genuinely curious im getting stuff at what seems to be a good clip and im ordering a lot 
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if trump did actually destroy the post offices ability to deliver mail all the bad things that would happen from that aside thats a pretty solid flex like trump "no mail in voting usps is unreliable" dems "no usps is great youll see" trump "lol endogeneity bitches"
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im kind of skeptical re: the whole 'defunding USPS means votes are being stolen' thing but i haven't paid attention tbh my impression is its all far more rhetorical than real (in both directions: trump blustering about doing shit, and USPS moaning that it is already crippled)
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... this sort of "i will gut X" and "omg now we literally can't do anything we need to fire everyone" back-n-forth is super common in politics The reality in the background is usually just a few dudes in a room negotiating a 2% cut which everyone was ok with anyway
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Its a similar dynamic w/ the MTA Every time budget is up for renewal there's slowdown strikes and stories about neglected infrastructure, but somehow they still manage to blow $1bn on like a single station-platform like "lol there's always more money" but the USPS thing...
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... i think is more about "Bailout money": they wanted $25bn as part of the COVID-relief? Trump i think was also whining about mail-in votes before the COVID thing even hit. Its probably a mess of things being blended together, but i'm skeptical that there's any real crisis
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I think they're taking examples of "individual postal districts have had to do cost restructuring" (as per orders of Trump's new postmaster's in attempt to stem hemorrhaging of money) ... piling those up into an exaggerated warning of impending systemic crisis/vote stealing
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this is the most-comprehensive article i could find on the topic (everyone else is either hysterical or too-thinly reported) conclusions: - USPS is losing money (yes) - mail delivery is slowing (they don't really substantiate that in any detail) https://fortune.com/2020/08/14/usps-trump-mail-in-voting-postal-service-2020-election-stamps-post-office/ …
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such is my suspicion yeah
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