The New York Times is Doomed

By Rich Kozlovich

Okay, so I've been saying that for years and they still manage to continue fouling up the world of "journalism", which they've been doing for over 100 years.  Here are my commentaries about not only the NYT, but the media as a whole.

• The Media Has History: And it's Not Pretty 
• New York Times Has No Credibility!
• The Lady is a Hag
• What is the News Worth Knowing and Why Don't We Know It? 
  

But now the NYT story has taken an interesting twist.  It appears "Hundreds of New York Times Staffers Strike Before Election Day", and what are their demands?  And this is really interesting.  These are the techies, a lot of them, 600 in fact, picketing and shouting, “Shut it down”.  Really?  Shut it down?  Remarkable, and if that happens they already have high paying jobs where?   But perhaps they have good reasons for that view, after all they did try to negotiate a settlement and apparently the NYT didn't go it.    So what did the union ask for? 

1. No scented products in break rooms.  
2. Unlimited break time. 
3. Accommodations for pet bereavement.
4. Mandatory trigger warnings in company meetings discussing events in the news. 
5. Non white staffers being paid more to attend conferences.  (A flagrant violation of employment laws)  
   

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And the management found these demands outlandish.  Imagine that.   Here's what they offered:

1. A 2.5 percent annual wage increase.  Given inflation that's not that good. 
   
2.  A minimum 5 percent pay increase for promotions.
3. A $1,000 ratification bonus, whatever that means.
4. A promise to maintain the pandemic-era hybrid work schedule of two in-office days per week through June.
5. Allowing staff to work fully remotely for three weeks each year."  

So, you can see why it was necessary to hit the picket lines with outrageous offerings such as this, right?  Actually having to come to work two days a week.  Outrageous!

 

Are they striking over what I would consider an inadequate increase in pay, or the other five idiotic demands?  Who knows, they're leftists, rational thought has little influence on why they do what they do.  

Well, there's a degree of schadenfreude here as the NYT is a hub for promoting far left fantasies, lies, and corruption of thought.  This reminds me of theof misfits who fled Hitler's Germany and contaminated America's universities promoting all the student violence that started in the 60's.  They were shocked when the very students they were corrupting revolted and their classrooms became out of control. 

When the NYT finally does close it's doors, the nation should declare that day a one time national holiday, and the same goes for CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, and the rest of the Pravda media. 

• Fight! Fight! Fight! Vs. Fake, Fake, Fake, .......an assassin kills one Trump-supporter, injures several others, and nearly takes President Trump’s life, and the propaganda press acts as if it never happened.  If that glaring inconsistency does not vividly demonstrate how fake the J6 “insurrection” narrative has been, nothing else can.  Unlike Kamala Harris, Donald Trump was nominated for president through a democratic process, and when democracy actually came under attack, the news media minimized it as a trifle.

The Choice and the Challenge

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:

On Saturday October 5, 2024 William Sullivan posted this article, Corrupt Union Longshoremen Will Hasten Port and Industry Automation, saying:

As many Americans now know, our economic and material well-being is in the hands of a gaggle of racketeering union thugs who, at any given moment, could hold Americans hostage as they make their demands.  This week, several thousand union dockworkers on the East and Gulf Coasts “began their first large-scale strike in nearly 50 years,” shutting down roughly half of American ports.  Americans appear to have gotten a temporary reprieve in the form of a “tentative agreement” which increases dockworkers’ pay, while tabling “all other outstanding issues” until 2025, when we can expect these thugs to once again threaten strikes at all American ports if their demands aren’t met.

Before this temporary agreement averted a long strike, Charles Payne warned the administration would be playing what I would call Russian Roulette by allowing this strike to occur and what it would do to the economy.  

However, I see this as a much larger issue than a labor dispute!  It's a national crisis that is in serious need of proper definition in order to develop proper solutions.  It's about unions, it's about power, it's about control, and it isn't just about this union.

First, this fight against automation has been fought in every industry in America over the last 75 years, and automation always wins. Industry cannot abandon it, and it's a loser issue for the unions, but it's bigger than that.

The unions were infiltrated from the beginning by communists, a bit later by organized crime, and it's time America's labor laws were seriously altered. No union should have that kind of control. No union should in effect be a shadow government. 

• This is from October of last year: ‘Scorched-Earth’: Major Union Files For Bankruptcy After Losing Decade-Long Legal Battle

When Mussolini visited Sicily in 1924 the head mobster told Mussolini, in an effort to impress him, he didn't need all that security surrounding him since he was under the mob bosses protection. Mussolini wasn't impressed, he realized this guy represented a pseudo governmental power, and that was unacceptable to Mussolini.  So, he eliminated the Mafia in Italy.

