Here we go again: Bakari Sellers goes on Abby Phillip’s show and calls Elon a white supremacist. Attorney Arthur Aidala says “oh boy,” suggests he’s opening himself up to a defamation case, and mentions Platner. Phillip defends Sellers by saying people have come on the show and called Platner a Nazi. Aidala points out there’s actual evidence of that. Phillip then says she doesn’t want to litigate it.

The greatest trick the American economy ever pulled was convincing workers to argue about a number on a paycheck instead of what that paycheck actually buys. In 1938, a quarter an hour could buy you more of a life than many Americans can afford today making $15 an hour. Let’s have the conversation nobody wants to have.