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In reply to the discussion: Speaker Pelosi needs to unleash the Kraken of the Oversight Committee on this USPS sabotage. NOW! [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)destroy the Post Office.
And I think that his advisors knew this and took advantage of it.
Elections have consequences, and we are seeing those consequences now.
Women, LGBTQs and POC have been dealing with legislators destroying lives and fucking with their rights with impunity for decades, and have been told by self-described 'progressives' that those are just "identity politics."
So some have been living in something close a god damned dictatorship of sorts for a while. Those mass protests didn't come from nowhere.
Now, get over the shock as quickly as you can and get to work getting out the vote, because there is no manager that you can demand to talk to who can make all this comfortable and familiar again.
Voting him out is the only way to stop him at this point. We know that there is no way to remove him otherwise, no way he will resign, no way that Pence will invoke the 25th, and even if SCOTUS and Barr weren't in his pocket, there would be nothing Congress can do to take away his power over the Post Office - yes there are lawsuits pending, and the Union is on it, but there is nothing that will stop him prior to January.
Welcome to what it feels like to be powerless in the face of oppression.