(Of course, it’s always possible that Biden is upset that those mailboxes were removed, in Portland at least, because it means there’s less for Antifa to blow up. One can really sympathize, Joe….)

This is the current liberal narrative. Namely, that Donald Trump is secretly destroying the Post Office to prevent people from voting in November.
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In reality, nothing nefarious is going on. The USPS, which is indeed cash strapped because it’s a terribly run organization that’s always cash strapped and has been for most of its history, is streamlining operations. Part of that is removing redundant, little used mailboxes when there is another one literally just a few feet away.

Lined story:
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/08/usps-removes-mailboxes-in-portland-and-eugene-cites-declining-mail-volume.html

But a Postal Service spokesperson said declining mail volume means the Postal Service is removing “duplicate” boxes from areas that have multiple collection boxes. The USPS confirmed that four mailboxes were removed in Portland this week.

“First-class mail volume has declined significantly in the U.S., especially since the pandemic,” Ernie Swanson, a spokesman for the USPS, told The Oregonian/OregonLive. “That translates to less mail in collection boxes.”

Swanson said other facets of service will remain the same, such as pickup times and processing.

“It shouldn’t affect people at all,” he said.

Another Postal Service spokesperson, David Rupert, said some of the mailboxes were also removed and replaced with higher-security boxes.

There are some other, possibly legitimate, concerns mentioned, but the main focus of the Democrat hype is (big surprise!) fake news.

(Might shut up a few people at least….)
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Oh, and in case there’s anyone out there with some credulous misconceptions…:
https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1294630896075669504

https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/08/15/protesters-have-now-been-shifted-to-the-new-democratic-conspiracy-theory/

Democrats and media have been pushing a crazy conspiracy that President Donald Trump wants to defund the USPS in order to steal the election.

I wrote about it here and here.

Now the USPS already has been funded for the year, so this is just illogical. What’s really going on is that Democrats want there to be additional new monies to go to the USPS in order to fund universal mail in voting in a massive change to the way the election would be handled, creating a nightmare.

If you can go to the grocery store, you can go vote. Even Dr. Anthony Fauci said there is no reason people can’t vote in November.

But when Trump wouldn’t accede to what they wanted, Democrats began pushing this crazy theory in order to claim that, by proceeding normally, Trump was somehow trying to suppress the vote.

On Friday, even Barack Obama and Joe Biden promoted the conspiracy, with Obama out and out claiming that Trump was trying to suppress the vote by attacking the Post Office and Joe Biden pushed the claim that mailboxes were mysteriously disappearing.
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How dare the USPS replace old mail boxes with new mail boxes!
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Apparently the Obama administration was doing a lot of suppressing the vote when they were in office. [Tweets about removal of mail boxes in his tenure.]
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So now that this conspiracy has been endorsed by both Obama and Biden, guess what’s happening today?

The people complaining that Trump is somehow harassing the Post Office are out in front of the home of the Postmaster General, harassing him. You couldn’t write a better script as to how illogical these folks are.

Not to mention, it just shows what an arm of the Democrats these protesters are. Democrats promote the conspiracy, suddenly protesters appear from Shut Down D.C., folks who also been involved in BLM and other protest actions. Funny how that works, right? It’s literally the left trying to intimidate a postal official to comply with what they want. But it’s Trump harassing the USPS?

They went to DeJoy’s house in Washington D.C. to stage a “noise demonstration,” translation: annoy him and his neighbors.
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So they want to take a system that already has longstanding problems, a system that many of these people likely rarely use and overload it with mail in voting. Then when the inevitable nightmare that would happen with that occurs, with late ballots, missing ballots and questionable ballots, use it to claim Trump undermined the election? How about no, straight up?

Mic-drop bottom line:
“If these folks can protest DeJoy at his home, why can’t they go and vote at the polls?”

There were about 3,000,000 people in the country ca. 1781. I think a five digit population settled in the Canadian Maritime provinces.

If people stop accepting the current Constitutional order as legitimate it will stop operating, just as the Articles of Confederation did (which had no mechanism built in for dissolving it and coming up with something new).

I have no idea what would emerge, but it’s worth remembering that about 1/3 of Americans had to leave America after the Revolution. That might be the only reason there was enough consensus to agree on something. I’d be afraid of something similar today: a consensus emerging only because dissenters aren’t around any more.

I was struck by her reference to thresholds of 1 or 2 or x for both the rioters and for the people who should/ must speak up and voice truth to power and everyone else. I am not quite sure if that is evidence of “sheepleness” or the opposite.

But if there are no real consequences to your actions, or your restraint, then your expression of “courage” or courage is hollow. In 1776 “x” was 56 and they said ” … we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” And they in turn spoke on behalf of one to two million more.

The Biden campaign denied sending the swag to the communist leader, with Harris saying, “Questioning me is sexist and racist” and Biden saying, “Who’s Xi? Is Xi cute?”

https://www.thenewneo.com/2020/08/14/biden-hey-lets-make-every-day-halloween-nationwide/#comment-2511044
Brian Morgan on August 15, 2020 at 7:11 am said:

Richard, I hear what you are saying which isn’t unreasonable. The problem is that we have a ruling class that leads by deception. The goal posts are always moving. Many years ago I had a boss like this. He would give me a problem to solve. I designed a solution given the requirements and time constraints. He’d rub his hands together and grin with satisfaction, and then say that now it’s got to do something else he purposefully didn’t mention. Over and over again. This is how he managed. After that I try to avoid these types. In political terms, it is equivalent to “if you like your plan, you can keep it.” It is pure deception to get people to swallow a pill that they wouldn’t swallow if given more information. This is how Democrats govern. Give you just enough information to get you to buy into it, and then change the requirements. Been there, done that but people fall for it.