Nightwingdragon

Labor costs didn’t sky rocket. That’s corporate propaganda.

LOL.

Low end positions going from barely over the federal minimum and are now paying $15, but labor costs didn't skyrocket. I'd love to meet your math teacher so I can slap them for failing you so hard. And do you think corporations are going to be benevolent and just absorb those costs if they don't have to? If the employees are demanding a wage increase, that increase is going to come in the form of increased prices to consumers, along with a little extra bump for themselves. Whether you think that's right is irrelevant. It's going to happen, you can't change that, and it's not going to change. There isn't a world where corporations aren't going to increase wages and just absorb those costs out of the kindness of their hearts. It's just not going to happen.

They got caught telling their shareholders they didn’t actually have cost push inflation, they were just raising prices.

Never said they didn't. Both things can happen, you know. Labor costs skyrocketed. They just decided to make their corporate profits skyrocket at the same time and just blame the labor costs. Doesn't mean labor costs didn't skyrocket.

If labor costs had skyrocketed then maybe workers could still afford cereal and milk.

Not if the costs of cereal and milk skyrocketed even faster. That's what happened. People got the pay raises they demanded. Corporations and landlords just retaliated by jacking up prices and rents even more. You can demand all the wage increases you want. But as long as corporations can respond with even bigger price hikes, no amount of pay will give you a living wage.

If you want to solve the problem, the solution is to start hauling CEOs before congress and making them explain their skyrocketing profit margins to the American people. Put some teeth to price gouging laws. Put heavier taxes on corporate profits that are above pre-pandemic percentages. But if you just demand increased wages while doing nothing about what's going on on the other end, you're going to wonder why you can never make ends meet no matter how much money you make.

pushing and advocating for living wages that all states have to follow would help and the DNC quit advocating on this

Because they got what they wanted. What you fail to take into account is that companies and corporate landlords simply responded by jacking up prices and rents which basically nullified the benefits. What do you think is going to happen if wages got jacked up to $25? The same thing. Corporations and landlords would just jack up prices even further to increase their profits and nullifying the gains that the increased wages bring. And the cycle continues and continues.

If you want to break that cycle, start dragging corporate CEOs into hearings and making them answer why their profit margins skyrocket faster than inflation. But if all you're going to do is demand increased wages while doing nothing on the other side, you're just going to ensure that the cycle will continue forever. No amount of wage increase is going to actually improve anybody's financial situation if they're going to do nothing about corporations simply raising prices and landlords raising rents even further in response.

People could demand that government raise the federal minimum wage to elevety billion dollars an hour. Won't matter so long as corporations continue to respond by increasing prices by eleventy trillion just because they think they deserve more profit.

not every business Walmart and Mcdonald’s included are paying $19 an hour everywhere and in the south people are still making less than $15 an hour even with construction jobs pay is abominably low

This is a fair point. I live in New England, and that's where rates are right now. My daughter works as a greeter at a Chuck-E-Cheese and makes $17 an hour. To stand there and stamp kids' hands. If you expect quality workers who will actually stick around for more than a few days, you need to start at $20. Minimum. That's just the reality around here. And for what it's worth, it really doesn't matter. Corporations and landlords just jacked everything else up in response when the wages started rising. Apartments in the shitty parts of town that used to go for $600 a month are now in the $1500-$2000 range. Plenty of people around here were better off when wages were half of what they were now simply because those wages at least went further. I'm not saying that they were good by any stretch of the imagination, but a person making $10 an hour ($400 a week, $1600 a month) and has $1600 in expenses is still doing better than someone making $3200 a month but has $3500 worth of expenses. And that's pretty much where we are now.

not all those jobs will include living wages with worker rights included

$15 an hour was a living wage before the pandemic. The problem isn't the wage. It's that the cost of living just went up even faster, and our government is unwilling to start hauling CEOs before Congress and demanding that they justify their inflated profit margins. Haul a few CEOs before congress, make them explain themselves (especially now, with the looming threat of someone else going full Luigi on their ass), and watch greed-flation suddenly become passe.

again that amounts to nothing especially considering how much damage him and the Democrats have caused and continue to do so

Exactly what damage is that, and how does allowing Trump to return to power help in any possible way?

Biden helped craft laws that put a lot people in jail

And exactly what laws are those?

that either should not have been or should not have been as long of a sentence which to me amounts to rigging the election by keeping people jailed.

Oh, come on now. This is the most ridiculous take I've ever heard. Not everything is political persecution or election interference. Talk about looking for a scapegoat. Stop sounding like Trump.

Trump is just another puppet like Biden is

Ah, yes. The both-sides-ism. Because Biden absolutely was going to enact a national abortion ban, kill off the Department of Education, gut social safety net programs, deport a bunch of brown people. And Trump is going to actually create jobs, cancel student debt, pardon cannabis users.....

Yep. Both sides are exactly the same. Yesirreee.....

Then (a) exactly what did you expect her to do, (b) why didn't people say anything about it before the election, and (c) how the fuck is allowing Trump to return to power a better alternative in any way, shape, or form?

All these people who are shitting all over Harris allowed the perfect to be the enemy of the good, and in the process allowed the terrible to return to power. Y'all said that "Significantly better than Trump" wasn't good enough so now you get Trump. Good job, guys. You played yourselves. You decided to step aside to watch the leopards start eating faces without realizing that those leopards have no problems eating the faces of the spectators too.

Neither you nor I know what kind of conversations were going on privately behind the scenes. For all any of us know, these conversations could have been going on for months with Biden just being stubborn.

