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On the Republican side:
Many union leaders might be endorsing Marxist-Democrat Kamala Harris, but their membership is overwhelmingly voting for Donald Trump. That’s why they are doing NON-endorsements. The big one was the Teamsters. Now the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) has also declined to endorse Harris.
These non-endorsement endorsements are very important because it shows that union membership supports Trump. It also means the union will NOT use its infrastructure to get out the vote for Democrats and that hurts down ballot candidates.
In 1992, Bill Clinton won the union vote by 30 points. In 2016, Hillary Clinton only won it by 12 points. In 2020, Joe Biden won union support by 19 points. Kamala Harris is only leading by nine points.
We expect that union workers will overwhelmingly support Donald Trump. About one in five voters are likely to come from union households. To date, Trump is doing better with union workers than any Republican candidate in four decades. In fact, union workers abandoned the Democrat party when Kamala Harris joined the top of the ticket.
J.D. Vance was fantastic in his October 1 debate with Tim Walz. We are not going to analyze the vice-presidential debate since by now you’ve heard everything that could be said about the nearly two-hour debate. Since a picture is worth one thousand words, here you go. What we will say is that Republicans should NEVER again “debate” on any left-leaning news channel. It is a travesty watching leftist moderators ask questions that benefit Democrats and only fact-check Republicans.
Election interference is manifested in a variety of ways, thank you Democrats. For instance, registering voters is a big deal at Trump rallies. A pivotal rally was the Saturday, October 5 event in Butler, Pennsylvania … same location where the first assassination attempt occurred. In addition, Elon Musk attended the event. Guess what the Pennsylvania Department of State planned to do during the rally? They had planned to begin maintenance of their registration system—“undergoing maintenance.” That would have meant NO ONE could register online! As we all know, most website “undergo maintenance” in the middle of the night when few people are online. Thanks to Scott Pressler, this was discovered before the rally!
On the Independent side:
The Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein repeatedly says that Kamala Harris will not win the White House because she has lost the crucial support of Muslim and Arab Americans in key battleground states. Stein says the only way to change this is for the Biden-Harris administration to do a 180 and stop supporting Israel in any way. According to Dr. Stein:
"Third Way found that, based on polling averages in battleground states, the 2020 margin of victory for Democrats would be lost in four states—Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin—because of third party support."
The Green presidential ticket is on the ballot in 38 states, including every battleground state except for Nevada.
On the Democrat side:
They view Green Party candidate Stein as a front for Donald Trump. (Nonsense!) Democrat National Committee spokesperson Adrienne Watston told Newsweek:
"Jill Stein is a spoiler for Trump who is working hand in hand with Republican consultants and Trump's former personal lawyer to get her on the ballot in swing states. This will be a close election and the only way to stop Donald Trump is by voting for Vice President Harris."
It's Still The Economy Stupid:
Democrat strategist James Carville often sounds like he has been watching too many late-night movies. But in 1992, Carville was the strategist that helped Bill Clinton win the presidency against incumbent George H. W. Bush. Among his directives, he told the campaign staff to focus on the economy famously saying, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
The CFP Board, an organization for financial planners, recently conducted a survey to learn what financial issues are of most concern to Americans, as they prepare to vote. These were the most important financial concerns:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Howard Zinn.
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.
They both are considered nuisance pests (though some college varieties can be dangerous)
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.
Michael is to be commended for making this an issue, and I hope linking his articles will help. It's long over due for America to be enlightened! There really are such things as conspiracies, and the deep state has been part and parcel of those conspiracies.
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."
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...
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.
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.
Up in Chicago, the
teachers' union won big, and I don't mean that test scores or literacy
is on the rise. They got their man elected, and who knows what happens
next? I would not be surprised if a few Chicago residents are looking
at a "ZIP code change." Years ago, our family would drive down to
Chicago from our early days in Wisconsin to get stuff at a Cuban
"bodega." We'd listen to Larry Lujack on WLS and drive home listening
to the White Sox on WMAQ. My parents complimented the clean streets,
the order everywhere, and the police were so pleasant at giving you
directions when we used maps rather than GPS. Going to Chicago was
great. Well, I don't think my parents would be complimenting Chicago today. Talk about decline. This is from Charles Lipson:.........To Read More...
