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No way! What a fucking genius! Is not like the people who will vote for him would have voted for Trump…noo

"Trump did something good, but the important thing is that trump is the worst thing ever"

You're right and therefore we should stop raping other countries and instead offer them support, and get oppressive regimes isolated instead of supporting coups to get someone who our corporations like
I'm not saying there shouldn't be investigations into what trump does, I'm saying that while that's already going on we should be focused on more important things

It's like if Aoc ran and stated she was trying to draw votes from trump

I have a difficult time understanding that position.
According to the Government Accountability Office USPS has lost $69 billion over the past 11 fiscal years--including $3.9 billion in fiscal year 2018. USPS’s total unfunded liabilities and debt ($143 billion at the end of fiscal year 2018) have grown to double its annual revenue.USPS’s expenses are now growing faster than its revenues--partly due to rising compensation and benefits costs and continuing declines in the volume of First-Class Mail.
The USPS entire model is broken, unsustainable and over-burdened with promises made to Postal Service retirees – which by the way, is the largest problem a lot of public institutions and municipalities are facing. How can you say that the USPS is "government does a service well" when the service itself is completely unsustainable and demands public money to sustain?
The USPS entire model is deliberately precisely because it is so beholden to government (rather than investment) interests. MotherJones covers this in an opinion piece earlier this year, to summarize: the government simply does not let it reform or make drastic changes to it's own operations, speficially in it's inability to finance the pensions of it's retirees. Politico addresses the issues further: specifically mentioning that it can only fund it's retirement shortfalls through investing in US Treasuries which have a paltry return (for a decade now). For God sakes, the USPS isn't even allowed to raise it's rates beyond the fixed rate tied to the consumer price index. How can anyone expect the USPS to have a sustainable model when it's utterly beholden to Congress to decide how it's run!?

So why don't we copy the models elsewhere in the world then? Germany’s Deutsche Post, which also owns DHL, has been largely privatized since 2000. Deutsche Post has morphed into a large, competitive, highly profitable logistics group. In fact, the German Government owns 20% of the DHL, which gives it considerable revenue from profits (besides taxation), without having government involvement in oversight and how it's run.

usps, as a government service it is, does not need to be profitable.

How does one measure the value of an essential service?

Does one A. Look to see how well it does what it's supposed to do?

Or does one B. Look to see how much money it makes for the people who own it?

FFS, not everything has be be built to be profitable.

The extent of Putin's threat to America is exadurated.
You're talking about a country who's GDP is half of California's. It's military strength is still largely dependent on decades old equipment that hasn't been truly tested in a modern conflict. It's Navy is absolutely paltry in comparison – it's only carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov was effectively destroyed, it has no realistic way to project military power over-seas. It's group of allies are steadily shrinking, and it's logistical economy is utterly incapable of advancing further than raw-resource based industries. It's only real way to project power is through cyber-warfare, but even that scope is fairly limited. Russia absolutely wants us to think it's a giant threat because it gives the Russian people a sense of strength that they can make the world's strongest country still fear them. But even that is a lie.

It's threat to Europe has been largely isolated to two elements: supporting government politicians that are keen to Russian interests – primarily by making the Europeans directly dependent on Russian energy supplies, and two it's desire to extend and/or preserve it's geographical interests from it's Imperial days, and the USSR days. In this sense, Putin greatly wants to undo NATO.

The real threat to America, and largely much of the world is China. More than half of the entire world's population lives within 1000 miles of China. And it's currently saber-rattling with the second most populous country in the world, that is also nuclear armed, and hell bent on going toe-to-toe with them.

Some speculate that Trump's desire to pull out of Europe is to redirect forces to the Pacific.

It needs to be sustainable at the very least, and it certainly ain't even that.

