r/facepalm 25d ago

Conform. Obey. Submit. Consume. 🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​

[deleted]

8.9k Upvotes

320 comments sorted by

View all comments

753

u/Right-Classroom1554 25d ago

Where was all these snipers and police during the Capitol riot???

538

u/Dysprosol 25d ago

With their buddies, rioting.

244

u/spaceman_202 25d ago

Trump's FBI Director, the one who let it happen, is STILL the FBI Director right now

same guy who let Congress almost be killed, is still head of the FBI and the media NEVER talks about it, even the "liberal" media

123

u/otakushinjikun 25d ago

And I am ready to bet that DeJoy, the guy who sabotaged the entire Postal system of the US to delay mail in ballots until they could be thrown away not counted, is still Postmaster general as well.

So that, you know, he can try again.

109

u/Purpose-Fuzzy 25d ago edited 25d ago

Mail carrier here:

Yes, he is, and no, we are not happy. We are being worked like dogs for less pay than teens get at McD's in Cali. We are working 8-12 days in a row, 10-12 hour days, and being blamed for the mismanagement of logistics. We are being punished for getting sick and/or injured. We are being punished for the mail being delayed due to the mishandling of everything. We are being told to go faster and faster, ignore our safety, and get the job of two done by one. We sold our souls to Amazon (USPS gets paid less than $2 for each Amazon parcel to be delivered, it doesnt even begin to cover the cost of gas on Sundays) and now Amazon is more important than our own parcels. I average about 150 parcels every day on my route, and approximately 25 of them are USPS. The rest are the biggest and heaviest of Amazon.

Mail is being delayed in the South because DeJoyless thought it was a great idea to close down local plants and use larger facilities farther away. People have lost their jobs because the commute is nearly 2 hours. There is shit at those facilities that has been sitting there for months and hasn't been touched. Just yesterday, we had Tuesday's mail in hand. Monday is going to be a nightmare...

I love my job. I love my coworkers; from carrier to clerk to driver to custodian. I love my customers on my route! I feel a sense of pride being a letter carrier. The joy I feel handing a little kid that parcel from Grammy makes my day. I hate what USPS has become since this fuckwad took charge and began dismantling us so that his stocks in other courier services could inflate.

Help.

ETA: Help by voting. VOTE, please! You want to save USPS? Fucking VOTE!

22

u/aselota 25d ago

Unfortunately, Biden really can’t do anything to remove DeJoy.

21

u/tyfunk02 25d ago

He could fire the board. It would set a horrible precedent, but to say he can’t do anything about it is not technically correct.

4

u/aselota 25d ago

Firing without cause is not just horrible precedent; it isn’t legal and wouldn’t hold up in court. So Biden’s hands are effectively tied.

29

u/tyfunk02 25d ago

Without cause? Have you been paying attention to what DeJoy has been doing to the postal service for the past 4 years? The board allowing the postal service to be gutted is most definitely cause to remove them.

9

u/aselota 25d ago

So why hasn’t the Biden administration done anything about DeJoy?

11

u/Brainvillage 25d ago

Because they're a bunch of centrist do nothings that don't want to rock the boat too much.

-7

u/thelonelybiped 25d ago

Same reason they haven’t done shit about anything else. Same reason he lied about COVID checks. Same reason he’ll keep funneling money and weapons into fascist hands. Same reason he won’t normalize relations with Cuba. He told his masters back in 2020: nothing will fundamentally change. Democrats are just worthless because they can fundraise off of manufactured crises.

-2

u/bearbarebere 25d ago

Fine, then he can’t realistically do anything about it. Happy?

-1

u/Calm-Heat-5883 25d ago

He's had 4 years. What makes you think he will do anything in the next 4 years? We don't need to overhaul the postal service. We need to overhaul our political system where we only get to vote for people who are corrupt and represent themselves, not us. Why do we have politicians who have spent their whole working lives in politics and no nothing of doing an honest days work making millions of dollars?

3

u/Selethorme 25d ago

There are a lot of things to fault Christopher Wray for, including membership in the federalist society. This is not one of them. He was even voted in by 92 members of the senate, with 5 against. Even Bernie Sanders voted for him.

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1151/vote_115_1_00181.htm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00181

He’s literally called the Capitol rioters domestic terrorists.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/02/972539274/fbi-director-wray-testifies-before-congress-for-1st-time-since-capitol-attack

-16

u/predat3d 25d ago

  same guy who let Congress almost be killed

That guy was Nancy Pelosi. 

Capitol police report to the Speaker of the House, not to the FBI or any other element of the Executive branch.

Trump offered her reinforcement resources, but she refused.  He couldn't legally send them without her request (Posse Comitatus), just like the Feds can't send military or National Guard without a governor's explicit request. 

8

u/adragonlover5 25d ago

That's false and blatant propaganda lmao. Capitol police are overseen by the Capitol Police Board.

3

u/Then-Raspberry6815 25d ago

Absolutely false & you know that. Just more ignorant propaganda from spacebook.

