You knew we weren’t going to get through this election without some cockamamie democrat conspiracy theory, right? In 2016 it was Russia, Russia, Russia. Today democrats are going postal.
“To watch this postmaster general destroy the postal service under Trump’s direction and to watch Mitch McConnell do nothing to try to stop that, and by the way, or anybody in the Republican senator caucus stop him other than just give lip service, is disgusting,” Tester declared. “I’m going to tell you if these guys have their way, they will destroy the postal service. They’ll do it because they don’t want people to vote, which is bad enough. But in the process, it’s going to hurt rural America in a big, big way and hurt rural states like Montana in a big, big way. And that’s why we’ve tried to point out to folks all around the state of Montana and the country that the postal service is important. And that we ought to make sure the postal service is around for this election and for a long time after this election. And to see what postmaster DeJoy has done is absolutely disgusting. And certainly not the right direction this country needs to be going in.”
Tester was never the sharpest tool in the shed. But he wasn’t the only one. The King of the Climate Con Men weighed in
Al Gore: "By tampering with the Postal Service, [President Trump] is in effect putting his knee on the neck of American democracy." pic.twitter.com/uAfB1arfZA
— The Hill (@thehill) August 17, 2020
Burbank, California:
In your entire life have you ever seen a LOCKED mailbox at the USPS?
Now you have.
A disgrace and immediate threat to American democracy. Shame on them. Shame on the GOP.
Where are you @senatemajldr ? pic.twitter.com/YcbVUTnv37
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 17, 2020
Well, yes we have. In 2016, to be exact, when Rex’s photo was taken
Thieves raiding Valley mailboxes prompt Postal Service to take action
Turns out that fishing, or stealing mail, has become so common that postal officials have been retrofitting boxes around the San Fernando Valley and other areas to make them more tamper proof, said Richard J. Maher, spokesman for Post Office operations in Los Angeles and Orange counties.
No one was bothered about that in 2016. Similarly, no one was bothered when obama said this in 2009:
https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1295015662704832514
Trump is stealing mail boxes, say democrats!
Uh sorry, no
Turns out the Washington Post uncovered the Great Mailbox Conspiracy ELEVEN YEARS AGO!
2009: "…half of the blue boxes in the Washington area have disappeared in the last nine years, and 200,000 nationwide have been plucked up in the last 20 years, leaving 175,000 total." pic.twitter.com/oLYV8rbEYn
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) August 16, 2020
This from the USPS itself- in 2016!
Mail collection boxes are practically as American as apple pie. They also seem to be disappearing as quickly as mom’s homemade apple pie.
Nationally, the number of collection boxes declined by more than 12,000 in the past 5 years. Some customers have complained the U.S. Postal Service has gone too far and removed too many collection boxes in neighborhoods. They’ve also questioned whether this effort is saving USPS money in the long run.
It’s a tough balancing act for the Postal Service. Some collection boxes are barely used and are expensive to maintain. On the other hand, mail collection boxes are a visible representation of the Postal Service to the American public, and their disappearance has been noted. They also are reliable, secure, and convenient receptacles for mail.
As part of its efforts to keep its collection infrastructure proportionate to customers’ needs at a reasonable cost, the Postal Service has eliminated underused collection boxes that on average receive fewer than 25 pieces a day; it has also added collection boxes where they are convenient for customers.
Our recent audit report looked at the Postal Service’s collection box removal process in the Eastern Area and found that it was not effective. While the area and its 10 districts have procedures for removing and relocating collection boxes, they were not consistently followed.
For the record, Trump is not “attacking” the USPS or starving it. Byron York:
The Postal Service has lost money for a very long time. In fiscal year 2019, it had operating revenues of $71.1 billion and operating expenses of $79.9 billion, leaving it with a deficit of $8.8 billion. At the moment, Postal Service officials have told Congress, it has about $14 billion in cash on hand, putting it on the road to fiscal insolvency (without further aid) in late 2021.
