months later.  

After my dad passed away, several Italian "gentlemen" came to the post-funeral reception to socialize and pay their respects despite their differences with him and his trucking union near Chicago.  I was in Austin, so my uncle up there handled the booking while I was traveling up there.  This joint called "Giacomos", just outside the city.  I was still a kid then, late 20's.  But I could tell it was a front.  And I asked my uncle why he picked a place like this.  And he basically said, "Your dad loved shit like this.  He'd invite these fucking guys to places like this and pay cash and then place an anonymous tip to the FBI guy we had on the dole.  And sure as shit they'd get shut down as a message for a short time."  So the food was excellent, all our blood relatives had a wonderful time in this private room.  Uncle Gerry gives me a wink when all the fucking douchebags are leaving.  Sure as shit, a few weeks later---the restaurant is shut down.  It's reopened now, but it was his way of showing me another world I didn't really know.  I mean, how lame am I...I'm looking up money laundering in the fucking dictionary?  /mikejudge

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I don't know this gentleman, but I want to party with him. 

I totally acknowledge 'White Privilege', despite being mixed-race. But I have two eyes and two ears.  But to be fair, Trump's shit isn't 'White Privilege', it's crossed the Rubicon into something altogether different.  Just his whiteness (never mind he's actually orange and gold) doesn't really explain all this away.  He's in a different ozone.  

I guess you can still call him 'White Privilege' in the way you call really potent cocaine or heroin by a nickname.  Because he's not a race, or a man, or a leader, or a businessman, or a politician.  He's a drug.  He makes stupid feel better about themselves.  He could be green or upside down.  He was the high 50mm+ Americans never knew they needed.  'White Privilege' is the brand of Crystal Meth they are now hooked on.  And they ain't getting off anytime soon...

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On 6/4/2024 at 10:33 PM, Gatorubet said:

Good Lord, if I hang around this thread long enough, I’m gonna see you guys waxing sentimentally about not being able to go to the Ache and Stale anymore

17 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

We already covered the gloriousness of Steak & Ale - as well as Bennigans - in another thread.  Keep up, man.

Yep, Steak & Ale is back https://steakandale.com with the first one in Minnesota, and we are supposed to get one later this year or next in North Texas (Bennigans is headquartered up there).

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56 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

A 10 fucking second clip doesn’t let you get any context except that he’s not talking about what Hannity wants to focus on. This kind of shit is the problem. He may have rambled incoherently for two minutes, but if he did, why not post a two minute clip?

Because 10 seconds is about the longest you can hope for when it comes to the typical American attention span. 

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1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:

A 10 fucking second clip doesn’t let you get any context except that he’s not talking about what Hannity wants to focus on. This kind of shit is the problem. He may have rambled incoherently for two minutes, but if he did, why not post a two minute clip?

 

1 minute ago, Neonmoon said:

That clip is evidence of nothing 


For Americans? Yes it is.

 

what @Fudge Nuggets said.

 

and:

 

Happy Samuel L Jackson GIF by Apple TV+

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20 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

There was one on Anderson Lane.  I know because I once got asked to leave the premises after getting into a food fight in the condiment line.

Dad?

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20 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

There was one on Anderson Lane.  I know because I once got asked to leave the premises after getting into a food fight in the condiment line.

 

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She certainly looks like she's from Jersey given the bronze makeup and dye job, but she thinks and talks like one damn sexy woman.  WOULD!  

 

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He is, but he’s got a bit of a blind spot when it comes to class, and that’s why he doesn’t fully understand the power of white supremacy over whites in the bottom half of the economy- it’s an unfulfilled promise- a booby prize. In direct contradiction to much of what his writing assumes, success simply isn’t available to most white people, male or otherwise, no matter how hard they work. But we tell them it is. We pretend it’s a birthright. The joke is on them, and they know it. That’s what this revolt is about, imo

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On 6/5/2024 at 8:29 PM, Al Czervik said:

Syndicate 

right by the tracks and access road u turn under 183. Probably lasted all of 4 weeks. Billed as Austin’s upscale night club. Totally a front. 

HEY, EVERYBODY, WE'RE ALL GETTING LAID!

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Another Black contestant is speaking out:

A new account rekindles allegations that Trump disrespected Black people on ‘The Apprentice’

Gene Folkes had just been jettisoned as a contestant on “The Apprentice” and was commiserating with a crew member at a bar inside the lobby of Trump Tower. He was indignant — and not just at having been kicked off the reality show after its star, Donald Trump, had delivered his catchphrase: “You’re fired.”

One of two Black contestants chosen for that season in 2010, Folkes was insulted that Trump had called him inarticulate and accused him of illiteracy in a lengthy boardroom tirade minutes earlier.

As the crew member, a Black woman who worked as a contestant manager, consoled him, Trump suddenly appeared at the bar.

“He came up and he asked me: ‘Is this your woman? Because you two would make a really great couple. You both have the same background,’” Folkes told The Associated Press.

The contestant manager quietly reminded Trump that she worked for him. Then, Trump made a comment similar to something he uttered in the boardroom that never aired on TV, Folkes said.

