Judges and Unions

[1srelluc]

The vice president is zeroing in on the cost of living, with new proposals to expand the child tax credit and build more homes.

Vice President Kamala Harris will propose a ban on price gouging by food companies, along with incentives to build new housing and a significant expansion of the child tax credit at a campaign rally in North Carolina on Friday as the Democratic presidential nominee hones her economic message.
Harris plans to announce that, during her first 100 days as president, she would call for the the “first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries” so that big corporations “can’t unfairly exploit consumers to run up excessive corporate profits on food and groceries.” She will also propose building 3 million additional homes in her first term, spurring construction with an $80 billion federal fund. And she will push to expand the child tax credit to $3,600 per child, including a $6,000 credit for children in their first year of life.

The proposals reflect a distinct focus on the high cost of living, a key frustration for consumers after years of price increases. Even though inflation has slowed, unemployment remains low and gross domestic product is expanding, people remain focused more on daily price changes they see in grocery stores — a major vulnerability for Democrats this November.
“Vice President Harris has made clear that building up the middle class will be a defining goal of her presidency,” the Harris campaign wrote in a fact sheet explaining her proposals. “She will deliver for Americans who are demanding a new way forward towards a future that lifts up all Americans so that they can not just get by, but get ahead.”
Democrats had occasionally grown frustrated with President Joe Biden’s campaign for repeatedly trying — and mostly failing — to sell the country on his economic record by focusing on the low unemployment rate and job growth, when those are not central voter concerns. Harris seems to be giving up those efforts.

But the price gouging push also reflects a Democratic vision for a government more willing to intervene in the economy, including on antitrust enforcement, and picks up several unfinished Biden administration priorities on housing and expanding the child tax credit. Harris on Friday will highlight meat prices in particular, arguing the meat industry is enjoying higher profits thanks in part to excessive consolidation, since just a few companies control the market.

 

[sealybobo]

GOP pollster and communication strategist Frank Luntz questioned whether Donald Trump wants to be president again as he spotted a “tremendous advantage” that Vice President Kamala Harris had over him in a focus group.
“On these personality traits, Harris has a tremendous advantage over Trump and there are people who had voted for Trump in 2020 that will not vote for him again because they’re tired of his rude and abusive behavior,”

He continued, “He is literally losing this election and I’m starting to wonder, does he want to lose? Is this something that’s going on inside his head simply because he doesn’t want to be president for four more years because no sane person would campaign the way Donald Trump is campaigning.”
Luntz said the focus group of voters, which didn’t support President Joe Biden’s reelection bid prior to backing Harris’ campaign, were tired of Trump’s “abuse” and personality.

His comments arrive after a new poll shows the Democratic nominee either leading or tied with Trump in six of seven battleground states.

A separate poll found more Harris supporters than Trump supporters saying they were “extremely enthusiastic” to vote in November, a double-digit increase from the number of Biden supporters who were asked the same thing in early July.
Luntz, later in his MSNBC appearance, declared that Harris is getting a “convention bounce before the convention” and wonders what the feeling toward her will look like by the end of next week.


So just wait for the convention. You're going to hate how much we smile. Weird huh?

GOP Pollster Spots Harris' 'Tremendous Advantage' Over Trump: 'Does He Want To Lose?'

Frank Luntz described members of a focus group that previously voted for Trump who are now "tired" of him.

www.huffpost.com

 

[1srelluc]

GOP pollster and communication strategist Frank Luntz questioned whether Donald Trump wants to be president again as he spotted a “tremendous advantage” that Vice President Kamala Harris had over him in a focus group.
“On these personality traits, Harris has a tremendous advantage over Trump and there are people who had voted for Trump in 2020 that will not vote for him again because they’re tired of his rude and abusive behavior,”

He continued, “He is literally losing this election and I’m starting to wonder, does he want to lose? Is this something that’s going on inside his head simply because he doesn’t want to be president for four more years because no sane person would campaign the way Donald Trump is campaigning.”
Luntz said the focus group of voters, which didn’t support President Joe Biden’s reelection bid prior to backing Harris’ campaign, were tired of Trump’s “abuse” and personality.

His comments arrive after a new poll shows the Democratic nominee either leading or tied with Trump in six of seven battleground states.

