I was at dinner and now catching up via Twitter. Haven't listened to a second. Seems the only truly news is he sounds like he had a stroke and even regular media members care
how do you not test the audio ahead of time, jesus christ every twitch streamer with like 2 viewers has this figured out
My union is probably 70%+ trump supporters. I'm probably being conservative with that 70% too. Everything has been tagged with pro trump shit everywhere.
Its largely because the dems abandoned the middle class and labor in favor of social issues. Union guys dont want to hear about LGBTQ issues. They want to hear about jobs. And theyre also dumb enough to think somehow Trump will do that for them.
This is a large part of it. It's a large group of undereducated white men making decent money suffering from toxic masculinity. They don't give a flying fuck about trans rights or left leaning social issues. And the libs won't let them say retard anymore. The majority of guys I work with would 100% kill their own income to own the libs.
This isn’t a zero sum game though. Dems didn’t abandon the middle class and labor and only focus on left leaning social issues, Fox News just told them that.
Lol they actually did. The dems embraced corporations just like the right. They have to bear the responsibility for the destruction of the middle class just as much as the right.
The Democratic party abandoned the middle class a long time ago. They never talk about labor they only talk about raising the minimum wage. They get elected because they hold people hostage that if we don't vote for them that the right is going to vote ghouls into office.
The 80s-00s era dems left a lot to be desired wrt unions, especially Bill Clintons work. Im not saying those union dudes hes referencing are basing their trump support on the widening union disillusionment towards the dem party of 40 years ago, but the dems havent always been *great* with organized labor. In fact im pretty sure those trump unionists just saw trump say "we're gonna tax and tariff imports so hard that manufacturing will HAVE to come back!" and were convinced it would work for some reason
I’m by no means an expert on the topic, so I’m genuinely asking here - what actions have Republicans done in the past ~20 years that have been more pro worker than Dems?
I quit Twitter some time ago and begrudgingly accept cherry picking tweets posted on TMB. It makes me fucking crazy when I try to close a tab and hit the wrong x on that dumb motherfucker’s website.
Nothing. I just meant that they successfully framed the narrative that unions “were once a good thing but no longer necessary.” They won the messaging to the point that it undermined union power. Union membership as a percentage of the workforce dropped by 25% between 1983 and 1993.
equating what Democrats and Republicans have done for labor over the last three decades because Democrats have supported free trade is just another stupid variant of people arguing Biden is no different from Trump the only other substantive policy referenced here is one with direct inflationary pressure on workers’ wages
Dubya also had the "you want to get a beer with him" narrative going (no matter how stupid or wrong that was) and Dems seemed to minimally push back on it.
My issue in the past has been nothing policy related but that the Dems seemed to so willingly give up the ground. It was bad politics
Clinton signed nafta which bush had designed then the Gingrich generation fear mongered on it. That’s where “Dems lost unions” began.
Wouldn’t be surprised if declines in union membership + citizens united had a bunch to do with that. It’s very bizarre to me that the Republican gains among rank and file labor workers has happened despite the overwhelming amount of anti-worker statements, policies, and track record that Republicans consistently espouse.
That era of Democrats largely abandoned union efforts. There’s a reason the Clintons and Tony Blair were/are friends with Jamie Dimon.
he's still on the Media Matters case tho. Spoiler He probably owns stock in every corporate entity involved.
you'll be shocked to find out this shitbag is also using our nation's waters as his dumping ground. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/12/spacex-repeatedly-polluted-waters-in-texas-tceq-epa-found.html
Real cool Chevron being overturned doesn’t allow the EPA to have authority to enforce anything anymore