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Excellent point. I would be glad to have tax payer money make this right with the postal worker that started the whole investigation into this fraudulent election tho.
Yes, he should be protected from retaliation and he should file a lawsuit ASAP. They might argue he did not go through “proper channels” but I think he has a great argument for being afraid to do that.
The ballot initiative was based on Portugal. I've looked into that whole thing in the past - results are...difficult to determine, because of the amount of hand-waving and "interpretations" of data over it - the one set of data that's accepted by all is that drug use went up, and drug deaths are the same.
So it's going to be a drug orgy, every junky in the US will flood in, and crime will skyrocket, homeless junkies everywhere, and every state and federal social service will be hammered hard, along with hospitals dealing with massive spikes in ODs.
Data is pretty consistent, and there are massive amounts of it from various legitimate sources. Portugal had very positive effects with decriminalization, coming after a heroin epidemic (primarily in the 90s) that was at least as bad, if not worse, to the U.S.' current opioid epidemic. I spent my entire undergraduate and graduate degrees researching this specifically, and as someone who currently works in policy and public health, it's one of the few things I'm confident in saying it was, objectively, incredibly successful in Portugal (both from a public health perspective and treating those affected, as well as economically). That doesn't mean we can just assume it'll work in Portland/Oregon, especially given it seems their population is just insane, but I'm not sure why we're seeing so much disinformation and/or misinterpretation of the data and results in Portugal here lately. It's also fair to say that it wasn't the act of decriminalization alone that made this successful in Portugal, but a host of other measures they put in place to work in conjunction w/ decriminalization. These are necessary, and I'm not sure Oregon/Portland did any of this, or really anything beyond simply decriminalizing, which is unlikely to be beneficial on its own.
With the data available, we know decriminalization doesn't measurably increase a populations' drug use statistics (outside, sometimes, for a brief period where a statistically insignificant spike occurs before dropping shortly after [which is more attributed to the fact that people actually admit to their use now, as they enter various clinics, treatment centers, etc, knowing it doesn't subject them to punishment -- so the data set widens and is no longer determined only by things like arrest records, etc]-- this was also observed during U.S alcohol prohibition and its repeal, and looking at those policies' correlation to alcohol use data), but it does decrease OD rates, spread of HIV/Aids and other disease, increases the # of those seeking treatment, allows police to focus on more serious crime (like the traffickers, etc), just to name a few benefits (and contrary to popular assumptions, it is economically beneficial). In a country like the U.S., where we have the highest prison population per capita, showing an ~800% increase since the inception of the drug war, where over half that population is non-violent drug offenders -- something like this, if implemented correctly and similarly to Portugal, is likely to be a good thing, and aligns perfectly with President Trump's prison reform/First Step Act
Anecdotally, I also have family in Portugal, who've been there decades and witnessed both the 90s heroin epidemic, to the harsher criminalization policies in the 90s (at which it continued worsening), to their decriminalization of use/possession of personal amounts (while still going after traffickers), to today, and their views align with what the data, and my (and many others') research shows.
Not trying to pull a 'iamverysmart' or anything, but it's one of the very few areas where I can claim to have expertise, have spent thousands of hours looking into, doing data analysis, conducting interviews and doing qualitative analysis (primarily with those who live there), etc, so it's simply a topic I know I'm fairly informed on, and particularly interested and passionate about, so I'll always participate in any conversations regarding it.
My larger work is currently in the publication process, so unfortunately I can't share it, but for any interested, I'd be happy to further discuss, answer questions, respond to any points you may disagree with, or share one of my undergraduate papers (which is admittedly more surface-level and nothing spectacular, as I was far younger and not as informed, as I hadn't spent years at that point researching it and working in drug policy and public health, etc; but it still makes and supports similar claims -- older sources remain reliable, too, and any updated data would still reflect that same data, only improving further since the end-dates on those sources' data and measurables). Also, while it's rather old now, and admittedly has inherent bias, Cato did a fairly decent analysis of this years ago. We know where they stand, obviously, but it is built on sound research and analysis, mostly from Jeffrey Miron, who is legitimate in this particular arena.
only if you work for the CIA and are lying about Trump. Then you will be protected to an extent previously thought impossible. Ask Eric C. If you are actually a whistle blower and expose criminal conduct in government, you will be fired, have your house raided by FBI swat teams, be threatened with bogus prosecutions, and be defamed in countless MSM stories.
Still believe this after the interrogation with no union support? If you still have friends there, you should ask them to raise the issue with their union reps, because that was some bullshit. And claiming he is a threat to himself or others as the justification for unpaid leave? WTF.
It wasn't the FBI. It was USPIS, and they cannot tell a postal worker he cannot have a union rep or lawyer present during an interrogation. The union should have been there, and should have immediately reached out when he was placed on unpaid leave. They may be bound to protect him, but are not doing shit.
