Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Messing with the Post Office is messing with life

Posted On Aug 20, 2020 By admin With Comments Off

The Post Office Is Deactivating Mail Sorting Machines Ahead of the Election

Good thing nobody’s anticipate a huge flow in mail any time soon

The United Regime Postal services is removing forward sorting machines from equipment all over the country without any official explanation or ground payed, Motherboard has learned through interviews with postal workers and union officials. In many cases, these are the same machines that would be tasked with sorting ballots, calling into question promises made by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy that the USPS has “ample capacity” to handle the prophesied rise in mail-in referendums.

“There’s so much charity sent through the mail.” — Sheridan Hay, The Secret of Lost Things

— Greg Dworkin (@ DemFromCT) August 16, 2020

Swath of agricultural Americans say their lives are tough and grumble they’ve been “forgotten” and vote for people who work to make their lives harder. Trade war, engaged to cut healthcare patronage , now subsidized forward. No one has to prioritize those issues. But that’s what you voted for.

— Nicholas Grossman (@ NGrossman8 1) August 16, 2020

If this USPS interference was intended to be stealth cheating, – good luck. It’s blatant, exposed, and a mushrooming political narration that is not going to end well for Trump.

JUST IN: Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats this evening that the House will be called back from August recess — likely on Saturday, Axios is told — to act to “save the Postal Service.” https :// t.co/ OcLCTzO3QZ

— Axios (@ axios) August 16, 2020

Politico 😛 TAGEND

Pelosi weighs drawing House back early to address Postal services crisis

The chamber has no votes scheduled until mid-September, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi might accompany lawmakers back sooner.

Democrats are looking to address organizational issues at the Postal Service in the coming weeks , not to provide additional funding at this time, according to sources familiar with the discussion.

One option would be to vote on a modified edition of a invoice introduced by House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney( D-N.Y .) earlier this week that would prohibit USPS from implementing a schemed administrative modernize that pundits maintain would retard mail-in voting.

From one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress( yes, the parties are not the same ):

I announced Speaker Pelosi today and asked her to call the House back into hearing immediately to deal with the crisis at the post office. Trump is attempting to sabotage the USPS. https :// t.co/ TMKhoewyey

— Jim Cooper (@ repjimcooper) August 15, 2020

It’s not just referendums the hell is being hindered. It’s life-saving medication and are searching for our ex-servicemen and our elderly. Tampering with the mail is a federal crime, and DeJoy — on Trump’s seeks — is tampering.

— Jim Cooper (@ repjimcooper) August 15, 2020

NY Times :

Postal Crisis Ripples Across Nation as Election Looms

President Trump’s furious objection to mail-in balloting and a brand-new Trump-allied postmaster general are parent fears about the election and the Postal Service.

In Ohio, where forward voting are most likely doubled, batches of undelivered mail are sitting in a Cleveland distribution center. In rural Michigan, diabetes medicine that used to arrive in three days now takes almost two weeks.

Donald Trump’s inept leadership gravely deteriorated the crisis that we are in and he is now taking advantage of it to subvert and destroy our privilege to vote and vote safely. Request a referendum early. Vote early.

— Taylor Swift (@ taylorswift1 3) August 15, 2020

taylor Swift has a follower or two.

This was back in April and still true-life, from Tech Crunch :

If we give the US Postal services die, we’ll be killing small businesses with it

The impacts would have major negative backlashes for e-commerce

Since moving to the United Mood, I’ve come to appreciate and admire the United District Postal services as a typify of American ingenuity and resilience.

Like electricity, dials and the route system, it’s part of our greater storey and what obliges the United District together. But it’s likewise something that’s easy to take for awarded. USPS hands 181. 9 million segments of First Class mail each day without charging an arm and a leg to do so. If you have an address, you are being served by the USPS — and no one’s asking you for currency up front.

Not every country has sag cartons, but every nation has local elections parts, and all but 5 have early voting. If you want to get your ballot well ahead of the election, vote it at your rest, and then return it in person without waiting in line, select one of those 3 options

— Jon Ward (@ jonward1 1) August 14, 2020

Margaret Sullivan/ WaPo 😛 TAGEND

Trump’s attempts on the Postal Service deserve sustained, red-alert coverage from the media

Listen to President Trump long enough, and, despite his fondnes for fib, you’ll eventually hear some unvarnished truth.

That happened Thursday when he territory his intentions clearly in an interview with Fox Business Network. He doesn’t want to approve billions in disaster funding for the cash-strapped and striving U.S. Postal services for a simple reason: Democrats want to expand mail-in voting during the pandemic.

His names were stark: “Now, there is a requirement to that fund in order to have the Post Office work, so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots.” He added that holding back funding implies “they can’t have universal mail-in voting, they just can’t have it.”

In other paroles, he doesn’t want American citizens, dreadful of revelation to the coronavirus, to have every opportunity to vote in November.

After visiting the damage across Iowa from the #derecho, I’m calling out the national media. They must refer more resources to cover the aftermath and delayed federal response. RT if you agree.

— Theresa Greenfield (@ GreenfieldIowa) August 17, 2020

Molly Jong-Fast/ Vogue 😛 TAGEND

Why TrumpWorld Is Losing Its Mind Over Kamala Harris

Example A: Soon after Harris was added to the Democratic ticket, John Kennedy, the U.S. senator from Louisiana, went on Fox and joked that his Senate collaborator was like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ” but without the bartending experience.”

I shouldn’t be surprised- but I am incensed, in a way that I don’t conceive I was back in 2016 when Trump beat Hillary Clinton for the conference of presidents. In 2016, I was “with her” but I was a sweet time child filled with the belief that sexism got a problem that we are also able overcome.