Federal bureaucrats are overpaid compared to workers in the productive sector of the economy.
State and local bureaucrats also are overpaid compared to people in the private sector, though usually the gap is not quite as large.
But “usually” does not means “always.”
The most absurd examples of excess bureaucrat pay generally are found at the state and local level.
Especially in places like New Jersey where politicians and government employee unions have strong alliances against taxpayers.
And California, of course, where fleecing taxpayers has become an art form for some bureaucrats (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here).
If you don’t believe me, read these excerpts from a Bloomberg report by Martine Paris.
A Beverly Hills cop tops the list of the highest-paid California
municipal employees, 100 of whom took home $439,000 or more in total
wages last year. The assistant police chief’s total compensation was
$716,284 in 2021, $208,087 in regular income, with the rest for lump-sum
and other pay…
Marc Coopwood retired last year as assistant police chief in Beverly
Hills after 4 years and 7 months in the role… As part of his separation
agreement, he was issued a final payment that included 12 months’ salary
and benefits, as well as compensation for unused leave, the city said
in a statement. …The top 10 highest-paid list includes city managers in
West Hollywood, Artesia and Fremont, two fire captains in the city of
Los Angeles and a firefighter, as well as a load dispatcher at the Los
Angeles Department of Water & Power who booked $400,000 in overtime
compensation.
I don’t know what’s more outrageous, the assistant police chief with
more than $716K of compensation, or the fact that 100 bureaucrats
pocketed at least $439K?
Or is it the bureaucrat who fleeced taxpayers for $400K of overtime?
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....
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.
One of the things driving me to distraction is the amount of outrageous things going on with Biden and his band of misfits. Every day there's a new list of insane actions that all should be written about.
I've been absolutely sure the 2020 election of Joe Biden was totally fraudulent, and that was from day one. Here are my files on Election Fraud,
Mail in Voting,
Voter Fraud. We know the media is in abject denial, but what does America think?
A new Rasmussen poll highlighted in the Washington Examiner
reports that 56% of Americans surveyed believe It's likely that
cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election,
including 41% who say it's very likely. This is a significant increase
from April, Paul Bedard notes, when 51% of respondents said it was ˜likely that cheating took place in the presidential election. Thus,
the mass censorship of Americans who question the election, including
former President Donald Trump himself, only appears to be exacerbating doubts.
When you see massive organized efforts to shut down evidence of massive irregularities, surely indication voter fraud, as has been uncovered in Arizona, people start realizing there's something being hidden, and no one in the Democrat Congress is going to let anything come before them that confirms something stinks over all this, including how one home in Arizona had 75 people vote for Biden, which Arizona audit volunteers wanted to testify before Congress about. They were prevented, so they went rogue with this video.
.........details how a mismanaged election in Fulton County, a corrupt and
incompetent Secretary of State's office, millions of dollars from Mark
Zuckerberg-backed nonprofits, and more than 10,000 illegal votes provide
compelling evidence for a person to question the legitimacy of Joe
Biden's narrow victory in Georgia over Donald Trump in the November 2020
election.
Chris Wallace of Fox News, who I think is as big a disgrace as was his father, loves to try and force people to admit there was no voter fraud or make then say there was so he can rip into them claiming there's not one iota of evidence of massive voter fraud. Well, Chris, have Mollie Hemingway on you show and ask her. How much do you wanna bet that doesn't happen? She's not like Wallace, she follows the facts to wherever they lead, she's smart, tough, and she has the facts, and the ability to present them in an overwhelming manner.
Then we have the Pope meeting with Nancy Pelosi, and the video shows a seemingly warm greeting. And this is how a supporter of abortion, which is an offense worthy of excommunication, is treated by this Pope? Apparently she was to give a reading at an Italian mass. The church may have been willing but apparently Italian Catholics weren't.