Being a dictator he did it was monstrous but trumping up charges against them, finding them guilty, and then executing them.   As one mobster who was convicted said he was guilty of a lot of crimes they couldn't prove so the found him guilty of a crime he didn't' commit.  Mussolini's view was pretty much fell into the category of, so what, this is for the crimes you committed we didn't know about you should have been executed for.

At any rate, the lesson is clear. If you allow a pseudo government in any form, the nation's government ceases to be in control, and that's what's happening in Mexico, Venezuela, and other leftist swill holes. And we're seeing these thugs coming to America and literally taking over control of whole areas of the nation's cities they're infesting. 

That's what this is all about. Surrendering control of the nation to enemies of all that America stands for, not wages, not automation, it's all about power and control of the nation by those who will destroy America.  And it isn't just this union.

The  teacher's unions, which are notoriously left wing are destroying the nation's future workers, thinkers, and leaders with their actions.   Negotiating for insane contracts that promote insane green initiatives,  and then claiming black children can't read because conservatives take an ‘oath’ to prevent black children from learning to read.  

Well, I'm a conservative, and I never took such an oath, and I know a lot of conservatives, and they never took such an oath either.  It appears we all missed the meeting when that oath was taken, in fact, we're totally unaware of anyone who has ever heard of such a meeting.  So, when and where did this oath taking meeting take place? 

Even if that insane statement were true, why would black teachers allow that, since in these schools it's black teachers who are doing the teaching?  Or is this another race mongering hustle to excuse their failure as teachers to teach this poor children to read, write, spell, and do the simple math needed to function as productive members of society?  

Public employee unions should such as the not be allowed, and especially the teacher's unions. Biden has created IRS rules that have given the unions even more power.  Coercive, corrupt, extortionate destructive power, and it's time all these labor laws were readdressed to limit the power of unions. 

That's the choice, and that's the challenge!

Violence, Lies, and Deceit: The Patterns of Leftist Corruption Repeats Forever

By Rich Kozlovich  

In order to justify the treasonous behavior communist agitators and protestors take the position  “If you feel that what you’re doing answers to a higher ideal, it’s not treason.” Unless that's practiced in a communist controlled land. Then it's treason, and they shoot you.

This article is to highlight a (Updated 5/31/24: three article) series by Michael Flores.  

SPECIAL REPORT! The Disney Animator's Strike Of 1941, Part 1  - By Michael Flores May 19, 20 - Historians, labor unions and people who hate Walt Disney have dominated the story of the strike. Now it's time for the truth.

The Disney Animator's Strike Part 2: How It Led To The Blacklist - By Michael Flores May 23, 2024 - The Road To The Blacklist Started With The Disney Strike, but it is not what you've been told............That’s the legend, widely accepted for more than half a century as the truth. Yet, at the time, even the people most directly involved knew better. People called it McCarthyism, but the Hollywood blacklist had nothing to do with Joe McCarthy. ..........To Read More....

The Disney Animator's Strike Part 3: The Hollywood Blacklist Started By The Left! -  By Michael Flores May 31 - Isn't it interesting that Hollywood, historians, the press and academicians forget the left's blacklist of actors? The first use of the word "Blacklist"- in 1945! ............ The first use of the word "Blacklist"- in 1945.  “Stars Face Blacklist” screams the headline. Most people who’ve heard of the blacklist will immediately think of Joe McCarthy in 1954, of witch hunts and ruthless right wing inquisitors. But look again: the headline is from 1945, the earliest known use of the term in Hollywood. It’s the Hollywood Left threatening to boycott non-striking actors—in other words, it’s the opposite of what you’d think. A lot of what people know about that period just isn’t so. Communist writer Lillian Hellman later called it “Scoundrel Time”. But a far better writer, Mary McCarthy, famously said of Hellman, “Every word she ever wrote is a lie, including “and” and “the””.  

 

So far we have learned how Party-backed union leadership tried to push out workers from other unions, and how those bloody labor wars turned most of Hollywood against them. It was a genuine case of revolt, led by the actors, and it caused a generation of liberals to break with the Reds who presented themselves as friends and allies before and during the war. By 1947 the mutual process of kicking out the infidels was in full swing on both sides of the Red line. Mere lily-livered socialists not up to backing tough new Party policies were expelled. On the anti-Communist side, union members who’d proven themselves faithless to IATSE had some explaining to do. It was not always a gentle process but it was overdue. ..................

