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Old 11th May 2020, 08:34 AM   #81
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Originally Posted by Bob001 View Post
A detailed account of how the USPS went off the rails. (Hint: Congress helped.)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...y-trouble.html
Congress did more than just help!
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Old 11th May 2020, 03:48 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by Bob001 View Post
A detailed account of how the USPS went off the rails. (Hint: Congress helped.)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...y-trouble.html
"Went" off the rails implies self agency. "Pushed" off the rails would be more like it.
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Old 12th May 2020, 10:52 AM   #83
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Old 13th May 2020, 04:19 PM   #84
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Deputy Postmaster General Ronald Stroman has resigned, apparently forced by Trump. Not only does this leave the board of the USPS without a qorum, but once the new Postmaster General, the first in decades with no experience at the organization, takes office the board will consist of four members with less than two years of experience.
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Stroman also spearheaded strategic outreach for elections and political mail divisions as the use of vote-by-mail has increased over the past five years.
Can you guess why Trump didn't like him?
This article goes a little farther.
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Old 8th August 2020, 01:33 PM   #85
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Common Dreams: 'Friday Night Massacre' at US Postal Service as Postmaster General—a Major Trump Donor—Ousts Top Officials
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"America is in a dead sprint to authoritarianism. The man is pulling out all the stops to prevent the citizens of this country from holding a legitimate election in which he might face removal from office."

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Government watchdogs, Democratic lawmakers, and pro-democracy advocates declared it a "Friday Night Massacre" for the U.S. Postal Service after news broke in a classic end-of-the-week dump that Louis DeJoy—a major GOP donor to President Donald Trump and the recently appointed Postmaster General—had issued a sweeping overhaul of the agency, including the ouster of top executives from key posts and the reshuffling of more than two dozen other officials and operational managers. ...
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The shake-up came as congressional Democrats called for an investigation of DeJoy and the cost-cutting measures that have slowed mail delivery and ensnared ballots in recent primary elections.

Twenty-three postal executives were reassigned or displaced, the new organizational chart shows. Analysts say the structure centralizes power around DeJoy, a former logistics executive and major ally of President Trump, and de-emphasizes decades of institutional postal knowledge. All told, 33 staffers included in the old postal hierarchy either kept their jobs or were reassigned in the restructuring, with five more staffers joining the leadership from other roles.
Want to sabotage mail in voting? Just take the post office down. The Republicans have been trying to for years.
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Old 8th August 2020, 03:03 PM   #86
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Originally Posted by TragicMonkey View Post
Jesus Christ! More and more, and this shouldn't surprise me by now, Trump reminds me of what happens when I'm playing through a story game and deliberately choose all the worst choices to see what happens.
You are onto something.

Thesis: Trump is gamer.

As in, there is some guy that steers POTUS in RealLife (or some other Outside variant) game, makes choices and generally dictates what his meatpuppet "Trump" does.

And this gamer is very bored and somehow simultaneously very upset about impeding GAME OVER screen.
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