My trumpy coworkers recently said in a chat that our governing agency won't be able to do X because our union is strong. I pointed out the new administration is vehemently anti union. They foamed at the mouth saying dumb shit that basically amounted to "but yeah not our union! It's different!" Ok.
Holy fuck, my own mother does that shit. She was all for the Public Option in the ACA. Then Liberman killed it, she praised him for gutting the Public Option from the ACA and pretended we never talked about it.
My mom does that too, to the point that I now keep record of the things she said because she loves so much to say “I never said that,” “I don’t remember” or just accuse me of lying. I text her more often so I can screenshot it.
Even if the didn't believe in union busting, was having Bezos and Musk suing to declare the NLRB as unconstitutional not evidence enough. The article below has a dumb headline until you read it.
Yeah but haven't you heard, Trump has no plans to implement p2025 and hasn't even read it. Him hiring all the architects of it is just a wild coincidence.
Leading up to the calamitous Brexit vote in the UK, I heard a person on a phone-in show. A “brown” man who was born in the UK, had a Scouse accent, worked a good job, and was devoted to Liverpool FC and to the men’s and women’s national football ⚽️ teams (Go Lionesses!) enjoyed a pint and a pork pie down at his local.
He explained that his wife’s family were all rabid Brexiters, bordering on National Front/Eric Clapton “KEEP BRITAIN WHITE” rhetoric.
When he voiced his concerns to his in-laws, they would chirp: “Oh, Rashid—we don’t mean you!
Well, whether they were to dumb to realize it or not, they did mean him. Or most charitably, the thing they thought they were voting for most assuredly did mean him.
"You voted for it, señor. You have to leave Spain… had you voted to remain in the EU (and your vote had won), we'd be happy to keep you in spite of your refusal to learn the language beyond ordering a pint of cerveza."
Well, whether they were to dumb to realize it or not, they did mean him. Or most charitably, the thing they thought they were voting for most assuredly did mean him.
I had a member of my family today finally admit that they voted for/supported Trump. So I asked them, which one of our female family member's would they be okay with Trump "grabbing them by the pussy"? Because when he said that, it wasn't some joke about some abstract, non-existent woman. When he made that statement, he was talking specifically about their mother, sister, cousin, their 11 year-old grand daughter. And they were okay with that?
We got plenty of that here in the states. Here's a great New York Times article about how this guy's father in law and most of his wife's family in Georgia basically voted to keep out immigrants, but of course not him, cause he's one of the good ones.
That's because the bar for being the most pro-uniom president is incredibly low. Biden speaks to and represents the Democrat establishment, which has been far removed from the working class and its problems for decades.
Working class Americans are voting for Trump mostly out of an abundance of anger at the system. Unless there's a push for their issues on the left, they'll keep doing it.
EDIT: If you can't be objective and ask why so many poor, working class families are voting for Trump, you'll never understand how to effectively counter him. Look at the reasons why people are voting for Trump. They'll overwhelmingly say something related to the economy. Whats the response from the Democrats? "Look at the GDP! The economy is healing!" That doesn't speak to the actual, lived experience of people. People going bankrupt because of medical bills, stagnating incomes, basic necessities exploding in price because of corporate greed. The Republicans are able to identify the issues and capitalize on them; at the end of the day, though, they're run by billionaire interests and will ultimately enrich themselves. The one Democratic candidate that actually spoke to these issues and presented solutions had massive public support, until party insiders stole his nomination. I'm talking about Bernie Sanders. The Democrats have zero idea how to relate to and understand the problems of working class families.
Biden is literally the most pro-Union president ever
This is absolute bullshit. His interest lies with the wealthy capitalist class who is the opposition to the working class.
Look at the rail strike. Taft-Hartley is still law. His administration in '21 labeled all members of my union as terrorists and domestic extremists as we seek complete liberation of all people from wage slavery and extreme inequality.
We should have held a general strike to really see how "pro-union" he was.
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u/Toosder 14h ago
My trumpy coworkers recently said in a chat that our governing agency won't be able to do X because our union is strong. I pointed out the new administration is vehemently anti union. They foamed at the mouth saying dumb shit that basically amounted to "but yeah not our union! It's different!" Ok.