It’s who the right wants to become. They celebrate the gilded age of robber barons, deep poverty, child labor, employee abuse, low education.

It doesn't impact you, so who cares?

That’s an asshole response. Of course it affects me. I’m not a selfish pig like the goppers. It affects everyone in this country and beyond.

Yes. They have to replace all the lost workers due to immigration crackdown.

Thinking this can’t be true

Sadly, this is exactly who you are becoming.

It’s who we’ve always been…which is why there were laws against it.

Unbelievable.

Good, the teenagers of legislators and those very rich in Palm Beach and Naples will be happy to fill in where needed, esp those overnights before IB and AP classes. Good thinking DeSantis. Glad for jobs those teenagers are.

You know it's not going to be any child of wealthy parents doing any such thing!

Of course not. It will be children from Immokalee and children who need to help their parents and who need money for college. And I will watch this play out for children who don't take IB or AP classes because they work overnights and the FL gov thinks this is an answer. Send your kids overnight!

I’m sure wages will be optional also.

Hence why the MAGA crowd is so aggressively pro-birth. Cheap labor, and an endless source of the poor to exploit.

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I would take my children out of Florida. How can we help those with no resources in leaving? I can’t believe this happened so fast. We were freaking warned!!! 🤬🤬🤬

The kids are gonna need jobs as they'll be having babies younger without planned parenthood Roe wade And contraception bans

Fuck no! Next question.

Ffs. Unfuckingbelievable!

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They should of thought of these things before they kidnapped all the immigrants in the middle of the night and moved them to El Sal and put them in filthy horrible prisons they will never get out of alive. Let DeSantis work over night without a meal break.

DeSantis would rather put children in fields to labor than admit the immigrants were a solution to problem, not a problem. The Republican politicians got votes by fear mongering, misinforming and miseducating people. Now they will hold onto their power by exploiting children.

Pro birth explained. Need to keep producing their cheap labor.

Exactly!

Exactly. It's always been about this. Anybody stupid or ignorant enough to join the movement for "moral" reasons is just that. Stupid or ignorant.

Bullseye.

That part

The article is from over 20 years ago and still applies.

Nothing changes with the #CheapLaborGOP, at least not since Reagan.

Exactly. Keep them poor and uneducated or unskilled. Nothing will keep a woman or a family poor for life than having a teen pregnancy.

It's so clear, their exact intent, and to hear someone else say what I've been thinking.....thank you...

Well, it’s the Gods and Clods theory. Everyone can’t be rich and privileged because there will still need to be Clods who make our clothes and our food. There has to be minimum wage slaves and outsourced cheap goods and services. We need to keep the poor poor so they’ll work for us.

And cannon fodder.

I’m waiting for Trump to re-implement the draft.

I worry about this.

I think this was in the 2025 fascist project

I think you’re correct

No, probably need small hands to make electronic components for Teslas!

And besides going to need more labourers, considering they've just kicked out s*** loads of cheap workers from South America

Those better not be white hands, or FW de Klerk will roll in his pisspot

Not me on Duck Duck Go translating this amazing thread of new terms...love this.

I’ve been saying this since Roe fell. There had to be an end game for these politicians who claim to be “pro life.”

This is exactly why they want lots of poor families in this country to have lots of babies. In just a few years, they can have an uneducated workforce. No unions, no insurance, low wages. Everything the slavemasters want.

I agree with you 100% and it enrages me.

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When you throw out the immigrants and poor whose only option was to work for poverty wages, the only alternative are the children of the working poor. There is only one sure way to stop the right-wing fascists who currently control the US. Millions of us must hit the streets. Make DC look like this.

Won’t be able to do that… apparently in order to make DC “safe and beautiful” people won’t be allowed there and a “robust federal law enforcement approach” taken. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I wondered when I saw that.

