This is why I say Democrats cannot be blamed for running a bad campaign if Trump wins (and that includes Hillary in 2016). If people are determined to be dipshits or worse, that’s on them and it just sucks for the rest of us.
This is ALL it claims. No more. It IS too small to be significant except as a reflection of how SOME VOTERS ARE THINKING. **As is says in the article. **
Right now, I’m spitting mad at both parties. The GOP for being evil, and the Dems for not getting the word out.
The bill the House just passed with White House approval was likely the best the Dems could do if they wanted to get something passed right away, and let’s face it, time is of the essence here.
But it contains two HUGE exceptions to the paid sick leave requirement: employers with 50 or fewer employees can file for a hardship exemption (there’s at least an argument for this), and employers with 500 or more employees.
When Pelosi announced this deal, she should have been angry AF about this, rather than pretending it didn’t exist.
There should have been nobody even arguing for an exemption for big businesses. Nobody.GOP motherfucking delenda est.
Every Dem on the Sunday political shows this morning should be talking about this, talking about how incredibly EVIL the Republicans are that there’s even a question about this.
God damn, Dems, stop treating Republicans like decent people who happen to disagree with you! The things they disagree with you over are quite often matters of good and evil - and when that’s the case, you should be making no bones about it.
My impression is that the exemption for the biggest corporations was not forced on Democrats, but something Pelosi defends because corporations that big can afford to do it themselves without depending on the government to fund it. Which I think has merit.
Trump is a “showman” in the cheapest sense of the word. He’s a two-bit carnival gasbag, flimflamming whatever fool walks by. (Just listen to him talk.) He has a reptilian sense of the self-entitled grievance that fools often have, and he appeals to that in the way a lizard automatically sticks out its tongue to catch flies.
It’s not that Trump is such a great showman so much as there’s a fool born every minute.
Not all to the same degree. And some at least improve how the government runs. We’re seeing what happens when one who doesn’t even try gets into office–the most abject case we’ve had so far. We’re seeing the difference right now.
Someone has to run the government while you work on your plan to get the money out. (When are you going to finish that?)