Just a reminder that Republicans are just horrible people.
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 of maybe a month 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.
Even if it was summer break for adults, which it isn’t, what’s the issue?!
Can you please think of the shareholders for one second?
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 do it all over Europe. So clearly it would never work, for insert dumbass probably racist reason here.
Considering both state and federal Congresses take a third of the year off themselves, this just further shows that Republicans are absolute trash.
Fun fact: Congress is only in session an average of 146 days per year. Let’s talk about who gets a longer “summer break.”
There’s a slam dunk move Democrats could make here by bringing a clean bill that has everything Republicans want plus a stipulation that all government officials for Minnesota must work every day that the rest of us work. Have the senators and representatives during a federal Congress recess meet with their constituents back home for 40 hours a week.
Even Republican voters would frown at the Republicans trying to worm their way out of it.
Next, Democrats should introduce a bill to replace their government healthcare with private health insurance companies, and see how loudly Republicans squeal.
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
Do they not have children?
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.
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.
Do they think that birthing & taking care of a newborn is like “summer break”???
For the billionth time: get fucked, GOP.
Yes, because they are mostly old white men who offload that to their wife and/or nanny
Yes, they do. Because they have a whole team of people to take care of their kids and household for them. We’re talking about people who if they’ve ever touched a cleaning product it was likely decades ago…
summer break for adults
…AND?
They’ll force you to have the kid, then tell ya to fuck off.
Honestly I’m starting to think that it’s not important to them what they force you to do, only that they can force you to do what they want.
How pro-life of them.
What the hell is wrong with a summer break for adults? Presumably if the children want to summer break the adults also have to have a summer break if only to supervise the children.
What are these idiots expect things going to happen here.
I’m hoping for camping and national lampoons vacations and spending time with your kids.
Am I close?
conservatives be like “you only suck your bosses’ dick??! How selfish”
Don’t threaten me with a good time
Republicans: Complain about regulation and red tape.
Democrats: Propose bill getting rid of regulations and red tape surrounding farmers converting to clean energy production.
Republicans: “No, not like that!”
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.