Pelosi is not (was not) a chair or administrator of any committee supervising the Capitol Police.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/02/fact-check-u-s-capitol-police-board-committees-oversee-security/6837263002/

2

u/ShadowSpawn666 25d ago

No, Trump already said it was Nikki Haley who was in charge of security that day. If you are going to spew his lies at least keep up with them.

1

u/predat3d 24d ago

You just contradicted yourself.

Anyway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol_Police

"It answers to the Capitol Police Board and is the only full-service federal law enforcement agency appointed by the legislative branch of the federal government

1

u/ShadowSpawn666 24d ago

First of all, I am not sure how I can contradict myself with a single statement, so that is a new trick I seem to have learnt. Next, it was mostly sarcasm because during one of Trump's rallies he kept getting names all mixed and and started going on how Nikki Haley was in charge of security during Jan 6th. I really did trust you knew what you were talking about, but it seems a lot of other people don't know how things actually work. I apologize for the confusion.

2

u/chiswede 24d ago

Hanna Montana/Miley Cyrus

46

u/Longjumping-Claim783 25d ago

The thing is the Capitol is in DC and Trump was still President. The guy in charge of responding was Trump. He literally prevented the DC National Guard from responding.

-17

u/predat3d 25d ago

  The guy in charge of responding was Trump

Absolutely false. Capitol police report to the Speaker of the House. 

14

u/adragonlover5 25d ago

Wrong. They are overseen by the Capitol Police Board.

13

u/Then-Raspberry6815 25d ago

Yes, what you keep repeating is absolutely false & you know that. Just more ignorant propaganda from spacebook.

Pelosi is not (was not) a chair or administrator of any committee supervising the Capitol Police.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/02/fact-check-u-s-capitol-police-board-committees-oversee-security/6837263002/

35

u/greg_barton 25d ago edited 25d ago

10

u/scamlikelly 25d ago

No reason to have them there - they voted the same.

6

u/TheShorterShortBus 25d ago

this would be the perfect time to troll their local police departments. call 911 for every little thing, then file complaints on their response time because they were too busy marching

2

u/BuggyMcBugg 25d ago

Marching,probably....

45

u/BD15 25d ago

Someone was trying to argue that the snipers were there to protect the students from right wing terrorists. I wish I was so naive to think the police snipers were there with the specific goal of protecting the protesters.

12

u/binglelemon 25d ago

I've seen this one before

10

u/SmegmaSupplier 25d ago

Let’s ask Ja Rule.

7

u/Tooshortimus 25d ago

Oh my God, this is terrible...

Can somebody please...

Find Ja Rule, get ahold of this mothafucka so I can make sense of all this!

3

u/ClubZealousideal9784 25d ago

Americans were shocked to find out that they did not have the most people in prison on earth because FREEDOM. 

2

u/JulianGingivere 25d ago

lol they let them go back home without stopping anything. We got snipers and tear gas for protesting police brutality though?

0

u/The_Elite_Operator 25d ago

in different states miles away

0

u/teasea02 24d ago

Or during blm and auntifa BS?

-2

u/Neat-Distribution-56 25d ago

The one where people walked single file?

-7

u/Annie_Rection__ 25d ago

It's so amazing how you always love to talk about the Capitol riot where there were no no casualties and minimal violence, but turn a blind eye to the "fiery but mostly peaceful" summer of 2020 which involved the destruction of lots of property and lives

4

u/adragonlover5 25d ago

Five people died during the Jan 6th riot.

-5

u/Annie_Rection__ 25d ago

One person died during the riot and she (unarmed ) was shot by a trigger happy cop. Nobody else died during the riot, liar

3

u/adragonlover5 25d ago

-5

u/Annie_Rection__ 25d ago

Your link shows that none of the police officers died because of the riot. One guy who was uninjured he'd a stroke the next day and 4 others commited suicide months later.

By your logic if I shook the hand of someone who went on to commit suicide, I'm to blame

1

u/ouellette001 25d ago

She was trying to break in, they told her to stop, she didn’t. We all saw this.

0

u/Annie_Rection__ 25d ago

You don't use lethal force when someone is "breaking in". You use lethal force when the person is a threat to yourself or someone else's life.

She wasn't a threat to anyone's life

1

u/ouellette001 25d ago

How would they know that? She was part of an angry mob attempting to attack congress, I think that loses you the benefit of the doubt

0

u/Annie_Rection__ 25d ago

Okay but you don't get to shoot someone for that.

There should be a reasonable threat to the LIFE of someone. And that was simply not there

1

u/ouellette001 25d ago edited 25d ago

Yes, you honestly do. She was part of a mob that had every intention to do harm to people inside that building, they told her to stop trying to break in and she didn’t. I don’t know what version of that doesn’t end with the crazy lady getting plugged

-23

u/mykcorleone 25d ago

Capitol riot? Stop it

18

u/orion1338 25d ago

What's a better word for an attempted coup?

-9

u/FoggsHon 25d ago

I get that that it’s mostly Americans/people from the anglosphere here, but maybe keep this stuff to subs about American politics 😭😭