If McConnell is in as bad a shape as Biden ever was — or worse — he needs to step aside. This charade can't continue.
We can't demand of others what we won't demand of ourselves.
Tony Barzar, a Costco cashier, makes $33 an hour, and after forty years of working has over a million dollars in his retirement account.
When he started, he was making $3 an hour
The European mind cannot comprehend this.
You don't get opportunities for normal people like this in a country with organized labor, where the goal is to create shared interest among workers by making sure no one is too productive or successful.
Look at something like the idea that workers should have predictable schedules, something JD Vance is very angry about in his book. Sounds good in theory. But businesses want flexible hours for a reason. "Labor rights" create a thousand of these little rules that sound good in theory and in practice make everyone poorer and destroy people's opportunities to improve their lives.
I just had a 20 minute phone call with Mitch McConnell, and he said, “beep..beep..beep..beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep…”
There is a powerful movement of working class people in the state of Maine, and millions more across America who are ready to send a progressive fighter to the Senate. I’ve been fighting for that movement my whole life — and I’m sure as hell not backing down now, when this fight is needed most.
I’m in. And we're going to defeat Susan Collins. Maine deserves a Senator that will fight for working families.