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IcyPeas

(21,842 posts) Fri Sep 18, 2020, 03:43 PM Sep 2020

Q: The postal service had planned on sending 650 million face masks to Americans back in April..

Question: The postal service had planned on sending 650 million face masks to Americans back in April. That never happened. Why not?
Trump: I don’t know. I don’t run it... If they were to raise the price of packaging, you’d end up making a lot of money...

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Q: The postal service had planned on sending 650 million face masks to Americans back in April.. (Original Post) IcyPeas Sep 2020 OP

Yeah, um, who would make a lot of money? dawg day Sep 2020 #1

The question was about saving American's lives. rogue emissary Sep 2020 #2

dawg day

(7,947 posts)

1. Yeah, um, who would make a lot of money?

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Fri Sep 18, 2020, 03:51 PM

Sep 2020

And why is that the only thing that counts for him?

Because he's a materialist narcissist.

Inherited wealth is a pathology, or at least he and his spawn are evidence of that.

rogue emissary

(3,147 posts)

2. The question was about saving American's lives.

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Fri Sep 18, 2020, 04:24 PM

Sep 2020

It wasn't about the long term fiscal feasibility of the current Post Office finances.

He is as deplorable as his voters.

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