As someone in a very rural area where the post office is only open 3 hours a day, this is devastating. Nearest larger post office is 40 miles away and most elderly here can't drive or are too poor to drive daily. They depend on meds mailed and mail in voting. #fucktrump
I’m a retired postal worker and trust me NO mail carrier is in favor of Trump running the USPS! Leave the post office the way it is. Trump being involved will be the WORST mistake ever!
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It's a good thing Blue state customers would never order materials from Red state sellers, thereby allowing Trump voters to avoid yet another way his idiotic, grievance-driven whims-cum-policies might negatively affect their lives as well.
Why didn’t Biden do this???? Louis DeJoy thumbed his nose at Biden and declared he wasn’t going anywhere. How many days has it been and poof gone. WTF?!
Louis DeJoy might stay, but this just proves how weak Democrats have been and that needs to change!
OMG someone has GOT to STEP UP and PUT AN END TO THIS IMMEDIATLY!😱IF the legal system doesn't SHUT THIS CRIMINAL REGIME DOWN NOW, the CIVIL WAR will SOON BEGIN because the American people ARE NOT GOING to just ROLL OVER and LET Trump OWN this Country!😡😡😡
What the fuck!!??? I was told by many people when I complained about Biden not firing DeJoy that the President had absolutely no control over this. I knew it was bullshit and now here we are. 🤬
Tell me where to go pick them up (how many Dems are registered so I know how many to get) Happy to drop off in every county and they can be hand delivered, by horse of needed). Might need some extra for same day registration. If T win, let's manually recount if they didn't get their ballots.
He doesn’t wanna be a civilian again, he remembers how close they got to holding him accountable and he’s hard at work to prevent that from happening again
Unfortunately this has been known since his previous term. He has been after the post office & mail in voting since 2016. He is a crooked mother fucker with no moral values no doubt he is doing everything in his fascist playbook. Taking away our freedoms one by one
Like did some cueball mfer betray his fellow, I don’t know let’s call them teamsters, to sell out to a golf cheat under the promise he’d help eliminate a competitor.
Also, running the Postal Service like a business likely means curtailed or eliminated service to low population density areas, where MAGA voters are more likely to live.
Everybody needs to pay attention! They really gonna fuck it up so the next elections are all Republican and when you see something like that, you know it’s rigged! Karate we can’t let them do this. I want my Democratic country back!
Everyday something worse. The repeal of Medicare covering tele-health fills me with so much rage I can’t even explain. Now it’s the postal service. Did these guys grow in a pod or something? They seem to lack all humanity.
It’s also abt breaking a strong union + robbing a massive pension + heath plan serving workers, retirees, spouses, surviving spouses + children to age 21
Republicans have been after this money for decades
Thieves who are ransacking OPM, SSA + the IRS will just take it
Trump taking over USPS is election interference, bc he’ll oversee the handling of mail-in ballots. No doubt DeJoy resigned the other day fr the position Trump gave him at USPS to give Trump free rein. Are we sure DeJoy wasn’t put in the position to interrupt the delivery of mail-in ballotS in 2024?
So when is anyone going to do anything? This country if crumbling and we are commenting. We all want to say what can’t be said but we are all afraid to say it. We are hoping someone who has the political power to say it will say it and then we can all support them.
Of course the garbage heap that is @washingtonpost.com would focus on ecommerce being affected and not the millions who rely on USPS to get medications, vote, and the only connection to the outside world in our most rural towns!
Well of course. Not sure why he's bothering tbh, they'll find illegitimate excuse after illegitimate excuse not to hold elections. Being at war with an aggressive invader is a legitimate excuse btw.
Today I received a letter from “JD Vance” expressing thanks for helping him win the election. Thing is…I’m not a registered republican, nor did I vote republican in this or any election since I started voting. So…….yeah….this is just the beginning. Wild times we’re living in.
Yes -- a very under-discussed facet of risks to repro rights. The US Mail has historically been the form of communication with the most constitutional protections. Are we going to start ripping through mail, looking for abortion meds? If so, we're throwing away even more than our bodily autonomy.
Biden spent 4 years refusing to fire DeJoy. As I said before, we don’t need milk toast democrats once the MAGA fascists lose power. We need people who would fire the corrupt Courts, ban the MAGA fascist party for 80 years, and fire all people who come in government on or after January 20, 2025.
