Is the USPS Helping Trump Rig the Election?

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He does not want you to pre-order it. He has attacked Jessica left and right. I think you should go pre-order it. I am a hero of the resistance, in case you didn't know that. For those of you watching on Substack and YouTube, like and subscribe to The Partners Perspective, Raging Moderates. Pre-order the book. Fight like hell for what you believe. Is that what I'm supposed to say, as an avatar? If you are in D.C. on September 24th at 7 p.m. at Politics and Pros, Jessica and I, well, I'm going to be interviewing Jessica for her book. So you guys are going to come out. Everyone should come out and say hi. I'm really excited about that. The amount of people who have asked me, like, how did you get Aaron to do this with you? I'm like, I mean, you're a big deal, and I totally get that. But I'm like, are you unaware of the fact that we have a longstanding relationship, but I didn't, like, slide into it? I'm like, are you aware of the fact that we have a longstanding relationship, but I didn't, like, slide into it? get his endorsement. or he won't be terrible about them. You know what I totally think should happen? Trump hosting a debate for all the Republicans. But on Truth Social. On like Truth Social or something. I mean, we're already hosting, the Small Business Administration's hosting Shark Tank with Nicki Minaj as the lead judge. So that's happening. Are you messing with me? No, 100%. A $1 million competition, taxpayer dollars, the best five small businesses in America, Nicki Minaj as the judge, and Dean Cain as the host. I say get out of here, but we have another 20 minutes of the show. I hate life sometimes. But I did enjoy greatly watching Howard Lutnick squirm on CNBC this morning. Joe Kernan, fan of the president. Big boy pants on going at Lutnick hard. So let's play a clip of that. You ran Cantor. You ran it well. You had a relationship. You did their IPO before you became a contractor. You were the Commerce Secretary. So no surprise there. You put it in a trust and your sons are now running Cantor. And, you know, there was a pipe financing deal done where to get, I think, the financing from the Commerce Department, Cantor was involved with raising some of the equity and obviously they get a fee. So the perception is that you're sitting now at Commerce and you're able to control what Cantor is getting, in terms of fees, with your sons running that company. It looks like a conflict of interest. How do you respond to that? It's just not. The company, the deal was brought to me by Ken Mollis, someone you know well. I had no idea that Cantor was involved with the company at all. It never came up to me. I then passed it to my team. And I had nothing to do with that decision. And this is minor stuff anyway. It's minor stuff. I mean, maybe versus Eric and Don Jr., but I'm very happy that this happened and in one of their favorite forums to hang. And you can tell that Lutnik, like as a Wall Street guy, feels at home with Kernan, right? Where he's like, you know, Jeff Mollis, you know him well. Like, we're the same. And Kernan's like, we're not so much the same on this. Yeah, I think Lutnik, for some reason, I don't know, for some reason, he's like the middle child of this administration. That's the best way I could describe him. He's always put in the worst positions. And he kind of gets himself into the worst positions, whether it's on Epstein, whether it's on the Kennedy Center. And now it's this and his Cantor. Or a war with, trade war with Canada. Or a trade war with Canada. I mean, everything Lutnik touches is like dying for this administration. It is bad. And Trump doesn't put him in a good position, ever. Well, he doesn't deserve it. But honestly, it feels like, so many people want a scalp. And this would be the easiest one to offload. Yes. Like, who's going to miss him? Right? He's never given an interview that anyone's felt good about. He was actually banned from TV early on because his interviews were so bad, even with friendly interviewers. Yeah. So, I would just like to say, before we move to topics, headline, Mike Johnson admits he and his son monitor each other's porn intake in resurfaced video. I did not make that up. I know you weren't thinking about it anymore, but I hate being wrong. I have one headline then, since we're just going to drop headlines now, is welcome to the end of the 2020s. Yesterday was the official start of the end of the 2020s. And if you didn't think you were old before, we are now nearing 2030. I did think I was old because I hang out with you, which is a choice that I made. I'm like, I feel very elderly. I was born in 1999. And I'm almost 30 years old. That's scary. You just want to hurt me. Okay. 