White Beard
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They did that, indeedMcDonald's coffee stirrers had their day in the sun.
Nah, man, you’re fine, I just hate those effing gas cansI certainly wasn't defending those stupid new gas cans. Or, the ability for a company to be sued for $150m due to how someone used their product.
I hope it didn't come off that way!
I wonder if that person who won that suit (by burning themself with a gas can) uses guns?
Tort reform! Brings back memories...There's a documentary from 2011 titled "Hot Coffee" that's an interesting look at tort reform. Recommended viewing.
Tort reform was one of the great shibboleths of Republicans in the past: torts are suits for payment of damages, and especially loathed by businesses who likewise hate regulations. Damaging the customer, the culture, the ecosystem is FAIR GAME for the wealthy, so republicans got sicced on high-damage cases, paid tons of money to defame and further damage the people already damaged by their product or service, but this was all long ago.
Deregulation is the trick pony now: if you can get them rolled back then business can get right to work exceeding previously established limits at the public’s peril and your profit.
Not that most of them pay any attention to regulations and regulators (see “regulatory capture”), but as the saying goes, it will only encourage them.
Thanks for bringing this back to the top of the pile!
The Moscow-Mitch connection in the virtual flesh. Wonder how Mitch’s folks back home will feel about a Russian oligarch being the single biggest economic policy voice in the region? Hope they haven’t been stupid enough to make protesting illegal (which would be unconstitutional on its face), but if they think making capitalists out of the communists will solve everything, they’ll be the first to go. Anyone who doesn’t want to live in Gilead should leave KY if the deal stands. This is as big an affront to and assault on Domestic sovereignty as any of the outrageous horseshit so far.
And people don’t even *think* about it.
They never wonder about any of it.
They just close their eyes, take a deep breath - and swallow.
They hope it will work out. They hope no one noticed.
They hope it will work out