Yeah… they tried something similar here in MA, and every single service person I talked to about it, at every level, from dishwasher to chef to server to maitre’d to manager to owner was opposed to it. It was a tortuously and deceptively constructed piece of legislature that “guaranteed” a thing that was already actually guaranteed. It did nothing helpful, and it just increased bureaucracy and put another layer in the wages equation unnecessarily. We voted it down, thankfully.
From glass onion lol. Great movie, btw.
I would fucking love for the Feds to try this with any blue state that is a net contributor (which is like, basically all of them). And then set up a (federally illegal, but we don’t care about that anymore apparently) interstate commerce and trade pact between blue states for mutual aid and economic assistance, since the federal government is currently busy destroying the federal government.
Genuinely, I do think the only way out of this is starting to look like a military coup by some sort of cadre of non-insane officers from across the services. Based on the performance and reactions of every single part of the government - specifically including the alphabet agencies - I don’t think we’re going to snap out of fascism any other way.
It looks like the legislative and judicial branches, and all of the agencies, have simply decided to do nothing and follow the rules while Trump just gives illegal directives that are then enacted by eel-on-musk’s imbecile intern wünderkinds, and everyone just stands around saying “I’m just following orders”. It’s fucking embarrassing.
Lmao that doesn’t even make chronological sense
I am shocked. Shocked, I say.
It do be like that
You know Trump is changing a ton of them back, right?
They won’t pay it. Why do people refuse to understand this. It’s a thing he’s done for decades. It’s a thing he did the first time around. This isn’t a surprise. You’re not allowed to be surprised. Fucking stop it.
I mean, of course. But at the same time there are shitloads of statues of and military bases named after confederate heroes in the south. Official recognition is not the same as colloquial and societal recognition, and the confeds sure as shit had that since reconstruction was kneecapped following Lincoln’s assassination.
The thing about the confeds is that there were multiple generations that were brought up to revere them in very large swathes of the US. And that’s a core part of how the fuck we got here in the first place.
Wow, good thing Biden followed all the fucking rules and didn’t illegally fire the guy who actively worked against him who is now going to be illegally sacked by the guy who fucking hired him in the first place. That would have been unconscionable. Simply beyond the pale. Heaven forbid.
Truly, there has never been a more disappointing collection of flaccid chodes. No backbones to speak of in the lot of them.
It’s not shocking. None of this is shocking. They have a playbook. They published it YEARS before the election. They said they would use the playbook. They are using the playbook. It’s not a surprise. You’re not allowed to be surprised by this. Fucking stop it. Holy fucking christ.
I’m just impressed that all these legal experts are enthusiastically dismantling the underpinnings of their own livelihood. But I guess they’re all fuck-off rich anyways, so they don’t give a shit.
So the only reason this works is because Trump’s got a buddy in Mayor Adams, because he just leaned on the DoJ to drop ALL of the charges that were preceding against Adams. Otherwise, the NYS Governor and NYC mayor would likely just laugh in Trump’s face and tell him to fuck off.
The worm can’t make any moves in any direction because it’s dead :(
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So I admit I used to feel the horror you’re describing, but seeing them refuse to reciprocate for my entire voting life has made me a damn sight more jaded these days. And I have precisely zero sympathy for places and people who vote against their own interests.