Joel Fischer @JFNYC1 · 14h While @NYCMayor is busy attacking @realDonaldTrump , two NYPD traffic officers were brutally beaten in Brooklyn after writing a parking summons for blocking a fire hydrant.
Wheels up, departing Manchester, New Hampshire — for Washington, D.C. What an evening, with Great American Patriots who are READY to VOTE and WIN, WIN, WIN! THANK YOU for joining President @realDonaldTrump and @TeamTrump!
Biden Clearly Reading Script Through Interview With CNN’s Anderson Cooper
It’s not just Biden’s inability to get through a softball interview that’s concerning, it’s the media’s complicity in this whole ordeal that’s so gross.
See new Tweets Conversation Chadwick Moore @Chadwick_Moore
NY’s population is 50/50 NYC and upstate. 20% of NYC fled and probably won’t be voting. All the conversations I have with inner city blacks and immigrants point to them voting Trump or not voting at all. What are the NY GOP groups doing to get out the vote? Nothing. NY is in play
7:31 PM · Aug 28, 2020·Twitter for iPhone 4K Retweets and comments 13.6K Likes
Confusion over Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s planned cost-cutting changes has gripped the nation’s mail service and threatened to bring even more delivery delays, say postal workers and union officials.
�Days after DeJoy testified before Senate and House committees, vowing to prioritize election mail, postal workers disputed his assertions that pandemic-related challenges were to blame for widespread mail slowdowns. They say the holdups are tied to the postal leader’s crackdown — since partially suspended — on overtime and other operational changes, as well as the lack of clarity about which of his proposals will ultimately stick.
�In Philadelphia, some letter carriers have gone two weeks without a day off, said one postal worker who, like 11 others interviewed for this piece, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of fears of reprisal from their superiors. Processing facilities in other parts of Pennsylvania — Scranton, Harrisburg, Lancaster, the Lehigh Valley — have week-long package backlogs. In Florida, some workers are being instructed not to log mail that arrives after carriers have left on their routes, an anathema to long-serving agency employees.
�In the Great Lakes region, which includes parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, managers are unsure whether DeJoy’s realignment of the agency will continue, further slowing the daily movement of hundreds of millions of mail items.
�“Everyone’s clueless,” said one region mid-level manager.
�In other areas, including California, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, postal workers say previous delays have been resolved, but employees are bracing for the election and holiday season, and additional changes DeJoy could institute after the Nov. 3 vote. The plans under consideration, described by four people familiar with Postal Service discussions, include geography-based pricing, lower mail delivery standards and raising prices.
�Questions about DeJoy’s intentions — both in the run-up to the election and long-term — have raised suspicions among some postal workers, as well as the agency’s powerful unions. The former logistics executive and GOP megadonor also has drawn the ire of Democrats and voting rights advocates, who worry postal slowdowns will interfere in an election in which nearly 180 million Americans are eligible to vote by mail.
�His connection to the White House added to the tensions, especially after President Trump vowed to block USPS funding to impede its ability to process ballots. Trump has repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that mail ballots lead to widespread voter fraud.
�Conservatives have long viewed the Postal Service as ripe for privatization, or at least a private-sector style haircut. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who chairs the committee in charge of postal oversight, said the Senate may consider fulfilling the USPS’s $25 billion pandemic funding request in a future relief spending package in exchange for “true reforms.”
�[DeJoy pushes back on criticism of changes to Postal Service, says he won’t restore sorting machines]�“I think everybody’s just confused. They don’t know where it’s going,” said Mike Stephenson, president of the Pennsylvania Postal Workers Union. “And what I’m afraid of the most is, I believe, this is all part of a bigger picture to sell the post office.”
�DeJoy has denied those claims, saying he accepted the role of postmaster general to fix the Postal Service’s long financial issues while preserving universal service to the public. The agency is nearly $161 billion in debt, three-fourths of which is tied to its pension obligations.
�The Postal Service has spent months reeling from changing consumer habits during the pandemic. Volumes of paper mail — the Postal Service’s most profitable revenue stream — fell after businesses closed in the name of social distancing. Package volumes soared as consumers turned to online shopping and delivery to avoid venturing out.
�That shift in volumes wrong-footed the USPS, which was designed to handle more paper than boxes, even before DeJoy arrived June 15. But within a month of taking over the agency, he required mail transit trucks to leave processing plants for distribution centers even if workers hadn’t finished sorting the mail. He also told letter carriers to begin their routes at specific times even if it meant leaving mail behind.
�Those changes have benefited USPS dispatch schedules, he testified. “In just a few weeks, we have substantially improved our on-time dispatch schedule from 89.4 percent to 97.0 percent on time,” he submitted to the House Oversight Committee in written testimony. “We have also focused on decreasing the number of extra trips we operate.”
�DeJoy also banned workers from making extra trips to deliver mail processed later in the day. Memos circulated to mid-level managers and obtained by The Washington Post stated that DeJoy planned to eliminate overtime hours. Postal workers in Pennsylvania, California, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Florida and Iowa have told The Post they were warned overtime would be curtailed in official USPS lectures on shop floors.
�DeJoy denied issuing any such direction in sworn testimony before a House panel on Monday and a Senate committee on Aug. 21, and also said he was not involved with decisions to remove roughly 700 high-speed mail sorting machines or dozens of public collection boxes, or cutting hours at retail windows.
�“I had nothing to do with the collection boxes, the sorting machines, the post office hours or limiting overtime,” he told the House Oversight Committee. “The change I made was I asked them to run the transportation on time and mitigate extra trips based on a review of an [Inspector General] audit.”
�But it’s the changes DeJoy takes credit for that postal workers say have created the worst problems. A post office in Iowa in July left Amazon boxes sitting on the delivery dock, a worker said, when supervisors told mail handlers not to sort the items because they arrived 15 minutes late from a processing center. The boxes arrived just before 5 a.m., more than three hours before letter carriers arrived to begin preparing for their routes.
