General Election 2024

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October 30th, 2024 at 5:50:22 AM permalink
Tanko
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Quote: GenoDRPh
Again, nice spin. But Postal Regulatory Commission reviews Amazon's contracts with the USPS annually and has consistently found that the contracts are profitable.


No spin. Facts.

The Postal Services Governors who are appointed by the President, decide what rates the USPS can charge its customers.

The PRC, which is also appointed by the President, rubber stamps whatever the PSG approves. So, no surprise if it found the USPS was not losing money on the Amazon agreement.

Independent Citigroup Citi Research analysis of USPS parcel rates, found the USPS would have to increase their parcel delivery rates by 50% to break even.

It's not only parcel rates.

'USPS: A Giant Distortion Machine' - Cato

'At the heart of this dispute is the Postal Service’s use of discount deals, called negotiated service agreements,...'

Several current and former industry officials say they believe that Stamps​.com, through several subsidiary companies, has gotten particularly lucrative discount postage deals from the Postal Service and is using them in novel ways that give Stamps​.com an unfair competitive advantage over other companies.

US Taxpayers bailed out the USPS last year with $107 billion.
October 30th, 2024 at 6:11:59 AM permalink
rxwine
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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Disputing elections legally is still fine. Trump can claim until the end of time he was cheated.

For his religious supporters of the Christian faith, "Proverbs 12:22: "Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord..."
Only real derangment going on is people who still believe in Trump
October 30th, 2024 at 6:38:22 AM permalink
terapined
Member since: Aug 6, 2014
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Quote: Tanko
No spin. Facts.

The Postal Services Governors who are appointed by the President, decide what rates the USPS can charge its customers.

The PRC, which is also appointed by the President, rubber stamps whatever the PSG approves. So, no surprise if it found the USPS was not losing money on the Amazon agreement.

Independent Citigroup Citi Research analysis of USPS parcel rates, found the USPS would have to increase their parcel delivery rates by 50% to break even.

It's not only parcel rates.

'USPS: A Giant Distortion Machine' - Cato

'At the heart of this dispute is the Postal Service’s use of discount deals, called negotiated service agreements,...'

Several current and former industry officials say they believe that Stamps​.com, through several subsidiary companies, has gotten particularly lucrative discount postage deals from the Postal Service and is using them in novel ways that give Stamps​.com an unfair competitive advantage over other companies.

US Taxpayers bailed out the USPS last year with $107 billion.

A lot of these deals are because private businesses do a lot of the sorting work for the post office saving the post office lots of money.
I worked for several companies that outgoing mail packages was pre sorted by zip code when given to the post office
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"
October 30th, 2024 at 5:07:43 PM permalink
DoubleGold
Member since: Jan 26, 2023
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Trump wearing orange attire in a garbage truck:

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“This Truck is in Honor of Kamala and Joe Biden” – EPIC! Trump Trolls Democrats After Getting Picked Up in MAGA Garbage Truck (VIDEO)

Oct. 30, 2024
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A big beautiful MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN garbage truck awaited Trump after he landed in Green Bay, Wisconsin on Wednesday.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/this-truck-is-honor-kamala-joe-biden-epic/

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October 30th, 2024 at 5:23:26 PM permalink
DoubleGold
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October 30th, 2024 at 6:43:58 PM permalink
Tanko
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Color coordinated.

October 31st, 2024 at 1:26:15 AM permalink
Shrek
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Tim Walz fumbles common football term, gets scorched on social media: 'You don’t run a pick 6!'

Tim Ballz claims he was a football coach, yet he doesn't even know what a "Pick 6" is?!?!? LOL!!
Dude is proving to be as much of a loser as the current VP! 😂😂

Also it looks like someone just couldn't help himself and got in trouble again. *sigh
Let's hope he learns his lesson this time!

TRUMP 2024!!!
October 31st, 2024 at 2:17:50 AM permalink
OnceDear
Member since: Nov 21, 2017
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Quote: Tanko
Color coordinated.

To add context. drumph wore the high vis vest to drive a trump emblazoned garbage truck to his Wisconsin Rally. He continued to wear it during his rally.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14022487/Donald-trump-kamala-harris-garbage-truck-wisconsin-rally.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-garbage-truck-vest-green-bay-puerto-rico-b2638769.html

This can surely, only be described as a 'stunt' by any observer from whichever side. Straight out of a playbook where 'no-publicity is bad publicity'

Also, it must be obvious that this idea came straight out of drumph's own head, By drumph's own admission, he was trying to highlight a recent gaffe by Biden, but he seemed to not recognise that he was equally reminding everyone of Tony Hinchcliffe's outrageous slur against Puerto Rico, which was read from a GOP teleprompter at a drumph rally. A 'Joke' that surely represented drumph's and GOP's official opinion of Puerto Rico, and by extension, its voters.

So drumph may just have failed to see the counterproductive nuance and tactical error in his own stunt.

Do you really want a president that is so immature? Does this child represent you? Qualify to speak and act for you with the levers of power?

Oh. and also note in the video, how he fumbles opening the truck door.
October 31st, 2024 at 5:18:15 AM permalink
Tanko
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Quote: OnceDear
Do you really want a president that is so immature? Does this child represent you? Qualify to speak and act for you with the levers of power?


The TDS is strong in you Obi.

Levers of Power. You forgot about the Abraham Accords where Morocco, UEA, Sudan and Bahrain signed peace agreements with Israel. Something no other world leader, or the thirteen presidents before him could do. Re-negotiating NAFTA, which had cost our economy 4.5 million manufacturing jobs. Sanctions on Iran that cut their oil production 67% and limited their ability to develop nuclear weapons and fund terrorism.

Do you think Hamas and Hezbollah would have invaded Israel if Trump was still President?

Do you think Putin would have invaded Ukraine?

Americans across every demographic had a far better quality of life when Trump was president.

According to the Census Bureau, incomes reached a record high, and the level of poverty reached a record low in 2019.

In the first two years of the Trump administration, US Household debt increased by $0.86 trillion.

Under the Biden administration, US Household debt increased by $2.4 trillion, despite $1.9 trillion in stimulus spending to juice the economy.

In the first two years of the Trump administration, US Real Annual Median Income increased by $6,400 or 8.55%.

In the past nearly four years of the Biden administration, US Real Annual Median Income increased $1,050 or 1.3%.

In 2017, 70% of Americans considered themselves middle class.

In 2024, 54% of Americans consider themselves middle class.

There is no single definition of Middle Class, but in 2017, the middle 60% of Americans received 44.7% of the total income in the United States.

By the second quarter of 2024, 60% of Americans received 30.8% of the total wealth in the U.S. A 13.9% decrease.
October 31st, 2024 at 6:41:42 AM permalink
terapined
Member since: Aug 6, 2014
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Quote: Tanko



Do you think Hamas and Hezbollah would have invaded Israel if Trump was still President?

Do you think Putin would have invaded Ukraine?

Americans across every demographic had a far better quality of life when Trump was President

If you caught covid, no
Typical American
They think everything on the Planet revolves around a US President.
Maybe Putin waited till Merkel retired
Maybe Hamas waited till Merkel retired
Maybe Putin and Hamas don't give a crap who leads the US and Germany and are going to do whatever
ROTFL
On the flip side this argument just as valid
No doubt Putin is thinking to himself. I fu@ked up attacking while Biden is President. Now I'm reduced to begging N Korea for troops. What was I thinking.
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"