What a difference the Trump administration does. The last three days have been absolutely infuriating. But they’ve too seemed kind of feeble, with Trump trying to figure out how he can start his attacks land on Harris, in ways that worked for him in 2016 with the risible melodies of “Crooked Hillary”and “Lock her up.” Harris is not as easy a target, which Trump knows.( Despite a tweet he sent out saying Harris was “the kind of opponent everyone dreams of! ”, White House insiders have been telling reporters he would have preferred either Susan Rice or Karen Bass on the ticket .) And, as a onetime lawyer, Harris can give as good as she gets. She blinked a view of what Trump can look forward to on the campaign trail this descend when she certified on Wednesday that, based on their mishandling of the pandemic, “The case against Donald Trump and Mike Pence is open and shut.”..

And that’s not where it intent. Trumpworld is enraged! Earlier this week, I watched Tucker Carlson during his basement studio meltdown about mispronouncing Kamala’s list, and then becoming even more livid when he was corrected, as if the vice presidential candidate didn’t merit having her name pronounced precisely. Then, Trump’s favorite Tv pundit, Judge Box of Whine( aka Jeanine Pirro) said “I believe Joe Biden isn’t even going to be on the ticket in the end because I can’t believe he < a> would pick “womens issues”.” The suggest here is that Kamala is being controlled by some other pressure or that Biden is being controlled by some other force or that Judge Box of Whine is being controlled by some other force. And that’s not the only disgusting attack against Kamala. After all the coverage about her being the first Black woman to join a national ticket, members of the republican media immediately hit back, saying she wasn’t truly Black, which for those of you keeping track at home is what we call racism and likewise something the right wing media did to Obama.

BREAKING: Joe Biden includes a 12 phase result over Pres. Trump among registered voters, 53 -4 1 %, and a similar 10 quality conduct among likely voters, 54 -4 4 %, according to brand-new ABC News/ Washington Post survey. https :// t.co/ gXKr0QOiQC

— ABC News (@ ABC) August 17, 2020

Jamelle Bouie /NY Times 😛 TAGEND

Black Like Kamala

Republican efforts to deny Senator Harris’s identity as an African-American and turn her into a noncitizen are destined to fail.

Jamaica, dwelling to a remorseless and brutal orchard arrangement, was at the center of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, a major node in Britain’s Atlantic empire, along with the Bahamas and its provinces on the North American coast.

Many Jamaicans trace their sources directly to slavery and the mass importation of African captives. Located on a genealogical chronicle by her parent, there is a strong chance Kamala Harris is one of them. What’s more, countless progenies of enslaved people in the Americas have European ancestry on account of the pervasive forms of sexual violence whites continued wherever slavery made root.

Having said all of that, this dictation to race Harris’s identity — which continued on Thursday with President Trump’s clumsy attempt to stoke another “birther” controversy, this time about a woman born in Oakland in 1964 — sacrifices us an opportunity to think more profoundly about the contours of ethnic identity in the United Commonwealth, and Black American identity in particular.

2. More than 60% of voters say the U.S. response to the coronavirus has been in vain Very successful 8% Somewhat successful 28% Somewhat unsuccessful 22% Very abortive 39% Not sure 3%

— Mark Murray (@ mmurraypolitics) August 16, 2020

4. Obama& Kamala Harris have the highest net fav/ unfav tallies in the survey Obama 54% fav, 34% unfav (+ 20) Harris 39% fav, 35% unfav (+ 4) Pence 39% fav, 44% unfav( -5) Biden 39% fav, 45% unfav( -6) Trump 40% fav, 52% unfav( -1 2)

— Mark Murray (@ mmurraypolitics) August 16, 2020

Margin of mistake inconsistency from July, and not good digits for Trump.

Biden hampers advantages of 80 degrees among Black voters, 26 stations among Hispanic voters and 7 items among those 65 or older, while Trump has a lead of 51 stations among grey, missionary voters and 24 stations among white voters without a college grade: https :// t.co/ aZYFfLlCO8 pic.twitter.com/ uLrKpGVWDn

— John McCormick (@ McCormickJohn) August 16, 2020

Biden needs to keep the white vote share >= 40%. Here, it’s 42( Biden + 9 overall ). Pew( Biden +8) had it at 45%. ABC/ WaPo has 45%( Biden +10 LV ). And CBS/ YouGov( Biden +10 LV) had it at 41.

The FiveThirtyEight aggregate has Biden + 8.4 as of this writing, even with an outlier CNN poll( Biden +4 ). That represents no change , no tightening.

What I’ve learned so far this year: Democrats make the polling too seriously, and Republican don’t guess any of it–unless it registers Trump onward, of course.

— Larry Sabato (@ LarrySabato) August 17, 2020

EJ Dionne/ WaPo 😛 TAGEND

The convention that could bend history

Their hopes are not fanciful. President Trump’s disastrous fumbling in the face of a pandemic and fiscal crumble invites comparison to Hoover’s haplessness, even if the 31 st chairperson was as morally upright as the 45 th is not.

Every second of the accumulate will be an advertisement of Trump’s failure: The convention that could not meet because of the health crisis the incumbent could not manage.

And a New Deal-style commitment to active, fact-based, problem-solving government genuinely does parallel the climate of a country that wants a virus defeated, jobs and incomes on the rise again and fairness enshrined in the economic system.

And a great cover illustration with a great story centered in PA and Trump’s Potemkin campaign…

On the make of @nymag: the history of The Trump campaign, based on my interrogations with more than 30 roots from the 2020& 2016 campaigns, Republicans in politics& authority at all levels,& people acting at the highest ranks of the Trump administration. https :// t.co/ dGDODzls8U pic.twitter.com/ jiNZrofZwm

— Olivia Nuzzi (@ Olivianuzzi) August 16, 2020