�“Even though carriers are leaving on time, they’re leaving mail behind,” said a postal worker in Florida. “In the past, that was late mail. That mail got delayed. Now it’s called something else. It’s called ‘tomorrow’s mail.’ ”
Gee....looks like trump can't walk and talk at the same time......did not see it live, but the fat fuck sure looked close to falling on his fat face!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!
President Donald Trump almost fell as he approached the podium at a New Hampshire campaign rally on Friday.
The rally took place less than a day after Trump closed out the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Audience members appeared to be packed together without much social distancing at the event.
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President Donald Trump appeared to narrowly avoid falling over as he walked up to the podium at a campaign rally in New Hampshire on Friday evening.
A woman called 911 saying a man had just sexually assaulted her
The man had a knife and fought with police before getting shot
Joe Biden defended him and called for the officers to be held accountable
People gave $2M to him
The left has gone insane https://nypost.com/2020/08/28/this-is-why-jacob-blake-had-a-warrant-out-for-his-arrest/
Blake, 29, was forbidden from going to the Kenosha home of his alleged victim from the May 3 incident, and police were dispatched Sunday following a 911 call saying he was there.
The responding officers were aware he had an open warrant for felony sexual assault, according to dispatch records and the Kenosha Professional Police Association, which released a statement on the incident on Friday.
That police union statement also claimed that Blake was armed with a knife at the time of the shooting — and had put one cop in a headlock and shrugged off two Taser attempts while resisting arrest.
Blake, who was paralyzed in the shooting, had been handcuffed to his hospital bed due to the warrant, which was vacated Friday, according to a statement released by his lawyer, Benjamin Crump. His restraints were removed, but he is still facing the criminal charges, Crump said.
Blake is accused in the criminal complaint, which was obtained by The Post, of breaking into the home of a woman he knew and sexually assaulting her.
The victim, who is only identified by her initials in the paperwork, told police she was asleep in bed with one of her children when Blake came into the room around 6 a.m. and allegedly said “I want my sh-t,” the record states.
She told cops Blake then used his finger to sexually assault her, sniffed it and said, “Smells like you’ve been with other men,” the criminal complaint alleges.
The officer who took her statement said she “had a very difficult time telling him this and cried as she told how the defendant assaulted her.”
The alleged victim said Blake “penetrating her digitally caused her pain and humiliation and was done without her consent” and she was “very humiliated and upset by the sexual assault,” the record states.
She told police she “was upset but collected herself” and then allegedly ran out the front door after Blake, the complaint says. She then realized her car was missing, checked her purse and saw the keys were missing and then “immediately called 911,” the complaint alleges.
The alleged victim told cops she has known him for eight years and claims that he physically assaults her “around twice a year when he drinks heavily.”
Police filed charges against him for felony sexual assault, trespassing and domestic abuse in July when a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Blake, 29, was forbidden from going to the Kenosha home of his alleged victim from the May 3 incident, and police were dispatched Sunday following a 911 call saying he was there.
So if "institutional racism" really does exist, whose fault would that be?
Some amount of the fault can be found in videos we have recently seen of white police officers shooting 1) a fleeing black man repeatedly in the back 2) another fleeing black man repeatedly in the back 3) a black man being shot in the back seven times as he gets into his car with his three sons in the back seat 4) a handcuffed black man being held down with a knee on his neck saying please don't kill me and I can't breathe 5) a black man in his car sitting beside his girl friend with a child in the back seat who was shot when he was asked for identification and reached to get it 5) a young black man in a service station who was accosted for not wearing his safety belt and when he turned to get the requested identification from his truck was repeatedly shot at, one shot hitting him in the hip 6) a black woman in her house who simply came to her window when she heard someone in her garage, not knowing it was a policeman 6) and then there was the black woman shot to death in her bed who had nothing to do with anything that brought about the police entry into her home
and those are only some of the instances.
Once there was a time when photos could be seen of black men who were lynched in the South
now there are videos of blacks being mistreated on a far too frequent basis
August 29, 2020 at 10:33 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 194 Comments
Kevin Roose: “Listen, liberals. If you don’t think Donald Trump can get re-elected in November, you need to spend more time on Facebook.”
“Since the 2016 election, I’ve been obsessively tracking how partisan political content is performing on Facebook… But what sticks out, when you dig in to the data, is just how dominant the Facebook right truly is. Pro-Trump political influencers have spent years building a well-oiled media machine that swarms around every major news story, creating a torrent of viral commentary that reliably drowns out both the mainstream media and the liberal opposition.
“The result is a kind of parallel media universe that left-of-center Facebook users may never encounter, but that has been stunningly effective in shaping its own version of reality.”
Michael Moore Warns Trump Can Win
August 29, 2020 at 10:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 251 Comments
Filmmaker Michael Moore warned in a Facebook post that enthusiasm for Donald Trump is “off the charts.”
Said Moore: “Are you ready for a Trump victory? Are you mentally prepared to be outsmarted by Trump again? Do you find comfort in your certainty that there is no way Trump can win? Are you content with the trust you’ve placed in the DNC to pull this off?””
He added: “I’m warning you almost 10 weeks in advance. The enthusiasm level for the 60 million in Trump’s base is OFF THE CHARTS! For Joe, not so much.”
GOP Stretched Hard to Defend Trump on Race and Gender
August 29, 2020 at 9:54 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 42 Comments
“The Republican convention this week marked an extraordinary effort to recast President Trump’s image on issues of race and gender, with the party stretching to find African-Americans who would testify that Mr. Trump is not racist, and lining up women to describe him as sensitive and empathetic — qualities he rarely displays in public,” the New York Times reports.
“This vouching for Mr. Trump, as he was nominated for a second term, was without precedent. Never before has a convention by either major party felt compelled to call such a diverse array of speakers to defend the character of a sitting president.
“And it was done with a crucial political goal in mind: making a divisive leader appear more palatable to white moderate voters, who have turned against the Trump-led G.O.P. in recent elections, while also trying to peel away some nonwhite voters from Joe Biden.”
