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It Costs A Lot Of Money To Be This Cheap - Trump Thread #169

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Spandauer · 30/08/2026 18:06

(Title with apologies to Miss Dolly)

Griftin’ 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin’, Truth Social is the lie, it’s all takin' and no givin'.
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lifesabitchandthenyoudie · Today 16:53

dapsnotplimsolls · Today 13:07

Whoah, Mitch is alive??

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sorry, heard you in this voice (with apologies to Brian)

AcrossthePond55 · Today 17:41

SerendipityJane · Today 15:30

The trick is to not use the USPS to handle mail in ballots, but use an in state method that is outwith the clutches of the federal government.

Setting aside the fact that elections are generally administered by individual counties within each state, there are no state postal systems in the US. In fact, the Constitution gives the federal government the sole right to establish post offices and 'post roads'. States cannot legally run their own postal services.

SerendipityJane · Today 17:49

AcrossthePond55 · Today 17:41

Setting aside the fact that elections are generally administered by individual counties within each state, there are no state postal systems in the US. In fact, the Constitution gives the federal government the sole right to establish post offices and 'post roads'. States cannot legally run their own postal services.

So don't use postal services to implement ballots. Use private services.

Now SCOTUS have entered the chat, what are the constitutional implications about a state run service whose only job is to deliver and collect ballots ? If they carry no other communications are they a "postal service" ? A brief chat with AI suggests not, so even Trump would approve.

AcrossthePond55 · Today 18:00

SerendipityJane · Today 17:49

So don't use postal services to implement ballots. Use private services.

Now SCOTUS have entered the chat, what are the constitutional implications about a state run service whose only job is to deliver and collect ballots ? If they carry no other communications are they a "postal service" ? A brief chat with AI suggests not, so even Trump would approve.

There are no 'private services' that deliver door to door letters. No one but the federal government can establish a 'postal service', period.

The only third party businesses (FedEx, UPS) only deliver parcels, not letters.

SerendipityJane · Today 18:15

AcrossthePond55 · Today 18:00

There are no 'private services' that deliver door to door letters. No one but the federal government can establish a 'postal service', period.

The only third party businesses (FedEx, UPS) only deliver parcels, not letters.

There are no 'private services' that deliver door to door letters.

I didn't say there were. Nor did I suggest starting them,

What I did suggest was that a state could setup a service with the sole aim of delivering and collecting ballots in that state. Meaning is isn't a "postal service" and therefore the federal government can - in Liverpool dialect - "do one". And SCOTUS can put that in their pipe and smoke it.

Of course another way forward would be for a state to just remove itself from federal oversight. And who knows ? Maybe that's coming.

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