Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has agreed to testify before the House Oversight Committee next Monday amid changes he’s making at the Postal Service that have triggered a nationwide uproar.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has agreed to testify before the House Oversight Committee next Monday amid changes he’s making at the Postal Service that have triggered a nationwide uproar.
Has Trump agreed to allow him to testify? That is the question.
Trump hopes this will distract from the convention. His problem will be that we can walk and chew gum at the same time.
They’re writing the lies right now and briefing him on the propaganda spin.
(1) DeJoy’s name will be mentioned every day of the Democratic convention.
(2) The USPS has a 91% approval rating.
(3) People are dying because of lack of Service
I will come and talk and you will listen and pontificate and then I will go back to methodically dismantling the postal service and ratfucking the election at the President’s behest and there won’t be a damn thing you can do about it.
Bill Barr is going to summarize DeJoy’s testimony for him in advance.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has agreed to testify before the House Oversight Committee next Monday amid changes he’s making at the Postal Service that have triggered a nationwide uproar.
The chairman of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors, Robert Duncan, has also agreed to testify, per the Oversight Committee. The hearing will start at 10:00 AM E.T.
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This is going to be fun.
“Neither rain nor sleet nor…oh crap, Trump.”
Or, you know, this slides us one week closer to the election and he can be forbidden from testifying at 6AM Monday morning.
OT: Dean of public health at UNC calls for an “off-ramp” after a cluster of cases at UNC. But sure, let’s open up schools.
https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1295422803865477120?s=21
The dean of @UNCpublichealth just called for an “off-ramp” and return to remote learning after multiple COVID outbreaks on campus.
“We have tried to make this work, but it is not working,” Dean Barbara Rimer writes. mondaymorning.web.unc.edu/campus-decisio…
This might go well for DeJoy if it weren’t for the fact his boss has said this:
“They need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots,” Trump said in an interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo. “If they don’t get those two items, that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting because they’re not equipped to have it.”
“If we don’t make a deal that means they don’t get the money. That means they can’t have universal mail-in voting. They just can’t have it. Sort of a crazy thing,” Trump said on Thursday.
How do you even begin to exonerate yourself if your boss already instagrammed your heist plan?
Maybe we should just get the insurance companies to weigh in. Everyone knows that they know what’s best for the country, medically-speaking.
Except we will have to hear from Gym Jordan and Virginia Foxx
I’m sure we can count on ol’ “Showers” Jordan and “Goober” Gosar to try to create a circus.
Maybe they can go have a meeting with that other exemplar of stupidity, Gohmert so they can bring some COVID to the meeting too.
But Trump isn’t the only Republican who’s been visiting with DeJoy, and DeJoy isn’t the only Postal Service leader who can thank Republicans for his sudden rise. As Yahoo! News reports, DeJoy is in "in frequent contact with top Republican Party officials.” Presumably that means Mitch McConnell. Which is quite the coincidence seeing that every single member of the current all-white, all-male Postal Service board of governors can thank McConnell for that role.
As it turns out, since 1970, members of the board of governors have served in staggered 9-year terms. The idea is to have a board whose membership is spread across multiple administrations and which owes allegiance to no particular White House. That should mean that about half those currently seated on the board are left over from Obama’s term in office, with others appointed by Trump. But that’s not what happened. In 2015, Obama re-nominated most of the existing board members for a second term, including those members appointed under Bush. Those six members should all still be on the board. None of them are.
That’s because McConnell did what he did so often—blocked those nominations. By the time Trump stepped in, the number of remaining Bush- and Obama-appointed board members was exactly zero. Then, as with federal judges, McConnell abruptly got out of the way. That means that every single current member of the United States Postal Service board of governors was appointed by Donald Trump. That board then officially ousted lifelong Postal Service employee Megan Brennan, and replaced her with Republican fundraiser Louis DeJoy.
Those thinking that McConnell might rise up to fight against Trump aren’t just backing the wrong turtle. They’re backing the guy who co-owns this mess.
College kids are virtually immune, didn’t you get the memo? Us old farts have to drink Clorox and swallow a flashlight.
Let a thousand lawsuits bloom!
https://twitter.com/ali_najmi/status/1295422866599616514?s=21
Today my co-counsel @j_remy_green and I filed a federal lawsuit in SDNY against Donald Trump and the #USPS. Our courageous plaintiffs are @MondaireJones @Biaggi4NY and voters from several states. We could not just sit back and watch our most sacred to vote be undermined.