4 August

This is the lengths the forces of the 'Economy' go to. The US election this year will likely be decided by postal votes, with the pandemic rampant there. The Trump administration has been systematically under-funding the US postal service in anticipation of this, in the hope many of the mail-in votes won't arrive in time to be counted. At the same time Trump has been outrageously bellowing about how mail-in voting is corrupt (absolute bullshit), creating a pressure cooker situation where if he does lose, his supporters may riot, or worse. And because postal votes come in later, it may be that he looks the winner on the day of the election, but then loses as the postal votes arrive, further increasing the rage of his supporters. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/us/politics/trump-usps-mail-delays.html