Trump turns his back on everybody. He’s only ever been about Trump.
Anyone who thought he was on the side of workers in any way whatsoever is willfully ignorant
Turned his back on?
Man, you had to be a special kind of stupid to think that this man ever gave a single shit about workers his entire life. For fuck sake.
You have to support workers first. So he never turned his back. He stayed true to being the piece of shit he is.
It’s so weird. Dude has been screaming “I’m a massive piece of shit!” with his whole chest for longer than I’ve been alive and every republican suddenly said “this guy is the second coming of Christ”. Republicans are fucking weird.
For the wealthy Republicans he is. He’s exactly what the Southern Strategy was hoping would come along to be used as a tool to solidify the Party’s power. They just didn’t realize he was there the whole time because he sat in the Democrat box, but when he got pissed at Obama and switched over, they used the media controls they had built up to make sure he got into place. It worked as intended.
Nobody’s confused about that, it’s pretty clear to everyone with a nervous system that the rich are getting what they wanted. They’re evil, but at least they’re comprehensible. It’s the poor ones who still confuse me, even though I’ve read entire books about the authoritarian follower mindset. I’ve seen octopuses whose thoughts are easier to understand.
Not a fair comparison, octopuses are pretty intelligent and know danger when they see it.
turned his back on workers
Every single working class schmo who voted for Trump should be legally disqualified from voting by reason of mental and cognitive incompetence. He was never for workers to begin with and y’all were warned countless times, and observed it yourselves with his first term, let alone his entire history of conning workers.
To a point. In order to make informed decisions. People first need to be informed. The advent of the printing press and rising literacy rates set back wishful oligarchs for a few centuries.
By the late 20th century they were starting to get a handle on it with broadcast media. Shaping and contorting the “truth” into a mockery. By the 21st century algorithms and tightened control made it nearly impossible to escape sensationalist framings or outright lies for normal people. And now with AI they can effectively flood the zone. So that short of a revolution or mass awakening. Even trying to avoid the propaganda, it will still seep in simply because IT IS EVERYWHERE.
Ronald Reagan did some serious damage, too.
Which is EXACTLY why we Support Him!
-Teamster’s President Sean O’Brien!
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cut workplace inspections by 20%
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The administration has repeatedly delayed implementation of a rule to limit silica dust
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The Trump administration has proposed eliminating federal minimum wage and overtime protections for 3 million homecare workers who take care of seniors and the disabled
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He has pushed aggressively ahead with his unprecedented campaign to strip 1 million federal employees of their ability to bargain collectively
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President Trump fired Gwynne Wilcox, the pro-union chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). This is the first time a US president has fired an NLRB member.
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He signed an executive chopping the minimum wage that federal contractors must pay their employees, to $13.30 an hour from $17.75
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The Trump administration moved to scrap a Biden-era rule and make it easier for employers to classify workers as independent contractors
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As part of an investigation into opposition to ICE’s operations in Minnesota, Trump’s Department of Homeland Security got hold of financial records from two leading unions, the Service Employees International Union and the Communications Workers of America, saying that this was part of an inquiry into “domestic terrorism financing”
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American workers first ~to go~
