Everything posted by Brisketexan
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Soup, Stew, Chili, Gumbo (Cold weather eats)
Need to grab a potato and a piece of salmon, because I've got an envelope of this starter from our last care package from Norway in the pantry just waiting: So easy, and so damned hearty and good. Maybe add some celery and onion that I already have, but they're not super necessary. Once made an outstanding pot from that same mix, with local salmon, in the dining hut at our cabin on the banks of invikkfjord.
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Winter Weather 2026 - I Can Haz Cold Front?
I mean, we do both look pretty snazzy in a hat.
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Greenland
No. Read the commentaries that are being shared wide. Trump is a symptom. We the super-shitty people, and our non-resilient institutions, are the disease.
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Greenland
I'd argue with you if I could. Their penchant for giving you a single cube of ice when you ask for ice is a source of significant humor in our family. Also - and we think it's tied to this - in the summer, they (particularly the Germans) are the most dehydrated people on the planet. It's hot out, drink some damned water, take it from the people who live in "hot" 10 months a year. Geez. No wonder they get cranky.
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Greenland
Yeah. The damage is done. Threatening to invade and wage war on a sovereign nation for no reason other than conquest and dickheadedness.....there's not takesies-backsies on that shit. It's like getting in a fight with your wife about how to load the dishwasher, and shouting "fuck you cunt, you should know I fucked your best friend last week, and her tits are 10X better than yours." You don't get to come back and say "I'm glad we were able to work out the dishwasher thing, and why don't you forget all that stuff I said about your best friend?" That's not how shit works.
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Greenland
Like…all of our preexisting treaties with Denmark and NATO. I hate stupidity, and these days, it’s our most abundant natural resource.
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Greenland
Yeah…but they drink a shitload of wine etc and smoke a few cigs and maybe take a mistress-banging break while doing so, so….advantage to Europe.
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Sen Mark Kelly
Yep. I did. Because it can't hurt for them to have some reminder from "man on the street" American people who they serve, and with whom their loyalty always must lie. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if more than one of them went home that night and said "honey, the weirdest thing happened today [then relates what happened]." And maybe....just maybe....the wife says "man....that people think that sort of thing actually needs to be said, that's something." That's it. Just plant a seed. Maybe it works/helps. Maybe it does nothing. But you miss 100% of the pitches you don't swing at. I'm not a "do nothing, say nothing" person.
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Winter Weather 2026 - I Can Haz Cold Front?
Well, you should feel hurt. You were left out because you're ugly.
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Winter Weather 2026 - I Can Haz Cold Front?
I mean, not YET we aren't. Stupid ice storm.
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Sen Mark Kelly
I recently ran across some military officers at a lunch. I took a moment out of my day, and went up to them. Told them that I hope they have a good lunch, and I appreciate their service to the country. And I then told them that it pains me to even have this conversation, but please remember your oath and your duty with respect to legal versus illegal orders. And that I hope it will never come to that, but I trust that they will follow their oath and remain loyal to the constitution and the American people. The people are counting on you to make the right choice if it comes to that, don't let us down. I didn't tell them about any order they may have already received or might be receiving soon. Because I don't know every detail about such order, or the context of such order. So I'd be speaking out of school if I said "that's an illegal order." Mark Kelly similarly, and correctly, acknowledged that he did not have every detail of the order he was discussing, or the context in which it was given, and thus he was not going to offer a black and white statement as to whether it was illegal. That's something that has to be determined at the time, and based on the context and information provided to the person given the order (e.g., if a general knows that a hut has only civilians in it and without telling the captain flying the A-10 who is in the hut (or even worse, lying to him about who is in the hut), orders the captain to hit the hut, that may have been an illegal order, but not with respect to the captain). We can't know all of that information. Kelly said something that needed to be said. And the real message is that it needs to be said. We are treading on dangerous ground. FFS, we just had a CINC spend weeks about ordering US troops to commit an act of treason (attacking a NATO ally would be treason, as a matter of law -- read the Constitution and the treaty). Our troops need to be on heightened alert for orders that violate the law and serve only the regime, because he has indicated repeatedly that he will give such orders.
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Winter Weather 2026 - I Can Haz Cold Front?
You know
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
I guess @ChickenSandwich is still waiting for the MAGA-approved talking points to respond to this one. Just admit that you like it because he's not a "real American," and let's all move on.
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Winter Weather 2026 - I Can Haz Cold Front?
