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2024 US Presidential Election

"The decision puts the Teamsters, with more than 1 million members nationwide, out of step with other major labor groups that have thrown their support behind Harris, including the United Auto Workers, the AFL-CIO, the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, and the Culinary Union in Nevada."

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Electrum1 said:
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Lol, they ended up ignoring their own polls and for the first time in decades they're not endorsing either candidate, and their standard was "majority support" for Harris and "universal support" for Trump

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teamster.org

Teamsters: No Endorsement for U.S. President

(WASHINGTON) — The General Executive Board of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Wednesday elected not to endorse any candidate for U.S. President.
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Lmao "no definitive support among members for either party’s nominee."
 
They're looking at Washington and laws being passed. And they're still pissed off about the railroad workers.

"While 10,000 Teamsters at United Airlines are currently negotiating a new agreement, tens of thousands of railroad Teamsters were forced to accept a new contract implemented by Congress without member support in 2022. In roundtable discussions with Trump in January and Harris this month, neither candidate promised not to intervene to force similar RLA contracts, which undermines workers’ bargaining leverage.


While Harris pledged, if elected, to sign the PRO Act, an essential piece of labor legislation strengthening union protections, and criticized dangerous “right to work” laws that are enacted to bankrupt unions, Trump would not commit to veto national “right to work” legislation if he returned to the White House.


“‘Right to work’ laws only exist to try to kill labor unions,” said Teamsters General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman. “It is a red line for the Teamsters and must be for any union when a candidate for elected office does not oppose such anti-worker legislation. It’s too important an issue for the labor movement as a whole to be left up to state legislatures.”"

The unions' most important work has always been in Washington. They've brought us little niceties like the 40 hour workweek and overtime pay. I don't always agree with them and they can be corrupt too, just like the Dems. But, given the choice between how companies would treat their workers if given the chance (and try to) and the Teamsters lesser form of corruption, I'll take a union.

My first job was union and I have walked picket. I'm one of them there blue collar, union, liberals.
 
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Multiple grocery stores, clinics forced to evacuate after bomb threats in Springfield

Multiple grocery stores and clinics in Springfield were forced to evacuate Wednesday due to bomb threats.
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And Springfield's mayor has asked Donald Trump to kindly stay away.

newrepublic.com

Springfield’s GOP Mayor Issues Stark Warning to Trump After His Lies

Springfield, Ohio, Mayor Rob Rue says Donald Trump better stay out of his city after spreading those pet-eating lies about immigrants.
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Bet he doesn't

I don't know how much of this is getting to the national news, but that town is in shambles.
 
brokedownpalace10 said:
I've had time to think and I have a theory. @Quasimoto listen up.
You can call this a "conspiracy" theory if you like. The difference would be that I'm not claiming it to be true. I am saying that this is plausible. See if you can arrive in the same place before I make it obvious.

1. It's not hard at all to radicalize and influence a fringe individual. You can pretty much get a specific idea in their heads and even set them on the path to fairly specific plans. Government covert agencies definitely have the resources and tools to do such things.

2. The entire Republican party seems to have turned against the war in Ukraine. Whether Donald Trump or another Republican gets in does not matter. A Republican will likely end support for Ukraine.

3. This attempt has already blown Trump's debate debacle out of the news cycle. It will solidify his base hugely and garner some support from swing voters. It helps Trump as it played out. Had it been successful, any other Republican would fair better in the election.

4. So, this shooting, successful or not, will increase the likelihood of a Republican being elected and thus that the US will withdraw support from Ukraine.


Believe that covert Russian government agencies would plausibly engage in such nefarious activities or don't, I guess. If you believe they would, it's quite plausible. For both shootings
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The first shooting was plausible to me. Huge secret service fuck up, but doesn't seem like a conspiracy to me.

This second one? I have 10x more questions than the last.

First, how did that man know Trump would be there? His itinerary has essentially been top tier confidential since the first attempt. He made no announcement he was going to that golfcouse.

So, that man just *guessed* Trump might go golfing on that course, laid prone in bushes for 12 hours with just a hope he might appear....

Im sorry but that doesn't sound right. Some random fucking dude has the discipline of a trained sniper?

Do people have any idea how uncomfortable it is it lay still, silent, in a bush for 12 fucking hours?

Most people would have an emotional breakdown if you asked them to simply hold a glass of water level for 1 hour, let alone 12.

In any case, I was super curious and was reading that historically, the US has a rather extreme number of both attempted and successful assassinations.

These events (unsuccessful assassinations) always result in a brief spike in poll numbers for the assassinee (is that a word?).

It would make a lot of sense to me if this 2nd one was fabricated as a political stunt. Trump's campaign is clearly very desperate, and not shy of illegal stunts or rhetoric.
 
@Electrum1
The Domestic violence bill passed easily with 51 Dems voting for it. The argument against was that it was political theater since it duplicates existing laws.
Unemployment went from 3 something to 4.2.
3% to 5% is considered good. More political theater, clutching pearls when it went up a bit. Unemployment being great is a Dem accomplishment. If it's too low, business leaders actually complain about that.

How about we get some real shit done?

Just more to distract while they pick our pockets.
 
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Article about a disenchanted Democrat volunteer.

Hoping that progressive can work towards building away from this two party model and towards coalitions that represent regular people better, rather than the current model that pits sympathetic billionaires against sycophantic billionaires.
 
So Sassy the cat goes missing for a day or two (as cats do), leading her Trumpanzee owner to conclude that her Haitian neighbors (who are legal refugees), ate her, a story the MAGATs seized upon, leading to multiple bomb scares and death threats, and making America once again the butt of jokes worldwide, while she was in the basement all along.

That is one sassy cat!
 
I don't recall where I've read this, but humans do not eat cats for a reason. Both domestic or big cats. Their meat is described as "hard, stringy, and unpleasant tasting." Not even native or tribal populations in the remote world would eat cats...
 
Quasimoto said:
I don't recall where I've read this, but humans do not eat cats for a reason. Both domestic or big cats. Their meat is described as "hard, stringy, and unpleasant tasting." Not even native or tribal populations in the remote world would eat cats...
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Also, have you ever held a cat? Not much meat there. Hardly worth it to catch, kill (silently), skin, clean, and cook the scrawny thing.

But I love that song by The Kiffness.
 
Quasimoto said:
I don't recall where I've read this, but humans do not eat cats for a reason. Both domestic or big cats. Their meat is described as "hard, stringy, and unpleasant tasting." Not even native or tribal populations in the remote world would eat cats...
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If they are bigger than you though, cats would absolutely eat you!

My ex-girlfriend used to do vet rescue work and she told me about a few cats that had eaten their dead owners and were 'rescued' and rehomed. That information generally doesn't get recorded so there are many people out there living with cats who have tasted human before.
 
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