‘He Shouldn’t Even Be There To Begin With,’ Manchin Says Of Trump’s Postmaster General | Talking Points Memo

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So, all of us who haven’t lost our Monday-to-Friday day-shift jobs can no longer get in-person services at the only time we can get free during the week? … And they’re cutting Saturday lobby hours at many post offices so we can’t even do our business on our weekend?

Don’t wait for election day: start pushing distributors to deny XPO Logistics any business that might make a profit for DeJoy now. He intends for XPO to take over the profitable parts of USPS operations while dumping the necessary but unprofitable parts.

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That was inexcusable and manifestly dishonest.

Heitkamp
Donnelly
Nelson
McCaskill

should have been re-elected

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I think Doonie’s miscalculation was thinking he could shoot anyone on 5th Avenue. Turns out you can’t shoot the postman delivering the mail to the office tower…

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“He’s going to destroy it before he figures out how to run it,” Manchin said of DeJoy.

A false premise, Joe. DeJoy is not tasked with running the USPS, he is doing the job he was selected to do.

ETA: As @gargoyle pointed out above, DeJoy is highly motivated. DeJoy continues to hold at least a $30 million stake in his former company XPO Logistics, a United States Postal Service contractor. On the same day in June that DeJoy divested large amounts of Amazon shares, he purchased stock options giving him the right to buy new shares of Amazon at a price much lower than their current market price.

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DeJoy should be removed and arrested.
Someone in Congress step up.

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OT but it’s trump people who are incompetent yet again…
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(CNN)Two senior Trump political appointees departed the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a senior official at the agency confirmed to CNN.

Kyle McGowan, the chief of staff, and Amanda Campbell, the deputy chief of staff, resigned effective Friday, leaving to start a consulting firm, the official said. Both left voluntarily, the official added. CNN has reached out to McGowan and Campbell for comment.

Politico first reported the news of their departures.

The pair had been criticized by Trump administration officials for not being loyal enough. McGowan started working in Health and Human Services under then-Secretary Tom Price. He first served as director of external affairs for HHS before moving to the CDC. CNN has reached out to HHS for comment about the departures.

McGowan was the first ever CDC chief of staff who was a political appointee, the official said.

CNN saw the letter sent by Campbell Friday morning announcing her departure and thanking the CDC for her time at the agency.

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As Howard Stern said: “The oddity in all of this is the people Trump despises most, love him the most. The people who are voting for Trump for the most part … he wouldn’t even let them in a f–ing hotel. He’d be disgusted by them. Go to Mar-a-Lago, see if there’s any people who look like you”.

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The farthest rural Trump has ever been is an airport bathroom -a private airport bathroom at that. He has no idea how people who live paycheck to paycheck live, nor, truth be told, does he hold any respect for them.

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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) accused President Donald Trump on Friday of using the US Postal Service as “a scapegoat if the election doesn’t go his way,” following suggestions by the President last week that he would block additional funding to the mail service to hamper mail voting, which he sees as unfavorable to his re-election prospects.

He’s right.

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Those people know he is far above them in socioe-economic status. Psychiatry is not something for everyone. Nor is the study of mob behavior, cults, collective behavior, authoritarianism.

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DeJoy of (Fed) Ex.

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Mr. von Holst, please!

This is a wholesome, family site.

(Half the Altar Guild are disconcertedly wringing their aprons over that.)

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Like everything else of me I hafta do it myself
Lucky I am retired and checks electronically deposited
I get meds myself at my pharmacy
Packages never sent by USPS
Now…mailed bill present a problem

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(((snicker)))

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And drinking the communion wine while fanning their faces.

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Awesome. Now that’s the kind of story I can’t approve of enough - tell us the problem but don’t just leave it there - tell us how to deal with the problem.

That’s just beautiful - thank you for posting it.

I’m sick and tired of one story after another meant to terrify us about the election and nothing at all about what we can do to fight back and those stories are a waste without that.

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It appears that some state legal officials are getting into the act on DeJoy.

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Led by Charles Manson.

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