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Housing Bubble 2: Return of the Ugly
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meanwhile neither of the Demopublican candidates supported, attempted to do something, or say anything about raising the minimum wage during their time as president or on the campaign trail while trying to get reelected
we instead got more inflation and less human rights under both during their time as president and now they are again asking for votes and funding
unfortunately the masses love Demopublican casserole
Yea it’s almost like the president isn’t a king and doesn’t have the ability to make sweeping changes or new laws.
Idk if you’ve noticed but the fascists have quite a hold in congress and sink anything any reasonable person puts on the floor
And yet one of those candidates already did something about it, to the Constitutional limits of his powers
I’ll leave this as an exercise for the troll, but you could also go down a list of states that have higher than the federal minimum wage, and look up which party tends to be stronger there. I bet you’ll find a pattern