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1 minute ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I’m surprised Newsom hasn’t done that yet. 

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1 minute ago, Pancho said:

 

and it'll likely cost half over again as much to tear down and rehab the sensitive area they built over.

6 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

and it'll likely cost half over again as much to tear down and rehab the sensitive area they built over.

Can be torn down for not a lot of money. Army and FEMA do this all the time, well without the cages and alligators. They will transport it to another site and use it there. Or store is for FEMA (who paid for a lot of it) to house the poors in Appalachia after the next floods/snow storm/etc. 

And you think they care about the environmental impact? Plus you going to get Florida red necks to go work out there? That was the Hispanic jobs. 

28 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Should he stroll over to the WH and whoop the dotard’s ass?  I’m for it, but I don’t think that’s gonna happen. 

No but I am unsure how yapping for a lot of hours and accomplishing nothing is any different than a hypothetical fight with the big orange.

Just think this type of thing does zero. Also once you do it, then what? Break your own record for yapping? 

are they protesting Trump firing staff or Trump fanatics firing bullets at them? hard to tell

32 minutes ago, Native Horn said:

Some clarification - his kids go to Regents in Austin.  But yeah, an ex-MLBer fits certainly fits right in with the Cheeto crowd....

That tracks

3 hours ago, 'stache said:

This came up in another thread yesterday. Do what? Even armed revolutions require that the majority, and usually the vast majority, of the people oppose the regime (not to mention that the US military has 10 times more firepower than past regimes that fell to revolutions, they could put down a 5 million person march on Washington in an hour). If the people put the regime in power, it requires the majority of them realize they fucked up or that the regime went too far. The majority of the people in the US are maga or maga complacent. All you have to do is look at congress. No republican of note has turned on this regime. They have access to all sorts of polling and data and not only allow it to happen, they kiss his ass publicly like pathetic children at every corner. That means the people still actively support this, or are okay with this, so what does "do something" mean other than point out the problems and hope enough people see it to vote against it in 2026? It's not gonna happen either way. We're done for as a country.

Be willing to get arrested. Strike. Tell law enforcement to fuck right off. Point and laugh. Mock. Shame. 

There are a lot of things that can be done short of armed revolution.

16 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Can be torn down for not a lot of money. Army and FEMA do this all the time, well without the cages and alligators. They will transport it to another site and use it there. Or store is for FEMA (who paid for a lot of it) to house the poors in Appalachia after the next floods/snow storm/etc. 

And you think they care about the environmental impact? Plus you going to get Florida red necks to go work out there? That was the Hispanic jobs. 

maybe if you were running the show, sure. don't think that the removal will be anything short of the most expensive means and methods possible while padding contractors' and politicians' accounts along the way.

Just now, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

maybe if you were running the show, sure. don't think that the removal will be anything short of the most expensive means and methods possible while padding contractors' and politicians' accounts along the way.

Watch them move it to the Shenadoah and call it a homeless treatment center. 

can we the people file a class action lawsuit against the president? restraining order? anything? 

1 minute ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

can we the people file a class action lawsuit against the president? restraining order? anything? 

I think we had the electoral equivalent of that last November.

We lost.

18 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Be willing to get arrested. Strike. Tell law enforcement to fuck right off. Point and laugh. Mock. Shame. 

There are a lot of things that can be done short of armed revolution.

That is exactly what I instructed my man-servant to do.  Oddly, I have not heard from that ungrateful wretch Julio.  He has disappeared without a word, despite the fact that his contract requires three years of service before he earns time off. 

However, whilst playing whist at The Club, I will sometimes pointedly ‘harumph’ when someone makes a point I find distasteful.

 

6 minutes ago, BevoAbyss said:

Brisket was correct when he said the GQP abandoned the Rule of Law for the Rule of the Gun.

-- Biden administration and Democrats never understood this and let Trump of the hook despite Jan. 6 attempted overthrow and the conclusive evidence of the Jan 6 hearings.

The other failure is this: What philosopher Karl Popper called the "Paradox of Tolerance."

The tolerant can only tolerate the IN-tolerant so long. If they let the intolerant in power, the intolerant will eventually rule, dominate, and eliminate tolerance and the tolerant. That's why the tolerant must not let the intolerant anywhere near the levers of power.

Society, the media, liberals, and the Dems never understood this, thus they tolerated (and enabled, normalized)Trump and the intolerant so long that the intolerant now rule. 

This will not end with some kind of fair election and a peaceful transfer of power back to the tolerant.

The intolerant will not surrender peacefully.

Will. Not. Happen.

 

 

I saved this. I think it was Brisket. 
 

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"The tolerant Left", code for we can be as big of shitbags as we want but the second you turn it back on us then we will cry and whine about how mean that is. 

Everyone should read this piece, it's the perfect and plain rebuttal to the "so much for the tolerant left" whining from the fascist fuckholes: https://medium.com/extra-extra/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376

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Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other’s throats. It means that we accept that people may be different from us, in their customs, in their behavior, in their dress, in their sex lives, and that if this doesn’t directly affect our lives, it is none of our business. But the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.