New Layoffs Make Job Reductions Permanent
August 29, 2020 at 9:53 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 28 Comments
“A new wave of layoffs is washing over the U.S. as several big companies reassess staffing plans and settle in for a long period of uncertainty,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
August 29, 2020 at 9:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 38 Comments
President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in American cities and told supporters in New Hampshire they must vote for him to “save democracy from the mob,” an escalation of his campaign rhetoric against demonstrators in the streets, the Washington Post reports.
“Trump opened his speech in a suburban airport hangar here with a harsh, fiery depiction of major American cities and a detailed monologue about agitators chasing and taunting his supporters and allies outside the White House following his convention speech Thursday night, describing scenes he had viewed on television in vivid detail.”
Said Trump: “You know what I say about protesters? Protesters, your ass. I don’t talk about my ass. They’re not protesters, those are anarchists, they’re agitators, they’re rioters, they’re looters.”
Quote of the Day
August 29, 2020 at 9:47 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 48 Comments
“You know, I want to see the first woman president also, but I don’t want to see a woman president get into that position the way she’d do it, and she’s not competent. They’re all saying ‘we want Ivanka.’ I don’t blame them.” — President Trump, quote by The Hill, saying his daughter Ivanka Trump would make a better president than Sen. Kamala Harris.
Trump Aims to Win Back Those Who Voted for Him
August 29, 2020 at 9:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 92 Comments
Associated Press: “The GOP convention’s target audience, according to campaign officials, was mostly former Trump supporters, those Republicans or independents who may have backed him in 2016 but grew unhappy with his rhetoric or handling of the pandemic. The goal, by trying to humanize Trump and demonize Biden, was to set up a permission structure to make those voters feel comfortable enough to vote for Trump again, even if they cared for his policies far more than his personality.
“Officials believe they accomplished that over the four-day convention and are encouraged by internal numbers that show Trump had begun closing the gap on Biden even before the events of this week in Washington. The campaign’s theory of the election has long been to turn out Trump’s base — a smaller set of the electorate than which backs Biden, but more enthusiastic — while also trying to win over nonvoters and drive up negative impressions of Biden so that some of his possible backers stay home.”
Michelle Obama Is ‘Exhausted and Frustrated’
August 29, 2020 at 9:38 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 77 Comments
Michelle Obama said that she is “devastated” by the police shooting of Jacob Blake and killing of two protesters this week in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Said Obama: “These past few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about what our kids are seeing every day in this country — the lack of empathy, the division stoked in times of crisis, the age-old and systemic racism that’s been so prominent this summer. Sometimes they see it on the news. Sometimes they see it from the White House Rose Garden. And sometimes they see it from the back seat of a car.”
Every part of the Democrat coalition - tantrum-throwing celebrities, prima donna athletes, shifty politicians, coronavirus Karens who don't care about mass demonstrations, rioters, goose-stepping ideologues - is working on America's last nerve right now.
AMY GOODMAN: Why did you call your book Authoritarian Nightmare?
JOHN DEAN: Well, what happened — as we were finishing the book, we had already titled it Authoritarian Nightmare, and we thought we had a pretty horrid list of things that had occurred during this presidency. Then came COVID-19 and the racial unrest and the great conversation we’re having now on that issue. So, it really is a nightmare, because Trump’s followers tolerate his norm-busting, his undemocratic behavior. And that, to us, is a nightmare.
AMY GOODMAN: Very interesting, of course, tonight he’ll be on the South Lawn. They’re saying more than a thousand people will be there. Last night, the lack of masks. I mean, here you had Vice President Pence, who is head of the coronavirus task force, but his audience and Trump coming in at the end to shake people’s hands, to greet people, as well as Pence. I want to turn to a phone interview President Trump did with Fox & Friends in May after the Department of Justice dropped charges against Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, even though Flynn twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with the Russian ambassador. Trump said he learned a lot from Richard Nixon during the federal investigation of his 2016 campaign ties to Russia.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I learned a lot from Richard Nixon: Don’t fire people. I learned a lot. I study history. And the firing of everybody, I should have, in one way, but I’m glad I didn’t, because look at the way it turned out. They’re all a bunch of crooks, and they got caught. But I learned a lot by watching Richard Nixon. Of course, there was one difference, one big difference. Number one, he may have been guilty. And, number two, he had tapes all over the place. I wasn’t guilty. I did nothing wrong. And there are no tapes.
AMY GOODMAN: So, John Dean, you were the man whose White House — whose Watergate testimony helped to lead to the downfall of Richard Nixon. You talk about what it’s like to work for a vindictive president. But even Nixon, you say, doesn’t have the raw lust for power that Donald Trump does. Talk about what he just said and what he’s done, and the comparisons you see between Richard Nixon then and President Trump today.
JOHN DEAN: Amy, I worked for the last authoritarian president we had. That was Nixon. I learned a lot observing, watching what I was doing right then and there. We’ve had very few authoritarian presidents, depending on exactly how you define them, but as generally social science looks at these people: Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, Richard Nixon and now Donald Trump. There’s a very unique governing style in these people. And that is, they don’t really want to hear anything from their aides other than obedience. And we’re seeing that at this time.
The lesson that he learned from Nixon is “don’t get caught,” because Nixon was caught. And so, he said, “Well, of course, he was guilty, so that’s different than me.” Well, Nixon did not think he was guilty, but Nixon, when cornered, was willing to follow the rule of law. What concerns me about Trump, I don’t think Trump will do what Nixon did. He certainly wouldn’t concede during the impeachment proceeding that he had done anything. Richard Nixon didn’t take the country through an impeachment proceeding. So, Trump is of a different cut than Nixon. I think, in fact, Amy, he’s going to make Nixon look like a choir boy before it’s all over.
AMY GOODMAN: You said Trump should have been impeached on the first day. Why?
