Name a more iconic duo than politicians and making promises that rely on the cooperation of other branches of government.
Not voting in enough Democrats into Congress to do anything and saying the Democrats didn’t actually want to do anything
Politicians being bought and sold to the highest bidder of the campaign trail.
If the house and Senate approve. She can’t just do it on her own
YES SHE CAN!!
She can do all the things!! More money for me, legal weed,
more money for genocide(wait, she can do that and will…let’s not talk about that one), eat the rich, free abortions, free healthcare!!!She can do it all!! Definitely not items that Congress has to pass! Harris will do it all by her powerful self!!
I can get a two dollar raise…
Well it’s better than the FUCKING CONCENTRATION CAMP I’d get from the other guy
Yeah except the concentration camps come with free room and board.*
*Charges for the room and board will be deducted from your earnings as a slave.
Heard this before. Democrats will encounter one tiny setback and give up until the next election cycle.
$15/hr works out to be about 30k/yr. That’s not enough to live on. We need a $30 minimum wage. It needs to be indexed to both inflation as well as congressional salary. If they get a raise, everyone gets a raise.
Canadian but same problem here. Long term we need UBI worldwide if we plan on ever moving forward as a species.
Short term we need benefits for those less fortunate keyed to inflation at a bare minimum. In Ontario people with disabilities are paid below the poverty line. It’s disgusting.
Yeah that fight for 15 was in 2016. We are way past that fight needs to be fucking 25 to 30. But watch every single fucking Republican will vote against any increases of minimum wage. 7.25 is a fucking joke and law makers should be fucking ashame of themselves.
Actually any of them vote no on a raise should have all their money seized and made to live on minimum wage for 5 years.
Law makers should be making 7.25 an hour, and only when they are on the floor.
Why not pay everyone fairly instead of incentivizing further corruption through bribery? I’m definitely not going to dispute that they should be paid for the quality and quantity of results generated in terms of legislation…
IMO government work should be volunteer, but you get your clothes, food, and living expenses paid for our of a set budget. You take no salary and accept no bribes, you live in “Government City”. Essentially your finances go null entropy while in office. You do a good job? Public likes you? Private sector likes you? You’re top of the list for top paying jobs when you step down.
But only AFTER you do the good work we need leaders to do for us.
All of the Representative jobs used to be part time. ie People had real jobs that earned their living, and they also did their government work on top of that. And that was when travel took forever.
In other words, one of the primary reasons we are at this point today, is because far too many politicians realized they could simply bilk the State, while doing fuckall for careers spanning 30-40-50 YEARS.
If we take President Biden as an example, the man was elected to the US Senate in 1972! And there are many such examples.
And what’s been the outcome? A better democratic process? No. Higher quality of life for citizens? No. More competitive American goods in the Intl marketplace? No.
So what are we getting for our dollars? And why would we want these fossils (regardless of Party) to remain? They’re clearly not serving American interests.
And while we’re at it, we need to improve and standardize how we measure inflation. Big screen TVs getting cheaper doesn’t matter to most people.
fight for 15 years late
This was literally her supposed signature issue when she was running with Biden.
She didn’t fight for it at all.
Whaaaaat??
A politician making a bunch of claims right before an election and then never following through on them?
Say it ain’t so! Not in my America!
Yeah it’s lying season. Both sides are telling us what they think we want to hear.
This election does seem a little weird. Kamala feels like more of the same but Tim walz is right, Trump and his supporters are really kind of weird and creepy.
Good!
Now also link it to yearly inflation annually in December!
The number needs to be set to a good value, but this is the most frustrating aspect of this whole song and dance, because there shouldn’t even be a question about whether it should track inflation. Just setting another flat value so we can watch it atrophy away is maddening. The whole concept is directly related to the cost of goods, and the people needing this wage are the most impacted by price changes. And since it’s supposed to be a floor, you know minimum wage employers aren’t going to voluntarily raise wages to track inflation. They’d be paying even less if they were allowed.
Even if the businesses-first majority of politicians try to low-ball the target, there’s no legitimate argument for not making it auto-update. Businesses just like to reap the extra exploitation between updates.
What the fuck is with that horrible picture jesus CHRIST
Hmmm…sounds a lot like vote buying.
I would love to see the Trump campaign vow to quadruple the minimum wage just to watch people on this site do their mental gymnastics to convince themselves that Trump doesn’t have the power to do so, but Harris does.
TIL vote buying is when you propose policies that people want and, not say, running a 1 million dollar lottery to sign a pro-trump petition
I guess we’re about to find out if Elon has better lawyers than Mr Beast
On the one hand, he’s richer. On the other hand, when he decided he didn’t want to buy Twitter after all, even his lawyers couldn’t get him out of that one.
There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the dumbest take off the day.
Even before Trump became the blubbering mess he is today, we’ve had 4 years of seeing him welch on every promise he’s ever made. Why should anyone believe his campaign promises now?
Why, just a few days he vowed to use the United States military against citizens he doesn’t like, such as Nancy Pelosi, which is patently illegal and gross. Imagine if Obama, Biden or Harris had said that at any point, you’d be up in arms!
You’ve let his propaganda convince you that he’s on your team, so now you have to win no matter what, even if his policies are directly against your interests and freedoms as a human.
Woosh
Look through the original commenter’s post history. They aren’t joking. They keep posting pro-trump stuff
Well, that was a bad idea.
I would also love to see that!
Please Donald Trump, vow to quadruple the minimum wage! I promise it will cause doublethink among the libs and help your campaign!!
You seem to be under the impression that people hate Trump for being trump and not because he has dogshit policies and ideas.
If he did good things, like raising the minimum wage, liberals wouldn’t hate him. But he also wouldn’t have the rabid base of morons that he currently has.
After all he’s done so far, I would vehemently disagree. He’s a known liar, convicted fraudster, and a racist, misogynistic narcissist. Nothing he could do would make liberals hate him less before the day he dies because he doesn’t have enough years left in his lifespan to atone for what’s already been done.
And note that her wording was “at least $15”, so she’s signaling openness to doing more than that
Wow, so you are building up accounts to sell huh?
I saw this EXACT comment on a different post just yesterday from another username.
These account farmers are LAZY!
Are you sure? Becasuse that was probably me on this same account. On a different post on the exact same topic, I made a comment clarifying the same thing
Edit: searching for “at least $15” across lemmy on my instance only has my own comments come up
Good, because “fight for $15” has been going on so long that the real number to regain parity with what minimum wage used to be is a lot higher than that by now.
it’s $22 now
$15.05 an hour! Increasing at a rate of 11 cents per year from the current minimum of $7.25 Except tipped workers; they still get $2.13.
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I believe all promises that are made within the last 30 days of an election!
I’ll believe it when I see it. Seems every candidate has promised this for as long as I’ve been following American politics and no one actually manages it.
They’ll blame someone other than their ineptitude in governing
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Two words: Arms embargo.
Other than that, ask the Cheney’s for some more advise on how to campaign.
Did you post this in the wrong thread, or did lemmy do the thing where you post in one thread and it winds up in another?
And yes, there needs to be an arms embargo. Unless the intended thread was about Ukraine. Ukraine needs the support we’re wasting on Netanyahu.
The Russian trolls seem to be doing overtime now that the election is getting close.
Which one of us are you calling a Russian troll?
The ones who keep trying to shove Israel non sequiturs into every comment section.
So dude posts in the wrong thread and you instantly jump to “must be russian!”
If it was just one guy and not a flood of them across multiple posts and social media, then I’d chalk it up to coincidence.
If it were support for genocide and not opposition to it, you wouldn’t care.
