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EarlG

(21,945 posts)
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 02:21 PM Apr 2020

Pic Of The Moment: Biden Steps Up To Defend 600,000 Postal Employees



Biden speaks up on behalf of America's postal workers.

Coronavirus: Trump rejects bailout for 'devastated' US postal service


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Pic Of The Moment: Biden Steps Up To Defend 600,000 Postal Employees (Original Post) EarlG Apr 2020 OP
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 SheltieLover Apr 2020 #1
Biden is Gallant, Trump is Goofus. Initech Apr 2020 #2
When I go to the doctors office I reach for Highlights magazine gibraltar72 Apr 2020 #9
I couldn't think of the name of the magazine! Thanks. DEbluedude Apr 2020 #18
Brilliant analogy! DEbluedude Apr 2020 #17
Goofus fits Donny Littlehands so very well. Grokenstein Apr 2020 #19
Goofus used to be a malevolent little shit. Dave Starsky Apr 2020 #21
Thanks President Biden. LakeArenal Apr 2020 #3
Republicans have been trying to destroy the USPS for decades Cyrano Apr 2020 #4
Yeah not fooled Apr 2020 #6
Are FedEx and UPS financially supporting the RepubliCONs? Fritz Walter Apr 2020 #24
Yeah and Trumps knuckle dragger MAGOTS hate the USPS too.... Bengus81 Apr 2020 #30
Dear President Biden, toddler tyrant bodybags would prefer that we die. He seems to think niyad Apr 2020 #5
Nonsense DENVERPOPS Apr 2020 #14
K&R Gothmog Apr 2020 #7
Hell Yes Magoo48 Apr 2020 #8
I don't see any of those 600,000 postal workers voting for the orange clown. 40RatRod Apr 2020 #10
Go Joe! bronxiteforever Apr 2020 #11
Who's advising Trump that working people through a pandemic and then letting them go ... marble falls Apr 2020 #12
Hot Damn DENVERPOPS Apr 2020 #13
Joe speaks for me. warmfeet Apr 2020 #15
When will Republican working class realize they are stupid brainless pawns? olegramps Apr 2020 #16
I wonder if there will be a Postal Service left to save by the time Joe takes office next January. totodeinhere Apr 2020 #20
FUCK TRUMP Blue Owl Apr 2020 #22
My father is deaf and has worked for the post office for almost 30 years. Galraedia Apr 2020 #23
Kick dalton99a Apr 2020 #25
There's a self-emolument Harker Apr 2020 #26
That is another Important Ad to run in the GE.. Cha Apr 2020 #27
Who on God's Earth uses the term "POSTAL AGENCY"? They should be Fired. From a bonniebgood Apr 2020 #28
His policy is the "WHO CARES Act" yuiyoshida Apr 2020 #29
I disagree with Joe Biden. RVN VET71 Apr 2020 #31

gibraltar72

(7,502 posts)
9. When I go to the doctors office I reach for Highlights magazine
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 03:33 PM
Apr 2020

Cuts down on a lot of the idle chit chat.

Grokenstein

(5,722 posts)
19. Goofus fits Donny Littlehands so very well.
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 06:12 PM
Apr 2020


...Well, at least Original Goofus, the surly li'l me-first asshole. I see that in his modern iteration Goofus is a less-cruel, hapless oaf who is simply irresponsible, doing his homework on the bus to school or not cleaning up his mess in the kitchen.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
21. Goofus used to be a malevolent little shit.
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 07:10 PM
Apr 2020

It's a sad commentary on our society that that behavior is no longer discouraged.

Cyrano

(15,035 posts)
4. Republicans have been trying to destroy the USPS for decades
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 03:04 PM
Apr 2020

This is their big chance. They hate the postal unions. They hate a government agency that does what can be done (expensively) by FedEx and UPS. They hate average Americans getting "something for free." They just fucking hate. It's what they do. It's who they are.

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
6. Yeah
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 03:23 PM
Apr 2020

as vile as red don is, this isn't just his doing. Shouldn't be portrayed as merely his personal vendetta against the post office, or Bezos. Gives all the other crackpot pukes a pass when they have all been in on this.

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
24. Are FedEx and UPS financially supporting the RepubliCONs?
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 08:25 PM
Apr 2020

And, if so, how, and by how much?

Hey, Propublica! How about a little investigative reporting? Can’t expect the mainstream media to dig deep with this story.

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
30. Yeah and Trumps knuckle dragger MAGOTS hate the USPS too....
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 07:57 AM
Apr 2020

As they stick a mere 55 cent stamp on a letter bound for Hawaii. So unless your a hypocrite why don't you MAGOT'S go get a FedEx envelope and pay $5-$10.00 to mail it the same distance??

niyad

(113,254 posts)
5. Dear President Biden, toddler tyrant bodybags would prefer that we die. He seems to think
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 03:21 PM
Apr 2020
that covid45 only strikes Dems. He simply does not have one iota of decency or humanity in him, nor do the orange kook-ade drinkers.