To clean up the country of fascist Nazis and fascism means exactly that, clean up the country of fascism. This should be the platform of the Democratic Party.
Spot on.... Democrats need to get a set of balls. they dance around like ballerinas with sore feet.bark like a dog with no teeth. talk the talk but can't walk the walk. And that is how we lose our democracy. People don't want weak looking democrats. They want strongman democrats. That's how we win.
we need the most radical left guy we can ever fucking get to undo the shit they've done and get rid of all these nasty maga Americans who are full of hatred for one another and just being narcissistic and looking out for only themselves.
Joe Biden is for law and order is somehow horrible? Felon47’s actions will be challenged in court. The postmaster is not under the Executive.
Most of us are not interested in anarchy no matter the color of the haze. 🔴🔵
Weird hill to die on. Lol
Rule of law. There’s a difference.
DeJoy resigned, luv.
Lemme guess; You’re a st8t, Yt male who is unaccustomed to feeling uncomfortable with their government ‘not being for them’? Hmmm?
This is how we effectively have no more free and fair elections. Couple that with the SAVE Act they are trying to pass which will eliminate millions and millions of voters, particularly women.
Women had better change their names to their maiden names if the Save act passes. It was always a little unbalanced for a woman to change her name and the man made no changes after marriage. So I suppose the children would then take on two hyphenated names.
The GOP has been trying to privatize everything they could for the last 30 years.This has been in their crosshairs for quite some time. This is the first step towards privatization.
The only winners the first 30 days have been the ultra rich & Russia.TT and the USPS will be galvanized & politicized
Yes -- but I have a feeling that'll be the least of it. The four USPS unions (city carriers, rural carriers, clerks, and sorting plant workers) are the USA's largest remaining unionized workforce, hands down. The GOP has intermittently tried to "put it through the woodchipper" since the early 2010s.
The Postal Workers should strike like 1970. If Trump does away with the Collective Bargining Agreement agreed to under the Postal Reform Act of 1970, the workers are no longer subject to the non strike clause of that Reform. Trump is stealing the Postal Pension Fund. Defend yourselves.
USPS is semi-autonomous, has a union or 3, and was already on strike in 1970 when the PRA was passed to end that strike. Trump intends to violate or delete the PRA in order to put it into the Treasury. He's already violating the agreement. There are laws. But you can't obey in advance.
Four unions. 1970 was huge, for sure. But further, 1970 shifted the Post Office Dept. from a cabinet-level position for the PM General into the USPS, a merely quasi-governmental organization. As such, Trump should have even less authority over the inner workings of the mail. Emphasis on "should."
Trumps plan is to now take over USPS. It's not coincidence that last summer he said if elected there would be no need to have another election. He is doing exactly as said why didn't the middle right pay attention and believe him? They were told many times it's not a game.
sure. makes sense. He won the last election by Republicans in swing states throwing away millions of mail-in votes. He's doing the playbook "How to rig the next election"
its not conspiracy. You can look it up but they hide it. R's deleted MILLIONS of black and brown votes in swing states in 2024.
After all the election BS from the last two generals, I suggest we go back to all paper ballots and hand counts. No tabulators. He’s always wanted this.
And he’s going to kill millions of small business owners and raise prices on millions of consumers who shop online and give them poorer service….because the king feels threatened by mail in voting.
“The Postal Clause was added to the Constitution in 1789 to help with interstate communication”
…”The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 made the United States Postal Service an independent agency”
People in rural areas really REALLY value their Post Offices and the USPS. Companies don't always like sending things out to the boonies where there are more farms and wilderness than people. You can't make a big profit running the equivalent of a Post Office such areas.
I’m sure we’ll be fine, what with Dem leadership like chickenshit @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social standing up for the rule of law… On a self-aggrandizing book tour
I'm still not sold that they stole the 24 election, the dems made it painful to check the boxes, but then again it's pretty clear learning about it that they openly stole the 2000 election and the dems didn't burn the whole thing down that time either so what do I know
Bomb threats were called in by Russians on behalf of Republicans to disrupt voting in blue districts of swing states. That's terrorism that helped them win the election.
Unfortunately, the race was a dead heat, do to the smear campaign on Harris. That made it easy for Musk to tilt it just enough to matter.
It never should have even been that close.
I still blame the 89 million Americans who thought they had something better to do on Election Day.
