Make his lonely soul feel affirmed

Some more commentary has now been written about Postmaster General Louis DeJoy (I think I need a nickname for him – that’s a long title) and his appearance at a House hearing yesterday.

Walter Einenkel Daily Kos reported on the questions he got from Rep. Brenda Lawrence of Detroit. She reminded DeJoy of the oath he took when he got the job. She then told him about the life of a letter carrier because she has been one and he hasn’t. She finished up by saying:

I have complaints in my office and people getting delivered one day a week now, sir. That is not according to your oath.

Joan McCarter of Kos reported on a bit more. DeJoy was grilled for not delivering requested documents to the House (the House got them anyway through a whistleblower and the documents showed DeJoy lied). The story DeJoy tried to tell was essentially this: There weren’t any changes. I’m not responsible for the changes (that didn’t happen). I don’t know who was responsible for those changes. But I’m not going to reverse the changes that didn’t happen.

Einenkel reported on Rep Katie Porter’s questions. She asked DeJoy the prices of various USPS products – postcard stamps, priority mail – and he didn’t know. If one is claiming one’s actions are cost saving initiatives, it’s amazing one doesn’t know what the prices and costs are. He also didn’t know how many people voted by mail in 2016. How can one take “decisive action” when one doesn’t know anything about the organization?



Jen Sorensen of the Kos community drew a cartoon of three front pages of what would be honest headlines and a fourth with the kinds of headlines we actually get.



On to the week long GOP infomercial. Or is it a screamfest? As I said I won’t watch it. I’d be spending my whole time grinding my teeth and throwing rubber bricks at the screen. So to keep my dental bills manageable and my computer screen undamaged I’ll keep the convention off. So I’ll go with a few summaries of the first day.

Mark Sumner of Kos wrote:

If there was any real uniting theme for the convention of what the GOP is it was this: Lying our ass off for Trump.

Georgia Logothetis, in her pundit roundup for Kos, quoted Eric Lach of The New Yorker describing the speech by Kimberly Guilfoyle. This bit of her describing what Biden and the Democrats plan to do caught my attention:

They want to destroy this country, and everything that we have fought for and hold dear. They want to steal your liberty, your freedom. They want to control what you see and think, and believe, so that they can control how you live! They want to enslave you to the weak, dependent, liberal, victim ideology, to the point that you will not recognize this country or yourself.

Project much? Replace the word “liberal” with “conservative” and it pretty well describes what authoritarians – of which the nasty guy wants to be – intend to do once reinstalled in office.

AKALib of the Kos community gathered together tweets of people commenting on the GOP convention. A few of them:

I feel well prepared for this Republican National Convention, having covered personality cults in China and North Korea.
– Nicholas Kristof

This convention is targeted to one voter: Donald Trump. The whole convention is to make his lonely soul feel affirmed.
– David Brooks

Fox News can't be happy with this boring RNC Convention with accused felons as the featured speakers, because Hannity is liberally editing it by bringing his OWN guests, lunatics like failed NRA tv host Dan Bongino and Leningrad Lindsey Graham.
– Democratic Coalition

Dartagnan of the Kos community included a tweet from Joe Biden that seems about right:

Just stay focused, folks.