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In a trial, a Southern small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly, elderly woman to the stand. He approached her and asked, 'Mrs. Jones, do you know me?'
 
She responded, 'Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams. I've known you since you were a boy, and frankly, you've been a big disappointment to me. You lie, you cheat on your wife, and you manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You think you're a big shot when you haven't the brains to realize you'll never amount to anything more than a two-bit paper pusher. Yes, I know you.'
The lawyer was stunned. Not knowing what else to do, he pointed across the room and asked, 'Mrs. Jones, do you know the defense attorney?'
She again replied, 'Why yes, I do. I've known Mr. Bradley since he was a youngster, too. He's lazy, bigoted, and he has a drinking problem. He can't build a normal relationship with anyone, and his law practice is one of the worst in the entire state. Not to mention he cheated on his wife with three different women. One of them was your wife. Yes, I know him.'
The defense attorney nearly died.
The judge asked both counselors to approach the bench and, in a very quiet voice, said, 'If either of you idiots asks her if she knows me, I'll send you both to the electric chair.'

An electrician, a bricklayer, and a welder are sitting on a high rise scaffolding on their lunch break. They all open their lunches to find baloney sandwiches. The electrician sighs and says
"I hate baloney, my wife knows I hate baloney, yet every day I end up with this sandwich. If I get one more of these, I'm jumping off this building."
The bricklayer agrees with him, saying "You know what, I feel the same way. I'm tired of this bland lunch every day. One more of these and I'm jumping off after you.
The welder chimes in as well, saying "I hate this sandwich, too. I'm with you guys."
Well the next day comes and they find themselves in the same spot for lunch. The electrician pulls out a baloney sandwich and true to his word, jumps off and goes splat. The bricklayer opens up his lunch, discovers the same and jumps as well. So does the welder.
At the funeral, the electrician's widow found out what happened and was talking to the other widows, saying "If only I had known how much he hated that lunch, I would have packed him something else." The bricklayer's widow says "For sure! I didn't know he wanted something else." The welder's widow pauses and then says "Don't look at me, my husband packed his own lunch."

How can you milk a sheep?
 
Release a new iPhone.

An Irishman took his son to the bar on his birthday to buy him his first drink.
 
The father bought his son a stout, but he didn't like it and didn't want to drink it.
 
The father decided to drink it for him and ordered an ale instead.
 
He didn't like it either. So, the father drank it and ordered him a cider.
 
Lager, cider, cream ale... he didn't like any of them, so the father drank them and ordered whiskey instead.
 
He didn't like any of the Irish whiskeys the father ordered, so the old man drank them and decided to give up.
 
By the time they left the bar, the father was so drunk he could barely push his son's stroller home.

A physics teacher, an engineering teacher, and a shop class teacher all get on a plane.
 
As they're getting comfortable, the pilot comes in over the intercom. "Good evening ladies and gentlemen," he says, "I understand we have some teachers on our flight. We've got a special treat for them: the plane we're sitting in was actually constructed by their students!"
 
The physics teacher and the engineering teacher look at each other, shriek, and start beating on the locked door. Meanwhile, the shop class teacher is lounging in his seat, cool as a cucumber.
 
Eventually they turn to him. "Why are you so calm?" they ask.
 
"Because," he says, "if MY students built this plane, I can guarantee this piece of crap wouldn't even start."

A computer once beat me at chess.
 
But it was no match for me at kickboxing.

I think this potentially could work very well.
 
First they mute Trump's mike while Biden is making his two minute speech.
 
Then they mute Trump's mic while Trump is making his two minute speech.

I think this potentially could work very well.
 
First they mute Trump's mike while Biden is making his two minute speech.
 
Then they mute Trump's mic while Trump is making his two minute speech.

The Commission on Presidential Debates has adopted new rules for the upcoming debate requiring  President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden stand barefoot in tubs of water during the debate. Anytime a candidate interrupts the other, electricity will be automatically shunted from the interrupting candidate's microphone into his tub of water.
 
The Trump campaign issued a statement complaining that the above room temperature warmth of the water gave an unfair advantage to Biden, who is three years older than the president. 
 
Jill Biden's tell-all book, released before the election, revealed that her husband has cold feet and regularly warms them on her posterior before going to sleep.
 
"I know many people enjoy role-reversal in the bedroom", Mrs. Biden wrote, "But I never expected for that to be part of my own marriage. In many ways, Joe really is a rebel."
 