This series on Hollywood corruption is really timely. As you read this you will notice the same patterns used by the communists in the forties is identical to what we're seeing playing out by their philosophical progeny right now on the campuses of America's universities, and in cities like Seattle, Portland, etc.

They brought in thugs to reinforce their strikers, they destroyed buildings, and the media embraced them.   I would like to point out it wasn't just the Hollywood unions that were thoroughly infested with communists agents, so too were the newspapers around the nation including, and especially, the New York Times.  

We now know that's absolutely true from the VENONA intercepts.  Stalinist agents infested all the institutions of America; academia, all the labor unions, the news industry, entertainment, and government, including all the agencies created by FDR, which FDR had to know about,  including the OSS, which became the CIA, and those agents moved right over into the CIA, and yes, the Rosenbergs really were guilty.

The information in Michael's series this isn't anything new, at least for those who read history books.  Unfortunately, America has abandoned reading, especially history books, as a result real history is lost in the melee to historical clabber such as is presented by Nikole Hannah-Jones and

Let's get one thing clear, the patterns of leftist behavior is the same forever, and everywhere.  All these radical groups who are rioting and protesting such as BLM, Antifa, Occupy Was Street,  along with those various leftist movers and shakers hidden in the background financing all this vile behavior are all "communists", irrespective of what they're calling themselves.   If it quacks like a duck, and it walks like a duck, it's a duck.  As this Canada Free Press author stated:

The left has become a collection of liars, and the lies can no longer be countenanced.

As for these protestors, including the paid protestors, are pretty much ignorant and stupid.  They scream "river to the Sea, Palestine must be free".  Ask them what river?  What sea?  Mostly, they don't have a clue. 

On May 23, 2024 Harold Witkov gave a apt description of these nitwits comparing these protestors to the 17-year cicadas saying:

1. They both spend the majority of life underground 
2. They both make a lot of noise
3. They both are preoccupied with sex
4. They both are totally predictable 
5. They both are considered nuisance pests (though some college varieties can be dangerous)
6. They both have more than their share of empty shell

One street interviewer shifted the text to "mountain to the sea", and asked a sign carrying protestor, "what mountain"?  Of course, she had no idea, and she had no idea she'd just been hoodwinked.  How ignorant and stupid can people be to be protesting for things they know nothing about?  Answer?  There's no limit to their stupidity, or their ignorance.  Both of which are coupled with arrogance. 

Of course that doesn't apply to communist and/or tyrannically led nations.   They shoot you for that kind of heresy.

The messages show that the US and other nations were targeted in major espionage campaigns by the Soviet Union as early as 1942. Among those identified are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White (the second-highest official in the Treasury Department), Lauchlin Currie^[31] (a personal aide to Franklin Roosevelt), and Maurice Halperin^[32] (a section head in the Office of Strategic Services).

Recommended reading: Stalin's Secret Agents by M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein and American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character by Diana West

Michigan Takes a U-Turn Back to the Rust Belt Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore  |  Feb 28, 2024 @ Townhall.com

No state in modern times has transitioned from a worker freedom state to one that forces workers to join a union and pay dues to labor bosses. All the momentum across the country in the last two decades has been in the opposite direction: allowing workers the right to choose a union -- or not.

That's why what happened last week in Lansing, Michigan, is such a tragic setback for workers' rights and for the economic competitiveness of the state where Henry Ford rolled off the assembly lines the iconic Model T some 100 years ago.

Thanks to a corrupt deal between the labor bosses, the Democratic state legislature and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan will no longer be a right-to-work state.

Is Whitmer intentionally TRYING to lose jobs in Michigan? Amazing how short the memories are in Lansing. Starting in the 1970s, Motown, which for decades had been the very symbol of America's industrial might, collapsed into the symbol of the American "Rust Belt." Closed-down factories turned Flint and Dearborn into virtual ghost towns.

From the 1970s to the early 2000s, Detroit crumbled into poverty. Whole neighborhoods were bulldozed, drug dealers were seemingly at every street corner, and homes were selling for less than $10,000 as the jobs disappeared and so did the families.

It wasn't that auto jobs left the country -- though some did. The real story was that the factories relocated out of the forced-union states and the moving vans delivered the jobs to South Carolina, Alabama, Texas and Tennessee. Why? Because these were states with pro-business policies that didn't cede control over to corrupt union brass.

