Summary
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) agreed to cut 10,000 jobs under pressure from Elon Musk, sparking outrage from Democrats.
Rep. Gerald Connolly warned that Musk and DOGE could push for USPS privatization, harming rural and vulnerable communities.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy defended the cuts, citing USPS’s financial struggles and praising DOGE’s cost-cutting approach. Musk has openly supported privatization.
Postal worker unions pledged to fight any threats to employees’ rights. The USPS has already reduced its workforce by 30,000 since 2021.
“FINANCIAL STRUGGLES”
IT’S.
A PUBLIC.
SERVICE.
WE PAY TO HAVE.
NOT. A FUCKING. BUSINESS. YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES TWATS.
USPS budget was in the black until they were forced to prefund benefits for 75 years - something nobody else is required to do.
The “financial difficulties” they face are completely imposed on them by the government.
This bill was passed with bipartisan support.
For over a decade, the United States Postal Service has been plagued with the onerous burden of prefunding its retiree health care benefits as mandated by the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) of 2006. The mandate requires the Postal Service to prefund its retiree health care benefits 75 years in advance, paying for retirement health care for individuals who haven’t been born yet, let alone enter the workforce.
Exactly, the USPS is forced to be unprofitable for the sole purpose of being able to do shit like this.
Then don’t vote to approve the budget.
We have to vote to pass the budget or Elon shoot the hostage a second time and then we’ll get blamed for it.
FWIW, the vast majority of Democratic lawmakers didn’t, House and Senate combined only 10 did. That being said, nine of those were in the Senate, which they knew was the only place where their votes possibly could have mattered.
So, yeah, after this debacle any of them who don’t start demanding Schumer be removed from his leadership positions are at least going to look like they only voted against this for show once they knew it had the votes to pass. I’m pretty sure they only need a majority of Dems to replace their caucus leader, so if everyone who voted against this budget was actually serious about it they’d have more than enough votes to publicly rebuke this shit in a convincing way.
Louis DeJoy (born 1956 or 1957[citation needed]) is an American businessman serving as the 75th U.S. postmaster general. He was appointed in May 2020 by the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service (USPS). Prior to the appointment, he was the founder and CEO of the logistics and freight company New Breed Logistics and was a major Republican Party donor and fundraiser for Donald Trump.[1] DeJoy is the first postmaster general since 1992 without any previous experience in the USPS and the first postmaster general in U.S. history to come directly from the board of a privately owned competitor to the public–private partnership of the USPS entity.[2] His companies still hold active service contracts with the USPS, generating controversy over conflict of interest.[3]
Member how DeJoy was planted by Trump to fuck up postal voting in 2020 (akin to election fraud), and the Democrats didn’t remove him for 4 years?
It’s almost like the Democrats are a manufactured opposition, owned by the oligarchy, and the US is a corporate dictatorship masquerading as democracy…
Without good postal service, many rural areas are going to be finished off. No more Amazon deliveries. No cheap farm equipment deliveries of small parts and consumables.
That’s fine, because they’re situated inside one of our many media monopoly zones and only have access to the outside world through far-right syndicated radio and TV. They won’t understand what happened or why, but will have Woke Liberalism presented as the cause of all their problems as soon as they ask.
And then, if any of them get too curious, a local Sheriff’s deputy will discover that this dissident wasn’t a real citizen anyway, so they can be quickly and quietly removed from view.
“LOL. Fuck em” - GOP cucks that totally don’t have gay sexual fantasies about trump and musk
And no mail in ballots for them!
Man they’re gonna clutch their pearls so hard
Most advanced countries have a mail delivery system.
America is a shit hole.
They want to privatize everything
DeJoy, a Republican megadonor, assumed the position in 2020 during President Donald Trump‘s first term.
Oh he’s assumed the position alright.
Thoughts and Prayers for the Democrats’ outrage. Someone really oughta do something. 🤦
Oh no the Democrats are outraged. That’s definitely the worst result of this decision, obviously
They’ll feel better after sending a few dozen fundraising texts to half of America.
Democrats outraged.
Like they will do something.
Still don’t get what gave “doge” the authority to do any of this shit.
When you think of only blaming the democrats remember that the voters gave republicans the house, the senate and the presidency.
You earn power by showing you will responsibly use what little power you do have. By not fighting as hard as they can, Democrats are demonstrating that they do not know how to responsibly use power, and they do not deserve more of it.
They’ve done a lot of good when they’ve had power but people have no memory anymore.
I blame TikTok.
“Under pressure” hahaha
Uh oh, Democrats are outraged. There will be hell to pay now.
Yes, I’ve heard that only one of them has voted for the slashing to continue.
Good thing those people aren’t known to fly off the handle and shoot those who anger them.
The amount of online shopping and packages needing delivery has done nothing but increase for a decade; but let’s just slash 40k jobs from the postal service…
