Halosheep
I’m aware of the phrase’s meaning. It’s not being used this way from what I can tell.
Seems to me that conservative policy is the status quo. Almost by definition, ‘conserving’ the way things are, or what they believe it is. As a general trend, the us has leaned much more conservative. This is the status quo.
Changing, progressive policy is literally antithetical to the status quo. A woman in office is not the current state. So why do people say that the dem candidate is the status quo if that makes no sense?
Hunger, fatigue, general negative state of mind maybe.
This particular guy was a contract worker who came in for an early lunch, so I assume they’d been working for some hours before they came in.
Generally the blue collar worker dudes and the after church crowd were the meanest with the least tolerance for mistakes.
Richie Rich debuted in 1950. $10 would be equivalent to $130 today. Those are some expensive overalls.
Also $900 million would be like $11 billion. Pretty sure you can buy off politicians for way less.