” issue declarations and then shame people into following them.”
Good think I have no shame.
The symbolism in Barr’s message:
1. It’s Trump against Biden.
2. Have a beer or two and relax.
3. The tyrants will be “soon overruled.”
In my State, we can produce pretty much anything at home for personal consumption including shine. I drank too much once, just once.
Next - government-supplied Victory Gin.
In NH (aka the live free or die state) it is illegal to be above the legal limit (.08). They have undercover police whom go around and audit bars credit card receipts for any single patron buying too many drinks in too short of a time. They try to breathalize those whom are too stupid to realize that they don’t have to agree to a breathalizer test unless they are behind the wheel. For each violation, you can be fined $500 and get 6 months in jail. Naturally prosecutors opt for probation. You guessed it, the probation requires mandatory AA meetings and random urine testing. NH also has a three strikes law, in that if you are caught tipsy in a bar three times, you can do 20 years in the slammer.
Also, let’s say you’re a college kid, at a frat party where you’ve been drinking. If you are under 21, and the police issue you a ticket for drinking (a 74 dollar fine) your license is automatically suspended for 3 years. Imagine, you’re 20 years and 11 months old, and you lose your license for 3 years.
This, in a state which has no seatbelt law (for adults) and no motorcycle helmet laws. Go figure. MADD and their lobbyists are now pushing for a .02 limit, nationwide.
And people wondered why I bought that cider press.
If the nanny statists limit me to one beer a day, I will do what patients in mental hospitals do with their pills to get a buzz. Hoard/hide the one beer I’m limited to until I have enough (3 or 4) and drink them all at once. The days in between will be tough.
Interesting, while at the same time, the once great state of Oregon gives out free hypodermic needles and syringes and, via Measure 110, just legalized/decriminalized personal possession of true wreckers of people and families, namely cocaine, heroin, oxycodone and methamphetamine. (No straws, of course.)
Interestingly I’ve seen some gay people at Trump rallies holding up flags, Liquor Guns Beer Trump
Leftists hate fun.