"The August 2020 US Politics Thread is highly thought of, but nobody likes me. It can only be my personality. That's all."

lol

BREAKING NEWS: Brock Turner, Stanford Student Athlete Who Assaulted Unconscious Woman, Will Speak At RNC.

— Jena Friedman (@JenaFriedman) August 18, 2020

zero clue which of these RNC speakers are real or not, but I believe that smirking MAGA teen from Kentucky is scheduled?

That's the craziest thing, I'm not sure who they could announce that would make me question the plausibility.

Hitler hologram?

Dubya.

where's the "Get a Brain, Morans" sign guy these days?

Herman Cain

St. Louis gun couple are actually scheduled to speak.

or maybe just hired for security

Wednesday August 26
7:30 Bernie Goetz
8:00 George Zimmerman
8:15 John Wick
8:30 Clive Bundy
8:45 Charles Bronson, Jr.

John Wick is a Catholic Worker House volunteer.

list of comedy criminals omits Biden

it's a big tent xp

john wick is in Mill Neck DSA

this dude got to speak with joe biden at the dnc along with eric garner's mother. https://t.co/siFsSsQ4dd

— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) August 18, 2020

hey, maybe he and John Kasich can have a beer summit

The DNC needs to get that guy who picked up Obama in a restaurant

BREAKING: USPS will suspend any policy or operational changes until after the 2020 election, Postmaster General DeJoy says. https://t.co/FHVuZrgK2S

— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 18, 2020

Of course, given the assholes involved, this is truly a "trust but verify" situation, minus the trust.

Note the impersonators there to throw off would be assassins.

FWIW anybody who’s thought about the meaning of “trust but verify” for more than a few minutes should realize there’s never actually any trust involved whenever that gets invoked.

also there has been som ereal damage done taht needs to be undone.
Things ned to be restored to previous state not just halted as is.
Wouldn't halt as is include having locks on postboxes still, or is that undone by suspension of initiative?

Things ned to be restored to previous state not just halted as is.

Quite right.

Sure hope they kept the assembly instructions on those sorting machines.

My understanding was that the stuff they removed/destroyed/moved couldn't be reversed/replaced/repaired, for some reason.

uh, are they going to put the collection boxes they recently removed back?

oops, xp, josh already answered

oh and big thing, he NEEDS to resign surely

I'll settle for protesters never allowing him another good night's sleep until he fukkin resigns his post.

He needs to be stuffed in one of those mailboxes.

DeJoy's press release says "I want to assure all Americans of the following: [...] Mail processing equipment and blue collection boxes will remain where they are."

So, dismantled and thrown in dumpsters for the former, and piled high behind cyclone fencing for the latter.

At the same time, don't necessarily take pictures of piles of mailboxes at face value. I've seen one making the rounds that's actually apparently from a year or two ago, mailboxes set aside to be refurbished.

I also saw a pic of mailboxes with heavy locks on them, but apparently the other side of the boxes had accessible slots for mail, and those boxes had been locked like that well before this stuff started.

Doesn't mean this shit isn't happening though.

yeah but the SORTING thing we know is happening and that is arguably a bigger impact overall

Yes, indeed

Wednesday August 26
7:30 Bernie Goetz
8:00 George Zimmerman
8:15 John Wick
8:30 Clive Bundy
8:45 Charles Bronson, Jr.

Cliven Bundy is pro- immigration and pro-BLM

Ammon Bundy is

Al Bundy of NO MA’AM is also scheduled to speak

I also saw a pic of mailboxes with heavy locks on them, but apparently the other side of the boxes had accessible slots for mail, and those boxes had been locked like that well before this stuff started.

locking mailboxes outside office hours is SOP in a lot of southern california. there's been a huge amount of misinformation about this. i don't think subtly undermining trust is the plan. it seems like the plan is (was?) an incredibly stupid and straight up criminal attempt to sabotage the USPS. but if undermining trust via confusion is a side effect then i'm sure they'll take it. in that sense, the febrile twitter stuff about stuff that is absolutely normal and nothing to do with the election is not helpful.

There's actual footage of mailboxes being taken away, confirmation from postal workers, and all the reports of the mail sorting machines being removed and/or dismantled come from postal workers. We don't need to even bring erroneous febrile twitter stuff into the discussion, let alone in order to downgrade concern about the things that are actually happening.

"it seems like the plan is (was?) an incredibly stupid and straight up criminal attempt to sabotage the USPS" but go on.

I was concurring!

Ah sorry got u

If Trump actually got Q to speak at the RNC he’d surely win

If they were James Bond fans maybe

ILXers know I don't post RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA shit, but these revelations are impressive:

The report by the Senate Intelligence Committee, totaling nearly 1,000 pages, drew to a close one of the highest-profile congressional investigations in recent memory and could be the last word from an official government inquiry about the expansive Russian campaign to sabotage the 2016 election.

It provided a bipartisan Senate imprimatur for an extraordinary set of facts: The Russian government disrupted an American election to help Mr. Trump become president, Russian intelligence services viewed members of the Trump campaign as easily manipulated, and some of Mr. Trump’s advisers were eager for the help from an American adversary.

And:

Like the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, who released his findings in April 2019, the Senate report did not conclude that the Trump campaign engaged in a coordinated conspiracy with the Russian government — a fact that Republicans seized on to argue that there was “no collusion.”

But the report showed extensive evidence of contacts between Trump campaign advisers and people tied to the Kremlin — including a longstanding associate of the onetime Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Konstantin V. Kilimnik, whom the report identified as a “Russian intelligence officer.”

The Senate report was the first time the government has identified Mr. Kilimnik as an intelligence officer — Mr. Mueller’s report had labeled him as someone with ties to Russian intelligence. Most of the details about his intelligence background in the Senate report were blacked out.

Mr. Manafort’s willingness to share information with Mr. Kilimnik and others affiliated with the Russian intelligence services “represented a grave counterintelligence threat,” the report said.

impressive, but they turned their findings over the the justice department? good luck

look forward to the usual gang of suspects explaining to us why this is all fake

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfvhF_FXYAMr_GI.jpg

The Hill posted something that felt like a sane walkthrough of the situation re: USPS. definitely difficult to encapsulate down to anything headline or twitter-size.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y43yViY0geM&fbclid=IwAR3vM3Vc6S7ibO-ydQRR_5I5CEKGMFUqfN5Q0QzApNcu_PQczAGM7lZ6uYk

ok unperson I'm gonna need you to tell me if that's a Vic Berger or not