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Mad Max: Furry Road — In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Max has to fend off the amorous advances of people dressed as kangaroos.Some Like It Hoot — A romantic comedy starring singing owls in drag.Stare Wars — Who will avert their gaze first?Jurassic Spark — He’s a paleontologist. She’s a velociraptor. It shouldn’t work, but you can’t choose when love slices your heart open with a sickle claw.Citizen Karen — Excuse me, I’d like to speak to the manager about this sled. (I know I swapped the last two letters, but I make my own rules…)Apocalypse Snow — A solid form of precipitation lightly dusts England’s roads. OH THE HUMANITY! CLOSE EVERYTHING!Raiders of the Lost Mark — A gang of bandits preys on lost people called Mark. There’s insubordination in the ranks, as the leader struggles to justify this arbitrary rule that causes them to let almost all of their victims go.Captain America: Civil Wart — A polite wart gains sentience. Benign growth for all the family.Diet Hard — John McClane struggles to shift that Christmas weight.Flight Club — The first rule of Flight Club: don’t jump without a parachute more than once. (RIP.)Beverly Hills Coop — Raising urban chickens isn’t easy.Bald Boys — Age catches up with everyone. Cops chat about their glory days over a doughnut.Iron Mane — Half robot; half lion. This cat’s got claws. And he’s taking down the criminal hyena syndicate that killed his family and did this to him.

A few things to note:Cipollone’s letter asserting the illegitimacy of the inquiry does not mean that it’s actually illegitimate. He’s doing that on order from the President, but no court in the land would ever overturn the Congressional prerogative to maintain oversight over the Executive Branch. It’s written into the Constitution, for goodness sakes. They absolutely can (and indeed, in instances of clear Presidential misconduct, must) investigate and decide if action needs to be taken.The President ordering that the White House not co-operate with Congress could be construed as a Federal crime. It’s Obstruction of Justice, in addition to Contempt of Congress: if the Legislative Branch orders a formal investigation and initiates impeachment hearings, the President does not have the authority to prevent anyone participating in them, and encouraging them to do so is illegal. Only a claim of Executive Privilege can prevent testimony, and that’s not going to stand up to scrutiny.Bear in mind: anyone refusing to co-operate with Congress (particularly if they’re in receipt of a subpoena) would be committing a felony themselves. Trump might be immune to prosecution, but nobody else working in his administration shares that protection.Esper and other members of the current administration don’t have a choice but to co-operate with Congress, ultimately: failing to do so would be a criminal offense. Although they can challenge a subpoena in court, that’s really their only option. And were such a challenge to fail (as it likely would), any failure thereafter to respond to it would be an act of criminality in and of itself.Trump needs to be careful with this: ordering government officials not to comply with the branch of government responsible for creation and oversight of legislation is not a smart move. It could well backfire: ultimately, it would be an act of Obstruction purely to instruct your own staff not comply with a branch of government that has oversight prerogatives over theirs.He can, himself, choose not to testify, and play with Executive Privilege, but outside of privileged security issues, his own staff don’t enjoy those same protections and must answer to Congress.

Here is a fun experiment you used to be able to do. Find some Army guys with this combat patch:Put Captains’ bars on your chest. Now, stand these guys in formation, call them to attention, and hold up a piece of paper. Tell them that it is a policy letter saying that they can no longer, under any circumstances, wear their 1st MARDIV (Marine Division) combat patch.Nothing will happen, because of course, they are at the position of attention. A close observer will note a slight flaring of nostrils and narrowing of eyes. Now, order them to remove that patch. Nothing will happen (do not put them ‘at ease’, prior to ordering this or you will immediately be overwhelmed with shouts of, “but General Zilmer SAID we could.”)Now you have a choice. Do you want to try and rip the patch off yourself? Or will you threaten them all with Article 15s for insubordination, disobeying a direct order, and violation of AR670–1?If you pick the latter, you will be met with the sound of rank patches being ripped off and muttered exhortations to, “stuff it up your ass,” and, “extra duty ain’t got shit on Fallujah,” and, “we got a fucking PUC for this shit.”Do not pick the former. Under NO circumstances should you attempt to touch a 1st MARDIV combat patch. Doing so will result in grevious bodily harm, and or death to the toucher.Note: As of 2010, combat patches awarded to units for certain combat operations are allowed now, so this experiment will probably not work as well.We had mad respect for the Marines. Most of them probably could’ve even been Army Infantry if they had wanted to.