A separate poll found more Harris supporters than Trump supporters saying they were “extremely enthusiastic” to vote in November, a double-digit increase from the number of Biden supporters who were asked the same thing in early July.
Luntz, later in his MSNBC appearance, declared that Harris is getting a “convention bounce before the convention” and wonders what the feeling toward her will look like by the end of next week.


So just wait for the convention. You're going to hate how much we smile. Weird huh?

GOP Pollster Spots Harris' 'Tremendous Advantage' Over Trump: 'Does He Want To Lose?'

Frank Luntz described members of a focus group that previously voted for Trump who are now "tired" of him.

www.huffpost.com

 

[struth]

You mean Trump told Mike Johnson not to fix the border with Biden? Because Biden already has too many wins?

hhahahaha nobody said that about Xiden

 

[sealybobo]

hhahahaha nobody said that about Xiden

White House seizes on Mitch McConnell's remarks that Trump stalled action on border security​

In a new statement, the White House cited comments by the Senate Republican leader to argue that Trump rejected a compromise on a border deal for political gain.

“This week Senator McConnell explicitly said why the toughest, fairest bipartisan border legislation in modern American history is stalled: ‘our nominee for president did not seem to want us to do anything at all,’”

because Donald Trump told them to,

McConnell told reporters Tuesday, hours before the bill passed, that Trump had a role in delaying the passage of Ukraine aid because of his resistance to a bipartisan border deal.

“I think the former president had sort of mixed views on it. We all felt that the border was a complete disaster, myself included,” McConnell said. “First there was an effort to make law, which requires you to deal with Democrats, and then a number of our members thought it wasn’t good enough. And then our nominee for president didn’t seem to want us to do anything at all. That took months to work our way through it. So we ended up doing the supplemental that was originally proposed, which dealt with not all problems — it didn’t solve the border problem but certainly addressed the growing threats at the moment.”

 

[struth]

White House seizes on Mitch McConnell's remarks that Trump stalled action on border security​

In a new statement, the White House cited comments by the Senate Republican leader to argue that Trump rejected a compromise on a border deal for political gain.

“This week Senator McConnell explicitly said why the toughest, fairest bipartisan border legislation in modern American history is stalled: ‘our nominee for president did not seem to want us to do anything at all,’”

because Donald Trump told them to,

McConnell told reporters Tuesday, hours before the bill passed, that Trump had a role in delaying the passage of Ukraine aid because of his resistance to a bipartisan border deal.

“I think the former president had sort of mixed views on it. We all felt that the border was a complete disaster, myself included,” McConnell said. “First there was an effort to make law, which requires you to deal with Democrats, and then a number of our members thought it wasn’t good enough. And then our nominee for president didn’t seem to want us to do anything at all. That took months to work our way through it. So we ended up doing the supplemental that was originally proposed, which dealt with not all problems — it didn’t solve the border problem but certainly addressed the growing threats at the moment.”

I am sure the WH did try to spin what Mitch said....and some dembots like you ate it up.

Xiden and Harris created the mess, the Dems did nothing for years....ignored House passed legilation, then tried to use a bill from the Senate as a prop.

Harris and Xiden see illegals and immigrats as props.

They are cruel

 

[sealybobo]

I am sure the WH did try to spin what Mitch said....and some dembots like you ate it up.

Xiden and Harris created the mess, the Dems did nothing for years....ignored House passed legilation, then tried to use a bill from the Senate as a prop.

Harris and Xiden see illegals and immigrats as props.

They are cruel

Talk about a one issue voter. Everything else must be great if all you got is the border.

Here's what most people think. If it was important Republicans would have passed the bill they were going to pass until Trump told them to wait. So it's not that urgent. We will fix it next year.

You (Trump) won't fix anything. Mexicans will still come in to America because we have an illegal employer problem. Trump's an illegal employer. Wake up.

 

[marvin martian]

After Trump is gone, I can't wait to see you grovel for your next messiah.

But it's not us trying to make our leaders into Kings. To give them that kind of power. It was your Supreme's. But thanks. They made that decision when they thought Trump was going to win. Now it doesn't look like he is going to win. LOL

^^^Totally not in a cult.

You know the SCOTUS decision applies to ALL presidents, right? Including the one you allegedly have in the White House now.

