Republicans tell Biden to hang tight for 6-8 months and then they'll work with him. Biden thinks that's so good he tells the press.6-8 months takes you to the summer recess. When they return the focus turns to midterms and the legislative window is closed. Good lord have mercy. https://t.co/d6jzKlZxH1— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) December 15, 2020
GOP are in fact acting spitefully on their way out because they know Biden and Pelosi won't do enough and will all but guarantee they regain the house in 2022. Trump losing is beneficial for them because he can just run again in 2024, blaming Biden/Harris for shit getting worse, and that delays having to answer the uncomfortable question of who Trump's heir apparent is.
The leadership of both parties, I could see them following the lead of companies like Amazon and use the coming homelessness crisis to bring back the company town/company store in order to simultaneously "solve" that crisis (and to quiet down the inevitable street brawls, and more of the sort of riots and protests we saw last summer), and to "bring back" manufacturing to the US without having to worry about being completely outcompeted by the PRC. Bezos and friends are trying to normalize and standardize the 10-hour workday and would probably love to force a transition to something like the exhausting Chinese 996 (72-hour!) workweek.
Amazon is becoming the new Walmart, an entity that can trick municipal governments into letting them set up warehouses only to wreck local small businesses and brick-and-mortar stores by promising economic growth, job growth, and increased consumer convenience, only to drive workers' earnings down, offer only precarious and exhausting work, and generally accelerating their immiseration in ways that PMC consumers mostly won't notice. Sorry to Bother You's "WorryFree" housing could, within the decade, become a plausible reality for most rent-burdened and underemployed workers priced out of renting in their gentrified hometowns, should the US working class fail to organize in defense of workers' housing rights.
GOP are in fact acting spitefully on their way out because they know Biden and Pelosi won't do enough and will all but guarantee they regain the house in 2022. Trump losing is beneficial for them because he can just run again in 2024, blaming Biden/Harris for shit getting worse, and that delays having to answer the uncomfortable question of who Trump's heir apparent is.
The leadership of both parties, I could see them following the lead of companies like Amazon and use the coming homelessness crisis to bring back the company town/company store in order to simultaneously "solve" that crisis (and to quiet down the inevitable street brawls, and more of the sort of riots and protests we saw last summer), and to "bring back" manufacturing to the US without having to worry about being completely outcompeted by the PRC. Bezos and friends are trying to normalize and standardize the 10-hour workday and would probably love to force a transition to something like the exhausting Chinese 996 (72-hour!) workweek.
Amazon is becoming the new Walmart, an entity that can trick municipal governments into letting them set up warehouses only to wreck local small businesses and brick-and-mortar stores by promising economic growth, job growth, and increased consumer convenience, only to drive workers' earnings down, offer only precarious and exhausting work, and generally accelerating their immiseration in ways that PMC consumers mostly won't notice. Sorry to Bother You's "WorryFree" housing could, within the decade, become a plausible reality for most rent-burdened and underemployed workers priced out of renting in their gentrified hometowns, should the US working class fail to organize in defense of workers' housing rights.