I blame them too but he had near empty rallies up to Election Day and yet he won every swing state? the % of bullet ballots in swing states was much higher than normal elections and the fact that they all basically admitted it (musk,musk’s kid, trump, Ken Paxton, Rogan)
I know, but every poll - and there were many - had the margin between that at around 1-2%, where it ended up.
Turnout of Americans under 30 was 42% for the most important election of their lives.
Turnout among college students - probably 30%.
Those who voted went more for Trump than in 2020.
Sad.
Rachel Maddow showed trump poll numbers taken right after Jan 20, and according to Gallup, he already had a historically low/negative rating. That makes me think most people never wanted him in office - that he did NOT get the most votes.
Good question. I’ve seen quite a few users post that they do not believe he won legitimately. But I haven’t seen any solutions, and I don’t have one, either. I
So let say they actually did investigate and found that he did manipulate the votes and lost, what will they do? If he isn’t the legitimate president, then what? Not saying they would actually investigate or even DO ANYTHING but let’s say they did. I’m curious how it would it be done, anyone know?
Unfortunately it would be impeachment to formally remove him from office, and since his GOP lackeys currently control the impeachment process/vote, there's basically nothing else that anyone *legally* could do.
Since constitutionally the real presidential election is what the electors do and then it’s certified by Congress he’d still be President anyway. We had this conversation in 2020 with Stop The Steal. Even if you can prove fraud you can’t undo the inauguration without an impeachment.
True. I thought of that after I posted this. I guess we have to assume the people who didn’t bother to vote were not trump supporters, if their dislike of trump affected the post Jan 20 poll numbers.
100%! Also the special election or whatever in Iowa and it swung like +20 points to the dem, I’m guessing selzer was right and the special election is prob closer to the real Nov 2024 numbers
Actually there was lots of voter suppression that is not “theory.” Literally everyday there was some new way GOP was purging voter rolls; vigilantes challenged 100s of 1000s of registrations; set barriers to get and to return absentee ballots. They are STILL contesting 60K votes in NC for SC Judge.
the threat to women, I thought everyone would vote. I do not believe he won the popular vote, I would grant him the electoral squeeze from a few years ago, there is NO FUCKING way he won the popular vote. I felt it when I voted. If someone can sweep in and buy us I am not giving any more money
The USPS is quasi-governmental. All of their income comes from stamp sales, mailing costs, etc. The employees have their own BUs with their own contracts but are eligible for some federal employee benefits. The postal service is established in Article I
If the BUs of USPS were fully under the rules of Article II, their BUs would be prohibited from certain things, like bargaining for wage increases, and a higher percentage of their health insurance that's paid by the employer. Their BUs do bargain for those things.
Vote early and in person in big numbers…time to put a stop to BS…period…
Keep check of voting status…on your local voting website…
This felon and felonites gotta leave America alone…find your own country of misfits to destroy…
Republicans can only win by cheating. They are willing to cheat in hundreds of ways in thousands of places to maintain minority power over the majority of voters.
This way, most of their voter suppression stays under the radar. Trump is eliminating possible roadblocks to limit/eliminate oversight.
They've been working on this plot since before Reagan took office.
When I say cheating, I mean everything from voter purges & misinformation to loading state houses and election boards. They will do anything, take $ from Putin that is washed through the NRA, to stay in power.
I used to have family night for kids to show off their artwork/crafts, and their parents,who never used the library themselves, were amazed at all the offerings.
I helped elderly people apply for benefits & get birth certificates or download the free will forms.
So much there!
I know! I’m always looking for ways to support them. So under appreciated and under understood ❤️ A family night for kids to show off artwork is a great idea! Thank you!
Use them, talk about them, use their website offerings, and tell your friends. It's not just books, it never was. You can study languages, check out tools & museum passes, get help with your research from reliable sites, take your kids to story time, author visits, and use their free meeting rooms.
Oh for crying out loud. I stay away from the news for a day and now he's doing THIS? He's insane, will do anything to make a splash and the nastier and meaner it is, the more he likes it.
No, probably Louis DeJoy as he just resigned. Probably so that he wouldn’t have a conflict of interest when the 🍊🍕💩tried to privatize it and he buys it.
Right out of the slave power playbook of the 1830s / 1840s of suppressing abolitionist dissent and protest through gag rules and censorship of the mail.
