Presumably, the state stops kicking up the federal government’s share. And hopefully stops collecting it from state residents during tax season, instead of just pocketing it.

Edit: it’s probably obvious but this comment is made without any knowledge about how taxes are collected and funneled through government.

The book gives you examples of how DCs should translates to the world. Is this vaulting a head high wall, climbing a crumbling 2-story building, or scaling the outside of a tower in a storm? That need to know the number is only a problem when the table lets numbers replace story.

“You back up to get a running start and trip on a misplaced cobblestone just before you reach the wall.” = you rolled a 2 and failed

“You latch into the crevices between bricks and skillfully clamber up until the window is within sight. There is only a one, last leap to make, when the brick beneath your anchor leg crumbles and gives way. You landed winded, but someone else might now chart a better route.” = you rolled an 18 and only just failed

“You built as much speed as you could and manage to launch up against the rain-slick tower but your fingers fail to find any purchase, and you scrabble helplessly back to the ground.” = You rolled a 19 and weren’t even close to a success

Yeah, people that want to be their D&D characters are probably skewed by happy memories of a world that might occassionally challenge them but ultimately wants them to enjoy themselves and be the hero/protagonist.

That is to say, a fantasy world.

This really got me. Like you’re a bystander watching someone fuck up a Pokémon battle.

Sweet Lord, I saw other comments about a stint and Blackwater but this is the first that actual described it. A 6-month job as an ambassador’s security doesn’t give a lot of free time for atrocities even if it were in Blackwater’s contracts. His service record would likely be more damning than that.

You can never trust her again. She doesn’t believe in ideology, she just wants power and is willing to go to any side and any length to get what she feels entitled to.

Perhaps they just believe that he’s not a Nazi.

I would have started with the people pulling the levers instead of starving out the essential gears that keep a government running.

I appreciate Bernie for being an adult and helping to boost up the people that will be here after him.

Most every other politician, when they aren’t cramming their unqualified, entitled broodspawn where they don’t belong, is gnawing off limbs trying to make sure they’re entombed with their positions like the pharaohs.

I’m honestly surprised it’s that low.

I have an extremely low estimation of this administration’s precision.

Every single nose is outside the mask. I know those aren’t for medical safety but it just baffles me. Is it a prequisite fof fascism? Do they get told off by the other ICE Gestapo if they’re caught with the mask over their nose, “like a lib”?

I don’t know the official reason, if such a thing even exists. My heads screwed on just wrong enough to hazard a guess:

The empathy of inconveniencing and materially harming their constituents (or the fear of their electoral retribution) would be such a driving force that the government would seek to end any shutdown before it came to that.

Of course, any well-meaning intent withers in the face of monsters willing to kill, and let others die, for the facade of politics they don’t even truly subscribe to.

Stick to your day job, m8. The jokes ain’t landing especially when the whole “joke” is a weak-ass personal attack.

Do better. Or better yet, give up.

Really? You use the meme that basically says “you’re dumping a lot of irrelevant info in the wrong place” and have the audacity to get pissy when they hit you back with…a different meme?

The gall to call someone “emotionally damaged” when you immediately read an attack from an exchange of memes.

I don’t think we did. That seems to be first reported in 2018 and 2021.

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, that you live in places that Trump has not marked with his greasy mitts. People who lived in places where “Trump” buildings were planted, and thus he was part of local news, knew he was a dickhead. The average person just didn’t know how much he failed because most don’t go digging into the financial history of celebrities.

Ah, forgot about getting charged at different levels.

That sounds stupid.

Is “double jeopardy” a thing or just a movie? And can that apply if they were pre-pardoned for a crime they weren’t charged with yet?

Can you pardon someone if they haven’t been convicted (or indicted) for a crime yet?

Yeah, warlocks are just cutthroat clerics with off-market gods. If each of them had enough magical power to fuel another warlock’s power, they wouldn’t need to be a warlock at all.

Liz would have had one less son faster than Chuck’s neurons could’ve fired while trying to conceive of matri/regicide. Him sitting quietly was probably self-preservation.