These fucking people are losing their shit because someone finally wants to put a barcode on a ballot envelope and actually count what the mail delivers. That’s it. That’s the entire crime.
Schumer calls it voter suppression. Elias is throwing his usual tantrum in court like the professional obstructionist he is. Padilla is out here claiming millions of “eligible voters” will be magically disenfranchised because the Post Office might notice if ballots disappear.
These are the same people who spent years building and cheering ballot tracking systems when they controlled the rules. Now that a uniform standard might actually work against them, it’s suddenly the end of democracy.
They don’t want chain of custody. They don’t want sent-versus-returned reconciliation. They don’t want records that last five years and can be subpoenaed. They want the current sloppy, unaccountable mess exactly the way it is ... dirty rolls, ballots mailed to ghosts and double registrants, and no reliable way to prove how many actually came back.
That’s the quiet part they’re screaming about. They built a system where fraud is difficult to catch on purpose, and now they’re panicking that someone might install the most basic fucking receipt the mail has ever used for anything else. The fact that they’re this hysterical over barcodes on envelopes tells you everything about how comfortable they got with the blind spots.
These people don’t fear losing elections. They fear finally having to run them without the safety net of plausible deniability. And the louder they howl, the more obvious it becomes that the old way was working exactly how they wanted it to.
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@ebeth360@Stillsmack@DesiFlurane@KiKi1185@danielp_reid After 20 years of screwing up a good thing, New Belgium went back to the roots of what made them stand out before selling out (at least in the late 90s college scene and the beginnings of craft beer snobbery). Ah memories.
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A lot of folks are silently fighting a life or death battle with the demons in their heads that you'll only discover when they lose that battle.
RIP Claude Lemieux
@ebeth360@Stillsmack@DesiFlurane@KiKi1185@danielp_reid First decent cherries of the season.
Dark cherry old fashioned
1 cup pitted cherries macerated in sugar for 1hr+. Strain 1oz of syrup
3oz whiskey or split base
5 dashes black walnut bitters
Stir with ice
Pour over large cube
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@Corenthian@ChestyPullerGst He did this without her knowing, which is why she throat punched his sister a few days after his death when she found out the house and all his money was in a trust that she could not touch. He knew she was nuts, and did what he could to protect his boys from her.
@Corenthian@ChestyPullerGst After he found she was being shady with finances and suspected she tried to poison him, he saw a lawyer about divorce, but at best, would only get 50/50 custody in UT (probably not that). So he moved everything into a trust for kids and decided to stay until boys got older
@ebeth360@Stillsmack@DesiFlurane@KiKi1185@danielp_reid "Dusting" of 10in of snow gone in 36hrs. Local birds not happy but well fed. Enjoying a sunny mango whiskey smash
3oz whiskey
2oz mango puree (mango, brown sugar, lemon juice, water)
Dash of cream
Dash of hot honey
Shake with ice
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@norimura440 It was a great year for colors....also loved the blue and yellow 1000RR. For me in the US, it was all about high visibility colors then...the orange was perfect.
@ebeth360@Stillsmack@DesiFlurane@KiKi1185@danielp_reid First fresh peaches of spring to go with some fresh powder
3oz peach puree (diced peach, sugar, water, lime juice)
1oz simple syrup
2.5oz whiskey
Spoon of hot honey
Dash of egg white
Dry shake/shake with ice
Pour
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