my hope is that he’s doing this to scare the shit out of the Dems.
My attitude towards American presidential politics, being both a non-American who can’t vote and as someone who sees both parties as capital’s servants, is that the only value of an American presidential election is entertainment. I want to see an election play out like a good episode of Archer - just all kinds of crazy shit that makes people lose their minds and do even crazier shit. I want an election like a John Waters movie. I want an election like a Joseph Heller novel. I want an election that wallows in the depths of sleaze that would make Charles Bukowski say “hey, let’s tone it down!” I want an election so lurid that it makes a Traci Lords biopic look like A Charlie Brown Christmas. I want an election so depraved that Kevin Spacey pops his head up to say in sincere horror “jesus christ, what the fuck?”
And having the fucking Teamsters president doing a speech to Trump’s base is definitely in that category. I totally approve.
Pretty sure, like always, the liberals leave out critical details from their article titles to willingly spread lies and knee-jerk reactions.
Teamsters spokesperson Kara Deniz said Friday that O’Brien had requested a speaking slot at both major party conventions
Not sure what he expects to accomplish. Is this one of those “if you’re not at the table you’re on the menu” things?
Quoting the great Eugene Debs:
The trade union, itself the product of industrial evolution, is subject to the laws of change, and the union that may have served some purpose a quarter of a century ago is now as completely out of date as the tools of industry that were then in use.
[…]
The old trade union is organized on the basis of the identity of interests of capitalists and wage workers, and spends its time and devotes its energies to harmonizing these two classes; and it is a vain and hopeless task. When these interests can be even temporarily harmonized it is always in the interest of the capitalist class, and at the expense of the working class.
Most capitalists heartily approve the old form of trade unionism and encourage and liberally support it, for the very reason that this outgrown unionism does not truly represent and cannot actually express the economic interests of the working class.
The simple fact is that industrial conditions have undergone such a complete change that now the trade union, instead of uniting the workers, divides them, incites craft jealousy, breeds dissension and promotes strife—the very things capitalists desire; for so long as the working class is divided, the capitalists will be secure in their dominion of the earth and the seas, and the millions of toilers will remain in subjection.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1905/classunionism.htm
go in their and split them into working class vs elite factions and hope the working class kills and eats the rich.
won’t happen, but can’t hurt.
I would not be surprised if Sean O’brien endorses Trump. Trump has been saying for weeks now at his rallies that the Teamsters are going to endorse him. They’ve had meetings together multiple times.
wtf
