Trump's Sabotage of the US Postal Service is an Attempt to Rig the Election in his Favour 

This made me pace laps around my bedroom even as an Australian, so I feel pretty sorry for any sensible Americans out there.

Coronavirus is running rampant (over 55,000 cases yesterday) and mail-in voting is more important than ever for fair and free elections. Instead of providing more funding for mail-in voting, which is desperately needed, Republicans have blocked the bill that would do so. Trump explicitly stated the reason for this on a Fox interview: "Now they need that money in order to make the post office work, so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots". In other words, he knows the post won't work effectively during the election without an injection of funds.

Not only that, but they are trying to making mail-in voting as hard as possible. Trump has appointed a major Republican donor as USPS Postmaster. He has now proceeded to order all of the things I described above: a hiring freeze, a ban on overtime work, stopping additional delivery runs, removing mail sorting equipment from swing states, locking mailboxes.

Trump knows that he will lose if there's a large voter turnout. He also knows that his base is less worried about coronavirus and more likely to show up at polling booths in-person.

This is a calculated move to deprive Americans of their fundamental right to vote safely. It's the type of move expected of a third-world, semi-authoritarian state, not a developed western country. The US, already link on the democracy index, looks like it won't even pretend to hold fair elections this year.

If you ain't intending to vote against Trump, you ain't paying enough attention my dudes.

I heard about this a while back. Not surprised. This is just ridiculous and it goes to show that the government doesn't give a literal fuck about the constitution and democracy anymore. In the same way that I don't think we have capitalism (I think that we are a corporate nation), I don't think that we have a democracy either. Both are corrupt beyond benefiting anyone but the elites.

I don't understand how anyone who has ever tracked a package through the USPS would want them responsible for transporting votes, anyway.

^ Ya know what, that's fair lmao

If my blood continues to boil like this I won't have any blood left.