Poll of the Day > Is trump really trying to disband USPS?

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I dont know what to believe these days.

Should you believe Trump, who's actively talked about hurting the USPS in order to hurt the Dems, or the fake leftists like Zeus and Ohjam who spread false info directly in contradiction to the president's own words?

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No.

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actually disbanding it sounds like a strawman exaggeration for the right to point at and say is ridiculous

what he is trying to do is throw wrenches into the gears to make things more complex and confusing but most of all to create doubt about whether we can have a legitimate election, that way if he doesnt win he can claim he must remain in office since the election wasnt fair and he knows that his supporters will side with him in a heartbeat if he does that

I mean hes saying he doesnt want to give Democrats the money needed to run the post office effectively in the election but the amount passed in the house bill was what TRUMPs appointees asked for

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Can we just get sources?
The web is so flooded with opinions. I mean, I guess that's what people call fake news but that term never stuck for me. I just want facts.

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Is this new news to anyone right now? How have yall not heard about this? He appoints a new Postmaster General who has a history of hating the USPS, and that guy purposely fucked up the entire service in the past month alone.

and now Trump has admitted hes withholding funding to help the USPS because hes against mail in voting.

when its already been proven that something like 85% of mail in voters have said theyre voting for Biden

https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/m7jkxq/trump-just-admitted-hes-sabotaging-the-usps-to-screw-up-the-election

idk i been getting my mail just fine. what exactly changed?

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ssj4supervegeta posted...

idk i been getting my mail just fine.

A lot of people are not. Service has been drastically slowed, sorting machines have been destroyed, and mail deposit boxes are being locked or removed.

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pedro45 posted...

Can we just get sources?
The web is so flooded with opinions. I mean, I guess that's what people call fake news but that term never stuck for me. I just want facts.

https://time.com/5879267/trump-postal-service-mail-voting/

They need that money in order to have the Post Office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots, the President said Thursday in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business Network. But if they dont get those two items, that means you cant have universal mail-in voting because theyre not equipped to have it.
He added, Now, if we dont make a deal, that means they dont get the money. That means they cant have universal mail-in voting, they just cant have it.

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Zangulus posted...

Gotta love how the fuckhead full on admits to systemic voter supression during a worldwide pandemic, and he's going to get away with it.

Dude told everybody to stop testing so the stock market will go back up

You can take a horse to water but you can't pull its head out of its fucking ass

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My favorite part is that last week, Trump tried to say it was the Democrats fault that that funding was being withheld

what a fucking joke. And this dude complains that everyone else is politicizing things against him lol

Thank you guys. It really helps when quotes and sources are used instead of just opinions. It makes discussions more on point.

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Is there ANYTHING that the house can do to save the postal service on time?

Really dont see how anyone still supports him now that he officially has proven that he is a threat to our democracy.

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The postman is up there with things that make America! The friendly postman coming to deliver your mail. He isnt some outsourced guy. Hes a guy from neighborhood.

If Obama spoke about removing the USPS the right would lose their mind.

But under Trump, he wants to fuck over the election AND fuck up the post office so that his donors can privatize it. Oh? Did you guys not know that the dude he put in charge of the USPS has $30M invested in a company whose direct competitor is the USPS.

Rightwingers dont care about the constitution as they fucking said all throughout the Obama years, and they dont care about ANYTHING they say they do. Its all just whining in their quest for power. The average rightwing voter is the worst cause they get absolutely nothing by voting republican except maybe drinking lib tears.

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Blightzkrieg posted...

Should you believe Trump, who's actively talked about hurting the USPS in order to hurt the Dems, or the fake leftists like Zeus and Ohjam who spread false info directly in contradiction to the president's own words?

This.

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SeahorseCpt89 posted...

Is there ANYTHING that the house can do to save the postal service on time?

desperate times are gonna call for desperate measures

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blu posted...

I dont know what to believe these days.

There is literally no other way it can be taken. In no rationale does it make sense for them to shut down mail sorting machines at this time for any reason other than sabotage.

Getting rid of the USPS is a bizarre concept that short minded people have. All private delivery company use USPS for end point delivery for large swathes of rural america, the republican voter base. I can't comprehend it.

no

in fact they just got 10 billion dollars in funding

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Wanded posted...

no

in fact they just got 10 billion dollars in funding

crazy that trump literally said he didnt want them to get the money needed to handle mail in ballots this fall then

The money that his own administration proposed

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