Postmaster General Louis Dejoy, derided by Democrats as a mere Trump crony, cancels long-planned USPS cost-cutting reforms to please Democrats who claim President Trump plans to delay mail-in ballots to rescue his doomed reelection campaign. Meanwhile, John Ratzenberger, who played Cliff Clavin on ‘Cheers’, offers his own Postal Service rescue plan.
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Bill Whittle Network ยท Clavin Saves the USPS, As Trump’s Crony Postmaster Cancels Reforms to Please Democrats
26 replies on “Clavin Saves the USPS, As Trump’s Crony Postmaster Cancels Reforms to Please Democrats”
I am thinking and hoping that many, like me, who have remained silent about my support of DJT, will turn out in massive numbers such that there is no doubt of a decisive electoral win, as in 2016. There is little enthusiasm on the left for Biden, so let’s just crush them…please, make the little effort to vote, and let the left know their statist dreams are unicorn piss.
If you are a mail-in voter, just don’t mail it. Hand deliver it to your local election commission office.
1) I think “Election Day” in years of presidential elections should be a national holiday (except for the Post Office–they already have enough holidays). Many schools are used as polling places, so why give teachers the day off? Give everyone the day off to celebrate the right to vote in this great representative republic. The population in the US, especially in dense urban areas, simply cannot be expected to stand in long lines at the end of the day after work when many have family obligations and dinner to put on the table. This would spread out the vote throughout the day. (Every employer I ever had allowed me to take time off to vote during work hours so I didn’t have to deal with lines.) And I would think it would amiliorate the need to extend polling hours to accommodate those lines.
2) Allow only absentee and in-personal voting; No early voting. No junk mail voting. And no vote harvesting. Dems wanted those changes to create chaos in close elections. Is it any wonder why those changes always seem to help democrat candidates? And there is no reason every precinct shouldn’t be able to tally and report its counts by midnight. After that, people are tired, and that’s when mistakes are made.
3) Between now and the 2024 election, take a small percentage of every cabinet department budget, and allocate those funds to state election commissions in proportion to their efforts to clean up their voting rolls. Who can argue that it’s not in the national interest at every cabinet level? Carrot and stick politics.
4) Who will Jeffrey Epstein be voting for?
5) I proudly wear my “I Voted” sticker on Election Day. Though, I think an “I VOTED” stamp using India ink on my hand would be an improvement.
“Democrats are just evil bastards who will say anything.”
Here endeth the lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbkDa0OZetk
P.S. Scott: “That’s not just government. That’s civics.” SO well said!
PPS: Earlier in the movie, Connery’s character asks Ness, “What are you prepared to do?”
Ness: “Everything within the law.”
Connery: :And THEN what are you prepared to do? . . . If you open the ball on this, Mr. Ness, you must be prepared to go all the way. . . because they won’t give up the fight until one of you is dead.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbkDa0OZetk
After Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the Kims, Che, Castro, Chavez, BLM and Antifa, do you really doubt it?
USPS problems go wa-a-a-y-y-y back. When I used to read Government Executive magazine back in the early ’80s, the problems of the USPS was detailed several times. I don’t remember who the Postmaster General was, but I do remember that he stated his biggest problem was to get the Postal Workers Union to understand the problem and become part of the solution. As long as the Postal Workers Union blindly supports the Democrats, the USPS will never be reformed. Doubt me? Check out how bad our public education system is. And who does the NEA and their unions support? You got it – Democrats. How about we do away with government unions altogether? Of course, Hell will freeze over before that happens.
Well that just simplified my Christmas shopping. Thanks Cliff Clavin!
I’ve posted this before (I think), but if you do a mail in ballot, look at the outside of the return envelope and see if there’s a R or a D on it and blot it out with a felt tip marker. Here’s a link that explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PRcNFaW770&feature=youtu.be Obviously you know which one to blot out.
On the bright side of this, it just might be that this mail in ballot thing will backfire on the Democrats because more Republicans will be able to come out and vote the Democrats. Just a thought.
is there perchance a word or two missing in your reply? Not quite clear to me.
Just that Republicans can vote by mail to.
In California, we have received something from the SD Registrar that has info about voting by mail. You have to sign up online to get the info pamphlet that usually comes a couple months ahead of the election. That site has been down for over a week. You send in a card (your own postage) to get a sample ballot online. I am ok with that but assume it will be difficult for those with no computer.