In the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, the $2 trillion relief measure passed in March, Congress gave the Postal Service a $10 billion borrowing authority. After the bill became law, there were negotiations between the Postal Service and the Treasury Department on the terms of the borrowing; a deal was announced in July. The ability to borrow $10 billion, the postmaster general said, would “delay the approaching liquidity crisis.”
That was all the aid for the Postal Service in the CARES Act. Completely separately, the bill also gave $400 million to something called the Election Assistance Commission for distribution to states to “prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally, for the 2020 federal election cycle.”
In May the House passed the so-called “Heroes Act”
The House HEROES Act would give $25 billion to the Postal Service in what is essentially a bailout. The bill mentions nothing about helping the Postal Service handle the upcoming election or any other election. Indeed, the only stipulation at all placed on the $25 billion is that the Postal Service, “during the coronavirus emergency, shall prioritize the purchase of, and make available to all Postal Service employees and facilities, personal protective equipment, including gloves, masks, and sanitizers, and shall conduct additional cleaning and sanitizing of Postal Service facilities and delivery vehicles.” If the House Democrats who wrote and passed the bill intended the money to be spent specifically for elections, they did not say so in the text of the legislation.
The notion that Trump is not funding the USPS is not true. The Trump administration agreed on July 29 to loan the USPS “$10 billion in emergency coronavirus relief funding,” The Washington Post reported, adding that the money is “a crucial injection of cash that postal officials say will keep the debt-laden agency solvent for at least another year.” In exchange for the money, USPS will provide the Treasury Department “copies of its 10 largest ‘negotiated service agreements,’ or contracts with high-volume third-party shippers such as Amazon, FedEx and UPS.” The goal, Treasury Department Sec. Steve Mnuchin explained, is “to fulfill the President’s goal of establishing a sustainable business model under which USPS can continue to provide necessary mail service for all Americans, without shifting costs to taxpayers.”
Read the whole thing for the rest of the left wing lies.
In short, dems are full of sh*t as usual and are looking to create the next Russian collusion hoax.
BONUS
Hey @USPS — who do I talk to there to try to solve a problem caused by your severe incompetence? Your phones aren't even set up right.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 15, 2014
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
I am afraid the mailboxes will go the way of phone booths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsUHq5eRghE
Aside from causing problems, then leaving them behind, Democrats are good at only one thing: making excuses.
Dr John, it certainly took you awhile to defend Trump’s sabotage of the USPS in which again, some elderly or diabetic person somewhere will likely die as a result, even though he’s once again admitted this sabotage is for his own personal political gain.
Once again, the Trump defenders went through the steps of deny, spin, and hoax.
I’ll ask again but understand the reality of the Trump cultists: is there anything Trump could do or say that you’d denounce? Anything regardless of how evil or unconstitutional? Or is it that a Trump action just changes that evil to good and unconstitutional to constitutional?
@Ronald J. Ward: Can you tell us more about this sabotage?
Allowing 10 billion (with a B) in loans?
Its actually democrats sabotaging efforts to create a self supporting business model that will ensure service long into the future. Should have been done long ago, but if Trump can fix it or slow the bleeding, thats evil.
@Ronald J. Ward: What about Obama’s sabotage of the USPS? He started it long ago. Trump has done no such thing.
If Trump were to make a string of openly racist comments, I’d denounce it. If Trump picked a socialist that had accused him of racism and rape to be his VP, I’d denounce it. If Trump would not openly denounce widespread political terror, I’d denounce it. If Trump tried to politicize COVID19 deaths, I’d denounce it. If Trump used the power of the federal government to attack his political opponents, I’d denounce it. If Trump took taxpayer money to give to enemies of this country, at home and abroad, I’d denounce it.
In other words, if Trump acted like a Democrat, I’d denounce it. Question is, why don’t YOU denounce it?
@Ronald J. Ward: Is there anything Trump could do right you wouldn’t distort into a negative?
You offer nothing and do nothing except give Trump more votes.
