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Literally all Trump has to NOT do for Republicans to put set stone that they are the party of law and order and border security (and thus the party in power for the next few decades) is put whole specific groups of American citizens in camps or deport them out of the country.  So all things Nazi minus the genocide.

By the midterms, millennials in DC  are going to be saying "Trumps an asshole but I have to admit this place FEELS safer".  Hayseed tourists from the fly over parts of our country are going to say the same thing without the "asshole" caveat.  All this because they are going to disappear the appearance of homelessness. 

By next year, mayors like Dallas' Eric Johhson ("big strong guy, tears in his eyes") are going to be asking Trump to send guardsmen down to Dallas to help with the homeless problem.

So I am recalibrating my calculations in Trumps America.  I hope to see some of these GOP assholes predecease me.  EVERYTHING ELSE is gravy.

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Posted
11 hours ago, Hermanator said:

Is anyone else having trouble getting into the start of football season while staring down the barrel of all of this fascist shit? I just can't get excited even with the team and #1 ranking.  Just feels hollow planning anything for football season while also planning for how to get my family out of the country in a day's notice if needed. 

Yes. And it doesn’t help that our state generally and our alma mater specifically are growing ever more aligned with the fascists. I feel myself not only less enthused about college football overall, but also less inclined to root for our team. It’s a fucked-up feeling.

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2 hours ago, Hermanator said:

Yeah,  the lives of my wife and daughters don't compare in importance to a football season. What was I thinking?

Are you under the impression most Americans have "fuck you" money and can afford to just jaunt off to Europe or Mexico for years? Evacuating is a last resort to escape sure death as a political refugee.

What a fucking prick. 

My rights are being taken away but hey we covered vs Mississippi state

 

”Love it or leave it” isn’t possible for everyone 

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Oh my sweet summer child.  You think that there are still rules and laws.  

There are not.  There are many that nominally remain, and will remain....because the regime doesn't want to mess with them.  But if the regime decides that the law is something else tomorrow -- that contracts are only valid if the parties are wearing MAGA hats when they sign them, for example -- that will be the law.  It may take a bit of time to get cemented through official actions and such, but that is how it works now.

You live in an absolute monarchy now.  It's time you realize it.

It’s almost like prop haven’t been paying attention.  Throw phrases like “Donald isn’t a true conservative” or “the pubs won’t let Donald do that they’ll draw the line” out the window.  
 

crazy world we live in.   The most successful Texas board is owned by a conservative Aggy. 🫡

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17 minutes ago, immamac said:

I said get off the internet and stop spinning yourself up. I guess that equates to support the fascists, what was I thinking! 

I think "get off the internet" is a lot closer to "don't worry about the nazis" (the thing I paraphrased as what you said) than it is "support the fascists" (the thing you think I paraphrased as what you said).  

It's ok for people to be worried. It's best if they don't obsess over it, but telling them they should care more about UT football than fascism is ridiculous. 

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Please get off the internet but not this site during football season where you should totally care about what happens with our team!

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1 hour ago, Foosters said:

You're not wrong. I try to distance myself from this as much as possible, focus on the stuff within my immediate control, and avoid rage/doom scrolling. 

That said, I also realize that this nation is at a tipping point, and it can be uncomfortable to simply stand at the handrail while the ship goes down. 

Thank you for introducing me to the Saunders letter. I had never read it before.  Was worth looking up and reading the whole thing.  Thanks.

 

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2 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

That....is a man who channels his self-hate (because he really, really, really craves sucking dick but has to pretend to be straight and to actually hate gay people) onto other people.

Man.  Just be yourself, gobble all the crank, and be happy.  You'll lose all your MAGA friends, but none of the rest of us are gonna give 1/1000th of a shit about it, and you'll be SO much happier.

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5 minutes ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

Thank you for introducing me to the Saunders letter. I had never read it before.  Was worth looking up and reading the whole thing.  Thanks.

 

It's time to realize that we are reaching the time where we have one of three choices: leave, fight, or submit.

I'm not sure where I am or where my family is yet.  Somewhere in the first two.  I suspect my daughter has chosen the first.  My son has chosen the first for now....but has a strong inclination to return and choose the second.  As for my wife and me?  I don't know yet.  I'm still in the stage being enraged and heartbroken that these are our choices.

But we're there.  The choosing is already happening for many, and with good reason.