The Vote Safer at Home flyer states that anyone can fill out their ballot and drop it off at the Registrar’s Office or ANY POLLING PLACE. That is what I am going to do. Take my filled out ballot and stick in the box that people who vote in person use. Not a mail box. They can check my ID or whatever. Just as long as I can run my ballot in the proper box so it is counted right away. Not…maybe, or, whenever they get to it.
Go ahead and fill out your ballot California people. Just deliver it in person.
Great advice. California automatically changed me to a mail-in voter. I attempted to change it back, but the attempt failed. So I always take my ballot to either a polling place or I drive to the Registrar’s Office to turn it in. You can then go to the website and double-check to make sure your ballot was accepted.
I suppose the local library could help with ballot requesting, as they also have the IRS forms, or at least they used to.
If they were open ….
For this year, yes. Some of this has to be part of a full system however, with 20 year plans. I suppose that might be too much to ask of some of our government but that’s one of those tell’s I guess, what are they not talking about (because they want it hidden) or because they are in such a rush to “do something!” that they haven’t engaged the brain/mouth connection (never mind the filter). Kinda like Fire! Ready, aim…
Yeah, I’m voting in person come hell or high water. In fact, with a lot of mumbling about election judges not feeling safe to work the polls, I’m going to see if I can help out there this election.
Weird, I’m a bit young for Cheers (I was 8 when the show ended), so to me John Ratzenberger is the guy who’s in every Pixar movie.
Give it a shot on Netflix or Amazon it holds up quite well.
I’m a vote-in-person purist. I hate early voting and mail-in voting. I think all electronic voting should be prohibited by constitutional amendment and we should get our thumbs dyed purple after voting instead of a sticker. I think this is headed for “voting online,” which will be the end of our republic.
In my county, the Democrat Party in power has recently instituted “count-wide” voting where you can vote at any polling place in the county–so that they can close 3/4 of the voting precinct polling places (justified, no doubt, by cutting costs). These are the same people who claim that poor people cannot get to a DPS office to obtain a photo ID because it’s too far from where they live. Oh, and it’s all electronic–no paper ballots.
I voted absentee in college, but I always felt like my vote was more susceptible to being lost or discarded because of some alleged fault.
Electronic voting machines are in some ways worse than 100% vote-by-mail. If it’s a computer program, it can and will be hacked. Remember all the “bugs” last time when people complained that their votes were being changed to the other candidate.
I don’t even like the scan-tron vote counters.
I know that Democrats are perfectly capable of cheating with paper ballots too (Kennedy and that SNL senator), but only in very corrupt places. For example, in Chicago, where I lived 30 years ago and am probably still voting Democrat, they almost never had enough Republican “election judges” (polling place volunteers who are supposed to monitor each other to prevent corruption) to go around, so that many polling places were manned only by Democrats. (And sometimes the “Republican” monitors weren’t really Republicans.)
Although I hate early voting, I might be willing to consider a multi-day voting time, as long as all of the days are contiguous and include a weekend and at least one overnight period. This, and some form of absentee voting, are the only concessions I’m willing to make to make it “easier” to vote, and that’s only because I think that someone who takes the trouble to go to their local precinct polling place shouldn’t have to wait in line for hours.
Cliff Clavin – – Andrew Klavan ? Hmmm they do have some remarkable makeup people in Hollywood.
My quick take. Mail in balloting is almost entirely about overcoming Trump’s massive advantage in enthusiasm. Trump supporters will make sure they vote in person. Biden’s voters would stay home if it’s too hot, too cold, too rainy, too long a line, too sunny, too . .you get the idea. The only way to GOTV is to mail everyone a ballot and make it as easy as possible.
Otherwise only the most ardent anti-Tumpers will bother to vote.
Agreed. In general we ought to resist any attempts to make it “easier” to vote. If your vote isn’t important enough to you to bother yourself to go vote, why should anyone else care about your vote?
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It is exceedingly difficult to make the USPS less functional than it already is. Imagine a business that makes a deal to lose money on each package they deliver. Then works to increase that business so they can lose still more money. It like public education needs to be sold to the highest bidder and get the government out of way.
My Grammy Betsy, who wrote letters just about every day, loved receiving stamps for Christmas and birthday. At her age, and she lived to be 8 months shy of a hundred, buying her trinkets and crap just didn’t cut it. Postage stamps can indeed be a great present, but do give considerable thought to the recipient! Don’t give your grandchildren – or Bill Whittle! – stamps!
Quite a marvel for a lady of that age to be writing to her important people. Hope she received many letters in return. God rest her soul in heaven.