I’m holding a moment of silence in my cubicle.

We have an unlimited supply of thoughts and prayers because we forgot how to do anything that could actually make a difference.

You shut your whole face, Jujy! He looks nothing like my beloved Schmidt!

A Texas judge

Okay but I warn you now, I will drink most of it!

One again, kudos to whoever hunts down your images, be it you Anna or one of your staff. That header pic just perfectly captures the mood Paul Ryan must be feeling.

you’re my favorite

Raises hand.

I know exactly which commenters will get and like this reference #Olds

About five years ago my BFF shared a seat next to a major (now imprisoned, featured in a Cracked article) sovereign citizen nut job. The dude kept promising my friend that he could get my buddy “4,000 crack troops” if the Feds ever came after my friend...who worked in a government funded lab researching either malaria…

This dude is the Grand Poobah of bizarre in the Sovereign Citizen movement:

you can go down a really long and weird rabbit hole if you look up the “freeman movement” ... just wow. i had the pleasure of meeting one of these weirdos, who happened to be a college friend’s roommate. in a few quick points they believe:

When I worked in homicide court, I used to deal with about one of these guys per month. They’re beyond frustrating, mainly because they just repeat the same shit over and over and OVER.

It’s both. A lot of the original crazy came out of the posse comitatus movement from the 60s, who were virulent racists. This then morphed over the next few decades and somehow became the sovereign citizen movement, at the same time creating a number of spin-off beliefs among African-Americans, including groups like…

You see it a lot from prisoners trying it to get out of their prison sentences. Spoiler alert: It doesn’t work.

Be a black man and try this...

But if the laws don’t apply to them then is there any punishment for doing something normally illegal against these people? Have they thought this through? Can anyone just come up and steal their things or beat them unconscious if the laws don’t apply to them?

According to the FBI they’re a growing threat.

I think a broad understanding is all you really need here.

And finally: