‘I’m Not Naive, Sir!’: Congress Wants Answers On Big Postal Service Changes DeJoy Keeps Pushing | Talking Points Memo

Before entering politics, Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI) spent decades at the United States Postal Service. And during a congressional hearing Thursday, she sought to get some answers about a big restructuring for the USPS, one that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has hyped for weeks without offering any details. 


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The postmaster general and Democrats on the subcommittee did agree on some major steps that Congress can take, including repealing a congressional mandate that requires the USPS to pre-fund its employees’ retirement health benefits

This is a big deal, but still, toss Dejoy out with the other destructive moles.

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Makes me wonder what his angle is…

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Follow the money.

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All of the Repubs BS about “the post office hasn’t turned a profit in years and years” is crap. Shall we suggest that the Defense Department turn a profit? HHS? The long term goal of the Repubs with respect to the USPS has been self-evident for a long, long time.

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He looks like someone Trump would hire to evict tenants who’ve become bankrupt paying medical bills for a child with a chronic disease.

BTW, just fire the obnoxious fuckbuzzard and then we can have tea.

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Why is this lying crook still employed?

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No, Louis DeJoy is just a low-life crook!

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Sirrah I am outraged at your implications. The blood of the DeJoys will not stand for such insults.

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DeJoy is so incompetent that he ruined the Postal Service without ruining it completely enough and fast enough to get his orange buddy reelected.

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I ordered a kitchen knife from an outfit in Wisconsin at the beginning of the month, and that knife left a sorting facility there and went into a ten-day limbo where neither the tracking system nor I had any idea where it was. I assume it was sitting somewhere along the way in a pile of other bottlenecked packages. Today it finally turned up, like a lost cat, in a city near me and will finally reach its forever home tomorrow. This. Never. Happened. Before. The SOB has a financial interest in crippling the USPS and it sure seems like he’s making that happen. If I were Biden I’d inquire about the possibility of bringing his ass in to the Oval, pointing to the desk and saying if I have a resignation right there tomorrow before lunch that’s the end of it. If not, you better hope to God you’re clean as a whistle while we move to force you out, because at that point it won’t end there if you’ve put one toe over the line. Let him discuss that with his lawyer that evening as a sort of dessert. Fuck me but this has been going on for months and months now. This poison-pill bullshit will not do.

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I thought I might toss this in someplace. Today is 3/11.

03/11/2017 Saturday 2:11 Trump Natl, Potomac Falls, VA Maybe 12:39 pm-2:50 pm 10 6 40:19 Cabinet meeting
03/05/2017 Sunday 3:35 Trump Intl, West Palm Beach, FL Yes 9:13 am-12:48 pm 9 6 38:08 With David and Sean Frost
03/04/2017 Saturday 3:39 Trump Intl, West Palm Beach, FL Maybe 9:26 am-1:05 pm 8 5 34:33 Wiretap tweet
02/19/2017 Sunday 5:27 Trump Intl, West Palm Beach, FL Yes 8:58 am-2:25 pm 7 5 30:54 With McIlroy, Mullen, and Levine
02/18/2017 Saturday 4:25 Trump Intl, West Palm Beach, FL Yes 8:51 am-1:16 pm 6 4 25:27 “Played a couple”
02/12/2017 Sunday 5:18 Trump Natl, Jupiter, FL Maybe 8:31 am-1:49 pm 5 3 21:02
02/11/2017 Saturday 2:07 Trump Intl, West Palm Beach, FL Yes 2:16 pm-4:23 pm 4 3 15:44 9 more holes with Ernie Els
02/11/2017 Saturday 4:24 Trump Natl, Jupiter, FL Yes 9:26 am-1:50 pm 3 2 13:37 18 holes with Shinzo Abe
02/05/2017 Sunday 4:41 Trump Intl, West Palm Beach, FL Maybe 9:27 am-2:08 pm 2 1 9:13
02/04/2017 Saturday 4:32 Trump Intl, West Palm Beach, FL Yes 9:33 am-2:05 pm 1 1 4:32 Frost and Trump vs. Nieporte and Arrigo
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How much would it cost to Return DeJoy to Sender.

400 pounds +/-, Bulk Rate, to Mar-e-Coli?

Maybe a Go-Fund-Me?

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There is money to be made if the USPS is shut down.

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his big new plan will essentially involve slower mail and higher prices

I’m hoping that his plan will fail as badly as have those of all the other Trumpp appointees.

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Can we please get the hook for this guy and get him outta there?? Maybe now that the COVID relief bill is done?? Please???

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That’s almost Scottish in its elegance! Nicely done!

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I would have driven it out there, had I known!!

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How the fuck does DeJoy think this ends for him? How stupid is he?

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I commend your ability to perceive his actual message, given the classy level of bafflegab being peddled by DeJoy.

Couldn’t Porky’s voice outta my head listening to him.

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