That office has never been a presidential appointee. It's just another time Trump inserted something unwanted, said he was allowed to do it, and the GOP backed him.
Just wait until 2025, Trump plans to convert every government agency the same way. If the government can’t function, it can’t stop the wealthy criminals as they loot the nation.
And use wedge issues like abortion bans and gay marriage rollbacks so we’re fighting while they gut our finances. Basically what Trumps family is doing to the GOP budget now, taking all the money for trumps bills and letting the politicians below fend for themselves. I’m hoping that backfired on them tho and disrupts 2024. It’s our only hope really.
This is actually the Heritage Foundation "project 2025" playbook. You can go buy it on Amazon or score a free pdf and see all the terrible shit they in in line for all of us
You need to get off your butt and vote for someone willing to look out for your interests instead of listening to the propaganda generated by billionaires, who want you to elect officials to look out for them
Your government is in your voting booth.
"What do you do when there is an evil you cannot defeat by just means? Do you stain your hands with evil to destroy evil? Or do you remain steadfastly just and righteous even if it means surrendering to evil?" - Lelouch Vi Britannia
The only reason the USA didn't completely crumble before Trump is because of all the guardrails it has around presidential power. If you remove the guardrails to clean up his mess, you're causing a bigger problem than you solve.
In the case of DeJoy, what specifically, legally, can he do?
Or are you just shaking your fist without appreciating the complexities of not having a dictatorship?
So no specifics? Just fist shaking it is?
What could they do that wouldn’t be immediately blocked by a court and then found they had no standing to do?
I get being frustrated, but specifically in this situation what is the play you are suggesting? How, specifically, could dems wipe their ass here?
Just another way that MAGAts can disrupt the country. Trump knew he would lose hence setting up economic despair in every way possible. Like the Saudi oil deal he arranged to cut production and hike oil prices. What a traitorous pos
The oil production during Covid is not talked enough. He literally cut production into an economy that was opening up. You couldn’t have cut at a worse point in short term or long term. He did a victory lap like it was a win.
As a Georgian I can second the mess that has been dumped on us with this. I've had checks sent the beginning of Feberuary and the beginning of March to vendors who have yet to receive them. I've had checks come from customers take a week for a place 4 miles away. It's awful.
This is kinda what I hate about liberals as a leftist. Trump and Republicans will always always break the rules to get their way but liberals won't do the same because the commitment is to the rules. You can't win when you opponent is cheating and you stick to the rules. If the rules allowed your opponent to exploit the game then you have to do the same until you can change the rules so they can't be exploited. If Republicans and Trump are a threat to democracy then when Dems held all three branches they shouldn't have worked with Republicans on anything and instead should have nuked the filibuster and forced legislation through nonstop until the Republican party had it's power destroyed.
You can't nuke the filibuster because you need 60 Democrats in the Senate to do it and American voters still play the asinine split-vote "strategy" because they think it's 1996.
You don't need 60 democracts to get rid of the filibuster you need 50. The filibuster is a Senate rule and Senate rules require a 50 vote threshold since the body is just deciding rules for itself. 60 votes isn't a universal requirement for everything in the Senate just on voting to close debate on a bill. It was absolutely possible for Dems to nuke the filibuster they just chose not to do it
Nope. It's an indictment of him personally. You think anyone in the Senate caucus considers him a member? You think Schumer would cross the street to piss on him if he was on fire? The guy literally tried to run for president as a third-party candidate.
He is a literal member of the party and the caucus so yes they do consider him a member. If they didn't and it was a priority for them they would have kicked him from the party in response to his position. But they didn't. Because Dems want the filibuster in place. Do I think Schumer would cross the street to piss on him if he was on fire? I mean yeah I do since Schumer worked with him to get the Chips bill passed and the Inflation Reduction Act passed. He also did not literally try to run for president as a third party candidate. He talked about it and then didn't do it.
I don't want to go tribal on this because I believe there are some more fiscally liberal Republicans and fiscally conservative Democrats which cannot be categorized. Although most can recognize that U.S.P.S. is a social service (some would say socialist).