His executive orders are little more than drug addled pipe dreams. They are not laws. They are not allowed to violate the Constitution which that does. This will be overturned just like most of his other EO that judges have blocked. It just takes a minute for them to wade through the shit.

Which begs the question (from a non-American perspective); what’s the point? What do these EO’s achieve other than boosting Fox News ratings?

They also flood the field so it gets hard to see all of the despicable shit they are doing. Like the Signal transgression being talked about like a minor oopsie instead of them being caught actively avoiding using proper channels that are archived and used for accountability.

Or the rather aggressive travels to Greenland that aren't getting much coverage and are filled with underhanded comments from Vance about military involvement. They are trying to drown us in panic, chaos, and uncertainty while they dismantle the systems that we have built to provide services.

They overwhelm people. They bog down the system so it does take a few weeks to get them ruled on because there are so many. It lets them play the victim card to their morons because "look at how we are being litigated against! They didn't do this to Biden"

Bullshit barbie hardly makes it through a press conference without acting like they are being mistreated when people fight their bullshit.

Wait it does talk about visitors though and doesn’t say anything about protest. A group walking isn’t a crime (yet)

He wants to hurt people so bad he's fit to burst.

I don't follow orders by felons

The problem is, plenty of masked, hooded, undercover men do… hence why people are being “Pinochet-ed” in your country right now.

I am aware of this. My Father fought nazis. This isn't an issue. It will be dealt with in time.

We purchase fashion and electronics from countries and companies that have been using child labor for decades. While exponentially growing homeless children population right here. We already are that nation.

That's just cruel. I would never allow that for my kids. Thank God they are grown.

No. I'm 88. I've heard stories from my parents and grandparents going back before I was born in 1938, when the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was passed. If one believes that common human decency would preclude exploiting children if restrictions are lifted, you're not paying attention.

That's why they're gutting the department of education, get kids out of school and into the factories.

Welcome to the 1920s

Who does this benefit?

Todd and Biff who were pissed that immigrants had taken all the good roofing and produce picking jobs.

Whoever proposed this is nuts. No guaranteed meal breaks - even adults get breaks. Teenagers can do overnight shifts on school nights? School is important and should be their primary focus. Night shifts are for adults b/c safety is a concern. Children shouldn't be or have to be working, at all.

Arbeit macht frei, baby! 🤬

Is this an Onion article right now

You know it's critical when you can't tell the difference anymore... 😔 I live in this asinine state.🤢🤮 www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/b...

FL creates a problem then wants to fix it by enacting 30s type child labor laws to fix it. This is crazy town/state stuff. This is child exploitation!

Too late, George.

Well Trump's hero is President McKinley so why not? Just go full out robber baron no holds barred Industrial Revolution, let's take away women's right to vote, strip all workers protections, back to full industrial society (since that's what tariffs are all about) and get it over with

Keeping the duh in floriduh

Holy sweet f**k. Is this USA or Myanmar?

Please don't insult Myanmar by comparing it to USA

What will they do next , send kids back up chimneys ?

Unfortunately, it's very much who we are.

At least who the Rs in florida have become

Not all Americans want this, just the 77,303,568 who voted for DonOLD.

Is that what making America great looks like? Great for corporations who want to treat employees like slaves. Read the small print before you vote!

sadly yes, though i still believe that its possible to change back to something better,eventualy

Florida, like other red states is a failed and failing further, state

Florida, like the other red states is a failed and failing further, state

What child or teen would take this job? How fucking stupid is DeSantis? Screwed him and the rest of the orange turds that follow him and diaper DON.

This is just insane. Working overnight on school nights. This is the work of a government that doesn't care about education at all.

Or just education for the Richie rich snobs.

I am a Floridian here and it is much worse down here than this. I bet this passes too. They are already teaching our kids that being a slave benefited black people and they should be thankful. That was passed two years ago.

It’s an executive order- not a law. It’s like a memo to the govt.

No, this isn't an executive order. This is moving through the Florida House and Senate.