Our guess is they make the call one way or the other Friday morning. We'll know by then. If it's on, you know the first drink is on me. Anyway, such social lubrication helps the wives gripe about us that much more energetically.
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Greenland
1) It will have fewer material differences than NAFTA and the "USMCA" agreement had. 2) Every one of those differences could have been obtained by making a simple request/short discussion, instead of threatening a psychotic war.
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Greenland - Tassa Eller Asu !!!!
Yep. All of that too. So fucking dumb. Wreaking so much destruction and damage for....fucking nothing. We are destroying the most prosperous, powerful nation in the world for....absolutely no fucking reason other than a narcissist needs to prove he is the ONLY reason we are anything (and at every turn, manages to prove the exact opposite). Any of you Cowboys fans who lived through the Jimmy Johnson firing and Jerry Jones' self-appointment as football emperor, lasting to...the present day...should recognize what you're seeing.
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Winter Weather 2026 - I Can Haz Cold Front?
We have a party to go to Saturday night, hombre. Or....maybe we don't. We'll see.
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Greenland - Tassa Eller Asu !!!!
Let me guess. And, to use my analogy from the other thread: We already had every right and permission to use our neighbor's pool at any time, including his sweet Weber grill, without even needing to ask. We could just come and go through a shared gate whenever we wanted, no other requirements. We then yelled "GIVE ME FULL OWNERSHIP OF YOUR BACKYARD OR I'LL RAPE YOUR WIFE AND MURDER YOUR KIDS." We yelled this numerous times, to the point where our neighbor...and his friends....started wearing a .45 on their hip around the house, because a horrific threat is a horrific threat. After weeks/months of this.....we work out a "deal" where we have....every right and permission to use our neighbor's pool at any time, including his sweet Weber grill, without even needing to ask. We could just come and go through a shared gate whenever we wanted, no other requirements. So. EXACTLY what we had before, except now, we've completely destroyed the friendship, and neither that neighbor nor anyone on our block will ever trust us again, and really doesn't want anything to do with us more than the absolute minimum because WE FUCKING THREATENED TO RAPE HIS WIFE AND MURDER HIS KIDS. We fucking lose a shitload, and gain....what we already had. ART OF THE DEAL! I hate this regime more than I've hated any other political figure in history. Yes, including THOSE political figures. Because we fucking know better.
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Hey Steel Shank!
I like both versions. Because they both end with baked potatoes. And I like baked potatoes.
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Greenland
Moving assets. Making sure my kids have as safe a path/out as possible where they are. Working with family in other countries about alternatives. AND....I won't go into detail about the work my wife and I are doing in the community to actively resist and put sand in the gears of the apparatus of deranged evil where we can. I promise you, posting my alarm on a message board is about item 150 on the list of shit we're doing. You should do the same. This plane is going down. Smart people are securing parachutes, while also doing all they can -- though the odds be long -- to try to get the fucking psychopath in the cockpit out, or at least neutered in most of his efforts.
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Greenland
What part of "we don't fucking make it to 2028 as a Republic" are you failing to get? The damage done in ONE FUCKING YEAR is already going to take a generation+ to repair, to the extent it CAN be repaired (like I said, the dollar as the reserve currency is already dead, that can't be undone). Expecting normal solutions, waiting for a normal thing like a "peaceful transfer of power" from a movement that has openly stated that it will cancel midterms, will run him again in 2028, will seize voting machines in areas they want to control, etc. etc. is madness. You are a Texan. If someone was kicking in your door screaming "I'm going to murder you," you wouldn't say "it's just a tantrum, he'll go away." You'd be on the other side of that door with a 12 gauge or better, ready to fucking shoot because you know what the risks are.
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Sen Mark Kelly
Their amicus brief is to follow, submitted in crayon.
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Greenland
Betting the fate of the Republic and everyone in it on a choking-size bite of cheeseburger is a choice, I guess.
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Trump’s America
Michelle Obama recently flat-out said "y'all just aren't ready to elect a woman." And she was dead-on balls-accurate. It sucks, but it's just true. Not on a national level, at least.
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Greenland
The problem is, my view is not "extreme." It's nowhere close to extreme. Get out of the MAGA bubble, and realize that among people in the western world paying any attention, my view is pretty fucking middle-of-the-road. That's the point and the problem. Yes, I've been right about a lot, but I'm not some "out-there" prophet. I'm simply saying the shit that damned near every other politically aware human in the west has said and thought. I'm the norm. Insane America is NOT the norm.