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Possible Paywall USPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/01/politics/usps-whistleblower-mail-ballot-rules-trump
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u/BananaPalmer Georgia 6h ago

You still think Trump legitimately won 2024? Every single swing state? All above the recount margin? Pretty impressive. Unprecedented. Might even call it suspect.

u/xvx_k1r1t0_xvxkillme Connecticut 6h ago

Even if he didn't, the fact that the election was even close enough to rig means this country is thoroughly fucked.

u/brashthehermit 58m ago edited 53m ago

Yep. He somehow 'won' every swing state, above the recount margin, with LESS than 50% of the vote nationwide.

Additionally, somehow 88 counties nationwide switched from Democrat to Republican (from last election), but 0, yes ZERO, counties switched from Republican to Democrat.

None of the numbers of the 2024 Election make sense when you look at them together.

When you add in all the suspicious comments it looks even more suspect;

Elon Musk, in a deleted tweet from June 2025;

"Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate," .... "Such Ingratitude."

Trump, on Elon Musk, in January 2025;

"And he knows those computers better than anybody, all those computers, those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like, in a landslide, so it was pretty good, it was pretty good. So, thank you to Elon."

I know we have a lot of uneducated people in this country, and people who either don't pay attention or vote based on 'vibes,' but even if you take that all into consideration the 2024 election still stinks to high heaven.

u/BananaPalmer Georgia 43m ago

It would take a lot to convince me that the myriad claims of (obviously debunked) election fraud by Trump and MAGA in 2020 were not intended to "poison the well", so that when they actually did a lot of this shit, it would be difficult to be taken seriously pointing it out.

"Oh you sound just like them" :/

u/Flobking 5h ago

Unprecedented.

Didn't reagan win 49/50 states back in 84? So I don't understand why everyone keeps saying it's unprecedented. People think it can't happen even though it had already happened once in a lot of our lifetimes.

u/POEness 1h ago

Because trump isnt popular and his win was insanely narrow

u/Flobking 1h ago

Because trump isnt popular and his win was insanely narrow

Hillary had 3 million more votes. Its not about vote count. Its ec votes.

u/Collypso Pennsylvania 6h ago

Yeah, I do. Swing states aren't seven independent flips. They all respond to the same national mood, so when the environment moves a couple points, they move together. One side sweeping them isn't suspicious, it's what basically every non-squeaker election looks like. Trump also won the popular vote, which doesn't happen via swing state shenanigans.

And think about where this argument comes from. "It's suspicious that they won all the battlegrounds" is the exact thing we spent four years correctly calling conspiracy nonsense when the other side said it in 2020. Same certification systems, many of them Republican-run, that ran 2020. If something concrete surfaces, I'll look at it. Vibes about margins being too clean isn't that.

u/almondbutter 5h ago

Over 3.5 million legal voters were purged from the voter lists. Trump was installed.

https://youtu.be/P_XdtAQXnGE?si=NYB8ImLy-KMvLWGa&t=359

u/BananaPalmer Georgia 6h ago

Legitimate inconsistencies, nationwide swing-state polling place bomb threats, and unprecedented outcomes in 2024 is not the same as Trump calling every outcome he doesn't like "election fraud" in 2020.

Come on.

u/474747474747 6h ago

If something concrete surfaces, I'll look at it. Vibes about margins being too clean isn't that.

Nice of you to ignore the whole Rockland County issue, comrade. Or is it not concrete enough for you since the DOJ is not interested in investigating its own supreme ruler?

u/Flobking 5h ago

Nice of you to ignore the whole Rockland County issue, comrade

You can ignore it because it was ONE DISTRICT out of the entire COUNTY. That is the issue people don't understand the difference between counties and districts. Kamala got 65k votes in rockland COUNTY.

u/SeductiveSunday I voted 5h ago

What it showed was a majority of US men were more motivated to vote for the worst, most awful male rapist president over electing a highly qualified, intelligent woman president.

"People don't really vote for what they want, they vote for who they are," Jason Brennan, a professor of strategy, public policy, and economics at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, told BI.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-generations-voted-trump-harris-gen-z-gen-x-boomers-2024-11

Remember…

If you look at all the presidents of the United States through Barack Obama, what are the odds of having 44 presidents who are all men?

If men and women had an equal shot at the White House, the odds of this happening just by chance are about 1 in 18 trillion.

https://www.npr.org/2016/10/18/498309357/too-sweet-or-too-shrill-the-double-bind-for-women

u/Flobking 5h ago

Yeah, I do. Swing states aren't seven independent flips.

I keep pointing out that reagan won 49/50 states in 84. So for people to keep screaming it's unprecedented means they don't know history. A mere 40 years prior.

u/Mysterious_Floor_868 United Kingdom 2m ago

Elon may have "found" some of those 77 million votes for Trump, but large numbers of real people still did vote for him.

u/GaimeGuy Minnesota 6h ago

You think Americans aren't stupid enough to do what we did in 2024?

u/BananaPalmer Georgia 6h ago

Yes, actually.

u/No_Oven1085 4h ago

If it was rigged, Biden let it happen.

u/POEness 1h ago

Yes. And Harris did too.