58 minutes ago, Gannan said:

Let me know when Biden picks his favorite media outlet and calls on them first every press conference so they can ask their ridiculous soft ball question and throw in a conspiracy theory.

Let me know when Biden knows where he is and who the people in the room with him are.

2 minutes ago, rambo said:

Let me know when Biden knows where he is and who the people in the room with him are.

Biden is omnipotent.  He knows who is in the room with you right now.

4 minutes ago, rambo said:

Let me know when Biden knows where he is and who the people in the room with him are.

He knew where he was. What a ridiculous comment. In terms of the people in the room, maybe give the guy more than one press conference to get familiar with everyone in the press corps and where they're seated? JFC.

1 hour ago, VanHammersly said:

Biden makes the media his B.  It's great to finally have an alpha in charge.

Harris?

lmao

Just now, sameaglesfan said:

Harris?

Obviously Joe.  But I can see why you'd be confused, since we had a cuck in office for 4 year who sat around and whined about how everyone was treating him.  And to think, some people confused his rudderless whining for strength. 

3 minutes ago, Kz! said:

lmao

  The right wing media complaining about "media swoons" has to be satire, right?

7 minutes ago, VanHammersly said:

  The right wing media complaining about "media swoons" has to be satire, right?

lmfao no?

more radical right wing media bias     

My guess is somebody is Fing with him and putting edibles in his metamucil gummy container.

The media was not particularly friendly yesterday. They pressed him hard on some issues and actually got under his skin at times, but who am I to try reasoning with those still stuck in Trumplandia. 

20 minutes ago, Kz! said:

lmfao no?

And my personal favorite

Imagine printing that with a straight face. 

So if he just called the people asking tough questions "nasty" and refused to acknowledge them, would that have been better?

54 minutes ago, rambo said:

Let me know when Biden knows where he is and who the people in the room with him are.

He's just a different kind of president. 

10 minutes ago, VanHammersly said:

And my personal favorite

Imagine printing that with a straight face. 

I forgot the whole "Trump is going win New York!!!!!!111!!" thing. Delusional F tards. 

Have a feeling I'll be bumping this post in about 9 months to a year.

15 minutes ago, Kz! said:

Have a feeling I'll be bumping this post in about 9 months to a year.

 

Oh, it's getting bumped alright, just not by you. Luckily, you can't lock this thread.

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Democrats introduce ‘DeJoy Act’ in opening salvo against USPS leader’s mail-slowing plan

Prospects for the legislation are unclear, but the move displays deep divisions between the postmaster general and Congress

Democrats are swarming to block a key piece of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year restructuring plan for the U.S. Postal Service, casting doubt on the feasibility of his proposals for achieving financial stability for the agency.

A group of House Democrats on Friday introduced legislation to prohibit the Postal Service from lengthening mail-delivery windows and require it to adhere to present service expectations. They named the bill the Delivering Envelopes Judiciously On-time Year-round Act, or DEJOY Act.

One House aide involved in postal reform legislation introduced in February said some members of the caucus are leery of proceeding with efforts to address the Postal Service’s financial obligations given that DeJoy’s 10-year plan includes sharp reductions in service, including slower timetables for mail delivery and reduced post office hours.

What’s in Louis DeJoy’s 10-year plan for the USPS

Separately, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D) threatened to take legal action to block the service cuts.

Mounting concern among Democrats, who can afford few defections from their narrow House majority if they hope to pass postal reform, could throw off the postmaster general’s entire "Delivering for America” proposal.

DeJoy hopes to save the Postal Service $160 billion over the next decade through a combination of austerity measures, postage price increases and projected package volume growth. But the largest single piece of his plan is dependent on Congress repealing its pre-funding mandate for retiree health care costs, which runs about $5 billion a year. Instead, the agency wants to wind down those payments and enroll future retirees in Medicare, a proposal worth $44 billion.

A bill introduced by Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, chair of the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee, includes both components.

But DeJoy’s designs to slow the mail — even as the Postal Service attempts to rebound from generationally poor service metrics in recent months — and perceived animus toward lawmakers in recent hearings have made those prospects more difficult.

Read the 'DEJOY' Act

Under current "service standards,” or the amount of time the Postal Service allots itself to deliver a piece of mail, it should take no more than three days for a first-class mail item to arrive, regardless of where it is being sent in the United States. Under DeJoy’s new plan, the three-day standard would still apply to 70 percent of first-class mail items. But for the remaining 30 percent — which is roughly 5 billion pieces of mail — the benchmark will go from three to as many as five days based on destination mileage.