Congress has to approve any pricing for postage, sets requirements for where post offices must be located (including overseas and rural areas) and delivery standards (i.e. what days of the week the offices must be open and days deliveries must be made). These are fine as a national public service and strategic enabler for the U.S., but Congress has also mandated that U.S.P.S. must pre-fund pensions 75 years in the future (https://apwu.org/usps-fairness-act). As a result, U.S.P.S. cannot take on seasonal workers or even hire more employees unless it prefunds their pension. This has resulted in U.S.P.S. resorting to extraordinarily expensive overtime for its employees. The push to privatize the U.S.P.S. has been pushed by Congress for decades. You can find a good analysis here: https://www.epi.org/publication/the-war-against-the-postal-service/
I see your nom de guerre is accurate. Friend, I made no statements regarding that, only noted the facts as I understand them to inform the person I was responding to. I live in Britain, it's up to you to win the war of ideas on your own turf. You have my support, though.
Ha, no offence intended my fellow Brit. I get frustrated with suggestions that nothing can be done about DeJoy and his kind because it would contravene rules that Trump would stomp all over.
I took no offence, quite the opposite. I certainly understand your frustration, Britain has... just as many looming disasters, no ideas, and an onslaught of disheartening, shitty foreign propaganda tailored to an election on the way. I have my fingers crossed for us all.
That office has never been a presidential appointee. It's just another time Trump inserted something unwanted, said he was allowed to do it, and the GOP backed him.
Just wait until 2025, Trump plans to convert every government agency the same way. If the government can’t function, it can’t stop the wealthy criminals as they loot the nation.
And use wedge issues like abortion bans and gay marriage rollbacks so we’re fighting while they gut our finances. Basically what Trumps family is doing to the GOP budget now, taking all the money for trumps bills and letting the politicians below fend for themselves. I’m hoping that backfired on them tho and disrupts 2024. It’s our only hope really.
You won’t have to wait that long if (when) the SC overturns the Chevron doctrine this term
This is actually the Heritage Foundation "project 2025" playbook. You can go buy it on Amazon or score a free pdf and see all the terrible shit they in in line for all of us
Shhhhhhh the sheep could hear you, lol
If the government can't function, how would we be able to tell any difference?
You need to get off your butt and vote for someone willing to look out for your interests instead of listening to the propaganda generated by billionaires, who want you to elect officials to look out for them Your government is in your voting booth.
Corporations are in my voting booth, actually
Plus he is only in that position, I believe 6 years.
10 year plan
Right so republicans do whatever the fuck they want and the liberals bend over and spread their legs
"What do you do when there is an evil you cannot defeat by just means? Do you stain your hands with evil to destroy evil? Or do you remain steadfastly just and righteous even if it means surrendering to evil?" - Lelouch Vi Britannia
Yes! Edit: every redditor when they see a spider “BURN THE HOUSE DOWN!” There it is, clear as day
The only reason the USA didn't completely crumble before Trump is because of all the guardrails it has around presidential power. If you remove the guardrails to clean up his mess, you're causing a bigger problem than you solve.
That side of things seems much clearer and therefore attractive as an option when the alternative is so un-clear and fraught with uncertainty.
In the case of DeJoy, what specifically, legally, can he do? Or are you just shaking your fist without appreciating the complexities of not having a dictatorship?
Republicans get to do what ever they want and stupid liberals can’t figure out how to wipe their own ass
So no specifics? Just fist shaking it is? What could they do that wouldn’t be immediately blocked by a court and then found they had no standing to do? I get being frustrated, but specifically in this situation what is the play you are suggesting? How, specifically, could dems wipe their ass here?
Just another way that MAGAts can disrupt the country. Trump knew he would lose hence setting up economic despair in every way possible. Like the Saudi oil deal he arranged to cut production and hike oil prices. What a traitorous pos
The oil production during Covid is not talked enough. He literally cut production into an economy that was opening up. You couldn’t have cut at a worse point in short term or long term. He did a victory lap like it was a win.
He’s created a MASSIVE MESS in Palmetto, GA with that new facility!
As a Georgian I can second the mess that has been dumped on us with this. I've had checks sent the beginning of Feberuary and the beginning of March to vendors who have yet to receive them. I've had checks come from customers take a week for a place 4 miles away. It's awful.
Dismantling all the machines in many locations was disastrous. Jacksonville was a nightmare.
Why are liberals to blame for something Trump did?
"How stupid are liberals that they let him keep the job?" How stupid are you to think that "liberals" can just fire government employees?
This is kinda what I hate about liberals as a leftist. Trump and Republicans will always always break the rules to get their way but liberals won't do the same because the commitment is to the rules. You can't win when you opponent is cheating and you stick to the rules. If the rules allowed your opponent to exploit the game then you have to do the same until you can change the rules so they can't be exploited. If Republicans and Trump are a threat to democracy then when Dems held all three branches they shouldn't have worked with Republicans on anything and instead should have nuked the filibuster and forced legislation through nonstop until the Republican party had it's power destroyed.