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1 hour ago, SubliminalHorn said:

What irritates the fuck out of me are people who can’t recognize their own privilege. I recognize my own. I’m educated, have a clinical doctorate, my husband; the same. We make good money and absolutely have choices (I hope) if the day comes that we have to flee. I know there are far more that don’t have the privilege that I have and there are far more that have way more. I fear for and care deeply about those that aren’t able to claim the same advantages that I have. So yeah, football season is fairly low on things that are important to me right now 

Straight white American male isn’t a bad starting hand in poker 

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27 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

I think "get off the internet" is a lot closer to "don't worry about the nazis" (the thing I paraphrased as what you said) than it is "support the fascists" (the thing you think I paraphrased as what you said).  

It's ok for people to be worried. It's best if they don't obsess over it, but telling them they should care more about UT football than fascism is ridiculous. 

Let’s focus on our running back rotation.  That’ll make things all better

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3 hours ago, crash_davis said:

So much #winning

https://www.newsweek.com/us-hits-highest-layoffs-since-covid-2111794

US layoffs surged in July to their highest level since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In July, there were 62,075 job cuts announced, according to a report by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. That's a 29 percent jump from June and 140 percent higher than the 25,885 announced in July 2024.

The July figure is well above the post-pandemic average for the month (23,584 between 2021 and 2024) and slightly higher than the past decade's July average of 60,398. It pushes the 2025 total to 806,383 layoffs—a 75 percent increase compared with the same period last year and already 6 percent higher than all of 2024. It's the highest January-to-July figure since 2020, when pandemic shutdowns drove layoffs above 1.8 million.

The surge in layoffs in 2025 is due to a mix of government downsizing, corporate restructuring and the growing effects of artificial intelligence. Public agencies, tech firms and retailers are leading the cuts.

"We are seeing the federal budget cuts implemented by DOGE impact nonprofits and health care in addition to the government. AI was cited for over 10,000 cuts last month, and tariff concerns have impacted nearly 6,000 jobs this year," said Andrew Challenger, a senior vice president and labor expert at Challenger, Gray & Christmas.


No worries, we'll just quit publishing the unemployment report:

"White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did not commit to job reports continuing to be put out monthly, only saying it was “the hope” of the administration that the releases will continue following a major shakeup.

At a Tuesday White House press conference, Real Clear Politics’ Phillip Wegman asked Leavitt if monthly jobs reports from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics would continue after EJ Antoni, the nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said reports would not be released until the data is “corrected.”



https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/karoline-leavitt-says-its-the-hope-that-the-trump-admin-will-keep-releasing-jobs-reports-under-new-labor-stats-chief/

 

 

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Posted
4 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

The ATV and dirtbike rides are in fact bullshit, they’re dangerous and disrupt traffic and that is the entire goal.  It’s OK to point out that dozens of kids on dirtbikes or ATVs shouldn’t be clogging major thoroughfares. 

As @Bateshorn has pointed out, DC genuinely does have a “teen” disorder problem that regularly metastasizes into real-life consequences for regular people. It’s been a conscious choice by local authorities not to deal with it. That doesn’t mean that deploying the guard is needed, but at the same time people get tired of “just live with it” as a response to stuff that is a real quality of life issue that can be solved. 

What about all fhe fuckers rolling coal and clogging up downtown Fredricksburg with Trump flag parades?

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10 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Straight white American male isn’t a bad starting hand in poker 

Being a cis-het white dude born with privilage fucking rocks. You basically start every poker hand with a pair of Aces and a hefty stack. 

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1 minute ago, DDD Dad said:

What about all fhe fuckers rolling coal and clogging up downtown Fredricksburg with Trump flag parades?

Well you see they're not kids and/or black so it's fine.

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9 minutes ago, Chopper said:

and Another republikan dude rushes to a camera to proclaim how frightened he is of Washington

 

I wish that horse would've done us all the ultimate favor and kicked this shit-for-brains in the head and killed him.

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14 minutes ago, Chopper said:

and Another republikan dude rushes to a camera to proclaim how frightened he is of Washington

 

 

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3 hours ago, Pancho said:

 

Maybe we could design special uniforms for them, with cool brown shirts.  Or maybe all black with neat insignia that look like lightning bolts.  I wonder if we could get Hugo Boss to manufacture them for us.

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When I'm dictator, I'm going to make every DT poster explain why they ignored this shit while crying about how someone saying "Palestinian children don't deserve to starve" is a rabid anti-Semite while I dangle them over a pit of alligators. 

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2 hours ago, immamac said:

I have a grip, I think all of you who are perpetually online and losing your minds should really disconnect for a while. You are doing it to yourself.

