Trump now wants to defund the US Post Office

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@Skodin said:
Amazing, the rural country rubes are for dismantling a key resource for rural country rubes.  “Drain the swamp and respect American institutions, traditions” while allowing a swamp funding Amazon and UPs large stock owner to destroy one of America’s foundations of democracy.

It’s so sad and obvious, some people in this county are afraid of everyone getting a chance to vote. Pu$$ies

That's just it. I keep coming back to a very simple comparison. It doesn't matter whether you're talking about modern republics, monarchies or South American dictatorships, who do you trust more? A party that wants more people to vote or a party that wants fewer people to vote? 

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@Skodin said:
Amazing, the rural country rubes are for dismantling a key resource for rural country rubes.  “Drain the swamp and respect American institutions, traditions” while allowing a swamp funding Amazon and UPs large stock owner to destroy one of America’s foundations of democracy.

Where do you find that rural people are for dismantling a USPS?  Are you familiar with rural America?  They have access to the internet, email, texting, FedEx, UPS and so forth.  Sure, the USPS delivers some mail but not like the old days.  

Who set up the sweet deal with Amazon at discount rates for delivery?  Doesn't seem fair to give Amazon a discount over other businesses.

It’s so sad and obvious, some people in this county are afraid of everyone getting a chance to vote. Pu$$ies

Why not use the exiting absentee ballot for those who don't want to go to the polling location on election day?  There is a way for all people to vote, may take a modicum of effort but geez, adults should be able to handle it.  

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We'll see....

https://twitter.com/CharlieKBonner/statu...97160?s=20

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@MaroonBells said:

@Skodin said:
Amazing, the rural country rubes are for dismantling a key resource for rural country rubes.  “Drain the swamp and respect American institutions, traditions” while allowing a swamp funding Amazon and UPs large stock owner to destroy one of America’s foundations of democracy.

It’s so sad and obvious, some people in this county are afraid of everyone getting a chance to vote. Pu$$ies

That's just it. I keep coming back to a very simple comparison. It doesn't matter whether you're talking about modern republics, monarchies or South American dictatorships, who do you trust more? A party that wants more people to vote or a party that wants fewer people to vote? 

The devil is always in the details. People need to untwist their panties and realize they can vote the way they always have: Dr Fauci says in person voting is okay and if one doesn't want to vote in person, use the option that been available forever, absentee ballot.  Twenty seconds to sign up on line.  Easy peasy.

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@Skodin said:
Amazing, the rural country rubes are for dismantling a key resource for rural country rubes.  “Drain the swamp and respect American institutions, traditions” while allowing a swamp funding Amazon and UPs large stock owner to destroy one of America’s foundations of democracy.

It’s so sad and obvious, some people in this county are afraid of everyone getting a chance to vote. Pu$$ies

Im one of those rural folks. I agree with Jimmy. We could have mail ever other or even once a week and it wouldnt hurt my feelings in the least. 

We purchased a locked mailbox a year or two ago and we only bother to pick it up once or twice a week they way it is. 

I could care less if people vote by mail as long as there is some security involved somehow. Honestly, its probably easier to vote online and not even worry about the post office. 

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Again this has nothing to do with how often country folk want their mail.

This is a purposely aimed attack to undermine yet another American institution to undermine people’s faith in ... 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/machines-usps-removing-distribution-centers-120300110.html


Mail-sorting machines used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) have been dismantled and removed from distribution centers around the country, according to postal workers. They told Motherboard that at least 19 machines were removed without explanation. An internal USPS letter from June included a plan to remove hundreds of more mail-sorting machines this year.

Postal Workers Union members and some Democratic politicians have expressed concerns about changes to the USPS under Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a major Trump donor who started his position this summer. President Trump has attacked the USPS and claimed that voting by mail has a high rate of fraud, without evidence. 
The USPS has more eyes on it than ever with continued mail-in voting forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's how the sorting machines being removed from distribution centers work.
The machines removed from USPS distribution facilities were delivery barcode sorters (DBCS).




Putin is laughing his ass off right now as Trump is dismantling our democracy and turning us into a banana republic.

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If you're a voter in NC, you just got a nice pix and message from POTUS too..

