Unions have a difficult and fine line to walk to here. On the one hand, Trump’s protectionism is exactly what they’ve been asking for years. On the other hand, Republicans have been trying to get rid of them for decades.

As if many capitalists, myself included, aren’t disgusted and alarmed at the actions of Trump. We are. And if you were a true capitalist, you’d be aghast at the idea of a 20% tariff on imports from one of our largest trading partners (which would be paid by American consumers, not Mexico), disgusted by throwing away…

Bro I think you made a left instead of right. You want breitbart this is jalopnik. Let breitbart give you a white nationalists impression of the 2017 Chevrolet Cruze. Oh wait they don’t. Patrick is simply breaking news of a company that is capitalizing on a strike in an industry which is filled w/ filled with African…

why don’t all of the hipsters unionize?

What type of workers are we talking about here? Professionals will never organize. There will never be a Local 718 of Silicon Valley programmers. They are well paid, have lots of work benefits, and have control over their own career. More or less this is the case of lots of professional jobs. So, in essence, people do…

Unions are dying because they eat their young. A few years back the UAW was looking at a major strike against the automakers, but rather than go through with that, they settled for a two-tiered wage system that gave the older workers continued high pay and benefits while sticking the younger workers with a much lower…

You mentioned that there is always someone willing to do the job for less money, but what about machines? Machines can’t strike, don’t need vacation, sick days, etc. To me the battle will be less about striving for higher wages but more about who will own the producers. Do you think we would win if the machines became…

Great points. It is a balance of good vs. evil. The good unions can do in protecting jobs overall and providing a collective bargaining that corporations would NEVER give without it vs. what workers see on a daily basis with co-workers who are lousy being protected. My best friends have been union for nearly 20…

Because aside from perhaps the professional trade unions, most workers aren’t really seeing a value. I worked retail in a supermarket chain that was and still is unionized in my late teens and early 20's. Hell, I was even a union steward for 6 months before I left that job! Back then, I truly believed in the union…

I enjoy the complete and utter cognative dissonance of his supporters reveling in him getting the Dow to 20k and crediting him with it. It was 173 points short of 20K when he was sworn in. If these people are flipping a shit over a 0.87% upgrade, wait until I tell them about the guy who boosted the Dow 150%. Man, they…

Live look at Trump supporters trying to imagine how any of this benefits them:

It’s gonna be a long year and a half until he gets impeached.

Look, asshole, I told you before we went to the party I was going to get shitfaced drunk, make a pass at the hostess in front of her husband, corner one of the black people so I could tell that killer Freddie Gray joke, drop a c-bomb on the first woman to reject my sloppy, hands advances (also the hostess - two birds…

I am really sick of the media only paying attention to this crowd size bs or rantings about illegal votes. This is all noise, a distraction to keep people from focusing what is really going on. This is all classic Trump. Here is a short list of other, more important, things that have happened this week (some of which…

Sure Goebbels was crazy, as were the rest of the Nazi hierarchy, I’m just saying he served out of loyalty and genuine conviction.

I’ve always said that, as evil as he was, Joseph Goebbels served Hitler because he truly believed in him and was loyal to the end.

Onions, Don’t Do This

The insinuation is that college educated means smarter. It means Trump supporters are dumb? Incorrect. It means they have not been forced to conform so they fit in on a campus. It man’s they have not been bombarded by left ideology and cutoff from conservative ideas.

Yep. I live in a very blue area of a very blue state. Not only do I not know anyone personally who voted for Trump, I don’t know anyone in my FB circle. Even my country farmer cousin was very pro-Hillary. The best I can do is occasionally find a FOAF on a thread somewhere.

I have way more in common with…