What fucking timeline is this where I agree with thomas fucking massie?
Paid Time Off Hypocrisy
Submitted 3 weeks ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to workreform@lemmy.world
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thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
BillyClark@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I think this is what happens when you remove Republican incentives to lie, of which there are a lot. Most of their policies will still be bad, but almost everybody has a good side to them.
AviAdi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s hilarious because it’s upvoted on a community that supports work reform. Yet they upvote the tweet of someone who has voted against their every interest. Ah to be so simple!
Artisian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It seems one can agree with a person on one issue and not others. Fortunately Lemmy attention isn’t very valuable, so we don’t have to pretend that upvotes here are deteriorating the fabric of society in quite the way they did on reddit.
yesman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s a myth that Congress gets this many days off. They work very hard begging for money and making promises.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, we know, dipshit. Calling it out doesn’t actually do anything.
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
I suspect a whole lot of people don’t know this.
kingofras@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This plus he lost his seat by standing up to the pedo turd with his support to have the Epstein Files released, so I guess that bought him some goodwill. And whoever Diaper Donny got to replace him with will not just be republican, but inner death cult loyal to dear leader.
That last part is what people don’t understand about why you can’t get rid of him with elections anymore. The parasite took over half of the us political spectrum.
AviAdi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The fact that this community is upvoting Thomas Massie blows my mind. What a great idea to amplify the voice of this union buster!
kingofras@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hey pal, i see you everywhere in the last two weeks. You’d do really well to not try to turn this into another reddit. All I see you do is instigate. It’s a great talent, but use it on us vs the Epstein class not “this community this and that community that”.
This community isn’t upvoting Thomas Massie, just that he wrote is what resonates with people.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
The Sociopathic Oligarchs are getting really pissed of that we’ve decided not to work so hard for them. If my efforts don’t benefit ME, and only benefits THEM, then I’m not going to bother. I’ll just work for myself.
areakode@riskeratspizza.com 2 weeks ago
Sure, I could work harder. But that requires a higher salary…
daychilde@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Technically speaking, there is more to being a member of Congress than being in Congress and debating/voting. There is a lot they do for local constituents.
That said, a lot of what they do is certainly fundraising… of various kinds. And running for office. So I’m not saying the claims are totally false by any means. But it’s not quite as bad as that makes it look. Only mostly as bad or so.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Trump and his oligarch friends do not give a wit about the working class, in fact resent us. They would rather work us to death like slaves at a sugar cane plantation than treat us with decency even if the latter is more profitable to them.
This is why in the US labor unions have had to claw all of the worker treatment regulations that existed (and are no longer enforced) in the workplace, from the weekend and forty-hour work week to safe working conditions.
Since it’s easier for the owner class to bust unions than it is for workers to form them, civilization might just be screwed until we figure out how to universally teach class consciousness.
AviAdi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you plan to upvote just want to provide context on Thomas Massie:
He is not a friend of the working class! aflcio.org/scorecard/legislators/thomas-massie
Over the past 10 years he has continually and consistently voted against worker rights in multiple aspects.
He now got booted out of his party so he will say whatever he can to try and get votes in the future. Remember, he can say all this stuff but when it comes to votes, he will vote against your interest. Amplifying his cute tweets will cause more harm than good for the worker.
Thomas Massie should not be considered a friend or ally of Work Reform!
BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Thats not the intention of up/down voting.
AviAdi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Obviously not for simpletons
Snapz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Remember that part of the project is to destroy any trust that existed in the other branches of government prior to trump. In support of “unitary executive theory”, essentially an American monarchy led by an untouchable king.
Already done with the supreme court and well on its way in congress, with the decade plus of GOP obstruction since 2010 especially.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
You don’t understand, the MAGAs are SWIMMING in money like Scrooge McDuck, and they know the party is about to end. Once they lose control of Congress, much of the flow from the Sociopathic Oligarchs will divert to the Socialists. So they’re going to party like it’s 1999 on all that campaign cash, going to expensive dinners, staying in expensive hotels, flying on private planes, etc.
You can’t possibly have all that fun, er, do all that work, while being constantly hassled in the Capitol Building. They have to get back to their home districts, and AVOID their constituents.
AviAdi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Massie being the closest thing to a decent person in the GOP wasn’t an accolade.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I used to beat this drum pretty hard until I learned/realized just this week that ostensibly this is so representatives can spend time amongst the people they represent.