Yep and it's maddening 😤

Omg- I mis read that- this is horrible! Crap

Yup, very horrible but very true to form for DeSantis and the FL GOP.

Incredibly horrible!

No Meals for teens horrific. So is the concept that they should work overnight when they are still in school.

No meals for teens? Horrific

Because we don’t want immigrants here, that would work these jobs that white adults won’t work, we are going to have our poor children do the work. It’s poor family’s that’ll have to send their children to these jobs and subject them to these cruel conditions. Welcome to the Regime!

Terrible.

No but Florida is Florida. 🤪

Flori-duh.

If we let it happen!!!

The dystopian nightmare continues…

Get rid of the ED, privatize K-12. Privatize State Colleges and Universities. Bring back Child Labor.

I’m willing to bet that White people will figure out a way to make this apply to only Black and Brown kids. And they’ll make Work Camps a thing instead of juvenile detention. And we know that Black kids are disproportionately punished for the slightest “offense”. #slavery2.0

Especially the south always hated *insert N-word here* and liked to lynch them. Black folks aren't people to them. If you know that pigment skin color is only one genetic feature, you can see how dumb racism is. But these Bible Thumpers are exactly that: dumb.

Hollywood couldn't stage a production of such a distopia as fast as the current admin has. It's like Total Recall. How much worse could it be? Gladiators?

But they’ll vote for laws banning a single trans kid from playing on a girls soccer team to “protect the children”.

Because that's never what it is about, but we know that. 🤷‍♂️

No!

It's what 150, million Americans chose whether they accept responsibility or not. Third-party voters, conservative voters, and non-voters all fucked us. It's what they do best.

There was a majority of non-voters iirc. So they voted Trump in indirectly.

It was an election I expected 107% participation in. It was that important 🙀😿

Yup it was, and that is harshly demonstrated already after 2 months of Trump. I don't understand these people.

I left twitter 3 mnths ago and don't get fox so I don't get the right wing spin. It's very nice 😸 The rich get richer, the poor get more misery. I'm sure this isn't what they wanted ? My Dad mined coal at 14 in the late 40s. Doesn't seem like progress to me.

It's only progress for corpos and billionnaires. It's regress into slavery, poverty and misery for everyone else.

Gonna go back in time. Where's Marty McFly when we need him? Biff Tannen was a foreshadowing of Donald Trump.

George….you need to look at Arkansas. They already did this to child labor laws

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The desire is to return to the glory days of the Confederacy.

Why waste your time in school when you can be earing income for your family. What was old is new again. Hail Herr DeSantis.

Would you look at that? Time Travel. We're rapidly reaching pre 1938 living and working conditions...

The #Regression continues!!

Letting government destroy the union movement moves you back to labour laws from the 1800s…who knew?

What the fuck is wrong with the parents in that shithole state..?

Oppression kills hope

Good point...however my perception it's not that they are hopeless...it's that they are twisted hateful people.

They don’t consider ‘us’ as part of their ‘we.’

Nazi Germany and Slavery in this country come to mind.

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No

No teen is going to work in the fields. They will not even apply for those jobs. This just means the jobs they do get fast food ect. they can now be exploited even by the employers who are already exploiting them. More profits for the rich. Welcome to the 1930s.

This is what happens when you allow gangsters to govern.

Disgusted!!!

Fuck these guys. They’re going to take advantage of American children rather than immigrant adults now.

bsky.app/profile/geor... I'm literally lost for words. #DoBetterAmerica

Hello Victorian Britain Florida style!! 1833 Factory Act banned children from working in textile factories under the age of nine. From nine to thirteen they were limited to nine hours a day and 48 hours a week.

Ugh. Next my state will probably make slave labor legal. 🤬

Sorry, George, but they deserve everything they get.

The kids do?