Trump stated in his campaign appearance in Florida, "I wish they would fill the tub with ice cubes. I'm not some geriatric geezer like my opponent. I can take the cold."
 
Many in the Florida audience were visibly taken aback at the president's boast.
 
Trump campaign spokesmen were quick to release a statement that Trump has the greatest love for geriatric geezers in general and that his statement was directed only at the former vice president and not at geriatric geezers in general.
 
https://politics.theonion.com/

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Supreme-Court-denies-GOP-request-to-stop-extended-15659622.php
 
Curious timing since Biden's proposed top tax rate has been out there for the public to see for most of the past year.

The Commission on Presidential Debates has adopted new rules for the upcoming debate requiring  President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden stand barefoot in tubs of water during the debate. Anytime a candidate interrupts the other, electricity will be automatically shunted from the interrupting candidate's microphone into his tub of water.
 
The Trump campaign issued a statement complaining that the above room temperature warmth of the water gave an unfair advantage to Biden, who is three years older than the president. 
 
Jill Biden's tell-all book, released before the election, revealed that her husband has cold feet and regularly warms them on her posterior before going to sleep.
 
"I know many people enjoy role-reversal in the bedroom", Mrs. Biden wrote, "But I never expected for that to be part of my own marriage. In many ways, Joe really is a rebel."
 
Trump stated in his campaign appearance in Florida, "I wish they would fill the tub with ice cubes. I'm not some geriatric geezer like my opponent. I can take the cold."
 
Many in the Florida audience were visibly taken aback at the president's boast.
 
Trump campaign spokesmen were quick to release a statement that Trump has the greatest love for geriatric geezers in general and that his statement was directed only at the former vice president and not at geriatric geezers in general.
 
https://politics.theonion.com/

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Supreme-Court-denies-GOP-request-to-stop-extended-15659622.php
 
Curious timing since Biden's proposed top tax rate has been out there for the public to see for most of the past year.

Because of course they did:
 
Senate Republicans offer constitutional amendment to block Supreme Court packing
 
From the article:
 
"Make no mistake, if Democrats win the election, they will end the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court, expanding the number of justices to advance their radical political agenda, entrenching their power for generations, and destroying the foundations of our democratic system," [Senator Ted] Cruz said in a statement.
 
"We must take action before election day to safeguard the Supreme Court and the constitutional liberties that hang in the balance," he added.
 
The hypocrisy is absolutely...not surprising to me at all, as it turns out.

How can you milk a sheep?
 
Release a new iPhone.

Psychologist Johathan Haidt finds that people who self-identify as conservative or liberal pretty consistently show different profiles in his "Moral Foundations" psychological test. See his book, The Righteous Mind. So these do seem to be real, distinct points of view, and people are fairly reliable in how they describe themselves. Though the authors do mention the distinction between the sort of far-right thinking they study and formal, classical conservative political theory.
 
Dean Shomshak
 
 
 
 

I'm pretty sure I heard him on the radio during the moments it took my hand to reach the "OFF" button.

The FBI claims to have the emails which supposedly came from the laptop because they've stated the emails look like a Russian intelligence operation. I suppose they might have the laptop but if they physically have it, I'm not aware of them saying so.
 
As for the shop owner, here's his store's website and address http://www.demacshop.com/about/
 
And an article about the owner.
 
https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-reportedly-gave-hunters-laptop-to-rudy-speaks-out-in-bizarre-interview/
 
"spoke with the owner of the shop, a man named John Paul Mac Isaac who lives in Wilmington, Delaware. The audio of that nearly hour-long question and answer session is below.
 
"Mac Isaac appeared nervous throughout. Several times, he said he was scared for his life and for the lives of those he loved. He appeared not to have a grasp on the timeline of the laptop arriving at his shop and its disappearance from it. He also said the impeachment of President Trump was a “sham.” Social media postings indicate that Mac Isaac is an avid Trump supporter and voted for him in the 2016 election.
 
"Mac Isaac said he had a medical condition that prevented him from actually seeing who dropped off the laptop...
 