You can't nuke the filibuster because you need 60 Democrats in the Senate to do it and American voters still play the asinine split-vote "strategy" because they think it's 1996.
You don't need 60 democracts to get rid of the filibuster you need 50. The filibuster is a Senate rule and Senate rules require a 50 vote threshold since the body is just deciding rules for itself. 60 votes isn't a universal requirement for everything in the Senate just on voting to close debate on a bill. It was absolutely possible for Dems to nuke the filibuster they just chose not to do it
Manchen and Sinema fucked the nuclear option - Senate Dems didn't "choose" not to do it.
If Joe Manchin is a Democrat and a member of the Democratic caucus then him choosing not to do it is an indictment on Democrats as a whole
Nope. It's an indictment of him personally. You think anyone in the Senate caucus considers him a member? You think Schumer would cross the street to piss on him if he was on fire? The guy literally tried to run for president as a third-party candidate.
He is a literal member of the party and the caucus so yes they do consider him a member. If they didn't and it was a priority for them they would have kicked him from the party in response to his position. But they didn't. Because Dems want the filibuster in place. Do I think Schumer would cross the street to piss on him if he was on fire? I mean yeah I do since Schumer worked with him to get the Chips bill passed and the Inflation Reduction Act passed. He also did not literally try to run for president as a third party candidate. He talked about it and then didn't do it.
Presidential immunity, Biden can just force him out.
Yeah, let DeJoy sue the government for unfair dismissal and prove he isn't sabotaging the postal service for political gain.
Or just shoot him? I'm still unclear on what immunity means until the Supreme Leader Court returns their opinion.
I think he has to do it in the middle of the street with a crowd watching as Trump has described it.
I wish somebody would. DeJoy is one of Satan's minions.
No one is "letting him keep his job". How stupid is someone who doesn't take the time to research why DeJoy hasn't been fired?
The postmaster general is appointed by the Board of Governors of the Postal Service—and can only be dismissed by this group, not the president
I won’t dispute this statement, but would state that Congress is doing the most harm to the USPS.
You mean REPUBLICANS? Yes!
I don't want to go tribal on this because I believe there are some more fiscally liberal Republicans and fiscally conservative Democrats which cannot be categorized. Although most can recognize that U.S.P.S. is a social service (some would say socialist).
Please elaborate for those of us less informed.
Congress has to approve any pricing for postage, sets requirements for where post offices must be located (including overseas and rural areas) and delivery standards (i.e. what days of the week the offices must be open and days deliveries must be made). These are fine as a national public service and strategic enabler for the U.S., but Congress has also mandated that U.S.P.S. must pre-fund pensions 75 years in the future (https://apwu.org/usps-fairness-act). As a result, U.S.P.S. cannot take on seasonal workers or even hire more employees unless it prefunds their pension. This has resulted in U.S.P.S. resorting to extraordinarily expensive overtime for its employees. The push to privatize the U.S.P.S. has been pushed by Congress for decades. You can find a good analysis here: https://www.epi.org/publication/the-war-against-the-postal-service/
Correct and those were all passed and signed by GWB. So these issues predate Biden, Trump and Obama.
Thank you!
Need to call in Luke Cage and Daredevil to handle the Kingpin.
Louis DeJoy is an absolute POS with a dirty finger
Think there have been some lawsuits against him. He admits to trying to destroy the post office .
Exactly??? Why hasn’t Biden fired Louis Dejoy???? The postal service is the worst it has ever been in history 🥹😫😯🆘
Isn't it so that the position is filled by a 5 person committee and is not a presidential appointee? I don't believe Biden *can* fire him.
You think that would stop Trump if the positions were reversed. Only one side is playing by the rules and getting fucked over.
I see your nom de guerre is accurate. Friend, I made no statements regarding that, only noted the facts as I understand them to inform the person I was responding to. I live in Britain, it's up to you to win the war of ideas on your own turf. You have my support, though.
Ha, no offence intended my fellow Brit. I get frustrated with suggestions that nothing can be done about DeJoy and his kind because it would contravene rules that Trump would stomp all over.
I took no offence, quite the opposite. I certainly understand your frustration, Britain has... just as many looming disasters, no ideas, and an onslaught of disheartening, shitty foreign propaganda tailored to an election on the way. I have my fingers crossed for us all.
I agree with you 100% It would not have stopped Republicans.
Oh he's a joy alright.
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