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Katie Porter reduces Trump's DeJoy to clueless jello (Original Post) ancianita Aug 2020 OP
She is magnificent. Zoonart Aug 2020 #1
Right?? And there's AOC bonus time! ancianita Aug 2020 #2
K&R Blue Owl Aug 2020 #3
Right!! TryLogic Aug 2020 #4
They were both Star-Thrower Aug 2020 #9
She is in California, isn't she? MiniMe Aug 2020 #5
Yep. ancianita Aug 2020 #6
Oh yeah! Great idea!... Illumination Aug 2020 #8
LOL! enjoyed this even MORE watching it for a 2nd time! Thanks again ancianita! Illumination Aug 2020 #7
I love your excitement! ancianita Aug 2020 #16
Guess what I heard on the news? Two sentences from dejoy's opening statement mucifer Aug 2020 #10
What were they, again? ancianita Aug 2020 #11
All the changes started before he was there and he did not collude with trump. Not one mucifer Aug 2020 #12
Katie Porter explicitly asked him to name who executed the changes. ancianita Aug 2020 #13
In Porter's short time, she managed cp Aug 2020 #14
Well... ancianita Aug 2020 #15
Wonderful, heartening video. JudyM Aug 2020 #17
Porter and AOC are sharp mdbl Aug 2020 #18
That was a pretty impressive take down. TomCADem Aug 2020 #19
We're good at take-downs. ancianita Aug 2020 #20
She is amazing!! Sparkly Aug 2020 #21

mucifer

(23,545 posts)
10. Guess what I heard on the news? Two sentences from dejoy's opening statement
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 06:03 PM
Aug 2020

no rebuttal or questioning from the dems.

mucifer

(23,545 posts)
12. All the changes started before he was there and he did not collude with trump. Not one
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 06:08 PM
Aug 2020

word from the dems was in the story.

ancianita

(36,057 posts)
13. Katie Porter explicitly asked him to name who executed the changes.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 06:15 PM
Aug 2020

He couldn't say, but they are probably a matter of public record. They can be brought before the committee, I believe.

The guy after AOC asked him explicitly whether he talked to the Trump campaign. He said he talked to "friends" who "happen" to be in the campaign, but not campaign leaders.

cp

(6,629 posts)
14. In Porter's short time, she managed
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 06:22 PM
Aug 2020

to allow him to demonstrate that
1) he's unqualified to run our Postal Services, and
2) he has financial (and ethical) conflicts

ancianita

(36,057 posts)
15. Well...
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 06:30 PM
Aug 2020

I agree with 1. As for 2., I heard him say he has no financial entanglements with whatever company she named.

Ethical conflicts go with the whole planning -- before his time, he says -- to remove the sorting machines, which then goes back to the Postal Board's prior decisions. Maybe they made the plan, and since they're Trump appointees, there is real intent by someones behind the slowdown.

Perhaps the whole board should be brought before Oversight. They are not in the spotlight yet, but I think they should be. Grilled long enough, they could reveal communications with/from Trump re the plans.

TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
19. That was a pretty impressive take down.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 11:40 PM
Aug 2020

She set him up by asking him questions that had lulled him into saying I do not know. She started small, then started asking about the over haul with DeJoy claiming that he did not have a clue.

If she went straight to the big question, DeJoy would have started off by BS an answer.

ancianita

(36,057 posts)
20. We're good at take-downs.
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 12:07 AM
Aug 2020

Which is why she needs to be in an even greater position of power.

We're still not getting far with side-stepping scofflaws. But we need to move on capitalists and corporations who think they should have equal standing with humans under the Constitution.

They need to be put back in their fictional personhood place, and we have GOT to win to get them back there. Private sector capture of this government is clear -- Sheldon Whitehouse's book lays out its recent gains.

Because if the USPS's institutional legal standing ends with corporate capture, I don't even want to think about what comes after.

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