State election officials warn USPS isn't ready for the election

NyaakoXD · Sep 11, 2024

I've said this before in another thread:

The problem is that postal voting in America has become extremely unreliable after Louis DeJoy (a Republican and Trump supporter) became U.S. Postmaster General and ruined the entire postal service. You can read more about it here.

Trump told a TV interviewer that he himself was blocking funds for the postal service in order to hinder mail-in voting back in 2020, too.

So while we want to do postal/mail-in voting, it's sadly corrupted all over the place. That's why it's very important for us to drive to actual Voting Poll Places and vote for Harris to save our country and democracy. While she isn't the best candidate to have, she's sure is a hell of a lot better than Trump. The lesser of two evils, essentially.

Notice the repeated patterns how it's just the GOP/MAGA/Republicans that are trying to ruin the elections and America as a whole? It's always their side and never anyone else's.

That's why America's completely fucked if Trump is appointed again as he would have more power to appoint more yes-man lackeys on to higher positions like back when he was President in 2016-2020, demolish the economy even further than before, tax cut more rich people and make middle class even poorer, ban abortion nationwide, put women, LGBTQ+, race of color into lower importance and set us back an entire century or 3 with gender and racial discrimination, etc.

All of these things has caused immeasurable damage to the postal service. That's part of why we can't allow Trump to continue to make things worse for everyone.

JustABadger · Sep 11, 2024

NyaakoXD said:
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NyaakoXD · Sep 11, 2024

JustABadger said:
What you pointed out makes sense, but why wasn’t the issue fixed in 4 years of Biden?

Because, sadly, federal law bars the president from terminating the postmaster general under any circumstances. So Biden can't do anything about it unless there are enough Post Office Board of Governors members actually choose to vote DeJoy out and so far they have not. And even if he did it today, the amount of damages that's already been done would be too late to fix and will take TIME to fix that's been heavily ruined.

Dark_Ansem · Sep 14, 2024

This is deliberate.

The Catboy · Sep 27, 2024

JustABadger said:
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Just commit or change whatever position you have. Completely removing your opinion because a thread isn’t going the way you expected isn’t a good way to hold a conversation.

Jayro · Sep 30, 2024

Man... It's almost like they had 4 years to prepare for it. :rolleyes:

Dark_Ansem · Sep 30, 2024

Jayro said:
Man... It's almost like they had 4 years to prepare for it.

And 0 power to remove the trumper head of USPS who deliberately is failing this

Jayro · Sep 30, 2024

Dark_Ansem said:
And 0 power to remove the trumper head of USPS who deliberately is failing this

Yeah, Not sure why Biden didn't fire Louis DeJoy as soon as he entered office, and still hasn't. But someone needs to get rid of him.

Dark_Ansem · Sep 30, 2024

Jayro said:
Yeah, Not sure why Biden didn't fire Louis DeJoy as soon as he entered office, and still hasn't. But someone needs to get rid of him.

He obviously can't.

Jayro · Sep 30, 2024

Dark_Ansem said:
He obviously can't.

If the president can't, then who can? It should have been one of his top executive orders when he was signing them.

Dark_Ansem · Sep 30, 2024

Jayro said:
If the president can't, then who can? It should have been one of his top executive orders when he was signing them.

Not even the president is above the law

Hanafuda · Sep 30, 2024

Jayro said:
If the president can't, then who can? It should have been one of his top executive orders when he was signing them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Governors_of_the_United_States_Postal_Service

Jayro · Oct 1, 2024

Hanafuda said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Governors_of_the_United_States_Postal_Service

Ah, got it. So he needs to fire those 9 board directors and replace them first...

Hanafuda · Oct 1, 2024

Jayro said:
Ah, got it. So he needs to fire those 9 board directors and replace them first...

Sounds a little tyrannical, but I guess that's a matter of perspective.

Jayro · Oct 1, 2024

Hanafuda said:
Sounds a little tyrannical, but I guess that's a matter of perspective.

The postmaster general is the tyrant tho, so... Mild by comparison.

Hanafuda · Oct 1, 2024

Jayro said:
The postmaster general is the tyrant tho, so... Mild by comparison.

Right. And I'm sure you'd say the same if Trump pulled the same maneuver.

That's why I mentioned perspective.

It would be an impeachable offense no matter who did it, but whether it would go down that way would depend entirely on the makeup of Congress at the time. Again, perspective. And politics.

Xzi · Oct 1, 2024

Hanafuda said:
That's why I mentioned perspective.

The objectively correct perspective is that anybody who attempts to sabotage mail delivery/ballot delivery should not only be fired, but also prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. There's also only one party that benefits from voter suppression, and I don't think anybody is surprised by the fact that it's the same party running a convicted felon for president.

Hanafuda · Oct 1, 2024

Xzi said:
The objectively correct perspective is that anybody who attempts to sabotage mail delivery/ballot delivery should not only be fired, but also prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. There's also only one party that benefits from voter suppression, and I don't think anybody is surprised by the fact that it's the party running a convicted felon for president.

Point to any instance of Congress attempting to impeach the guy. I'm not espousing any opinion here on his job as Postmaster General ... if I have any opinion about that it's that USPS has been a trainwreck for decades. But while the President cannot directly fire the PMGeneral (already explained above) and an executive order dissolving the USPS Board of Governors to be replaced with lackeys isn't the answer no matter who's POTUS at the time, there is a remedy. And I haven't seen the Congress being especially interested, at all. Take it up with your Democrat elected representatives who've done nothing about it.

Xzi · Oct 1, 2024

Hanafuda said:
Take it up with your Democrat elected representatives who've done nothing about it.

You know damn well that Congress is split, and Republicans have already voted multiple times to protect criminals within the party. Hell, they went so far as to oust the speaker just to protect a known pedophile in Matt Gaetz. Democrats want to wait until there is concrete proof of criminality to act, but by then it will likely be too late, and it's not like Republicans would be fazed by such proof anyway. This would be a prime opportunity for Biden to test the limits of immunity granted to him by SCOTUS.

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