Newly-Installed Postmaster General Denies Mail Delivery Is Being Slowed To Tilt Election | Talking Points Memo

U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy denied on Friday that he was taking actions at the agency at President Trump’s behest, and pushed back on allegations that he was slowing down mail delivery to hamper the surge in absentee voting expected this fall.


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Newly-Installed Postmaster General Denies Confirms Mail Delivery Is Being Slowed To Tilt Election.

FIFY

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I also love how DeJoy does a ‘both sides’ bit of BS when he made the argument that Congress needs to take action to shore up the finances of the USPS.

Especially since over the last few years, both the USPS and the Democrats have tried numerous times to push funding bills for them, or to get rid of the insane bill that forces the USPS to pre-fund 75 years of pensions. And the Republicans have stymied them every time and stated that nothing can be done to help the USPS (well, outside of their wanting to privatize it).

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Lock. Him. Up. This obvious tampering can’t possibly be legal.

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Denial. A river in Africa.

You are bent, bro’…

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“All retailers ramp up capacity in December for the holidays. What are you doing to ramp up capacity for the elections?”

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OT. Miscellany



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This used to go without saying, but attorneys general are not supposed to attend events affilliated with and promoted by political parties. And what is up with that sign over his head?

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LOL…DeJoy might find that his mega donation is worthless…
Just like Amb. Sondland.

DeJoy is enacting Trump’s illegal campaign strategy to win re-election…Delay the mail!

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1703

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Addendum:

Dump OrangeusDumbasseous because this dangerous orange vermin needs to be made extinct!

Video link :point_down:

https://twitter.com/elijahdaniel/status/1291768106470109186

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Look at all those minorities and immigrants. Really makes you think, doesn’t it?

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It’s likely not, but the law is only as good as the people that enforce it. We’re a bit wanting here, I’m afraid.

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“If public policy makers choose to utilize the mail as a part of their election system, we will do everything we can to deliver election mail in a timely manner consistent with our operational standards,” he said. (“We do ask election officials and voters to be mindful of the time that it takes for us to deliver ballots,* whether it is a blank ballot going to a voter or a completed ballot going back to election officials.”

1 ) bookmarking

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Nice that they were able to organize a reunion of the Trump coronation crowd.

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A veritable caucasian caucus…

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I get my mail delivered to a box on a main road 2 1/2 miles from my house.

Delivery is often late. My hard-working carrier says that her work is complicated by the high volume of packages ordered on-line.

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A word on Trump:

As it is, Trump cannot win the next election.

(1) The only way we win is if the mechanics of our Government work, without corruption by Trump and his minions.

(2) The only way that Trump wins is if the mechanics of our Government are corrupted by Trump and his minions.

In other words, this election is a referendum on the kind of Government we still have.

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I think they’re “legacy immigrants” from what is now the Schengen Zone.

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Normay?

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Trump’s gonna fire Barr when he sees the crowd in that photo’s bigger than the one at his inauguration.

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Minorities?

I saw a person from Luxembourg

And one from Andorra

And another from Monaco

And another from Normay (but I counted him twice :crazy_face:)

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USPS seemed to be working well, even as it operated with a deficit, prior to his appointment. Why is it so f’cked up now?

I’m still getting mail in two days from places like Seattle and San Francisco but an order of seeds from South Carolina took almost three weeks. An order of masks took over four weeks getting to Portland from New York.

It’s fair to say that things have gone south since this guy was appointed.

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