Breadgate - Why Every Fast Food Joint Will Be Selling Loaves!

Summary

In this video from The Fat Files, the host discusses the potential ramifications of a proposed minimum wage law in California that affects fast food chains. The law could exempt restaurants selling bread as a standalone item, sparking allegations of political corruption involving Panera Bread and a personal connection to Governor Gavin Newsom. The host humorously illustrates how major fast food chains like McDonald's may exploit this loophole to avoid paying higher wages, emphasizing the absurdity and perceived incompetence in political decision-making processes.

Highlights

• California's proposed wage law might cause fast food chains to sell bread to bypass regulations. 🍞
• Political connections between Gavin Newsom and Panera Bread raise questions. 🤔
• McDonald's and other chains could exploit a bread exemption to save millions. 💰
• Public frustration with political maneuvers is common, as seen in 'Breadgate.' 😤
• News outlets are calling out corruption, crossing party lines. 🗞️

Key Takeaways

• Political corruption can have unintended consequences, such as fast food chains selling bread to dodge wage laws. 🥖
• The proposed minimum wage law in California could create bizarre market adaptations. 🌐
• Friendships in politics can lead to eyebrow-raising decisions and exemptions. 🤝
• Even with serious topics, humor can highlight the ridiculousness of political scenarios. 😂
• Fast food chains might turn loopholes into marketing opportunities, like selling overpriced bread. 💸

Overview

The video kicks off with an intriguing premise: California’s potential wage law could lead fast food chains to sell loaves of bread. The host delves into political shenanigans, highlighting an odd exemption that benefits bread-selling establishments.

Amid allegations of political connections, particularly linking Panera Bread to Governor Gavin Newsom, the host humorously critiques the absurdity of political favors. Though the allegations are serious, the host manages to keep the tone engaging and light-hearted.

The discussion expands to the potential actions of fast food giants like McDonald's, who might use a simple bread-baking trick to circumvent the wage law, saving substantial amounts of money. This situation is emblematic of broader issues in political decision-making and accountability.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction of Controversial Legislation In this chapter titled "Introduction of Controversial Legislation," the speaker forewarns of significant changes in the fast-food industry in California if a new law is enacted. They assert that if the law goes into effect, all fast food restaurants in the state will begin selling loaves of bread, hinting at underlying political motives and corruption involving Panera Bread. The speaker indicates a deep dive into the issue, but first, they quickly promote a product, Zaka Life Go Bomb, an organic CBD balm claimed to relieve aches, sprains, and injuries instantly. The promotion is noteworthy as the speaker approached the company themselves, suggesting personal endorsement.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Ad Segment The speaker endorses a product they've personally used, suggesting it relieves pain from long-term construction work. They recommend trying it with a discount code. The chapter then transitions to discussing a proposed law in California to raise the minimum wage specifically for fast food workers to $20, up from the current $16, targeting fast food chains in particular.
• 01:00 - 02:30: Overview of Minimum Wage Law and Exemptions The chapter 'Overview of Minimum Wage Law and Exemptions' discusses the specifics of how minimum wage laws apply to fast food chains. It defines fast food chains as any chain restaurant with 60 or more locations nationwide, featuring either drive-thrus or in-dining options without table service. Despite these guidelines, the chapter also addresses certain exemptions to the law. For instance, individual restaurants within major chains like McDonald's or Wendy's could be exempt from the new minimum wage requirements if they are located in specific places such as airports, hotels, event centers, theme parks, museums, or gambling facilities.
• 02:30 - 04:00: Political Corruption Allegations The chapter titled 'Political Corruption Allegations' discusses the controversial exemption of certain establishments from a new minimum wage requirement. The exemption particularly applies to restaurants located on state-owned land, allowing them not to adhere to the newly imposed $20 minimum wage. This exception has sparked allegations of political corruption as it appears that the government is choosing to favor its own interests by not applying the same rules that private establishments must follow. The chapter insinuates that this kind of preferential treatment highlights a pattern where governmental bodies are seen as bypassing regulations that they enforce on others, perpetuating a cycle of favoritism and corruption.
• 04:00 - 07:00: Ramifications of Bread Exemption The chapter discusses a legislative bill in its final stages in the state government, where an unexpected exemption is introduced. The exemption allows restaurants that sell bread as a standalone item to bypass the minimum wage requirement. This peculiar exemption seemingly benefits a limited number of establishments, notably Panera Bread. Speculation arises as Bloomberg highlights a potential conflict of interest, noting that Governor Nome owns multiple Panera Bread locations in California.
• 07:00 - 08:30: Historical Government Blunders The chapter discusses a political corruption scandal involving Governor Gavin Newsome. Newsome is criticized for an alleged political favoritism after it was revealed that a friend and business associate, who also donated $160,000 to Newsome's campaign, may have received a bread exemption. This situation has led to widespread criticism from both Republicans and Democrats, highlighting the bipartisan concern over this issue. Newsome's response to inquiries about the exemption was vague, raising further suspicion.
• 08:30 - 09:30: Conclusion and Call for Accountability in Journalism The chapter emphasizes the importance of journalistic integrity and accountability by illustrating a scenario where a political figure, identified as Gavin Newsome, was allegedly caught giving preferential treatment to a friend to bypass a new legislation imposing a $20 minimum wage. The media's role in questioning and revealing these dynamics is highlighted, although it ends with some ambiguity and lack of further insight or resolution from the involved parties. This scenario serves as a call to action for journalists to persist in their investigative efforts and demand transparency from public officials.
• 09:30 - 10:00: Video Outro In this chapter titled 'Video Outro,' the speaker discusses a situation involving a political figure who denies doing political favors for a friend, claiming the absence of direct conversation about such actions. The speaker uses a metaphor about friends not explicitly agreeing not to harm each other to illustrate the point that some things are understood without being said. The speaker suggests that this kind of denial is a form of gaslighting, insinuating that politicians, like 'Nome,' manage to evade accountability frequently. The tone is critical of political dynamics and the apparent immunity politicians have from consequences.