Hmm. Get paid shit by the USPS, or get paid $130k because they unfairly punished you for blowing the whistle. Sounds like he gets to go on funemployment courtesy of the US Taxpayers
GoFundMes that don't have awards or products are considered personal gifts, and not taxed in most cases. For a $130k gift, he can afford a good tax attorney or CPA to make sure it's all on the level.
Politicians no doubt are salivating at getting a slice of the GoFundMe money trough, but so far, if it's for a life event, it's tax-free.
But that whole world is rife with money laundering, so I expect some changes to be made over the next couple of years.
There’s absolutely no reason why, with the technology that exists today, that I can’t directly send or receive money to someone’s bank account without a middleman.
You can. It's called an EFT. If you give someone your checking account # and the routing number, they should be able to send money to you. It's how your employer does direct deposit.
You can do crowdfunding that way - GFM is a business, that intentionally set themselves up as a middleman to suck up the fees - 9 billion worth over the last decade.
Give send go seems good. I think it worked out for the guy purchasing all of the voter lists. Matt Braynard I think was his name. I donated after go fund me killed his fundraiser and I’m pretty sure he got the money.
Tell him don't worry we got his back. I can send money from denmark over paypal if he needs unless there is some US law that prevent me from doing that.
I am a letter carrier and I can tell you this will not end well for the USPS. Our union and CBA will not only get him all the money he will have lost in not working but will be put back to work like nothing happened. This is exactly what we are instructed to do. If you see something, say something. In this case they might argue he went to the press but honestly his superiors were the ones doing this so he could argue he felt like they would retaliate... kinda like they fucking just did to him. Nearly supporting his argument.
they must just be setting up to protect him at all costs since he is a whistleblower. the dems taught me how this works already. we are all supposed to believe he is the most truthful person on the planet by default as well so im all over that.
Genius move.
Retalliation? Someone boutta get paid!
In other words, we the people have to pay for the swamps bad deeds.
I hope the right people get jail time for this, I suppose I can stomach the cost of incarcerating them.
No jail time. Hangings in the middle of First Street in front on the Supreme Court. All of them.
The proper way to punish people that would undermine our election process.
I'm guessing you woke up with a smile on your face.
Reminds me a bit of this, when gallows go up as the Capitol building explodes.
Excellent point. I would be glad to have tax payer money make this right with the postal worker that started the whole investigation into this fraudulent election tho.
We pay one way or another. Il gladly pay for truth.
They break the law because they know they won't pay for it. The tax payers will.
Worth it!! I’ll gladly contribute some tax money to this patriot!
Haha just commented hes about to get paid like a mofo
A good example of when I'm happy that my taxes went to a good cause.
Plus 25k from PV.
Silly things like laws don't apply when covering for the left.
They're about to! Audit all 50 states! Fair elections ONLY going forward.
No better time to clean this shit up than NOW.
Yes, he should be protected from retaliation and he should file a lawsuit ASAP. They might argue he did not go through “proper channels” but I think he has a great argument for being afraid to do that.
The person he was blowing the whistle on was the postmaster.
Not against democrat law you bigot it's only against the Republican law
I am 100% sure retaliation for whistle blowing is illegal.
So is doing heroin.
Not in Oregon anymore.
True. We'll see how that goes.
Hopefully it takes the antifa retards first to be the example demographic.
On the ground locally, in a shithole i once loved for being strong, conservative, settlers and pioneers
Anyway, this is how they keep the riots going -- keep the base homeless and high as fuck to feed the sprial of chaos and revolving door at jail
The ballot initiative was based on Portugal. I've looked into that whole thing in the past - results are...difficult to determine, because of the amount of hand-waving and "interpretations" of data over it - the one set of data that's accepted by all is that drug use went up, and drug deaths are the same.
So it's going to be a drug orgy, every junky in the US will flood in, and crime will skyrocket, homeless junkies everywhere, and every state and federal social service will be hammered hard, along with hospitals dealing with massive spikes in ODs.
Wheee.
Ain't liberalism fun?
Data is pretty consistent, and there are massive amounts of it from various legitimate sources. Portugal had very positive effects with decriminalization, coming after a heroin epidemic (primarily in the 90s) that was at least as bad, if not worse, to the U.S.' current opioid epidemic. I spent my entire undergraduate and graduate degrees researching this specifically, and as someone who currently works in policy and public health, it's one of the few things I'm confident in saying it was, objectively, incredibly successful in Portugal (both from a public health perspective and treating those affected, as well as economically). That doesn't mean we can just assume it'll work in Portland/Oregon, especially given it seems their population is just insane, but I'm not sure why we're seeing so much disinformation and/or misinterpretation of the data and results in Portugal here lately. It's also fair to say that it wasn't the act of decriminalization alone that made this successful in Portugal, but a host of other measures they put in place to work in conjunction w/ decriminalization. These are necessary, and I'm not sure Oregon/Portland did any of this, or really anything beyond simply decriminalizing, which is unlikely to be beneficial on its own.