Why?
as long as it's useful it doesn't need to pay for itself

Of course not. It's not like there is a public pool of money whose sole purpose is to pay for things society as a whole benefits from. While we are at it, can we talk about how unsustainable roads are? I mean, they cost millions to build, millions to upkeep, but generate no money. It's an absolute financial black hole. We need to let millionaires own the roads so they can charge for their usage so they can have the money to fix the roads. If they don't and pocket the money, the people can just drive on another road in front of their driveway. It's not like society as a whole depends on functioning roads or anything.

https://www.cnet.com/news/trump-effectively-bans-tiktok-wechat-with-executive-orders/
>45 days
I calculate a .00000000000001% chance it isn't bought by some conglomerate in the us by then

https://www.cnet.com/news/trump-effectively-bans-tiktok-wechat-with-executive-orders/
>45 days
I calculate a .00000000000001% chance it isn't bought by some conglomerate in the us by then

Trump campaign is bullying TV Stations in my state.

If that asshole thinks he can bully and silence the media in my state over negative ads, he's got another thing coming!

Also, keep saying that Biden is just as bad, or worse, as Trump. I dare ya.

Is it sorta bad I was hoping he'd actually ban Tencent?

Joe Biden says he'll have his vice presidential pick ready "the first week in August," which is next week

I sure as he was

I sure as hell was*
fuckers stole my Ls, can't have shit on kym

I was just making an observation. I never called it a scandal, you douche.

Wouldn't it be funny if he nominated Hillary as VP?

No, I would actually applaud him if that were the case.

Jeff bezos doesn't have billions of dollars bro it's just his net worth cmon bro he may've been able to bull 3 billion instantly from stocks but that doesn't mean anything trust me

He's most liekly going to nominate harris, but if he did nominate clinton it would fit better with how fucked 2020 is
But remember how bad his health is, so it's likely the vp will end up as president weather they have him step down, or die
so whoever his vp is would likely nominate clinton in that scenario

actually I just got a report from CNN headquarters, they have outline the official Radical Left agenda for Biden's vp
1. Biden will nominate sanders as vp
2. Sanders gets brainwashed by sissy hypnosis and becomes a woman, fulfilling Biden's promise
3. On first day of office, Biden steps down and makes Bernadetta Sanders the president
4. Sanders starts the communist revolution

Say goodbye to mail-in voting, folks!

Why? He can't actually do anything.

he can't legally, but has legality stopped him before?

As poochy said, simce when have politicians followed the laws
those are only for the proles

Tulsi Gabbard defeated by primary opponent Kaiali'i Kahele.

Not according to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Kahele

Dude won because he ran unopposed: Gabbard dropped out to run in the DNC Primary.

Seriously dude, who do you get your news from?

www.neolibswhoonlybelieveinvotebluenomatterwho.org

What's the difference between the two? They're both corporate shills with horrible political records and to top it off they both have extremely unappealing personalites.

Oh shit I forgot about in preschool when they taught us about Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton

You brought up preschool first, not me

I thought shillery was somewhat worse, but it’s really splitting hairs

Sounds more like you don't know how elections work, since you seem to think incumbent candidates are required to run unless they resign

#BlackLivesMatter is a popular movement (including among police officers!) https://t.co/pLamWDbeIV https://t.co/Wb7WzdlFNa pic.twitter.com/qvX6damnwR

— Eli Yokley (@eyokley) August 10, 2020

I'm fully committed to my offer to serve you, the people of Hawaii & America, as your President & Commander-in-Chief. So I will not be seeking reelection to Congress in 2020. I humbly ask for your support for my candidacy for President of the United States https://t.co/cNcjSNSoZl

— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) October 25, 2019

Did you think Wikipedia had nothing to back up the statement?

I think he's still salty about Tulsi refusing to endorse Hillary in 2016

I never saw this post, so I didn't know.

I assumed she didn't because nobody else that didn't hold office resigned.

Not the worst pick.. not the best either…

I have the great honor to announce that I’ve picked @KamalaHarris -- a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants -- as my running mate.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 11, 2020

And, to the surprise of noone, he picked another shill as his running mate