US Politics, December 2019: Profound procedural deficiencies

Our prayers are with the families of the victims and the congregation of yesterday’s church attack. It was over in 6 seconds thanks to the brave parishioners who acted to protect 242 fellow worshippers. Lives were saved by these heroes, and Texas laws allowing them to carry arms!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 31, 2019

Thought we weren’t supposed to politicize these things

how abysmal and horrifying that there is a growing group of americans that consider taking a gun into a church their civic duty

how even more abysmal and horrifying that the president of the country thinks this is a positive thing. this fucker hasn't been in a church outside of campaigning since well before he got involved in public office.

Twitter: Republican VP, GOP VP!
Centrists: That's not what Joe really said!
Joe Biden: pic.twitter.com/behX3GZnVF

— #BeTheMedia 🔥 (@Bernie_Or_Vest) December 31, 2019

Um

yeah, idk. if the democrats would like to run joe biden as their candidate good luck to them.

but did you see how close to obama he stood for those 8 years? look at his record of standing near a president.

The DNC will have so much egg on their face when they nominate Biden. Thank goodness they'll be the only ones impacted!

it's very strange that he's the resilient centrist, seemingly, and not someone like harris, beto, booker or mayor pleat

why?

there's just something about that old, white, straight, party-line man that makes him appealing to the dems. it's a mystery!

How odd that an old white male former Vice President with a long Senate career is more favored by people voting for stability and predictability in the presidency over a first-time non-white female senator, a 1-term Representative, and the mayor of a wholly irrelevant city.

jesus, Treeship

Jesus is #yanggang

https://completejoy.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/jesus-with-boy-on-bench.jpg?w=768

l-r: Jesus, treeship

Jesus/Treeship the unity ticket

the mayor of a wholly irrelevant city.

they should put this on the screen whenever he's on tv

The United States Postal Service shipped more than 13 billion pieces of mail and packages this holiday season. But now that gift-giving has abated, the agency, which falls under President Trump’s jurisdiction, is facing another deadline: find a new Postmaster General by January 2020.

The new leadership will be handpicked and approved by the Postal Service’s Board of Governors: a group of five men (mostly with investment banking and private banking experience), three of whom were appointed by Trump, along with the current Postmaster General and her deputy.

Once the new leadership is in place, the board will also be tasked by the Trump administration with creating a package of large, structural changes intended to help the ailing Postal Service. Those changes will likely include privatizing and selling pieces of the public service off, according to the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), which represents more than 200,000 current and retired postal employees.

In 2018, Trump issued an executive order to create a postal task force, led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. The group was charged with figuring out how to make the postal service a more profitable entity. They recommended that the agency roll back collective bargaining rights for postal workers and sell off pieces of the service to private industry.

https://fortune.com/2019/12/27/usps-privatization-postal-service-going-private/

i.e. mail whatever you need to mail now because we're about to fuck ourselves in our own ears and lay off millions of government workers without any alternately applicable skillsets

idk, mailbombs might prove useful

In 2018, Trump issued an executive order to create a postal task force, led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. The group was charged with figuring out how to make the postal service a more profitable entity.

Fun fact: It was called "Operation Going Postal."

charge more for postage and only pickup/deliver in rural areas once a week. boom, sorted.

but how would we get Irene Independent, Centrist Carl, and Ursula Undecided to vote for the the urban elitist democratic tax-and-spend freeloaded party by reducing the efficiency of the USPS, which does absolutely nothing for rural americans?

By promising them that it will make the USPS "more efficient" and will "save money", while not mentioning that it will reduce service, increase costs, and funnel money away from the working class and toward the rich.

Aw man, I have a feeling Bobby Both Sides isn’t going to like that!!

- cut out Saturday delivery
- cut out house to house delivery in surburban areas and replace with street corner “super boxes”
- concentrate on parcel delivery, compete aggressively with Fedex, UPS, etc.

or starve the beast, strip it for parts, sell to amazon for pennies where amazon cuts the workforce, etc.

dude, trump is gonna figure out how to financialize/griftify the post office with banking, and simultaneously make it a tool for fleecing the poors and workings. read me now believe me later.

That’s essentially the Canadian approach. Having lived here awhile the idea of getting mail on Saturday seems weird to me now. Of course cutting Sat likely means cutting jobs

Uh xpost

Telling the USPS to privatize itself and actually completing the follow-through are two very different things

As I’ve said before, these idiots have none of the skills

is treeship with a period at the end of his name a Fake Treeship?

i still believe

it's very strange that he's the resilient centrist, seemingly

You know that old Woody Allen line about 80% of life being showing up? It applies here.

Giuliani's answer to being asked if he'd testify at the impeachment trial is completely insane pic.twitter.com/8BMjVy4r9A

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) January 1, 2020

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

lol glass of scotch in his hand, hny rudy

January thread?

US Politics, January 2020. Because we hate ourselves.

done

Would have suggested "Jesus, Treeship" for title but there's still time.