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'Just Straight Cronyism': Top Trump and GOP Donor Picked to Lead US Postal Service in Time of Crisis

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Originally published at http://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/07/just-straight-cronyism-top-trump-and-gop-donor-picked-lead-us-postal-service-time

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#2

Really sad. The big banks and hedge funds are too big to fail, and must be propped up by taxpayer dollars so that their CEOs can rake in $Ms in annual bonuses and continue to screw the American people. Because the USPS is not part of this mafia, Congress will, at best, sing a sad song as it expires. Both sides of the aisle are to blame for this travesty. They should not only be ashamed, most should be in prison for taking bribes.

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#3

What better way to kill Vote by Mail, then to kill the Post Office.

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#4

On every single front we are being assaulted by these SOBs who want to privatize everything. Let’s get them out of office and prepare to form a new radical left in US America to address the existential crisis of nuclear war and ecological collapse and now this pandemic while the masses of people suffer deprivation so the few can pick our bones.

If we fail to get them out through their multitude of tricks and thievery then total, non cooperation starting in major cities as we are already witnessing in rent strikes and work stoppages.

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#5

Louis DeJoy’s experience as “an accomplished business executive” in North Carolina

Another confederate arsonist.

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#6

The overnight demise(cash-out) by Warren Buffett has apparently resulted in a new term to replace “billionaire”:

CANTILLIONAIRE

to be used early and often - to coin the admonition of Mark Twain (yuppers … keep marking those twains as the swamp deepens)

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Yes, JMAC, that’s the real reason for this deceit and anti-democratic scam —not-simple cronyism, but to kill the chance for VOTING BY MAIL.

This has nothing to do with giving DeJoy any joy or money — and everything to do with keeping Americans from VOTING EMPEROR TRUMP OUT!

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Giovanna, “a new radical left in US America” can only come into existence when ‘we the American people’ WakeTF-up and fire a; loud, public, sustained, ‘in the streets’, but totally Non-violent “SHOUT (not shot) heard round the world” to ignite an essential Second American people’s peaceful and complete “Political/economic & social(ist) Revolution Against Empire”.

It’s this effin Disguised Global Crony Capitalist EMPIRE which if effin us, the U.S., and our world to death — but the ‘low information’, propagandized, infantilized, lumpenproletariat of dumbed-down Americans who are as stupid as the Kansans (in Thomas Frank’s “What’s the Matter with Kansas” who vote against their own political, economic and social interests) who are fooled ‘all the time’ and have now provided Frank with the reason to write a new book, “What’s the Matter with America?” —- with the only obvious answer being that:

America is merely the nominal HQ of this effin Disguised Global Crony Capitalist Empire!

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#9

Alan, take heart. Slowly (note the work stoppages and rent strikes) people are awakening to the sacrifices they are expected to continue to make for this Empire of Evil, including giving up their lives for the sake of the capitalist neoliberal program.

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#10

Trump showing the DNC establishment how to put a capital “C” on cronyism.

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Gee, my mailman, Bob, could surely outperform this “accomplished business executive” any day. Let’s put Mr. DeJoy on a route for a month and see how he stacks up against Bob. Odds are he would die a death of a thousand (paper cut) slices. Bob Rules!

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WO, our rural mail carriers here in middle of nowhere MO are just as awesome. And need their jobs!

The highest level of callousness to hack away at the P.O.

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#13

Another day in the USA begets another criminal act by Trump the Traitor.

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#14

That’s one issue with ignoring duopoly in our kleptocracy. The “lesser of two evils” ARE simply more insidious and, in general, the dead eyed Creative Class™ Liberals suck-up to these monsters as saviors; WORSHIP their ability to enrich themselves, during off-handed ethnic cleansing epitomized by Catastrophe Capitalism. Jeff, Bill, Michael & George are REAL oligarchs, “who get things done!” Actual working class lefty boomers have had to hear this smug, petulant drivel, our entire lives. Media was always by, for and about the “upscale” gentrifying hipsters, sneering barely sublimated Libertarian hogwash, they’d buy-into with the first line of cocaine from their shiny new 3.0 CSi-A, blasting Chicago?

~https://boingboing.net/2020/05/07/white-house-suppresses-cdc-gui.html

~https://theconversation.com/the-puzzling-questions-of-the-coronavirus-a-doctor-addresses-6-questions-that-are-stumping-physicians-137578

~https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/05/us/coronavirus-death-toll-us.html

~https://medium.com/transit-app/whos-left-riding-public-transit-hint-it-s-not-white-people-d43695b3974a

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#15

The only qualifications any Trump appointee has ever been required to have is a willingness to serially follow commands to condemn dismantle, and destroy.

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#16

Now we get to watch as USPS, America’s favorite federal agency, rot like the rest of the government. The worst part is that the average american is powerless to stop it, they may even take voting away.

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#17

Cronyism, nepotism and galactic sized corruption took down the U.S.S.R and America learned nothing.

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#18

Or America learned plenty and took it as a blueprint to implement it here.

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#19

That would mean locking up at least 50% of the U.S. Government!, too conservative! Make that 100% of the Republican, Fascist, Party and 90% of the Democratic, Party

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#20

It’s time to vote Trump out. I’ve come to the point where I don’t care if it’s a dog or Biden - I will vote to remove this guy from office.

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