Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 24

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If Obama did this, they would speak of nothing else. Biden could NEVER do it!
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Steve Guest
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MSNBC, CNN mostly ignore Trump's major Israel-UAE peace deal during prime time
"No mention of the major Middle East peace deal on MSNBC's "All In with Chris Hayes," ..., "The Rachel Maddow Show" and "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell."
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Captain_Swoop said:
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Richard Walters
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“Congress has only itself to blame for this mess.
The post office is meant to be self-sufficient, but it hasn’t broken even for years.
A misalignment like this wouldn’t last in private business, but the Postal Service answers to politicians.”
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That would be the Republicans in Congress, who imposed a requirement for retirement funding on the USPS that no other entity, public or private, has to meet.
 
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Kimberley Strassel
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A letter leaked in November 2019 from her veteran Iowa operations manager, resigning, saying she'd “never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly” and expressing dismay at its ability to make “the same unforced errors over and over.”

A SanFran newspaper reporting that Saturday Night Live was mocking her for her “ ‘viral moments’ desperation.”

The NYT last year as Harris dropped out, describing her "unraveled" campaign and explaining her aides had become “given to gallows humor about just how many slogans and one-liners she has cycled through.”
 
Trump just said

"If I win, which I hope to win. How can you not when you see numbers like this both on the virus and the economy? We should win, we should all be keep this incredible thing going"
 
Trump knows that he appointed the postmaster General, but doesn’t seem to understand that he is in charge of the post office. The post office failing is his failure.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump tweeted
So true
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Kimberley Strassel
@KimStrassel
A letter leaked in November 2019 from her veteran Iowa operations manager, resigning, saying she'd “never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly” and expressing dismay at its ability to make “the same unforced errors over and over.”

A SanFran newspaper reporting that Saturday Night Live was mocking her for her “ ‘viral moments’ desperation.”

The NYT last year as Harris dropped out, describing her "unraveled" campaign and explaining her aides had become “given to gallows humor about just how many slogans and one-liners she has cycled through.”
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How is this a reason not to vote for her ticket?
SanFrancisco newspapers and the NYT have described both POTUS and his administration as unraveling.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump just said

"If I win, which I hope to win. How can you not when you see numbers like this both on the virus and the economy? We should win, we should all be keep this incredible thing going"
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I think it’ll be less than six weeks until this kind of talk turns into “this is a real incredible country you got here. It’d be a shame if anything happened to it.”
 
Stacyhs said:
BFD. That's like me putting $10 in the local food drive can at the grocery store check out counter, bragging about it and expecting people to think I'm some kind of great human being.
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...If you own the store and are charging the food drive $200 to allow them to have the can there in the first place.

With all the government money that Trump's diverted into his pocket or to benefit him otherwise, his salary seems rather negligible.

Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Retweeted

Richard Walters
@rww_gop
“Congress has only itself to blame for this mess.
The post office is meant to be self-sufficient, but it hasn’t broken even for years.
A misalignment like this wouldn’t last in private business, but the Postal Service answers to politicians.”
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Trebuchet said:
That would be the Republicans in Congress, who imposed a requirement for retirement funding on the USPS that no other entity, public or private, has to meet.
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Republican Party - We sabotaged the USPS exactly so that we could make attacks like this and hopefully sell it off to our donors.
 
Maybe Jeff Bezos could buy the postal service. Then he could figure out how to make it profitable while still getting the mail out on time.

Does anyone doubt that DeJoy was appointed in order to drive the agency into the ground? It's mind-blowing how little Trump cares about the appearance of bald corruption. I can't believe some people like him because of this feature. Aren't a few of them just the teensiest bit concerned about where Trump is headed with all of this? Isn't anyone a little concerned with him tweeting about how easy it would be for Russia, China or Iran to hack our election with fake ballots? Wouldn't literally any other president be at least paying lip service to "The U.S. Postal Service is a fine institution, and America will make voting secure." He's a butcher with his thumb on the scale, making sure everybody sees it, meanwhile boasting to the rest of the world about the U.S. being so weak it could be flooded with counterfeit ballots and no one would notice.

Of course the elections are run at the state level, so I'm not sure what exactly the feds can do, but the man is broadcasting almost 24/7 that he has nothing better to do than watch TV, track who's getting what ratings and make up childish nicknames. This is not normal; Trump clearly shouldn't be in charge of anything. And there are a number of Republican senators who know this. Generals came in to run agencies and were appalled. They walked away ... and then what? What are these patriots doing to get the U.S. out of this terrible situation? The things they fought wars for are being systematically undermined by a man who can't be trusted to keep state secrets and everyone knows this. I don't know why Trump doesn't scare the crap out of these guys. /rant

I give Trump credit for one thing - he hasn't started any new wars. And that does count for something.
 
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Another thought, why didn't any Republican step up to split the conservative vote? Jeff Flake or John Kasich, for example. Or someone challenging him from the right.

They carp about Trump from the sidelines but never engage him in an actual fight. Kamala Harris might be good for that.
 
shemp said:
Robert Trump, 71, has died of windmill cancer and exercising.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/15/politics/robert-trump-dead/index.html
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Donny went to one of his New Jersey golf courses for the weekend. Could not be bothered to visit his dying brother instead, even though it was only a short distance away. He said he made vague plans to "go to NYC on Monday" (or was it in two weeks...anyway). Instead, just called his brother on the phone, from the 19th hole I suppose. That seemed to be the most effort he could put in.

What a guy.
 
Minoosh said:
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Of course the elections are run at the state level, so I'm not sure what exactly the feds can do, ....
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This was my thought when those letters went out saying the votes might not get there in time to be counted.

WTF, the states can count any votes they want to. Since when is it up to Trumpy and NoJoy to dictate what deadlines the states have to stick to. They can certainly say postmarked by election day. But if the USPS doesn't postmark the ballots, the states can say that's fine and assume they were mailed on time.
 
Minoosh said:
Maybe Jeff Bezos could buy the postal service. Then he could figure out how to make it profitable while still getting the mail out on time.

Does anyone doubt that DeJoy was appointed in order to drive the agency into the ground? It's mind-blowing how little Trump cares about the appearance of bald corruption.
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The thing is that he doesn't recognize it as corruption. His fundamental world view has always been that he is entitled to have anything he wants and to do anything he wants, and all impediments -- unpaid contractors, political and business competitors, federal courts and the Constitution itself -- are just unfair. He has no shame when he openly says he's going to make it harder for people to vote against him because he thinks thats the way it should be. He has the full powers of the Presidency, and he's not going to give them up without a bitter fight.

And everybody knows how to fix the Postal Service, starting with changing the law that requires them to prefund 75 years of projected employee health care expenses. There are also proposals to allow it to offer cheap savings and checking accounts for the millions of people who don't use banks. The problems are not insoluable.
https://theweek.com/articles/894384/bipartisan-plan-save-post-office
https://www.politico.com/news/agenda/2020/04/16/the-right-way-to-bail-out-the-post-office-190271
 
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