Now, first we have to understand there are transplant protocols, and rightly so because there just aren't enough organs to go around and not all organs are biologically compatible to recipients, so they create valid restrictions. As an example, a drunkard can't get a liver transplant, and so on. Age, general health also play into the decision making. In short, they want patients that will have a positive long term result. But this case is outrageous as they're refusing to do transplant surgery on a patient because they've not been vaccinated for Covid 19. However:
.........the recipient has already had covid. In other words
has natural immunity. And yet they are still requiring her to be
vaccinated to get the kidney transplant when the kidney is not one that
would be available to anybody else anyhow. This makes little sense to
me. It's also really asinine that the medical systems seem to be totally
ignoring natural immunity...........The news follows
the controversial decision of Colorado’s UCHealth, which is refusing
transplants to people who are unvaccinated. It reportedly
rejected Leilani Lutali, a woman suffering from stage five renal
failure, because both she and her donor are unvaccinated.
In the Colorado case this kidney was going to be donated to her by a friend. It wasn't available for any other use, just her friend, so any protocol they may claim they were using would be fallacious. As one of those in Our Group, and e-mail group to which I belong noted:
Okay, so this woman was not on the waiting list to get simply the first
matching kidney. This was to be a kidney donated specifically to her by a
friend. In other words it's not a kidney that will go on to somebody
else who may be perceived as taking better care of themselves and
therefore better care of a donated organ. This is a matter of either
this woman gets this kidney, or no one gets it. Considering this factor,
I find it extremely hard to see how they can justify refusing to
transplant the organ.
Why won't they get vaccinated? I have no idea, and quite frankly, I don't care because what we should be asking is this: Why is that part of the equation? It's their choice, and they're not suffering from this virus, so it shouldn't be a part of the equation.
One of the things about the foundational values of American culture for the most part is this: Americans are a live and let live people, and as a result can be pushed pretty hard before they react. But once that happens, it hits the fan and things change. These tyrannical outrages are not going unanswered.
Aside from being put on unpaid leave, New York City teachers
who’ve declined to get the COVID-19 vaccine won’t be allowed to keep
their health benefits for another year unless they give up their right
to sue the city over its vaccine mandate.
This condition was the result of an arbitration invoked by the city’s largest teachers union, the United Federation of Teachers
(UFT). The union touted the arbitration verdict as a victory that
forced the city to acknowledge medical and religious exemptions to the
vaccination. It also allowed the teachers to take a year of unpaid leave
with continued health care coverage or voluntarily resign with unused
sick days paid out and a year of continued health insurance.
Amtrak announced it will require nearly all of its 18,000
employees be fully Vaccinated by Nov. 22. Multiple sources are reporting
that train crews have now joined the protest started by Air Traffic
Controllers and Southwest pilots and employees.
Rumors are that American Airlines pilots are next..
Southwest Airlines has become the latest major U.S. airline to mandate
that employees receive the Covid-19 vaccination or lose their jobs. The
airline is immediately suffering the consequences due to a reported mass
‘sickout’ that is causing severe delays and hundreds of flight
cancellations ........“Southwest
Airlines is suffering an operational meltdown this weekend as hundreds
upon hundreds of flights have been delayed or canceled outright,” the
Points Guy reported. “The airline is blaming weather and an air traffic control issue from Friday for the domino effect of cancellations.” “Thousands
of passengers have been stranded at airports, been forced to wait in
long lines, or spent hours on hold trying to rebook their flights,” the
report continued.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of
Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers in Southern California and Oregon
have voted to authorize a strike, citing staff shortages. With nearly 96 percent voting in favor of the strike, the United
Nurses Assns. of California/Union of Health Care Professionals
(UNAC/UHCP), have entered into talks with Kaiser Permanente to avert
what could affect hospitals in over a dozen Southern California cities,
according to the Los Angeles Times.
Concerns about safety at work have led nurses to strike across the
country over the last year. In July, about 1,400 registered nurses at
USC Norris Cancer Hospital in Los Angeles and Keck Hospital of USC staged a two-day strike,
citing concerns such as long shifts, not enough staff, and an
overreliance on contract nurses. Nurses at San Francisco’s Chinese
Hospital and Riverside Community Hospital also went on strike earlier
this year.