Well, the parents voted for their kids to do so, and it was told to them in the campaign from many states so they are the ones looking out for their interest, so I have nothing for them, sorry. I can tell you no kid is going to do the work of a migrant worker. This isn't forced labor bill.

Oh the voters who want this are horrible. But these lessened work restrictions start at 16 for kids in schools but 14 for kids who are homeschooled. So the kids with less adults from outside of the home checking in on them absolutely will be exploited more and they don’t deserve that.

Why else would so many million Americans vote for this?

Because it will only be other people's children, not their own. It's always only the others.

What will the grade level be then. Republicans are the worst. I bet Richie rich and the gated community kids will be going to bed and getting sleep. Or probably sneaking out of the house to cause trouble.

The dumb kids in Florida will escalate more than it is now. What a state.🤣🤣🤣

The US is turning into Foxconn

No,.. Foxconn has a great healthcare plan.

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The children who will fall under this “work force” will be the children born in the US, by illegal immigrants, whom have been BARRED from attending school.

Holy shit.. i called it… the US isnt allowing immigrant children to go to school as part of the push to create sweat shops in the US using child labour. They’re cutting strangling out the countries US billionaires use for cheap, sweat shop child labour, and giving it to them at home in the US of A.

So if 14 year olds going to school doing the day and working at night how will they have time for themselves, spending time with family and friends and sleep? It's very clear republicans don't care about kids

They seem very keen on pregnancy and foetuses; it's only once the baby's born, they lose interest...

Exactly. Republicans never pro life because they don't care about life. Republicans pro control

And nothing controls a woman more than a pregnancy and the care of a child.

If Republicans across America continue winning elections and gaining power, America will be an authoritarian society with no freedom or government for ‘the people’.

Be careful with the assumption that there will continue to be elections in America.

Great point. There may not be any!

It started already. There will be no way back. The bureaucrats who could resist are dismissed. Why? To replace them with their own men. They are eliminating resistant bureaucrats. So after 2/3 years there will be only their 'men'. At that point there is no way back. And Putin will laugh.

To some it is what we should ALWAYS have been. To others it is a reminder that when we let our guard down evil comes into our nation.

The cruelty is the point. Always has been

Overseers allowed again?

Yes, this is exactly what they're aiming for.

F&ckers

This is sickening and infuriating. This is aimed at children of the poor and desperate. Do you think Musks kids or Trumps grandchildren will be working the second shift?

Well they DID want all the jobs back that undocumented migrants did soooooo 🤷‍♀️

Why aren’t the grown ass Floridian republicans out there filling the void from the deported migrants??? JFC! These new child labor proposals are outrageous!

Grotesque!! WTF?! None of what this regime is doing should be any part of who America is or would ever want to be. NONE of it!!

Apparently

I honestly believe that Trump, his followers, and the GoP want to go back to the age of the robber barons of the 1800's, and in addition bring about an autocratic Christian Theocratic Dictatorship. Next they will probably rename the US to the "Republic of Gilead" (credit to Margaret Atwood)

Bro.. the people passing this bill have never worked a night in their life. It's an awful experience for even the most seasoned adults. And almost worse for their families..

Let’s go Krasnov!

Welcome to The Gilded Age, Part II: The Times of The Robber Bros. This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around No time for dancing, or lovey dovey, I ain't got time for that now

Heading backwards 🤬

😢

No offence to folks trying to resist, but this is exactly who America is now. Sorry.

MASHC Make America a ShitHole Country … very good start so far, should be there in 2 weeks

INsane. #FAFO

Never!

They know their actions will lower life expectancy, there won’t be jobs, the billionaires will privatise everything. They are going to cull most of the population through poisoning the air and water, promoting vaccine misinformation, making it near impossible to get medical assistance…

So go to school all day, then go to an eight hour shift after school and no, you can’t sit down to have dinner or any kind of break. Work till you die - you’re done at 19 and then we’ll just churn out more, but not the children of the very wealthy. Go MAGA!