@Deplorable Me:
No you wouldn’t. You’re a goddamn liar. A Trump sucking, goddamn liar.
And no, I’m not angry or even upset. It’s just that you’re a Trump sucking, goddamn liar. I’ve pointed out your head in the ass allegiance to you and your clones repeatedly and you’ve proven it repeatedly. And you’re even doing it on this subject.
Trump is intentionally sabotaging the USPS and you are defending him. It doesn’t matter what proof is out there, if he admits it, brags about it, steals the election with it, or people die as a result. You will defend it. You are defending it.
If Trump ordered the slaughter of all black people earning less than $75K a year in order to eliminate our racial problems while admitting it helps his reelection, you and your ilk would ultimately defend him. To say otherwise would be another goddamn lie.
@Ronald J. Ward: No, as has been clearly shown, YOU are the damnable liar. You asked what he would do for me to denounce it and I stated if he did the things YOU approved so enthusiastically of.
How is Trump “sabotaging” the USPS? You can clearly see the USPS has been a disaster for years. Trump is trying to fix yet another mess Obama incompetently left behind.
Not only are you angry that your ideology is such a failure, you are a butt-hurt crybaby.
@Ronald J. Ward:
I have asked for any proof, just because Vox and other outlets of mindless liars say so does not mean it is true. Give me the quote made by Trump where he admits the sabotage or STFU.
You make such inane accusations without a stitch of proof.
Seems you work yourself up to the point where you believe the propaganda and lies told on MSM without the mind to look them up for yourself.
The USPS couldnt deliver all the absentee votes for the Fox River Valley a population of about 500K how can they be trusted with the entire Nation of random ballots not requested?
@Ronald J. Ward:
You have offered nothing. You simply proffer an opinion that you seem to think in order for it to have credence, you need to be profane and insult your opposition beyond all norms.
You only prove that you are a foul mouthed, loud mouthed left winger with no credibility.
How so? By you believing all the crap put out by the Democrats with no actual proof? Oh, yeah, the truck with all the mail boxes in them, right? Never mind that mail boxes are routinely switched out when they get so damaged, or aged, that they either need refurbishment or replacement. Perhaps you would like to explain why, in my small town, there is only ONE mail box? You see, all the other mail boxes were removed during the Obama administration so if someone need one, they have to go to the Post Office. Guess you want to blame that on Trump, as well, right?
See, you cannot seem to comment without the use of profanity and slandering someone politically opposite of you. If you can’t control yourself on a public forum, I can only imagine what a trash mouth you have at home. And while you are shouting hypotheticals, maybe you can give us examples of what the Obama/Biden regime did for black Americans?
But please, keep it up. I’m sure anyone who is straddling the fence in this election is going to say “Yeah, that’s the guy whose team I want to be on.” NOT!!!
@retire05:
It’s rather remarkable (yet not surprising) that after all this time of silence from the Trump enablers while the USPS has been in blaring headlines for weeks, that Congress is even returning, that now with the cards plainly on the table, you’re actually making an argument that Trump isn’t directly or indirectly sabotaging the USPS?
It has to be that either you are totally unaware of the argument or that this is the defense you chose to use to defend Trump.
I suppose that in a few weeks from now, you’ll be needing proof of tody’s thousand-page bipartisan report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee which said the Trump administration obstructed its investigation with “novel claims” of executive privilege, even if in the meantime he admits to it as well?
@Ronald J. Ward: Begone proofless one, Pelosi politcal stunts do not impress anyone but idiots.
@Ronald J. Ward
Still waiting for a tiny sliver of evidence.
@Ronald J. Ward: We are all well aware that you have been indoctrinated with yet another hoax.
Your understanding of the situation is both flawed, partisan, and ompletely dismissible.
There is no argument. You are part of a Cult, The Cult of TDS.
Give me someone better to vote for, and will.
