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.
#USPS [1] #FridayNightMassacre [2] #Election2020 [3]
"If we wait until Oct/Nov, it'll be too late," said @briantylercohen [4]. "Trump is actively sabotaging the election under our noses—this isn't theoretical, it's happening RIGHT NOW." https://t.co/HAKIfr4VKs [5]— Physics and Politics (@bellport_phys) August 8, 2020 [6]
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?
A Friday Night Massacre at the USPS. THIS is what the GOP and tRump are trying to distract us from knowing. They are sabotaging the postal in preparation for the election. #SaveThePostOffice [7] https://t.co/hKCApxxgED [8]
— Pin Young (@PinYoungActress) August 8, 2020 [9]
The news is not even covering the Post Office debacle, I've been up for an hour, haven't heard shit.
Let's get #FridayNightMassacre [2] trending, so people know we're about to lose the mail service.
He WILL steal the election if he can.https://t.co/R6jdOF0HXF [10]
— Daisy Deadhead (@DaisyDeadhead) August 8, 2020 [11]
It sounds a little overdone, except it’s not. If anything we’re likely not panicking enough.
A Friday night massacre at the USPS:
23 postal executives were reassigned or displaced in a move that centralizes power around DeJoy, a major ally of Trump, and de-emphasizes decades of institutional postal knowledge.#SaveTheUSPS [12] https://t.co/F2zvjUja2w [13]
— Minh Ngo (@minhtngo) August 8, 2020 [14]
BREAKING: Today's Friday night massacre –> Louis DeJoy, Trump donor and the new postmaster general, sacked top Postal Service officials, and reassigned 23 postal executives.
The U.S. Postal Service is being hijacked in the middle of an election season.https://t.co/SLySPhmnil [15]
— Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) August 8, 2020 [16]
Friday Night Massacre at the US Postal Service, with Trump postmaster general getting rid of 23 USPS executives as a "sweeping overhaul of the nation's mail service." https://t.co/3lbWPJnt1e [17]
— Ken Layne (@KenLayne) August 7, 2020 [18]
You don’t announce “sweeping overhauls” of the mail service on a Friday night. You only attempt to steal elections on Friday night.
'Friday Night Massacre' At US Postal Service As Postmaster General Ousts Top Officials https://t.co/AWWxtZvYGA [19]
— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) August 8, 2020 [20]
My god.
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Peace, y’all
Jason
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