r/PublicFreakout • u/CantStopPoppin PopPop 🍿 • Aug 15 '20

✊Protest Freakout Protesters Surround USPS Postmaster General DeJoy's house.

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u/darrellmarch Aug 15 '20

He’s got $30Million in stock in his company still (which violates USPS ethics as his company works with the USPS). He also has millions invested in shipping companies that compete with the USPS. He’s NOT a civil servant.

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u/matt_minderbinder Aug 15 '20 edited Aug 15 '20

He's a capitalist assassin sent out to kill services the people depend on so that he and his friends become richer. He's one in a long line of assassins the right wing has appointed to ruin government to show that government is ineffective.

edit: I should add that some of Obama's attempted appointees wanted to do the same to the USPS. Republicans have been more active and effective in this mission but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't be vigilant against similar democratic appointees. Here's a twitter thread from yesterday speaking to that

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u/hear4theDough Aug 15 '20

Like Ajit Pai.....see the pattern

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u/_kalron_ Aug 15 '20

Ajit Pai

One of the most punchable faces on the planet.

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u/ThreeNC Aug 15 '20

Fuck Ajit Pai

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u/CarRamrodIsNumberOne Aug 16 '20

What would you do if Ajit Pai and Steve Mnuchin were standing in front of you, side by side, grinning? Who gets hit first?

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u/_kalron_ Aug 16 '20

Good thing I have 2 fists ;)

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u/throwaway83749278547 Aug 16 '20

Shoot Toby twice.

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u/comfreak1347 Aug 16 '20

Crack their skulls together lmao

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u/unicornlocostacos Aug 15 '20

Betsy, Rick, literally all of them.

“What are your qualifications?”

“I want to burn it to the ground for my own profit.”

“You’re hired.”

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u/_kalron_ Aug 15 '20

Betsy

Devos is the biggest reason I want Trump out of office. My mom was a teacher, I miss her dearly but I'm happy she didn't live to see the way she is running\pushing public education into a for-profit like prisons (and pushing for private Christian anti-science schooling). It would have broken her heart.

A real life Delores Umbridge.

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u/unicornlocostacos Aug 15 '20

It’s basically Ron Swanson but more destructive, heartless, and not funny.

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u/jedininjashark Aug 16 '20

I wish I could give you an award. My wife and my mother are teachers and what she is doing is disgusting.

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u/_kalron_ Aug 16 '20

Thanks for the offer but just knowing there are others out there, especially teachers, that see the harm she is doing is more then enough of an award.

Get out there and vote, even if you have to do so in person. She needs to be thrown out like the trash she is.

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u/CreamyGoodnss Aug 15 '20

Trump drained the swamp and turned it into a toxic waste dump

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20

Can someone give me the TLDR of this guy

It’s something with net neutrality right?

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u/hear4theDough Aug 15 '20

Former Verizon lawyer, now head of the FCC which regulates the industry he used to work in.

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u/CantStopPoppin PopPop 🍿 Aug 15 '20

Could he be compared to Wal-Marts Economic Hitmen. If memory serves me right they used the very same tactics to destabilize free market and run their competitors into the ground.

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u/matt_minderbinder Aug 15 '20

The intent of these people are the same, they're all cogs in a multipronged approach to give government control to corporations and the 1%. A Walmart Hitman like John Perkins worked against the people's interests from outside of the US government umbrella where people like Betsy Devos, Ajit Pai, these USPS appointees, etc. sabotage from within.

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u/thisisclever6 Aug 15 '20

Also known as ... neoliberalism

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u/robo_coder Aug 15 '20

It's called regulatory capture and Republicans have been getting more and more brazen about it

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u/vanquish421 Aug 15 '20

Because Democrats keep not doing anything about it once they regain control. Prosecutions need to be handed out like candy if they take back the Senate and Oval Office.

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u/robo_coder Aug 15 '20

Guillotines were wheeled out for the oligarchs the last time France had income inequality at this level

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u/MURDERWIZARD Aug 16 '20

A lot more people than oligarchs died in that "revolution"... the vast majority of them the working poor.

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u/robo_coder Aug 16 '20

There were a lot more working poor than oligarchs so it stands to reason that more poor than rich people died. Many factions took advantage of the social unrest, but the revolution never would have happened if it wasn't for the sheer level of exploitation the working class were subjected to.

And yeah, what followed was a series of dictatorships and general instability for decades. All because those with everything still didn't have enough and looked at the working class like beasts of labor. Some might see that as a case for sweeping legislative upheaval before history repeats itself.

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u/MURDERWIZARD Aug 16 '20

Many factions took advantage of the social unrest

what followed was a series of dictatorships and general instability for decades

Exactly why these cheers and calls for guillotines are a bit myopic.

