Politics The Postal Service, Voting, and Covid

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  1. riverman

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    Looks like Pelosi has pressured the GOP to walk back their anti USPS and fund it for something like 28 billion....the statement that stumped the GOP was the the USPS is a service, not a business for profit.
     
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    Just like bills aren't being passed in the senate because of trump and McConnell. Get rid of those two douche bags and things would become a lot more simpler. Moscow Mitch even bragged that his whole purpose was to make sure Obama didn't get his bills passed. There are literally hundreds of bills passed by the house that the senate has been sitting on for a long time. To me that's obstruction of justice.
     
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    Congress stimulus package has been complete for over 2 months now....the GOP is standing back and watching people die now at a 1K a day clip so that they could kill off the USPS and steal the election....one of the stumbling blocks in passing Congress package was funding for the USPS....the other was them not wanting to fund the wall along with the stimulus.....one of these things is important, the other is not...republicans need to .stop stalling relief aimed at the working class in favor of the elite wealthy corporations
     
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    selling scrap metal is a big thing....one of my neighbors lost his well pump and all the copper wiring around his property when he was traveling...all sold for scrap I'm guessing.
     
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    I know, I sure hope it isn’t used much in the future by either side as congress needs to do their job.
    With a Pres able to just do an executive order just prevents congress from doing there job.
    Parties must get away from either our way or no way.
     
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    If you have a mailbox do the mail carrier a favor and clean it regularly...especially the handle...they appreciate it...when I go pick up my mail I take some sanitizer and a handiwipe with me and wipe it down
     
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    Executive orders are can be very limited and often times only temporary until a bill can actually be passed. trump uses them like "do anything I want card". At least with trump he has exposed several areas of corruption that congress will need to address to get government more in control and operate like it is suppose to.
     
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    I use to go around my neighborhood spraying weed killer on all the weeds growing out of the cracks in the road and sidewalks. Use to also take care of the weeds under our community locking mailbox.
     
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    Trump embraces cancel culture. But only because he has to, to stand up those left-wing bullies.
     
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    Uhhmm...last time I checked, calling for a boycott of certain products doesn't equate to cancel culture type antics.
     
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    It certainly does
     
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    If you say so. Boycotts have been going for decades, though. So, hey, whatever.
     
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    Trump is the first president ever to actually hate over half the country..he went so far as to threaten to withhold disaster relief aid for firefighters in California because California is a blue state....that's your guy! .apparently you aren't good at checking things out.....(fluff reply in 10..9....8)
     
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    His boss is going to be upset that he did not suggest Amtel, Matador, Kama-Euro, or Cordiant (all Russian tire manufacturers) or at the very least, Nokian (Finnish,but with factories in mother Russia).
     
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    Last I checked, he didn't actually withhold anything. Simply threatened to, partially due to California's timber/forest management (or lack thereof) practices.
     
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    You're right about that...it was a threat by him but not because of the forestry...because it is California...the guy who worked that office talked about it yesterday...what a scumbag....I've corrected my post. You really should take some time to listen to professionals who've resigned from Trump's administration simply because he isn't a responsible leader or an honest one....it's a long list....I'm really enjoying listening to all the Republicans voicing their disdain for Trump's angst and incompetence to the point of speaking at the Democratic Convention....priceless...no past president has come out in support of Trump...not one.
     
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