Hey, swell. It's Rachel. Happy Friday. We made it. The President has recently been quoted as saying they need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots if they don't get those two items, that means you can't have universal mailing voting because they're not equipped to have it. According to this article, the USPS officials haven't said that they need additional funding to deliver mail in ballots this fall
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudhaĀ Ā·Ā 0:41
Hey Rachel, I believe it's definitely at risk because there is very deliberate action being taken to sabotage the USPS before the elections. This is like the when the gerrymandering efforts were going on and the Democrats could do nothing or did do nothing. Right now, there is an excellent effort happening to sabotage the USPS. Nobody is seeming to be able to do anything about it. I'm going to post a few swell with a bunch of links, just have a read and we can chat
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudhaĀ Ā·Ā 0:10
This is States, what States are doing to disenfranchise mail in voting. This specific one is about Ohio
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudhaĀ Ā·Ā 0:06
And this last one is about stopping funding for the Post Office to manage the elections
phil spade
@PhilĀ Ā·Ā 1:12
In about 15 minutes, the President is going to be speaking on the USPS, and I think it is really worth watching. And as I read this morning, the States of Michigan, Minnesota, Carolina and Maine have all been given notice that they may not receive ballots in time to be turned around. So we're seeing before our eyes some very deliberate methods. And I do have to mention that the postmaster general was just replaced by a heavy Trump campaign supporter
Average Joe
@AverageJoeĀ Ā·Ā 2:43
He doesn't have to worry about repercussions because he has protection from the Republicans. And so you're watching the President rigged an election. And we all thought that there were failsafes in place. If a Demagogue like this came along, if a Craven madman came along, that our system had failsafes, that would stop it. That would put an end to it. We thought that this could not happen, but we learned now that, yes, it can
Bowie Rowan
@bowieĀ Ā·Ā 0:30
Thank you so much for linking all those articles. Suda, I'm looking forward to reading them today and digging in more and also Phil, can you please give updates on what you're hearing in the live stream about the USPS? I am not currently able to watch it and would love to hear any of your thoughts on that. And average. Joe, thank you for making me laugh about something that I find horrifying as usual
phil spade
@PhilĀ Ā·Ā 2:16
I wish it would have been. I think there are a lot of questions that really need to be answered, and it is very concerning to me what's going on with the USPS right now. So apologies. And hopefully there's to come