Over the last three decades, right-to-work states created twice the number of jobs as forced-union states. According to Epoch Times reporter Kevin Stocklin, commenting on a 2022 Bureau of Labor Statistics report: During the COVID-19 pandemic, "Right-to-work (RTW) states added 1.3 million jobs since the start of the pandemic, while non-RTW states lost 1.1 million jobs."

That's one of many reasons why the booming South has taken over first place in terms of industrial production from the rusting Midwest and Northeast.

About a decade ago, Michigan realized it had to change or die. Michigan joined 25 other states and became a right-to-work state. Tens of thousands of workers said goodbye to the unions. Michigan made a comeback and a mini-renaissance followed. It was like the Michigan Wolverines winning the college football national championship.

But throughout this period, the unions were unrelenting in their opposition. They held protests in front of the capital, chanting, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, right to work has got to go!" They spent tens of millions of dollars to elect Democrats to get the law overturned.

Whitmer and her cronies also resorted to a false advertising campaign that this was all about "a restoration of workers' rights." Just the opposite. Forced unionization degrades workers' rights because from now on in Michigan, you must join the union, and you must pay dues to the corrupt union bosses. The United Auto Workers union has been plagued with financial fraud and massive pay packages to the union leaders. That doesn't trickle down to the rank-and-file workers whose paychecks are pilfered to pay for this largesse.

Right-to-work states do not prohibit unions. There are union facilities throughout the South. Every worker chooses for themselves whether to join or not. Many workers -- especially the hardest-working and most productive ones -- would rather negotiate their own salaries, which in many cases are HIGHER than the rigid union pay scale.

The unions have never answered a simple question: If the union label is so beneficial to workers, how come you need to force them to join?

Many businesses won't even consider locating a new factory or blue-collar operation in a forced-union state. The auto jobs in America will now accelerate their migration to the Southern states.

Gretchen Whitmer is turning back the clock. Not to the glory days of Michigan, but more probably to the era of the Rust Belt, with closed factory doors and longer unemployment lines. So much for "Hail to the Victors."

Washington Post Staffers Go On Strike From Destroying America

December 7, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield 2 Comments

Finally a strike we can all support. For one day, the Washington Post’s staffers will take a one-day strike from promoting Hamas terrorists, supporting race rioters and the leftist effort to destroy the country.  Sadly so far it’s only one day.  Washington Post staffers are unhappy that they’re not being paid enough to destroy America. You can’t expect them to be evil for free. And finally, this is one strike that I think can we can all get behind........To Read More...

‘Scorched-Earth’: Major Union Files For Bankruptcy After Losing Decade-Long Legal Battle

By Will Kessler October 2, 2023 @ Daily Caller News Foundation

 

 A major dockworkers union spanning the West Coast announced it was filing for bankruptcy on Saturday in an attempt to resolve years-long pending litigation.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), which covers a number of workers along the West Coast, Hawaii and in Canada, including dockworkers, warehouse workers, tourism and hospitality workers and more, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection over the weekend, according to a press release from the union. The bankruptcy is an attempt to avoid paying a fine imposed by a federal jury that held the union liable for illegal slowdowns and work stoppages at a container terminal in Portland, Oregon, operated by International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), according to The Wall Street Journal.

“While we have attempted numerous times to resolve the decade-long litigation with ICTSI Oregon, Inc., at this point, the Union can no longer afford to defend against ICTSI’s scorched-earth litigation tactic,” Willie Adams, president of the ILWU, said in the press release. “We intend to use the Chapter 11 process to implement a plan that will bring this matter to resolution and ensure that our Union continues to do its important work for our members and the community. The Officers are confident that we are taking the right step to put our organization on the best path forward — and we are optimistic for all that is ahead.”

The lawsuit from ICTSI dates back to 2012, with the union having recently been ordered to pay $93.6 million at the trial’s conclusion, but was later reduced to $19 million, which the company was in the process of contesting with a retrial scheduled for February 2024, according to the WSJ.

ILWU emphasized that it will maintain normal operations throughout the restructuring process, fulfilling any obligations it has to members, locals and affiliates, employees and any other groups, according to the announcement.

The union reached a tentative deal in August on an almost six-year contract that gave 20,000 workers at 29 West Coast ports greater health benefits, improved wages, pensions and safety protections. The uncertainty around a potential strike led to a decline in traffic at the ports, with some importers finding new ports of entry permanently.

