Another Republican primary debate is coming up, meaning Donald Trump has plans to counter-program the oxygen out of the room. While his supposed challengers line up for a second vying for the veepship, this time in California, Trump will address a crowd of current and former union members in a battleground state amid a major auto worker strike.
GM CEO Mary Barra takes home $29M. In a weaselly way she tried to justify it. That’s impossible.
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We have a week to counter this maneuver. I suggest we go hammer and tong.
Donald Trump, friend of labor unions since 1916.
According to the National Labor Relations Board , the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas was found to be breaking the law by refusing to recognize its workers’ labor union1. The board ordered Trump to cease and desist and start bargaining toward a contract1. The hotel’s workers voted in favor of unionizing with the Culinary Workers Union1. The hotel has refused to acknowledge the union, and the labor board has had to intervene1. Many of the workers at the hotel are Latino and Filipino immigrants working in housekeeping and food service jobs1. According to the Culinary Workers Union, the Trump workers on average earn roughly $3 less per hour than other unionized workers on the strip1
This strike runs completely counter to all of his ambitions.
“The auto workers are being sold down the river by their leadership, and their leadership should endorse Trump,” he said.
So, if I understand the thinking here, since the leadership is already selling the workers down the river, the leadership should endorse Trump who will help sell them down the river further.
Do I have that right?
Oh, God! Please, please let him speak off-the-cuff.
I’ll pay $200 to anyone that knocks out his TelePrompTer last-minute.
Stage a picket line there and dare the participants to cross it.
Even better, let the crowd get rowdy. He won’t be the guy setting up the security, and there won’t be enough security to try rounding up UAW folks to eject them. Trump’ll have to beat a hasty retreat, and it will be filmed.
When your whole brand is dominance politics, you can’t afford to walk into hostile turf like this.
Was TFG even INVITED to this event? Or is he going to barrel in and expect to be treated as a god? May the boo birds be out in force and his hair be full of guano.
I’m listening to arrendis. Rowdy is good.
https://x.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1704123105180893497?s=20
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) called out Fox News’ hypocrisy on Tuesday after the conservative network clutched its pearls over Fetterman’s attire with nary a mention of Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) very public gropefest. As The Daily Beast previously reported, anchors and pundits on Fox and Fox Business have raged for days about the Senate’s dress code change, accusing Fetterman of lacking “decorum” for wearing hoodies and shorts on the chamber floor. Fetterman bit back with a zinger on Tuesday when he re-tweeted a Fox News article headlined “Fetterman blasted by conservatives after Senate drops dress code: ‘Stop lowering the bar!’” He wrote, “I figure if I take up vaping and grabbing the hog during a live musical, they’ll make me a folk hero.” Boebert was kicked out of a local production of Beetlejuice earlier this month after vaping in front of a pregnant audience member, groping her new beau, dancing and singing obnoxiously, and flipping off staff. She later claimed she wasn’t vaping—then apologized when surveillance footage showed otherwise.
Oh, John, you silly! She blamed the fog machine, not the hog machine!
As long as Senator Fetterman is neatly attired, I have no problem with what he wears on the floor of the Senate. I can appreciate that it’s difficult for a man his size to find suits that fit and are comfortable. It’s not like he’s wearing ripped jeans with fake holes in them and a twenty year old concert t-shirt.
And the union leadership should make sure that its members are very clear about this scenario.
First, I want to say that I love my senator. I am so proud of him.
Saying that (#1), I still don’t know what I think about the lack of a dress code for the senate chamber. I can’t stand Kyrsten Sinema’s sartorial choices.
Saying that (#2), Pennsylvanians knew how Fetterman dressed before and when we voted for him.
I hope someone makes a big sign that says “Haven’t you stiffed enough workers in your life?”
The dullard talking heads on Morning Joe this morning said that while UAW leadership will go with Biden, the rank and file will vote for Trump, because they are all white men. Yes, two nitwits said that, Jonathan Lemire and Katty Kay. I don’t know where those two neanderthals have been hiding but if I look at the pics of the strikers, that sure as hell is not what they look like.
It is totally laughable that any GOP candidate, much less Trump, want to pretend to give a shit about union workers or organized labor. Labor has been the evil whipping boy for Republicans since progressive trust-busting Teddy Roosevelt left the GOP.