TLDR; you do not get to preach intolerance at every turn, and then demand tolerance for your intolerant views and actions.  You have opted out of the compact, so you don't get to invoke it.

 

the last line TLDR is how I feel seeing futureman and 52-80 chirp for unintentionally misgendering (I think?) the Minnisota mass shooter. They're just trolling looking for a response, using a subject that they're actively cheering on getting worse

2 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

The only decent thing this guy did for Texas was leave and fetch Elvis Andrus (a Venezuelan) in the process. 

Counterpoint- we got saltalamacchia in that trade also

On 8/26/2025 at 7:15 PM, Constant said:

We may never have another free and fair election ever again.

"in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote." 

On 8/26/2025 at 8:15 PM, Red Five said:

Saw a clip earlier of Dotard saying "I can do whatever I want. I'm the president." 

I swear there used to be a huge percentage of our population who were horrified at the prospect of this happening. It's like all they talked about. I wonder where they went. 

They never went back. 

6 hours ago, BrazilHorn said:

Have one consistent message around the economy. Hammer that message home over and over again. 

What’s the message specifically? Who’s the messenger? Who’s the target audience? What’s the medium to reach them?

Its easy to say what you said. Just have a message and hammer it home over and over again. Easy peasy, right? Just find the magic bullet and fire it. The problem seems easy to solve when you put it that way. But there’s a big problem if you can’t settle on one message, can’t reach the audience who needs to hear it, and won’t convince them if you do. 

2 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

What’s the message specifically? Who’s the messenger? Who’s the target audience? What’s the medium to reach them?

Its easy to say what you said. Just have a message and hammer it home over and over again. Easy peasy, right? Just find the magic bullet and fire it. The problem seems easy to solve when you put it that way. But there’s a big problem if you can’t settle on one message, can’t reach the audience who needs to hear it, and won’t convince them if you do. 

Not saying it’s easy. But rather than Guinness world record speeches I would prefer a strategic, consistent message around economy: show a average grocery trip to wal-mart that highlights eggs, milk, ground beef etc, show plans for AI to gut entry level jobs and track how tech companies are lining Trump’s pocket. Make message “Idiocracy-esque” in simplicity and hammer it home. 
 

I don’t see where empty theatrical gestures do anything ultimately. 

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Mural in Roubaix, France.  We are an international embarrassment.  An international laughingstock.  

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2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Like what?

Violence.   That's what it will take.  Violence and a shit-ton of dead Americans. 

What do they have to do? 

Give people hope that they can prevail. That means the times for words and legal maneuvering on their own are over....you've been completely flanked there.  You have to agitate, be willing to get arrested, push the opposition's buttons so that they tighten their grip even more, etc.

Why would any middle-class person, etc, in America stick their neck out right now and risk it all just to get tossed aside in some one-off move that meant nothing?  Most people don't want to fight and lose out there on their own.  

Instead, they made some speeches and ran away.  

 

31 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

What’s the message specifically? Who’s the messenger? Who’s the target audience? What’s the medium to reach them?

 

The billionaires and their crooks stole your money, destroyed your jobs, and stole your future.  Donald Trump used YOUR White House to get $10 billion richer, while you got poorer.  He stole all that money from you.  And [whichever candidate you're running against here] helped him, and smiled while he did it.  America got poorer, and further in debt, while Donald Trump fucked you over and got richer.  Enough.

Don't vote for someone who smiles while they steal from you.  Vote for someone who will go in spitting mad and fight for you.  Enough bullshit.  Enough theft.  More fight.  I'm here to fuck shit up.  And I won't stop till the fucking thieves are on the floor with a bloody nose asking for mercy.  And we won't give it to them, because they didn't fucking give it to us while they fucked us over.

Every candidate needs to repeat some version of that everywhere.  Online, signs, interviews, podcasts, when they are ordering a fucking coffee at a cafe.  Everywhere.  Constantly.  On repeat.  Shorthand is "No more billionaires and thieves taking what's yours.  I'll fight the billionaires and thieves for you and get it all back.  Every penny."

It doesn't have to be true, be tied to real numbers, any of that shit.  It needs to be truthy enough, and inflammatory as hell.

Just now, DigglerontheHoof said:

Violence.   That's what it will take.  Violence and a shit-ton of dead Americans. 

But this.  Always this.  We crossed the rubicon a while back.  A violent and bloody outcome is an inevitability.  Once one side has opted out of the Rule of Law and into the Rule of the Gun/Force, it's over.  We've lost, no matter how you cut it, because a Republic "saved" by bloody strife isn't saved at all.

JD Vance's bizarre "I'm ready to be president" statement just 200 days into Trump's term is interesting to say the least, especially since many of us think Trump has no intention of stepping aside in 2028 if he's still above ground.

1 minute ago, C-Man said:

JD Vance's bizarre "I'm ready to be president" statement just 200 days into Trump's term is interesting to say the least, especially since many of us think Trump has no intention of stepping aside in 2028 if he's still above ground.

well he has the "take a lot of vacations" thing down.