 

[Anathema]

These are the two reasons you should be voting for Kamala if you are middle class or socially liberal. We all know what kind of judges Bush and Trump appoint. Heritage Foundation Judges. Project 2025. Clarence Thomas taking money from billionaires. Religious nuts like Alito. And their wives are even worse! Vergogna! Look it up.

But this is proof Trump is not for the middle class. Because he doesn't understand how important unions are to having a strong middle class. America was great when 35% of our work force was unionized. Today it's 5% and how we doing? But unions fought back and won big last year for the workers. Of course Stellantis laid a bunch of people off but the people who are working are making enough to support their families. We can not be deterred.

And based on Trump's interview with Musk, he was praising Musk for breaking the law when he fired workers for going on strike.

You may not be in a union but unions are more important than you think to how much you make. So support unions. Now Republicans will tell you that those uneducated blue collar workers aren't worth that much. The same workers they're saying they want to help. Suddenly Republicans are pretending to care about blue collar workers wages.

UAW sues Trump, Musk over worker threats in X chat

Donald Trump seemingly endorsed firing striking workers during his interview with Elon Musk

theweek.com

As a middle class, union worker I’m very happy with the Judges that Trump appointed and I’m not stupid enough to think that Unions are always in the right versus the companies. Thst needs to be a mutually benefit relationship; not a “we win-you lose” scenario.

 

[sealybobo]

^^^Totally not in a cult.

You know the SCOTUS decision applies to ALL presidents, right? Including the one you allegedly have in the White House now.

Yea but he doesn't break laws. Maybe Kamala will. Should have thought about that before you made her a Queen.

This reminds me of Hillary using her private emails. When she did it, everyone did it. Even when Trump got into office, he himself did it. His team did it. Ivanka did it. But Trump made doing it a felony. Then Trump did it and you cry that we're picking on him for charging him. First off, he tried to get Hillary disqualified for doing it when it wasn't a felony. Then he did it after he got into office. And you weirdos think we are picking on him. Weird.

And don't cry about the deep state when the deep state throws out Trump's cases. That's some deep state shit.

 

[Edgetho]

Trump willing to break the law and fire union workers who go on strike.

So you want corporations and billionaires to make all the rules. Kings. Got it. Workers don't get a seat at the table. CEO's will decide what you are worth. And what they are worth.

What law is that? Enquiring minds and all that......

 

[sealybobo]

What law is that? Enquiring minds and all that......

Glad you asked. Trump broke federal labor laws

UAW files labor charges against Trump and Musk after X interview, claiming worker intimidation​

accusing the duo of trying to "intimidate and threaten" workers during an interview on the latter's social media platform X.

Elon fired workers for striking. Against the law. And Trump cheered. This case may not happen till after the election.

During the interview, the pair advocated for the firing of striking workers, the UAW claimed in a statement. Under the National Labor Relations Act, it's illegal to fire striking workers as well to threaten to terminate workers who go on strike.

"I mean, I look at what you do," Trump told Musk on Monday night. "You walk in, you say, 'You want to quit?' They go on strike. I won't mention the name of the company, but they go on strike, and you say, 'That's okay. You're all gone. You're all gone. So every one of you is gone.'"

"Both Trump and Musk want working class people to sit down and shut up, and they laugh about it openly." He added, "It's disgusting, illegal and totally predictable from these two clowns."

 

[Edgetho]

As a middle class, union worker I’m very happy with the Judges that Trump appointed and I’m not stupid enough to think that Unions are always in the right versus the companies. Thst needs to be a mutually benefit relationship; not a “we win-you lose” scenario.

There's Unions and then there's the workers. They are not one and the same.

The Unions will gladly sacrifice thousands of workers to make a point. Been there, done that, sold the T-Shirt.

Just ask the workers at Hostess. Or Carrier. Or a thousand other places.

John Deere, who could buy Generic Motors with their cigarette change, is getting rid of thousands of American workers.

Why? You ask. Because the Union fucked them in the ass. Immediately after Deere reopened their factories following the pandemic, the UAW called a strike. Deere begged them not to do it. They did anyway. Farmers and heavy construction were screaming for parts and equipment. The UAW knew it and shut them down just to prove a point. Deere is about to prove a point.

Now, thousands of workers in Illinois are going to be looking for jobs. In a State that is run by dimocrap scum. Which means, there are no jobs. No hope. No future.

Unions are often the worst thing that can happen to workers. Unions are there to serve themselves anymore. NOT the workers.

