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Biden isn't a king. Postmaster General is elected by the Board of Governors, which Biden did replace a number of. Also no more than half of them can be from the same party, so gridlock is natural.
As you said, Biden replaced members of the board of governors. They are an odd number, and the majority were appointed by Biden.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/people/2022/05/usps-board-is-now-mostly-biden-picks-following-latest-senate-confirmations/
There’s really no reason for DeJoy to still be around.
Agreed, but it's out of Biden's hands now, I don't like popularizing a unitary executive
And the dog ate his homework and the sun was in his eyes.
He isn't running for anything ever again. You don't have to make excuses for him anymore.
I'm not making excuses for him, I'm discouraging an inaccurate conception of the division of powers. I'm fine blaming him for all the things that are his fault, but I don't think reinforcing the idea that "the president is a king who has total authoritarian control over the federal government" helps anyone except the people who want to make that a reality. He appointed what he could to the Board, direct your ire, in this instance, at them.
He chose who he put on the board.
He chose poorly.
Just like he chose poorly with Merrick Garland. Dave it, Biden made a lot of fuck ups. Both of this likely helped cost them the election. We saw there were misdelivered, filled in ballots. DeJoy had a hand in that, guaranteed.
He chose Garland to do the function Garland performed: dragging his feet so Democrats could run against Trump again.
So the same mistake Hilary made when she got her media contacts to talk about him non-stop.
Democrats are not learning from their mistakes
I'm starting to think they have and this wasn't a mistake.
Name one.
Running for reelection.
Ok. Now try something he didn't do that he could have. Or do you honestly believe he did everything he could?
In general? Definitely not. In this specific case? Yeah, probably. It's not normal for appointees to be sycophant drones, and in terms of concentration of power it's not even desirable. Concentrating total power in the President is not a good idea, and advocating it by blaming the President for things that fall outside the scope of their power only empowers the people who want a dictator.
He made his appointments to the Board. The decisions those Board members make are on them, if you have a problem with their decisions, criticize them directly and direct your correspondence to them. Concentrating every complaint on the President promotes an inaccurate, and therefore ineffective, conception of scope of responsibility.
When trump fires DeJoy, remember this comment.
Genocide.
Now, now. According to centrists who aren't pro-genocide at all (no siree) he just had to keep selling weapons that he knew were being used to commit an ongoing genocide because they had been approved already, and the Leahy Law doesn't apply for some reason.
Yes, biden didn't do anything. He chooses to work within a system where his only option is serving the slave masters' system.
Biden should have seized absolute power and instituted authoritarian communism for the good of the people.
Nah... He should remain a powerless dummy who's only legacy is avidly promoting genocide.
"Totally legal executive action"
Bingo!