My state has no excuse mail ballots as well. And my city has a higher population than your entire state. And there is no line to drop off a ballot unless you happen to get there at the exact same time as other people. It takes 2 seconds to put your mail ballot in a secure drop box.
Stop discouraging people from voting securely.
I can’t speak about Honolulu, because I’ve never lived there but in CA there are secure drop boxes conveniently placed all over and there is no line, you just walk or drive up and put it in. It literally takes 2 seconds, I don’t see how it could be possible for a backup to occur. I had to do it once when I waited too long and I wanted to make sure I was counted on election day. At your drop boxes is there a person you have to interact with or something?
I’m in CA and I agree it’ll probably be fine, and I’d know because of the verification system. But the major pain in the ass that would be required to follow up if the USPS decides not to deliver my ballot vs. the probably unnecessary, but very easy, route of dropping it off at a collection center is no contest. I’ll still wait for my mail ballot so I can fill it out at my leisure and take my time with all of the information about ballot propositions available to me, but I’ll take it to a drop point after.
I certainly hope so. This might be the one time you see a market rally from a rate hike. Everyone just relieved that the fed hasn’t been totally politicized yet.
Did you forget the /s?
Seriously, who the fuck posts paywalled shit anymore? Especially from places like 404 where neither u-block nor reader mode gets around it.
Just click through to the Taiping Rebellion.
Word. I am very much not a fan of Iran but the attack was unprovoked and killed a fuckton of kids. We deserve every “bad” term in that deal, and then some.
He had to talk about it terms of the universe, as opposed to the world or the nation, because that’s how far you have to pull back to smooth out the bumps and discern the slightest of arcs.
Thanks for the recommend, I’m looking forward to watching it. I don’t know how I missed this, it was back when I still assumed everything HBO produced was good.
When I’ve traveled internationally, both during his first presidency and recently, people would occasionally ask me what I thought about him. I would tell them and they would often say something like “that’s what everyone I’ve talked to seems to think,” in a somewhat accusatory way (or maybe my embarrassment makes me a little paranoid,) like we are not being honest.
And I basically say what you just said. Sure, there are probably a few trump supporting liars among those you’ve spoken to, but for the most part, trump supporters are incurious people, scared of everything, and not interested in experiencing new things and places.
A trump supporter (he would just say Republican, but there is no difference imo) I work with just took his family on an international vacation for the first time about a month ago. He went to Costa Rica and stayed in a resort. When he got back and people asked him about it he would say “it’s great, the resort had everything you need, there were lots of English TV stations with American programming, tons of ‘normal’ food, and everybody in stores spoke English” (in the little strip of stores right outside the resort designed to give just the right amount of ‘local flavor’ without being scary). That’s about as adventurous as I imagine the average magat to be.
I wasn’t aware of that. Are there plans to remove them from places like this memorial, or is it just contemporary uses that are banned?
I don’t disagree, but it is the symbol the honored dead fought under. In context I think it’s fine, but if you’re using it today, that’s different.
That would explain all the meowing on guard.