 

[TruthNotBS]

These are the two reasons you should be voting for Kamala if you are middle class or socially liberal. We all know what kind of judges Bush and Trump appoint. Heritage Foundation Judges. Project 2025. Clarence Thomas taking money from billionaires. Religious nuts like Alito. And their wives are even worse! Vergogna! Look it up.

But this is proof Trump is not for the middle class. Because he doesn't understand how important unions are to having a strong middle class. America was great when 35% of our work force was unionized. Today it's 5% and how we doing? But unions fought back and won big last year for the workers. Of course Stellantis laid a bunch of people off but the people who are working are making enough to support their families. We can not be deterred.

And based on Trump's interview with Musk, he was praising Musk for breaking the law when he fired workers for going on strike.

You may not be in a union but unions are more important than you think to how much you make. So support unions. Now Republicans will tell you that those uneducated blue collar workers aren't worth that much. The same workers they're saying they want to help. Suddenly Republicans are pretending to care about blue collar workers wages.

UAW sues Trump, Musk over worker threats in X chat

Donald Trump seemingly endorsed firing striking workers during his interview with Elon Musk

theweek.com

The American working class/middle class, in general, doesn't have much class consciousness. They've been brainwashed in the last 40 years to support government policies that undermine their class interests, hence why there are so many people who rely on wages to eat and have a roof over their heads, who support these rich scumbags who don't give a crap about them. Trump pretends to be a pro-working-class populist, a champion of the working class, but in reality, he's the very opposite of that. He's also supposedly going to "drain the swamp", and then fill his administration full of swamp people from Goldman Sachs and neo-liberal, globalist think tanks (stink-tanks).

I believe the Zoomers, our grandkids are going to turn all of this around. In general, many Zoomers, people now entering the workforce, do have class consciousness and understand fully how they're getting F%^Ked by the capitalist ruling elites. Watch Carlin's prophetic rant on the economy:

 

[Edgetho]

Glad you asked. Trump broke federal labor laws

UAW files labor charges against Trump and Musk after X interview, claiming worker intimidation​

accusing the duo of trying to "intimidate and threaten" workers during an interview on the latter's social media platform X.

Elon fired workers for striking. Against the law. And Trump cheered. This case may not happen till after the election.

During the interview, the pair advocated for the firing of striking workers, the UAW claimed in a statement. Under the National Labor Relations Act, it's illegal to fire striking workers as well to threaten to terminate workers who go on strike.

"I mean, I look at what you do," Trump told Musk on Monday night. "You walk in, you say, 'You want to quit?' They go on strike. I won't mention the name of the company, but they go on strike, and you say, 'That's okay. You're all gone. You're all gone. So every one of you is gone.'"

"Both Trump and Musk want working class people to sit down and shut up, and they laugh about it openly." He added, "It's disgusting, illegal and totally predictable from these two clowns."

That's all you got?? Total bullshit.

You need to get your news from somewhere other than the Cartoon Network and MTV. seriously

 

[struth]

Talk about a one issue voter. Everything else must be great if all you got is the border.

Here's what most people think. If it was important Republicans would have passed the bill they were going to pass until Trump told them to wait. So it's not that urgent. We will fix it next year.

You (Trump) won't fix anything. Mexicans will still come in to America because we have an illegal employer problem. Trump's an illegal employer. Wake up.

No actually a record number of Americans are worse off thanks to Harris and xiden

They failed at everything

 

[sealybobo]

Damn, you have really been off the rails of late.....Go play with your dog or get laid.

Did you watch the Trump press conference?

No Questions At Trump’s Press Conference So Far​

For more than 45 minutes at the top of what was billed as a press conference, Trump attacked Harris and revisited everything he said yesterday. Among his targets were green energy initiatives like electric vehicles and wind power. "You want to see a bird cemetery? Just go under a windmill,” Trump said. “It’s a green scam.”

I think it's so funny Trump pretends to care about dead birds.

 

[sealybobo]

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The American working class/middle class, in general, doesn't have much class consciousness. They've been brainwashed in the last 40 years to support government policies that undermine their class interests, hence why there are so many people who rely on wages to eat and have a roof over their heads, who support these rich scumbags who don't give a crap about them. Trump pretends to be a pro-working-class populist, a champion of the working class, but in reality, he's the very opposite of that. He's also supposedly going to "drain the swamp", and then fill his administration full of swamp people from Goldman Sachs and neo-liberal, globalist think tanks (stink-tanks).

