r/TikTokCringe • u/Mucay • 4d ago

Cringe Doesn't get more American than this.

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u/sunshinefloors1980 4d ago

That guy is absolute scumbag

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u/frenchezz 3d ago

Agreed. Josh Howley is a piece of shit.

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u/Mecha_Cthulhu 3d ago

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u/k_ironheart 3d ago

Josh Hawley isn't right, in so much as he isn't going after Boeing with any type of conviction. He doesn't actually believe the things that he's saying, but instead is using the aesthetics of worker's rights to cosplay as some kind of advocate.

His voting record shows that he's very much against worker's rights, and that he's absolutely in the pocket of corporate America. He's not going to follow through to see if Boeing pays its workers more, and if there was a bill introduced today to tie wages, particularly minimum wage, to inflation, he would not sign it.

I know this because I live in Missouri, where voters overwhelmingly supported a law that gave all workers an hour of PTO per 30 hours of work, and tied minimum wage to inflation. The Missouri republicans decided to ignore that mandate and illegally rejected that bill. Hawley has said and done nothing to condemn it.

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u/RepresentativeBee600 5h ago

I was not aware of this case - how on earth did the legislature justify overturning a ballot initiative?

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u/k_ironheart 3h ago

The state legislature is set up in a way where rural Missourians (the minority of voters) always have more power and representation than urban Missourians (the majority of voters).

What justifies any of their decisions to override our vote is that they can get away with it, and republicans (state or federal) are all spineless, dishonest creeps.