What It Took To Keep The Postal Service From Handing Trump The Election

[Nevilledog]

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Tweet text:
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Public pressure and lawsuits kept the USPS from handing Trump the election: Experts believe what made the difference was enormous public pressure, multiple lawsuits, scrutiny from courts, voters mailing ballots early, and legions of dedicated USPS workers.

What It Took To Keep The Postal Service From Handing Trump The Election
“The point here is not just about election outcomes. It’s about honoring the sacred right to vote.”
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7:00 PM · Nov 14, 2020

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. How many ballots never got counted, we need to know that.

[liberalla]

37. Thousands of mailed ballots missed election day headlines - WAPO

I bookmarked this post from Nov. 4th:

USPS data shows thousands of mailed ballots missed Election Day deadlines

Nearly 7%, or close to 8,000 ballots mailed on Tues. were not processed on time... this and other info on USPS performance from the final day of mail at link.

I'm certain a detailed investigation into the entirety of the drump/dejoy postal shenanigans will be performed and will be quite eye-opening. I really look forward to reading it. I hope it doesn't take as the Mueller report.

Yes, we definitely need to know how many ballots never got counted, and which races they were meant for.

[stopdiggin]

54. ballots mailed on Tues (day of)

represent a special kind of stupid. The fact that 93% of them actually made it ....

[liberalla]

56. Well yes, you can look at it that way, but those ballots were supposed to be

given the highest priority and separated from other collected mail that day to be specially delivered to election officials on time. (Critical in the states that don't accept ballots arriving after election day). Those were orders from a Judge that weren't treated with the required urgency. They (the USPS DeJoy gang) decided to follow their own schedule.

[bucolic_frolic]

51. Yes, I know, only 50% of Kentucky Democrats voted

and that is not believable.

But Eliot, you had many DUers worried for months! The biggest hurdle is behind. Trump lost the election. Now there's just Electoral College counts and voting, and eviction to deal with.

I never had a doubt. I thought Biden's underperformance in February was intentional. It gave him room to ignite like a rocket, and he did. I knew in May when "The Liar Tweets Tonight" trended. It gave Democrats oxygen. I knew during the first debate.

Trump attacked us, but not on policy. He failed to sell his ideas because he had none. All he had was rage.

[Cha]

2. Rt.. This is EPIC.. We Did THIS!

LOVE the USPS Workers.. I know the ones in my area were always out here even on Sundays!

[Amaryllis]

34. mine were working lots of overtime. Coming at 7, 7:30 pm, 8:30 pm one day.

Told me PO was understaffed and he hadn't had a day off in...i dont remember but it was a long time. Well over a week.

[onetexan]

66. Goodness bless him, &all the good conscientious postal svc workers who put country over party

To ensure our democracy is saved. After this election i will never take the postal svc for granted. Gaps in the system such as a party toadie must be fixed by Dems/Biden admin to ensure going fwd we never have such eggregious abuse of power to undermine democracy again. This is horrific on so many levels.

[mr_lebowski]

3. Somebody(s) need to GO TO FUCKING JAIL FOR THIS if there was indeed a plot to steal the election

through these means.

And it sure shit looks like there was.

[CanonRay]

7. THIS

[CanonRay]

9. THIS

[uponit7771]

21. AMEN!!

[2naSalit]

27. Yup!

[crickets]

30. YES. Louis DeJoy is first in line. nt

[Kahuna]

62. Agree. DeJoy needs to go to jail. nt

[Ferrets are Cool]

32. This

[Turin_C3PO]

46. Absolutely.

Trump, DeJoy, Barr, and Miller are the four people I want prosecuted. At a minimum.

[DENVERPOPS]

48. YES !!!!!!!!!!

We should make a list, even though it is in the hundreds, and send them USPS to EVERY Representative and Senator in the U.S. Congress...

Remember when Doonesbury did that to HW Bush, and hundreds of thousands of letters got delivered to HW Bush's home address??????

AND, put three or four stamps on it to support the revenue of the post office that DeJoy and Republicans want to destroy.....

[Hekate]

4. We did this! Save the Post Office, folks. It is absolutely vital to us.

[liberalla]

39. Yes, I couldn't agree more! It's a SERVICE, not a business, and it belongs to the People!

[DENVERPOPS]

49. How about something to really F*** up Fed Ex and UPS

The USPS should refuse to Deliver FedEx and UPS packages that those private firms dump on them. Especially the ones in Rural America..........Could you imagine FedEx and UPS having to drive each and every package, way the hell out into rural America in order to deliver just one package and what that would do to their profits/???????? (Amazon would shit bricks)

It is way past time that Rural Republican America begins to suffer the consequences of their vote..........

