Summary

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) agreed to cut 10,000 jobs under pressure from Elon Musk, sparking outrage from Democrats.

Rep. Gerald Connolly warned that Musk and DOGE could push for USPS privatization, harming rural and vulnerable communities.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy defended the cuts, citing USPS’s financial struggles and praising DOGE’s cost-cutting approach. Musk has openly supported privatization.

Postal worker unions pledged to fight any threats to employees’ rights. The USPS has already reduced its workforce by 30,000 since 2021.

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    Thoughts and Prayers for the Democrats’ outrage. Someone really oughta do something. 🤦

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    “FINANCIAL STRUGGLES”

    IT’S.

    A PUBLIC.

    SERVICE.

    WE PAY TO HAVE.

    NOT. A FUCKING. BUSINESS. YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES TWATS.

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      USPS budget was in the black until they were forced to prefund benefits for 75 years - something nobody else is required to do.

      The “financial difficulties” they face are completely imposed on them by the government.

      This bill was passed with bipartisan support.

      For over a decade, the United States Postal Service has been plagued with the onerous burden of prefunding its retiree health care benefits as mandated by the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) of 2006. The mandate requires the Postal Service to prefund its retiree health care benefits 75 years in advance, paying for retirement health care for individuals who haven’t been born yet, let alone enter the workforce.

      https://apwu.org/usps-fairness-act

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    DeJoy was installed exactly to make a shift towards privatizing USPS. Don’t think this isn’t part of the same plan. These grifters see only dollar signs for themselves.

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      FWIW, the vast majority of Democratic lawmakers didn’t, House and Senate combined only 10 did. That being said, nine of those were in the Senate, which they knew was the only place where their votes possibly could have mattered.

      So, yeah, after this debacle any of them who don’t start demanding Schumer be removed from his leadership positions are at least going to look like they only voted against this for show once they knew it had the votes to pass. I’m pretty sure they only need a majority of Dems to replace their caucus leader, so if everyone who voted against this budget was actually serious about it they’d have more than enough votes to publicly rebuke this shit in a convincing way.

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      We have to vote to pass the budget or Elon shoot the hostage a second time and then we’ll get blamed for it.

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    Most advanced countries have a mail delivery system.

    America is a shit hole.

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    Honestly what would be amazing is if the post office went into banking, and becoming a network to distribute seed among farmers since the current legalized monopoly of Monsanto is horrific since you could get sued for plants doing their thing. I do most of my banking online, but having a branch bank that has branches all over no matter how far into the sticks you are would be amazing.

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    Louis DeJoy (born 1956 or 1957[citation needed]) is an American businessman serving as the 75th U.S. postmaster general. He was appointed in May 2020 by the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service (USPS). Prior to the appointment, he was the founder and CEO of the logistics and freight company New Breed Logistics and was a major Republican Party donor and fundraiser for Donald Trump.[1] DeJoy is the first postmaster general since 1992 without any previous experience in the USPS and the first postmaster general in U.S. history to come directly from the board of a privately owned competitor to the public–private partnership of the USPS entity.[2] His companies still hold active service contracts with the USPS, generating controversy over conflict of interest.[3]

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      Member how DeJoy was planted by Trump to fuck up postal voting in 2020 (akin to election fraud), and the Democrats didn’t remove him for 4 years?

      It’s almost like the Democrats are a manufactured opposition, owned by the oligarchy, and the US is a corporate dictatorship masquerading as democracy…

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        He fucked it up in 2024 as well. My wifes overseas ballot is still „stuck“ in customs (why would a ballot go to customs in the first place?)

        Also fuck USPS for not allowing us to open a case to get compensation because we don‘t have a US adress.

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    Let me get this straight: At the same time as Republicans trying to increase the workload at the USPS by eliminating the de minimis exemption for tariffs, DOGE is reducing the capability of the USPS to handle tariffs.

    If you are looking for a group of unintelligent people, DOGE seems to be the place to find them.

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      Do you think they care about function? Are you not already aware that destruction and mayhem are the points? These a-holes are not here to serve or help the public, they are here to cause as much damage to the US (and US interests) as possible. The wrecking-ball of Speed and Confusion are among the tactics used. The plan seems to be: once the corpse is bled and torn asunder, it’ll get divvied out to the other richer a-holes (donor class) waiting for their cut whilst the US as a superpower is severely diminished or wiped out. Unfortunately for all involved, it appears to be working.

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    DeJoy, a Republican megadonor, assumed the position in 2020 during President Donald Trump‘s first term.

    Oh he’s assumed the position alright.

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    Without good postal service, many rural areas are going to be finished off. No more Amazon deliveries. No cheap farm equipment deliveries of small parts and consumables.

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      That’s fine, because they’re situated inside one of our many media monopoly zones and only have access to the outside world through far-right syndicated radio and TV. They won’t understand what happened or why, but will have Woke Liberalism presented as the cause of all their problems as soon as they ask.

      And then, if any of them get too curious, a local Sheriff’s deputy will discover that this dissident wasn’t a real citizen anyway, so they can be quickly and quietly removed from view.

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      “LOL. Fuck em” - GOP cucks that totally don’t have gay sexual fantasies about trump and musk