
Oh, this is bad.
Courtesy of WaPo:
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s mail service, displacing the two top executives overseeing day-to-day operations, according to a reorganization memo released Friday. The shake-up came as congressional Democrats called for an investigation of DeJoy and the cost-cutting measures that have slowed mail delivery and ensnared ballots in recent primary elections.
Twenty-three postal executives were reassigned or displaced, the new organizational chart shows. Analysts say the structure centralizes power around DeJoy, a former logistics executive and major ally of President Trump, and de-emphasizes decades of institutional postal knowledge. All told, 33 staffers included in the old postal hierarchy either kept their jobs or were reassigned in the restructuring, with five more staffers joining the leadership from other roles.
The reshuffling threatens to heighten tensions between postal officials and lawmakers, who are troubled by delivery delays — the Postal Service banned employees from working overtime and making extra trips to deliver mail — and wary of the Trump administration’s influence on the Postal Service as the coronavirus pandemic rages and November’s election draws near.
It also adds another layer to DeJoy’s disputes with Democratic leaders, who have pushed him to rescind the cost-cutting directives that have caused days-long backlogs and steady the Postal Service in the run-up to the election. DeJoy clashed with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), in a meeting on the issue earlier this week.
Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.), chair of the House subcommittee responsible for postal oversight, called the reorganization “a deliberate sabotage” to the nation’s mail service and a “Trojan Horse.”
I have seen some blatant power grabs in my time, but this one is the most recent one by Trump and his minions.
I have to admit that I was only peripherally concerned that Trump would sabotage the mail service and negatively impact our ability to mail in our votes, but now that concern is turned up to DEFCON 1.
I do not think I have ever been this concerned about our ability to exercise our right to vote.
“The Post Office is a joke,” Backlash.
“I LOVE The Post Office, they are not going away.” Sigh of relief.
BOOM.
How stupid do you have to be to not see this coming?
Toldja guyz way back in 2016 we would go here. And the crazy thing about all this is the Repulicans are in that Nazi mindset where if they don’t break bonds with Donald and stay loyal to him, they see their dreams come true in way of white supremacy, and everything else that entails. Putin is just greedy and wants to sack America. But peeples in America are like the Jewish people back when Hitler was staging his big take over. They said it couldn’t, wouldn’t happened. Un huh.
It’s very hard at times to comment here over what Gryph posts and temper what one says..
“Told you so” is not always helpful, and I think it all the time like I’m some freaking genius of which I am not.
The
Ovens
Are
Coming
Um. If this is a truly a real concern, you can of course go and vote. You know, get your ass off the couch and go vote.
How far can this imbecile go in destroying the country before the safeguards kick in? The founding fathers did put safeguards in place to protect the Republic, didn’t they?
Safeguards?
A bunch of white people showed up on some ships, slaughtered nearly all the native peoples and those already living here, forced christianity onto the remainder, laid their flag, raped and pillaged, claimed nature as “theirs” in the name of their “god”.
What “safeguards” are you hoping for exactly?
This is being done to undermine, in a serious and lethal way, absentee balloting (what Trump calls “mail in” voting”) in November.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/08/trump-wants-to-cut-mail-in-voting-the-republican-machine-is-helping-him-392428