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oyster  ·  1690 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Coronavirus Is Threatening One of Government’s Steadiest Services: The Mail

They really hate mail-in ballots eh.





user-inactivated  ·  1690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Privatizing the postal service has been a weird conservative obsession since at least the late 90s, before voter suppression was the only thing keeping them in power.

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am_Unition  ·  1690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My dumbass strolls through life, thinking I'm a pretty smart guy, but I hadn't connected those two dots. Ugh, me.

Thank you.

Indeed, headlines like "White House rejects bailout for U.S. Postal Service battered by coronavirus" are steadily inching us towards hearing the "why" of Trump's logic.