Posted on 07/16/2024 6:06:38 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Teamsters President Sean M. O’Brien delivered a historic address to the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Monday evening after being invited by former President Donald Trump.
“It’s an honor to be the first Teamster in our 121-year history to address the Republican National Convention,” O’Brien told the RNC crowd, which included Trump and his running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as well as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), and Tucker Carlson.
“I want to thank President Donald Trump for opening the RNC’s doors to the Teamsters Union and inviting me to speak,” O’Brien said, noting that “heads exploded” on the Right and Left when he was invited to speak at the convention.
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UNION members need to realize that when they get TOO greedy-—the jobs leave the USA. KILLING the goose that lays the golden egg.
IF Trump can keep them realizing this, this was an outstanding move.
S.O.B. is a good S.O.B.
heads exploded perhaps not the most sensitive allusion, but, hey, who’s counting
Have they realized the democrats and the green scam are destroying jobs
IMHO, by not actually endorsing anyone, he was endorsing Trump. Could be a good thing.
Pretty good non partisan speech, and he gave Trump all the credit for his appearance. BTW behind this is the fact that Biden’s catastrophic net zero policies will cripple the trucking industry.
His speech got on my nerves after a while, and I turned it off. The Teamster leadership hasn’t endorsed either candidate, and it was announced beforehand that last night’s speech would not be an endorsement. However, the fact that the Republicans gave him this forum will help to bring more of the rank and file over to Trump’s side.
Agreed. On the one I booed when he dissed right-to-work legislation. But on the other hand, I count his presence there as a mostly positive to tell union members to at least give Trump a look-see.
I felt the same, it went a little longer than I would have preferred, but I understand why they invited him to speak. We have got to expand the base a bit to ensure victory at the national level and those old rust belt states are the key to that currently.
Sorry, the jobs dont just leave. The almost zero tariff trade environment facilitates the leaving....Unions are not the enemy. In fact union particapation is a 7%. SEVEN percent. Anti union fools are throw backs to 20th century globalist politics.
Find another red herring.....
The Teamster’s president powered a wind farm all by himself last night.
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When I read the Breitbart summary to my wife, she asked if they played Cornwallis’s “favorite” tune from Yorktown, “The World Turned Upside Down”?
Tactically, his speech was a good for unity and raw votes, but the constant reference to “workers” had a bit of a Soviet vibe to it.
ALL the donations from Unions are to Democrats, who protect the non-productive in Society, by funneling taxpayer money to them, so they can "Donate" it to the Dem's. Sounds like money-laundering to me.....ROFL
Having priced themselves out of the market, and driven manufacturing offshore as a result, or, having Illegals imported to work instead of Union-scale labor, the days of the usefullness of Unions is long gone.
“His speech got on my nerves after a while, and I turned it off. ”
No kidding. He was the windiest gasbag I’ve ever heard. He needs public speaking lessons. He could have wrapped up at five minutes and left a bigger impact.
I had a really tough VP boss once who didn’t brook you running on. He began surreptitiously with the finger throat slash if you started rambling and going too long.
In ‘72 I was living with my parents during college summer and remember well the extreme union violence against J. Leon Altemose in Valley Forge, PA (near Philly). He had his own construction company and wanted SOME non-Union workers. The union torched his heavy equipment and attacked him in Philly.
Then, after I graduated I had many union experiences at construction job sites in the ‘mid 70s and allwere uniformly bad. I mean VERY bad. I had no further union contact after that, but those years left a permanent bad taste in my mouth regarding unions.
Then the take-over of teacher jobs and government jobs in the 90s made it even worse.
But, if he gets union people to reconsider their Democrat affiliation, it’s a good thing.
Public sector unions have got to go. I believe they were brought into being by a Kennedy executive order, Trump needs to rescind that on Day 1. (Along with opening up Obama’s records).
I could not have said it better..
The chamber of commerce IS the enemy...
This is a HUGE move...
The Teamsters have been massive DNC donors, backers and endorsers for a LONG time.
Moving all of that from 100% Dem into the neutral column is a masive win.
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