@megbasham@DemarsSean 100% Megan! Rush Limbaugh always said that left is the default position of all organizations or politics and that if conservatism isn’t purposefully sought everyday things naturally drift left. That has always seemed to be the case
@DemarsSean I’ve never seen rightward drift. I have seen a deliberate rightward correction or movement. But as for drift, meaning you’re just going along with whatever’s happening in the dominant cultural around you, I’ve only ever seen that go left.
The people losing their minds over this postal rule are doing more to make the case for it than the rule itself ever could.
You’ve got Chuck Schumer calling basic envelope tracking “voter suppression, plain and simple.” You’ve got Senator Padilla claiming tens of millions of legal voters will suddenly be blocked. And you’ve got Marc Elias ... the guy who’s spent his entire career in court trying to stop every verification rule anyone ever proposed ... treating barcodes on ballot envelopes like an existential threat.
That level of alarm over something this straightforward is the tell.
The rule doesn’t decide who gets to vote. It doesn’t touch state voter rolls. It just says that if a state wants to use the federal mail system to deliver and collect federal ballots, the envelopes need to carry the same kind of tracking information the Postal Service already uses for everything else. The technology isn’t new ... plenty of blue states and progressive election officials have been using intelligent mail barcodes for years. The Brennan Center even acknowledged it’s already common practice in many places.
So why the sudden panic when it becomes a uniform, enforceable standard?
Because once you can actually reconcile how many ballots went out against how many came back, you remove the ability to pretend the system is airtight when it isn’t. The people most furious about adding a basic paper trail are the ones who benefited most from not having one. Their reaction isn’t about protecting voters. It’s about protecting the current lack of accountability.
When the same voices that spent years expanding mail voting now treat simple tracking like an attack on democracy, they’re not hiding their concerns. They’re advertising them.
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🚨 DEAR SUPREME COURT,
PLEASE ABOLISH "ELECTION MONTH!"
And mandate "ELECTION DAY" nationwide, once and for all. California is proving yet again we need this.
No more mail-ins coming after election day — a BIG ruling could come soon that NULLIFIES over a dozen states' laws. Do the right thing!
JUSTICE ALITO IS RIGHT: "Independence DAY, birth-DAY, and Election DAY. They are all particular DAYS...if we start with that, if I have nothing more to look at than the phrase 'Election Day,' I think this is the DAY in which everything is going to take place."
Do it.
Kurt Olsen, a White House official who assisted President Trump’s efforts to examine the 2020 election results, has joined the Justice Department as a senior attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, where prosecutors are reviewing prior federal investigations into President Trump as part of a broader grand conspiracy inquiry.
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David especially for the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), with Paul Newman e Katharine Ross. The scene was a romantic bike ride, and director George Roy Hill wanted something light and optimistic. Bob Dylan was the first guest to record but declined, Ray Stevens also declined. B. J. Thomas accepted and recorded the track while recovering from laryngitis, the hoarse, tired voice that came out was exactly what Bacharach loved (he made Thomas repeat until the seventh take). There is a specific film version (with a vaudeville instrumental break to accompany Newman's stunts) and another recorded weeks later for the single.
Released in late 1969, it became the first Billboard Hot 100 of the 1970s (four weeks at the top in January), won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and became the biggest hit of B. J. Thomas's career.