We Want our Post Office Back!
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 4 February 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Biden has an opening to put new people over the post office- he needs to get on it! Meanwhile, the right is melting down over Taylor Swift and her football star boyfriend supporting Biden. Where will this all take us come November?
Plus - Thom reads from his recent book 'The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class"
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | The scores of U.S. House Democrats that is a score is 10, right? |
| 0:21.0 | So you say scores, it's packages of 10? |
| 0:23.7 | Because it would be if it was 12s it would be dozens. |
| 0:26.2 | I think a score is 10. |
| 0:28.9 | You'd think by this time in life I would have figured that out. |
| 0:31.6 | But anyway, scores of US |
| 0:32.8 | House Democrats on Thursday urge President Joe Biden to swiftly |
| 0:36.2 | nominate two members to the US Postal Service Board of Governors to fill |
| 0:39.6 | empty seats amid delayed deliveries and higher customer prices rates Brett Wilkins over on |
| 0:45.6 | Common Dreams.org. |
| 0:47.4 | Jimmy Raskin and Raja Christamorthy, the Democrats of Maryland and Illinois |
| 0:51.4 | respectively, sent a letter to Biden signed by 80 other |
| 0:54.8 | Democratic lawmakers, I guess that's eight scores. Yeah that's right Lincoln, four |
| 0:59.9 | scores. That was 40 years. That's correct. Last October, Rashida Taleeb from |
| 1:06.9 | Michigan asked the head of the Postal Service's Accountability Unit, Brett |
| 1:10.0 | Wilkins' rights, to launch an investigation into the impacts of Louis de Joy's 10-year austerity |
| 1:15.8 | overhaul program. |
| 1:17.3 | It's actually a privatization plan, is what it is. |
| 1:19.8 | Louis de Joy came into office after, well first of all he bought the office he gave |
| 1:23.9 | hundreds of thousands of dollars to Donald Trump Donald Trump made him |
| 1:26.6 | postmaster general Louis de Joy owns a major trucking company that does business |
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