"This particular change, going from 100 percent of first-class mail being delivered one to three days to only 70 percent, would be a nonstarter, in my opinion, with the American people,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), who introduced the DEJOY Act with six Democratic co-sponsors, told The Washington Post.

DeJoy’s plan presents service cuts as a necessity given falling mail volume, inconsistency in the Postal Service’s largely private-sector "middle mile” transportation network and spiraling transportation costs required to ferry fewer pieces of mail cross-country.

In an interview Tuesday, DeJoy told The Post that the Postal Service did not view the cuts as a fundamental disruption in service, and that the agency has already submitted plans to the Postal Regulatory Commission to change service standards.

"We do not believe that any of these changes that we are proposing or moving forward on are hugely impacting or changing the structure and the service of the Postal Service,” DeJoy said.

The Postal Service’s chief financial officer, Joseph Corbett, cautioned during a Tuesday webinar announcing the plan that failure to swiftly adopt any of its tenants would come with significant ramifications.

Q&A: For Louis DeJoy, USPS plan is a reflection of hard choices and new realities

"If we encounter roadblocks with any of the major elements, we quickly get into negative territory and may face annual losses for the coming decade,” Corbett said. "The scale of consequences from being constrained or slowed in our implementation of initiatives would be sizable.”

But mail industry experts worry that degrading service standards could chase away businesses that can no longer afford or tolerate slower, more expensive delivery. DeJoy’s plan also calls for price increases, but he declined to disclose them in the webinar or in the interview. Several mailing firms and advocacy organizations are suing the agency’s regulator to block it from allowing the Postal Service to raise prices.

Industry officials are also critical of the plan’s pivot toward the Postal Service’s package business and away from paper mail. DeJoy in the interview with The Post said he was "not a magician” and "I can’t create the need for mail.”

"In the entire fifty-eight pages of the plan there does not appear to be any effort to retain mail volume,” PostCom, a national postal commerce advocacy group, wrote in its Thursday industry bulletin. "Apart from price increases and service reductions, there is little about mail in the plan at all. That’s inaction.”

"This part of the plan will drive mail volume down to levels not seen since before it reached 100 billion in 1980,” the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers wrote in its newsletter. "If we mailers win our federal lawsuit, the plan is sunk.”

As USPS delays persist, bills, paychecks and medications are getting stuck in the mail

Lawmakers are beginning to share that concern as they are bombarded with calls from local constituents worried about if their medications, paychecks and bills will arrive late. Already over the summer when DeJoy implemented a smaller round of service cuts, major mail-order pharmacies told Senate investigators that some patients experienced "significant” delays in receiving mailed prescriptions. In recent months, untold numbers of consumers have complained of late fees assessed on bills that were held up in the mail.

"This is the best way to kill your business,” Krishnamoorthi said, "which is to basically say to your customers, ‘We’re not going to meet your expectations. You’re going to meet our service realities, regardless of what ends up happening.’”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/03/26/usps-dejoy-act/

 

2 hours ago, Kz! said:

Have a feeling I'll be bumping this post in about 9 months to a year.

He just said he's running again in 2024. 

lmfao

Not only is gas skyrocketing, they want to top it off with new taxes. Brilliant!  

1 hour ago, Kz! said:

lmfao

Not only is gas skyrocketing, they want to top it off with new taxes. Brilliant!  

 

Seems outlandish. How would that even work?

28 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

 

Seems outlandish. How would that even work?

Your privacy will be invaded, by some device in a car. Unless you already stupid enough to have a device in your car for car insurance purposes. 

1 hour ago, Kz! said:

lmfao

Not only is gas skyrocketing, they want to top it off with new taxes. Brilliant!  

Hurts low income families the most who can't afford to live closer to cities and have to drive into work. Brilliant idea Pete. 

1 hour ago, DaEagles4Life said:

Your privacy will be invaded, by some device in a car. Unless you already stupid enough to have a device in your car for car insurance purposes. 

Or they could look at the odometer reading when you renew your registration/inspection each year...

4 hours ago, DaEagles4Life said:

Your privacy will be invaded, by some device in a car. Unless you already stupid enough to have a device in your car for car insurance purposes. 

 

That's pretty much what I was getting at. I can't see such a thing ever becoming law. In any case, they can kiss my ass.