Trump's argument: Look how awful things are -- now reelect me

[Zorro]

President Trump has this bizarre notion that if he can show how chaotic, dysfunctional and dangerous things have become, Americans will reelect him. He sent federal law enforcement into Portland, Ore., seemingly with the purpose of stoking violent confrontations with protesters that could be used to create ad footage for his campaign. He is the only thing standing between you and carnage! Well, except that he caused it. This is on his watch. It is evidence of his inability to maintain order.

If there are assaults on federal property (statues, for example), if the president is forced to retreat to a bunker and if certain crimes have increased in locations around the country, then one has to ask how Trump took a peaceful country with declining crime rates and turned it (in his own telling) into a dystopian nightmare. Law-and-order presidents (or as Trump likes to tweet, LAW & ORDER!) do not preside over crime and disorder. His handiwork is proof that we need someone new.

So it is with the U.S. Postal Service. Trump has been attempting to discredit voting by mail and, to that end, seems intent on wrecking the most popular federal agency. In doing so, he sows fear in voters (especially his own) about casting ballots by mail. But recent mail slowdowns caused by policies enacted by the new USPS head — a major Trump donor — can mean disrupted delivery of medicine to veterans and millions who receive prescriptions by mail, unemployment checks to laid-off workers and Social Security checks to retirees. U.S. business owners are not pleased when their invoices do not reach customers and when their customers’ payments are delayed. The bipartisan outcry suggests blowing up the agency that Trump is ultimately responsible for running is not a winning strategy. (His criticism of the USPS as a money-loser is downright strange: Government agencies providing vital services to Americans are not-for-profit operations.)

The presidential sabotaging of the USPS — the one federal agency that touches the lives of virtually every American — fits Trump’s unique ability to wreak havoc on his fellow Americans. The pandemic that exploded and the economy that collapsed on his watch, and a revolt against racial injustice unlike any since the 1960s, provide the rationale for kicking out the incumbent president. Many schools are closed, and civic life has ground to a halt. Through incompetence or deliberate destructiveness, Trump has obliterated the case for giving him four more years. What will be left of America after four more years of Trump-induced devastation?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/17/trumps-argument-look-how-awful-things-are-now-re-elect-me/

[SWBTATTReg]

1. The WP opinion is truth. rump is constantly dooming himself and republicans to come for

generations.

The shame of the whole matter is that it's taking so long in between election cycles to put in new oversight, more of the representatives that we need to provide such oversight, and moving quickly enough to prevent true and real damage to the whole federal apparatus.

If they were legitimate reasons to suddenly overall the postal system, why now? Where are the reports stating what things should be done to improve the US Postal Service? Don't come up w/ a manufactured report too at the last minute, these things should have been done eons ago prior to one overhauling such a massive entity (and of course wasn't).

This overhaul is being done illegally and immorally. Court actions should be immediately undertaken and the dismantled sorting machines be re-installed. I know that state AGs have been acting in some states against these rehab efforts as well as the US House of Representatives under Nancy P., but will it be too late?

Vote in person, vote early if you can, check w/ your local election office in your jurisdiction that you're in fact a registered voter (w/ the primaries just held, one should know by now unless you didn't have any elections in your local area.

[Gothmog]

2. Are you better off now than you were four years ago?

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