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Trump Is No Longer Even Pretending to Champion the Working Class
The New York Times ^
| Aug. 16, 2024, 5:04 a.m. ET
| Michelle Goldberg
Posted on 08/16/2024 8:37:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The most consequential moment from Donald Trump’s glitchy interview with Elon Musk on Monday came during a discussion of government cost-cutting. “Well, you, you’re the greatest cutter,” Trump told Musk, before launching, apropos of nothing, into a reverie about how Musk dominates his employees. “They go on strike,” said Trump. “I won’t mention the name of the company, but they go on strike and you say, ‘That’s OK. You’re all gone. You’re all gone. So every one of you is gone,’ and you are the greatest.”
Trump’s sympathy with plutocrats over unions is not a surprise, given both his record in office and his desperate desire for the approval and admiration of other billionaires. Though the ex-president made successful electoral appeals to the working class — particularly the white working class — his record on labor was that of a standard conservative Republican.
He appointed
union busters to the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that enforces labor law. His Department of Labor reversed the “
persuader” rule, which had forced transparency on companies waging anti-union propaganda campaigns. His Supreme Court appointees dealt a severe blow to public sector unions in the Janus decision, an outcome Trump
celebrated. His signature policy accomplishment was a tax cut that disproportionately benefited the rich.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: enemiestlist; enemyjournalist; fakenews; michellegoldberg; newyorkslimes; nytpropaganda; pretending2writenews; tds; trump
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The most consequential moment from Donald Trump’s glitchy interview... "Glitchy?"
Is that a technical term?
To: E. Pluribus Unum
All the left has is lies.
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posted on
08/16/2024 8:39:22 AM PDT
by
JayGalt
(Fight! Fight! Fight!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Trump Is No Longer Even Pretending to Champion the Working ClassThe New York Times is no longer even pretending to be objective.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
When employees threatened unionization at Frito Lay, they would just close the place down and move...I was told...in the 1980s
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posted on
08/16/2024 8:41:27 AM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(DEI....Divide, Enslave, Indoctrinate.....OR ......Didn't Earn It)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
08/16/2024 8:41:31 AM PDT
by
Zathras
To: E. Pluribus Unum
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Make up absolutely anything negative about Trump, publish it, the masses believe it.
What a luxury for the left.
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posted on
08/16/2024 8:41:51 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Nope, not championing the working class whatsoever...
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posted on
08/16/2024 8:42:57 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
08/16/2024 8:43:00 AM PDT
by
Vision
(Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
If you are part of the twitter-staff working class
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posted on
08/16/2024 8:44:30 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
To: Vision
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posted on
08/16/2024 8:44:59 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Vision
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posted on
08/16/2024 8:45:38 AM PDT
by
shadeaud
(God gave us the free will and intelligence to choose right from wrong. Use it or lose it!D)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
IF EVERYONE KNEW HOW THE “TWITTER” “EMPLOYEES” BEHAVED THEY WOULD HAVE A DIFFERENT OPINION.
Some were charging $400 lunches on their ‘expense accounts’ and they were ‘working from home’ & EATING THERE.
THAT IS EMBEZZLEMENT
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posted on
08/16/2024 8:45:56 AM PDT
by
ridesthemiles
(not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The MSM is no longer even pretending to be unbiased.
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posted on
08/16/2024 8:46:51 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
It’s reality. When the government puts the boot to a corporation (which is what he was talking about) the owner doesn’t have to just take it. They can just leave (which is what Musk did) and now nobody gets a job.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
08/16/2024 8:52:04 AM PDT
by
njmaugbill
(bill from NJ)
To: Vision
Mental illness runs rampant at the “Times”!
It’s no longer a newspaper. It’s a psychiatric institution.
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posted on
08/16/2024 8:52:17 AM PDT
by
sjmjax
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“new York Times” no longer pretending to be a real Newaspaper
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posted on
08/16/2024 8:52:24 AM PDT
by
BigEdLB
( they wont try bcause it wont matter.)
To: Engraved-on-His-hands
Trump Is No Longer Even Pretending to Champion the Working Class Being for workers and being for labor unions is not the same thing.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
No questions about Kommie not giving interviews.
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posted on
08/16/2024 8:53:20 AM PDT
by
bray
(It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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