Trump back-tracking on the Postal Service?

[kentuck]

Just yesterday, he was talking about withholding funds from the USPS so they could not deliver mail-in ballots. He was saying it out loud....if they can't get their ballots, they can't vote. He and his Postmaster General were in the process of taking apart the infrastructure of the mailboxes and the sorting machines in the letter delivery system. (It was reported that he had met with the new Postmaster General in the White House just a few weeks ago)

But then, Speaker Pelosi says she may have to ask members to return to Washington in order to stop the sabotage. Also, loud protesters marched on the Washington home of the new Postmaster General. Angry Congressmen are demanding that the new Postmaster General come before the Congress and explain exactly what they were doing by boldly sabotaging the next election. In the process, they were slowing down the delivery of drugs to veterans and senior citizens.

So today, they have changed their story. They were only trying to "fix" the inefficient parts of the Postal System? They cut out all overtime. (If they truly wanted to "fix" the problems with the Post Office System, they would hire more people and ask Congress to pass legislation repairing their healthcare pension system, which was wrecked by the same Congress.)

Perhaps they can re-situate the "sorting systems" they removed back into the same places or put them where they are even more needed? Perhaps they were not really trying to slow down the voting on election day?

Uh-huh.

[woodsprite]

1. They won't be able to restore the sorters they destroyed. nt

[hlthe2b]

2. Nah... Just sowing confusion as he always does.

[blueinredohio]

11. Amen

[Budi]

3. Meanwhile they're busy re-purposing the stolen machines to only process...

ballots with Trump's picture on them. 🙄

They'll be replaced in a timely manner.


Don't the machines have to be reset & checked for proper working order, since they were heaped on top of each other, mishandled & off loaded in an undisclosed warehouse somewhere?

Did Ivanka also get a patent on mail sorting machines?..just asking 😬

[Hoyt]

4. His staff probably showed him NYT article that suggests any mail slowdown will hurt GOPers more.

"Which Party Would Benefit Most From Voting by Mail?

"It’s Complicated -- Conventional wisdom has been that Democrats are more likely to benefit from voting by mail. But that’s not what research has shown."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/us/vote-by-mail-coronavirus.html

[Thekaspervote]

7. Oh wouldn't it just be so apropos if the repukes lost due to dotard's fools errand!!

[maxrandb]

8. Or give Dems 60 Senate seats

[mobeau69]

9. Fuck that. He needs to lose 'cause we GOTV like never before.

[Thekaspervote]

5. People a lot smarter than me have said they will have to cave on the USPS

Kevin McCarthy minority leader said recently there would be funding for the USPS..other repukes have backed away as well

1. They have been advised they will be in legal peril if they continue
2. It is further killing their chances of winning
3. It’s 1 & 2

[malaise]

6. The Con is committing more than one crime here publicly

Media should boycott his convention.

[lame54]

10. No - he is stalling