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.
New headline: Dejoy fucks trump!
ReplyDeleteDifferent view...
Those 4800 chicks were part os the economic system Drumpf is desperate
to restart.
So those dead chicks mean:
*Canceled feed orders, reduction in commerce.
*Farmers profit that keeps him in business and allows farmer
wife to buy things.
*Some tonnage of Guano as chick poop when composted i a good
organic fertilizer. A further reduction in profit for said farmer.
Also those chicks are precursor food stocks so now:
*Some 4800 fewer chickens that will become Fried chicken,
chicken parm, chicken soup, and cat food.
That means over all some large amount of commerce wrapped around
those chicks never happens. That's likely over time many tens of
thousands of dollars representing commerce never moved. Once is
maybe not a hit but 10 times we are reaching 5-6 digits and that
does hit the farm futures and the larger economy.
The result is also a few people connected to the success of
those chickens might forget why they might vote for Drumpf.
So yes, Dejoy is helping to burn Drumpfs chances to restart the
economy.
Eck!
Yer mistaken. The postal service is not mandated by the constitution.
ReplyDeleteRead article 1 section 8 "shall have the power" to edtablish post offices. It does not mandate.
Having said that, the changes are not for the good as far as services and such.
"He may flee to his dacha in Moscow to agitate and plot a revolution."
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! I'll gladly take it. When does he flee?
Yours crankily,
The New York Crank
In legalese... Shall is a action word meaning its to be done.
ReplyDeleteEck!
Clause 1
ReplyDeleteThe Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Not much about post office there....
Clause 7
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
ArtI.S8.C7.1 Postal Power
ArtI.S8.C7.1.1 Postal Power: Overview
ArtI.S8.C7.1.2 Postal Power: Doctrine and Practice
ArtI.S8.C7.1.2.1 Postal Power: Restrictions on State Power
So the shall is to do things that are needed and post office
is mandated as in "congress shall establish".
Like many other services like the patent office it was foreseen
as a necessary service of government to make the economy grow
and its peoples prosper.
Eck!
So, as a basic Constitutional fact, the document was written in a format that gave powers to the Government, from the governed. The use of “shall” with regard to enumerated powers is consistent with both the writing styles of the time and legal tenons regarding Standard English. The description of the established Government constantly uses “shall” in a manner that is clearly both prescriptive and directive. Even powers related to the States are described in this manner, so “shall” is easily seen as directive in the founders intent. This is confirmed when considering that in Standard English, the use of “shall” in this manner is a command, establishing a duty,
ReplyDeleteI suspect you, B., are confusing the results of “Gutierrez de Martinez v. Lamagno” with this case. It is true that in this case, “shall” could be understood to mean “may”, but that was simply because the related legislation established two false imperatives, rendering a legal interpretation of the statue an impossible minefield. Otherwise, under Standard English, substituting “has a duty to” for the word “shall” lends clarity to the use of the word “shall”, as the Supreme Court has constantly found outwith Lamagmo.
No no no Eck. The president is righting a wrong. Too long TOO LONG! Have people suffered through having to make that lonely walk to the mailbox to receive their government ordered prescriptions,entitlement checks mandated by the government, envelopes containing orders from the pedophile demoncrat deep state to vote demoncrat. I could go on but it ALL STOPS NOW. Our presnident has caught on and next year when he appoints Laura Loomer to head the DHS she will order the arrest of everyone who participated in this scheme. Including anyone who willingly received mail. MAGA KAG
ReplyDeletesea,
ReplyDeleteThe preznut is wrong, he is breaking everything useful.
Your conspiracy theories suggest a failure of critical thinking
and excessive consumption of echo chambers.
As to the rest seriously? Oh and your sign is on the way.. mailed.
Eck!
An oldie but a goodie:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theonion.com/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-consti-1819571149/amp
DA,
ReplyDeleteI giggled for a while on that. But people like that do exist.
Looking deeper ;-)
I looked up KAG and its Kommunistiska Arbetsgrupperna,
Communist working group. Here I thought it might mean
Keep America Great. Just shows what passes.
The urban dictionary has Maga as:
The definition of someone constantly fainting, laughing, and/or
crying in spontaneous and irrelevant events. People who are
magas tend to keep deep and dark secrets which bottle up inside
and cause them to be a maga.
Again it doesn't seem cool or very American.
Eck!
Eck buddy I forgot to include the sarcasm intended disclaimer. I was channeling my in laws and co workers. Got the sign today though did you want it back?
ReplyDeleteThere is apparently no truth to the rumor that those chickens died of strangulation...
ReplyDelete-Doug in Sugar Pine