Edition · August 17, 2020
The Daily Fuckup — August 17, 2020
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Closing take
By the end of the day, the Postal Service fight had moved from a bureaucratic dispute into a full-scale political liability. Trump-world wanted the conversation to be about efficiency and costs; instead, it was about ballots, delays, and whether a Republican-led operation was trying to sandbag the election by accident or design. That is the kind of mess that doesn’t fade quickly. It gets worse every time somebody tries to explain it.
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Postal sabotage
Confidence 4/5
★★★★★Fuckup rating 5/5
Five-alarm fuckup
The Postal Service uproar deepened on August 17 as Postmaster General Louis DeJoy agreed to testify before Congress after a barrage of complaints about delayed mail and operational changes. What was supposed to be a routine cost-cutting story had become a political firestorm because those changes landed right in the middle of a pandemic election that was expected to rely heavily on mail ballots. Trump’s own hostility to mail voting kept turning the whole episode into something darker than a management dispute.
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