- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
President Joe Biden will travel to Michigan on Tuesday and walk the picket line with members of the United Auto Workers union, he announced Friday, a trip that comes after the president faced political pressure to ramp up his public support for the union members.
“Tuesday, I’ll go to Michigan to join the picket line and stand in solidarity with the men and women of UAW as they fight for a fair share of the value they helped create. It’s time for a win-win agreement that keeps American auto manufacturing thriving with well-paid UAW jobs,” Biden said in a post to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Biden’s trip, and the historic presidential appearance on a picket line, underscores the political opportunity as the strike against the nation’s three largest automakers – General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis – enters its second week. It will come one day before former President Donald Trump, currently the front-runner in the GOP presidential race, is scheduled to deliver a primetime speech to an audience of current and former union members, including from UAW, in Detroit. Earlier in the week, Trump’s team confirmed he would be skipping the second Republican primary debate for the Michigan speech.
I remember when biden told the striking rail workers they could get fucked and go to prison. What was that, last year?
I remember a state of the union address where he said, “It’s time for Americans to get back to work and fill our great downtowns again,” like people didn’t bust their asses working from home during the pandemic. Small moment but it always really stuck in my mind for showing how he thinks of the commercial property owning class before he thinks about workers.
I busted my ass working not from home during the pandemic.
Not everyone had the flexibility to work from home. Which makes his condescension that much worse.
Uh… He then helped negotiate with their employers and gave them their demands.
So basically he sequestered all the power within his office, and when (not if) that office changes, they lose all they fought for.
Taking power from workers so you can pander to the masses is not a good thing. It erodes the entire fabric of labor rights. It means they have no power to negotiate on their own behalf, and have to wait on the convenience of politicians.
Careful, you might summon the vote blue crowd. Can’t have people criticizing their god king
Don’t get me wrong, I’ll still be voting for biden since the Republicans can’t find a better person than trump in the entire country.
Same. By vote blue crowd, I mean the people that believe you can’t criticize the Democrats because otherwise you’re a MAGA supporter. I call them that due their always vote blue attitude
Not joking, I honestly think some Democratic party members were (understandably) traumatized by Trump being elected and being president, and that (unfortunately) causes them to be hyper-aggressive douchebags when it comes to supporting Biden, which is sort of understandable but also thoroughly exhausting and really does harm to this country by making it difficult for people to discuss why things have continued to get worse under Biden and where improvements need to be made
They were hyperaggressive douchebags before Clinton lost.
I think some of us are traumatized by Reddit and Trump. Because for every person offering legit, good faith, well thought out criticism of Biden or the Democratic party (and there are plenty of things to criticize), I could show you about 1000 shills, bots, The Donald magats, and so on, following the alt right playbook like a fucking bible.
You call 'em what you will. Call me one if it feels right. But I don’t see viable options in the short term at this dark point in the nation’s history.
I think long term it is going to have to be a bottom up involvement in politics to maybe try to put the corporate bootlickers in the Democratic party. It’s going to have to be a long fight to fix the judiciary, undo citizens united, fix the corrupt, partisan SCOTUS, reform campaign finance, implement something other than first past the post voting, fix gerrymandering, break up oligopolies, and a million other things. I’m too tired to list it all.
Of course one could argue that centrists aren’t the right folks to fight fascism. And might enable it. Anyway…
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I mean, I’m voting for Biden because the Democrats don’t seem to want to find better than him.
Unless there’s some very radical changes (and not towards more right-wing extremism) in the Republican party, they won’t field anyone who will make the country more prosperous. Trump is symptomatic, not an outlier.
Lol, it doesn’t work that way. Good try though.
[looks over shoulder at pile of dark Brandon memes]
That you?
Those who fear criticism deserve it the most.
Sheesh, those downvotes…some larger instances are feeling more and more like Reddit.
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