[BigOleDummy]

61. Exactly

Very well said!

[DENVERPOPS]

65. The worst is in Alaska

Corporations can drop off a pallet of stuff weighing under a thousand pounds in Seattle or Alaska, and the USPS must deliver it ANYWHERE in Alaska for 100 bucks.........And Alaska is a RepubliCON bright red state.......

[SunSeeker]

5. K & R & Retweeted!

[Snarkoleptic]

6. DeJoy needs to be testify before Congress, under oath.

He neesd to spend time in the greybar hotel for his malicious mischief.

[Tanuki]

10. Sic 'em, Rep. Jim Cooper!

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4901738/representative-cooper-exchange-postmaster-general-dejoy

[notinkansas]

52. He also needs to personally pay for

the replacement of the sorting machines he destroyed.

[Sogo]

8. Jail DeJoy!

First hundred days....

[helpisontheway]

15. Can Biden replace him?nt

[Sogo]

22. I would think so....

Trump removed who had been in the position and installed DeJoy, so why couldn't Biden do the same?

[helpisontheway]

35. I remember someone saying something about a board choosing Dejoy.

However, I’m not sure if Trump told them to choose Dejoy. 🤷🏽?♀️

[Lonestarblue]

47. This is another situation where McConnell can throw a spoke in the wheels.

The Board of Governors for the USPS is Senate confirmed, and they choose the Postmaster General, a position that is not confirmed by the Senate. Currently, the governors serve for 7 years. I could not find anything about whether a president can fire a governor. I would think a new AG could investigate both DeJoy and the actions of the Board to authorize him to willfully destroy millions of dollars of government property for no reason other than sabotaging the election and that might prompt some resignations.

[Marcuse]

42. DeJoy must go!

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There is a way to end this madness, and we hope Biden takes it. The new president could promptly appoint additional governors to the postal board, which at the moment is three members short. A trio of Biden appointees would give Democrats a 5-4 majority with enough leverage to give DeJoy his much-deserved walking papers.

We also hope Biden’s Department of Justice will heed a call from U.S. Reps. Ted Lieu, D-California, and Hakeem
Jeffries, D-New York, for a federal investigation of DeJoy and the postal Board of Governors. In a letter to the FBI in August, the lawmakers alleged that DeJoy’s attempts to delay the mail violated federal law.
[link:https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/11/11/21561226/donald-trump-gone-but-postmaster-louis-dejoy-might-stick-around|

[Progressive Jones]

44. Replace the entire board. nt

[Illumination]

11. NONE of this should have ever happened...& the GOP is so concerned about voter fraud! LOL!

Need to stock up on lots of popcorn, chips & beverages so that I can fully enjoy the upcoming
investigations!...

[patphil]

12. Now this is what a real "Stop the Steal" looked like.

[C_U_L8R]

13. I think democracy has many friends working at USPS

Thank you.

[Sogo]

24. I felt relieved when the Postal Workers Union endorsed Joe.

[helpisontheway]

14. What happened with the court case? The one where judge

was trying to find out why Dejoy ignored her ruling about checking for ballots and delivering?

[tblue37]

18. His ruling: Judge Emmet Sullivan.

[safeinOhio]

16. They screwed up by not waiting

a few more weeks to start their crap. There was a enough time to expose it to make it less effective.
That was close.

[Salviati]

19. Which is exactly why the next two decades are going to be very dangerous...

There are plenty of people who will see this as a trial run, and are learning from the mistakes that were made by this team of incompetents. The next time they won't make those mistakes. We need to take this opportunity to harden our systems against attack from within.

[brooklynite]

17. IOW, precisely what would be expected to happen when Trump acted irresponsibly...

Far too many people translated Trump's impulses with an actual ability to accomplish them.

[Traildogbob]

20. Response

To MAGANinny, Ingraham, Hannity, And the MAGA Lawyer ass on Bill Maher Friday should be asked about this, taking up mail boxes, only allowing one drop box for millions of voters, Fake drop boxes, fires in drop boxes, Florida’s mail rooms with stacks of ballots and yes, ALL the ballots not counted by GOP criminals. So sick of these asshole screaming voter fraud when they pulled every string to steal the election. Investigate Kentucky and South Carolina. I can smell their bull shit there from here in WNC. And Meadows came from here. We know what bullshit smells like.

[uponit7771]

23. K&R, if the kGOP is willing to go this far to cheat they'll do anything ... ANYTHING

[SleeplessinSoCal]

25. Is there any punitive action that would prevent this from happening again?

I don't think there is. Especially with the SCOTUS we have. In fact, why can't there be an "Invalid" issued to ACB for the McConnell decision re: supreme justice in America.. Whether time behind bars is possible, I don't know. But there has to be going forward.