"Throughout the interview, Mac Isaac switched back and forth from saying he reached out to law enforcement after viewing the files in the laptop to saying that it was actually the Federal Bureau of Investigation that contacted him. At one point, Mac Isaac claimed that he was emailing someone from the FBI about the laptop. At another point he claimed a special agent from the Baltimore office had contacted him after he alerted the FBI to the device’s existence. At another point, he said the FBI reached out to him for “help accessing his drive.”

Stop buying plastic skeletons for Halloween. It's bad for the environment.
 
Locally sourced, all natural skeletons are much more environmentally friendly.

A book I read about political theory offered an analogy which went something like this...
 
What the voters want in a candidate is a Golden Retriever. The parties can't read millions of voters minds and accurately synthesize their collective desire so they do the best they can.
 
What one party offers is a garbage pail. What the other party offers is a worm.
 
The voters have to decide.
 
Well, the garbage pail is useful in some situations. But the worm is closer to a Golden Retriever because it is both alive and an animal.
 
The theorist said in that situation the best option is to pick the worm because it is at least moving in the right direction. In the next election, the party which offered the garbage pail might get the idea that the voters want something that is both alive and an animal. Or it might get the idea that the voters want something that's round and long.
 
So the next election, the options might be to re-elect the worm or to choose the other party's offer of a garden hose.
 
The worm gets re-elected and the other party gets the idea that "ok, the voters want a live animal of some sort".
 
You'll get movements forward and the occasional setback each election. But if everyone keeps voting, eventually the parties will start to hone in on the ever-elusive Golden Retriever.
 
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In this election, if I understand your perspective, you're faced with the garbage pail of Trump or the worm of Biden while wanting a Golden Retriever. If you give the parties no indication by not voting, they get no signal.
 
If you allow the garbage pail to be elected, both parties get the idea that the voters want something that stinks and is close to garbage and will serve up selections which are closer to those things in future elections. 
 
If you allow, or help, the worm to be elected, next time around both parties might at least offer competing life forms to choose between.

Ok, that's more in line with what the OP started with. 
 
As Hugh said earlier, as a player who spent the extra points to NOT have RSR on their power, I would be annoyed but as long as the GM was telling a good story and it didn't arise too frequently I could handle it.
 
As a GM, I dislike this use of Change Environment. While it is perfectly rules legal and within the spirit and history of the genre, it is too effective. For a 3 point power with a non-standard defense, i can force upon a target a Limitation on their power or worsen an existing one. For 15 points, I can make the target have a -4 roll(-5 if they already had RSR) which will really skew their chance of success at just activating the power.
 
I see this as more of a Major/Severe Transform or a powerful Drain/Suppress which would certainly come in at a much higher point total. Now points don't matter to a GM as far as budget goes, but they should be used to gauge how powerful and effect may be relative to campaign limits.

Men get paid more than women because they choose high paying careers like doctor, engineer, and CEO.
 
Women pick low paying careers like woman doctor, woman engineer, or woman CEO.

An Irishman took his son to the bar on his birthday to buy him his first drink.
 
The father bought his son a stout, but he didn't like it and didn't want to drink it.
 
The father decided to drink it for him and ordered an ale instead.
 
He didn't like it either. So, the father drank it and ordered him a cider.
 
Lager, cider, cream ale... he didn't like any of them, so the father drank them and ordered whiskey instead.
 
He didn't like any of the Irish whiskeys the father ordered, so the old man drank them and decided to give up.
 
By the time they left the bar, the father was so drunk he could barely push his son's stroller home.

I was seriously depressed after a recent loss. My girlfriend bought me an Xbox.
 
But that didn't help. So she tried a Playstation - no luck there either. She ended up going through everything from a Sega Master System to a Nintendo Switch, but nothing helped - turns out I was just inconsolable.

I consider these kinds of studies to be worse than useless because no one can agree on the meanings of conservative and liberal.
 
In the 2016 Republican primaries, the definition Trump gave for a "conservative" would classify Hillary as a conservative.

An Irishman took his son to the bar on his birthday to buy him his first drink.
 
The father bought his son a stout, but he didn't like it and didn't want to drink it.
 
The father decided to drink it for him and ordered an ale instead.
 
He didn't like it either. So, the father drank it and ordered him a cider.
 
Lager, cider, cream ale... he didn't like any of them, so the father drank them and ordered whiskey instead.
 
He didn't like any of the Irish whiskeys the father ordered, so the old man drank them and decided to give up.
 
By the time they left the bar, the father was so drunk he could barely push his son's stroller home.