@NYCVG
He will support his "good friend" Biden. Screw all the kids that worked their heart out for him.
Important lesson there kids, "Never trust ANY politician!"

falls through, no amount of gaslighting will get the Democrats thru the midterm elections without the loss of the House and Senate.

As I'm certain they understand. That's probably the plan. Hold the boat as steady as you can and move out of the front of the line in 2 years. Go back to the comfortable position from which raising revenue is the only actual objective and concern.

The "fix" they are offering this morning is less than nothing. It concerns only workers in the largest companies. Where most of us do not work.

Millions of people laboring in small and medium sized enterprises---in fields, farms, retail stores, homes, care centers, sinks in salons and kitchens---remain unprotected.

There is still some small amount of hope that Bernie can put his finger in the dyke and stop the flood of lies and bad will. As Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, the bill that reaches the Senate for a vote needs HIS okay. Not Schumers. Not Mcconnells. Not, for fuck's sake, a nod from the parliamentarian.

@NYCVG

The more incompetent they appear to be, the more certain they can be that they will lose comfortably in the midterms. And that will let them go back to their preferred roles of sitting on the sidelines, bitching and moaning, not being responsible for anything, and oh by the way fleecing the living bejeezus out of their braindead donors ("Missed it by THAT much! Just give us more money, and we'll win next time for sure!"). That way, they can gorge themselves on the infinite supply of free, untraceable cash that fills their slop-trough, without having to pause their lucre-mastication long enough to try and govern. Win-win: all it takes is losing, which after all is said and done is their true specialty.

The 2020 election was a mistake, and an aberration. They'll be back to their (very profitable!) losing ways toot sweet.

falls through, no amount of gaslighting will get the Democrats thru the midterm elections without the loss of the House and Senate.

As I'm certain they understand. That's probably the plan. Hold the boat as steady as you can and move out of the front of the line in 2 years. Go back to the comfortable position from which raising revenue is the only actual objective and concern.

The "fix" they are offering this morning is less than nothing. It concerns only workers in the largest companies. Where most of us do not work.

Millions of people laboring in small and medium sized enterprises---in fields, farms, retail stores, homes, care centers, sinks in salons and kitchens---remain unprotected.

There is still some small amount of hope that Bernie can put his finger in the dyke and stop the flood of lies and bad will. As Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, the bill that reaches the Senate for a vote needs HIS okay. Not Schumers. Not Mcconnells. Not, for fuck's sake, a nod from the parliamentarian.

@earthling1

would kill too many (of the remaining) small businesses.

As was suggested above by the article on restaurant tech - burger flipping, automatable jobs will get automated by those who can afford to do so, but not a realistic option for businesses relying on skill or knowledge intensive work requiring a human, or who cannot afford the capital investment to automate.

All works well for Jeff Bezos, or MacDonald's but would be the for a whole lot of small businesses and kill off neighborhoods or small towns already down to a handful of surviving independent businesses.

FWIW - $1.25 was the minimum wage in 1964 - the last year of silver coinage issue. Today, the value of the silver (today's spot price) in five silver quarters is approximately $28.50...

I keep hearing is that a rise in minimum wage will drive up inflation.
This is proved false by the rampant inflation in the last 13 years of no raise in the Federal Minimum Wage.
Basically, the ruling mob is telling us "The beatings will continue until morale improves."