[BobTheSubgenius]

26. So, in other words...

...it could have EASILY gone the other way. Hard to believe that their obvious, heavy-handed schemes almost worked.

It's like reading about WW2. In hindsight, it seems that a favourable outcome in a given situation was inevitable and plain to see. In fact, there were many possible outcomes in play.

[renate]

28. Thanks for saving democracy, Heather Walker and the honest USPS employees

I believe that she’s the one who broke the story:

Link to tweet

?s=21

[BarbD]

29. All things considered, it's a tribute to all the patriots that we won.

Five million plus is an astounding feat.

[ancianita]

31. Congress should take back full responsibility for the USPS. Restructure its hiring guidelines.

And NEVER outsource it to a politically appointed board ever again.

They must resume their oversight duties of this constitutionally established national service -- IN FULL.

[radius777]

33. Thank you Rachel Maddow

for bringing attention to this issue - she got many anonymous tips - and hammered on this topic for weeks.

The postal workers and that judge fought for democracy.

This election was far closer that many understand and the GOP's suppression efforts need to be dismantled going forward.

No political party or politician can be allowed to mess with the post office or any essential services for the purpose of shifting an election - which is exactly what Trump/DeJoy were attempting.

[Upthevibe]

36. Nevilledog...

If DeJoy broke laws (and it sure seemed like he did) he needs to go to prison!!! I'm so sick of what these degenerates get away with!

[The Wizard]

38. maximum security

chain gang prison

[C Moon]

41. DeJoy to DeJail

[C Moon]

40. Yes! There was that one post office that reassembled the sorting machine! Thank you!!

[wryter2000]

60. And another place

Where the workers didn’t get around to destroying the machines until the boss gave up.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

43. Wonder if any Senate races would have turned out differently if all lost ballots were delivered.

DeJoy and cohorts need investigation.

[Blue Owl]

45. K&R

[bucolic_frolic]

50. It's just a list of amazings

Amazing they thought they could get away with it.
Amazing they thought no one was looking.
Amazing they underestimated the size of the con they needed as well as the resistance they would face.
Amazing they apparently had no credible plan to distract from the operation.
Amazing they had no idea many, even a large majority, of USPS workers would resist.
Amazing they didn't understand the proud history of the US Postal Service.

I simply conclude that the con wasn't supposed to work out this way.

[liberalla]

57. Also, I think drump started talking about it too early. He was signaling something

was up with the Post Office. We were on the alert. So when stuff started happening, we noticed and reacted sooner than we may have (without his warning of problems with the Post Office and ballot fraud, etc.).

[UserNotFound]

53. My late Mom

was a small town Postmaster for over 30 yrs. She would have been enraged at the political bullshit that was thrown at her Postal Service this year....

[yellowdogintexas]

64. as would my father!

In fact I have other family members connected to USPS. They would all be livid

[calimary]

55. It was a multi-pronged approach.

We came at ‘em from everywhere. All sides. All angles. All speeds. All sizes. All levels of pressure. All volumes from silent runnings to roars. Big and small. Wide and narrow. Visual, audible, black ‘n’ white and technicolor. Sneaky and in-yer-face. Conventional media and internet/new media. Animal, vegetable, & mineral. Rock, paper, & scissors.

WE BECAME not just that “thousand points of light” but 76-some-odd-million points of light.

[liberalla]

58. Animal, vegetable & mineral... Rock, paper & scissors. (!!!)

Great post! ALL of it! Enjoyed it!

[StarfishSaver]

59. Big thanks to the NAACP, whichbrought the major case that kept DeJoy's and the USPS feet to the fire

They aren't getting nearly enough credit for stepping up and taking the USPS to court. If it weren't for that case and Judge Sullivan, who didn't allow them to get away with anything, who knows where we'd be now?

[bucolic_frolic]

63. Did anyone consciously notice

The USPS blue mail drop boxes are the same hue of blue as the official Trump campaign signs? White and black striping, stars too I think. That's a deeply subliminal attempt at mind manipulation.

[UCmeNdc]

67. Yes, Trump and Barr had this scheme all figured out. They planned it and knew if you stopped the

mailed in ballots you will stop the democratic voters votes from being counted. Evil to the bottom of their being.

The democratic party has to become much more organized, observant, and creative in maintaining the ability to protect their democratic voters right to vote and having those votes cast, actually be counted. No telling how many democratic votes were left off of the final vote tallies due to being called late or through voter suppression efforts by the GOP.

The democratic party must become proactive the year round. Not just start worrying in election years.

[Kid Berwyn]

68. "See! It WAS rigged."

Said the demented projectionist.

[yellowcanine]

69. And Drop Boxes. It is what I used.