The ILWU did not immediately respond to a request to comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

One Bubble Is About to Pop...and No One Is Talking About It

Matt Vespa July 12, 2023

The Biden administration, the media, Democrats, and Republicans are all either willfully ignorant or blithely unaware of the looming economic crisis that's about to hit. Inflation is part of the problem, but we're going beyond job creation reports and the fallout from Silicon Valley Bank. It's a crisis that could cause all the dominoes to fall, and it doesn't help that we have a president who gets outright exhausted after a few days of work. A looming real estate crisis threatens to nuke the whole system. The bleeding has already begun, and it could take decades for some "superstar cities" to recover, while some will tragically remain lost in the wilderness.......To Read More.... 

Negotiations Between UPS and the Teamsters Union Have Broken Down. Here's What to Expect. - Matt Vespa July 12, 2023 -  When news that UPS had agreed to equip their new delivery trucks with air conditioning units by 2024, there was some hope that maybe the rest of the contract negotiations would go smoothly. That was a gross miscalculation. The inflation crisis and the mixed bag on job creation have led to American families not giving the nod to Joe Biden’s economic agenda. They’re still feeling pinched, and to complicate matters—we have one of the largest labor strikes in years looming at the end of the month.

The Wages of Inflation

Editorial of The New York Sun | December 17, 2021

It can’t be a coincidence that we’re seeing so much labor strife around the country at a time when inflation is waxing. That doesn’t make it any less dramatic. On Sunday, employees of Kellogg cereal will vote whether to end a strike of more than two months and get back to work. The 1,400-strong Kellogg workforce had rejected decisively the prior contract proposal, and in consequence management almost fell into their Frosted Flakes.

The 3 percent raise offered by management wasn’t enough, the Guardian reports. The cereal giant responded with a threat to fire the striking laborers and replace them with new hires. President Biden said that idea left him “deeply troubled,” and he called it “an existential attack on the union.” Kellogg has instead sweetened their offer, which shows “the workers really have the upper hand at this point,” Ileen DeVault, a labor history professor, tells Reuters.

The producers of Froot Loops and Apple Jacks might have had their eye on another acrimonious strike that ended in mid-November — the one at Deere & Company. That strike lasted just more than a month. After two rejected proposals, it ended with 10 percent raises for more than 10,000 employees. The trouble at Kellogg’s also follows an earlier strike at a Kansas Frito-Lay plant and a walkout in five Nabisco locations across the country................

Beating stagflation required political heroics by President Reagan and the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker. It was “a triumph of economic policy,” Robert Samuelson recently wrote. “Volcker imposed a ferocious credit squeeze, and Reagan supported this wildly unpopular policy.” Interest rates soared to 21 percent. Unemployment spiked at more than 10 percent. Bankruptcies ensued. “The triumph over inflation was bought at a huge personal and social cost,” Mr. Samuelson writes.

It’s hard to imagine any politician today able to take the heat for such an economic course. Then again, too, few if any politicians in history have been in a league with Reagan when it comes to articulating economic principles. Mr. Biden has been but a cheerleader for striking workers. He lacks an appreciation of a warning Volcker once articulated for Mr. Samuelson: “Don’t let inflation get ingrained ... there’s too much agony in stopping the momentum.”.......To Read More....

 

Worker Unions Endorsed Biden, Members Got Screwed

Daniel Greenfield November 18, 2021 @ Sultan Knish Blog

When Joe Biden ran for office, he told the members of the United Steelworkers that he would keep President Trump's steel tariffs on Europe in place. The tariffs, which protect the jobs of American steelworkers, were one of the few Trump policies that Biden kept after taking office.

Even most government insiders thought the tariffs would stay in place because they created American jobs in key battleground states like Ohio and Pennsylvania. Abandoning them would risk not just the White House, but Democrat House and Senate losses in 2022 and 2024.

United Steelworkers endorsed Biden and he promised them that he would keep the tariffs in place right until he jetted off to Europe in Air Force One, with its presidential suite and gym, and then toured Rome in an 85-vehicle motorcade to discuss the "environmental crisis".

Biden’s foreign policy priorities haven’t been focused on American security or jobs. After turning over Afghanistan to Al Qaeda for September 11, he decided to do to American steel jobs what he had done to Afghanistan by cutting a deal to partially lift President Trump’s steel tariffs.

The Biden administration’s environmentalist and tax hike priorities required making some concessions to the Europeans in exchange for agreeing to a minimum corporate tax of 15% (which Biden believes will make it easier to hike America’s corporate tax rates) and massive reductions in functional energy like coal and oil in exchange for non-functional green energy.

