Because he wants what his administration has always wanted: compliance in advance

He didn’t flip the table, he grabbed the King and ran off to try to throw it in the trash can

The board hasn’t actually changed much

Yerp.

It’s an extinction burst. No one wants the oil, and so before giving up we had to really go big on getting the oil

Maybe? I’d recommend giving them an orange to peel before shooting unrelated drugs up their nose, but it might work

They don’t actually believe in anything. They just feel like they’re winning when they force they’re views on others

You can literally train them on animal languages. They’re language models, their primary attribute is modeling a language

And they are very good at it

They also adjustment in the business of throwing away money on PR nightmares…

The math doesn’t math here. Oil barrel prices are very low, so low they’d be investing billions to lose money operating them

Who gives a fuck about them really. Whether they die or live in exile, I’m cheering for the people of Iran

They’ve been fighting for freedom for a very long time, I hope they finally get it

Fair, I’m sure they used to do real training back when we were a real country

They’re literally recruited from white supremacist groups and handed a gun that they may or may not know how to use already

A very fair question…I don’t think it’s relevant right now since they’re still playing the “she was antifa or something” angle, but it’s a question that should be asked when this shit gets laid out on the table for real

Not just in theory, it’s very much a thing in practice as well

The states are semi-sovereign legal zones. They have extradition and their own court systems and everything

He could just put out an arrest warrant

Federal officials aren’t immune from State laws

The police are probably better shots. Definitely better at tactics too

Training, go figure

Yeah, because when you explain the joke it’s not funny… It’s how jokes work

I tried to preserve whatever humor is left to be had, not actually be funny. The joke was far funnier than it could ever be deconstructed as

First - Vance is obviously (apparently) trading his wife out for Kirk’s widow

Second - “trading for a younger model” is classic shitty midlife crisis behavior

Third - he’s trading an Indian wife for a white widow in an effort to increase his political clout

Fourth - the beard thing

There’s interplays between the layers too. It’s a really well crafted joke, you can keep splitting the layers in multiple ways, this joke isn’t an onion, it’s a carefully crafted pastry

Beard is also the term for the woman you marry to avoid being known as a couch fucker

Okay, let’s say you have a fuel injected car, but instead of using the 02 sensor to decide the fuel air mixture, it just squirts the same amount of gas every time.

The hardware might be able to achieve 400 hp, but the software means it only ever achieves 50 hp

It’s like that. The software drives the hardware. It doesn’t matter how good the hardware is, the software is the brain of the operation - if the software doesn’t know how to utilize the hardware properly, you’re going to have piss poor performance

The military basically just refused to turn on citizens. So they just showed up as ordered and cleaned trash and such