Just think...THIS GUY could have been our president. Only one guy could be worse...(HINT) he's an ORANGE FELON WHO ATTACKS WOMEN IN DRESSING ROOMS AND THINKS HE CAN GRAB WOMEN BY THE PUSSY, JUST BECAUSE HE HAS MONEY.

Back to american greatness. Reintroduction of slavery when?

Hell NO😡🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽 all fighting for Democracy

Florida voted overwhelmingly for the governor who wants this. So the short answer is yes.

Didn’t Charles Dickens already write about the evils of child labor extensively?!?

Yes, and #RonDeSantis already stated he will make his own kids apply for jobs picking oranges in a farm to help the labor shortage in FL! What a leader... showing by example! Motherfucker!

Milei rothbard thiel and musk, libertarians are the new cancer of humanity

It is about denigrate brown and black children, and very poor white children. After all, which children will be forced to take these jobs, either by their parents or to help feed their families? Not the politicians' kids!

I was just going to post exactly this!!!

And putting their education last will keep them poor, hungry, and will keep them angry. Education is the number one thing that pulls people out of poverty. Schools used to be the best way kids in poverty could get steady food. Now they get to work in the fields. This is not my country.

Its going to be a Venezuela like country very soon.

This is how they keep people down. This is the kind of thing that causes the systemic racism they say doesn’t exist.

Sounds like authoritarian agenda !

Republicans want them stupid and obedient.

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No. Please, no!

This is so wrong!

That’s disgusting. Why would anyone want that?

Cheap uneducated labor force.

Yep, easier to control and you can underpay them if you're so inclined. It's absolutely disgusting.

Is there fine print that says about whipping employs to get more work out of them?

Indicative of the real welfare queens and terrorists you need to worry about, not someone from another country. They're right in your backyard, running multi-billion dollar corporations, and holding office. Your oppression is their profession.

The new slaves

WTF

why isn't at least half of US people protesting against this fascism?

Conservatives are fascists. All of them. There is just no other explanation as to why they are ok with this shit.

Well it's with keeping in returning to robber baron days like the rest of his platform

This is insane. Inhumane.

Disgusting. Truly.

Wow wtf

Sorry George. It looks like, what it is. Shameful but expected.

No!

They need slaves, since there are no migrants to do the dirty low paying jobs anymore. 😡

Bingo

Minors can't legally enter into contracts. It is their parents that enter into contracts with the employer. So, yes this is basically slave labor.

Yep, my point exactly.

They also don't have to fund public education if those kids are working instead if going to school. Less need for teachers.

Win/Win! Yay! /sarc font activated.

All part of the plan to shut down schools and bring back child slaves

More Nazi bullshit.

I don’t get how this is going to magically produce workers that don’t exist. Is the next law mandatory employment for children?

I would not doubt that these assholes would use the children in the foster care system. Unadoptable children are going to have to work for their food and shelter. Completely disgusting. I really hate this country more and more. People who voted for this in Florida. Shame on you!!

Jesus wept.😣

“Greatest nation on earth” 🤦🏼‍♀️

We passed something almost as gnarly in Arkansas. Look fam. Just try googling the words “Arkansas woman arrested” or “Florida man found” It’s not where you wanna go with your blue or purple state. I promise. open.substack.com/pub/noelkeit...

A 3rd world country is what is happening!!!😡

It’s fucking crazy

It's heartless.

What are Americans going to do? Sit idly by and watch the country continue to degrade?

What besides contacting law makers and protesting do you think average citizens should do?

Thank you! I'm so tired of this type of lazy, unfair, uninformed comment. It's just vague finger-wagging while offering nothing constructive. We're not sitting idly by, and we're open to reasonable and helpful advice.

I was hoping to get some good advice in case there were new ideas ;) I’m open to anything that is legal. My legal, not the admins “legal”

Apparently

It’s who we already are George.

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This is not how you protect Our Children 🤬🤬🤬

Aparrantly.