The steelworkers of Ohio and Pennsylvania, already on the hit list of Biden’s Big Green donors, were the sacrifice that “Middle Class Joe” made so his San Francisco donors can get even richer trading in carbon credits while salivating at the prospect of turning the entire American economy into a corrupt scheme for taxing and trading the imaginary “carbon” commodity.

To save the planet. Before flying off to their seaside coastal mansions.

United Steelworkers is now stuck trying to sell the latest Biden betrayal to its members as a very good thing by repeating the White House talking points of an alliance with Europe against Chinese steel. That promise, like the tariff promise, will turn out to be just as much of a sham.

Steelworkers could have taken a cue from the miners who have been lied to by Democrats.

The United Mine Workers of America had actually endorsed John Kerry, who went on to wage an environmentalist war on coal, because he had promised to protect coal jobs.

Kerry, now Biden's Climate Czar, tried to recently gaslight coal miners by falsely claiming that, "Workers have been fed a false narrative, no surprise, over the last few years they’ve been fed the notion that somehow dealing with climate is coming at their expense, no it’s not."

Then he suggested that coal miners get jobs installing solar panels.

“Secretary Kerry trying to equate the job of an electrician in a coal mine who makes $110,000 to a solar tech, who might make $35,000 to $40,000, is not a good analogy for our state," Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia pointed out.

Kerry’s current priority is trying to convince the Biden administration to surrender everything to China in exchange for asking the Commies to use less coal. Which they’re buying from us.

China is now the second largest market for American coal. Biden and Kerry are bribing the Chinese to stop buying our coal. Has any other government hated its own country this much?

The United Mine Workers of America didn’t even bother with a presidential endorsement. After Hillary Clinton announced that she would kill coal miner jobs, the UMWA threw in the towel. In the last election, most UMWA members voted Trump. The same was true of the steelworkers.

Biden not only lied to the steelworkers, and waged war on coal miners, he lied and betrayed those American miners who were hoping that there would be some future for mining jobs.

During the campaign, miners were "privately" told by the Biden campaign that his administration would encourage domestic mining of rare earth metals.

The Biden pitch was that his environmental strategy would require lots of rare earth metals for solar panels and electric cars, and that would actually boost rare earth mining in America.

It was a familiar twist on the scam that was sold to the steelworkers.

Big Green lobbies have repeatedly sold the same lie that "investing" in their energy scams would create jobs. The only place it ever creates jobs is in China and among the venture capitalists of San Francisco. Not to mention the EPA bureaucrats tasked with dragging out environmental reviews for years so nothing gets built who then turn around and get six figure jobs as environmental consultants to "help" businesses get things built.

There's no room for American workers in this dirty green racket.

After the worthless "private" assurances, once in office the Biden administration announced that it would be relying on foreign rare earth metals. Middle Class Joe’s betrayal of miners and the country had devastating consequences as China used the Taliban to secure Afghanistan’s rare earth mines even as a chip shortage wreaked havoc on the global supply chain.

Biden’s betrayal of miners also increased the prices of cars, laptops, and smartphones. Printer prices shot up 20%. And yet very few Biden voters understand that their own politician decisions are why they have to pay more for consumer electronics.

But the one thing you can count on from Democrat unions is that they will put the party first and their members last. And no matter how much their Democrat bosses humiliate them and spit in their faces, they’ll line up to ask for more while selling out their members one more time.

Democrats used to spout their love for the working class, now they have nothing but contempt for them. The dying breed of politicians who still know how to talk to working unions like Biden are nothing but puppets dancing for the amusement of their New York and SF donor bosses.

Biden betrayed steelworkers and miners. He’ll betray all workers and unions the same way. Even municipal unions, usually the pets of the Dems because of their role in taking the money from the contracts negotiated with their politicians and funneling it right back to them, were forced to swallow vaccine mandates and the firing of their members. And even the most combative radical unions like SEIU, usually willing to shut down everything, swallowed, and told their members to shut up and thank the union for its representation.

Over the spring, the United Mine Workers of America held a press conference cheering on Biden's plan to kill coal jobs and asking for money to "retrain" its members for new jobs.

Like shining Biden's shoes with green shoe polish.

“It’s not fair to take somebody’s job away from them and push them into another career,” a union member complained. “I love my job. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in this world. And I hope coal is continued to be mined for years after I’m gone.”

UMWA members are mad as hell about it. If only they had a union to represent them.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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