@Ronald J. Ward: Perhaps instead of having a Trump Derangement support group called a DNC convention the Democrats should play this not Michelle Obama lies
@Ronald J. Ward:
What is remarkable to me is that San Fran Nan has ordered the House of Representatives back in session to deal with a made up crisis while Americans are still out of a job and 20% of American families are having trouble keeping food on the table. Where has she been all these years on the disaster that has been the USPS for decades? And why do you refuse to address that the removal of mail boxes was under Obama, not Trump? What exactly is it you think President Trump is doing to the USPS that doesn’t need to be done? Be specific. I know that’s hard for you, but you can at least try.
You see, AJ/Ward, I don’t believe any of the left wing media that serves as nothing more than a campaign committee for the left.
I haven’t had time to read the entire report so, unlike you, I will reserve judgement until I do.
@retire05: People like AJ aren’t going to confront anyone face to face.
@QDaddy: Old AJ ain’t exactly into providing evidence to back up his lies.
@Ronald J. Ward: Why are all your scenarios of things that would cause supporters of Trump to reject him wild, crazy events that would never happen? No, I can safely say without fear of having to eat my words that if Trump started killing people, I would not support him. If he nuked NYC, I would turn on him, too.
Do YOU denounce the Democrats that forced sick people into nursing homes, spreading COVID19 and killing thousands of elderly? Do you denounce the media silence on a black man executing a 5 yr old white boy? Do you denounce the left wing terror assaulting so many Democrat cities? Of course you don’t; it’s the foundation of your ideology.
@Deplorable Me: @kitt: @QDaddy: @Nathan Blue: @retire05: , and any unmentioned sockpuppet,
In another remarkable move, DeJoy announced he’s canceling service reductions, reinstating overtime hours and ending the removal of mail-sorting machines and public collection boxes, and will forego planned price increases.
If these weren’t sabotaging tactics and were needed, why is he reversing course? And shouldn’t he be promptly escorted to the door for what was an obvious screw-up (assuming you don’t like the word “sabotage”)? Or was it good thing and now he wants to go back to the bad?
Hoax? No more than COVID-19 is a hoax. File under “The sleazy bastids didn’t get away with it.” (But thanks for tipping your hand, boys, so everybody had a clear demonstration what you’ll try to get away with.)
August 18, 2020 – Postal Service backs down on changes as at least 20 states sue over potential mail delays ahead of election
It could certainly make a difference this time. Polls taken in May indicated that around one-half of all eligible voters intended to vote by mail this year; twice as many Democratic voters as Republican voters stated that they intended to do so. That’s the reason for the attempt to sabotage timely processing and delivery. It could easily hand the election to Donald Trump.
@Greg: Before this Post Master General took office the previous guy said all 14 days for mass mailings 7 days to deliver and 7 days to return. this guy repeated the warning. Its a crappy way to sabotage the election if 2 PMGs give a far in advance warning.
How many of these changes were from the last guy?
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2020/0818-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy-statement.htm
By the way, regarding Russia:
August 18, 2020 – Bipartisan Senate report details Trump campaign contacts with Russia in 2016, adding to Mueller findings
It’s a new bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report. Should anyone have forgotten, that means the committee chairperson is a republican.
@Greg:
I love that “governing by polls” technique you seem to be in love with.
The Dems will lose. They need an excuse post election. Mail in ballots are a way to make sure people think “Trump didn’t really win” by holding up results, or whatever the latest hoax is.
Why do you bother posting here? It does nothing, and the simple message of the Left which you parrot, “shut up” is all you offer those you disagree with.
The only reason you post here is tell non-Leftists to “shut up”. That’s your only argument.
Not on my watch.
This video exemplifies what Democrats are truly afraid of: losing their slave-master’s hold on the black vote.
@Greg:
Weissman was fully briefed before the Muller probe, he knew the Steele dossier was crap and who paid for it he knew the warrants were fraudulently obtained.
They used police state tactics to spy on an opposing campaign. The operation was directed from the White House Biden knew, thank heavens Obama was directing or they might have got it right, that guy screwed up everything he touched.