Is this hell

What has this man done to my country!

They’ll be putting them up chimneys soon.

Thought Americans didn’t like child labour? You’ve railing against Asian countries for years.

No it's not but the GOP doesn't care what we want.

Keep them stupid and poor so they won’t know how they are screwed by the elite

My God! How could ANYONE vote for this! We're headed back to the start of the Industrial Revolution.

And what happens when the kids say no? Will they be forced?

Unspeakable horror perpetrated by Runt De Satanist...

When I was a kid , I always yearned for the mines...

They need people to make up for all the deportations of innocent people who were doing those jobs.

The step after child labor is to strip more rights away from women so that they can be made into baby factories for the capitalist machine. Ensure cheap labor through lack of education opportunities etc. It's all so obvious.

Why is it always Florida?

The good old days.

You can tell that kid is a slacker. He still has all his toes. Get back to work and stop freeloading off your governm...I mean, parents. Yeah, parents.

The nickname “four toes“ will be back in vogue in classrooms in Florida…

Actually all the conservative inbreeding has already made that "a thing" there.

I remember ol' four toe Troy. You'd think we'd call him that 'cause he lost one but nope he lost six. Least that's what they say. Wouldn't know, myself, because I can't count that high. Three finger Jimmy's the name.

They won’t need classrooms anymore.

When you can’t use immigrants for cheap and hard labor you need kids to do it. Like in countries and times we thought we had risen above. Exploition of human beings. The exact reason your great grandparents immigrated from Europe to USA. The ideology of Trump and MAGA.

I know, then we will also be able to recruit child soldiers into the army. Works in some African trouble spots.

They want a populace who's never known an hour of free time and still thinks they live in the greatest country in the world.

Well when all the migrants are gone hogs arent just going to render themselves

How about this? Nazi flags are ok. We see them at every DeSantis event. Confederate flags are ok. They are on half of the pick-up trucks in Florida. But Rainbow flags? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! We have been living in a dictatorship in Florida for years and we are so sick of it.

WTF

Not at all crazy! I know I wouldn't want my child working at that young age.

I fail to see how this makes America great again. What’s next? Debtors prisons?

“14 year olds can work overnight!” WTF

No! We have been here before and made laws against it.

It's about time to stop pretending these laws will be respected.

This is disgusting.

Yeah, those little freeloaders need to fill those jobs American adults don't want to do. 14 year olds working the night shift at a slaughter house, kids in the fields before school, kids washing dishes at Denny's at 3 am. Get those little buggers working!!

I ❤️ assuming sarcasm.

Going back in time. Back to slavery and helping the rich. America resist and stop this before it's too late. If you're not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem!

Yup- if u want an illiterate , ignorant , very exploitable populous - guaranteed

No, it is who they want us to be...

Fuck no

Absolutely not! I live in FL, not by design but by necessity.

Can you imaging kids out there doing landscaping, picking at the farms, roofing in the Florida heat??! I still ask: where are all the people that screamed immigrants were stealing their jobs?? It’s your time to shine!!!

Be careful what you wish for and it must be the racism are 2 thoughts that spring to mind. Time to shine indeed 😹😹😹

Insanity

From the man who used taxpayer funds to put up "Welcome to the Free State of Florida" signs at our borders while encouraging book banning and trying to ban vaccinations and masks. Free for whom? This is despicable.

I will fight until my last breath against this crap. That’s not the America that I know and not what was taught by my teachers. Against values of the constitution and progress. Ppl vote to hate others against their own progress. Shameful

It who DeSantis fascist wants to be.

All MAGA trump and the Oligarchs

Florida is a horrible place.

Exploit kids after birth is at the center of Republican plans. But America become blind when money is in the picture.

This was you some time ago, I guess the conservatives do want to conserve the past. Savage capitalism.

Regular and frequent whipping sessions to be held in the event of work slowdown.