On a different note, I love getting your daily messages on my phone.

Respectfully,

DENVERPOPS

(8,809 posts)
14. Nonsense
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 04:22 PM
Apr 2020

he knows damn well, along with the entire administration, (especially the Senate Republicans), that his actions are hurting his Trumphumpers as well, of not actually more. But after seeing them all still worshipping after all the stuff he has done to them, SADIST Republicans have realized (joyously) that all their followers are truly, real masochists and just keep coming back to ask for more, time and time again.....

Just look at all the tens of thousands of multi generational family farms that got wiped out and had to declare bankruptcy due to their Master's China Tariffs. There was an interview on one of the news stations with one of these farmers and the news guy asked him: Do you realize that it was the Tariffs imposed on China that have wiped out your multi generational owned farm? The guy said yes he realized it, and also who imposed the Tariff's on China, but he felt he and tons of other small family farms had to "take it" for the overall common good of the nation........He also said that he heard Trump was going to bail them all out with Multi-Billion Dollar pay outs, not realizing that the vast majority of money was going to the huge corporate owned farms, not he and his fellow small farm owners......LOL

marble falls

(57,073 posts)
12. Who's advising Trump that working people through a pandemic and then letting them go ...
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 04:00 PM
Apr 2020

by shutting dowm to post office is a good idea?

How do his junk mailing buddies feel about this???

Like Mr Pillow McPillowface:

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DENVERPOPS

(8,809 posts)
13. Hot Damn
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 04:06 PM
Apr 2020

There is an easy 600,000 Dem votes, and of course all those peoples friends, family, etc etc.

Let all the Trumphumpers employed by the USPS see which party is actively confronting their hero who is trying to destroy them. (Regretfully, I'm sure many of them still won't be able to put 2 + 2 together)

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
16. When will Republican working class realize they are stupid brainless pawns?
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 04:40 PM
Apr 2020

I doubt that due to my age that I will ever see the required total annihilation of the Republican Party. It can't come soon enough. It is beyond any hope of reform and must be destroyed before it destroys the very principles upon which this nation was founded. I don't care what it takes. The survival of the nation is in jeopardy.

totodeinhere

(13,058 posts)
20. I wonder if there will be a Postal Service left to save by the time Joe takes office next January.
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 06:12 PM
Apr 2020

Drump and Moscow Mitch would like nothing better than to kill off the Postal Service while they still can. Then we'll probably end up paying UPS or FedEx $20 just to mail a first class letter.

Galraedia

(5,022 posts)
23. My father is deaf and has worked for the post office for almost 30 years.
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 07:59 PM
Apr 2020

Even right now he is currently at work in the Norfolk U.S. Postal distribution center in Virginia.

How anyone can justify spending billions bailing out multinational corporations while not even including money for the United States Postal Service, which is actually included in the U.S Constitution and as American as apple pie, is beyond me.

Cha

(297,128 posts)
27. That is another Important Ad to run in the GE..
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 01:24 AM
Apr 2020

maybe even some magats don't want the PO killed.

bonniebgood

(940 posts)
28. Who on God's Earth uses the term "POSTAL AGENCY"? They should be Fired. From a
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 05:55 AM
Apr 2020

retired Post Office, United States Post Office/Postal Service Mail Carrier. It's a SERVICE.
just keep dumbing down the masses phrase. Social Security is an entitlement BS.

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
29. His policy is the "WHO CARES Act"
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 06:50 AM
Apr 2020

He needs to be put in a mental institution.. If anyone can fuck up being a true leader, he has and will continue to do so.. His Arrogance could get us ALL KILLED. Fortunately State governors have more common sense than he will ever have under his ORANGE GEL.

バカヤロ!!

RVN VET71

(2,690 posts)
31. I disagree with Joe Biden.
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 10:29 AM
Apr 2020

Trump is not "trying to let them fail." He is taking active measures to ensure that they do so.

And he's just picking up the baton on this from the rest of the GOP. Nixon made the Post Office into a quasi corporation back in the 70's, and the GOP has waged war against it relentlessly ever since. The calls to abolish or privatize it (which means, of course, selling it, at bargain basement prices, to a Republican who will then raise prices and cut employee wages and benefits, down-size and eliminate things like rural delivery -- because, why not?) have been frequent but have never merited page 1 coverage. The result has been that the public has never been roused to action.

It doesn't have to be that way. It shouldn't be that way. But if you've voted Republican in the last 50 years, you've contributed to the problem. (And, yes, I have voted Republican - once -- in that time, and am ashamed of that vote. I have since vowed never, under any circumstances, ever, ever to vote for a Republican again in my life.)

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