“He said again, ‘It’s not like I used the N-word,’ and then he walked off, and that was that,” said Folkes, a New York-based consultant, podcast host and U.S. Air Force veteran.

It continues with a recap about the other Black contestant from last week who says:

In an interview, Jackson said Trump never said the slur to his face. But he said Pruitt’s account and the conversation about an alleged Trump recording spotlighted the nation’s inability to resolve broader questions of what kind of speech voters will tolerate in 2024.

“The bigger problem for me is none of this really matters because America is entirely comfortable with both overt and covert racism. And whether there is a smoking gun that says Trump called me an N-word and a tape appears tomorrow, what will that change? How will that make a difference?” said Jackson, president of his own brand marketing, diversity and inclusion consulting firm.

Full AP article  

 

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On 6/7/2024 at 3:55 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

He is, but he’s got a bit of a blind spot when it comes to class, and that’s why he doesn’t fully understand the power of white supremacy over whites in the bottom half of the economy- it’s an unfulfilled promise- a booby prize. In direct contradiction to much of what his writing assumes, success simply isn’t available to most white people, male or otherwise, no matter how hard they work. But we tell them it is. We pretend it’s a birthright. The joke is on them, and they know it. That’s what this revolt is about, imo

There are currently twice as many white people living in poverty in the US as black people. Of course as a percentage it’s only 9% vs 17%. Interestingly the respective percentages in 1968 were 10% and 34%
 

A while back there was an interview on Think with a guest talking about universal basic income; they mentioned MLK, and made the assertion that the government feared him more for the inroads he was making among impoverished whites with his anti poverty rhetoric than his racial equality efforts 

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I don't know why it's so fucking hard to find, but I watched it live on CNN so it's not like it's some antiquated b-roll tape from 1970's PBS.  But of all the speeches and interviews he's give, teleprompter or improvised, the one that really made me believe he was going downhill was the White House Rose Garden and this would have been late 2020 or early 2021.  I'm guessing Autumn 2020 because everybody was dressed normally (no winter gear).  And he had several reps from Big Pharma there to give a yuge update on vaccination efforts.  And yeah, some of the CEO's have differently sounding names.  But from announcing the guests to his brief remarks, I don't think he nailed a single syllable in about 120 seconds.  It was not tele-prompted but he did have the names of the people on a paper at his podium, but the rest was ad lib in terms of remarks.  

It remains the oddest display of his issues to me to this day, but I can't find the clip anymore.  I showed it to my wife and her partner (they are Speech-Language Therapists).  And her partner fucking hates Trump more than all of us combined.  Anyway, it prompted them, for shits 'n giggles, to workup a study of Trump's active v. passive vocabulary because they have to do this for some of their clients for cognitive, medical, educational purposes.  In their industry, they have a very solid, decades proven sampling model (obviously they can't sit and listen to a child or stroke victim speak for a month).  Now vocabulary and grammar are not the only indicators of intelligence.  And there are articulation and physical factors at play in our speech obviously.  But the average American adult is going to have an active vocabulary of about 20,000 words and a passive of about 40,000 words.  After they had some grad interns look some hours of tape of his, they estimated he has about half of that.  One of a dozen signs we've all noted indicates that he is likely of slightly below average intelligence.  /csb

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That's a good point, Pato (and others).  He's got to have at least triple-digit words and sounds that are totally made up by him alone in his lexicon by now.  And that's just what we see publicly when he's tanned, tested, and ready.  

There's actually a speech therapy sub-study where they measure the 'made-up' vocabulary of everybody from toddlers to 100yo stroke victims.  It ranges from the child just says "cupcape" instead of "cupcake" to completely unheard of terminology.  But there are ways in which they can kinda, sorta reconstruct their language to discern what that person means.  Like the person will seemingly be speaking jibberish to you or I, but there is still a an adjective, a noun, a verb, etc. in there, properly constructed if you can follow the pattern after several sessions. 

It's not a popular focus in their field because it's really fucking hard scientifically.  And, as most of us know in our person lives that a small child, or special needs young person, or elderly relative that cannot effectively communicate their thoughts or needs often becomes very frustrated.  They can get extremely reclusive/withdrawn, very angry, confused, disassociated, or just downright depressed.  So the therapist not only has the manage the therapy, but also the client's emotions and that of their families/caregivers.  

This fucking assclown speaks like a toddler or a stroke victim, and instead of exhibiting all the usual psychological/behavioral symptoms of someone with obvious vocabulary, syntax, and pronunciation challenges.  He is proud of it because thousands of people applaud it every time he does it.  He continues to defy almost all reason or logic.  

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3 hours ago, AnTiM said:

Maybe just an idiot/savant who excels at conning people and knows jack shit about everything else.

I think this is what galls me the most about everything. If he were running some Netflix-worthy heist/confidence scheme where there were multiple levels of intelligence and cunning then at least I would be able to say, yeah, well fucking done. 
 

But no. He just found out how to appeal to all the dumb people. Like literally all of them. And none of us knew how many there were. So now we all get to die. 
 

Which I guess is maybe how it was always supposed to be. All along. 

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