Please, please, please let him start attacking blue-collar workers and unions.
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If only he was president in the past we could have some kind of record to judge him on... Oh yeah, he was.
https://www.epi.org/publication/unprecedented-the-trump-nlrbs-attack-on-workers-rights/
Tldr: Filled the national labor relations board with appointees who worked to roll back workers rights and hamper unonization.
Can't imagine why unions aren't a fan of his /s
Honestly can't even imagine why he ever thought those people might endorse him...
Dude must be senile af.
Remember the Carrier plant he "saved"?
Trump advertised Carrier's Dec. 1, 2016, announcement that it would preserve about 800 jobs in Indianapolis as a decisive break from decades of U.S. executives capitalizing on lower labor costs overseas at the expense of blue-collar workers at home.
Four years later, it has proved to be nothing of the sort.
Remember that photo of him breaking ground at the foxconn megasite?
Shawn Fain speaks at UAW 2024 National CAP Conference 1/22/24.
The UAW is calling on all unions to set their next contracts to expire on April 30, 2028 and for a general strike on May 1, 2028 to reclaim May Day.
It Could Happen Here recently published a podcast episode about how this would work. Some people are upset with how far out the date it set, but it's a smart approach and provides the runway necessary for other industries/unions to sign new contracts.
I'm a simple man, I see a Robert Evans podcast mentioned and I upvote.
Seriously though, it's good to see people thinking long term. We criticize the corps for only thinking of the next quarter (at the furthest) and then also criticize a guy with a well thought out long term plan?!
Thanks for this. I created a new post with a clip from the CAP conference and added the podcast link and summary. Should make it a bit easier to share the general strike call around.
selling the Automobile Industry right into the big, powerful, hands of China
This is the speech of a man who is very insecure about his hands. No normal person uses this vocabulary in this circumstance without some strong personal opinions on hands.
Look, his hands are massive for his developmental age, okay. Stop making fun of him for his hands. he's a toddler. those are some huge hands for a toddler.
In a scathing speech last week, Fain blasted Trump as a "scab" who if ever "worked in an auto plant, he wouldn't be a UAW member, he'd be a company man trying to squeeze the American worker."
Yep, he's a real champion of the little guy:
Why pay people the wages they've earned, when you could not? /s
ETA: that's a royal "you," not directed at OP
Man, I remember reading this article back in 2016. It stood out to me because it really exposed Trump for who he was pretty early on in all of this. It’s insane to think about all that has transpired since reading it.
Everything the man does is transactional. Support me and I'll support you (for a little while anyway). Fuck me and I fuck you
The guy is 80. Let him talk his lungs off, he doesn't have much time.
Let's hope that next big Mac is the straw that broke the camel's back
He's probably got plenty of time. That sweet, sweet presidential healthcare has every president since Ford making it into their nineties.
The catch is that those later years aren't necessarily coherent. That's the dangerous part with Trump.
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