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My dad died in 2000 and my mom in 2013.  My dad was an Aggie, but a 2%er.  

I could see how my dad could've become trumpy but I doubt my mom would've.  The rest of my immediate family (sisters, nieces and BiLs) is as opposed to dotard as I am, so I'm lucky when it comes to holidays and get-togethers.  Most of my dad's family is anti-trump, too.  Now my mom's extended family (Louisiana cajuns) has a mean trump streak running through it but they've learned to not bring it up around me b/c they know I don't suffer their bullshit and I'll bark and bite back. 

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when my dad gets 'in his cups' so to speak, he honestly laments how 'liberal' his daughters and granddaughter are. he expects it from SIL bc 'of course, he's black' 🙄. but like, he seriously doesn't understand how all his female descendants ended up so liberal. so he blames Austin. seriously. 🤣

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I'm at about 2 months of not speaking to my parents outside of letting them know that I did not die on I-35 when they asked. They're back in town after being in the Valley and want to meet up with my wife and me to hash things out. Should be fun. My wife dropped her best friend for being a Trumper recently, and she now holds my parents in extremely low regard. I can't blame her.

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Usually a 9/11 truther dictating the NSC’s staffing over the actual National Security Advisor would be a bigger deal.  We are doing good everyone. 
 

To be clear on those staffers: Fuck ‘em. You have to fight for that detail as a career staffer or beg for it as a political.  You thought you could get in the cage and your face got ate by a 9/11 truther. 
 

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3.5 day work week and a destroyed economy. Time for some R&R!

President Donald Trump’s response to a tanking U.S. stock market—brought on by his sweeping tariff announcement Wednesday—is to fly to Florida.

The president is scheduled to jet to Miami on Thursday afternoon to attend a LIV Golf tournament at his golf course in nearby Doral. He is scheduled to hang there for two-and-a-half hours before attending a “LIV Dinner,” his schedule says.

Trump’s dinner is slated to begin at 7:30 p.m. and he is expected to stay for an hour-and-a-half. Afterwards he will fly to Palm Beach by helicopter and stay the night at Mar-a-Lago.

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4 minutes ago, mchookem said:

🤔 well, he cloaks himself in christianity. he viciously detests anything from the democratic party. money is his primary issue...he likes his drinks and can turn into a real asshole...wait...

oh my god...

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I am so sorry.

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7 minutes ago, mchookem said:

🤔 well, he cloaks himself in christianity. he viciously detests anything from the democratic party. money is his primary issue...he likes his drinks and can turn into a real asshole...wait...

oh my god...

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You're going to have to be WAY more specific. 

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1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

3.5 day work week and a destroyed economy. Time for some R&R!

 

Trump’s dinner is slated to begin at 7:30 p.m. and he is expected to stay for an hour-and-a-half. Afterwards he will fly to Palm Beach by helicopter and stay the night at Mar-a-Lago.

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6 hours ago, South Austin said:

This offseason blows.

Sir I refer you to either the Tell me About Aggie thread or Longhorn Baseball for a glimmer of joy.

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2 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

My dad died in 2000 and my mom in 2013.  My dad was an Aggie, but a 2%er.  

I could see how my dad could've become trumpy but I doubt my mom would've.  The rest of my immediate family (sisters, nieces and BiLs) is as opposed to dotard as I am, so I'm lucky when it comes to holidays and get-togethers.  Most of my dad's family is anti-trump, too.  Now my mom's extended family (Louisiana cajuns) has a mean trump streak running through it but they've learned to not bring it up around me b/c they know I don't suffer their bullshit and I'll bark and bite back. 

My father threw a Rush Limbaugh book at my head in the 90s. He missed; he passed 10 years ago.  Probably for the best in some ways....

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50 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

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For all I know the piece of shit had me set up and had my friend Angel killed. I never liked him. I never trusted him.

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6 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Kentucky trumpkins:  Trump is playing 4-D chess.  Woman:  "I think it's funny"  when Trump pisses the Canadians off. 

This is the fucking problem we have in this country. They are not serious people.
 