Manafort dealing with Podestas he is in jail Mueller shouldnt have let the Podestas loose, they closed up their lobbying company, or we would find out how many enemies those traitors assisted in trying to blow up the Republic. Im sure they took the Hilliary route and destroyed all the evidence.
Has nothing to do with the worst saboteurs ever giving months warning for mail issues.
@Ronald J. Ward:
To shut up the screaming crybabies?
Oh… sure it’s just a minor oversight, but you kind of forgot to answer my questions… again. I answered yours. Answer mine.
@kitt, #24:
That’s not what the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded. Among other things, they concluded that Paul Manafort, Trump’s then-campaign organization chairman, “represented a grave counterintelligence threat.” That’s a clear and unambiguous statement.
I don’t know how anyone can read that, and then imagine that the investigation that followed was in any way unjustified. Failure to investigate would have been nothing short of criminal negligence.
More bullshit from greg
@July 4th American:
Correct. It’s not as if he read the entire thousand page report. He relies on XiNN for his information.
The conclusions aren’t mine. They’re those of the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee.
@Greg: Doesnt change he fact that the Podestas dealt with the same people in the same way, were allowed to file after the fact and were not investigated Hilliary actually met with Putin on many occasions, and promoted a Russian silicon valley. If we are looking for Russian connections and contacts also favors done, a total lack of security and violations of espionage acts the Democrt candidate was the one to investigate.
@retire05, #28:
Here’s a link to the full report. Have at it. The findings are summarized at the front by the committee panel itself, immediately following the table of Contents.
As Michelle Obama observed last night regarding Donald Trump, “It is what it is.” That’s so whether you pretend it isn’t or not.
@retire05: How can you stop laughing long enough to reply to greggie the rock? His comprehension of the written language requires much interpretation for him to understand the simplest comments.
Trump was exonerated with respect to Russia. That is why they had to come up with the Ukraine hoax
@Greg: Before the evidence the Democrats kept hidden was released. Then, not only did we discover the truth, but we discovered what slimy liars Democrats are.
Michelle is an America-hating, lying racist, so her views are not to be taken seriously.
@Greg:
I don’t need the link. I already have it bookmarked. It seems to elude you that I was referring to the blatantly obvious fact that YOU have not read the report, relying on what XiNN says. And if the summary at the beginning of the report is all we needed, why bother releasing a thousand page report to the public?
Well, not really;
AP– “Michelle Obama assailed President Donald Trump on Monday for ripping migrant children from their parents and throwing them into cages, picking up on a frequent and distorted point made widely by Democrats.
She’s right that Trump’s now-suspended policy at the U.S.-Mexico border separated thousands of children from their families in ways that had not been done before. But what she did not say is that the very same “cages” were built and used in her husband’s administration, for the same purpose of holding migrant kids temporarily.
A look at her remark in the keynote address at the opening night of the remote Democratic National Convention:
MICHELLE OBAMA, on Americans: “They watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages.”
THE FACTS: The reference to cages is misleading and a matter that Democrats have persistently distorted.
Trump used facilities that were built during the Obama-Biden administration to house children at the border. They are chain-link enclosures inside border facilities where migrants were temporarily housed, separated by sex and age.
At the height of the controversy over Trump’s zero-tolerance policy at the border, photos that circulated online of children in the enclosures generated great anger. But those photos — by The Associated Press — were taken in 2014 and depicted some of the thousands of unaccompanied children held by President Barack Obama.
When that fact came to light, some Democrats and activists who had tweeted the photos deleted their tweets. But prominent Democrats have continued to cite cages for children as a distinctive cruelty of Trump.”
When are you going to learn that the left lies to you? Well, you probably won’t since you are an idiot.
@Deplorable Me: Mooch Michelle the lying B, how children are put in cages where was he when his “partner” was doing it, was he ever to the border to see the kids? Ever once? Or did she organize the protests they had when Don was getting them all beds, lets boycott the bed manufacturer.