Yes but the legal authority for
mail-in voting still rests with states, however haphazard. I have no doubts this admin will fight it but I’m not them allowing them unchecked imaginative power and I’m not entertaining hypothetical doom scenarios
😒 Every voter in Colorado receives a mail in ballot every election. Been that way for years. Can we just secede now? They want to add to the debt and take away every good thing and every protection and give the richest man in the world our tax money for WHAT??
This is so personal to me as someone who lives in a blue state with mail in ballots- but here the kicker, it helps rural and elderly voters the most who vote GOP
Fair enough. I stick to my sub reddits which range from 1 old tv show to carpentry. Not much else. Also I got ‘fuck your headlights’ to ban X posts. Hehe
And don’t forget about how much this will help his project 2025 cronies limit women’s access to abortion meds no matter which state they live in. An added bonus for him.
What will happen to the rural areas of USA without postal service. With limited internet services (and even those are hit or miss), rural areas will become even more isolated and uninformed. I'd imagine that it would be difficult to afford privatized postal services.
Gonna be honest, I think vote suppression is just good policy. It's what Biden should have been doing. It's what any victorious party, left or right, should be doing the second they can.
The CIA and the FBI would go to Black and Brown third world countries and impose their will by literally killing their political leaders and head of governments for America, but when in come to domestic White fascists imposing a dictatorship, these bastards are handcuffed by White supremacy.
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Louis DeJoy might stay, but this just proves how weak Democrats have been and that needs to change!
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2025/0218-usps-announces-tenure-plan-of-pmg-louis-dejoy.htm
Hopefully this will continue.
Are there many organised protests against the MAGA regime? Feels like you need to get marching?
Republicans have been after this money for decades
Thieves who are ransacking OPM, SSA + the IRS will just take it
Maybe exactly what he wants.
The man lives on spectacle.
That’s not a talking point.
https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/2022/08/24/can-biden-fire-us-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy/
Most of us are not interested in anarchy no matter the color of the haze. 🔴🔵
Weird hill to die on. Lol
DeJoy resigned, luv.
Lemme guess; You’re a st8t, Yt male who is unaccustomed to feeling uncomfortable with their government ‘not being for them’? Hmmm?
When is enough enough America?
The only winners the first 30 days have been the ultra rich & Russia.TT and the USPS will be galvanized & politicized
Like pro life people killing
Like free speech people censoring
Like all lives matter people discriminating
They are so transparent and vile
its not conspiracy. You can look it up but they hide it. R's deleted MILLIONS of black and brown votes in swing states in 2024.
Imagine FedEx or even UPS rates on eBay sales...
Remember when Trump removed the mail sorting machines in 2020?
…”The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 made the United States Postal Service an independent agency”
If nothing is done, there may not be another election
People in rural areas really REALLY value their Post Offices and the USPS. Companies don't always like sending things out to the boonies where there are more farms and wilderness than people. You can't make a big profit running the equivalent of a Post Office such areas.
They stole the 2024 election. They're going to run the same playbook forever if we don't stop them. And by stop I mean jail.
It never should have even been that close.
I still blame the 89 million Americans who thought they had something better to do on Election Day.
Turnout of Americans under 30 was 42% for the most important election of their lives.
Turnout among college students - probably 30%.
Those who voted went more for Trump than in 2020.
Sad.
https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1irme7f/the_leaked_musk_interview_that_keeps_getting/
How fast we've fallen
Keep check of voting status…on your local voting website…
This felon and felonites gotta leave America alone…find your own country of misfits to destroy…
This way, most of their voter suppression stays under the radar. Trump is eliminating possible roadblocks to limit/eliminate oversight.
When I say cheating, I mean everything from voter purges & misinformation to loading state houses and election boards. They will do anything, take $ from Putin that is washed through the NRA, to stay in power.
I helped elderly people apply for benefits & get birth certificates or download the free will forms.
So much there!
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2025/0218-usps-announces-tenure-plan-of-pmg-louis-dejoy.htm
https://apwu.org/news/statement-apwu-president-mark-dimondstein-attacks-public-postal-service
mail-in voting still rests with states, however haphazard. I have no doubts this admin will fight it but I’m not them allowing them unchecked imaginative power and I’m not entertaining hypothetical doom scenarios
so sad ...we need help.