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Brisketexan

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  1. "Cock does not go in duck?"
  2. It really is fantastic. The money-laundering/naked corruption is just right there out in the open, over and over and over. Greatest scandal of all time? Easy -- HUNTER BIDEN WAS PAID $1 MILLION A YEAR IN THE BURISMA DEAL, JUST TRADING ON HIS NAME! Not a story at all? Gifting $100 million taxpayer dollars (that's what you're doing when you pay $130 million for a $30 million property -- giving away the extra $100 million) in a single transaction to a Russian oligarch. The corruption of this regime is on par with the worst banana republics/kleptocracies in human history, and every MAGA voter -- who was SUPER concerned about corruption before -- is just fine with it. Because, for the millionth time, they have zero principles except "the government should hurt people I don't like."
  3. This has long been my response to all of the "you gotta have major voter ID!" types: Cool, I have no problem with that. I will support a Voter ID law so long as it (1) requires that each state implement a process that allows every single person legally entitled to a voter ID to get all necessary paperwork within 15 minutes of work online, and (2) that all such paperwork and the ID itself be 100% free-of-charge (no poll tax bullshit). Make voter ID free, and easy to get so long as you qualify, and I'll vote for your bill. They won't do it. Because of course, "fighting voter fraud" is not in any way the reason for these bills, because there functionally IS NO voter fraud. It's a disenfranchisement bill, and when you propose "cool, so let's make sure it doesn't disenfranchise eligible voters," they won't support it because....well, that's the entire fucking reason for the push for voter ID.
  4. Yeah....that's just fucking sick. Jesus fucking Christ, what the fucking fuck is fucking wrong with these ginormous pieces of shit and those who relentlessly defend them? And even MORE pathetic, all those fucking Q-anon dipshits who screamed that child sex trafficking and child rape was THE crisis of our time...and now that the guys they thought were the saviors turn out to be the perpetrators, well....it turns out not to be a problem at all. Again, WTF? What is wrong with people that they won't call people out for being pieces of shit? FFS, I remember in college, when it came out that an acquaintance/friend of mine had physically struck the girl he was dating. Boom, he was cut off from me and my friend group in a fucking instant. Done, over, that was that. Zero fucking tolerance for men who hit women. Why can't these fuckers follow through with zero tolerance for people who sexually abuse minors? The problem is, it turns out that 90% of Americans actually have NO principles at all, other than "I'll say I care about something if I think it hurts people I want to hurt....but if it turns out to be the opposite, I don't care about that thing at all." We are nothing but tribal pieces of shit, and this country deserves everything it is getting and more. We are so fucking dumb that we are killing the goose that laid the golden egg, just because we are hyper-focused on hurting anyone else who might be in the vicinity of said golden egg.
  5. "Free speech absolutists." Man, that one still makes me chuckle. Put it in the pile of completely outrageous lies these fucksticks loved to tell. There's not a single believer in the 1st amendment on the right. Not a single one. They are all-in on authoritarianism, and they actively hate the Constitution.
  6. American. Fucking. Hero. We need more of this. So much more. Stand up. Say “no more, not in my country and. It only watch.” Stand firm.
  7. See, e.g., the State of Florida spending over half a BILLION of its taxpayer dollars to build "Alligator Alcatraz" to suck DJT's dick....and the Regime then tells Florida "cool, thanks for the gift. Get fucked, we ain't paying you shit." Half a billion of YOUR dollars Floridians, so your governor could curry favor with a president who doesn't even fucking like him, and doesn't give a shit about what he does. Fucking 10-D chess your guys are playing. Just lighting your money on fire to make the mad king happy, and he doesn't even give a shit. How pathetic are you? Yeah. All the pathetic.
  8. So. You've never read a goddamned thing I have ever posted, and you take the gold fucking medal in "missing the fucking point." Do I WANT that gal to burn down a building? NO. THAT'S MY FUCKING POINT. I don't want our fucking government to create an environment where that sort of response is a human inevitability. I don't want the government to dissolve the Rule of Law. I don't want the citizens to respond to said dissolution of the Rule of Law by taking violent action. I don't want either thing. But I know, as a matter of human and historical certainty, that if the government does thing 1, then thing 2 is gonna start happening, a lot. My thesis -- my whole thesis, for a long fucking time now, is "as a society, we really, really shouldn't go down that road." Alas, we are careening down that road and picking up speed. Don't want citizens responding to lawless governments with lawless violent reactions? Then maybe don't do the "lawless government" thing. Two wrongs don't make a right and all that shit. But if I walk up to your wife and call her a cunt and punch her in the face and then walk away, I sure as shit bet you'll kick my ass (even though I'm walking away, and thus it's no longer a "defense of others"). Inevitable, natural response to a certain event. If we don't want you and me to end up in a fight, then MAYBE I should NOT walk up to your wife and punch her in the face. I know human nature. I bet you do too. How about we not light everything on fire and then complain about all the shit that goes up in flames?
  9. This. Anyone who uses the term "sanctuary city" should be able to (1) define what specific actions/inactions by the city (not arguments made by locals, but actual things DONE BY the city) make it a "sanctuary city," and (2) how those actions violate any federal law or policy. Walking up to me and demanding that I round up all squirrels in my jurisdiction does not make me obligated in any way to round up squirrels, particularly in our federal system. If YOU have the lawful authority to round up squirrels, you may do so. By the way, I don't want you to -- and will oppose -- any actions by you to, say, burn down every tree in the city to get at those pesky squirrels. You have the legal power and right to catch squirrels, you don't have the right to destroy property or deprive people of their civil rights to do so. So, go forth and chase squirrels, within the law and as allowed by the law. No, I won't help you, but I don't have to. Besides, my crews have other priorities -- like putting out fires, catching actual criminals, etc. But if squirrels are that important to you, have at it. Oh, and also, running into people's yards and firing indiscriminately into trees to maybe get a squirrel is just gonna piss people off, and we (city personnel) live here and have to work with these people day in day out, so no, we're not going to engage in stupid shit that only pisses people off. And when I do get a squirrel in one of my nuisance animal traps, I'll let you know. But I'm not gonna hold him for you for months on end. If you want him, come and get him. Otherwise, I need to use that trap again tomorrow. The whole "sanctuary city" trope is 99% utter fucking bullshit.