 

 

 

the dumbest fucking people alive 

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this seems legit, on the up and up ....

Control and management of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been turned over by the DOE to a company with virtually no history: Strategic Storage Partners, LLC, with the U.S. Government paying $1.4 billion or $280 million every year to have it managed. 

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Ladies and Gentlemen, and literally no other pronoun,

Allow me to be the first to congratulate my President, Donald J Trump, on his incredible work to dismantle the single greatest economy the world has ever seen. It ain't easy being handed the keys to a 'vette and managing to flip it- but he did just that the first time to the economy with his Covid 19 response. Now here we sit, in our lifted F250, jacked so high up in the air no other country can lick the taint on our truck nuts, and he has done it again, this time liberating us from the freedom handcuffs of Joe Biden's growth economy with a weapon named tariffs. Take a bow Mr. President, nobody has managed to do this amount of damage twice to the US economy, but you have truly earned your 4-day work week this time. Enjoy Florida and the Saudi-sponsored golf tournament, and thank you for all you did to lower egg prices on this Jobsgiving Eve.

Remember you had no choice, this man was 3 years older and didn't impress you in a Summer debate.
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25 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

the dumbest fucking people alive 

If there's justice in the universe, all of their Kentucky homes will be destroyed by the storms moving through the area. And when they stand there, hat in hand, waiting on FEMA and federal assistance they are greeted with "too bad, so sad." And a bunch of Canadians should be allowed to stand there, point, laugh, and say how they think it's funny.

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4 hours ago, Red Five said:

I have to see Trumpy family this weekend. Trumpy family, with zero ability to keep their thoughts on this stuff to themselves. 

I briefly considered stepping in front of a bus so I wouldn't have to do it. 

Ask them questions. Tell them details they’re unaware of. We gotta keep challenging our families even if it sucks 

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Posted
7 minutes ago, Okie State said:

When I finally blew up on my group chat with my brothers about Trump being a fucking traitor, I was told to 'grow up'. I responded that we won't agree on this and it doesn't matter anyway because we're all fucked and left it at that.

Grow up...fucking rich.

My brother a month ago. "The President doesn't affect your personal life in anyway, be it Joe Biden it has no impact on your life at all."  man the white male privelege.

Dumb mother fucker with a Masters and a great job that only exist because the government regulated a massive plant owned by a foriegn company and forced them to mitigate pollution.

Election day choices and his own dick? that's a blasting.

I don't think he pulled out of the market in Jan when i pulled my moms investment.  Also smooth brained platitudes and fold wisdom"markets go up and down, gotta ride them out."

 

We talk a few times a year. Its better that way. 

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26 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

this seems legit, on the up and up ....

Control and management of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been turned over by the DOE to a company with virtually no history: Strategic Storage Partners, LLC, with the U.S. Government paying $1.4 billion or $280 million every year to have it managed. 

Huh.  My old man was offered the job (heading up the SPR) like 25 years ago.  He'd have been quite good at it.  On a gov't salary.  But, I mean, that's STUPID....where's the grift in that?

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42 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

 

And.....this.  More than anything else, this.

We have blown it all up, pissed it all away.  EIGHTY FUCKING YEARS of post-war leadership and the prosperity that comes with it, poof, gone.  AND FOR NO FUCKING REASON.

A perfect summary from that piece:

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We have a deeply stupid government—from our economically illiterate president to our craven and foolish secretary of state, from the freelancing billionaire dilettante who is gutting American soft power to the vaccine-denying health secretary who is firing as much talent as he can. From the senior economics advisor who thinks comic books are good investments, to the senators who voted to confirm this cabinet of hacks, to the representatives who stumble over themselves justifying each new inane MAGA pronouncement.

But also, we have the government we deserve.

The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it.

 

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38 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

 

We honestly never should have earned trust.  It wasn't our misadventures that mattered, but the allies we fucked over along the way. Kurds out front say hi.

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Just now, Brisketexan said:

And.....this.  More than anything else, this.