Obviously there’s no strict laws governing what they do with their time and they are only accountable to re-elections for that, so the potential for slacking off is tremendous, especially in the age of R vs. D being virtually the only thing worth mentioning come election time.
“Sure, I’m never in DC working for you and I’m never back home listening to you, but at least I’m not a filthy [other party]!” is a convincing argument for a staggering percentage of American voters.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Serious question. What are they supposed to be doing in the meantime?
AviAdi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yo y a Republican posting this? I’m sure a few corporate Dems would actually be thrilled to get rid of some holidays. What’s good for the corporations is good for the corporate Dems…
GardenGeek@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
Keep basing politics on people and party lines rather than on substance… that way, we’ll definitely move forward as a society and won’t end up divided and paralyzed because “he said that, so it must be wrong.” It’s been working perfectly in the U.S. for decades now, and of course it’s not at all the reason for the shitty situation the country finds itself in right now. /s
AviAdi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Huh? aflcio.org/scorecard/legislators/thomas-massie This is his substance! He continually voted against worker interest and you people amplify him! There are plenty of politicians this community should be amplifying yet you people upvotes a fuck that says something that “resonates” with you but he will vote to screw you over in the future. DELUSIONAL
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The reason Massie is calling this out is because he is trying to get a discharge petition (a process that allows a bill to get to the floor for a vote despite a Speaker’s blockade) going for the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, and Mike “I Protect Presidential Pedos” Johnson can’t let him do it because votes are public.
So Mike Johnson is keeping Congress out until the day after the midterms because he can’t let his delicate snowflakes go on record as either voting for the act (which will make Trump very angry) or voting against it (which will make sentient beings with active consciences very angry).
It’s that simple. Yeah, Massie’s a Republican. But he’s literally trying to do the right thing here, and it’s working so well that Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, is choosing to fucking shut down Congress than let a vote on EFTA II come to the floor.
13igTyme@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That’s honestly so shocking I wonder what alterior motive he has.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna led the bipartisan effort to get EFTA I passed in 2025; in retaliation, Trump did everything in his power to get Massie primaried this year and succeeded, so now Massie is a lame duck with an even bigger grudge against Trump. Massie can do whatever he wants now, without fear of losing his already lost seat, until January when his replacement gets sworn in . . . IF Congress is allowed to come to work by Mike Johnson. Cue the long vacation.
Massie is also, depending on who you believe, also responsible for Mitch’s long unexplained absence: there are those who maintain the reason for absolute silence on McConnell’s absence is because had the Senate vacancy been confirmed, Massie – also from Kentucky, and also newly available because he’d recently lost his primary – would have grabbed it in a special election. (As McConnell declined to run for reelection, his seat will be filled in November’s regular election anyway.)
I’m not a fan of Republicans or Republican policies, but this is a rare one who is refusing to march in lockstep on the subject of Epstein. I don’t doubt he has a shitty record on unions and/or work reforms, all Rs do. But he’s one of only four Republicans with a spine who crossed the aisle to get EFTA I passed, and this long Congressional break Massie is highlighting, posted by OP, is a direct result of Mike Johnson doing whatever he can to stop EFTA II from coming to a vote.
AviAdi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
His motive is to gain name recognition so that he can win votes in the future. Massie will say whatever he can to be elected in the future and this community is falling for it by amplifying his voice.
Check out his score card throughout the years: he’s not our friend: aflcio.org/scorecard/legislators/thomas-massie
Malica@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
He’s ok, the last ok Republican
AviAdi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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He supported all this btw. 😂🤣😂
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No “btw” about it. Massie DID support Trump. Massie also DID legitimately and tangibly act to support the victims of Jeffrey Epstein not just once, but throughout his term – and Trump DID fuck him up the ass for it, openly working to primary his seat out from under him.
You got a lot of laughy faces for something that isn’t funny, given that many innocent people have died because of this administration. At least Massie’s using his learned lesson to do something good. What are you doing?
As for me, the enemy of my enemy tends to be my friend. It’s not that hard to hold conflicting views about one person for most of us. I’m not shocked so much by your response as by your position; your inability to handle nuance and/or people that are not easily divisible into black and white/good or evil figures is not uncommon, just far more readily found among the locked-step Republicans you decry.
But this thing where you run around a thread screeching at anyone who doesn’t wholly reject one bad guy doing good things doesn’t get you fans. It gets you blocked. But I’m guessing you with your fourteen day old account already know that quite well.