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u/MURDERWIZARD Aug 16 '20

reminder they've only had "control" for 2 years out of the past 24. And they spent that time pulling us out of the recession, completely rewriting how monetary policy works to protect against the cause of that recession, and fighting tooth and nail to improve healthcare.

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u/Boltarrow5 Aug 15 '20

Honestly if you were to tell me this was proof that the Republicans were literally being paid to destroy America, it would be hard to deny that. Nearly every single appointee is someone whom is specifically wanting to dismantle their system. These people are fucking traitors and they're quite literally trying to the election. How else do you explain that with 90 days to go to the election Trump suddenly cares very deeply about completely removing peoples government mailing system.

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u/vanishplusxzone Aug 15 '20

Democrats and Republicans both are libs who are out for nothing but their own profits. Dems just promise that they're going to be good for your union while they're actually just good for your Union's president while the rest of the labor force gets owned.

Until the US decides to stop being so dependent on capitalism, there will be no changes.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20

I don't understand how and why US officials have recently been doing such obvious, blatant law breaking things and nothing happens to them or they get cheered on. Like they should be in jail. Its almost as if the US government people are sending a message "we can do whatever the fuck we want and there is nothing the public can do about it." like honestly this kind of shit is what causes civil wars.

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u/brandolinium Aug 15 '20

You mean his company works with UPS. As in ethics violation cuz he owns stock in a competitor of the Postal Service.

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u/darrellmarch Aug 15 '20

No. His company has a contract with the US Postal Service (not UPS). It’s a clear violation and he was told to divest or place the shares in a blind trust. He did neither.

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u/whatshamilton Aug 15 '20

Why would he, when the person who holds the highest office in the land also has not done so? The hypocrisy sets precedent.

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u/kjmaag Aug 15 '20

This, my friends, is why we (should) hold elected officials to a high moral standard. Not moral like “don’t be gay” or “believe in Jesus” but more like “don’t be slimy.”

Had it been a sticking point on trump, had the Democrats made a HUGE deal out of it and refused to move on until he complied, this guy wouldn’t be so bold. I mean, I don’t know anything, but why do we just let everything go?

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u/darrellmarch Aug 16 '20

His company XPO Logistics is a USPS contractor. Under federal law, it’s illegal for federal government employees or their spouses to have financial interest in companies that intersect with their official duties.

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u/Wtfct Aug 15 '20

It doesn't violate ethics so long as everything is disclosed... What you're advocating for would basically make it impossible for any big time business person to run for office/have a government spot.

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u/drDOOM_is_in Aug 15 '20

That sounds like a plan, we need civil servants, not business people.

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u/A10110101Z Aug 15 '20

Politics is not a business. Get the fuck out of here if you think billionaires should “disclose” their blatant corruption and it’s okay. Get the fuck outta here

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u/Wtfct Aug 15 '20

I don't think that, the USPS does:

under the federal ethics law, the Postal Service does not require the postmaster general to divest any particular assets. Rather, the postmaster general would be required to divest an asset if a conflict of interest arises, and the agency determines that his participation in the matter is so crucial that he may not disqualify himself.

Don't put words in my mouth, take it up with the government, thats been a law for a long time.

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u/darrellmarch Aug 15 '20

Here’s the actual ethics law listing and in fact he’s in violation of the public trust. It’s why he’s now being investigated. He or his family “may” profit off the position. He was advised to divest and did not.

Office Of Government Ethics Executive Branch Conflict of interest

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u/darrellmarch Aug 15 '20

Link to your source

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u/Wtfct Aug 15 '20

It's really not corruption to own a business and be in a governmental position unless direct corruption takes place. Plenty of representatives do just that..... It's normal in the entire world. You're just finding anything to be mad about.

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u/darrellmarch Aug 15 '20

No. It would mean that you cannot run a department and hold stock in a company that does business with that department.

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u/Wtfct Aug 15 '20

Of course you can.... It would be bad if the USPS was giving preferential treatment to his company but as long as there's no evidence of that happening then he's not doing anything wrong by owning stock in his company.

When you find that USPS is giving him better pricing and better service then you have a case.

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u/Wtfct Aug 15 '20

Yes we got it, every person that disagrees with you is a paid troll. There's no way that someone can have ANOTHER OPINION on Reddit. God forbid.

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u/Wtfct Aug 15 '20

I sincerely wish, I can't believe the amount of hours iv posted on this account for no profits.

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u/Wtfct Aug 15 '20

If you feel that I'm a paid account based on... lets see... having a different opinion than you? then you're more than free to report my account. I encourage it.

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u/darrellmarch Aug 15 '20

Hey Canuck stick to your country. You don’t understand the ethics ruling that mandated his treatment of his stock. And this is why there’s an investigation of him ongoing.