JOHN DEAN: Well, because, first of all, his behavior during the campaign, where he reached out and obviously colluded with Russia. We now have it by the Senate Intelligence Committee, where nine Republicans joined in in the report and show very clear collusion. This is just unprecedented. So, this president needs to go. And the only way to force him to go is for people, in a tsunami-style election, to remove him.
The victim, who is only identified by her initials in the paperwork, told police she was asleep in bed with one of her children when Blake came into the room around 6 a.m. and allegedly said “I want my sh-t,” the record states.
She told cops Blake then used his finger to sexually assault her, sniffed it and said, “Smells like you’ve been with other men,” the criminal complaint alleges. ... Blake, 29, was forbidden from going to the Kenosha home of his alleged victim from the May 3 incident, and police were dispatched Sunday following a 911 call saying he was there.
The responding officers were aware he had an open warrant for felony sexual assault, according to dispatch records and the Kenosha Professional Police Association, which released a statement on the incident on Friday.
That police union statement also claimed that Blake was armed with a knife at the time of the shooting — and had put one cop in a headlock and shrugged off two Taser attempts while resisting arrest.
guess she is a black life that doesn't matter and attacking a police officer going for a weapon is OK.
It was Jacob Blake's right as a black man to sexually assault his ex-girlfriend and then get away with it. After all he is black and therefore crimes don't matter.
James, a wannabe Law Enforcement Officer could never ever actually be one.
Well when you believe that all black men are immune from criminal arrest because they are black... I don't suppose the police force has much use for you!
James, a wannabe Law Enforcement Officer could never ever actually be one.
I'm sure the "pastor" as officer james would be OK with a man with a restraining order coming into his house and into the bed where his wife is sleeping with her daughter and having him put a finger in her vagina and telling her he can smell she's been with other men. Apparently he didn't do this to the daughter also.
After she calls 9-1-1 the man doesn't follow officer james instructions, puts james in a headlock, is tasered twice by james's partner and still doesn't stop and while being attempted to be restrained by james he is getting into his car to grab a knife, obviously to attempt to stab james.
Officer james would calmly call for a needed counselor for the man as backup and accept the stabbing until the mental health advisor arrives.
He would ignore his training to protect his own life until the threat is over. And then if he survived himself would go preach about how black lives matter. And tell his wife and daughter to suck it up and take one for the team. Politics are way more important than any of their lives.
I think we do need to hold those who violate the law accountable. We should never let what’s done in a march for equal rights overcome what the reason for the march is. And that’s what these folks are doing. And they should be found, arrested and tried.
The President is responsible for the chaos, because he is the President.
Rich people are doing a whole lot better. We're doing a whole lot worse. Our health and safety's threatened. Our pensions are threatened. Our wages are threatened. Collective bargaining is threatened. He's appointed anti-worker union-busting lawyers to the NLRB. We have an OSHA that's the weakest it's ever been in the history of the country. It has fewer inspectors now than it ever has. Our health and safety is being jeopardized. And so, the rhetoric that he talked about doesn't match his actions.
Our workers aren't stupid. They're going to match the two up and say, you said this, but you did this. And what you did wasn't good for workers. When you took away health and safety standards, that hurt us. When you took away overtime from 3 million people, that hurt us. When you took away a pension roll that would have protected our pensions that could cost us a quarter of our pensions, that hurt us. So, we won't believe what you're saying as readily this time.
As the Chief executive of the AFL-CIO I cannot endorse the President, because the Republicans have endorsed "Right To Work" laws that have weakened unions since the Reagan administration.
ASU student group College Republicans United is raising funds for Kenosha protest shooter Kyle Rittenhouse. The group told an @azcentral reporter “they do not speak to journalists with pronouns on their Twitter page" and to "get a real job.”
If Democrats had come out against the rioting three months ago--a bunch of folks would not be dead, maimed, crippled, or living without a job, home, or their small business.
But they had to wait for the polling numbers. --- Remember when Democrats were saying Texas was in play?
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Joel Fischer
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@NYCMayor
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, two NYPD traffic officers were brutally beaten in Brooklyn after writing a parking summons for blocking a fire hydrant.
https://twitter.com/JFNYC1/status/1299482842418892802
C-Span Got So Many Callers Defecting From Democrat Party They Changed Labels On Phone Lines…
https://www.weaselzippers.us/454921-c-span-got-so-many-callers-defecting-from-democrat-party-they-changed-labels-on-phone-lines/
LOL…
Steve Cortes
@CortesSteve
The President is in NH today.
Kamala Harris is also traveling, doing campaign speeches. If she can, why can’t Joe?
#WhereIsJoe?
https://twitter.com/CortesSteve/status/1299492240872660996
Maybe getting ready to do a speech on his teletype?
Dan Scavino
@DanScavino
Wheels up, departing Manchester, New Hampshire — for Washington, D.C. What an evening, with Great American Patriots who are READY to VOTE and WIN, WIN, WIN! THANK YOU for joining President @realDonaldTrump and @TeamTrump!
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1299510227264442369
ENTHUSIASM !!! - something you sure don't see on the left
Karli 🇺🇸
@KarluskaP
Omgawd he turned Cooper off!
AWESOME VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/KarluskaP/status/1299384787476586498
On-air interviewee gets tired of Anderson Cooper preaching a "question"
CNN can't even get guest to watch anymore.
ROFLMFAO !!!
#WhereIsJoe?
Biden Clearly Reading Script Through Interview With CNN’s Anderson Cooper
It’s not just Biden’s inability to get through a softball interview that’s concerning, it’s the media’s complicity in this whole ordeal that’s so gross.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/08/biden-clearly-reading-script-through-interview-with-cnns-anderson-cooper/
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Chadwick Moore
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NY’s population is 50/50 NYC and upstate. 20% of NYC fled and probably won’t be voting. All the conversations I have with inner city blacks and immigrants point to them voting Trump or not voting at all. What are the NY GOP groups doing to get out the vote? Nothing. NY is in play
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Confusion over Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s planned cost-cutting changes has gripped the nation’s mail service and threatened to bring even more delivery delays, say postal workers and union officials.
