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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)That's our President!
Initech
(100,062 posts)Don't be like Goofus!
gibraltar72
(7,502 posts)Cuts down on a lot of the idle chit chat.
DEbluedude
(816 posts)Old age settin' in:
DEbluedude
(816 posts)Grokenstein
(5,722 posts)...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)It's a sad commentary on our society that that behavior is no longer discouraged.
LakeArenal
(28,816 posts)Cyrano
(15,035 posts)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.
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)And, if so, how, and by how much?
Hey, Propublica! How about a little investigative reporting? Cant expect the mainstream media to dig deep with this story.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)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)On a different note, I love getting your daily messages on my phone.
Respectfully,
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
Magoo48
(4,705 posts)40RatRod
(532 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)marble falls
(57,073 posts)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)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)
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Thank you Joe!
olegramps
(8,200 posts)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)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.
Blue Owl
(50,347 posts)Galraedia
(5,022 posts)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.
dalton99a
(81,443 posts)Harker
(14,012 posts)in there somewhere.
Of course.
Cha
(297,128 posts)maybe even some magats don't want the PO killed.
bonniebgood
(940 posts)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)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)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.)