WHO planned destruction of Postal Service?? Sone who knows well its organization, operation!! WHO

[bobbieinok]

Eta---Clearly someone told Trump , DeJoy what to do, how ro do it!!

[mucifer]

1. putin I'm guessing. Maybe mcconnell

[SheltieLover]

5. Yes!

What do troops do in war?

They go after communicatio n & supply chain. FIRST!

Lock this mofo up!

[JHB]

10. Koch

[not_the_one]

2. Anyone can look up the organization and operation parameters...

But I bet the IDEA came from Stephen Miller.

[BlueJac]

3. Ditto

[JHB]

9. See #7 below. Miller might be on board, but it was on some people's agenda...

...from before he was born.

I hear Bannon is trying to get back into Trump's inner circle, and he would definitely be a vector for this.

[Hestia]

14. I'd start with Turdblossom and Grover Norquist, et al. It is where the Cauldron of Evil is brewing

poisonous brews to be handed out to their masses. (They use the empty bottles to bottle up what is left of their souls. Makes it easy to be minions.) Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute give it the air of "respectability." This shit does not happen in a vacuum. Dismantling of the USPS has been decades in the making.

Remember the Contract on America and (I forget the initials) NWPCT??

[mr_lebowski]

4. I'm guessing when it's said and done and investigated we'll find out exactly how well the plan

Conformed to 'helping Needy Amin win the election'. Slowing down service primarily in Democratic areas in swing states, IOW.

And if he somehow does, and the Senate stays in the McConnell's hands ... nothing will be done about it.

That's how fucking CORRUPT and anti-democracy this Pukes have become.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. There need to be ads about this.

[JHB]

7. Destroying USPS has been a Koch/Libertarian project since the '70s

https://truenorthresearch.org/2020/06/charles-koch-targets-the-postal-service-bankrupt-privatization/

Wait a Minute, Mr. Koch-Man: The Plot to Kill the Public’s Postal Service
Lisa Graves June 18, 2020

The Postal Service is the most popular institution in America. So why are some of the people who represent us in Washington, DC, willing to kill the most trusted brand and most popular institution in America?

One man, Charles Koch, has played a singular role.

He has used his vast fortune to fertilize theories that were once at the far fringes of society–like abolishing the Postal Service. And he has amplified his anti-government agenda through special interest groups he has grown.

The truth is that Koch, one of the richest men in America and the world, has been helping to fund and fuel efforts to kill the Postal Service and other public institutions dating back to the 1970s, though few Americans know it. Here is a quick timeline on this:

1970s Charles Koch stakes Robert Poole and Reason magazine and the Reason Foundation as they promote attacks on the Postal Service that endorse a for-profit postal system and “privatization” generally.
1976 Koch stakes the Libertarian Party, which urges the public institutions and programs be eliminated including “the abolition of the governmental Postal Service.”
1977 Koch stakes Ed Crane and co-founds the Cato Institute, which urges that government functions be handled by the “free market.”
1980 David Koch runs of Vice President on a privatization platform, including for the Postal Service. Poole publishes a book subsidized by the Reason Foundation, whose angel investor is Charles Koch, which urges the privatization of local government functions and more.
1980 Charles Koch stakes Richard Fink at George Mason, and Fink urges Ronald Reagan’s “Grace Commission” to privatize government functions; the Commission’s recommendations including outsourcing thousands of Postal Service jobs and Post Offices.
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2020 Americans for Prosperity expressly denounces any funding for the Postal Service, despite the Postal Service performing “essential” work in the pandemic and with the growing need for vote by mail. Americans for Prosperity also begins running digital ads targeting several U.S. Senators to toe the Koch line against the Postal Service. Miller remains on the small board of Koch’s Americans for Prosperity, the longest serving leader of this arm of Koch’s political operation other than David Koch. The total amount Americans for Prosperity is spending on this campaign against the Postal Service is unknown.

More at the link, plus:

Interviews with the researcher:
CounterSpin, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting: https://fair.org/home/a-combination-of-forces-puts-our-postal-service-at-grave-risk/

8 O'Clock Buzz, WORT radio, Madison, WI: https://www.wortfm.org/wait-a-minute-mr-koch-man-the-plot-to-kill-the-publics-postal-service/



18-page briefing by the researcher (PDF available at):
https://www.inthepublicinterest.org/the-billionaire-behind-efforts-to-kill-the-usps/

[Cetacea]

8. Correct!

Thanks for the links!

[crickets]

11. Great info post, JHB! 👍

[erronis]

13. Thanks - I was going to cite the Kochs-uckers but you gave some great references.

[Budi]

18. Thank you for the Koch links. They've been at this since the early 60's

The John Birch Society began with a big push from the Koch family.
JBS has always hated Democracy. Not just regular hate, but insanely deep & ruthless type of hate.

They absolutely despised JFK & the Kennedy family, RFK, MLK, Civil Rights, Blacks, Democrats...the US Constitution & after being sent underground for their anti-US ideology, eventually broke into fringe groups like Libertarians, etc & eventually the Tea Party.


And here we are today.

John Birchers/Kochs never ever stopped in their mission to destroy the Democratic Party & the US Democratic Republic, & the US Constitution.
They just reorganized their hate of Democracy into fringe groups throughout the years & the fruits of their labor is evident today.

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*SPLC gives a glimpse - article /2013

John Birch Society - FROM Southern Poverty Law Center
2013 article

The John Birch Society, the conspiracist group exiled by the right a half century ago, is on the march and gaining influence

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2013/bringing-back-birch

[BannonsLiver]

12. I don't think the The Who had anything to do with it.

[JHB]

15. Oh, I don't know...

Maybe The Who Sell Out was Charlie Koch's White Album.

[dmr]

16. I'd like to know, too. This has been executed with precision and speed.

Meaning this was well planned.

On the spur of the moment you don't find qualified guys to go to specific areas of the country, easily dismantle large machinery, and then know where to dump and/or destroy it. THAT took planning.

Knowing which mailboxes in specific areas of the country to remove took planning.

It took planning to make policy changes like no more overtime, or which personnel to eliminate or demote.

And heavens know what else they have done, or plan in the coming days.

There is more to this than meets the eye.

The destruction that they've done cost money. Taxpayer money.

I want answers. NOW!

[smirkymonkey]

17. K&R

Some days, I just feel so nauseated by all of this, I can't even eat. Today is one of those days.

[aidbo]

19. I don't think the World Health Organization has anything to do with it...