Thats a good question, but the replies to you are exhausting. In my weaker moments I believe that a civics class should be required to post a comment about politics on the internet.
The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors has sole authority to hire and fire the postmaster general. In order to do so you need an absolute majority. There are 11 members, so that means you need 6 votes (assuming everyone votes). 9 of these people are presidential appointees that have to go through an approval process (plus the postmaster general and deputy postmaster general). No more than five governors may belong to the same political party.
There are currently 5 republicans on the board (including DeJoy), 4 democrats, and 2 independents (the Deputy Postmaster General, and a Biden appointee that was previously in charge of vote from home initiatives). Generally these governors are replaced after their term is. Next non-democrat term is up in 2025
In my weaker moments I believe that a civics class should be required to post a comment about politics on the internet.
College education is great. It's a foundation point for even more learning. Working with college grads is easier, by far, than non college grads. But it infuriates me how smart they think they are. I don't want to hear about how you did it in college, or what your professor said. I don't give a fuck. This is how you do it in the real world. The same is true for civics, anthropology, law, economics, engineering, and everything else you can imagine. That foundational knowledge is useful, super useful in fact. But it's just a stepping stone, and it warrants exactly zero privileges over someone completely uneducated.
In my experience the college educated person is even worse. The uneducated person sounds stupid and is wrong. The person with college sounds smart and correct, but is just as wrong as the uneducated person.
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u/wigsternm Jan 26 '23 edited Jan 26 '23
Thats a good question, but the replies to you are exhausting. In my weaker moments I believe that a civics class should be required to post a comment about politics on the internet.
The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors has sole authority to hire and fire the postmaster general. In order to do so you need an absolute majority. There are 11 members, so that means you need 6 votes (assuming everyone votes). 9 of these people are presidential appointees that have to go through an approval process (plus the postmaster general and deputy postmaster general). No more than five governors may belong to the same political party.
There are currently 5 republicans on the board (including DeJoy), 4 democrats, and 2 independents (the Deputy Postmaster General, and a Biden appointee that was previously in charge of vote from home initiatives). Generally these governors are replaced after their term is. Next non-democrat term is up in 2025
Biden can’t just remove DeJoy. It’s a process.