Incompetence, Cheating, and Corruption

The Incompetent in Chief is up to no good once again, this time he’s harping on vote by mail as being wracked by voter fraud when all the evidence is to the contrary. One of the steps he’s taken is to appoint a Postmaster General in his own image who has already begun dismantling the United States Postal Service. Of course, the party of unfettered capitalism has for years attempted to privatize postal operations claiming without evidence that private enterprise can supposedly do it cheaper.

I point to this scheme as evidence of the president’s incompetence for the following reasons. His appointee, Louis DeJoy – a major campaign donor and fundraiser, is the first Postmaster General in 20 years without prior experience in the U.S. Postal Service. DeJoy and his wife have several conflicts of interest including between $30 million and $75 million invested in postal service contractors and competitors like J.B. Hunt trucking and United Parcel Service. If you’ve noticed that your mail is taking longer to arrive than it used to that’s probably because DeJoy has banned overtime and extra trips to deliver mail in order to reduce costs. DeJoy has also ordered the removal of mail sorting machines from a number of major postal facilities. While the president might be considered successful at sabotaging the postal service, a goal his party supports, it’s clear that it isn’t in the best interest of his most avid supporters who mostly live in rural areas populated by older voters where it is the postal service that delivers their prescriptions and other vital supplies at very low costs. In fact unlike private enterprise which charges more to deliver to out of the way places and simply hands off the package to the local post office for final delivery the postal service is required by law to charge the same amount for the same service regardless of location. I can send a letter to Onaka, South Dakota for forty cents through the U.S. Postal Service but if I use Fedex it will cost at least $27.09.

As further evidence of the president’s incompetence he actually stated in an interview on Fox News that he’s withholding support for funding postal operations in order to prevent successful completion of mail in ballots. You’d think he was a movie villain telling the hero the details of his plot just before he tries to execute the hero. What the president fails to understand is that most of the people using mail ballots are his voters, especially here in Texas where you have to be 65 and up or disabled to vote by mail. Those are the very people whose votes he desperately needs if he’s to have a chance to win in November and he seems to be working hard to sabotage himself.

The president has failed to build more than a handful of miles of “the Wall” and Mexico certainly didn’t pay for it. He’s failed in his trade war with China and Europe causing even American icons like Harley Davidson to move at least some production out of the country while causing the American tax payer to pay higher prices on imported goods. Compared to Mitch McConnell, Majority Leader in the Senate, who stole a Supreme Court seat from President Obama this president is totally incompetent and I’m glad of it because he could have been far more destructive were he actually a capable leader.

Early voting starts October 13, get out and vote so we can remove this stumbling buffoon from the White House and restore dignity and respect to the office of President.