2 minutes ago, C-Man said:

JD Vance's bizarre "I'm ready to be president" statement just 200 days into Trump's term is interesting to say the least, especially since many of us think Trump has no intention of stepping aside in 2028 if he's still above ground.

Eh you may be reading too much into run of the mill Dunning-Kruger.  

10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

The billionaires and their crooks stole your money, destroyed your jobs, and stole your future.  Donald Trump used YOUR White House to get $10 billion richer, while you got poorer.  He stole all that money from you.  And [whichever candidate you're running against here] helped him, and smiled while he did it.  America got poorer, and further in debt, while Donald Trump fucked you over and got richer.  Enough.

Don't vote for someone who smiles while they steal from you.  Vote for someone who will go in spitting mad and fight for you.  Enough bullshit.  Enough theft.  More fight.  I'm here to fuck shit up.  And I won't stop till the fucking thieves are on the floor with a bloody nose asking for mercy.  And we won't give it to them, because they didn't fucking give it to us while they fucked us over.

Every candidate needs to repeat some version of that everywhere.  Online, signs, interviews, podcasts, when they are ordering a fucking coffee at a cafe.  Everywhere.  Constantly.  On repeat.  Shorthand is "No more billionaires and thieves taking what's yours.  I'll fight the billionaires and thieves for you and get it all back.  Every penny."

It doesn't have to be true, be tied to real numbers, any of that shit.  It needs to be truthy enough, and inflammatory as hell.

But this.  Always this.  We crossed the rubicon a while back.  A violent and bloody outcome is an inevitability.  Once one side has opted out of the Rule of Law and into the Rule of the Gun/Force, it's over.  We've lost, no matter how you cut it, because a Republic "saved" by bloody strife isn't saved at all.

Send that to EVERY person running against a Republican.  Seriously.  They need fucking help.

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The total net worth of all American billionaires is about $6.72 Trillion.  My platform would be to confiscate all $6.72 Trillion and issue a check to each American for$19,750. 

4 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

The total net worth of all American billionaires is about $6.72 Trillion.  My platform would be to confiscate all $6.72 Trillion and issue a check to each American for$19,750. 

 

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18 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Eh you may be reading too much into run of the mill Dunning-Kruger.  

Just feels a bit like JD's handlers might be "workshopping" an idea or two.

30 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

The total net worth of all American billionaires is about $6.72 Trillion.  My platform would be to confiscate all $6.72 Trillion and issue a check to each American for$19,750. 

You may joke but the Democrats have long worn the "free shit party" label....I mean if you are gonna wear it anyway why not lean hard into it???

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36 minutes ago, SizzleChest said:

2nd quarter, huh? 

People trying to get ahead of tariff price increases.

Chris Hayes tonight: "Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Stephen Miller are going to burn this country to the ground so that they can rule over the ashes." 

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52 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:


 

note I don’t support the below  just stupid shit I’ve seen on facebook

 

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Get off Facebook.

Republicans, literally and figuratively fucking our kids while 75+ million Americans enthusiastically cheer it on.

13 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

There's actually an equally plausible Trumpian reason for dismissing that.  DEI.

Also, reading the article, Renato Mariotti was on the defense team.  He's one of the good guys. https://www.justsecurity.org/author/mariottirenato/

But, the criminal defense lawyer's job is to get the best result, so if that involves retaining the AGs brother, I guess that's what you do.

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She’ll be disbarred eventually. The moral arc of the universe demands it.

6 minutes ago, Satchel said:

She’ll be disbarred eventually. The moral arc of the universe demands it.

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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

 

 

WWJD 

8 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

WWJD 

Which Jesus? Evangelical Jesus? Well then:

Fuck them kids”- President Linton, February 17th 2025.

5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

The billionaires and their crooks stole your money, destroyed your jobs, and stole your future.  Donald Trump used YOUR White House to get $10 billion richer, while you got poorer.  He stole all that money from you.  And [whichever candidate you're running against here] helped him, and smiled while he did it.  America got poorer, and further in debt, while Donald Trump fucked you over and got richer.  Enough.

Don't vote for someone who smiles while they steal from you.  Vote for someone who will go in spitting mad and fight for you.  Enough bullshit.  Enough theft.  More fight.  I'm here to fuck shit up.  And I won't stop till the fucking thieves are on the floor with a bloody nose asking for mercy.  And we won't give it to them, because they didn't fucking give it to us while they fucked us over.

Every candidate needs to repeat some version of that everywhere.  Online, signs, interviews, podcasts, when they are ordering a fucking coffee at a cafe.  Everywhere.  Constantly.  On repeat.  Shorthand is "No more billionaires and thieves taking what's yours.  I'll fight the billionaires and thieves for you and get it all back.  Every penny."

Won’t fit on a hat or a bumper sticker.

5 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

Violence.   That's what it will take.  Violence and a shit-ton of dead Americans. 

I've slowly come to the realization that I might actually meet my end fighting this maga bullshit. 

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