Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[masterhorus8]

More than 70 former national security officials who served under Republican administrations have endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, joining a wave of GOP voices throwing their support behind the former vice president.

That last paragraph there is such an important part of all of this.

[Breccia]

That last paragraph there is such an important part of all of this.

Former republican FBI and CIA officials are putting their support behind Biden tomorrow, calling Trump corrupt and unfit for office.

Indeed. The Senate set, US Intel needs to spike.

[Twdft]

When DeJoy restricted overtime two months ago, Scantlebury and other workers saw their schedules cut back to five days per week. Within days, he said, the facility was in chaos.

How does that work though? If cutting overtime means immediate chaos the facility must have been seriously understaffed to begin with. Does the USPS employ fewer people than needed for the job and then work them to the bone with overtime all the time?

[draynay]

Does the USPS employ fewer people than needed for the job and then work them to the bone with overtime all the time?

Isn't that what everyone does?

[Elegiac]

When DeJoy restricted overtime two months ago, Scantlebury and other workers saw their schedules cut back to five days per week. Within days, he said, the facility was in chaos.

How does that work though? If cutting overtime means immediate chaos the facility must have been seriously understaffed to begin with. Does the USPS employ fewer people than needed for the job and then work them to the bone with overtime all the time?

Lean staffing is pretty baseline practice in the private sector these days.

[PhaelixWW]

Lean staffing is pretty baseline practice in the private sector these days.

Lean staffing + massive overtime, not so much. At least not with hourly wages.

[DarkTZeratul]

When DeJoy restricted overtime two months ago, Scantlebury and other workers saw their schedules cut back to five days per week. Within days, he said, the facility was in chaos.

How does that work though? If cutting overtime means immediate chaos the facility must have been seriously understaffed to begin with. Does the USPS employ fewer people than needed for the job and then work them to the bone with overtime all the time?

Short answer, yes.

[Benggaul]

When DeJoy restricted overtime two months ago, Scantlebury and other workers saw their schedules cut back to five days per week. Within days, he said, the facility was in chaos.

How does that work though? If cutting overtime means immediate chaos the facility must have been seriously understaffed to begin with. Does the USPS employ fewer people than needed for the job and then work them to the bone with overtime all the time?

They were already struggling thanks to COVID-19 and previous cutbacks. They've been pretty shoestring for a while, but when the pandemic hit they lost a lot of employees (temporarily and permanently) and saw a sudden surge in mail--mostly packages--because of the people who started working from home or otherwise quarantining.

Instead of hiring people to take up the slack and man the machines in the meantime--you know, creating jobs in the middle of the highest unemployment the US has seen in ages--DeJoy made further cutbacks and started scrapping machinery. Because that's what you do when you're actively sabotaging the thing you've been put in charge of.

[Breccia]

Desperate to change the narrative, GOP launches investigation into Benghazi 2.0.

Specifically, they subpoena'd an Obama official who apparently picked up Steele's dossier. Considering he didn't research it or write it, this is purely a show with no chance of leading to anything realistic.

[PhaelixWW]

Meanwhile, another Republican Senator has tested positive for COVID-19.

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy announced Thursday that he’s tested positive for the coronavirus and is experiencing some COVID-19 symptoms. He said he is quarantining in Louisiana.

The Republican senator, 62, who is running for reelection on the Nov. 3 ballot, is experiencing “mild symptoms that began this morning,” from COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, his spokesman Cole Avery said.

Cassidy, a physician, said in a statement that he was tested after being notified Wednesday night that he’d been exposed to someone infected with the virus. The senator said he is adhering to medical guidance and notifying people with whom he may have come into contact.

[Edge-]

I feel like he hasn't been out there being an asshole about masks (at least not that I've seen) and he's taking the appropriate measures now that he's confirmed to have it.

I think that brings us to 15 members of the House who have tested positive now?

[PhaelixWW]

I feel like he hasn't been out there being an asshole about masks (at least not that I've seen) and he's taking the appropriate measures now that he's confirmed to have it.

I think that brings us to 15 members of the House who have tested positive now?

I think you meant Congress, there, not House, but this site indicates that 2 Senators (both Republican) as well as 12 Representatives (5 D, 7 R) have tested positive (or been presumed positive) for COVID-19. Many, many more have quarantined.

[Breccia]

Trump promises to bring US troops home from Iraq no really I mean it this time.

"I don't have a timeline," Trump didn't say but it was implied, "it'll be around the time my next close associate gets arrested and I need a distraction."

[zorkuus]

Trump promises to bring US troops home from Iraq no really I mean it this time.

"I don't have a timeline," Trump didn't say but it was implied, "it'll be around the time my next close associate gets arrested and I need a distraction."

Any word on his miracle cure for Covid? He said it'll be ready in two weeks (whenever that was).

[Breccia]

Any word on his miracle cure for Covid? .

I understand it's hydrochloroquine oleander huffing bleach the Russian vaccine fish tank cleaner better health care for more people for less money why doesn't anyone believe me? coming any day now.

[Paranoid Android]

The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court's decision and grant President Trump the ability to block his critics on Twitter

First, why is the Justice Department litigating Trump's problems? Second, this friking, baby, man child is again so focused on this that he wants to waste time of the DOJ and SCOTUS.

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President Trump will appear every night at the RNC, which is billed with the theme “Honoring the Great American Story," and will feature members of Congress, Internet-famous conservatives and people “who lived under the perils of socialism.”

Narcissist.

[Edge-]

Narcissist.

I mean yes...but not for that reason. His base would revolt if he wasn't on camera every night. The GOP is a cult of personality waging a culture war, not a political party with an ideological foundation.

[Breccia]

Narcissist.

It is the Party of Trump, after all. And he loves being on TV.

[Paranoid Android]

How much you want to be it is him ranting and raving all those nights.

Watch this video! Steve Bannon accusing the Clintons of being “grifters” and fleecing their own donors. Well....

They always are projecting.

[Breccia]

They always are projecting.

Wasn't the Clinton Foundation investigated over and over, while they turned over all their taxes openly?