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Crippling the USPS with additional fuel costs and shitty low mileage vehicles will work out great I'm sure.
As designed so they can privatize.
Not just that. They're going to cripple these services so bad that they don't even function and then blame their ineptitude on this sick remnant of the Democratic past, while they point at the flaws they created as justification.
You won't have a choice. You don't, actually.
Easier to control mail in ballots if it's privatized.
Whatever oil wants, oil gets.
After paying Trump millions, yeah
And his dipshit USPS head is still there waiting for his time to shine.
Exclusive: Trump does stupid shit. more at 11.
Hey look! Let's just raise a huge middle finger to what's left of our ecosystems.
How did it go? Yes, humanity was destroyed, but for one moment we maximized profits!
Not to mention that carriers love the new trucks.
Because they're heated and actually safe to drive and don't break down every two months like the old mail vehicles.
They'll still get the gas powered ones. Pretty much have to; those old mail trucks are far past their expiration date.
You’re assuming trump intends to keep the USPS. He wants to destroy/privatise it. He said so all the way back in 2021, but at the time, didn’t have a mandate to actually accomplish it.
His cronies stand to make billions if the USPS is dismantled and all mail and shipping can go through their companies instead.
At this point, it's not really about maximizing profits, it's about trying to undo every change Biden made
At this point, it’s not really about maximizing profits, it’s about trying to undo every change Biden made
Its even worse. The new truck was likely by Dejoy, Trump's own appointee.
Trump's is Putin's puppet. He's set to destroy whatever he can.
The way he talked about Putin making Obama look dumb... he thinks that when you act like an asshole and tear down what someone built that it makes the other person look bad.
That's cause he's a bully. He's only ever brought people down to bring himself up. He thinks this is the same thing.
There it is!
Those trucks get like six miles to the gallon, they're a massive liability on American finances. If the average price of gas changes by a cent that's something like nearly a million dollars difference. This isn't maximizing profit, this is just being petty to own the libs.
Trump doesn't care. He's going to be dead in a few years and as far as he's concerned, the entire universe could instantly implode afterward.
In fact, he probably thinks the universe ends when his finite energy battery that keeps his fat ass from exercising gives out.
More EVs means lower gas prices.
This drives up gas prices.
Killing the tax credit drives up gas prices.
It's quite remarkable how economically m ignorant a large section of America is. Supply and demand is the easiest model to understand and yet these voters have been positioned to work against their own best interest at a basic economic level.
And this is only one a hundreds of examples. Fascinating time to be alive.
Dumb take.
Everybody knows the real cause of high gas prices is Joe Biden. Haven't you seen the stickers on the pumps? It says it right there..."I did that", with a picture of Biden's face.
Better get my passive aggressive stickers ready
~~Passive~~ aggressive. FTFY
One of the main problems of the Dems is playing nice, and expecting rules to be followed.
It's time to fight using their weapons.
I was just thinking the other day someone needs to cut out a picture of Trump pointing for this purpose. If he actually implements all the things he's saying, there will be MANY opportunities to slap that on prices (even if it's only in memes online).
I don't understand why the left doesn't take a page out of the rights playback in this regard. We've seen how effective things like this and memes are at changing people's beliefs, yet nobody is willing to try it. They'd rather have some graduate-level economics professor try to explain how things work to a bunch of people with a 4th grade reading level in order to educate them, but this is an obviously flawed approach that doesn't work.
I mean it doesn't need to be a coordinated act from "the left".
Go print some stupid Trump stickers that say "I did that" and go stick them on everything. When gas goes up, stick them on the pumps. When electronics go up. Stick them on the boxes at best buy.
The issue isn't "the left" as some amorphous organization. It's that most people who align more left aren't that petty. The left is a much more disorganized, factions political position than the right. And that's because the GOP has worked relentlessly to build a cohesive base.
More EVs means lower gas prices.
This drives up gas prices.
I know, it's almost as though the multinational oil corporations and their shareholders who backed all three of Trump's campaigns want higher oil and gas prices for some reason... what could that be?
