The Donald Trump Score Card

Congress holds the power to establish and fund the postal service of the United States. Congress also hold the power to control the federal elections. If Trump wants to buck this, the American people will let him know they had the best postal service before he fudged it up, like all other things. I say the American people have had enough of this foolish liar.

 

The public's suspicion of Trump tampering with the USPS is fueled by the fact that Trump has used underhanded and circumvention tactics throughout his term with impunity courtesy the Republicans in Congress who have protected him or turned a blind eye.

Examples include bypassing Senate confirmation of department heads by using officials in only acting capacity; declaring a national emergency to force U.S. taxpayers to pay for his wall that even Republicans didn't want but who let him re-purpose taxpayer money anyway; withholding money to Ukraine in return for personal election favors which precipitated an impeachment trial where Republicans in the Senate didn't permit admission of evidence; using his convicted former personal attorney Cohen to pay hush money to a porn star via a Delaware LLC using a personal loan by Cohen quietly reimbursed later by Trump in a vague manner as consulting fees.

 

Destroying the Postal Service: Is that Trump's best shot at stealing the election?
Undermining mail delivery won't be Trump's only tactic. But it might be his clearest path to shifting the outcome
Bob Cesca
August 4, 2020 12:00PM (UTC)

Destroying the USPS: Trump's best shot at stealing the election?

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"By way of background, the Postal Service is faced with unfunded healthcare and pension liabilities for former postal workers due to the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, passed by the lame-duck Republican Congress of 2006, which caused a $120 billion cash crunch. Meanwhile, however, second-quarter 2020 revenues for the USPS grew by more than $300 million from the second quarter of the previous year, totaling $17.8 billion. Likewise, 2019 revenues for the entire year were up more than $500 million over 2018. It turns out that e-commerce from corporations like Amazon (and Walmart and Target and so on) has significantly helped the USPS, with operating revenues growing every year since 2012. That's not to downplay the pension deficit, merely to say that mail delivery has been robust.

So why did DeJoy decide to eliminate overtime for USPS workers last month?

As you might have noticed, the lack of overtime has slowed mail delivery to a virtual crawl, which has the deliberate effect of consumer confidence in the USPS, convincing Americans that the postal mail is shoddy and unreliable at a time when Trump desperately wants people to stop using it — and to stop using it for one specific purpose: voting.

The head of the American Postal Workers Union, Mark Dimondstein, recently observed: "These changes are happening because there's a White House agenda to privatize and sell off the public Postal Service."

To achieve full privatization and vote suppression, USPS management under Trump is rigging the game by holding back deliveries and deliberately pissing people off. People who are angry at the Postal Service are less likely to use it, opting for FedEx, UPS or another competitor, which will affect USPS revenue while disincentivizing absentee voting by convincing people their ballots are likely to arrive late, or not at all."

 

Destroying the USPS: Trump's best shot at stealing the election?

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"On Wednesday afternoon, House Democrats introduced a bill that would reverse DeJoy's new policies and bar any further operational changes until the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. It's not clear when the legislation could get a floor vote in the House.

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), one of the bill's co-sponsors, stressed the urgency of congressional action to save the Postal Service in a tweet Thursday, warning that "we have a five alarm fire in this country."

"The president is on TV brazenly, corruptly, and deliberately sabotaging the USPS," wrote Connolly. "Congress must provide the Postal Service the financial resources needed to ensure a smooth process of mail-in ballots for the November election."

Jana Morgan, director of the Declaration for American Democracy—a coalition of over 160 progressive advocacy organizations—said in a statement Thursday that "all eyes are now on Senate Republicans."

"We call on Majority Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans to make the right move," said Morgan. "Stop enabling President Trump and immediately pass $3.6 billion in safe election funding and reforms, in addition to the $25 billion needed to keep the post office up and running.""

 

Do not count on the republicans, especially McConnell to do the right thing concerning the USPS. They are so blatant in their cheating, lying and underhanded tactics that nothing can be done unless the democrats can get them stopped somehow. Lady balls said Newsweek is a left wing mag---bullshit! It's been taken over by right wing stooges.

 

Patriots are protesting outside the home of Trump's US Postal Service chief, Louis DeJoy, calling him a traitor and demanding his resignation. Trump has admitted that he's trying to rig the election. The question is: what can be done about it?