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Golden said the vote cleared the way for a bill he co-sponsored, which benefited fishermen in his district. Glusenkamp-Perez says she voted for the procedural measure because it included Golden's bill, effectively saying she was just backing him up. Hakeem Jeffries says the move was a significant breach of trust and has asked the Caucus Rules Committee to consider consequences, including potentially stripping them of their committee assignments. We should note, so this was a Republican special where they crammed a ton of stuff into it, including Jared Golden's fishermen and lobstermen bill, but it also, you know, condemned socialism and it had positive language. I think it's a pretty bad look for leadership that they hadn't done the work to go and ask Golden, who is plenty happy to buck leadership whenever he pleases anyway and is leaving office on top of that, but his own bill was part of it. Oh, it's a terrible look for Hakeem, terrible look for leadership in the House Democrats. I mean, listen, I don't believe in just like throwing leadership under the bus and like attacking members of Congress just to attack, but I do look back to the Pelosi times. This would have never happened with Nancy Pelosi as speaker. And she said that herself, which I also thought was pretty interesting. And I have- She's usually just so supportive. Like she loves Hakeem. Well, this is partially what I've been arguing for a long time. Nancy Pelosi is, you know, hurting Hakeem Jeffries by staying in office this long. I think that Nancy Pelosi should have left office when she left the speakership. I think she had an amazing run. She was a great leader, a great speaker. But the moment that she handed off the baton to Hakeem and then stuck around in the background, anything she does that's against what Hakeem is doing makes him look bad. Purposefully, not purposely, whatever it may be. And I think, I mean, listen, I think this was a bit of an egg on the face moment for Hakeem. And I think he's got to get it together if he's going to be successful. If he's going to be successful as a speaker in a new Congress. Because he may have maybe only a two or three vote margin, right? It may not be a massive wave. You don't know what's going to happen. And if he can't keep his caucus together, the last thing he wants and the last thing he needs is to have a Mitch McConnell moment with the Affordable Care Act repeal and have his members vote him down on the House floor. And not with the ACA repeal, just in a separate type of bill. And so I think this is going to be a real learning moment for Hakeem. Yeah, I think, you know, her shadow is long, wide, however you're supposed to say it. She's a tiny person, but obviously the fact that she's still around, you know, makes it easy to make comparisons between how Jeffries is doing it versus how Pelosi would do it. Her actually making comments, I think, is a real shot across the bow. And she's very specific and pointed when she does choose to speak out about something and what she stays quiet on. I think I was not someone who was bothered by him having that meeting with Jared Kushner. We don't know what the contents of the conversation were, but I think it is incumbent on people in leadership positions to take meetings. And that's not bad politics, necessarily. Obviously, the leak made Kushner look better and Jeffries look worse. But the fact that this is happening just a few days later, I feel like is absolutely. I feel like it's adding to this pile on. And the new Congress, and hopefully the margins are bigger. I want this to be too big to rig, because you know thereafter we're going to talk about the USPS and what's going on there with the whistleblower. But there are going to be a lot, hopefully, of new incumbents who are going to be against traditional leadership. There are people all over this country running in races, saying, get Chuck Schumer out of here, not committing to being part of the. the normal. democratic infrastructure, whether they're targeting Hakeem Jeffries himself or just business as usual. And so Jared Golden may be leaving, but there will be a new cadre of Jared Golden's, hopefully, if we do well, coming in. And that concerns me. Well, I mean, I think we're going to have to see what happens next. I think that the good thing for Hakeem in all of this is that no one's going to remember what happened yesterday, tomorrow. I mean, this is just kind of a wipe the slate clean type of thing. The rule at issue wasn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things when it comes to all the other craziness that's happening. By the time November comes around, no one's going to remember this. I doubt anyone's going to even remember the Kushner meeting a few weeks from now. I mean, this new cycle moves so quickly and there's so many things happening. I just think that Hakeem needs to take a lesson from Mitch McConnell's playbook. A lesson from Nancy Pelosi's playbook. You've got to get your people in line. No more of this, like. Should he punish Golden and losing Cam Perez? I mean, what does punishment mean? Like strip them of committee assignments? Like losing committee assignments? I think, yes, I do. I mean, I think he should. I mean, I think he should rule with a bit of an iron fist here and kind of follow up on this. Like, it would have been different. The problem I have is that I don't think he's going to be able to do that. I don't think he's going to be able to do that. The problem I have with what MGP and Jared Golden did was not because they voted for with Republicans. Fine. If you want to do that, that helps you. Great. Whatever. It's they didn't tell leadership. That's the problem with me that I have. Go and tell Hakeem and say, hey, we need this. Or we have this problem. We have this problem. Like, let's figure out a solution. They didn't do that. And that's why I do think that they should be punished by leadership. I'll just add that communication is a two-way street. And I understand there was some attempt to shift blame. But I think it's a two-way