Via Mark Frauenfelder, I came across this video of a driver who misunderstood why some people were trying to get her attention.
While it is funny, as with so many things on the internet these days, this may be a fake, staged incident. Who knows? But if it is fake, the acting is pretty good. Maybe we can add ‘Fuel pump Karen’ to the list?
Bernie Sanders is holding a senate hearing on why the federal minimum wage should be raised to $15 per hour.
US taxpayers should not be “forced to subsidize some of the largest and most profitable corporations in America”, Bernie Sanders told a Senate hearing on Thursday.
As Congress debates the first rise in the minimum wage in over a decade, the Vermont senator said he had “talked to too many workers in this country who, with tears in their eyes, tell me the struggles they have to provide for their kids on starvation wages” even as the chief executives of companies including McDonald’s, Walmart and others take home multi-million dollar pay packages.
Executives from Walmart and McDonald’s were invited to the hearing, titled Should Taxpayers Subsidize Poverty Wages at Large Profitable Corporations?They declined to appear.
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He roundly criticizes all those responsible for what was a foreseen and avoidable disaster.
Meanwhile, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shames Ted Cruz by raising $5 million to help Texans while he was gallivanting off to Cancun.
One last update (I think!): We just hit $5 million raised for Texans across the state.
Thank you ALL for your collective action when people need it most.
Charity can’t replace policy, but solidarity is how we’ll face climate change and build a better world. 💪🏽🌎
Thank you 🙏🏽 pic.twitter.com/RzdgXllXoS
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 22, 2021
We should also recall that Cruz was one of those people who objected to aiding people in other states who got hit with natural disasters. I am sure that he is opposing all federal aid to Texas now because he is a person who stands on principle, right?
Saturday Night Live devoted considerable time last night to making fun of Ted Cruz because everyone hates Ted Cruz, and even his friends don’t like him.
It always amazes me when politicians get caught behaving in ways that contradict what they tell others to do. During the pandemic, we have seen multiple occasions where political leaders violated the social distancing and other precautionary features that they were urging on others and going to parties, traveling, etc. Then earlier, remember how Chris Christie, when governor of New Jersey, was enjoying with his family a state beach that the state had ordered closed to the public due to a budget impasse? Surely they must realize that their actions are under a microscope and that they should act more circumspectly?
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Trevor Noah and Ronny Chieng look at how random Asian Americans, even elderly ones, are being violently attacked on the streets. Trump’s racist allusions to the ‘China virus’ and ‘kung flu’ have fed into the bigoted attitude that Asians are responsible for the pandemic.
Samantha Bee talks to three different sets of people (two elderly nuns, a woman in a wheelchair, and a black man with Tourettes) who were treated appallingly by the police when they engaged in peaceful protest and contrasts it with how the violent insurrectionists were treated on January 6th.