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@MaroonBells said:
We'll see....

https://twitter.com/CharlieKBonner/statu...97160?s=20

Fascism? Fucking really?
A public-sector labor union (the epitome of socialism?) crying ‘fascism’ over cutbacks?Cutbacks similar to those proposed by a black Democrat, a few years earlier?
And, again......Fascism?  Do ya’ll have NO sense of ideological scale?We’re truly in the Twilight Zone.  

Btw, the left-leaning “The Atlantic”, recently nuked  your “Mail-In” argument. 
The Chaos in New York Is a Warning

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/new-york-election-failure-mail-in-voting/614446/

The first large-scale test of mail-in voting in the pandemic has left one in five New Yorkers with their votes tossed out.

EDWARD-ISAAC DOVEREJULY 24, 2020

(Opening pull quotes)
More than a month after New York’s June 23 primary elections, state election officials are still counting votes. In some legislative districts, they haven’t even started counting absentee votes. In the best-case scenario, election officials hope to declare winners by the first Tuesday in August—six weeks after Election Day. It might take a lot longer than that. Election officials in New York City have already invalidated upwards of 100,000 absentee ballots—about one of every five that were mailed in from the five boroughs. And furious candidates are already filing lawsuits charging discrimination and disenfranchisement.
The chaos in New York is a warning about November’s elections: Voting is being transformed by the pandemic. But no state has built new election infrastructure. No state has the time or the money to make sure vote-counting will go smoothly in November. And just about every state is about to be hit with a massive surge of absentee ballots.

“This is what happens,” a New York election official told me over the phone last week, “when you jury-rig a system that hasn’t been designed or implemented or tested before.”
In New York, the election infrastructure was overwhelmed by a massive increase in voters requesting absentee ballots rather than risking voting in person. Ballot-printing firms couldn’t keep up with demand, and the already rickety U.S. Postal Service didn’t move the ballots to and from voters quickly enough. Election officials, meanwhile, have seemed more interested in pointing fingers than in solving the problems.


*pro-tip* to the liberals:  stop reading.  The leftist-written article only gets worse (for you)


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The following, is a witnessed account of fascism.


'Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and bluish. But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing...
'And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes. And we were forced to look at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished.
'Behind me, I heard (a) man asking: 'For God's sake, where is God?'
'And from within me, I heard a voice answer: 'Where He is? This is where — hanging here from this gallows...'
'That night, the soup tasted of corpses.'
— fascism witness Elie Wiesel
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I just provided a leftist-inspired  argument Vs mail-in. 
Earlier, I Posted proof of Democrat cut-back budget policies on the USPS. 


USPS workers are not experiencing fascism, in the slightest.  

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/expert-explains-how-trump-has-exploited-our-legal-infrastructure-to-advance-true-fascism-in-america/
The debate over whether Donald Trump is a fascist is no longer confined to a narrow segment of the far left. It is now out in the open. Even mainstream columnists like the New York Times’ Michelle Goldberg and the Washington Post’s Ishaan Tharoor and influential Democratic politicians, such as Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, have come to use the “F” word to describe our 45th commander in chief.

Although it is an emotionally loaded and often misused term, fascism is as real today as a political and cultural force, a set of core beliefs, and a mode of governance as it was when Benito Mussolini founded the Italian Fascist Party in 1919 and declared himself dictator six years later.

Nor is fascism a foreign phenomenon restricted to South American banana republics or failed European states. As University of London professor Sarah Churchwell explained in a June 22 essay published in the New York Review of Books, fascism has deep roots in the United States, spanning the decades from the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s to the rise of the German-American Bund in the 1930s, the ascendance of Depression-era demagogues like Huey Long, and the election of Donald Trump in 2016.

Churchwell’s article is aptly titled, “American Fascism: It Has Happened Here.” In it, she offers a working definition of fascism, noting that fascist movements, both past and present in America and abroad, are united by “conspicuous features [that] are recognizably shared.” These include:

“[N]ostalgia for a purer, mythic, often rural past; cults of tradition and cultural regeneration; paramilitary groups; the delegitimizing of political opponents and demonization of critics; the universalizing of some groups as authentically national, while dehumanizing all other groups; hostility to intellectualism and attacks on a free press; anti-modernism; fetishized patriarchal masculinity; and a distressed sense of victimhood and collective grievance. Fascist mythologies often incorporate a notion of cleansing, an exclusionary defense against racial or cultural contamination, and related eugenicist preferences for certain ‘bloodlines’ over others.”