I’m sure he knows, but it’s his claim to fame, the only thing that makes him a blip on the radar. Like a high school football star who crams himself into an old letterman’s jacket that’s now two sizes too small for the 20yr reunion.

Shamwow guy and MyPillow guy running for office on their “celebrity” cred is a level of stupid even Idiocracy couldn’t predict.

So swift she’s got time to get back to the bar before last call and try again.

Me: Puts on my finest clothes.

Doctor: “Take those off and put on this paper smock that exposes your ass. Also, all the surfaces and my instruments are cold.”

I think Vance’s response depends greatly on if he takes direction from his handlers in Heritage Foundation or if he gains an ego and believes he’s the new cult leader. They learned their lesson with Pence who, with the obligatory “fuck Mike Pence”, still wasn’t invested enough to commit treason.

Vance just doesn’t have the twisted charisma Trump has to be the cult guy. Heritage knows it, but they knew he had a shelf-life and only needed to get in and secure their position. The Third Reich didn’t survive Hitler but he wouldn’t let go (and they couldn’t get rid of him) until it was too late. The Soviet Union survived the death of Stalin because nobody after him tried to recreate his larger than life image, they maintained the control that was established under his reign.

If Vance does what he’s told he doesn’t need to be Trump, and if the regime continues to disregard democracy, the courts, and even declining public opinion among conservatives that rode the wave but are now leopard fodder, they don’t need another Trump, just an institution to defend. These fuckers are embedded and will be difficult to remove.

Man, I’m mid-40s and not particularly thrilled by the concept this could only be mid-journey. I’m down to stick around so long as I can contribute something to my community, not in the capitalist sense but the social sense. At the point my existence is a drain on resources and I’m living just because I can… fuck that.

At first glance my mind always replaces the r with a c and I think we’re talking about the 1998 classic SLC Punk.

Defense isn’t about helping people escape consequences, it’s about making sure they receive a fair trial and the consequences are appropriate for their crime. Even with this system there are still wrongful convictions and police/prosecutorial misconduct.

Many years ago we had a deadly DUI crash that the local news went apeshit over because the story was easy to hype. Drunk driver kills a young mom, dad, and their 3yo daughter. It was covered non-stop, until it came out during the trial mom and dad were high as kites on meth and pulled out in front of the drunk driver when they should have waited for him to cross the intersection. Dude still got convicted, he was driving drunk and killed three people, but his sentence reflected the dad’s impaired driving and what that contributed. Also, as soon as the news couldn’t sob story their coverage they dropped it, barely a blip when the verdict came out.

On the bright side, robot dogs don’t die when the pig they’re assigned to leaves them in a hot car. Also, nobody cares if a robot dog gets shot/stabbed/kicked.

Demographics mostly. Blue city in a red state. The downtown clubs rarely had hecklers, gigs in the outlying towns were more likely to draw ire for the material. How people handle their drunkenness is also part of it. People who are assholes sober seem to feel more entitled to blast their opinion while drunk, and not surprisingly I found a lot more of them in the suburbs.

I never invited hecklers back when I was doing it, but I did figure out which clubs and which nights tended to draw certain crowds that were more likely to heckle and was kind of mentally prepared to deal with it.

The opening scene of xXx ends with a corpse getting crowd surfed at Rammstein.

“Holy shit Rufus, did you just stab a dead man in the ass?!?”

“It was the only good spot left!”

When the Idaho legislature banned Pride flags on public property to punish the City of Boise for flying one at city hall, the mayor and city council adopted the Pride flag as the official city flag. Best part, city hall is two blocks away from the state capitol building, so the bigoted fucks get a nice view of it when they’re at work 😊

Hit and run? Yeah, but against what targets? J6 was moderately successful because they were already gathered from across the country in one place. I don’t know that you could get that much opposition that deep into DC without the regime having a lot, lot more security, and I doubt they’d be as non-lethal as they were against the bulk of the J6ers. Locally it’d be a fight against the police, National Guard, and all the Rittenhouses who have a thirst for blood and would finally have an excuse to do it assuming they’d be exonerated. Americans have enough access to guns they could revolt, but the cost will be high and the people they’d be fighting are well equipped. But I’d point out Seattle has been successful in some of their rebellions, so unless the regime was willing to send in military grade artillery and level city block, you could probably capture areas and keep cops/National Guard at bay. However, I think Trump and Kegsbreath would absolutely bomb Seattle/Portland/Chicago/LA if given a reason. Waco 2.0.

Only idiots bring a gun to a drone fight. However, it is perfectly acceptable to bring your limited edition Andúril replica to finish off any boogaloos that were merely wounded. 1d8 slashing (1d10 if using it two-handed).

Imagine spending thousands of dollars stockpiling assault rifles and ammo for your revolution only to have your entire milita wiped out when some nerd with a $100 homemade missile blows-up the UHaul you all piled in the back of.

Hell no. Climate change is one of those topics that minds are made up on before the person even runs for office, whether that be denial, indifference, or proactive. People that use it treat it like a new Bible with the idea that as “the sum of all human knowledge” it has some magical insight into humanity. Still, they cherry pick responses that validate their established beliefs and ignore any that would refute or challenge them.