Breadgate - Why Every Fast Food Joint Will Be Selling Loaves! Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 mark my words if this law goes into effect every single fast food restaurant in the state of California will start selling loaves of bread today we're talking about blatant political corruption in Panera Bread and once I start going down this Rabbit Hole I'm not going to be able to stop so we're going to go ahead and get the ad out of the way right now up front zaka life Go bomb It's Made in the USA 100% organic full spectrum CBD bomb that you can put on any ache any sprain or athletic injury and it's going to make it immediately feel better this is one of the few times that I've actually approached a company to rep their product and not the other way around
• 00:30 - 01:00 because I actually use this stuff okay I'm 30 I'm fat I've been doing construction for years things hurt this makes it not hurt so if you're in the same boat as me go ahead and give this stuff a try over at zacal life.com use the discount code fat five to save some money let's get back to the video okay so here's what happened the minimum wage in California is $16 an hour the California state government is trying to pass a law that would make the minimum wage for fast food employees $20 an hour now this law isn't designed to affect every restaurant in the state of California it's specific for fast food chains and a fast food food chain is
• 01:00 - 01:30 defined as any chain restaurant that has 60 or more locations nationwide and those locations have a drive-thru or when they do have in dining there is zero table service so like there's no waiter or waitress okay so exactly what most people think of when they think of fast food now there are some exemptions within the law so hypothetically say you took a major chain restaurant like a McDonald's or a Wendy's an individual restaurant could be exempt from this new minimum wage if that restaurant is inside of an airport inside of a hotel inside of an event center a theme park a public or private Museum a gambling
• 01:30 - 02:00 establishment or is considered a concession stand or that restaurant is located on state-owned land they would no longer have to pay that $20 minimum wage now right off the bat most of those seem pretty okay except for that last one about state-owned land it seems like the government's just basically coming out and saying hey everybody has to pay this new minimum wage unless it's a restaurant that we own in which case we don't have to abide by our own rules essentially saying the quiet part out loud of hey the government's here to make sure nobody [ __ ] you except for them but I mean let's face it that's pretty much just how it's always been
• 02:00 - 02:30 it's probably how it's always going to be now this bill makes it all the way through the state government it's in its final stages and then at the last moment somebody adds an additional exemption and that exemption is that a restaurant is no longer required to pay that minimum wage if they also sell bread as a standalone item which I think we can all agree is kind of a weird exemption I mean off the top of my head that would pretty much only apply to Panera Bread at this point Bloomberg puts two and two together and they're like hey you know who owns a bunch of Panera Breads in the state ofn California governor nome's
• 02:30 - 03:00 friend they went to the same High School they've done business together in the past he even donated like $160,000 to Governor nome's campaign recently so now Gavin Newsome's taking a bunch of heat for potential political corruption and he's not just taking it from like Republicans cuz he's a Democrat no he's getting it from all sides because it's so [ __ ] obvious that it's political corruption I mean he's a Democrat and he got called out by Bloomberg for [ __ ] sake so first the news outlets ask him they're like why did this bread exemption get added in in the first place to which he basically responds wanted it was part of the
• 03:00 - 03:30 sausage making process for the bill and provided no more explanation and then when the interviewer came out and just straight up asked him like don't you think it's a little bit weird that everybody has to pay a $20 minimum wage except for Gavin nome's friend Gavin Nome said no that's not true because we never talked about it a friend of Gavin Newsome who doesn't have to pay the the $20 an hour minimum wage but it turns out a it's not true he never talked to me about it period full stops do you understand the gravity of what that dude just said he basically got caught red-handed given a political favor to a
• 03:30 - 04:00 buddy and then when he was directly asked about it he said I'm not doing political favors for my friend and I know that because my friend and I never talked about it this man is literally trying to Gaslight people into thinking they don't know how friendships work like yeah obviously me and my friends have never had a direct conversation about not kicking each other in the dick but also we're not going to go kick each other in the dick because we all know we're friends and you want to know what's going to happen nothing absolutely nothing is going to happen because Nome is a politician and politicians get away with absolutely everything it's not not a republican
