"Postmaster" DeJoy is Murdering Chickens

At least 4,800 chicks shipped to Maine farmers through the U.S. Postal Service have arrived dead in the recent weeks since rapid cuts hit the federal mail carrier’s operations, U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree said.

A little more:

The postal service is the only entity that ships live chicks and other small animals and has done so since 1918, according to the service’s website. For farmers in Maine it has been an affordable method for receiving live chicks from hatcheries in other parts of the country. The state has no hatcheries of its own. A newly hatched chick can live for up to two days without food or water, drawing its nutrition from the yolk of the egg it was hatched in, according to poultry experts with the University of Maine’s Cooperative Extension Service.

Through a world war, a depression, years of turmoil and two pandemics, the Postal Service has delivered the mail. Through rain, snow, gloom of night, but not with a Trumpist thug as postmaster general, a man who is deliberately crippling the mail to both benefit Trump's attempts to fuck with the election and to line his own pockets, as he has investments in companies that compete with the Postal Service.

The Postal Service is not just a company. It is one of the functions of government mandated by the Constitution.1 The decades-long effort to "privatize" the Postal Service is as evil as it would be to hand the defense of this country over to mercenaries.2

Republicans complaining about voter fraud is the same old bullshit. When it comes down to it, the fraudsters almost always turn out to be Republicans, especially their caudillo.
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1. Article I, Section 7, Clause 7.
2. They've probably thought of it. Dimwit DeVos may have been arguing that to Trump, for all we know.