You said it hits them “hardest,” but how do you know it doesn’t hit the poor and middle class down the pipeline harder, comparatively? What you’re talking about is profits; what I’m talking about is clothing and food for actual people and a raising of bottom-line prices. Make no mistake — the consequence of such a strike comes at the cost of holding those down the line hostage. Naturally the shareholders tend to have a rainy-day fund in order to ride out the storm. Naturally the wealthy can weather such storms easier than the poor and middle class, yes?

In fact this goes back to this very strike covered in this submission, in which Biden pointed out to the nnion that their strike would effect… Who? Those impacted by Hurricane Helene.

Hardest is therefore relative.

Biden said he is not giving up on paid sick leave for rail workers and other Americans who don’t receive such benefits. But he made it clear that he was not prepared to see freight trains stopped and food, water, clothing, and holiday gifts stranged in empty depots.

This mind you as we were just getting past the worst of the covid pandemic. Do you have any source to suggest this would impact the shareholders “the hardest”?

Reminder that yet again — this per Bernie Sanders — the expanded sick leave for all rail workers was obstructed by Republicans. Screwing over Democrats during election season is, again, short-sighted. Perhaps those unions from the Teamsters to the longshoremen should rally to get Republicans out of the way?

Yeah I’m sure the maga union boss was totally acting in good faith on behalf of his workers here…

Again, short-sighted. The damage may very well be done and this could jeopardize 4 years of someone who definitely will do jack shit for unions.

I know the tankies are upset, here, but here’s a dose of reality:

• Union leader asking members to “pray” for Trump and his wonderful meeting with him.

• Biden joining striking automotive workers in Sept. 2023;

• Worth noting to the inevitable raising of the Rail Strike break-up that he intervened to keep supplies coming for December of that year would ultimately have hit the poor and middle class the hardest… .All the while he still managed to include half of their demands by way of a pay raise.

Not that I oppose union strikes but it’s kind of dirty to do that to Democrats in the 11th hour. Not like their conditions would improve under Trump…

So associating bad publicity of obstructing hurricane aid is genius.

It’s more, “they know not what they do.”

Many are too shortsighted to grasp that their own beliefs fuel their own pain.

Still, I don’t blame the grifted as much as I do the grifters.

Uh oh me thinks Trump is jealous of Carter’s media attention. Mortality is also likely weighing heavily on the rotten orange, too.

This is how democracy dies in darkness… Behind paywalls.

Wasn’t that really the days of Digg? I can’t even remember such eons ago…

I sadly was one of those duped, hot off of reading Atlas Shrugged no less at a more impressionable time in my life. Thank fuck I crawled my way out.

Isn’t it kind of funny the party who routinely espouses individual freedumb is like, “let’s let states decide!” without recognizing the irony that it’s just one more granular step to saying, “let’s let each individual woman decide!”

Best way to get the young male vote to be honest. Isn’t this part of what made Ron Paul popular?

“from AOC to Dick Cheney to Taylor Swift.”

Taylor Swift confirmed more right-wing than Cheney!1!

Vance is just as morally corrupt and full of lies but has a better facade.

Oh for sure. No doubt does Lead exposure (firing ammunition elevates levels), boomer-era leaded gasoline (and modern aircraft), paint, etc. + Traumatic Brain Injuries (CTE) from football + Substance abuse —namely alcohol play a part. Microplastics may very well be the next thing…

It clearly indicates that something is wrong with many Americans.

Sadly I think it indicates systemic failures and Americans are the effect and much less the cause.

What I mean is that a combination of:

• Electoral college & Money in Politics
• Diminishing education standards (e.g., critical-thinking skills, civics, US History)
• “News” media-entertainment that legally spreads disinformation (combined with foreign operatives).

… All culminates in a society that is very easily duped. I talk to Trump supporters all the time and while sure many are simply greedy psychopaths… Many are also just “nice, but kinda dumb” in that they have no capacity to parse fact from fiction and so are easily-grifted targets for lies and choir-preaching (sometimes quite literally from Sunday church).

Yep. Never once has Trump exceeded >=50% of votes or even approval rating.

Don’t you just love our slave era Electoral College…?

For sure, though I could use 14 States as examples that are larger. Not even counting all the foreign aid we give to Israel in the first place — it’s just absurd we have to kiss their ass so much partly because of AIPAC.

It’s insane that a country whose economy is 1/8th that of California alone and whose population is 35x smaller has the US by the balls in this way.

Can you link to that conversation? I’m not seeing in your history or on their mod log.

You’ve identified the problem many see, but what is the solution?

This demographic is notoriously hard to reach and the nature of its age and inexperience leads to having their priorities woefully out of whack and susceptible to shit like Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate to Jordan Peterson. Asking or forcing them to watch Mr. Rogers isn’t going to cut it, if you know what I mean.

New York Dems… From Bloomberg to Cuomo to Hochul and Donald Trump himself… They’re definitely… Special. (I should include Menendez in that, too).