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FRIDAY NIGHT MASSACRE: Trump’s Postmaster Announces Mass Firings at USPS and People are Very Worried

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For over 240 years, the only government institution named in the actual constitution, the United States Postal Service, has marched on, through rain, and snow, wars, depressions, and every incompetent president between then and now, the USPS not only survived but became one of the few institutions beloved by the American people.

Republicans have long sought to shutter the USPS, so much profit to be privatized, but they couldn’t get there. People like the Post Office.

It took Trump. It took Trump realizing that people might use the USPS to vote against him, so instead of being a better president and hoping that more people would vote for him, he decided instead to destroy the postal service.

Last night, Trump’s new Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, fired two of his top executives and reassigned twenty-three others, in what is a true Friday Night Massacre.

DeJoy did it to consolidate power around himself, in order to ensure that the mail service works where it is supposed to and doesn’t work where it isn’t supposed to work. The entire point is to render the United States Postal Service untrustworthy beforehand, to steal a presidential election. Watch what happens to mail service coming out of urban areas in Miami and Tampa. It took Trump.

So it is happening. Trump believes that some people will vote against him and can’t have that. He’s prepared to destroy the USPS – in the middle of a pandemic in which people are using the USPS to get food, clothing, medicines – in order to win another four years. It took Trump.

Americans are, obviously, outraged. It is outrageous. But one wonders how much outrage is even left. If they are willing to destroy the USPS, and they are, one wonders what can be done to fight them. It doesn’t matter, what choice does anyone have?

It sounds a little overdone, except it’s not. If anything we’re likely not panicking enough.

You don’t announce “sweeping overhauls” of the mail service on a Friday night. You only attempt to steal elections on Friday night.

My god.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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