One could feel the tension at a Clark County School District board
meeting as one fed-up dad spoke for a group of fourteen parents while
serving a $200 million lawsuit over mask mandates. (video included) “This is segregation based off of your own fears and your own
personal interests,” the unidentified father argued. “The people in this
country have had enough, and we are fighting back.”
“I have something to give you,” he then said. “Security,
would you do me a favor? Would you please hand those forms to the board
members? You’ve been officially served a $200 million lawsuit with six
complaints and violations or multiple amendments.”
“Your job is
not to be concerned with the children’s health,” he added. “You’re not
nurses. You’re not doctors. You are not responsible for their health
organization. Your only focus is on our children’s education, and the
education system here is 50th in the state, and you make almost more
money than anybody else.”..........“This is not a negotiation, we will have our freedom of choice, and we’re gonna see you in court,” he added to applause.
So where's the FBI? As one friend involved with the FBI at the ground level said. They have real work to do, and didn't sell their souls to the Devil as did those at the top.
The revolt begins! Once this kind of thing gets started in America
things change. I hope the courts are filled with law suits. I'm
waiting to see how many school board tyrants become "common" citizens
after November elections.
The article linked above has some interesting comments:
Local
school board elections typically have been relatively quiet affairs
where incumbents sail to reelection, often unopposed. This year, candidate training academies organized by national conservative groups
and state-level recruitment efforts are encouraging challenges by
right-leaning political newcomers. The results could have consequences
for public education and coronavirus safety measures across the
country...........In Wisconsin, a conservative legal institute is providing free legal advice on school board recalls to parent groups. In Iowa, Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, has taken the unusual step of endorsing a conservative candidate for a local school board seat. And in Colorado, a group calling itself MAD that opposes
remote-learning during the pandemic and what it says are partisan
leanings in curriculum is endorsing like-minded school board candidates.
Conservatives started organizing at the grass roots level some
years ago, to the dismay of the Mitt Romney, John McCain,Mitch
McConnell, John Kasich and all the RINO's, and it would appear grass roots
conservatives are going to go after these school board misfits. That
doesn't bode well for Democrats or the Republican leadership. It does
bode well for America.
This is the future. There will be no more crawdadding no more
crawling, no more apologizing, no more groveling before leftist in
politics, the media, Hollywood or anywhere else. And no more accepting
those who are trashing America.
“I talked to folks out here who are simply just angry. They’re upset
with the way the country is going right now, and frankly, they’re upset
with the way the Republican Party is handling everything,” the reporter
said. “Here’s what one woman had to say.” “I think the
Republicans are about as weak as they possibly could be in Congress,”
Iowa rally goer Lori Levi said. “You have maybe six that are worth their
salt. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and two or three others. The rest
of them are just the same as the Democrats. They’ve been there too long.
They’re establishment. They don’t care about the American people
because they’re in their elite little tower.”
Generally Americans are entirely too trusting, but once they realize they've been lied to, they don't react pleasantly. I'm actually starting to feel a twinge of optimism.
A group of 19 Senate Republicans helped
greenlight outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs with the passage
of the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill that provides giant
carve-outs for industries to bypass “Buy American” rules. On Tuesday, 19 Senate Republicans joined Senate Democrats in a 69-30
vote to pass the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Those Senate
Republicans include:
Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Mike
Crapo (R-ID), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Richard Burr (R-NC), Deb Fischer (R-NE),
Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Rob Portman (R-OH), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Lisa
Murkowski (R-AK), Jim Risch (R-ID), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Bill Cassidy
(R-LA), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Mitch McConnell
(R-KY), John Hoeven (R-ND), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Mitt Romney (R-UT)
As Breitbart News reported,
the bill allows the heads of federal agencies to issue waivers to
corporations to work around Buy American requirements if they consider
the requirement “inconsistent with the public interest,” does not meet
“satisfactory quality,” or if they believe buying American will increase
costs for the projects.