I believe the Zoomers, our grandkids are going to turn all of this around. In general, many Zoomers, people now entering the workforce, do have class consciousness and understand fully how they're getting F%^Ked by the capitalist ruling elites. Watch Carlin's prophetic rant on the economy:

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I want to say this before I read the rest of your post. American workers are stupid. In the late 70's Republicans attacked unions. 35% of us were in unions. The 65% of us who were not in unions were stupid. Rather than say "hey, I want what they have" they said "why should they have it so good"

Idiots!

How did they sort of convince me back then those uneducated blue collar workers were overpaid was by showing me they made as much as I did, and I have a college degree. Of course I'm white collar and they have to work overtime to make what I make, but they also had job security and pensions. My FORD dad retired at 59. Me, I'm probably going to have to work till I'm 65. Because he got health benefits when he retired.

Here's all I need to show you to prove Bush and Republicans ruined America in the 2000's

Checks for 1998 to average $6,100, 39% more than last year's

Ford profit sharing a record

Record profits and record profit sharing. Then Americans didn't elect Gore because they thought they could drink a beer with Bush. How stupid is that huh?

 

[TruthNotBS]

Alito and Clarence's wife are election deniers. Did you hear what Alito's wife said about the only way she gets pleasure is dreaming about anti gay flags she will fly when her husband is done with that "silly job" of his.

I suspect he's going to retire regardless of who wins. But this is why Kamala must win. We can't put another Heritage Foundation Project 2025 judge on the Supreme's.

Vergogna!

And we should not have a Supreme who thinks this:

Windsor, a progressive activist and documentary filmmaker, portrayed herself in private with Alito as on the far right. “I don’t know that we can negotiate with the left in the way that, like, needs to happen for the polarization to end,” she told him. “I think that it’s a matter of, like, winning.”

Alito answered, “I think you’re probably right. … One side or the other is going to win. I don’t know. I mean, there can be a way of working, a way of living together peacefully, but it’s difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised. They really can’t be compromised. So, it’s not like you are going to split the difference.”

Samuel Alito, caught on tape, reinforces why people are skeptical of the Supreme Court​

I'm not on board with all of the LGBTQA++++ lunacy, but as far as the economics, I'm on board with you. My grandson was taught against his parent's will, about "transforming into a girl" in his Kindergarten class and actually asked his father, my son, if he could become a girl. He was confused about gender. That pisses me off, and I'm not having it. These LGBTQ people need to keep all of their homosexual stuff to themselves and stop trying to influence our children.

 

[sealybobo]

As a middle class, union worker I’m very happy with the Judges that Trump appointed and I’m not stupid enough to think that Unions are always in the right versus the companies. Thst needs to be a mutually benefit relationship; not a “we win-you lose” scenario.

You're in a union today? What union you ungrateful prick?​

You must be a social con if you like the judges he appoints

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'99 Profit Sharing at Ford Averages $8,000​

Some 160,000 of Ford Motor Co.'s U.S. employees have cause for celebration Thursday after the company's president said they'll receive record profit-sharing checks for 1998.
Ford president Jacques Nasser says eligible U.S. employees will get an average $6,100 when the checks are distributed March 3. That's 39 percent more than the previous record $4,400 passed out to employees for 1997.
"We earned several coveted profitability and quality awards, as well as top safety ratings," Nasser says. "Our efforts paid off in enhanced shareholder value."
Ford (F) has been paying profit sharing under terms of a 1982 contract agreement with the United Auto Workers. There have been 13 payments since the first one in 1984 to reflect 1983 results. Payments were skipped in the lean years from 1990 to 1992.
The company says the total of average profit-sharing payouts since 1984 is more than $32,575.
Earlier Thursday, Ford announced 1998 earnings of $22.07 billion

Stop talking about win win. That's what unions are all about. Without unions it's corporations win and labor loses every time.

Since 1978, union membership has declined from 35% of our work force to 5%. In that time, CEO pay went up 1322% and our wages only went up 18%. Why? Labor no longer has a seat at the table.

Maybe you're in a shitty union. What industry? What union are you in? Must suck or you don't appreciate them because you're a social weirdo.