Voters approved sick leave mandate by 58%, but lawmakers are caving to lobbying by the state’s chamber of commerce
Being sick is a costly business for Bill Thompson, who worked in the fast-food industry in Independence, Missouri, for more than 30 years, and recently worked at Guitar Center until early July, when he was laid off as.
“As an older worker, I have health issues from working on my feet and with my hands for many years with no breaks for eight to 10 hours a day. I have done it for 38 years now, living paycheck to paycheck,” 54-year-old Thompson said, noting in Missouri, workers are not mandated breaks of any kind during work.
So when Republicans in Missouri repealed a paid sick leave mandate that the state’s voters approved by 58% after an aggressive lobbying campaign by the Missouri chamber of commerce and industry and other business industry groups, he said, “It was a literal gut punch.”
Sorry, but get fukt red Missourians. I hope they feel as much pain and anguish as possible, because it’s the only way they learn, if it personally negatively affects them. And even then they sometimes still don’t learn (see: COVID). I feel terrible for the democrat voters that get screwed anyway.
Ironically they will still vote Republican. They will somehow blame Hillary for it.
Trump 28!
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Missouri has voted on numerous laws that have been repealed by state legislators. We voted an anti-gerrymandering law in but it was repealed a year later. We voted for abortion and they tried to take that back, we voted for better pay and sick leave, and they are taking that.
I don’t know how red Missouri actually is or if it’s just getting fucked by some bad representation. (Don’t get me wrong, Missouri voted in Josh Hawley and Roy Blunt, it’s not perfect)
They haven’t gone Democrat in a single Presidential election since Bill Clinton in 1996. Almost 30 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elections_in_Missouri
I’m not saying they are Dems. Just that when they vote for leftist ideals, the state government overturns them. Will of the people is irrelevant in MO.
This is why progressives win when they’re not being undermined by corporate Democrats. Average people, including Republican voters, support this stuff by large majorities most of the time, even in the face of right wing propaganda.
I don’t think they deserve this because they vote Republican. I think they deserve paid sick leave and a higher wage. We should look inward and ask how we’re failing them if they’re voting traitor lunatic.
It’s because we let the Democrats get away with being awful. Their goal is to be barely less evil than Republicans. If they had to actually fight for votes, we’d start to see results.
I don’t really follow this reasoning. How would they earn votes? What would be different than now?
The Democrats generally don’t try to earn votes. They generally only try to appeal to their rich donors. If people stopped voting Blue No Matter Who, and started voting for other parties, then the Democratic Party would either die off, or would have to start fighting to earn votes.
Missouri is a 3rd World MAGAt filled Red Oblast. Zero sympathy.
texas, missouri and other red states are technically russia, oligarch owned states.
NOTE: Not a literal gut punch.
Thank you for your attention to this grammar.
“Literal” has been used metaphorically for emphasis by better writers than you, centuries before you were born. Shut up.
We should change that. “Literal” is much quite useful for it’s defined meaning, much less so as metaphorical emphasis. It can be mistaken as sarcasm if it’s used incorrectly.
The dictionary changed it the other way a few years ago. Literally now means figuratively. There is no word for what literally used to mean, and that’s apparently OK with them.
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I did go too far, to be fair.
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I think “veritable” is more fitting.
Both sides same, right? Right?
They’re not the same, but both are anti-labor and pro-corporate. Neither provides any benefits for workers, Rs have always been awful and Ds have ignored labor for decades.
Poland has better worker benefits than the USA… we’ve been surpassed by Japan, Australia, Korea, Canada, most of Europe and now even eastern Europe. Sad.
Exhibit A.
“Both sides are anti-labor” is not “both sides are the same”.
Some day it will sink in, and boy will you feel dumb
Tell me more exhibit A.
Me… “cars and trucks are both vehicles”
You… “So they’re the same.”
Me… “No.”
Me… “horses and tigers are both quadrupeds”
You… “So they’re the same!!”
Me… “No.”
Me… “both of our parties are beholden to Super PACs”
You… “So they must be the same!”
Me… “No.”
Please, continue.
Me “cacti and junipers are both plants”
You “So they’re the same!”
Me “No…”
At the risk of repeating myself from another reply to a similar comment you made elsewhere in this thread:
The Democratic party, as a whole, is as you say. That said, there absolutely are progressive candidates at the state and local levels.
Of course! With state politics, even third parties have had some success (socialist, green, libertarian, et al).
The Fed leadership of the party will always tolerate low-level activists, we even have one congressperson who is pro-labor.