Kamala could have reminded him. She also could have jumped up and down yelling "Hi, I'm a squid." for all that it mattered. Kamala had exactly zero control over any of this. She could not force Biden to drop. Now, you could obviously make a case that it's Biden's fault for not dropping out sooner when it was obvious he wasn't going to win. But none of that is Kamala's fault or anyone else's. Nobody could force Biden to drop out. At the very least, put the blame where it belongs.

Joe Biden regrets having pulled out of this year’s presidential race and believes he would have defeated Donald Trump in last month’s election – despite negative poll indications, White House sources have said.

Biden was behind by 5 points when he dropped out and was slipping by the day. He had zero chance of defeating Trump. Regardless of the reality of the situation or what you think of his policies, the general public wanted someone to blame, and they decided that person was Biden. Doesn't matter what he did or didn't do. People decided Biden was the scapegoat, and nothing was going to change that.

The US president has reportedly also said he made a mistake in choosing Merrick Garland as attorney general – reflecting that Garland, a former US appeals court judge, was slow to prosecute Donald Trump for his role in the 6 January 2021 insurrection while presiding over a justice department that aggressively prosecuted Biden’s son Hunter.

This is 100% correct. Biden gave Garland the AG slot as a make-good over the fact that his Supreme Court nomination got railroaded. I'm also sure that the thought process, even though it could never be spoken, was that Garland would aggressively pursue Trump as revenge for his SC nod getting snubbed. Instead, we got an AG who intentionally sat on his hands for four years and slow-walked prosecutions that a first-year intern should have been able to handle.

Biden made two mistakes in this regard. First, he allowed himself to be paralyzed by optics and fear that Trump would frame any action as political persecution and interference, as if Trump wasn't going to do that anyway. His second mistake was not replacing Garland as AG sooner. Optics my ass, if you know the AG is sitting on a case with overwhelming evidence and is not prosecuting that case, replace the fucking AG.

Harris’s ascent to the top of the ticket led to a surge of enthusiasm and improved poll numbers but ultimately ended in a decisive electoral college and popular vote defeat.

But at the end of the day, she could not overcome the greatest sin of all -- trying to run for President while being a black woman.

food/housing costs/insurance rates/taxes are still astronomically high but hey sure that Biden and the billionaires that own our government got reduced inflation

Neither Biden nor any other US president has control over the costs of food, housing, or insurance rates. Not sure what specific taxes you're complaining about.

Also, you might want to check out what happens when you spend a year and a half pumping out $600 checks every week to unemployed people across the country to entice them to stay home, causing labor costs to skyrocket. Or did you not notice traditionally minimum-wage employers like fast food joints and supermarkets start offering $19/hr+ just to get people in the door. What did you think was going to happen to labor costs? Did you think corporations were just going to absorb those costs at the cost of their own profits? LOLOLOLOLOLOL. What about the people who were making $19 before the pandemic and saw the equivalent of Walmart greeters suddenly getting paid the same amount? You don't think they demanded raises too? The ripple effects of those checks absolutely caused labor costs to permanently skyrocket up and down the food chain, and of course those costs are going to be passed onto the consumer in the form of higher prices.

And do you know what happens when you just magically print money out of nowhere (the entire costs of those unemployment checks were simply tacked on to the national debt.)? Huge spikes in inflation. This is pretty much economics 101.

And everything else can pretty much be chalked up to greedflation. Supplies increased by (made up number for explanatory purposes) 10% so of course they shot their prices up by 15% and just blamed supply chain issues.

Who started sending those $600 checks out? Oh, that was Trump. Because "throw money at it" is his answer to everything.

yes he helped someone open up a chip factory

Actually, there's about a dozen of them being built across the country. Might wanna take a look at all the jobs created by the Inflation Reduction Act.

barely anyone got student loan forgiveness

And that's thanks to SCOTUS gutting 90% of his plans.

he did nothing for cannabis convictions

Except for the two proclamations announcing pardons for federal cannabis convictions.

or the movement since he started being a politician over half a century ago and instead helped incarcerate a shit ton of people but then again, he would have had less people voting for him if he had not helped lock up so many people

Exactly what "shit ton of people" did he incarcerate?

fuck Biden for helping to sell our potential to the highest bidder

That bidder was Trump, and fuck you for helping him return to power.

This is one of the issues I have with criticism of Harris.

The woman had no control over the situation. She couldn't exactly force Biden to drop out. There was no time for a primary. The woman was handed chicken shit and was expected to turn in into chicken salad with barely 3 months to go. The fact that she even made it competitive with 3 months to go, Biden's numbers in the toilet, and her own popularity numbers in the sewer is itself a miracle.

The woman was given cement shoes, told to sprint, and everybody shits all over her for only being able to jog.

Biden was at -5 when he dropped out and was slipping by the day. Kamala at least made it neck and neck.

If Biden had stayed in, Trump would have won in a landslide that would have seen Regan/Mondale look competitive.

Gotcha, so the solution to that problem is putting the Republican in the White House anyway. I'm sure Dems sure showed them!

But Kamala Harris had Liz Cheney on stage with her that one time!!!!!!^/s^

One thing the rise of the Internet has led to is people's desire not for information about the world around them, but for echo chambers that just repeat what they want to hear. For others, finding that echo chamber isn't enough. They need to be in the center of that chamber causing the echo. Eyes and ears on them, always. And for these people, no level of extreme is too much so long as it results on the attention being focused on them. Not only do they want to find the echo chamber, they want to control the echo chamber to ensure that it will always continue to just tell them what they want to hear.

Profit and consolidation of power are secondary motives, but that is the primary. And the reason that it's the primary is that they know that if they're successful, the profit and consolidation of power are soon to follow anyway.