“Here’s what it has achieved”

A list of money given to farmers, shipping companies, automakers, coal towns, energy companies, and anyone else responsible for all the pollution we currently face. It seems like they’re being rewarded for their misdeeds.

Meanwhile oil and natural gas production is booming in the US to record rates: https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/wells/

This is exactly the type of shit that I’m talking about. It’s just a bunch of virtue signaling while they funnel our tax dollars to wealthy corporations to be squandered away. You couldn’t actually point to anything specific that came out of this because it’s just a list of money doled out for abstract ‘causes.’ Even the author could only point to two specific examples, $120k to Eugene, OR to train people on brush removal after our wildfires and $118k for air monitoring equipment in a West Virginia town and that’s two years after handing out nearly $400 billion. This reminds me of all the times Democratic presidents have given hundreds of billions of dollars to companies like Comcast and Spectrum for jack shit.

I’d much rather they fight some Texas federal judge over something meaningful than squander the political capital on something that benefits a tiny niche of the country and gets blocked anyway.

Just about the only meaningful thing we’ve seen over the last three Democratic presidential terms was the ACA and they decided to model that after a Republican healthcare plan rather than giving us the logical choice of single-payer in order to appease Republicans who voted against it anyway.

We’ll probably never know because it would require them to actually make a substantial change first.

What is that, the used car salesman’s definition of “guarantee,” meaning “I’m going to promise this to you, but you’ll never actually get it?”

Yeah, that sounds about right.

Four million people, and more next year, and then every three years after that - definitely nothing.

🤦

It literally is nothing because it’s blocked from being implemented as stated in your own damn quote. Even if it were implemented, it’s still nothing as it only applies to a little over 1% of the country while the other 98% is struggling too.

There you go with another strawman… 🙄

I call BS on millions of people getting overtime pay. The income limit is so ridiculously low that nobody would be eligible. You can fuck right off with your “because it’s not perfect” false dichotomy. It’s not that it’s not perfect, it’s that it’s quite literally nothing.

How about you learn about context and read the rest of what I wrote? My complaint with both of these actions is that they’re essentially meaningless for the majority of people and they don’t go far enough. I refer to them as table scraps and virtue signaling because they only give the appearance of taking action without actually fixing anything or improving the lives of nearly anyone. The politicians get to parade around acting like they’re working for our benefit when they’re actually doing very little to help.

Are you not capable of responding without fabricating a complete strawman argument first?

I never said I did? I said that it’s virtue signaling and performative at best rather than something that’s actually impactful on the average person’s life.

Democrats love to talk about how much they care for the working class, but their actual actions rarely reflect that.

If you’re working 60 hours a week like a lot of the salaried people I work with, that brings your hourly pay down to $11.80. I just can’t imagine why someone would take a job like that when there are so many hourly entry level jobs that pay more than that.

People file their cases in this district specifically because it has a bunch of conservative friendly judges.

No, the problem is there are too many liberals in the party and not enough leftists. Liberals love them some anti-worker pro-corporate welfare and other right-wing policies that only benefit the rich.

Imagine being a salaried employee and only earning $16.80 per hour, assuming 40 hours a week. I wonder what type of work this even covers as that’s slightly above minimum wage here, and it requires you to work all those extra hours for free.

I mean this would only have applied to salaried employees earning $20/hr or less which I can’t even imagine what type of field that covers since most hourly jobs earn more than that these days.

This is akin to the “pardoning marijuana possession convictions” thing where it didn’t apply to a single person in federal custody and only benefitted 3,000 people (with past convictions) in the entire nation.

This is basically virtue signaling and/or table scraps for us peasants.

Ah, maybe the police were stopping them to pick up their coworkers from out of the van so that they could start their shift.

I’m sure there’s some bullshit law that covers this, considering they get away with literal murder all the time. Police policy is typically secret so there’s no way for anyone to review a departments training and policy and as long as some high ranking government official comes out and says everything was done according to policy, they get away scott free.

Hey I wasn’t trying to criticise just describing your previous post for context. I’m glad you decided to go ahead and fix it, and you’re probably correct about it being Massachusetts salt that caused all your issues and these are extremely common for vehicles that spend time anywhere they salt the roads.

My friends uncle got deported as an American citizen a long time ago in San Diego. They arrested him after he realized he had forgotten his wallet and was running home to get it before the next bus came. Obviously, any brown guy running down the street must be an illegal immigrant to these people.

By selling his Dignity™ brand scented ball powder.

Especially right after everyone began retooling factories to produce them and the rest of the world leaves us behind in development. America will be producing the Yugos of the 1980s in a few short years.