Protesters gather at home of USPS chief demanding his resignation after sweeping cuts ahead of election

 

Criminal Referral in NJ Seeks Grand Jury Investigation of Trump’s ‘Arson’ of U.S. Postal Service
Jerry Lambe
Aug 15th, 2020, 10:51 am

Criminal Referral in NJ Seeks Grand Jury Investigation of Trump’s ‘Arson’ of U.S. Postal Service

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"Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-N.J.) on Friday asked his state’s attorney general to empanel a grand jury to investigate President Donald Trump and several top executives at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Pascrell claimed the Administration’s efforts to dismantle the federal agency constitutes election interference in violation of state law.

“Tonight I’ve made a criminal referral to the New Jersey Attorney General asking him to empanel a grand jury to look at subversion of NJ election laws by Donald Trump, Louis DeJoy, and other Trump officials in their accelerating arson of the post office,” Pascrell tweeted along with photos of the complaint."

 

That's why the more hardcore Republicans don't want women to vote. They are too emotional and prone to silly left wing thinking that puts feelings over reality.

That's the odd thing about these small town voters. So called socialism is always bad unless it's the goverment giving their family aid.
Of course they deserve money for the farm they worked for it. Of course their grandma needs a check from Uncle Sam every month. The problem is when you pay the brown people.

Farmers in general hate large cities and their liberal views but more and more they are depending on a socialist system and the majority's tax.

 

A department that has had an acting head throughout the entire Trump administration.



Trump To Withdraw Polarizing Nominee To Lead Bureau Of Land Management
Kirk Siegler
August 15, 20203:56 PM ET

Trump To Withdraw Polarizing Nominee To Lead Bureau Of Land Management

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"Amid pressure from Democrats and some Republicans, the Trump administration is planning to withdraw its controversial nominee to head the federal Bureau of Land Management.

The sprawling public lands agency, which manages roughly a tenth of the landmass of the United States, has not had a permanent, Senate-confirmed director for the entire Trump era.

The nominee, William Perry Pendley, has been leading the agency since last August through a series of controversial continued appointment extensions. Prior to coming to Washington D.C., the Wyoming native had spent much of his career at the conservative Mountain States Legal Foundation challenging the very agency he now leads.

President Trump formally nominated Pendley to lead the bureau in June, though it has never been clear whether even the current Republican-controlled Senate would confirm him. An administration official confirmed to NPR that his nomination was being withdrawn."

 

Trump and McConnell

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I believe this is one of the first if the not the first time Obama has actuly said something negative about Trump. He is smart enough to know a Trump voter's opinion of him and he understands that no matter how true the statement he is more helpful by not speaking.

I mean these people still expect him to be hung an uncommon death penalty that they like for its racial past. Most people are killed by an injection or electrical chair but I have never heard the Alex Jones listener talk about those methods. For some reason he has to be hung.

Barack Obama accuses Trump of attempting to 'actively kneecap' the US Postal Service to suppress mail-in votes

"What we've seen in a way that is unique to modern political history is a president who is explicit in trying to discourage people from voting," Obama said, according to USA Today.

"What we've never seen before is a president say, 'I'm going to try to actively kneecap the Postal Service to encourage voting and I will be explicit about the reason I'm doing it,'" he added. "That's sort of unheard of, right?"

 

I thing it's safe to say that conservatives don't like politicians. When it's pointed out that there are a number of corrupt republican politicians, the response is "all politicians are corrupt". It's the old "all lives matter" argument.

 

But that's okay because they are their kind of corrupt politicians...

 

that's a good first step!

 

Nearly all of the jobs were repositionings to industries that could be deemed to be related to coal mining but are not actually coal mining.

It's what Hillary Clinton and market analysts in 2016 said would continue to occur based on the the changing landscape of energy sources that have drifted toward natural gas and renewables. They were falsely branded by Trump and others as wanting to kill coal mining jobs.

Trump has put on a show that tries to convince the coal miners that their original jobs have returned when they haven't. While selection of particular figures can portray a false rosy scenario, the coal mining job losses can't be hidden from the people.

The coronavirus deaths are another example of how the Trump administration has used various numerical gimmicks to try to downplay the deaths. The current U.S. deaths over 170,000 remain a fact. They don't look pleasant to the relatives of the victims, regardless of Trump's window dressing tactics.

 

"It is what it is" ~ Donald J. Trump

 

27 blue mail boxes removed in Eugene---so far.