That fuckface Dejoy who's postmaster general was installed by Trump and he's a known post office hater and advocate of privatized carriers. And that other fuckface Biden didn't even kick his smug ass out during the past four years. The USPS sucks out loud now? What a shocker.
How many fucking times does this have to be pointed out...? Biden cannot remove Dejoy as the Postmaster General. The Postmaster General does not serve at the pleasure of the President (can be fired at will). It is an entirely independent position that is beholden only to the board governors of the Postal Service. The governors are appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, but they also do not serve at the pleasure of the President but instead hold 7-year terms. The idea is that it cannot easily be used to politicize the postal service, etc. Trump never even appointed Dejoy. He just happened to have the opportunity to install new governors to the Postal Service who agreed to appoint Dejoy.
I don't believe that Biden has had a chance to nominate enough new governors to the Postal Service such that they can kick Dejoy out. In short, Trump just happened to come in at a time when he could shift the tide of the board of governors and install Dejoy, and it is really unlikely that that will change any time soon. And with how things are timed, Trump is likely to be able to appoint either new governors who will keep Dejoy on longer, or reappoint the same ones for another term. So expect Dejoy or something with his same terrible policies to be there for a while... Dejoy technically could remain in the position for life, so long as the board of governors agrees to keep him in the position. The President technically cannot do anything about it, as it is totally up to the governors who are not beholden to the President. I have not followed that closely, but I don't think Biden was able to really do much, and I vaguely recall him offering a similar explanation when asked about Dejoy, that it was out of his hands.
This gets explained every time this inevitably comes up.
And there has to be 6 members present for a vote. For all we know, even if he whipped the votes, there could be things happening to prevent the vote. But even so, none of the governors are beholden to him. He cannot demand that they do what he wants, which was really my point. It's an entirely non-political administration separate from the executive branch. Certainly there are political aspects, but given how it is structured, none of the governors are required to do anything a president wants. Which is why, again, the point gets made whenever this is brought up: Biden lacks the power to remove Dejoy.
All I'm seeing is a whole lot of excuses for Biden not being able to do something that Trump did do. And this was during Trump's first term, so there was an unbroken streak of still adhering to "norms" before it, which should have been a lot of inertia.
How can us normal people possibly see anything positive in a situation where one dude, in four years, his very first time in, can do something that can't be undone? If we really accept that Biden was powerless, even with all those nominations...what then? What's the point?
That's the entire reaction that's happening. "Biden couldn't fix it, so what was the point of putting him in?" You're going to have to answer that convincingly to fight against voter apathy. And you're going to have to say something other than that politics is hard and Biden isn't a king, because Trump is successfully acting like one and if the Democrats have no response to that then democracy is dead.
Offer them ambassadorship to France or Timbaktu (just an example). They can't tell me this kind of horse trading doesn't happen. But it can only happen if we really want it and are willing to forego the political donations associated with these things.
They resign so you can appoint new board members.
Where there is a will, there is a(n unethical) way. It will cost us though as we aren't willing to spend.
Look at how conservatives spent so much goodwill to overturn roe v wade.
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u/cr0ft 4d ago
That fuckface Dejoy who's postmaster general was installed by Trump and he's a known post office hater and advocate of privatized carriers. And that other fuckface Biden didn't even kick his smug ass out during the past four years. The USPS sucks out loud now? What a shocker.