Putting aside the obvious concerns, a mayor doing this and using "it's the same as the maintenance guy" should be a red flag.
I've worked in companies where high-level people take it upon themselves to do operational work. It's at best pointless retail poltics, and at worst it's rampant bikeshedding.
Obligatory NYT headline: "Alcohol poisoning used to be a time honoured pasttime in this small town, but Millennial woke mob took it all away."
When someone tells you you that they're planning Night of the Long Knives, you should believe them.
Its amazing what happens when your erstwhile left-leaning parties spend more time playing footsie with billionaires then actually solving problems for regular people.
The political left has gotten too cosy with neoliberalism, and forgotten their roots, ceding kitchen-table issues to the right-wing.
Which is insane, because the right doesn't care about the poor except as grist for the mill, they're just better at faking empathy, or at least milking victimization
It's like we learned nothing from the 20th century: every time the rich get too greedy, they'll gleefully fertilize the fields of fascism before they'll accept making less money.
The wealthy really didn't like seeing labour getting off its knees during the pandemic and they're stomping down hard lest we get a taste for it.
The Right Wing is really good at working the refs, and the Left needs to catch a Clue: they're going to get called radical socialist Marxist communist anarchists no matter what they do, so they should get off the knees, stop being such appeasers and fight.
Own the label
Some of these guys are Captain-Planet-villan levels of evil.
What's depressingly unsurprising about those stats is that the shittier the food, the lower the GP%.
Oh sorry, you want real cheese and not extruded plastic masquerading as a dairy-like substance? Better pay more. Want something more sustainable, like oat milk? 55% markup.
And people wonder why the poor are less healthy. Fuck these fucking ghouls.
Russian money ain't worth what it used to be, so Orban needs a new sugar daddy.
Well, yes, it did.
It caused all of the racists who had kept their worst instincts under wraps since 1960 to freak out.
Set phasers to burrrrrrrrn.