Politics The Postal Service, Voting, and Covid

It's hard to gauge because of echo chambers, and bias' and all that goes on, but I think the 'civil unrest' and protesting that continues to happen is a huge Trump campaign ad. There is also a ton of studies and evidence that show, prolonged protesting has been very good for 'republicans' come election time. They had so much good momentum, but I think it's past diminishing returns to negative returns at this point.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/05/new-study-shows-riots-make-america-conservative.html
https://www.iwf.org/2020/06/09/follow-the-science-riots-dont-work/

It'll be interesting, because obviously, 'law and order' coming from someone who is so divisive and likes to break the law is kinda funny...
Part of the media is working overtime to say how bad the protests are and other parts of the media are working overtime to say how peaceful they are.

The left's playbook is how crappy Trump is and how divisive he is. The right's playbook is look at all these major cities and the problems they're having if you let them take over the whole country will look like that.
Not agreeing or disagreeing with that stuff, but it's going to be interesting how things progress the next couple of months.

 

It's not an either/or. That article seems to suggest that some amount of decommissioning happens every year, but the volume of sorters decommissioned this year is much larger. I don't doubt that the post office has gradually stepped down infrastructure with falling rates of usage--but the fact that suddenly a much larger amount of infrastructure was removed, just ahead of an election that's expected to have record mail-in balloting, under a President who's explicitly stated he's an enemy of mail-in balloting and also said he blocked funding to the post office to prevent mail-in balloting, seems to point to a purpose beyond a long-range, politically neutral plan.

 

When packages pile up and rot, it's not reduced demand.

 

As I read it, the equipment being removed is for letters, not packages. The plan is to remove unnecessary sorting equipment for letters (which is a falling percentage of mail) so that they can increase handling equipment for packages (which is an increasing percentage of mail). Doing it during an election year when there is likely to be an increased need for letter sorting is massively stupid, politically nefarious, or both. I'm thinking option C at this point because that fits Trump's usual mode of operation.

 

Trump stole the 2016 election by conspiring with the Russians. First Mueller says so and then the Republican controlled Senate committee says so. As someone in here so eloquently put it, case closed.

 

Almost 60% of the revenue comes from the letters as of 2018.

 

I don't disagree with you that Trump broke the law to collude with the Russians, I just don't think that's what won him the election.

 

There were multiple reasons why he squeaked by. The Russia collusion was just one of them. They all added up to an Electoral College victory. Any one of the multiple reasons missing would have meant a Trump loss.

 

nefarious....I like uncommon words, with just a hint of pretension. That's sublime

 

I think the under-reported story is that Jill Stein was part of the collusion. She was at both of the dinners in Moscow that Flynn was at

and Comey launched a torpedo at Hillary's broadside at the perfect time...for trump

 

I shall try to regale you with more. Always good to keep wizenheimers amused.

 

good policy

allright, I'll start it....

Q: how many wizenheimers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A:.....?

 

Trick question. Ordinarily, the answer would be 5. One to hold the lightbulb and four to turn the step ladder. However, having monitored your posting habits over the past few years, I know the correct answer is: Who gives a fuck?

 

A plethora.

 

zero because you'd just throw out the lamp and buy a new one

 

Exactly what I was thinking of.

 

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