She agrees with me; Democrats abandoned labor long ago.
It’s pronounced “misery”
I was talking with my brother about how republican state congresses tend to overturn voter initiatives. I don’t understand this cuck attitude that keeps so many people voting for them.
Racism > not being a dumb ass.
Because the Democrats aren’t running on those platforms, because they are also opposed to thise initiatives. The Democrats COULD run on a platform of guaranteed sick leave, mandatory holiday pay, rent control, and other wildly popular pro-worker policies, but they don’t ecause they want to “appeal to moderates” or some other dumb bullshit. So you end up with a useless Democratic party in states like Ohio, Missouri, and Wisconsin who refuse to help people because they don’t want Republicans to call them socialists. Then come election time they get caleld socialists anyway who support " illegals stealing jobs and giving abortions" or whatever and and shocked Pikachu when they keep losing elections. Until Democrats start openly campaigning on things that immediately benefit workers, they will continue to lose ground to the Republicans.
thats all fine but when the folks you vote for are reversing he specific thing you voted for. I mean its not hard to realize you need to not be putting these people in power. At the very least they could just not vote actively for the ones doing this. I don’t see how the dems not good enough plays in. If Im dying of thirst and I have a choice of drinking from a sewage pipe or a stream. Im going to risk the stream.
The people have been so deeply brainrotted, that they will never vote for someone with a ‘D’ next to their name. Many of them would literally rather die.
They’ve spent decades demonizing the left so thoroughly that any idea that they dislike and can associate with the left hey do so ad nauseam.
So any idea that would help those on the right just has to be called liberal and they’ll vote against it even if it hurts them too. It’s literally an unthinking knee-jerk hatred and reaction at this point. No thinking required.
Still. They vote for something and then their reps reverse it. I mean you would think something would seep through there.
You’re still assuming these people arent all literal cult members. We are in nazi germany fam, those people wouldn’t vote for democrats even if they were thrown into the concentration camps. There’s no amount of abuse they wont accept for the privilege of being a fascist.
Unfortunately I agree here. I, like many I think, have wondered how nazi germany came to be and I really did not mean the musing to be fulfilled as some sort of wish to experience it personally but here we are.
There’s no amount of abuse they wont accept for the privilege of being a fascist.
Spot on. Seeing some of the people who previously relished in Trump’s evil, eventually have their lives ruined by it, will be one of the few truly enjoyable things for me in the coming years.
you would think
I live in Missouri. This is the first mistake you make when attempting to reason with these fucking idiots.
It wont stop them from voting republican.
This is what happened in Ontario. Our premier took away mandatory paid sick days right away and guess what happened next? …Ontario voted for him again 4 years later with a majority. And then they did it again earlier this year.
Never underestimate how stupid the voter base is.
It’s because they do these things strategically. They passed these corporate centric laws that hurt voters in the years when there’s no election. Then they spend the rest of the time pumping social issues that their conservative minded voters care about like abortion and immigration totally overshadowing the thing they did to screw over the voters. And the, now conservative controlled, media helps them to cover it all up.
You keep voting them in though. Enjoy!!!
Yeah, screw the people who can’t afford to leave! Their neighbors are morons so they deserve to eat shit as well!
You voted for this, no take backs!
If something is voted in, how can ‘lawmakers’ just choose to ignore it ?
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Thanks, Citizens United.
On an article about Republicans it never fails someone both sides the bullshit and brings in Democrats
ah yes, the crowd that says its very sound to believe the pawl in the rachet.
Hochul in NY did the same thing initially with congestion pricing, but caved into pressure eventually
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Well then maybe the Democrats should stop following and supporting the Republican policy.
It depends on the state. Many states have no means of direct voter legislation. Some do, but the result is a new law, which can be repealed by the legislature as easily as anything else. Some states treat citizen ballot initiatives as more powerful than basic laws (eg, as an amendment to the state constitution) which are generally way harder for politicians to roll back.
Missouri is one of those states that does have direct voter legislation. Able to even get things put in to the state constitution.
Trouble is our chucklefuck idiots will vote for very progressive things in state, but then go full stupid and keep voting for the R next to the name despite overturning our voting for direct legislation for the past decade.
Have you not been paying attention for the last 8 years?
They’ll forget about it when the petrolum they’re dumping in the water hits the memory centers of their brains
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Wonder how many hourly workers voted for Trump.
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They did. I think some of them regretted now. last time I went to a Walmart and workers openingly complained about Trump.
Trump is not on their side. Biden was
This administration is definitely trying to kill off the poor