It is unprecedented that a former first “it” would go on a national forum and trash the President he has no class at all, a cow and no designer on the planet could make “it” look as graceful or elegant as our feminine sweet Melania, 5 languages a real American dream.
@July 4th American, #33:
That’s what Trump and his toadies told you. That’s not what Robert Mueller or his report said. Robert Mueller, testifying before Congress:
Mueller, responding to questions before Congress on July 24, 2019:
@Greg: Disclaimer: No Russians were harmed in the making of this coup.
Colin Powell is speaking during tonight’s installment of the televised Democratic Party Convention, crossing party lines and endorsing Joe Biden for president.
Michelle Obama didn’t “trash” anyone. She clearly told the American people what she believes to be true, and reminded them that they have a responsibility to the nation. Donald Trump is the one who trashes anyone and everyone. Apparently he serves as a role model for many of his supporters. Hopefully he isn’t serving as a roll model for America’s children, or for any future presidents.
@Greg: Note to you and idiot Nadler: Mueller did not set out to exonerate Trump. He set out to convict Trump… of something . So, not being able to do that, Trump IS exonerated. Nadler doesn’t even know what violence is.
Oh, and the Senate report you referred to? NO collusion there, either. But lots of FBI shenanigans.
@Greg: She lied her ass off didnt mention the VP pick because her poorly written speech was written and taped long ago. Like she has been near any grocery store to see people without masks. She sits in one of her mansions moochin’ her life away. Having the help clean up after the dog, she is to lazy to walk. Nothing but an ignorant entitle cow who did nothing as first ladty to keep roaches, ants and mice out of her temporary home, they may have arrived in her baggage.
Total lack of grace and manners doesnt even know how to accept a gift from Tiffanys from a real first lady.
He most definitely DID NOT set out to convict Trump. Charging Trump with anything was off limits from the start. Mueller was bound by the DoJ Office of Legal Counsel’s clearly stated opinion that a sitting president cannot be charged with any crime. He was tasked with conducting a full investigation that couldn’t result in any charges against Donald Trump.
That restriction is cited in Part 2 of his report which considered obstruction of justice, and actual statutory crime. There were multiple clear instances of it, but Mueller could do nothing other than document the circumstances.
@kitt. #41:
Listen to yourself.
Why the USPS?
@Greg: She most certainly did. She lied about Trump putting “kids in cages” when it was her incompetent husband that did it. She’s a liar, but she wouldn’t be speaking at the DNC if she wasn’t.
Prosecutors don’t exonerate. They wanted something . Hell, they knew before they started there was no collusion or anything else you want to call it. They failed because Trump has committed NO crimes.
Powell didn’t vote for Trump last time, no loss.
I’ve got an idea what your real problem with her likely is. It seems to be common but unspoken among the Trump crowd.
@Greg:
Whoo-pe-do. Except Colin Powell has been a Democrat for a long time. Not a Republican. When you vote for a Democrat candidate for president, as Powell did in both 2008 and 2012, you’re a Democrat even if you call yourself a rainbow encircled unicorn.
Well then, the Mooch is clearly delusional and Barack should probably get her some mental help. One thing she clearly is….a hater. She dislikes white people with her whole being. Read her thesis.
As to Mueller; he clearly was a figure head with his “investigation” being run by the crooked and evil Andrew Weissmann. It was also clear in Mueller’s testimony that his mental faculties have diminished. I actually felt sorry for him.
Collin Powell is a traditional conservative republican. Donald Trump is not.
@Greg: Um… he voted for Obama over McCain. He voted for Obama over Romney. Cmon, man!
@Greg: Waasa matter you are too used to hearing fawning empty lies about mocchie. She did slip into the truth on this Vote ‘like our lives depend on it’ Not so much hers but Barrys as treason is a death sentence.
She earned my dislike, her First time to be proud statement, her living in a house built by slaves and ignorant racist remarks she cant help but blurt out of her hateful ungrateful lips. She is an ugly person inside, hateful forgetting she had set a trend to bring a gift for Mrs Bush on the same occasion that Melania tried to give her one.