On the other hand, when Davy Crockett lost his re-election bid to Congress he said, “You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.” (considering what happened later, maybe hell would’ve been a better choice )
It may or may not be a comfort to note that as awful as many humans may be right now, just as many awful people threatened their fellow-humans in eras past.
Of course they didn’t have a clubhouse such as FoxNews in which to glory in their awfulness. So I guess that is one difference.
And again we see that the cruelty is the point. Because there’s absolutely no other point in trying to kneecap measures meant to keep workers from dying of heatstroke.
Once again DeSantis is a day late and an Inquisition short - Texas passed this law last year.
I think in this case the cruelty is actually just a bonus. The point is to show the Democratic bleeding hearts in the cities that the True Americans in the rural areas will dictate the rules. After all, if we don’t need a law in order for Billy Mac to get a break when he’s helping Wilmer with his barn raising, why does there need to be a law for the anonymous crew putting up the office building for Stock Price Is Everything, Inc.? Basically it’s a fuck you after the political and legal battles over the covid rules.
[channelling DeSantis] Hey, look at the bright side! It’s mostly all those brown invaders doing that work in the blazing sun. So what if they keel over? Drag the bodies away and shuffle in some more brown invaders, get the labor out of them, repeat, repeat – cheap labor and a bonus, getting the brown invader numbers down! [/channelling]
I wish I didn’t suspect there was an element of this kind of calculation involved.