Kicking the labor can down the road is a high-risk low-reward strategy.
The economic damage of a nationwide labor strike would be ginormous, and the reverberations of even a brief strike would echo throughout the remainder of President Asterisk's misbegotten term of office.
The sound bites and talking points for the GOP practically write themselves. The probability that the GOP would not have handled the situation any better at that point becomes moot. All they have to say is how they would have done things differently and the Democrats lose bigly on economic matters come 2024.
Not saying your supposition is wrong. Just pointing out how suicidally stupid such a move would be on the part of the Democrats.
Yeah, though they might have a scapegoat by marginally allowing GOP an edge in the house. And anyway we’re talking 2 years away. Wasn’t there something about a pandemic locking down the world or something? Hmm. Sounds familiar but not quite placing it…
The power to intervene directly in a labor dispute is the exclusive province of the Executive Branch.
As for a fresh pandemic panic, given the levels of pandemic fatigue the world over, the next plague will have to have the symptoms and mortality of ebola coupled with the contagiousness of measles in order to get people all worked up again.
If you've followed the legacy media, they're still pushing the Pandemic Panic Narrative, but fewer and fewer people are even paying attention, much less believing.
I guess I was bringing that up to suggest it was largely forgotten in the latest midterm round, so things happening now could be forgotten in 24. Personally I’m not seeing the dire predictions of exorbitant turkey costs and massive holiday shortages, but maybe there are levers to still allow that to come to pass.
Heating oil prices have backed off in the very week we read in the news (and see in the temperatures) about a "polar vortex" pushing cold arctic air south in to the US.
That seems....counterintuitive.
Never EVER trust a narrative. Look to the data. Always look to the data.
Well. Midterms are done and all.
Kicking the labor can down the road is a high-risk low-reward strategy.
The economic damage of a nationwide labor strike would be ginormous, and the reverberations of even a brief strike would echo throughout the remainder of President Asterisk's misbegotten term of office.
The sound bites and talking points for the GOP practically write themselves. The probability that the GOP would not have handled the situation any better at that point becomes moot. All they have to say is how they would have done things differently and the Democrats lose bigly on economic matters come 2024.
Not saying your supposition is wrong. Just pointing out how suicidally stupid such a move would be on the part of the Democrats.
Yeah, though they might have a scapegoat by marginally allowing GOP an edge in the house. And anyway we’re talking 2 years away. Wasn’t there something about a pandemic locking down the world or something? Hmm. Sounds familiar but not quite placing it…
The power to intervene directly in a labor dispute is the exclusive province of the Executive Branch.
As for a fresh pandemic panic, given the levels of pandemic fatigue the world over, the next plague will have to have the symptoms and mortality of ebola coupled with the contagiousness of measles in order to get people all worked up again.
If you've followed the legacy media, they're still pushing the Pandemic Panic Narrative, but fewer and fewer people are even paying attention, much less believing.
I guess I was bringing that up to suggest it was largely forgotten in the latest midterm round, so things happening now could be forgotten in 24. Personally I’m not seeing the dire predictions of exorbitant turkey costs and massive holiday shortages, but maybe there are levers to still allow that to come to pass.
Not just turkey and dressing shortages.
Heating oil prices have backed off in the very week we read in the news (and see in the temperatures) about a "polar vortex" pushing cold arctic air south in to the US.
That seems....counterintuitive.
Never EVER trust a narrative. Look to the data. Always look to the data.
Exactly, nothing counts anymore, again!