According to the Hollywood Reporter, the above is incorrect.
(my bolding)
I’ve never watched an Emmy broadcast. OTOH, if I had remembered that Stephen Colbert was hosting, I might have tuned in. Oh, well.
Every loyal American should take* every* opportunity to disparage Trump. It’s really important. These are not “normal” times and we should be going about our normal business as if we had a sane and competent President.
Sean Spicer said the ratings were better than ever.
Dude, do you even watch?
The four most recent “Stupid liberal ideas” really do point out that this thread is simply a parody of the SRIOTD. In no particular order, we have the Emmy’s, a laughable false flag, the butt of Clothahump’s neighbor, and Photoshop.
With the “free space,” I now have Bingo!
So the newest SLIOTD is that Humpy didn’t like the Emmys. Not a policy issue, not a legislative attempt at Tom-foolery, not an attempt to undermine peoples rights, a TV show he found uncomfortable.
You really are a delicate little snowflake, aren’t you Humpy.
NYT columnist thinks that an 11-year old mowing the lawn at the White House is “Not sending a great signal on child labor, minimum wage & occupational safety”.
What the fuck?
People actually watch award ceremonies? I imagine that must be like watching Miss <whatever> but without the benefit of trim. How bored can a person get that, with 197 channels to choose from, they end up on that sort of soporifica?
As a bedwetting liberal, I do believe we have a winner.
Mr. Hump ? Don’t you recall that you were instructed to post your sources (and to try to avoid #FakeNews) ? We can lead you to water — but you have to open your own mouth-hole and drink.
“Tanked”? Faux News wrote “cratered”; some other RightWingLies.com wrote “plummeted.” Where did “Tanked” come from? Don’t tell me that Humpy can use a thesaurus all by itself!
LameStream-Media wrote that after ratings fell for a few straight years, the Emmy’s rating was actually up slightly this year!
Yet Humpy wrote “Tanked”. :smack: Does it even pretend to have a brain?
I’ll bet the kid didn’t get paid, either.
It’s kind of like how Trump says Obama decimated the military, when in fact Obama spent some $200 billion more on defense after withdrawing from Iraq than Bush spent at the height of the invasion (2003-4).
A child volunteers for the honor of mowing a millionaires lawn for free; I think that’s exactly the message Trump wanted to send. And people defend it as a good lesson in learning the value of a day’s work, so at least some people are falling for it.
Falling for what?
It’s not exactly the most endearing story, but it’s a far cry from a scathing statement on child labor (as you noted, the kid volunteered), minimum wage (the kid set his own price), or occupational safety (he was wearing gloves, close-toed shoes and eye protection while operating machinery for which he seems to have developed some skill). I can’t decide which was dumber: some kid mowing the WH lawn for Trump or criticizing it under that pretense.
Trump. Trump is always worse.
Sorry, what was the question again?
Emphasis mine.
I don’t care very much about this specific incident, one way or another, but the section i have bolded precisely misses the point.
The fundamental principle of the minimum wage is that you don’t always get to set your own price. I could set the price for my labor at $5.00 an hour, but under California law my employer is required to pay me $10.50, and would be violating the law if he paid me my asking rate. I can’t set my own price because we, as a society, have decided that the minimum is not determined by an indivudal’s willing to sell him- or herself for the smallest amount possible.
When groups like labor unions and the People’s Party and the socialists and the Progressives were fighting for minimum wage laws in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, one plank of their argument in favor of a minimum wage was precisely that the idea of “liberty of contract,” under which individuals competed for jobs and negotiated their wages one-on-one with their employers, was fundamentally unfair, at least at the bottom end of the economic ladder, because of the massive discrepancies in power and need between the two bargaining parties.
As an African American socialist and labor leader named Peter Clarke wrote in the Cincinnati Commercial newspaper, in 1877, in support of striking railroad workers:
The basic principle of a minimum wage is precisely that: a minimum decided upon by society. It would be a meaningless concept if a worker could circumvent it simply by choosing to “set his own price.”
The original statement about safety, minimum wage, etc. could be an interesting start to a conversation. I don’t know that I’d call it stupid, but probably an overreaction to cite law and policy issues when it’s just a kid mowing someone’s lawn.
But the reply about how this is a lesson in self-sufficiency and the value of a day’s work really was stupid. His work does have value, but he’s not going to learn that by doing it for free. And the person who made that tweet fell for Trump’s message in the same way Tom Sawyer’s friends fell for the message that it would be fun to whitewash Aunt Polly’s fence.
John Blutarsky, President, USA.
It’s never been the same since NPH stopped hosting it. I mean, it was always going to be downhill after this opening number.