street. And I think it's a two-way street. With my this needs to be too big to rig. And that's because we now have a USPS whistleblower who. Oh, I know. Well, you know, I got it. It was for a fact. You did know that the story exists, obviously, and did a video on it. And the whistleblower's words that there's a secretive rush, chaotic and fundamentally flawed approach now going on to how they're going to deal with mail-in ballots. The nitty gritty matters here. The plan requires states to upload lists of their USPS along with barcodes on ballot envelopes. If USPS scanners find even one mismatch in a in a batch, the whistleblower says the whole batch, potentially tens of thousands of ballots, get kicked back to the state instead of delivered. I yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was my question. I yeah. Yeah, it's bad. I mean, I spoke with Congressman Robert Garcia, who interviewed this whistleblower yesterday, and he told me it's like worse than we could even imagine. I mean, you're just trying to change the rules 70 days before an election. We can't do that. Like, if you want to do this for 2028, have the conversation now two years in advance. Doing this 70 days before you're going to have complete mess left and right. And this poison pill situation of like, if one ballot's misscanned, then thousands of ballots are thrown out. That is voter suppression. That is throwing out someone's right to vote. That is a violation of the First Amendment that is taking away your voice as a voter. I don't know where things go from here. I really don't. Well, good news. This is just a trend line because there aren't particular fans of the First Amendment anyway. You could ask anyone from students who wrote op eds to law firms, universities, whoever else they're cracking down on. So this is on par. But I felt like this was a bit of a bait and switch that there had been a little bit of good news vis-a-vis mail-in ballots with the Supreme Court decision. And then you had General Kaine, I think, writing in a letter or at the time. And I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. Send the military to polling places. Obviously, that can change on a dime depending on how many hours of beauty rest Stephen Miller got. But this feels like the real war footing that we are on with this administration when it comes to people being able to vote and have free and fair elections. And I don't know if they can execute something like this. There were questions around their plan with the Postal Service anyway, because they had to build a big, database that they couldn't do in that amount of time. But you can see a world that they're literally haphazardly just taking ballots and throwing them all the stuff, frankly, that they falsely accused Democrats of doing in Fulton County and in Philadelphia and in Detroit. We're going to be seeing in reverse. Well, by the way, I think the biggest I mean, I have been screaming from the mountaintops ever since the Supreme Court gave that victory to Trump on this USPS issue. And every liberal came out in they were like, it's not that big of a ruling. It's just on technicality. I have been screaming from the mountaintop. It was a much bigger deal than they're trying to downplay. It was the same type of response that liberal legal analysts had after the Virginia court struck down redistricting efforts. And they were like, no, no, no, don't worry. The Supreme Court's going to overturn it. We'll be fine. We'll be fine. And I was like, no, this is not as clear cut. You want to give people hope, but you have to be realistic here. If this issue gets to the Supreme Court, this Supreme Court, there's no guarantee it's going to just say, no, no, we're going to throw it away. That's not what the Supreme Court's willing to do. If that were the case, Trump's ballroom construction would be blocked. What they did on that front is scary to me because it said that the group that's responsible for overseeing the preservation of the East Wing doesn't have standing concerning demolition of the East Wing. Who else would have standing but for them? I have a lot of problems, but alas. You've rained on my parade. I guess I had the wrong legal take. No, it's fine. I'm not a lawyer. I just play one on TV sometimes. No, it's good for you to be glass half empty. I'm like a quarter full at this point. Anyway, this is a very bad and devastating story. This tragic knife attack at the heart of Times Square, a knife-wielding suspect killed a 32-year-old Erin Piacenti, a Bank of America vice president and lawyer from New Jersey. She recently celebrated her two-year wedding with her husband, and she's now a lawyer. She's a lawyer. She's a lawyer. She's a lawyer. And it just completed her first day back from maternity leave. Graphic video of the alleged attacker's confrontation with NYPD was all over social media, showing a 49-year-old woman lunging at cops after wielding two knives, then being shot and killed as she also attacked another man who was expected to survive, a tourist who's in town visiting his son. I can't imagine this, especially first day back from maternity leave. Super bright young woman, went to Penn, Fordham Law, where she met her husband, you know, life in front of her and life in front of, obviously, her little baby girl. The thing that stuck out to me or I wanted to talk to you about specifically was the justification and then to celebration that you're seeing in