Economic and civil liberties should not be seen as two ideals to be
weighed separately but as one set of inalienable rights that are
inherent to our humanity. What is economic prosperity worth if you can’t
speak your mind? What value is there to having civil protections if
everything else in your life is regulated into despair? Oftentimes civil
and economic freedom are intertwined in such intimate ways that there
really is no difference. Sadly, today economic rights have taken a second class status
under the current judicial status quo, which is why policies that
infringe on things like free speech receive plenty of scrutiny yet
arbitrary regulations on business pass with almost no oversight.
This is why a recent Supreme Court decision, Cedar Point Nursery v Hassid,
is such an important win for those concerned with economic freedom,
specifically property rights. The case was decided on June 23, 2021, and
was split 6-3 on “expected ideological lines.” Although there was
likely much nuance in the thinking of the various justices, the win is a
much-welcomed departure from the Progressive status quo of deference to
the will of the state. The case itself concerned an “access regulation”
in California that allowed labor unions to enter a private property in
this case, Cedar Point Nursery, provided that they dispense notice to
the Agricultural Relations Board. After doing so, the owner of the
property is mandated to allow access without contestation. Such a policy
seems to have been clearly put in place at the behest of politically
influential labor unions and to the expense of private citizens.
A Rare But Important Victory
Ilya Shapiro and Sam Spiegleman from the Cato Institute weigh in on the matter by explaining:
Cedar Point will go down
as a big and clean win for property rights. California’s law is no mere
labor regulation: it grants a right to be on the owners’ land three
hours per day for 120 days per year. Ending it respects the
constitutional rights of both the property owners and union officials,
who lose only the ability to trespass for a third of the year.
The
Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause provides, “nor shall private property
be taken for public use, without just compensation.” Here, even though
the state didn’t seize any property outright, the Supreme Court has long
recognized that if a regulation “goes too far,” it’s functionally
equivalent to the use of eminent domain.
The Court’s recognition
here that state-sanctioned trespasses, even if not permanent and
continuous, are compensable takings is a major victory for
property‐rights advocates who have toiled for decades to expand the
universe of per se takings beyond the narrow scope of permanent physical invasions or total‐value‐loss regulations.
In particular, Cato’s Amicus Brief
on the matter explains three basic points on why California’s labor
regulation was unconstitutional and curtailed property rights, thus
requiring at minimum, just compensation.
The first being that allowing labor unions to simply enter private
property with a permission slip from the government violated the right
to exclude. If you cannot exclude people from your property, it has
ceased to be private property. The fact that the government has given
itself the power to grant that decision makes the use of such powers a
per se taking of private property.
The second argument is that the state of California has clearly not
implemented the access regulation to make businesses safer, nor does the
regulation confer reciprocal advantages, which would also make it a per
se taking. Allowing labor unions to forcefully enter a private business
and stir up commotion is by no means a necessity for safety nor is that
benefiting the community as a whole.
The third point is that the state does not have the justification to use its police power because not allowing union trespassing on private land does not in any sense of the imagination pose a safety risk.
For decades, the state and a deferential court system have allowed
the gradual unraveling of property rights to the will of the regulatory
state. This has justified the aforementioned relegation of economic
freedoms and autonomy to second-class status, with the government being
able to intervene in economic life provided that it can merely find a rational basis. In the case of Cedar Point Nursery,
California’s law essentially allowed property rights to be confiscated
by the state for union access, three hours a day, 120 days a year,
without just compensation. This was justified as being a “labor
regulation” and “necessary for public safety”.
The Supreme Court finally handed a rare, but hopefully, consequential
victory to those who respect the institution of property rights. In
this case, the Court ended what was an incoherent charade to skirt
around the 5th Amendment’s Takings Clause.
A charade that attempted to call a blatant appropriation of private
property to bolster the power of unions at the expense of property
owners an exercise in public safety.