Does this suck? Yeah.

Is there something you are doing about it? Nope. 

If that's the sequence and you are living in a world where you are constantly freaking out about things and being hypervigilant of everything that's happening with this admin, then it's actually a problem of your own making.

You guys can make me the villain or whatever boogie man you want. 

Clayton Williams, oilman and colorful candidate for Texas governor, dies |  The Texas Tribune

Live look at Imma.

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1 hour ago, Brian Fantana said:

Not everyone has the means to do shit about fuck, and people that don't have means certainly don't have time for political advocacy. Even getting themselves/their families moved anywhere is close to impossible unless they have disposable income. And some (you could argue, a lot) of those people belong to classes of people that are actively under attack by this admin. 

If you don't need to be hypervigilant, you're lucky. I'm lucky. You're lucky. Probably most of the people that post here are above the median level of privilege in this country, so we're lucky. But not all of us. What do you think is going through the mind of, say, a Latino trans person that's the child of first-gen immigrants right now? They have to be shitting their pants and rightfully so. Telling them to suck it up and enjoy the fact that your football team might be pretty good this year is not really something you should be saying to them if you have any sort of empathy rolling around between your ears.

It doesn't even have to be this fringe. It could literally be a undocumented Texas high school graduate who just had to cancel their enrollment for this fall semester because the Feds pulled the "State's Rights!!!" to govern themselves and classify students who graduated from Texas high schools (and lived here for a specified amount of time) as Texas residents for tuition purposes. Now I have to deal with students asking me how they can attend UT in the fall if their tuition just rose from $5,500/semester to $21,000/semester. Oh, and that $6k/year Texas grant you qualified for and were awarded? Sorry, you no longer qualify. No, you can't apply for a loan either, because you no longer qualify for the state-funded CAL loan. It would be better to spend your time in hiding since ICE is knocking on people's doors to fill their quotas. Stephen Miller said you were born to be a 2nd class citizen and shouldn't be getting government money. Oh, and also that fucking incel is making sure the rest of Project 2025 is being carried out in the meantime. So, yeah, don't look up. 

Unfortunately there's nothing I can tell them. If I want to give them the slightest sliver of hope, I can suggest paying in-district at a CC for a couple years and hope to have the opportunity to get a university education later IF the regime changes. But that would require me to believe that Trump isn't going to declare himself eligible for 3rd term with the fucking SC he paid for. And my head isn't far enough up my ass to not see where this is going. (2032? You really thing he's capable of saying "ok, enough is enough, Im rich enough, that's enough power, I've had my fill"? Fuck outta here). 

 But anyway, that's my rant. I'm still at the stage where I can use sports as a way to stuff the reality of how fucked up these people are ALLLLLLLLLL the way to the back corner of my brain. I'll wash off the echoes of that fucking cunt Miller spout off insane racist propaganda on TV to further their nazi agenda by reading up on the latest practice report this evening. It doesn't mean I don't give a shit, it's just one of the few ways I can cope. My gf and the occasional drinking/smoking session will have to make do for the other times that I can't fit my head up my ass enough to forget.

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19 hours ago, Pancho said:

 

Well of course he is because his dementia banana mush brain said it. So they have to now make something happen based on what he said so it will now be marked as true and covers up his dementia brain.

lulz - they're not even trying that hard to cover up the dementia

 

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55 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

It's time to realize that we are reaching the time where we have one of three choices: leave, fight, or submit.

I'm not sure where I am or where my family is yet.  Somewhere in the first two.  I suspect my daughter has chosen the first.  My son has chosen the first for now....but has a strong inclination to return and choose the second.  As for my wife and me?  I don't know yet.  I'm still in the stage being enraged and heartbroken that these are our choices.

But we're there.  The choosing is already happening for many, and with good reason.

My wife and I are trying to figure out if our family is going to be (1) or (2). We both have deep family history in Texas, and love what this state could be but hate what it chooses to be. It's only gotten worse in this state for my entire life: education, roads, public services, on and on its all worse due to neglect.

It's frustrating to be in this position of just wanting to be able to focus on being the best dad I can be for my daughter and best husband for my wife, while watching their rights be actively stripmined. I don't know what I can do to fix this - voting hasn't done shit, nor has engaging with my elected representatives. What would our Dear Leader immamac suggest instead? Upping my burnt ends donation and drinking till I forget about it all?

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40 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

What about all fhe fuckers rolling coal and clogging up downtown Fredricksburg with Trump flag parades?

White on white (or other) crime doesn't count, sir!



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