• inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 days ago

    Looks like Trump and the Republicans will finally succeed with what trump started eight years ago with letting DeJoy fuck the postal service.

    Good luck old people in getting your medications by mail, assholes.

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      It’s been going on far longer than trump. And they may not be there yet. They’ve been pulling procedural fuckery for the last 30 years minimum. But the post office itself is constitutionally mandated. It would require an amendment to the constitution. Not impossible. But also not an executive order.

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          It’s actually relatively safe. Most of the time they f*** things up by purposefully misinterpreting vaguely worded things. It’s pretty explicit. They would have to outdo themselves to abolish it outright.

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            The Constitution just says you need a postal service, it doesn’t say it needs to be government run. They can easily make an argument like that. The postmaster general would just be handing out contracts instead of running it.

            I don’t see this Supreme Court pushing back too hard on any interruption similar to this.

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            Really? They completely fabricated history for Bruen. That’s not just misinterpreting vague wording. And then they stopped a very clearly worded EPA statute because the current Congress didn’t consent to the regulation. (A requirement never seen before or since)

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        Would need support for more states than they’d be able to muster up, especially the more rural states which will definitely not support this.

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        It’s been going on far longer than trump. And they may not be there yet. They’ve been pulling procedural fuckery for the last 30 years minimum.

        FedEx has been fighting this battle for decades

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      And it didn’t seem that Biden minded anything that Dejoy was doing. It’s been a number of years where there were sufficient number on the board of Governors to get rid of Dejoy and they did nothing.