Donald Trump attacked UAW President Shawn Fain after the union leader announced his organization’s endorsement of Joe Biden.
Fain “is a real ‘STIFF’ who is selling the Automobile Industry right into the big, powerful, hands of China,” Trump wrote Sunday night on Truth Social.
“He bought into Biden’s ‘vision’ of all Electric Vehicles...
Sadly I don’t think that will change any of their minds. Remember his comments on his “preference” of military folks not to be captured? Still has tons of support from the military population.
I read that Biden is more popular among active-duty soldiers but Trump is more popular among veterans. Which doesn’t make sense to me. Trump is a draft dodger and they think he’s the most badass President ever. All he did was golf and tweet. What the fuck
Remember when Tucker Carlson's text messages were released and he called his fans 'especially dumb....cousin fuckers'? Remember when they still revered him anyway?
Trump could probably be at a rally in the deep south in a factory and call them all a bunch of good-for-nothing lazy losers and they'd still vote for him. They'd probably say "He speaks his mind and doesn't care what anyone including us thinks. He's so badass!" or like I've actually heard more than a few times "He says dumb things that I don't agree with but I agree with his politics" which is ridiculous but it doesn't matter.
I don't remember anything Tucker ever said. His face perpetually told me "I am lying with anything I say" and I just ignored anything that ever spewed after.
I see the union guys in their maga hats in my store regularly.
I wonder if either they stumbled into their unions through family or if Trump is such a cultural phenomenon in rural America that they wear the hats to fit in around the homies and just don’t give much thought to politics. “I’ve been in this union through 4 Republican presidents and I still got my union. So what? Trump is cooo, he says what’s on his miiiiind. I like ‘at!”
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."
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.