Post #1862610

2026-04-29 21:04 UTC

Great, next time you have a majority, pass the increase. You don't need a super majority, stop your parliamentary bullshitting. Use "the nuclear option" (Trent Lott, R coined the term in 2000s to scare the dummies), you only need a **SIMPLE MAJORITY VOTE**. Don't try it just once... repeat until passage, party whips can make it happen. If they can't, go public with the holdouts and why, every day. Refuse to pass **anything else** until it's done. People have been fighting for 15 an hour so long it's no longer enough. Poland has better worker benefits and pays almost as much as the USA; we will soon be surpassed by **Eastern Europe**. When the labor law was passed in 1938 or so, the minimum wage was supposed to be enough to keep a family of four above the poverty line with **ONE WORKER**. Make that the law, because you obviously can't be trusted to raise the wage on your own in the future. You embarrassing hacks.

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@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 22:20

> Great, next time you have a majority, pass the increase. Impossible. Can't be done. You don't understand how politics works. Now donate $2028 to my reelection campaign or this Palestinian refugee gets shoved into a wood chipper.

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@pfried@reddthat.com 2026-04-30 16:05

The last time the Democrats had a majority was in the 117th Congress. They introduced a minimum wage increase bill HR 603 with 202 cosponsors, not a single one Republican. If the Democrats have a slim majority, all it takes is for a few Democrats whose districts rely on votes from small business owners who don't want to pay higher minimum wage *during a pandemic when their business is shut down* to stop it. Those small business owners vote, and their employees listen to people like you. If you vote for enough Democrats that aren't in that position, of course it will pass. The messaging to the employees should be that if their Democratic representative isn't meeting demands, they should primary them, not that they should let Republicans win.

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@lukaro@lemmy.zip 2026-04-30 17:07

Democrates have enough problems with out encouraging them to act like republicans.

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