With the data available, we know decriminalization doesn't measurably increase a populations' drug use statistics (outside, sometimes, for a brief period where a statistically insignificant spike occurs before dropping shortly after [which is more attributed to the fact that people actually admit to their use now, as they enter various clinics, treatment centers, etc, knowing it doesn't subject them to punishment -- so the data set widens and is no longer determined only by things like arrest records, etc]-- this was also observed during U.S alcohol prohibition and its repeal, and looking at those policies' correlation to alcohol use data), but it does decrease OD rates, spread of HIV/Aids and other disease, increases the # of those seeking treatment, allows police to focus on more serious crime (like the traffickers, etc), just to name a few benefits (and contrary to popular assumptions, it is economically beneficial). In a country like the U.S., where we have the highest prison population per capita, showing an ~800% increase since the inception of the drug war, where over half that population is non-violent drug offenders -- something like this, if implemented correctly and similarly to Portugal, is likely to be a good thing, and aligns perfectly with President Trump's prison reform/First Step Act
Anecdotally, I also have family in Portugal, who've been there decades and witnessed both the 90s heroin epidemic, to the harsher criminalization policies in the 90s (at which it continued worsening), to their decriminalization of use/possession of personal amounts (while still going after traffickers), to today, and their views align with what the data, and my (and many others') research shows.
Not trying to pull a 'iamverysmart' or anything, but it's one of the very few areas where I can claim to have expertise, have spent thousands of hours looking into, doing data analysis, conducting interviews and doing qualitative analysis (primarily with those who live there), etc, so it's simply a topic I know I'm fairly informed on, and particularly interested and passionate about, so I'll always participate in any conversations regarding it.
My larger work is currently in the publication process, so unfortunately I can't share it, but for any interested, I'd be happy to further discuss, answer questions, respond to any points you may disagree with, or share one of my undergraduate papers (which is admittedly more surface-level and nothing spectacular, as I was far younger and not as informed, as I hadn't spent years at that point researching it and working in drug policy and public health, etc; but it still makes and supports similar claims -- older sources remain reliable, too, and any updated data would still reflect that same data, only improving further since the end-dates on those sources' data and measurables). Also, while it's rather old now, and admittedly has inherent bias, Cato did a fairly decent analysis of this years ago. We know where they stand, obviously, but it is built on sound research and analysis, mostly from Jeffrey Miron, who is legitimate in this particular arena.
It's already a shit hole. Prepare for it to be even more of a shit hole.
So is banging your 14 year old niece while smoking crack🤷🏼♂️
They're really not good at diverting attention away from these things are they?
Hm, this guy accused us of breaking the law. I know! Let's fire him! That totally won't attract attention.....
Isn't that illegal? Don't whistle-blowers have protection?
No chance. The union probably told them to do it.
The union openly backed Biden. They are going to try and make an example out of this guy.
This is the equivalent of snitching on a made man. He'll be lucky if the union just ignores it.
Union member or not, he can join and the union is legally obligated to protect him. Whether they do a good job or not is a different story.
They will not care about him, but MUST defend him per their own rules. If they do not, it's grounds for their union chapter to be dissolved afaik.
Since when do they follow their rules or anyone else's?
Then they'll have a national labor relation board charge as well to deal with.
LOL no, they won't. They're leftists, they don't suffer consequences to their actions
Oh, wouldn't that be unfortunate.
You run afoul of the union, and they'll be the ones working overtime to get you fired.
only if you work for the CIA and are lying about Trump. Then you will be protected to an extent previously thought impossible. Ask Eric C. If you are actually a whistle blower and expose criminal conduct in government, you will be fired, have your house raided by FBI swat teams, be threatened with bogus prosecutions, and be defamed in countless MSM stories.
You mean Eric **********?
lol jk
You mean Eric Ciaramella?
Whistle blower "protection", brief explanation.
No they don't. Obama lied and destroyed all that whistleblower protection shit. Cock sucker
surprised he isn't given the Roger Stone treatment yet
It's coming
Richard Hopkins, America's Mailman
He should be placed in witness protection
you sure? pretty sure the union endorsed Biden, and I would not be surprised to find out the orders at issue came down from union bosses.
I hope you're right.
Still believe this after the interrogation with no union support? If you still have friends there, you should ask them to raise the issue with their union reps, because that was some bullshit. And claiming he is a threat to himself or others as the justification for unpaid leave? WTF.
