Mail Fraud

Isn't it a crime to tamper with the mail?

Now Donald Trump is fucking with the mail.

Neither Donald Trump nor the US Post Office has the authority to refuse to deliver mail and ballots, yet that is what Donald Trump ordered the postal service to do, and the goon installed as Postmaster General agreed.

Trump demanded that every state send him a list of all its eligible voters. States that are not led by goosestepping sycophants refused. Then Trump ordered the Postal Service not to deliver ballots from those states.

Elections are administered and controlled by the states, not the federal government. Donald Trump has zero authority to demand voter rolls. Trump doesn't have a good reason to possess the names and addresses of every voter in the country. His motives are clearly sinister.

Trump and Republicans have been pushing a big lie for several years that there's massive voter fraud in this country, but the only voting fraud that's been ongoing in the United States has been committed by Donald Trump and Republicans.

Thankfully, a federal judge blocked this move by the Trump regime. U. District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, stated in her decision that the Postal Service neither possesses the constitutional authority to administer elections (a responsibility delegated to the states) nor has it been granted power by Congress to create binding regulations on voting by mail.

Postmaster General David Steiner dismissed Senate Democrats’ concerns that the regulations are an attempt to seize control of elections, instead characterizing the plan as a means to ensure that the right ballots are being sent to the right people during a Wednesday committee hearing.

Asked whether the Postal Service has the authority to implement those rules, Steiner said he’d “have to defer back to the courts.” It's time to defer, motherfucker.

This is a victory for the 23 states and Washington, DC, which sued the Trump regime over Trump’s executive order that demanded the Post Office restrict ballots from being delivered. This would be like every voter in America giving their ballots to Cliff Clavin to be delivered. They would all be lost in a Boston bar or chewed up on Rottweiler Hill. We could give them to Newman, but they would probably be stored in Jerry's forgotten storage closet.

The judge also ruled that the executive order’s timing made it impossible for the Postal Service to propose the rule through the proper bureaucratic channels, providing “no allowance for Congress’ mandated procedure regarding USPS rulemaking.”

The decision also blocks another part of the executive order directing the federal government to compile a list of American citizens residing in states. I thought Republicans were supposed to be against this big government shit? I thought Republicans wanted states to control most things? Donald Trump is trying to implement fascism.

This is another case that should be rejected by the Supreme Court when the appeal lands on its desk, but if history is any indication, the corrupt majority on the nation's highest court will hear this case and rule in favor of Trump, and allow him to steal ballots and block them from being counted.

Donald Trump has tried to steal elections, and now he is trying to steal the mail. Donald Trump deserves to go to prison.

Creative note: the Post Office does not have an official motto, and if it did, it wouldn't be this. It would probably be the creed that it has been associated with for decades, which is, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” The reason I did not use it for this cartoon is that it doesn't rhyme, and it's just way too dry. So I used a little artistic license.

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