That part at least makes sense.
It's all the voters with their massive gas guzzling vehicles that are voting against their best interest. Over and over again.
The fact is that you're politically engaged and the average voter is not.
They're not dumb or anything, but politics and economics are not things for which they look past their noses. Politics and economics are complex topics and that's why Trump's antics and tactics work so well. He stays in the headlines and gets people feeling like they're part of a team. For a similar example, loads of folks don't pay attention to NFL players, teams, and coaches during the off season... but once games start happening, allegiances are taken. Even if a neighboring or different franchise might have a better chance of winning (thus make you feel like a winner by proxy) you might still just cheer on the team that first caught your attention/is in your geographic area. People don't want a sermon and they definitely don't want to be scolded... they want to be on a winning team regardless of the consequences of that choice (leopards eating faces, etc, etc).
Reuters has previously reported that Trump is planning to kill a $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric vehicle purchases
Noooo! My friends just bought EVs and they're gonna be so smug if I don't get the credit!
The existing fleet is past aging out, they are often held together with patch welds and duct tape in my area. Is the plan ride it until the wheels literally fall off, with no replacements in pipeline?
Actually yes. They want to privatize it so that they can make money on it. Failure is the goal.
"Failure is the goal" needs to be the subtitle of every news story for the foreseeable future.
Yeah but even if that's the play - could private business even fill the gap? USPS stretches the final miles deep into places not profitable to deliver to. Businesses, doing business stuff, use it to economically have their products available to the rural communities that voted these policies in.. it's all so confusing.
Is mailing a letter automated space communism? Sheesh.
And ironically, it’s the flyover deep red parts of the country that are the most rural, and therefore the most unprofitable legs of these delivery services. As with so many other GOP policies, it would mostly impact their supporters.
Why is that a question? How else do you plan to privatize one of the most ubiquitous federal services?
Don't worry, Elon Musk has a much better idea for a postal vehicle. All he needs is 10 years and 1 trillion dollars and he'll be ready with the prototype.
And then the prototype will be just the regular robotaxi where he stuffed a bunch of letters on the passender seat. Car is meant go from house to house and then honk untill people come down and pick up their stuff from the seat. Unfortunately, the vehicle only works in movie studios with a pre-programmed route. Those of you not living in a movie studio will have to pick up their stuff at the next Tesla dealer for a small fee of $10.
usps should go on strike if this happens
Keep in mind, this is a new Gilded Age. Trump would most certainly call in the Pinkertons for some good ol' fashioned strike breaking.
Not an option for most, I'd wager. Federal employees are free to unionize, however it is a felony crime for a federal employee to strike against the government. Furthermore, it's a felony to even assert that this is right you have, or to join an organization which asserts that right. The government's HR department, the Office of Personnel Management, is able to bar any person who violates these provisions from federal employment for life.
Laws more or less to this effect have been on the books since the 40s and 50s, but the issue came to a head in the early 80s when thousands of air traffic controllers went on strike against the FAA after contract negotiations fell through. Reagan ordered the controllers back to work, and, when they refused, summarily fired them. Where they couldn't be replaced be scabs, he activated the military to fill in, citing national security. According to the last article I read, of the 13,000 striking employees, 11,000 were fired and barred from future employment (though I think Clinton rolled some of that back in the 90s).
Considering it's clear that the GOP benefits from government dysfunction, and does everything they can to erode public faith in institutions, striking postal workers would be a gift served on a silver platter for them. Trump will giddily fire every last one of the strikers, be praised for being a big strong man who doesn't negotiate with plebs, and the postal service will be de facto shutter, even if it still exists in as diminished a form as they can get away with while still satisfying whatever requirements there are to have such an institution.
Obviously striking always carries risk, but asking someone to almost certainly throw away their livelihoods for a course of action that will likely only accelerate Trump et al.'s goals is unreasonable.
I remember reading Dante's Inferno for the first time. I'm glad to be reminded of that.
I can't say watching red wisconsin counties get fucked hard by Trump doing the thing everyone expected him to do isn't satisfying