two devices constructed of 50-milliliter vodka bottles with gray cloth affixed to their tops
What is this? A molotov for ants?!?! That's ~3.5 tablespoons of liquid per bottle.
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You doubt the power of the Smallotov?
Note to self: make smallotov emoji
I made this so it's ugly but how about this rough idea?
A huge problem is that when the image is reduced down to that size - the vibe is ruined. The rag doesn't look like a rag at all. It looks like a extra-fancy top to a bottle of liqueur. Larger it's fine.
Not bad! I think the rag add can be improved both IRL and emoji-style by tying it around the neck of the bottle rather than shoving it in the end. Rag-in-the-mouth of the bottle mollies have a bad rep for failing in minecraft so, yeah, could be something to think about.
If I remember to remember I'll have a crack at it myself. Maybe attempt a vector version so it has toonish design clarity. The hand in your design is a great touch for showing the scale of the smolotov. Its good work.
vector version so it has toonish design clarity
That sounds really good. At the emoji's tiny size - it would be better if the flame was an unrealistic red/yellow anyway. I used a regular-sized bottle. A fun-sized bottle has different dimensions of course. My hunch is fun-sized bottle won't work because it's too bulky. It'll make the bottle the equivalent of a male bodybuilder who's taken so much HGH he's 350 pounds of huge and bizarrely shaped muscle globs.
The guy had a pair of fucking shooter bottles and was gonna try to do something 
aw hell naw he's trying to commit terrorism with the fun sized molotovs
They must've looked adorable
I promise it wasn't me, despite the username.
It's how you use it. In this case it was a waste of vodka lol
Sounds like the guy was having a crisis and thought he could easily end his life this way. Nobody who seriously desires to and plans to kill someone in politics in this day and age shows up outside the capitol building with a folding pocket knife and two 50 milliliter vodka bottles with sweatshirt bits stuffed into the tops (literally airplane bottles). You bring at least a semiautomatic rifle or a handgun, two very easy things for people is this country to obtain.
molotov mocktailsThe real madmen are building custom 50ml drum-fed molotov-launchers
Doohickey-maxxers
English said he left his phone at home in order to evade surveillance and that he had bought an atlas with cash a month earlier in order to find his way to D.C., the affidavit said. He also said he wore clothes that would conceal his appearance when purchasing the atlas, it said.
This is 100% a "I know what I'm doing, I saw it on TV" guy
It can't be that hard. He can just get the items in d.c and then chuck it there. As long as he doesn't publish anything saying he's gonna do it then it's pretty straightforward.
Guy turned himself in, but doesn't really say why.
Weird that it's happened twice. IIRC some guy went after Kavanaugh a few years back but bailed and called the cops on himself.
how do you arrive at this point with a plan of 5 year old, christ. Probably feds doing shenanigans
Going after the treasury secretary is so silly because it's such a niche job. What did the fucking incumbent treasury guy do to you? It's not even something funny like red day on the stock market -> blame the SEC. I'm sure if Trump likes him he's a ghoul, so his hobby is probably liquidating babies to make Legos, but I'd have to google "what does a treasury secretary do?"
bessent was the architect of the 97 asian financial crisis acting through soros, many geopolitical analysts in china consider him to be the main 'antagonist' within the trump admin and many believe him to have a bone to pick with china as it was hong kong and the chinese government by proxy that put down his rampage almost 30 years ago
There's a whole class of libertarian, monetary policy-obsessed people who hate the Treasury and the Fed something fierce. And when you ask them about it they go on these Marxist-length rants, and there's always something about Bretton-Woods, gold, and crypto for some reason.
You're gonna need something a lot better than a Molotov for a job like that
All these unsuccessful assassinations are starting to reek of "attempted self-coup" energy
It takes 5 seconds to shove a rag into a bottle of popov, why the hell would you assemble it beforehand?
Firstly we on hexbear do not condone illegal conduct, creation, or use of burn bottles.
Secondly in ww2 burn bottles that were used in warring nations on the eastern front were assembled with storm matches attached to the exterior of the glass surface.
Thirdly the etymology section of the Wikipedia page on the topic is for purely educational purposes on what not to do.
that's a great way to set yourself on fire
you want the lid on tight, fuse on the outside
also dissolve polystyrene in gasoline for sticky burny
Remember to replace the cap before throwing too.
Just as a funny observation, based on an interest in historical warfare, nothing current, so please Mr 
don't kick my door down, a molotov cocktail used to be a closed container, otherwise it would've spilled the contents before hitting the target; and the wick was attached to the outside of the container with tape or string. Lastly, the liquid was never only alcohol or gasoline or something, there were other things to add, hence 'cocktail'.
Something tell me a little strategy of tension is happening 
Let him cook.
Betting a hundred that he’s just pissed that his 4/10 experimental short movie got its art endowment suspended
Article just alks about how he told police that he intended to kill the Treasury secretary, not a word about if he then succeeded. What about the initial targets? Are they dead?