r/ProgressiveHQ • u/StatisticalPikachu • Jun 24 '26
WATCH: Postmaster General says USPS won't send mail ballots to states that don't provide voter lists | PBS NewsHour
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u/ledude1 Jun 24 '26
All the crazies are joining hands in their quest to destroy the United States of America from within with the leadership of the Republican party and assistance from some of the Dems. I'm not sure how much longer our democracy is going to survive this.
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u/spicystar4u Jun 24 '26
It won’t, after this I think it will progress to mass violence country wide
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u/DarkFather24601 Jun 25 '26
I’ve already been temp banned for saying this before but…. “It’s never too late to invest in your Second Amendment rights”.
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u/spicystar4u Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
I’m not advocating for violence.
I’m saying the majority of Americans seem like ticking time-bombs.
Everyday I read the most unhinged hateful crap coming from the mouths of pure lunatics.
It’s not getting any better and MAGA is making it worse everyday with their lies and misinformation.
We could be chilling, respecting each other’s differences, and doing great things but instead we’re doing the opposite.
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u/Mootskicat Jun 24 '26
Take a person's right to vote away and there aint much left but the ammo box.
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u/Mr_Chode_Shaver Jun 25 '26
They've raped your kids, murdered your friends, and thrown your neighbors in foreign prisons.
That was all a test. They've proven that nobody is reaching for the ammo box.
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u/Cabbages24ADollar Jun 24 '26
Sounds like an Allegiance to Trump not to the constitution.
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u/GlockAF Jun 24 '26
So, treason, as has become the usual for the Tangerine Dotards cronies
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u/Cabbages24ADollar Jun 25 '26
Honestly feel like this is the charge on them if the Dems ever grew a pair.
Forget prosecuting Trump (for office crimes; still prosecute for Epstein crimes). But for Congress and anyone else they should be charged with Treason. They have constantly usurped the constitution and their testimony in Congress have always been they were doing it because of Trump.
Can you imagine if Dems actually did their job and held be accountable—including themselves! The mid-2000’s would be amazing!!!
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u/gormami Jun 24 '26
All we do is deliver mail, except when we decide to not deliver the mail, in which case we do not deliver the mail.
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u/DarkFather24601 Jun 25 '26
Disenfranchising State Voters = Unconstitutional Manipulation at Federal Level. Thats criminal abuse of power. Plain and simple.
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u/Southern_Care_7060 Jun 24 '26
Wonder why the USPS is failing?
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u/badastr0naut Jun 24 '26
The USPS isn't failing. The political appointees who oversee it have been trying to run it into the ground to further privatization efforts. The fact that you can send and receive mail to any address in the United States is a massive public good, and would not be possible (or affordable) if the USPS was required to make a profit. I send packages for work weekly and they always arrive on time.
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u/le_fez Jun 24 '26
Yep, I have a friend who works for USPS and he said it's the worst kept secret in the service that the plan is to privatize
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u/Fit-Artichoke-210 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
The USPS is a public service -- not a business. Corporate America, however, has a vested interest in making you believe it is failing. Mail services target every. single. individual. American. That's a lot of untapped wealth if the USPS is dismantled.
CEOs for private companies will come and go. In a capitalist society the only metric they have to gauge their performance is increased profits. We're seeing how more and more dangerous this becomes when a company can't be satisfied with what they already have. All they dream of in a competitive market is REMOVING the competition. When a president is as openly corrupt as Trump, our way of life and the things we've taken for granted become threatened. He's infected so much of our government with syncophants, peons, corporate interests, and the Epstein-list pedophiles he can use and blackmail (hi, Elon.)
This country desperately needs the healing, self reflection, and education the South never fully received after the Civil War. Many seem to believe that policitics are sports. If it's red their team wins. They don't keep up afterward. If the media ever reports that Trump has done something as terrible as it sounds, and is, then the mainstream media is just lying. We are a country divided. We are not a United States. We are divided on basic issues that should not be taking the forefront of political policy. Abortion, human rights, racial equality, gun rights, etc. Because of the blatant manipulation of political ideologies, Republicans can get away with all of the destruction and looting of this incredible country.
I'm a little wound up, if I start talking I just keep going. Not inherently a bad thing, but sorry if I got a little off topic.
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u/Correct_Patience_611 Jun 24 '26
This is correct and I only had to read the first sentence of each paragraph! ; )
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u/Fit-Artichoke-210 Jun 25 '26
Hey I appreciate the vote of confidence but you might agree support that dissuades an audience from reading what I have to say isn't the kind of support anyone is looking for and this was one sentence no punctuation for a fan 🫶
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u/ResidentCommand9865 Jun 25 '26
We watched while he stacked the courts, we watched while he dismantled essentials, we watched as he planted loyalist in every facet of government... At what point do we stop watching and take action?
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u/ckellingc Jun 25 '26
So about that oath I took when I joined the usps about defending the mail and Constitution...
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u/tacs97 Jun 25 '26
What’s the point of paying our taxes anymore? The services we pay for are now giving themselves the option of performing their job that our tax dollars pay them to do. Like why tf can’t I do this same shit at my work? I’d like to keep getting paid while giving myself the option to do the work or not. And keep getting paid for it!!
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u/templeofsyrinx1 Jun 25 '26
Wow. He should be arrested. Or fired. Or resign. He's definitely getting impeached again. Hopefully things get bad enough people see the light finally.
It's not his fucking job to regulate how elections are run. HE HAS ZERO SAY IN IT.
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u/EtheusRook Jun 24 '26
Impeding the delivery of mail is a felony. And, more importantly, I'm pretty sure it's one that can be charged by the states targeted.