"... [T]he USPS is issuing stamps featuring a guy who wrote an opinion piece defending Jim Crow ..."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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Dan Saltzstein
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Also that gay men with AIDS “should be tatooed … on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.”

‪Daniel Malmer‬
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No idea how long this was in the works, but the USPS is issuing stamps featuring a guy who wrote an opinion piece defending Jim Crow because “the White community is so entitled because for the time being, it is the advanced race.”

William F. Buckley Jr. Stamps | USPS.com
Honor one of the most influential public intellectuals in modern U.S. history with the William F. Buckley, Jr. Forever® stamp.
store.usps.com
August 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM

Also that gay men with AIDS “should be tatooed … on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.”

— Dan Saltzstein (@dansaltzstein.bsky.social) 2025-08-09T22:14:35.827Z

Daniel Malmer
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No idea how long this was in the works, but the USPS is issuing stamps featuring a guy who wrote an opinion piece defending Jim Crow because “the White community is so entitled because for the time being, it is the advanced race.”

William F. Buckley Jr. Stamps | USPS.com
Honor one of the most influential public intellectuals in modern U.S. history with the William F. Buckley, Jr. Forever® stamp.
store.usps.com
August 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM

No idea how long this was in the works, but the USPS is issuing stamps featuring a guy who wrote an opinion piece defending Jim Crow because “the White community is so entitled because for the time being, it is the advanced race.”

— Daniel Malmer (@malmer.com) 2025-08-09T20:40:41.228Z

[Ocelot II]

1. When is the Robert Welch stamp coming out?

Maybe a George Wallace stamp?

[J_William_Ryan]

2. "Maybe a George Wallace stamp?"

Along with Lester Maddox and Bull Connor, also defenders of Jim Crow.

[dweller]

3. Use a sharpie

And put a little Hitler mustache on Buckley


✌🏻

[struggle4progress]

4. Drunk babbler, who convinced conservatives nobody could understand him

because he was just too smart, honored by USPS!

Next up: USPS honors ENRON for its marketing genius

[2naSalit]

5. I'll not be buying any of those. nt.

[JT45242]

6. Buckley was an evil piece of shit and as far from real intellectualism as possible

Intellectuals are published in peer reviewed journals.

Asshats commentators are just that.

Writing newspaper artiles does not make you an intellectual either.

[struggle4progress]

7. He Could Not Stop for Death

Lev Grossman
May 18, 2009 12:00 AM EDT

... Buckley ... smoked, drank, ... and took pills by the fistful ... He abominated seat belts, and in his later life he developed the unnerving habit of urinating out the open doors of cars going at full speed ...

William’s ... achievements ... were offset by impatience, impulsiveness, arrogance, gluttony and criminal thoughtlessness. He walked out of Christopher’s Yale graduation because he was bored. He blew off his sister’s funeral to accept an award ...

https://time.com/archive/6688383/he-could-not-stop-for-death/

[wcmagumba]

8. The gop is two steps away from demanding a Hitler stamp and of course a t-rump stamp...luvs them Nazis...

[andym]

9. Perhaps Rush Limbaugh is on the list for a commemorative stamp under this administration

It's quite conceivable the way they are going.