�Days after DeJoy testified before Senate and House committees, vowing to prioritize election mail, postal workers disputed his assertions that pandemic-related challenges were to blame for widespread mail slowdowns. They say the holdups are tied to the postal leader’s crackdown — since partially suspended — on overtime and other operational changes, as well as the lack of clarity about which of his proposals will ultimately stick.
�In Philadelphia, some letter carriers have gone two weeks without a day off, said one postal worker who, like 11 others interviewed for this piece, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of fears of reprisal from their superiors. Processing facilities in other parts of Pennsylvania — Scranton, Harrisburg, Lancaster, the Lehigh Valley — have week-long package backlogs. In Florida, some workers are being instructed not to log mail that arrives after carriers have left on their routes, an anathema to long-serving agency employees.
�In the Great Lakes region, which includes parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, managers are unsure whether DeJoy’s realignment of the agency will continue, further slowing the daily movement of hundreds of millions of mail items.
�“Everyone’s clueless,” said one region mid-level manager.
�In other areas, including California, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, postal workers say previous delays have been resolved, but employees are bracing for the election and holiday season, and additional changes DeJoy could institute after the Nov. 3 vote. The plans under consideration, described by four people familiar with Postal Service discussions, include geography-based pricing, lower mail delivery standards and raising prices.
�Questions about DeJoy’s intentions — both in the run-up to the election and long-term — have raised suspicions among some postal workers, as well as the agency’s powerful unions. The former logistics executive and GOP megadonor also has drawn the ire of Democrats and voting rights advocates, who worry postal slowdowns will interfere in an election in which nearly 180 million Americans are eligible to vote by mail.
�His connection to the White House added to the tensions, especially after President Trump vowed to block USPS funding to impede its ability to process ballots. Trump has repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that mail ballots lead to widespread voter fraud.
�Conservatives have long viewed the Postal Service as ripe for privatization, or at least a private-sector style haircut. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who chairs the committee in charge of postal oversight, said the Senate may consider fulfilling the USPS’s $25 billion pandemic funding request in a future relief spending package in exchange for “true reforms.”
�[DeJoy pushes back on criticism of changes to Postal Service, says he won’t restore sorting machines]�“I think everybody’s just confused. They don’t know where it’s going,” said Mike Stephenson, president of the Pennsylvania Postal Workers Union. “And what I’m afraid of the most is, I believe, this is all part of a bigger picture to sell the post office.”
�DeJoy has denied those claims, saying he accepted the role of postmaster general to fix the Postal Service’s long financial issues while preserving universal service to the public. The agency is nearly $161 billion in debt, three-fourths of which is tied to its pension obligations.
�The Postal Service has spent months reeling from changing consumer habits during the pandemic. Volumes of paper mail — the Postal Service’s most profitable revenue stream — fell after businesses closed in the name of social distancing. Package volumes soared as consumers turned to online shopping and delivery to avoid venturing out.
�That shift in volumes wrong-footed the USPS, which was designed to handle more paper than boxes, even before DeJoy arrived June 15. But within a month of taking over the agency, he required mail transit trucks to leave processing plants for distribution centers even if workers hadn’t finished sorting the mail. He also told letter carriers to begin their routes at specific times even if it meant leaving mail behind.
�Those changes have benefited USPS dispatch schedules, he testified. “In just a few weeks, we have substantially improved our on-time dispatch schedule from 89.4 percent to 97.0 percent on time,” he submitted to the House Oversight Committee in written testimony. “We have also focused on decreasing the number of extra trips we operate.”
�DeJoy also banned workers from making extra trips to deliver mail processed later in the day. Memos circulated to mid-level managers and obtained by The Washington Post stated that DeJoy planned to eliminate overtime hours. Postal workers in Pennsylvania, California, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Florida and Iowa have told The Post they were warned overtime would be curtailed in official USPS lectures on shop floors.
�DeJoy denied issuing any such direction in sworn testimony before a House panel on Monday and a Senate committee on Aug. 21, and also said he was not involved with decisions to remove roughly 700 high-speed mail sorting machines or dozens of public collection boxes, or cutting hours at retail windows.
�“I had nothing to do with the collection boxes, the sorting machines, the post office hours or limiting overtime,” he told the House Oversight Committee. “The change I made was I asked them to run the transportation on time and mitigate extra trips based on a review of an [Inspector General] audit.”
�But it’s the changes DeJoy takes credit for that postal workers say have created the worst problems. A post office in Iowa in July left Amazon boxes sitting on the delivery dock, a worker said, when supervisors told mail handlers not to sort the items because they arrived 15 minutes late from a processing center. The boxes arrived just before 5 a.m., more than three hours before letter carriers arrived to begin preparing for their routes.
�“Even though carriers are leaving on time, they’re leaving mail behind,” said a postal worker in Florida. “In the past, that was late mail. That mail got delayed. Now it’s called something else. It’s called ‘tomorrow’s mail.’ ”
Gee....looks like trump can't walk and talk at the same time......did not see it live, but the fat fuck sure looked close to falling on his fat face!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!
President Donald Trump almost fell as he approached the podium at a New Hampshire campaign rally on Friday.
The rally took place less than a day after Trump closed out the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Audience members appeared to be packed together without much social distancing at the event.
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President Donald Trump appeared to narrowly avoid falling over as he walked up to the podium at a campaign rally in New Hampshire on Friday evening.
*** SOLUTION ***
DON'T VOTE BY MAIL !!!
guess we can agree on this
ROFLMFAO !!!
For those who need a good laugh at the fat fuck almost go down.....enjoy!!!!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/video-shows-trump-nearly-falling-032615363.html
Tim Pool
@Timcast
A woman called 911 saying a man had just sexually assaulted her
The man had a knife and fought with police before getting shot
Joe Biden defended him and called for the officers to be held accountable
People gave $2M to him
The left has gone insane
https://nypost.com/2020/08/28/this-is-why-jacob-blake-had-a-warrant-out-for-his-arrest/
Blake, 29, was forbidden from going to the Kenosha home of his alleged victim from the May 3 incident, and police were dispatched Sunday following a 911 call saying he was there.
