Summary

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy faced sharp criticism during a House Oversight Committee hearing over USPS delivery issues, financial troubles, and his leadership.

Rep. Rich McCormick mocked DeJoy for covering his ears during heated exchanges, accusing him of bankrupting the postal system and undermining public trust.

DeJoy defended his performance, citing ongoing efforts to overhaul USPS through a $40 billion plan, including electric vehicles, but admitted regrets and challenges.

Tensions reflect broader frustrations over USPS reforms and the agency’s financial sustainability amid mixed results.

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    Biden isn’t a king. Postmaster General is elected by the Board of Governors, which Biden did replace a number of. Also no more than half of them can be from the same party, so gridlock is natural.

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      16 hours ago

      Yes, biden didn’t do anything. He chooses to work within a system where his only option is serving the slave masters’ system.

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      And the dog ate his homework and the sun was in his eyes.

      He isn’t running for anything ever again. You don’t have to make excuses for him anymore.

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        I’m not making excuses for him, I’m discouraging an inaccurate conception of the division of powers. I’m fine blaming him for all the things that are his fault, but I don’t think reinforcing the idea that “the president is a king who has total authoritarian control over the federal government” helps anyone except the people who want to make that a reality. He appointed what he could to the Board, direct your ire, in this instance, at them.

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          21 hours ago

          He chose who he put on the board.

          He chose poorly.

          Just like he chose poorly with Merrick Garland. Dave it, Biden made a lot of fuck ups. Both of this likely helped cost them the election. We saw there were misdelivered, filled in ballots. DeJoy had a hand in that, guaranteed.

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            20 hours ago

            Just like he chose poorly with Merrick Garland

            He chose Garland to do the function Garland performed: dragging his feet so Democrats could run against Trump again.

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              15 hours ago

              So the same mistake Hilary made when she got her media contacts to talk about him non-stop.

              Democrats are not learning from their mistakes

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              20 hours ago

              Ok. Now try something he didn’t do that he could have. Or do you honestly believe he did everything he could?

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                Or do you honestly believe he did everything he could?

                In general? Definitely not. In this specific case? Yeah, probably. It’s not normal for appointees to be sycophant drones, and in terms of concentration of power it’s not even desirable. Concentrating total power in the President is not a good idea, and advocating it by blaming the President for things that fall outside the scope of their power only empowers the people who want a dictator.

                He made his appointments to the Board. The decisions those Board members make are on them, if you have a problem with their decisions, criticize them directly and direct your correspondence to them. Concentrating every complaint on the President promotes an inaccurate, and therefore ineffective, conception of scope of responsibility.

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              15 hours ago

              Now, now. According to centrists who aren’t pro-genocide at all (no siree) he just had to keep selling weapons that he knew were being used to commit an ongoing genocide because they had been approved already, and the Leahy Law doesn’t apply for some reason.

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      Biden should have seized absolute power and instituted authoritarian communism for the good of the people.