The Importance of Strong Property Rights
Our entire civilization is built on the foundation of private
property. Such an institution not only creates strong economic incentive
structures that lead to good practical outcomes but also has an
important moral foundation. National Affairs recounts the rhetoric surrounding the Civil Rights Act of 1866 by writing:
Illinois Senator Lyman Trumbull,
the leading champion of the legislation in the Senate, explained that
the “first section of the bill defines what I understand to be civil
rights: the right to make and enforce contracts, to sue and be sued, and
to give evidence, to inherit, purchase, sell, lease, hold, and convey
real and personal property.”… As a member of the House from Ohio argued,
“It is idle to say that a citizen shall have the right to life, yet to
deny him the right to labor, whereby alone he can live. It is a mockery
to say that a citizen may have a right to live, and yet deny him the
right to make a contract to secure the privilege and reward of labor.
The right to private property is the right to the products of your
own labor. The right to your own labor and its products is the right to
your body. Professor Emeritus at Vanderbilt University, James W. Ely, writes:
(T)here are few examples of free
societies that do not respect the rights of property owners. One could
persuasively maintain that without guarantee of property rights the
enjoyment of other individual liberties, such as freedom of speech,
would be meaningless. Put simply, the absence of a system of private
property renders self-government unlikely. As Justice Joseph Story
explained in 1829: “That government can scarcely be called free, where
the rights of property are left solely dependent upon the will of a
legislative body.
For much of American history, this admiration and recognition of
property rights remained a cornerstone of political as well as legal
thought. However, much with everything concerning the size and scale of
American government, this drastically changed during the 20th century,
most notably during the Progressive Era. Ely writes:
Like the Progressives, the New
Dealers were impatient with constitutional restraints on governmental
power. They quite openly set out to revise constitutional law and reduce
private economic rights. Despite some initial judicial resistance, the
New Dealers were remarkably successful in achieving their goals and
fundamentally altering the legal landscape. Modern constitutional law
bears only a faint resemblance to the original constitutional design.
Ely concludes by noting that although many of the judicial precedents
have been unwound, the Progressive Era’s legacy on property rights is
still salient. The new battle over the soul of constitutional
interpretation has only begun and the end result is yet to be seen.
Key Takeaways
Cedar Point was a rare, well deserved, and sorely needed
victory for private property rights, a once sacred institution that has
all been desecrated over the years. In this case, the Supreme Court
affirmed the right of individuals and dealt a blow to cronyist labor
unions and their enablers in the government. The Court’s decision marks a
step in the right direction towards a judicial regime that enforces the
Constitution and does not view it as simply a welcome mat for the
ambitions of state actors. Although it is only one decision, it should
send a clear signal that in this country, under this constitution, the
inalienable rights of individuals shall be protected from the mob as
well as the Leviathan.
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Ethan also serves as the director of the Mark Twain Center for the
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The Buckeye Institute Secures Victories in Union Opt-Out Cases
Columbus, OH – The
Buckeye Institute has successfully won settlements for Ohioans across
the state against unions that refused to recognize the First Amendment
rights of hardworking public employees, which the U.S. Supreme Court
affirmed in its 2018 Janus v. AFSCME
decision. Buckeye’s Legal Center secured victories with the unions
agreeing to refund dues taken after the employees had officially ended
their union membership.
“The
Buckeye Institute is pleased that it has been successful in securing
victories for Ohio public employees who want nothing more than to have
their First Amendment rights honored,” said Jay R. Carson, senior
litigator at The Buckeye Institute.
“While these victories are worth celebrating, it is troubling that many
government unions, using obscure and arbitrary opt-out windows, have
continued to take money from public employees who have officially ended
their union membership. This is plainly inconsistent with the U.S.
Supreme Court’s Janus ruling.”
Over the past six months, The Buckeye Institute secured victories for:
Shuaib Abdurraqib of Columbus against the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association (OSCEA);
Brittany Burt of Columbus against the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME);
Brantley Hinders of Swanton against AFSCME;
Cassandra Hohman of Swanton against AFSMCE;
Monique Holokai-Kane of Pickerington against the Service Employees International Union (SEIU); and
Devon Mann of Westerville against AFSCME.
The
Buckeye Institute’s Legal Center successfully challenged the unions’
arrangements in which the unions continued to take money from the
paychecks of employees who had officially ended their membership in the
union.
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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.
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!