The responding officers were aware he had an open warrant for felony sexual assault, according to dispatch records and the Kenosha Professional Police Association, which released a statement on the incident on Friday.
That police union statement also claimed that Blake was armed with a knife at the time of the shooting — and had put one cop in a headlock and shrugged off two Taser attempts while resisting arrest.
Blake, who was paralyzed in the shooting, had been handcuffed to his hospital bed due to the warrant, which was vacated Friday, according to a statement released by his lawyer, Benjamin Crump. His restraints were removed, but he is still facing the criminal charges, Crump said.
Blake is accused in the criminal complaint, which was obtained by The Post, of breaking into the home of a woman he knew and sexually assaulting her.
The victim, who is only identified by her initials in the paperwork, told police she was asleep in bed with one of her children when Blake came into the room around 6 a.m. and allegedly said “I want my sh-t,” the record states.
She told cops Blake then used his finger to sexually assault her, sniffed it and said, “Smells like you’ve been with other men,” the criminal complaint alleges.
The officer who took her statement said she “had a very difficult time telling him this and cried as she told how the defendant assaulted her.”
The alleged victim said Blake “penetrating her digitally caused her pain and humiliation and was done without her consent” and she was “very humiliated and upset by the sexual assault,” the record states.
She told police she “was upset but collected herself” and then allegedly ran out the front door after Blake, the complaint says. She then realized her car was missing, checked her purse and saw the keys were missing and then “immediately called 911,” the complaint alleges.
The alleged victim told cops she has known him for eight years and claims that he physically assaults her “around twice a year when he drinks heavily.”
Police filed charges against him for felony sexual assault, trespassing and domestic abuse in July when a warrant was issued for his arrest.
LOL.
the alky is like a 4 yr old craving attention.
hi alky!
LOL.
Blake, 29, was forbidden from going to the Kenosha home of his alleged victim from the May 3 incident, and police were dispatched Sunday following a 911 call saying he was there.
cops should've killed his criminal ass.
piece of shit.
So if "institutional racism" really does exist, whose fault would that be?
Some amount of the fault can be found in videos we have recently seen of white police officers shooting
1) a fleeing black man repeatedly in the back
2) another fleeing black man repeatedly in the back
3) a black man being shot in the back seven times as he gets into his car with his three sons in the back seat
4) a handcuffed black man being held down with a knee on his neck saying please don't kill me and I can't breathe
5) a black man in his car sitting beside his girl friend with a child in the back seat who was shot when he was asked for identification and reached to get it
5) a young black man in a service station who was accosted for not wearing his safety belt and when he turned to get the requested identification from his truck was repeatedly shot at, one shot hitting him in the hip
6) a black woman in her house who simply came to her window when she heard someone in her garage, not knowing it was a policeman
6) and then there was the black woman shot to death in her bed who had nothing to do with anything that brought about the police entry into her home
and those are only some of the instances.
Once there was a time when photos could be seen of black men who were lynched in the South
now there are videos of blacks being mistreated on a far too frequent basis
Once there was a time when photos could be seen of black men who were lynched in the South
yup.
surrounded by throngs of smiling democrats.
What If Facebook Is the Real Silent Majority?
August 29, 2020 at 10:33 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 194 Comments
Kevin Roose: “Listen, liberals. If you don’t think Donald Trump can get re-elected in November, you need to spend more time on Facebook.”
“Since the 2016 election, I’ve been obsessively tracking how partisan political content is performing on Facebook… But what sticks out, when you dig in to the data, is just how dominant the Facebook right truly is. Pro-Trump political influencers have spent years building a well-oiled media machine that swarms around every major news story, creating a torrent of viral commentary that reliably drowns out both the mainstream media and the liberal opposition.
“The result is a kind of parallel media universe that left-of-center Facebook users may never encounter, but that has been stunningly effective in shaping its own version of reality.”
Michael Moore Warns Trump Can Win
August 29, 2020 at 10:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 251 Comments
Filmmaker Michael Moore warned in a Facebook post that enthusiasm for Donald Trump is “off the charts.”
Said Moore: “Are you ready for a Trump victory? Are you mentally prepared to be outsmarted by Trump again? Do you find comfort in your certainty that there is no way Trump can win? Are you content with the trust you’ve placed in the DNC to pull this off?””
He added: “I’m warning you almost 10 weeks in advance. The enthusiasm level for the 60 million in Trump’s base is OFF THE CHARTS! For Joe, not so much.”
GOP Stretched Hard to Defend Trump on Race and Gender
August 29, 2020 at 9:54 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 42 Comments
“The Republican convention this week marked an extraordinary effort to recast President Trump’s image on issues of race and gender, with the party stretching to find African-Americans who would testify that Mr. Trump is not racist, and lining up women to describe him as sensitive and empathetic — qualities he rarely displays in public,” the New York Times reports.
“This vouching for Mr. Trump, as he was nominated for a second term, was without precedent. Never before has a convention by either major party felt compelled to call such a diverse array of speakers to defend the character of a sitting president.
“And it was done with a crucial political goal in mind: making a divisive leader appear more palatable to white moderate voters, who have turned against the Trump-led G.O.P. in recent elections, while also trying to peel away some nonwhite voters from Joe Biden.”
New Layoffs Make Job Reductions Permanent
August 29, 2020 at 9:53 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 28 Comments
“A new wave of layoffs is washing over the U.S. as several big companies reassess staffing plans and settle in for a long period of uncertainty,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Blogger rrb said...
Once there was a time when photos could be seen of black men who were lynched in the South
yup.
surrounded by throngs of smiling democrats.
democrats are now smiling because they found out about guillotines and are proudly displaying them.
