From experience, it isn't a particularly attractive lifestyle

“Nobody wants to work anymore.” Yeah, weird. Maybe because the model of “sacrificing 8 hours of your life every day just to make ends meet” isn’t a particularly attractive lifestyle?

— Andrea Junker (@strandjunker.com) May 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Trump: Feed the rich, starve the poor

Cohn: "Tariffs are highly regressive. Meaning that poorer people end up paying a disproportionate percentage of the tariffs."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) April 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee 

Fucked around, finding out

Man. Trump lied and is going to screw over workers? Who would have ever guessed

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— I Smoked Democracy (@dknight10k.bsky.social) December 3, 2024 at 9:26 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

No friend of working Americans

Unreal. Trump proves once again that he's no friend of working Americans saying that he "hated to give overtime" and that instead of paying it he'd bring new staff in. pic.twitter.com/EwhOzzgRKu

— American Bridge 21st Century (@American_Bridge) September 29, 2024

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Answer? None

I wonder how many of the people holding "union members for Trump" signs are actually, you know, union members pic.twitter.com/QQut1tYkhw

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 28, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Solidarity forever

First...

SBX @SBWorkersUnited
Amazon @AmazonLabor
TJ's @TraderJoesUnite
HarperCollins @HCPUnion
WGA @WGAWest @WGAEast
SAG @SAGAFTRA
UPS @Teamsters

On the horizon...

Auto Workers @UAW
Kaiser @SEIU_UHW
American Air Flight Attendants @APFAUnity#SolidaritySeason is NOW. pic.twitter.com/lHLoFghb73

— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 (@NickKnudsenUS) September 6, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

The GOP thinks it's radical to take care of working Americans

If it’s radical to want to prevent children from dying in industrial workplaces, ensuring that employers pay a fair wage for fair work, & requiring a safe workplace, I’ll take that label any day. #gretaforag

— Greta Kemp Martin (@gretakempmartin) September 2, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Election Day #3

 

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

Only one party is working to turn it around, too--the Democratic Party

America is finally turning things around after 40 years of screwing over working people. But will we keep moving in the right direction? That's our choice as Americans. pic.twitter.com/mdCCXdx2QF

— American Family Voices (@AFVhq) October 29, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

You can only kick a man so many times before he kicks back

 

Republican = Racist

Peace,

emaycee

If they could pay you less, they would

They've never met a rich person whose ass they couldn't kiss

After Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced that she would be paying her staff a living wage of at least $52,000 per year, the dunces at Fox and Friends went into moron mode and called her wage proposal "communism."

What the fuck?

Leaving aside the lunacy of paying employees more money as being a tenet of communism (communism generally enriches only those at the top...sort of like capitalism), what is it with republicans being against working folks making more money?

One has to wonder if fear that their staffers, realizing they're getting paid peanuts to provide support to idiots spouting idiocy, won't get some ideas about getting paid more themselves.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Whoa, thought it was a nightmare...

...turns out it was real and it was the republicans never ending War on Workers.

Did you know that since 2003 thirty states with republican controlled legislatures have passed laws that significantly weakened your ability to collect Workers' Compensation for injuries sustained from work?  And that all of it just takes the financial responsibility away from corporations and puts it on the back of American taxpayers?  Never mind that the corporations are at fault--we have to foot the bill for their ineptitude.

Did you also know that in 2014 almost 4700 Americans died in work related accidents?  And that the republican party will stop at absolutely nothing to ensure that workers' families get nothing from corporate incompetence?  Republicans have cut funding for OSHA to the bone and the wives and children of dead workers are paying the price.  You know who isn't paying a price for killing its workers?  Corporations.

These are just two more in a long line of reasons that Democrats should be fighting for candidates from school boards to the Presidency this fall--it's not enough for republicans that we're underpaid and overworked, they also want corporations to be able to maim and kill us with impunity.

Peace,
emaycee

Scottie, we hardly knew ye

Two down, fourteen to go....

Scott Walker pulled the plug on his comatose Presidential campaign today, calling on his colleagues to do the same and rally around a "true" conservative candidate who could defeat Donald Trump.  Apparently Walker didn't get the memo--over the course of the last twenty years, from Newt Gingrich to Tom DeLay to Dick Cheney to Sarah Palin, Trump is the "true" conservative they've molded for the republican party's base.

As for Walker, who could have ever guessed that hating on working men and women, failing to create jobs, presiding over a declining standard of living, having a scandal plagued governorship, and being an all around lying asshole could doom a campaign?

Doesn't bode well for Chris Christie methinks...

Peace,
emaycee

The fat lady is singing

With his support in Iowa plummeting to 3%, Scott Walker announced on Monday in Las Vegas his plans to completely decimate Labor Unions in America, presumably so our national economy could tank as bad as Wisconsin's did under his "leadership."

Because sooooo many Americans these days are worried about workers having too much power.

Digby notes that more likely this was a sop to Sheldon Alderson, noted Israel lover and Union hater, and that his (much needed) check to Walker is probably already in the mail.

As I mentioned concerning Jeb!'s tax cuts, this is another attempt by republicans to announce campaigns that are being run not for the Presidency of the United States, but for the United States of the Wealthy.