• 04:00 - 04:30 thing it's not a Democrat thing it's a if you're in the politician Club you can pretty much do whatever the [ __ ] you want and you'll never get in trouble I mean there are both Republican and Democrat politicians at the federal level right now that supposedly are better stock market investors than [ __ ] Warren Buffett but they didn't get that good at stock trading until after they became politicians and had access to Insider information but they would never use that Insider information never not once never so politicians get to get away with meanwhile I'm over here getting
• 04:30 - 05:00 $120 tickets because the window tint of my car is apparently too dark even though that's the exact same tint that came on it from the [ __ ] Factory and that's not even the worst part like am I frustrated about blatant political corruption yeah but I see it so much so often I'm basically desensitized to it at this point the most frustrating part of this particular bradgate incident is that it just highlights that politicians have absolutely no understanding of cause and effect seriously I've got a three-year-old that can put a four-piece puzzle together and I'm willing to bet a significant portion of these politicians
• 05:00 - 05:30 can't okay you know what I'm just going to show you let's do a thought experiment together McDonald's has come out and said that this new minimum wage increase is going to cost McDonald's $250,000 a year per location okay let's pull up Google how many McDonald's are in the state of California $1,224 okay multiply that by a quarter of a million dollar that's $36 million a year what okay are you guys picking up what I'm putting down because I'm trying to tell you that the californ state
• 05:30 - 06:00 government is about to put McDonald's in a situation where McDonald's can a pay $36 million or they can B figure out how to bake a [ __ ] loaf of bread inside their restaurant every day which one do you think McDonald's AKA one of the most successful capitalist Endeavors ever is going to take okay every [ __ ] McDonald's in California is going to have an easy bake oven on the front desk and they're going to bake a single [ __ ] loaf of bread every day and now they don't have to pay the new minimum wage because politicians are this [ __ ] stupid and then not only is
• 06:00 - 06:30 McDonald's going to Sid step the entire minimum wage they're also going to charge $1,000 for that loaf of bread because they [ __ ] can it's going to turn it into an internet meme which is going to give them free marketing and you know what some people are still going to buy the Thousand loaf of bread just to say they did it remember when Sichuan dipping sauce for McNuggets was selling for $155,000 on eBay yeah that's also going to happen and remember it's not just McDonald's that's going to be doing this it's going to be every fast food chain in the entire State because all they have to do is bake a couple loaves of bread and save hundreds of
• 06:30 - 07:00 millions of dollars a year that's probably what they're going to do and it's like at least with the political corruption I can understand it like I don't approve of it I'm not a fan but I can understand the notion that somebody's willing to break the law and [ __ ] other people over for financial gain I don't like it but I can understand it I for the life of me cannot wrap my head around the concept of a politician somebody that's in charge of the rules of society not having the mental capacity to understand the simple logic of if if I do this
• 07:00 - 07:30 they'll do that how in the [ __ ] is that a thing it's like they're in a three stoes movie and they stop look at the rake and then step on it and smack themselves in the face anyways I don't understand there's truly nothing the government cannot mess up they mess up absolutely everything they get anywhere near touching and it has the weirdest ramifications on the planet in the 1940s the government bolstered the dairy industry because they wanted to be able to buy more ice cream for the Navy during World War II and now there's 7 billion pounds of cheese in an underground cave Network in Missouri in the 19 60s JFK and Lynden B Johnson
• 07:30 - 08:00 tried to incentivize Germans to buy more American chicken and now for some reason I'm not allowed to own a Toyota Hilux and now it's looking like the California state government tried to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers and somehow didn't do that but inadvertently made every fast food restaurant in the state sell Lowes of bread so in conclusion I guess we'll just focus on the small Silver Lining of this entire story and that is that pretty much every news Outlet left leaning or not has decided to call out a corrupt politician and we need more of that in the world quit playing Party politics where you defend somebody just because they have
• 08:00 - 08:30 your same political beliefs or they're on your side and call out corruption when you see it whether they're supposed to be on your team or not that's exactly how the world should be and I think it's great journalism so if that's your guys's news outlet and you are part of that Kudos I appreciate it and I'm sure a lot of other people do too thank you for watching best way to support the channel is go as some merch over the fat electrician. comom quack bang out and I am going to go figure out how to UNT the windows in my [ __ ] car
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