How to Steal an Election, Right in Front of Us

Trump has been railing against the United States Post Office for a while now, mostly as a way to get back at Jeff Bezos. Trump, the Fake billionaire, have a serious case of penis envy over Bezos, and the Bezos-owned Washington Post says mean things about him (except for Trump sycophants Hugh Hewitt and Marc Thiessen, their heads so far up Trump’s backside they know what he had for lunch). But, we figured, let him whine, it’s what he does, constantly. What can he do?

See, we sometimes forget, Trump has no moral compass, Trump is True North and everything points to him, they must point to him. If he can’t benefit from something, it’s of no use to him. He gets bored, and he walks (see: virus, corona, et al) So, he hatches a plan (documents now show he started this months ago). He installs a millionaire Republican donor as Postmaster General (who has millions of dollars invested in USPS competitors, because of course he does), in charge of PO operations. Louis DeJoy (yeah, that’s his name, kinda low-hanging, late-night comedy fruit, eh?) then starts in; DeJoy fires seasoned postal officials (you know, people who know what they’re doing, Trump hates that), and shuffles the rest around. Overtime is forbidden, mail starts to pile up. We get reports of the mails being slowed. Hell, we don’t need ‘reports’, we can see what’s going on as letters and packages are arriving late, if at all. When Congress drags him in to answer for the crap he’s up to (the stuff they know about) DeJoy claims he’s just trying to ‘save money’ and ‘make thing more efficient’. He would never ‘slow the mails’! Not him!

This is, of course, grade ‘A’ bullshit. Not the super fine, processed stuff you get at the big-box for the garden, this is the massive piles designed to hide things. Lies. Simple as that.

 Lies.

Anyone who has been paying attention the last three years should expect nothing else from anyone associated with Trump. Now, we have reports (and photos) of mailboxes being ‘decommissioned’, hundreds of sorting machines being removed from post offices in Michigan, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Texas, and that “more machine removals are planned in the months ahead,” according to documents now coming out. This is not ‘efficiency’.  

 No.

This does NOT 'save money'. This is a flat out attempt to slow the mail ahead of an election. Why? Here in WA, where I’m writing this, ballots just need to be post marked by election day, but in a majority of states, the ballot needs to ARRIVE by election day.

Trump's plan is to slow ballot delivery to the voter, and then slow the ballots getting to the election offices. Thousands, probably millions of ballots could be invalidated, tossed out, uncounted.

Also, the PO used to treat ballots (political mail) as first class, meaning it got priority, now they been ordered to treat it as 'bulk'. First class, has priority, it gets forwarded, they will try to find you and deliver your ballot, Bulk? It gets mulched. This will delay it even further, in fact many may never get their ballots in the first place. It may just get tossed, undelivered 

This is not an accident, this is by plan. Buy why? Why would a US President do this? Why would they destroy the integrity of a US election? Because Trump doesn’t care. He doesn’t care about anyone or anything but Donald J. Trump. Because Trump is scared, he may actually reading some of the polls and he’s decided that the cheating he was doing last time (working with Russia) will not be enough this time: he needs to steal and steal BIG. So he is. Trump is stealing the election before the election can take place and he’s using the United States Post Office to do it for him.

Right in front of us, in the open. And those in power are turning their heads.

Now the Washington Post is reporting that the USPS has told 46 states that their ballots might not be delivered by election day, disenfranchising millions of voters. This means the plan is working. Trump is winning before you can even vote.

What can we do? Congress is on vacation (McConnell is exhausted from denying millions of unemployed help, and from laughing at the 200,000 death toll). Find out where your representative is, call them, email them, make yourself a pest, demand a response to this naked power grab. Call your local newspaper (if you still have one), demand they cover this, respond to this, not lay down while democracy is getting trampled.

And it is.

Demand your voice to be heard.

Trump and the GOP Want to Kill the Post Office

Really? Kill the USPS? Freakin’ idiotic. Photo by Erik S Lesser

It is a meeting of tiny minds.

 The GOP has been wanting to kill the USPS for years (it is the biggest government employee union) and Trump wants to do everything possible to undermine an election he will most likely lose and carry on his petty (I mean really petty) feud with Amazon and Jeff Bezos. Two stupid and evil purposes have met, shook hands, and become one.

And America will pay for it with the destruction and probably selling off of one of the most valuable and useful government agencies. We can only hope we have the time to slow and stop them.

But, really… why? How? You say the United State Postal Service is near bankrupt, it must be poorly run! Yes, but no.

A long time ago, but in the some saner pre-covid days of 2006 (remember a time before the pandemic? Yeah, good times…) the GOP-controlled congress passed a little thing called “The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) and it was quickly signed into law by George W. Bush on December 20, 2006. Just in time for Christmas! What this little beauty of an act did, was give the Postal Service new accounting and funding rules for its retiree pension and health benefits. In the good ‘ol, wild west days, USPS funded those pensions on a pay-as-you-go-basis, pulling out of its pension fund and adding to it as retirees' costs came in. Like just about every other business in the free world. But the new Act now required the USPS to figure out all pension costs needing to be pass over the next 75 years, and then come up with all that 75 years of pension money between 2007 and 2016 to fund them. Basically, when they hired someone, the PO have to then fund their possible retirement. And that of all the other employees.

No other business is forced to do something this stupid, trying up billions of dollars, forcing them to de-invest in the business and put that money in the pension fund. They went from being in the black in 2005, to being billions in the red in just a couple years. This is insanity. Purposeful insanity, purposeful sabotage.

Why? Like I said, the PO has one of the biggest, and most powerful, government unions, and the GOP has a thing about unions; they hate them, every one of them. They want to destroy them all, burn them to the ground, and salt the earth afterward. All it took was to get a Republican President who wanted to see the PO destroyed (again, for petty, tiny penis reasons) to meet up with a GOP senate who also wants to see it destroyed. These two kissing cousins will now work to complete their job of killing something nearly every American relies on every day.

These fools can literally not be gone soon enough.