Chuck Grassley claims MLB moving the All-Star Game from Georgia cost the state "100 million jobs"

[demmiblue]

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[JohnQFunk]

1. On today's turgid episode of "Too Senile to Legislate"...🔚

[dawg day]

7. Oh, I don't think we can blame age-

Most of the rest of the GOP is younger. They're just eager to lie, and don't care if everyone knows it.

[Cracklin Charlie]

16. It's the Georgia republican legislation that caused the move.

Always blaming someone else for shitstorms they started.

[multigraincracker]

2. The math doesn't work..

[sop]

8. His mind doesn't work.

After 62 years even your constituents say it's time to go, Chuck.

[Sneederbunk]

3. Definitely time to retire.

[DFW]

4. Georgia must be in far worse shape than anyone knew

Every man, woman and child in the state is already working ten jobs, and the All Star game's move is going to cause each person in the state to lose all ten of them!

Republimath.....taught in failed schools everywhere.

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. Chuck "Big Brain" GrASSHATly strikes again.

[CentralMass]

6. Hey Chuck, stfu.

[spanone]

9. look to your party, chucky and hyperbole gets you nowhere.

[Hoyt]

10. To be fair to the old GOPer rube, it has been estimated it will cost Atlanta $100 Million DOLLARS.

[TwilightZone]

23. And, yet, we'll pretend we don't know that.

As I noted below, pretending we don't know what he's talking about is nearly as bad as the verbal gaffe itself.

Probably worse, frankly, yet "we" do it all the damn time.

[Hoyt]

33. Amazing sometimes. There's plenty of real crud to bash GOPers.

[FSogol]

11. And a 100 million babies will never be conceived now too. I hope you are happy, MLB!

[MissMillie]

12. How many people work in GA? (n/t)

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[Cracklin Charlie]

15. How long does a ball game last?

Chuck needs a calculator.

[lapfog_1]

13. Well, now you know why they don't want to raise the minimum wage

in fact they want to make it something like $.05/hour... so you have to work 20 hours to make $1.

100,000,000 workers x 20 hours for All-star game (3 day event)... $100,000,000 dollars.

But they are going to have to organize a BIIIG caravan from Central America to hire all that labor.

[Claire Oh Nette]

14. OMFG

MLB moved one exhibition game. One. with activities spread over three days.

The Braves continue to play all 81 home games, and any playoff games.

The local businesses aren't losing anything they normally count on. It's like not getting a bonus. If not having the All Star Crowd for three days in July costs any one in Atlanta their business, they were going under anyway.

Maybe don't pass fascist voting laws to disenfranchise Urban and Inner City voters to prevent fraud that never happened. Consequences and all....


MLB has no teams in Iowa, so pretty sure they could give a rip what Grassley thinks.

100,000,000 jobs. Atlanta has 2.5 jobs for every resident of California? Didn't know that....

[ProudMNDemocrat]

17. 100 MILLION jobs in Atlanta?

No wonder Atlanta and Georgia elected 2 Democrats to the US Senate and OVERWHELMING went for Biden in 2020.

[hlthe2b]

18. He's an embarrassment. Though I suspect he's suffering from dementia, he still needs the

HOOK

[Boomerproud]

19. Wow! I had no idea so many people were parking lot attendants

and sold beer and hot dogs. Holey Moley!

[frazzled]

20. Given that the population of Georgia is 10.62 million

Losing ten times as many jobs as the state as there are people (some of whom are children and some of whom are aged) is pretty impressive.

[bottomofthehill]

21. 100 million jobs for ten million people

Going to have to expand the workforce, probably going to be tough getting 90 million people stuck in that state. should have had them move there before the census, Georgia would have about 130 house seats

[TwilightZone]

22. He obviously meant dollars.

Pretending we don't know what he's talking about is almost as bad as the verbal gaffe itself.

[TheRealNorth]

30. To be fair

I think that some of these verbal gaffes are done purposefully because they know a certain percentage of people's impressions will be formed immediately without thinking about it. They can then later admit to the gaffe.

Kind of like Faux News putting a D- next to every no-name Republican that gets caught with his pants down, and then eventually correcting it.

Its done to create a first impression knowing that those first impressions tend to stick more strongly for a lot of people.

[Elessar Zappa]

32. So?

That's not what he said. He said "jobs".

[Thunderbeast]

24. JOB BOOM IN DENVER!

That works out to 20 jobs for every Colorado resident!

[yonder]

25. "Take me out of the ball game, Take me out cause I'm plowed..."

Time to go Chuck, you have nothing left but that slow slider.

[dameatball]

26. I would have loved seeing the MLB All Star game moved to Puerto Rico. What a missed opportunity.

MLB teams have sporadically played there over the years. Latin America produces so many great ballplayers and eventual expansion to the area would seem to be a no-brainer.
It obviously won't happen in my lifetime, but what baseball fan wouldn't love to go see the Dodgers play in San Juan or the Yankees in Havana. Insert your own team choices as needed.... What a market!

[SoonerPride]

27. Why not just screech that any liberal action they don't like cost infinitybillion jobs?

Their constituents don't know facts and aren't good with numbers anyway.

[Calista241]

28. O FFS.

The All Star game is not super highly attended in normal times, and it's not going to be heavily attended this year, regardless of where it is.

Atlanta is one of the most progressive, most favorable cities to black Americans in the country. There's a reason Google, Apple, Microsoft, and other companies are investing in their workforce here. The amount of minority job candidates to choose from is much higher, and those companies want to change their workforce demographics.

[WhiteTara]

29. that's 1/3 of the country!

[ananda]

31. ROFL

He's way too smart for me. He must be using
the qloud quckooland numbers.

[Ilsa]

34. Well, if you have to work three jobs

to stay ahead of bills, you're still overestimating by three times, Mr. Grassley.