We have blown it all up, pissed it all away.  EIGHTY FUCKING YEARS of post-war leadership and the prosperity that comes with it, poof, gone.  AND FOR NO FUCKING REASON.

Oh there is a reason. A black dude made fun of a wealthy narcissist.

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28 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

We have blown it all up, pissed it all away.  EIGHTY FUCKING YEARS of post-war leadership and the prosperity that comes with it, poof, gone.  AND FOR NO FUCKING REASON.

Well, the scary part is that I'm pretty sure there is a reason. We are being "led" by people who want to burn it all down. They don't care about any of that shit. 

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Didn't even realize Dr. Oz was up at bat. Jesus.

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The Senate on Thursday confirmed Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity TV doctor, 53-45 and mostly along party lines to lead Medicare and Medicaid, which insure nearly half of all Americans.

The future of both programs is the subject of fierce debate: Republicans are contemplating significant cuts to Medicaid, which provides health care to low-income Americans. The Trump administration and G.O.P. lawmakers have proposed sizable reductions in Medicaid spending in part to find savings to pay for President Trump’s tax-cut package.

Dr. Oz, 64, has for years been a vocal proponent of Medicare Advantage, the private insurance plans for older Americans, despite federal inquiries and lawmakers’ concerns that insurers have overbilled the government by tens of billions of dollars a year. He promoted it on his TV show and acted as a broker for one company that sells the plan.

At his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee last month, he seemed to acknowledge problems with Medicare Advantage, and tried to reassure senators that there was a “new sheriff in town.”

Democrats on the committee grilled him at length about the potential steep cuts to Medicaid, which could result in a substantial number of people becoming ineligible for health coverage.

In recent days, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has overseen deep cuts to the Health and Human Services Department, including laying off roughly 10,000 employees on top of another 10,000 buyouts, retirements and departures early on in the new Trump administration.

The cutbacks also affect Dr. Oz’s agency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which has a budget of about $1.5 trillion in annual spending. Still, Dr. Oz has given few clues as to what if any changes he has planned.

Dr. Oz’s ability to secure enough votes for confirmation was up in the air until recently. Then, earlier this week Senator Josh Hawley, the Missouri Republican, said he had decided to support his nomination because Dr. Oz told him that he would no longer support transgender care for minors and was “unequivocally pro-life.” Mr. Hawley had publicly said he was withholding his support over Dr. Oz’s previous positions on these issues.

Senators largely sidestepped criticism of Dr. Oz’s extensive and often murky financial ties to companies he will oversee in his new position.

He and his wife are wealthy. All told, his business and family ventures are valued in the neighborhood of roughly $90 million to $335 million.

In an attempt to avoid conflicts, he announced in February he would sell his interest in more than 70 companies and investment funds.

He has made tens of millions of dollars over the years pitching dietary supplements and promoting health-related companies on his television show.

The investments he said he planned to sell included stakes in UnitedHealth Group, the giant conglomerate that is the nation’s largest provider of private Medicare plans; Inception Fertility Holdings, a privately held company that operates a chain of clinics; and Amazon, which has a vast reach that now includes an online pharmacy and sells myriad medical devices and equipment.

In addition, he pledged to resign from various paid advisory jobs.

Still, the breadth of his financial ties to countless health-related companies has prompted lawmakers and ethics experts to express doubts about his ability to be independent.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Red Five said:

Well, the scary part is that I'm pretty sure there is a reason. We are being "led" by people who want to burn it all down. They don't care about any of that shit. 

For most the only reason is their fear of Donald Trump mean tweeting them. For many it's worth it to own the libs. Then there's a small group of morons who really believe in this shit, e.g., the dumbfucks behind project 2025. 

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14 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Interesting article on justsecurity indicating that the quality of advocacy of Trump's DOJ is below normal standard.  https://www.justsecurity.org/109967/supreme-court-alien-enemies-act/

I kind of expected that, the bigger question is whether it will make any difference.

That's because it's impossible to advocate for the positions they have been with forthrightness and quality legal arguments. They're stuck with trying to confuse the facts and issues and making ideological public policy arguments. 

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