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.
Still don’t get what gave “doge” the authority to do any of this shit.
Thoughts and Prayers for the Democrats’ outrage. Someone really oughta do something. 🤦
They’ll feel better after sending a few dozen fundraising texts to half of America.
Oh no the Democrats are outraged. That’s definitely the worst result of this decision, obviously
I might rewatch the postman. Seems topical right now.
Uh oh, Democrats are outraged. There will be hell to pay now.
It’s the way they do stupid journalism. Who’s outraged the most I’m sure is USPS workers
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…
Most advanced countries have a mail delivery system.
America is a shit hole.
They want to privatize everything
Democrats outraged.
Like they will do something.
DeJoy was installed exactly to make a shift towards privatizing USPS. Don’t think this isn’t part of the same plan. These grifters see only dollar signs for themselves.
IIRC DeJoy owns 2 or 3 competitors to USPS, so yeah.
Also Biden had 4 years to remove DeJoy, which is one of the biggest indicators to me he works for the same rich masters
Biden couldn’t unilaterally do that, but laws don’t mean anything anymore and he should have just done it and sent him to an ice detention center in Louisiana
According to the Supreme Court, he could have.
Biden should have had trump in jail along with the rest of these fascist nazi fuckers.
DeJoy, a Republican megadonor, assumed the position in 2020 during President Donald Trump‘s first term.
Oh he’s assumed the position alright.
The financial struggles of the post office are manufactured by the Republican party
Ooh. Outrage.
“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.
Let me get this straight: At the same time as Republicans trying to increase the workload at the USPS by eliminating the de minimis exemption for tariffs, DOGE is reducing the capability of the USPS to handle tariffs.
If you are looking for a group of unintelligent people, DOGE seems to be the place to find them.
They want it to fail so they can privatize it.
Do you think they care about function? Are you not already aware that destruction and mayhem are the points? These a-holes are not here to serve or help the public, they are here to cause as much damage to the US (and US interests) as possible. The wrecking-ball of Speed and Confusion are among the tactics used. The plan seems to be: once the corpse is bled and torn asunder, it’ll get divvied out to the other richer a-holes (donor class) waiting for their cut whilst the US as a superpower is severely diminished or wiped out. Unfortunately for all involved, it appears to be working.
“Under pressure” hahaha
Good thing those people aren’t known to fly off the handle and shoot those who anger them.