some corners of the internet of this, talking about, oh, and it had echoes of the Luigi Mangione discourse that, you know, some people are a part of corporate America. They had it coming. And I don't know how we fix that. I don't, I mean, listen, I, when you texted me that yesterday, like, look to kind of just see where it's coming from. I couldn't really find too much of that discourse, thankfully, on my, on my screens. I mean, I do think this is something that Fox is going to run with for several days if they catch on. to make it a little bigger than it has to be. I think it's, I think, listen, no one deserves to lose their life or no one should lose their life for working at Bank of America or working at a health care company or a health insurance company. And I think that this vigilanteism, I, the Luigi Mangione in this case, completely different. Luigi Mangione targeted- is definitely a current with young people that feel like corporate America or the elites or whoever it is are, everything is rigged against them and they have it coming. Yeah. No, I hear you. I hear you. I mean, listen, it's, it, I'm just very sad for her family. Okay. Well, I agree with you. And then we're going to have to move on faster because you don't want to talk about, like, there's a lot of polling to back up that younger people, people feel like violence can be more justified. And as you get older, even like elder millennials into Gen Xers and boomers, et cetera, it's much less. Well, I can have a whole 30-minute conversation with you about why that is and why I think that is. So maybe for another- Okay. We'll do it next week then. But Jessica, before we go, I want to get your thoughts on a single AOC, on single AOC and how she's been showing up. I don't like that framing, but on AOC. Okay. Let's wave the clap. Would you ever date a conservative? is that anything you'd ever entertain um i have to say it's uh probably not no you know but i think a lot of politics sometimes at least for me is about values and being aligned with um in values i think is tremendously important hot girl summer hot girl single summer um but she's making an important point which is borne out by the data on this uh people now do not want to have relationships or get involved with folks across ideological lines um yeah you want to do the story that's all you have to say true it's very true i mean i might i i will say when my wife and i first started dating i was conservative and she was bernie bro liberal and we would not have lasted if we remained on those ideological playing fields um so you guys just like met more in the middle i think i moved further to the left and she kind of just stayed okay so you can like we still have our disagreements but it's just not as pronounced yeah my husband who is probably to the left of me in general um loves to troll me about bernie sanders because i love hillary so much he'll just be like bernie would have won and then i like i lose it and go yeah and don't not like you think that that's true potentially get it out of here okay we've got questions let's go um sharon bernett asks do you think congress will move forward to impeach pete hexeth i think they'll try i don't think they'll be successful like in even getting the votes for it or so i think i think there'll be a push um i i don't think they'll be successful because i don't think hexeth is the last thing that four years okay how quickly do you think he might go out how quickly post midterms maybe post iran and they just do like a full shuffle post iran war there's gonna be an end to the war in iran newsflash you heard it here first okay max low wants to know what are the top three things democrats should focus on after the midterms investigations investigations investigations investigate the hell out of them affordability housing education boom and investigations that's it for this episode of the raging perspective see you next wednesday hank joined bj's wholesale club the day he became a father of 30 i coach football now coach hank saves up to 25 off grocery store prices 30 pounds of pasta three cases of protein bars 75 sports drinks and that's just pre-game he knows team work and bj's knows savings this is your home coach home of the save join for just twenty dollars at bjs.com slash mesquite and save 10 cents per gallon for six months open soon limited time offer new members only bj's home of the save hey it's ryan reynolds here for mint mobile now i was looking for fun ways to tell you that mint's offer of unlimited premium wireless for 15 a month is back so i thought it would be fun if we made 15 bills but it turns out that's very illegal uh so there goes my big idea for the commercial give it a try at mint mobile.com slash switch upfront payment of 45 for three months 90 for six months or 180 for 12 month plan required 15 per month equivalent taxes and fees extra initial plan term only greater than 50 gigabytes may slow when network is busy see terms cozy season is ahead and you'll be spending way more time inside is your home ready don't worry with wayfair you can upgrade your space without breaking the bank score up to 70 off during their labor day clearance on furniture area rugs mattresses and more plus surprise flash deals you can't miss whether it's one room or the whole house wayfair has pieces for every style and budget shop wayfair's labor day clearance now through september 7th at wayfair.com wayfair every style every home