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[conuly]

Trump reportedly said he would reject a bailout package if it included aid to keep the US Postal Service functioning

I have said this before, and I will undoubtedly say this again. There is a cabal in the government that seeks nothing more* than to destroy the USPS for having the audacity to be a well-liked, mostly functional arm of the federal government.

This is not a conspiracy theory, except in the very literal sense that there is a conspiracy and I have a well-tested explanation for why it exists. There are some people in our government who simply want to see the world burn, starting with the post office.

For the love of god, if you have no other issue that determines how you vote, make it this one. Contact your congresscritters and keep at them and keep at them until they shape up. (And don't believe the lies about FedEx and UPS working better. They outsource everything they don't want to handle to the USPS. I suppose it's good business to do your deliveries on the cheap, but still.)

* I'm sure they want a few other things, but you can imagine what those are. It's not pretty.

Comments

[james]

It isn't like he will read anything - they tell him it isn't in there have him sign the big piece of paper and whoopsy look at those clauses on page 229.

[dewline]

I keep thinking that Canada made a mistake in converting the post office from a federal department into a Crown corporation.

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[paserbyp]

Agreed with Trump, because USPS corrupted by trade union which protected management of USPS. Now USPS has around half million employee and Trump must first decide how use this employee when they will be laid off due to privatization of USPS?

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[dewline]

Excuse me???

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[paserbyp]

Do you know how corrupted USPS management and trade union?

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[redbird]

I am confident that if they were even 1% as corrupt as Trump, the anti-post office people would have made sure we knew all about it, in excruciating detail.

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[paserbyp]

I don’t want to choice between two evil. I never, never, vote for Trump, but I don’t want pay my taxes for corrupted USPS management!

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[marahmarie]

You don't even live in the US; also you speak Russian.

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[conuly]

Taxes don't pay for USPS, dipshit. You might want to get your info straight before you try a disinformation campaign here.

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[alexseanchai]

possibly wandered in from sitewide latest public posts?

presumably has no idea where they are

and while I know that a lot of Russian users who just want to live and let live jumped ship from LJ to DW when a Russian company bought LJ, and I don't want to make prejudiced snap judgments…

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[dewline]

I doubt this is one of those Russians. Possibly, they're here to make trouble for Russians who want to live and let live, though...among other "targets of opportunity".

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[marahmarie]

Part of their journal is in Russian. They claim in their profile to live in Niue, which is apparently associated with New Zealand.

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[jessie_c]

One of Internet Research Agency's dirty tricks is to crack 'abandoned' accounts and then use them to spread their disinformation.

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[lightbird]

Yeah, my first thought was troll bot, but who knows?

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[marahmarie]

Not a bot. I could deal with a bot via the spam function. This seems more like in the flesh.

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[dewline]

Oh, and if you're actually from Niue, I'll eat a hat.

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[marahmarie]

Right? More like "straight from the central Russian disinformation office", but whatever.

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[jessie_c]

Is beyink bolshoi beeg nyet, Comrade botski.

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[paserbyp]

Tambov’s wolf for you comrade!

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[jessie_c]

Correct: your disinformation is neither trusted nor believed.

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[conuly]

I don't know you, and you don't speak English as well as you think. I'm freezing this thread and banning you. Don't make a new account to get around the ban, it's just tiresome.

[redbird]

I have emailed my representative -- whose voicemail message right now is saying to *please* email rather than phone, unless it's an urgent constituent service matter and you can't email. And then both senators, because copy and paste is easier.

Then again, I'm reasonably sure that Sen. Warren has a plan for this, so it's mostly "tell her this is a priority."

[dewline]

Where Sen. Warren is concerned, that's probably a safe assumption. She will have a plan for it if she doesn't already.

[magnetic_pole]

Jesus Christ. Where will this all end? M.

[conuly]

Well, it can't go on forever.

[lilysea]

Another reason T/the republicans want to undermine the US Postal Service:

the US Postal Service has consistently been held up as an example of better pay/better conditions being possible

by delivery drivers for Amazon/Uber Eats etc

[conuly]

Though this has been going on before those parvenus arrived.

[sabotabby]

They saw The Postman, didn't they?

[dewline]

Even that mangled version of Brin's novel as shown in the cinemas scared the crap out of them. If they'd read the original novel, they'd be bricking their vital organs.

[sabotabby]

It is...not a good movie (I understand the book is much better). But the concept has stuck with me since I saw it.

[dewline]

I have the novel, and have avoided the movie.

Having seen both -

[nodrog]

Smart move.  It’s a Kevin Costner vanity project that drags on at least a half-hour too long (as Ridley Scott said of Blade Runner 2049, and he was right) and the result was simply boring.  Nothing of what made the novel interesting was in it.

[thewayne]

Congress put in a requirement that the USPS fully fund its retirement obligations. No other gov't arm, and most corporations, don't do that. Another example of Congress trying to destroy it.

[jessie_c]

The Republicans have wanted to kill the Post Office for decades, because it works, and that doesn't fit in to their 'big Government is inefficient and bad' myth.

[thewayne]

That's the size of it.  Can't have something that contradicts their mantra.

[chez_jae]

I love the USPS, and this entire situation makes me angry and sad.

[mount_oregano]

The parts of the country that vote Republican are the places that will miss the USPS the most. Rural areas are uneconomical for delivery, so the costs there to mail a letter or get a package will skyrocket.

[penpusher]

To paraphrase Ben Franklin, the first ever Postmaster General of the United States: "The only two certainties in life are death and douche bags."