 So I'm not sure how many of you have been following this issue, but for those of you unaware Louis DeJoy the postmaster general of the USPS who was appointed by Donald Trump He's still in power. He hasn't gone anywhere. And yes he is still indeed trying to ruin the US Postal Service and Ultimately, his goal is to privatize USPS But he's doing this in a very nefarious insidious roundabout way all explained in an article by Common dreams is Jake Johnson who writes defenders of the US Postal Service are urgently renewing their calls for the ouster of postmaster general Louis DeJoy as his 10-year plan to overhaul the cherished government institution is set to take effect Friday Assuring in permanently slower mail delivery while hiking prices for consumers. DeJoy calls this plan delivering for America But it will do the exact opposite slowing many first-class mail deliveries down taking their standard from three to five days Porter McConnell of take on Wall Street a co-founder of the save the post office coalition Warns in a video posted online late Tuesday slower ground transportation will now be prioritized over air Transportation McConnell added these new service standards won't improve the Postal Service They will make it harder for people all across the country to receive their medications their bills their paychecks and more Appointed in May of 2020 by the US Postal Service Board of Governors DeJoy a major donor to former president Donald Trump sparked a nationwide uproar by dramatically slowing mail delivery in the run-up to that year's Pivotal elections which relied heavily on absentee voting due to the coronavirus pandemic But DeJoy who can only be fired by a majority of the USPS board has clung to his job Despite incessant demands for his resignation or removal over the past year in recent months calls for DeJoy's termination have intensified as His conflicts of interest and past fundraising activities continued to draw scrutiny from watchdogs and the FBI During a house oversight committee hearing in February DeJoy made clear He has no intention of leaving his post voluntarily get used to me. He told lawmakers get used to me. He says This smug Smug motherfucker this unelected bureaucrat telling lawmakers I'm not going anywhere deal with it. Wow Now the way that he is trying to destroy the US Postal Service is By making privatization more likely so what you do is you slow down the service you make people frustrated and You claim well, maybe there's a solution to all this and of course they propose privatization and the reason why he can't just go ahead with opening up the US Postal Service to privatization right away is Because this is one of the most popular institutions in the United States as the article implied in fact USPS has a 91% approval rating according to the USPS inspector general So you can cultivate support for privatization as a solution only if you break this first You're not gonna get people to accept a really sweeping change to a system that they overwhelmingly support So first you've got to make it not work for them You've got to strip out The support that it has and then you open the door to privatization You argue that this is gonna be the way to make the Postal Service more efficient cut out the bureaucracy It's the same game. We've seen again and again It's the same thing that politicians do with regard to social security. I'll be a little bit differently What they'll usually say is look social security is running out. It's not gonna be there for future generations It's gonna be insolvent in 2035 yada yada yada And what they do is they fear monger in hopes that you'll accept the idea of possibly a solution What's the solution? Of course to privatize or maybe even partially privatized social security. It's the same song and dance We've seen again and again Whatever public institution we have Republicans they'll break it and then they'll claim how government doesn't work It doesn't work because you broke it and because you want your corporate donors to be able to control it and profit off of it But this is a public service. So this guy's got to go this ten-year plan is going to ruin the US Postal Service So Biden won should absolutely be using his bully pulpit to put pressure on him Constantly to get him to resign even if he's resistant put pressure on him continue with the investigations in the conflicts of interest I mean this man got this job because he donated to Donald Trump. He's there as a result of corruption So investigate him throw the books at him But on top of that Biden should be making moves to remake the USPS He can't actually fire Lewis DeJoy outright But the article does lay out a strategy that Biden can use to basically get rid of him So while the president can't remove DeJoy on his own Analysts have noted that he can soon replace both Bloom who is currently serving a one-year holdover term and John Barger whose term expires in December such steps would give Biden appointees a majority on the USPS board and Potentially the votes to oust the postmaster general. So once Biden gets a majority he can then instruct his majority to vote out DeJoy and that's What you do if you want to fire him. That's how you oust him So there needs to be pressure exerted on Biden and pressure exerted on DeJoy also through Biden and also, you know around Biden people should be continuously exerting pressure on him Because he doesn't care about the postal service. He's just trying to ruin it so Republicans can inevitably propose privatization as a solution and it's not just Republicans I'm sure there are many Democrats who also would like to privatize the US Postal Service Pete Buttigieg I believe during his presidential campaign Was saying something about maybe you know opening the door to privatization I'm not necessarily representing his views correctly here But just long story short Democrats a lot of the times are on board with privatization because neoliberalism has taken over the Democratic Party So, I mean, I don't know what else to say This would be a disaster if this plan were to go into effect But it's not going to improve the postal service obviously It's quite literally intentionally designed to make it worse and so the way that we stop that is to stop him By kicking his ass out