It wasn't the FBI. It was USPIS, and they cannot tell a postal worker he cannot have a union rep or lawyer present during an interrogation. The union should have been there, and should have immediately reached out when he was placed on unpaid leave. They may be bound to protect him, but are not doing shit.
I read they already suspended his gofundme
https://flipstarter.cash/
A vast majority of people do not either understand, know about, or trust btc.
Gofundme is a money laundering scheme for libs so of course they'll shut down anything that would be detrimental to them.
Hmm. Get paid shit by the USPS, or get paid $130k because they unfairly punished you for blowing the whistle. Sounds like he gets to go on funemployment courtesy of the US Taxpayers
GoFundMes that don't have awards or products are considered personal gifts, and not taxed in most cases. For a $130k gift, he can afford a good tax attorney or CPA to make sure it's all on the level.
Politicians no doubt are salivating at getting a slice of the GoFundMe money trough, but so far, if it's for a life event, it's tax-free.
But that whole world is rife with money laundering, so I expect some changes to be made over the next couple of years.
Sorry - maybe I meant to say he gets extra funemployment. US Govt is going to be fucked for retaliation
One was but gofundme suspended it because....
There’s absolutely no reason why, with the technology that exists today, that I can’t directly send or receive money to someone’s bank account without a middleman.
It’s such a fucking scam.
You can. It's called an EFT. If you give someone your checking account # and the routing number, they should be able to send money to you. It's how your employer does direct deposit.
Ah, well TIL. I thought you needed some kind of authorization for your employer to do direct deposit.
I wonder why we can’t just do crowdfunding this way when we need to send someone money that GFM is shutting down.
You can do crowdfunding that way - GFM is a business, that intentionally set themselves up as a middleman to suck up the fees - 9 billion worth over the last decade.
Give send go seems good. I think it worked out for the guy purchasing all of the voter lists. Matt Braynard I think was his name. I donated after go fund me killed his fundraiser and I’m pretty sure he got the money.
https://flipstarter.cash/
Agreed
i thought the left loved whistleblowers now?
It's selective.
Sounds like retaliation.
Retaliation against a whistleblower. That's the Democrat way
Believe whistle-blowers. Protect whistle-blowers. Right?
Sounds like a law suite in the making.
Sometimes a hero has to go postal!
Trump needs to tell the head of the USPS either this guy gets his job back in one hour or you are fired.
Like on "The Apprentice".
Tell him don't worry we got his back. I can send money from denmark over paypal if he needs unless there is some US law that prevent me from doing that.
I am a letter carrier and I can tell you this will not end well for the USPS. Our union and CBA will not only get him all the money he will have lost in not working but will be put back to work like nothing happened. This is exactly what we are instructed to do. If you see something, say something. In this case they might argue he went to the press but honestly his superiors were the ones doing this so he could argue he felt like they would retaliate... kinda like they fucking just did to him. Nearly supporting his argument.
let's buy this man a beer. Who's with me?
Wait, that's illegal!
Ordinarily you'd expect the union to protect a guy in this position. But Democrat.
they admitted guilt then
Lin Wood and Sidney Powell have entered the chat....
Saved
You know you found the treasure trove when someone gets put on unpaid leave.
Barr? Barr? BARRRRRRRRR!!!???
Wait, i thought we shouldn't even know his name! Whistleblowing is Sacrosanct! You should get banned from twitter if you even say the name!
Completely unrelated new, My buddy Eric really likes the candy bar ciaramella. Or was it caramello, I forget sometimes
let's buy him pizza.
I'm sure his Union Rep will get right on it.
This is evidence that they're worried
they must just be setting up to protect him at all costs since he is a whistleblower. the dems taught me how this works already. we are all supposed to believe he is the most truthful person on the planet by default as well so im all over that.
Sounds like a worthy recipient for a crowd fund.
That’s what you get for shining the light on government corruption! Back to the gulag Comrade!
Time to hire a lawyer. That's illegal.
Fantastic for him! Should end up with a lot more money.
now USPS will have a lawsuit on their hands.
Hey boss, meet my new bestie, Mr. Lin Wood, Esquire.
BE BRAVE
Why why why why why would they do that? They're gettin' nervous man.
Seems typical. I am sure he made AOC's blacklist. Freakin' 🤡🌎. Honesty and integrity have no place in Communism.
Well someones gonna sue the shit out of the post office after the fact. Probably with pissed off conservative lawyers working for free
There's surveillance EVERYWHERE, there's gotta be plenty of evidence if they want to find it!
gofundme for this patriot?
maybe he was put on leave for committing the crime
Somebody get this woman a coat!!!
You may be seeing the end of the US postal service, or at the very least a complete and total reboot of it. How disgusting