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Considering the history of law enforcement in this country the "consequences" are likely to be zero. The Douglas, AZ, border crossing has been known as the most corrupt in the country since our niece crossed there in 1999. Rump promoted their supervisor to head of Customs, likely because of that long history of corruption.

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The criminals that I've met over the years have tended to be the dumbest people around, and they uniformly think that they'll never get caught because they're smarter than the police. Unfortunately the reason why crime is a viable career choice is that they're frequently correct.

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Their programming doesn't allow them to go into the street except at crosswalks. After X-amount of time unable to solve the problem they're supposed to 'phone home' for human help, who will remote control them to their destination.

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They're locked, you need to enter a code to open it. The lock is strong enough that to break it you will do major damage to the device, and now you're close to felony 'destruction of private property' charges. They also have cameras that relay the image of the person opening the lid back to the mother ship.

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One of my favorite XKCD pages of all time. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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"For you are the wimp beneath my wings"

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Portland's Smoking Ruins. Now, there's a band I'd check out.

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The inlaws home schooled their kids. Their church provided resources and even organized field trips. One of these was to an Amish farm. They were explaining the concept of home schooling to the farmer, and he said, "What about socialization?"

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The Daily Show went to the 2016 Republican National Convention and filmed themselves saying "Black Lives Matter" to delegates to show how knee-jerk the "All Lives Matter" response.

They got the same, unthinking response from a Black delegate. They then asked him how often he gets pulled over, and he said, "No comment."

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They're quite popular on the local college campus that's so accessible. It's more employees rather than students using it to avoid long treks to food venues that eats up the lunch hour. They text you the entry code when they roll up to the front door.

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A friend got called for Grand Jury duty. She said that, after a while, she and her fellow jurors were wondering if there was some formal charge they could hand down for being stupid.

Every possession case they got involved a routine traffic stop and a search after consent was granted.

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For the moment, their Lex Luthor appears to be Donald Trump.

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Fuck Ted Cruz.

And that horse trying to ride in on him.

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That's a mouthful. Probably why they shorten it to patriot.

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"The only hate there in my heart is for communism and an authoritarian government." Hates authoritarian government but wants to install one? Weird.

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Appropriate.

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