Trump Escalates Rhetoric On Unrest In Cities
August 29, 2020 at 9:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 38 Comments
President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in American cities and told supporters in New Hampshire they must vote for him to “save democracy from the mob,” an escalation of his campaign rhetoric against demonstrators in the streets, the Washington Post reports.
“Trump opened his speech in a suburban airport hangar here with a harsh, fiery depiction of major American cities and a detailed monologue about agitators chasing and taunting his supporters and allies outside the White House following his convention speech Thursday night, describing scenes he had viewed on television in vivid detail.”
Said Trump: “You know what I say about protesters? Protesters, your ass. I don’t talk about my ass. They’re not protesters, those are anarchists, they’re agitators, they’re rioters, they’re looters.”
Quote of the Day
August 29, 2020 at 9:47 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 48 Comments
“You know, I want to see the first woman president also, but I don’t want to see a woman president get into that position the way she’d do it, and she’s not competent. They’re all saying ‘we want Ivanka.’ I don’t blame them.”
— President Trump, quote by The Hill, saying his daughter Ivanka Trump would make a better president than Sen. Kamala Harris.
Trump Aims to Win Back Those Who Voted for Him
August 29, 2020 at 9:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 92 Comments
Associated Press: “The GOP convention’s target audience, according to campaign officials, was mostly former Trump supporters, those Republicans or independents who may have backed him in 2016 but grew unhappy with his rhetoric or handling of the pandemic. The goal, by trying to humanize Trump and demonize Biden, was to set up a permission structure to make those voters feel comfortable enough to vote for Trump again, even if they cared for his policies far more than his personality.
“Officials believe they accomplished that over the four-day convention and are encouraged by internal numbers that show Trump had begun closing the gap on Biden even before the events of this week in Washington. The campaign’s theory of the election has long been to turn out Trump’s base — a smaller set of the electorate than which backs Biden, but more enthusiastic — while also trying to win over nonvoters and drive up negative impressions of Biden so that some of his possible backers stay home.”
Michelle Obama Is ‘Exhausted and Frustrated’
August 29, 2020 at 9:38 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 77 Comments
Michelle Obama said that she is “devastated” by the police shooting of Jacob Blake and killing of two protesters this week in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Said Obama: “These past few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about what our kids are seeing every day in this country — the lack of empathy, the division stoked in times of crisis, the age-old and systemic racism that’s been so prominent this summer. Sometimes they see it on the news. Sometimes they see it from the White House Rose Garden. And sometimes they see it from the back seat of a car.”
John Hayward
@Doc_0
Every part of the Democrat coalition - tantrum-throwing celebrities, prima donna athletes, shifty politicians, coronavirus Karens who don't care about mass demonstrations, rioters, goose-stepping ideologues - is working on America's last nerve right now.
TRUE
Tim Young
@TimRunsHisMouth
Chris Hansen should do a reboot: “To Catch A Predator: Black Lives Matter Rioter Edition"
Enough material for several seasons already
Trump on the shooting of Blake in the back:
"It was not a good sight. I didn't like the sight of that. I think most people will agree with that."
Not Rat, Commensense, and Ch and Cowardly and others here who have defended the shooting of Blake.
AMY GOODMAN: Why did you call your book Authoritarian Nightmare?
JOHN DEAN: Well, what happened — as we were finishing the book, we had already titled it Authoritarian Nightmare, and we thought we had a pretty horrid list of things that had occurred during this presidency. Then came COVID-19 and the racial unrest and the great conversation we’re having now on that issue. So, it really is a nightmare, because Trump’s followers tolerate his norm-busting, his undemocratic behavior. And that, to us, is a nightmare.
AMY GOODMAN: Very interesting, of course, tonight he’ll be on the South Lawn. They’re saying more than a thousand people will be there. Last night, the lack of masks. I mean, here you had Vice President Pence, who is head of the coronavirus task force, but his audience and Trump coming in at the end to shake people’s hands, to greet people, as well as Pence. I want to turn to a phone interview President Trump did with Fox & Friends in May after the Department of Justice dropped charges against Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, even though Flynn twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with the Russian ambassador. Trump said he learned a lot from Richard Nixon during the federal investigation of his 2016 campaign ties to Russia.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I learned a lot from Richard Nixon: Don’t fire people. I learned a lot. I study history. And the firing of everybody, I should have, in one way, but I’m glad I didn’t, because look at the way it turned out. They’re all a bunch of crooks, and they got caught. But I learned a lot by watching Richard Nixon. Of course, there was one difference, one big difference. Number one, he may have been guilty. And, number two, he had tapes all over the place. I wasn’t guilty. I did nothing wrong. And there are no tapes.
AMY GOODMAN: So, John Dean, you were the man whose White House — whose Watergate testimony helped to lead to the downfall of Richard Nixon. You talk about what it’s like to work for a vindictive president. But even Nixon, you say, doesn’t have the raw lust for power that Donald Trump does. Talk about what he just said and what he’s done, and the comparisons you see between Richard Nixon then and President Trump today.
JOHN DEAN: Amy, I worked for the last authoritarian president we had. That was Nixon. I learned a lot observing, watching what I was doing right then and there. We’ve had very few authoritarian presidents, depending on exactly how you define them, but as generally social science looks at these people: Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, Richard Nixon and now Donald Trump. There’s a very unique governing style in these people. And that is, they don’t really want to hear anything from their aides other than obedience. And we’re seeing that at this time.
The lesson that he learned from Nixon is “don’t get caught,” because Nixon was caught. And so, he said, “Well, of course, he was guilty, so that’s different than me.” Well, Nixon did not think he was guilty, but Nixon, when cornered, was willing to follow the rule of law. What concerns me about Trump, I don’t think Trump will do what Nixon did. He certainly wouldn’t concede during the impeachment proceeding that he had done anything. Richard Nixon didn’t take the country through an impeachment proceeding. So, Trump is of a different cut than Nixon. I think, in fact, Amy, he’s going to make Nixon look like a choir boy before it’s all over.
AMY GOODMAN: You said Trump should have been impeached on the first day. Why?