  10. The answer he will give is "never." If the government either (1) chucks the Rule of Law, or (2) so alters the actual law so that it's not the Rule of Law anymore, so that the government can just gun down any non-loyalists in the street, then the non-loyalists should say "I COULD shoot back at the government forces slaughtering my family and friends, but that would be against the law, so I can't. I guess I'll just stand here, and wait for them to shoot me too." An extreme example? Nope. That's the exact conundrum that has come up time and time again. Remember, most every thing the Nazis did to the Jews was within German law (both the actual written law, and DEFINITELY the de facto law of "if the Regime does it, it is by definition legal"). Thus, any jew who resisted the Final Solution was breaking the law. And we just can't support that.
  11. Or....I realize we are in a state of transition. We still have many trappings of the Rule of Law (in most cases, you can go down to the courthouse and enforce your contract; in most cases, someone who commits regular old assault in a bar will get charged and convicted). That's still the bulk of things that go to the courthouse. But in situations when the Rule of Law runs up against The Goals of the Regime, the Rule of Law yields completely. So, in matters involving the Regime or its goals, the Rule of Law is on life support, if not already fucking dead. Shit, at the height of Nazi Germany, I bet you could go down to the courthouse in Berlin and mostly get a divorce like normal, or enforce a contract like normal, etc.....unless one of the counterparties was a favored party official....or unless the issue could be couched as one of "being sympathetic towards the jews," etc. In which case, the case path would be....not normal. You know....a lot like we're in RIGHT NOW. And yes, it has affected the way I practice law. On occasion, I have matters (high enough profile) that matter to the MAGA world. And part of the advice I have to give my clients is "the law on this says we should get outcome X. But MAGA likes outcome Y, and if any of them get their teeth in this, and we end up in a court with the wrong judge (or we end up at the 5th Circuit at all).....then bet on outcome Y." That's a thing, that has actually happened, to me and many lawyers I know. So, don't think we don't know exactly what the fuck we're talking about in this respect. We live it.
  12. These are foundational beliefs for the MAGA movement, and every single person who supports it. Some will tell you they don't believe that. They are lying to you. How do we know? Because they will still support - without any wavering or hesitation - the exact groups and people advancing that agenda. Saying you don't support the Final Solution while voting for the people who say "I am going to bring you the Final Solution!" means....you fucking support the Final Solution.
  13. You get it....you just haven't put it all together yet.
  14. It is EXACTLY what I have been talking about. Lawlessness is the inevitable outcome when the parties/people in authority opt for lawlessness. There are two options for how a society is ruled: 1) the Rule of Law 2) Rule of the gun/sword/force When you opt OUT of option 1, you necessarily have opted IN to option 2. So, the folks who opted OUT of the Rule of Law (the admin, and the "law and order" hypocrites who support them) have lost all right to complain about society operating under Rule of the Gun -- that's what they chose for all of us. Which is why it's a very bad, no good, terrible idea to opt OUT of the Rule of Law, and why people like me have shouted that it's incredibly dangerous for the government to do so. Once "all bets are off," then....all bets are off. If the Regime and its supporters can kill you with no accountability or consequences (and they're demonstrating that they can -- all the way to handing out pardons to people on their team who attack and kill members of the "other team"), then what the FUCK did you think was going to happen? If you can kill me with no impediment or consequences, isn't the only smart move under game theory....me killing you FIRST? I don't support the arson of that building. But it is an inevitable, natural consequence of leadership sending the very clear message that the Rule of Law does not apply. And once you understand that is the natural result, then it doesn't take much of a leap to conclude "cool. Under the new rules, all I have to decide is whether I agree with the reason for the action. And here, I do -- ICE is fucking bullshit. I vote not guilty." Either everyone lives by the Rule of Law, or nobody does.
  15. Sigh. I am jealous of my kid's lives. Living/studying where they do (Scotland and Germany), hopping over to/around the continent is super easy and cheap. For example, the boy is in Paris this weekend. Like a 80 euro round trip from Glasgow to CDG. So, he's meeting his German girlfriend in Paris for a valentine's weekend. And as we chatted on WhatsApp this morning, we got to talking about the food. He shared that they stumbled upon....a taqueria. He peered inside, it smelled delicious, so they went (so he could introduce her to real mexican food). He said they got carnitas that were among the best he'd ever had. I reminded him of a little brasserie that we stumbled upon and had dinner at our first night in Paris many years ago (he was with us). La Charrette des Beaux Arts, on the edge of the St. Germaine area. We had a fantastic, affordable, classic french meal. It's under new owners, but here's a sampling: And I reminded him that there are 5,000 similar places in Paris. You CAN go wrong...but the odds are really in your favor that you'll end up eating something really good. That f'n bastard. I sure as shit wasn't able to hop over to Paris for a weekend with my girlfriend when I was his age.
  16. The analogy I thought of is how music on vinyl is still quite popular in some circles, precisely because of its tiny imperfections compared to digital formats. Humans can offer work, thought, and ideas in analog format. There is a creativity enhancement, and a human interface (and suitability for human interface) enhancement to that kind of work that the machine just can't duplicate. Capitalize on that value.
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