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intrepidity

(7,240 posts)
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 01:56 PM Aug 2020

I would think the USPS is a "third rail" issue

It would be hard to imagine Rs being able to rally their sheep into an anti-USPS stance.

Dems should push hard, very hard on this, LOUDLY and OFTEN. Every Dem on any talk show should be talking about this, repetitively, for months. Give no quarter.

(Of course, who would've expected masks to be an R rally factor, either.)

Rs love their US mail delivery just as much as Dems do, I firmly believe..

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I would think the USPS is a "third rail" issue (Original Post) intrepidity Aug 2020 OP
I'm arguing on FB with a dude claiming that maxsolomon Aug 2020 #1
Jesus. fleur-de-lisa Aug 2020 #6
Birthday cards are great, but Christmas cards are a disaster. sanatanadharma Aug 2020 #10
I gave up already. maxsolomon Aug 2020 #11
I would be interesting to see if the House can get Trump's lackey under oath. Thomas Hurt Aug 2020 #2
They should be running ads in states with senators up for re-election Salviati Aug 2020 #3
called my worthless senators today (Grassley - Ernst) rurallib Aug 2020 #9
You'd be surprised. BlueTsunami2018 Aug 2020 #4
Yup. That's one of the major tragedies AleksS Aug 2020 #7
I don't know. Righties I've known AleksS Aug 2020 #5
And does Corporate America not understand tRUMP's destruction of everything not effect them? WyattKansas Aug 2020 #8
Also Medicare & Social Security Nululu Aug 2020 #12

maxsolomon

(32,975 posts)
1. I'm arguing on FB with a dude claiming that
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 01:58 PM
Aug 2020

Absentee Voting is great, but Mail-In Voting is going to be a disaster.

Their sheep are on board with whatever preposterous lies they're fed.

fleur-de-lisa

(14,615 posts)
6. Jesus.
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 02:18 PM
Aug 2020

Sounds like the 'Obamacare versus Affordable Care Act' argument.

Bless you for trying! I wouldn't have the patience.

sanatanadharma

(3,639 posts)
10. Birthday cards are great, but Christmas cards are a disaster.
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 02:32 PM
Aug 2020

So, say, "So, you are telling me that birthday cards are great, but Christmas cards are a disaster.

Then tell them their facts are false, logic loopy, morality missing and walk away for they have nothing to say that need be heard nor negated. No need to make the child of three understand infinity.



maxsolomon

(32,975 posts)
11. I gave up already.
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 02:37 PM
Aug 2020

The point is moot, anyway. No GOP-run state is going to change to all mail-in in the remaining time. I doubt many Dem-run states will either.

Thankful to live in Washington State at this point, but apprehensive about November now.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
2. I would be interesting to see if the House can get Trump's lackey under oath.
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 01:59 PM
Aug 2020

Of course, that ain't happening unless the House starts holding them contempt.

Salviati

(6,002 posts)
3. They should be running ads in states with senators up for re-election
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 02:01 PM
Aug 2020

Blaming the president and his bootlicks for wrecking the USPS featuring:

Elderly folks not getting their medicine

"regular folks" missing bills and getting harassed by debt collectors

Small business owners running into supply chain and delivery issues


Hammer them relentlessly for their sabotage of the USPS...

rurallib

(62,342 posts)
9. called my worthless senators today (Grassley - Ernst)
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 02:27 PM
Aug 2020

and said almost exactly what you wrote. Of course I got a staffer.

BlueTsunami2018

(3,461 posts)
4. You'd be surprised.
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 02:01 PM
Aug 2020

All the Тяцмрегs I see posting on social media now hate and mistrust the post office. Just like they turned on Dr. Fauchi and embraced Russia. These are very easily manipulated people.

The really sad part about this “Presidency” is that he actually could have gotten these people to go for universal healthcare and a hundred other good things if he had the right people in his ear. I don’t know that anyone else could have done that.

AleksS

(1,665 posts)
7. Yup. That's one of the major tragedies
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 02:19 PM
Aug 2020

“ The really sad part about this “Presidency” is that he actually could have gotten these people to go for universal healthcare and a hundred other good things if he had the right people in his ear. I don’t know that anyone else could have done that.”

He could have said anything—he was in no way bound by conventional party stances or platforms—and his cultists would have fallen lockstep (goose step?) in line with it.

Climate change?
Healthcare?
A coherent response to COVID?
Education?
Universal College?
Universal Basic Income?

He tells his base it’s good, and they’re on board. Trump>Party. Democrats would be on board. Republicans who are afraid of him are on board. He could have gotten things done to make the world a better place.

The potential power he had was incredible. He could have changed the world for the better, and actually gone down in history as a good president. Instead his narcissism, stupidity, greed, and cruelty squandered this potential as he squandered everything else he’s been given in his life and he’ll go into history as the worst miserable failure of a president that this country has ever suffered through.

AleksS

(1,665 posts)
5. I don't know. Righties I've known
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 02:10 PM
Aug 2020

Have long had a desire to destroy the USPS. Heck, the bill requiring the USPS to pre-fund pensions, etc. was an early attack on it.

Of course, once BobbyJo can’t get his mail delivered because FedEx doesn’t do rural and his (R) idols destroyed USPS they‘ll cry a new tune, I’m sure.

WyattKansas

(1,648 posts)
8. And does Corporate America not understand tRUMP's destruction of everything not effect them?
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 02:19 PM
Aug 2020

Why hasn't Corporate America thrown down and said enough with tRUMP's desperate harm and destruction for them as well?

Nululu

(831 posts)
12. Also Medicare & Social Security
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 02:50 PM
Aug 2020

Repug's plan to destroy medicare and Social Security. Need to hammer that home.

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