JOHN DEAN: Well, because, first of all, his behavior during the campaign, where he reached out and obviously colluded with Russia. We now have it by the Senate Intelligence Committee, where nine Republicans joined in in the report and show very clear collusion. This is just unprecedented. So, this president needs to go. And the only way to force him to go is for people, in a tsunami-style election, to remove him.
this is what the "pastor" is defending:
The victim, who is only identified by her initials in the paperwork, told police she was asleep in bed with one of her children when Blake came into the room around 6 a.m. and allegedly said “I want my sh-t,” the record states.
She told cops Blake then used his finger to sexually assault her, sniffed it and said, “Smells like you’ve been with other men,” the criminal complaint alleges.
...
Blake, 29, was forbidden from going to the Kenosha home of his alleged victim from the May 3 incident, and police were dispatched Sunday following a 911 call saying he was there.
The responding officers were aware he had an open warrant for felony sexual assault, according to dispatch records and the Kenosha Professional Police Association, which released a statement on the incident on Friday.
That police union statement also claimed that Blake was armed with a knife at the time of the shooting — and had put one cop in a headlock and shrugged off two Taser attempts while resisting arrest.
guess she is a black life that doesn't matter and attacking a police officer going for a weapon is OK.
Not Rat, Commensense, and Ch and Cowardly and others here who have defended the shooting of Blake.
well pederast, when a felon resists arrest and threatens law enforcement, i expect them to get shot.
hey, at least the piece of shit you so adore is still alive.
he's a fucking shopping cart shitting in a bag, but he's alive.
and now the alky thinks he's john dean.
LOL.
who will you be next, alky?
captain kangaroo? bozo the clown?
LOL.
According to the Reverend...
It was Jacob Blake's right as a black man to sexually assault his ex-girlfriend and then get away with it. After all he is black and therefore crimes don't matter.
I see Coward ALKY is still posting.
James, a wannabe Law Enforcement Officer could never ever actually be one.
James, a wannabe Law Enforcement Officer could never ever actually be one.
Well when you believe that all black men are immune from criminal arrest because they are black... I don't suppose the police force has much use for you!
James, a wannabe Law Enforcement Officer could never ever actually be one.
I'm sure the "pastor" as officer james would be OK with a man with a restraining order coming into his house and into the bed where his wife is sleeping with her daughter and having him put a finger in her vagina and telling her he can smell she's been with other men. Apparently he didn't do this to the daughter also.
After she calls 9-1-1 the man doesn't follow officer james instructions, puts james in a headlock, is tasered twice by james's partner and still doesn't stop and while being attempted to be restrained by james he is getting into his car to grab a knife, obviously to attempt to stab james.
Officer james would calmly call for a needed counselor for the man as backup and accept the stabbing until the mental health advisor arrives.
He would ignore his training to protect his own life until the threat is over. And then if he survived himself would go preach about how black lives matter. And tell his wife and daughter to suck it up and take one for the team. Politics are way more important than any of their lives.
The hero's of Team Slow Biden .
Felons.
Rioters
Team Trump Hero's
Police
Blue Collar workers
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/8/27/john_dean_nixon_trump_authoritarianism
I think we do need to hold those who violate the law accountable. We should never let what’s done in a march for equal rights overcome what the reason for the march is. And that’s what these folks are doing. And they should be found, arrested and tried.
The President is responsible for the chaos, because he is the President.
It's going to be a Law and Order Election
Breanna Morello 🇺🇸
@breannamorello
The GOP just released this new ad and well...
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/breannamorello/status/1299482969388744706?
huh.
now the alky thinks he's Joe Biden.
delusions are running strong today.
LOL.
The GOP just released this new ad and well...
the GOP ad team just needs to sit back and let the left provide them with fresh material every fucking day until the election.
now the alky thinks he's Joe Biden.
delusions are running strong today.
Well Joe doesn't realize he's Joe Biden anymore. Guess the space is available.
Rich people are doing a whole lot better. We're doing a whole lot worse. Our health and safety's threatened. Our pensions are threatened. Our wages are threatened. Collective bargaining is threatened. He's appointed anti-worker union-busting lawyers to the NLRB. We have an OSHA that's the weakest it's ever been in the history of the country. It has fewer inspectors now than it ever has. Our health and safety is being jeopardized. And so, the rhetoric that he talked about doesn't match his actions.
Our workers aren't stupid. They're going to match the two up and say, you said this, but you did this. And what you did wasn't good for workers. When you took away health and safety standards, that hurt us. When you took away overtime from 3 million people, that hurt us. When you took away a pension roll that would have protected our pensions that could cost us a quarter of our pensions, that hurt us. So, we won't believe what you're saying as readily this time.
As the Chief executive of the AFL-CIO I cannot endorse the President, because the Republicans have endorsed "Right To Work" laws that have weakened unions since the Reagan administration.
oops.
now the alky is union parasite scum dick trumka.
By the way, you know, Mexico is paying for the wall, just in case you don't know it. The media don't know that.
Our wages have been rising nicely under President Trump.
Comfortably Smug
@ComfortablySmug
The Democrat party is the most dangerous terror group in the world
President Trump should designate them as such
ROFLMFAO !!!
Rachel Leingang Cactus
@rachelleingang
ASU student group College Republicans United is raising funds for Kenosha protest shooter Kyle Rittenhouse. The group told an @azcentral reporter “they do not speak to journalists with pronouns on their Twitter page" and to "get a real job.”
Comfortably Smug
@ComfortablySmug
Lmaooooo
he beat me to it
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
If Democrats had come out against the rioting three months ago--a bunch of folks would not be dead, maimed, crippled, or living without a job, home, or their small business.
But they had to wait for the polling numbers.
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Remember when Democrats were saying Texas was in play?
LMAO.
Biden might not hold New York.
Alky is only fooling himself.
He is such a aas🤡.
Roger own your crappy posts.
New York is about to flip Trump/Republican for a Generation.
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