Just a reminder that Republicans are just horrible people.
Don’t threaten me with a good time
Do they not have children?
Do they have them? Technically yes. Did they raise them? Doubt it
They do. They just don’t actually take part in raising them.
They usually eat them upon birth. There’s farm to table for restaurants and vag to devils gut with politicians.
GOP needs to be kicked off their corporate welfare for life.
Why not indeed
That sounds horrible
Even if it was summer break for adults, which it isn’t, what’s the issue?!
They do it all over Europe. So clearly it would never work, for insert dumbass probably racist reason here.
I’d love to hear what argument these fuck-knuckles have that would make, “I voted against family leave” - or even, “I voted against summer break for adults” - not make them unelectable…
They’ve already voted against dozens of good ideas, across the board, like more mental health in schools. You know, that thing they claim is more important than gun control, they still don’t want to do anything about it.
If anyone votes for the GOP, they’re either painfully stupid to the point where they should be in a mental hospital, or evil enough they should be removed from polite society. There is NO reason these goons should have ANY power, yet here we are…
Can you please think of the shareholders for one second?
Considering both state and federal Congresses take a third of the year off themselves, this just further shows that Republicans are absolute trash.
Ngl summer break for adults sounds amazing; that’s pretty good marketing for it
seeing all of f1 take august off is a privilege im too american to understand.
Yeah, I’ll take one of those please.
summer break for adults
…AND?
remind me again how much vacation congress gets?
You don’t get it though. They have to sit on their butts for hours at a time unless they feel like not showing up for work that day. It’s a very demanding job for only $174,000/yr (unless they work even harder to hide the alternative forms of income) and they only get to vote raises for themselves once every two years.
And they don’t even have to bother reading the bills they vote on. They have staffers summarize them for them, and then blame their staffers if they don’t know the details of a bill when called out on their vote
Staffers? Did you mean sponsors?
Whatever you do don’t link a compilation video of all the members of congress sleeping on the job. That would be hugely inappropriate and counter to the message they would prefer get sent out.
damn shame how we done them
Costs are already rising and wages are abysmall but at least 15 weeks paid leave would let new parents have bonding time with their newborn or spend the last few days with a loved one as they die. At least it would be a little sliver lining in a black and grey world.
How pro-life of them.
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Fascist crabs in a barrel.
I worked for the federal government in Canada. When my wife was pregnant I went to my director and said, “I would like to take a couple of weeks or maybe a month off to help my wife after she has the baby.” He asked, “What are you entitled to under the collective bargaining agreement?” I said, “The parents can share 9 months of parental leave but she doesn’t work so that means I can take up to 9 months.” he replied, “Then take the 9 months. It wasn’t available when my wife had kids but I would love to have taken it. Take every day you’re entitled to.” So I did, once for each of my two kids. It wasn’t a fucking summer vacation.
The fucking rich old white men are gaslighting you. The rest of the world has parental leave.
Vote better.
Inb4 the totally-not-shills arrive to add “No no no fellow poors! Voting changes nothing, do you know what I be saying, my dog? You should not even try to vote, surely it will not make a difference. Working within the “system” can never succeed, dude, so I just stay at home playing among us and catching pokeyman creatures. On no account should you ever vote, for rizzle.”
Those shills really need to ask themselves: “Why do the policies I support not stand up on their own and need me to astroturf any dissenting opinions”.
They won’t obviously, as conservative policy doesn’t benefit anyone but the mega wealthy. It would be nice though.
Shills only care about getting paid. That’s what makes them shills.
I suspect most of the people you’re talking about are just unpaid idiots.
The problem is that a lot of non-shill people have bought into that line of thinking.
They don’t want a health society. If we are happy and fulfilled then we aren’t as easily manipulated.
