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I get frustrated with people who see a problem with the USPS that isn't there and one that has been politicized by the Democrats.
I feel sorry for those gullible Americans who believe voting by mail will be threatened by the president and his USPS appointee.
What people (who believe in conspiracies) do not want to understand is that timely mail-in voting is a function of 50 different state election officials getting ballots out to the voters on time and depending on competent voters who need to understand they need to get their ballots in early.
Pelosi and her minions have been very good at creating a false narrative that focuses on Trump because he has a tendency to say stupid things that get him in trouble.
Some people enjoy the ability to put two and two together.
Trump spent months attacking mail-in ballots while downplaying COVID and telling supporters to reopen everything (after the initial months of outright lying and denying about it).
Then, we find his postmaster has been ripping out tons of sorting machines, barring overtime, barring workers from taking more mail if it would mean a longer route, etc. All of which has the effect of delaying mail in unpredictable ways.
If you are unable to put two and two together, or if you refuse for tribalist reasons, you'll sit there getting frustrated at people who call a problem a problem and a spade a spade. If you are able to put two and two together, you realize that while every now and then Trump manages not to say the corrupt part right out loud, he actually did say it outloud this time.
And such a 'you' will also realize that there's yet another angle here: even if the tactics do not result in ballots arriving so late they are not counted, he can still weaponize them. If his people vote in person more than Biden's, it'll look like he's up at first. Then as mail-in votes trickle in, he will say "see? Voter fraud. The more mail-ins they count, the more Biden goes up! FRAUD!" when in fact this is not only normal, but will be amplified by his kneecapping of USPS.
"Frustration" does not begin to describe the way patriots feel about this open attack on voting.