BangBus has always been about the pick-up, but today it’s the pick-up truck of democracy , scooping a nation’s id off the sidewalk and giving it a back-seat civics lesson. MelzTube climbs aboard like she’s ascending a Capitol made of leather and lube. Her co-star for the day, a corn-fed vet just back from Kabul with a Purple Heart and a Pornhub account, salutes. She salutes back—only her salute involves tongue, and the anthem playing on the stereo is more 808 than brass section. Still, when the bass drops, you can almost hear Francis Scott Key reach for his vape.