And this may also explain why Donald Trump is currently cleaning their top candidates clocks in the republican primary--he may be a moron, but even he understands that Americans, both right and left, aren't all that fond of America's rich elite these days.

Peace,

emaycee

Morans

Kansas republicans last week passed legislation to shore up their budget shortfall--caused by tax cuts for the wealthy--with tax increases that will primarily affect the poor and working class.

You have to be some kind of serious stupid to vote for republicans if you're poor or middle class knowing full well that they are more than happy to give your money to people who are a whole hell of a lot richer than you are.

Peace,
emaycee

And then it's too late

There was an excellent post today in The Daily Kos about how the 2016 Presidential Election isn't about who is going to be our next President, but rather about the future makeup of our Supreme Court--most likely as to whether we get a Court friendly to Wall Street or to Main Street.  And whether we like Hillary or we love her, it's going to be necessary to get our voters to the polls to prevent an even worse Court for everyday Americans than the current Roberts Court.

All too often we don't see this until it's too late--just witness the war on workers and the war on women orchestrated in Michigan and Wisconsin, where nominally blue states managed to let a republican Legislature and a republican Governor come to power and watched their people power disappear.  And it isn't coming back anytime soon.  Now imagine this on a national level--because right now Barack Obama is the only thing standing between us and the annhilation of unions and abortions being performed in back alleys by charlatans.

And if there is any one message we need to get to our supporters in 2016 it's this one:  either get out and vote for our candidates or kiss even the minor victories of your way of life goodbye.

Peace,
emaycee

And yet another reason we need labor unions

Check this out:  the Association for Responsible Alternatives to Workers' Compensation.

Or for short, the You're Gonna Get Fucked Once Again Both as a Worker and a Taxpayer for the Benefit of Rich People Society.

It's not bad enough that the bulk of the companies involved with this organization (to wit:  Wal-Mart, Safeway, Lowe's, Macy's, Whole Foods, Sysco Food Services) screw their workers by paying them a wage that can't lift them out of poverty, now they want to ensure that should you lose an arm or a leg or your sight while working that these greedy companies won't have to pay for their own culpability.  No, you will as your family plunges deeper into poverty while the American Taxpayer once again picks up the tab via Corporate Welfare.  In  nutshell, they want us to trust them to decide what's best for us after suffering an injury at work--not a doctor, not a neutral party, but the same people who don't give enough of a shit about their workers to pay a living wage.

Utterly un-fucking-believable.

And what kind of chickenshit legislator do you have to be to listen to these people?

Peace,
emaycee

Reason #999 that we need Labor Unions

Take a peek at this:

Does anybody seriously believe that if fast food workers had a Union that four out of five of them would have suffered serious burns in the past year?  Or that one/third of all fast food restaurants wouldn't have something as simple as a first aid kit?  Don't kid yourself--this is a complete and utter lack of concern for a company's workers (not that unusual these days, but still).

And just where the hell do these companies come up with leaders who somehow think that a condiment you would slather on cold cuts is a suitable medical remedy for a burn?  Christ, what's next--bleeding with leeches?

Peace,
emaycee

Are his fifteen minutes up?

What really bothers me about Scott Walker's claim that his handling of Labor Union protesters in Wisconsin prepares him for dealing with ISIS isn't the comparison of Union protesters to terrorists (let's face it, that's pretty par for the course for republicans these days) but rather the abject naivete inherent in that claim.

I mean, the last time I checked, terrorists couldn't be rounded up by sending out the local sheriff.  And terrorists don't care that you have a majority of the votes in the legislature.  They also don't accept laws they think are wrong and go on with their lives.  Most of all, democracy means nothing to them--when they fight back it's with violence.

Frankly, his ball-less bullying would go over about as well as Bush the Lesser's faux bravado.  They'd have a little chuckle and go back to killing.

Tick-tock, Governor, tick-tock.

Peace,
emaycee

Take it from us

As Wisconsin republicans move closer to legislating a right to work for less law in Wisconsin, foks here in Michigan can tell them exactly what this law will mean:

It will not create any jobs.  It will not attract businesses to your state.  It will not increase anyone's wages.  It will not increase the state's standard of living.  It will not keep college graduates in your state.  It will not attract highly skilled individuals to your state.  It will not improve your kids education.

On the other hand, it will decrease wages.  It will lead to a lowered standard of living.  It will send your kids to other states that are more friendly to workers.  It will lead to an exodus of college graduates.  It will mean that fewer people want to teach in your state and your kids education will suffer.  It will lead to people abandoning your state in droves--who the hell wants to freeze their asses off for six months out of the year to work for peanuts?

It will also mean that your state, just like your neighbor to the east, is on the fast track to being as culturally, politically, and economically irrelevant as the Dakotas.

Probably should have followed the lead of your neighbor to the west, Minnesota.  Seems they elected a Democratic governor who raised taxes on the rich and raised the minimum wage--and now they have one of the best economies in the United States.

Too bad your governor, Scott Walker, chose to bury his nose in the Koch brothers asses, much like our governor, Rick Snyder, chose to bury his nose in the DeVos family's asses.  Funny how that works, isn't it?  He gets to run for President while you and your family get to survive on less and less money.

It's enough to make a man want to grab a pitchfork....

Peace,
emaycee