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…

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      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.

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        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

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          He cheats like a motherfucker at golf too. A decent book called President In Cheat details what an absolute loser he is on the green. His tweets are riddled with typos and nonsense. (My typos are okay because I don’t have a PR team and I’m not a “stable genius”)

          The man is a failure at everything he does except getting away with lying and cheating- and it’s not because he’s a criminal mastermind. Yet so many people worship him. It boggles the mind.

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          The possibility that Trump could win is hampering recruiting, to the point that the services are now dropping graduation/GED requirements.

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          but Trump is more popular among veterans.

          …many of whom probably believe shit like this.

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            And by-and-large, only to stay home. You don’t have to vote for Biden, just don’t vote for Trump.

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              Ok, math is hard, but lower turn out is the only way Trump wins. So you should vote and not wanting Trump to win means you should vote for Biden. Third party votes are unfortunately a waste and actually help Trump by lowering the hurdle to win a majority in the state.

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                Please look at the broader context of my statement here. I’m talking about getting people who were on the fence about Trump but would’ve potentially voted for him to stay home, because they aren’t super happy about him insulting their profession.

                Yes, for people who are reasonable and sensible. But for those who aren’t, then yes, I think they should stay home.

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      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.

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        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.

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      It’s crazy to me how many of my union brothers are right wing and willingly vote for politicians that are openly anti union.

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        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!”

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      It’ll just make his coward base vote harder. They hate whatever he hates, even if it’s themselves.

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      Honestly can’t even imagine why he ever thought those people might endorse him…

      Dude must be senile af.

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          Yes, I do:

          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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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:

    Donald Trump casts himself as a protector of workers and jobs, but a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation found hundreds of people – carpenters, dishwashers, painters, even his own lawyers – who say he didn’t pay them for their work.

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      Why pay people the wages they’ve earned, when you could not? /s

      ETA: that’s a royal “you,” not directed at OP

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        With Trump, it works the same way as loyalty – everyone owes him, but he doesn’t owe them.

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      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.

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    Everything the man does is transactional. Support me and I’ll support you (for a little while anyway). Fuck me and I fuck you

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      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.