I really did not. I don't think anything is going to budge his base bc they have coagulated around hating the same people. But this still seems like a stupid thing to say to an audience of, largely, white laborers. And while I don't think he is a smart man, he does usually display a low cunning.
I think he’s been in this long enough to know these rubes don’t actually care about what he says.
Hell, he had it down on the first time around with his “i could shoot somebody on fifth avenue and not lose any voters” observation.
Oh I see - that might be right. Anecdotally, the trumpers i personally know are “small business owners” or corporate accountants or something. But that may just reflect my own class position
Those white laborers in their demented minds are thinking yeah that’s how you become a billionaire and I would do the same thing when I become a billionaire
If he wasn’t so old and clearly in mental deterioration, this would all come off like a dare. “How shitty can I be to the people who support me and still keep their votes? Watch this.”
FWIW, paying overtime is often less costly for employers than hiring new workers. No healthcare of Social Security contributions etc. So employers often try to work employees until they are dead tired rather than hire. Often to the point where overworked employees are making critical mistakes.
They're cheering for it because less than half of them work for someone else (and hence overtime doesn't apply). Business owners, independent contractors, retirees, all saying a collective fuck you to the rest of us
Anyone still attending one of these things is just gonna clap for anything. They aren’t even listening to the words, just the cadence for the cue to react.
Notoriously known for stiffing contractors & other workers in NY/NJ for decades & claiming bankruptcies to make money off of it while people lost their livelihoods.
He still owes millions in campaign security 💵 in states since 2015. It’s why they starting asking him to pay upfront for rallies.
What are the chances that Trump turned up the crazy so that everyone forgets the fact that his attorney, Rudy Giulliani, just got disbarred again for election fraud?
This asshole literally can't stop himself. He gets onstage with maga simps screaming his name and he can't stop talking, freestyling his whole shitty, criminal life story and basking in the applause. And yet, beyond rational understanding, it's a close race.
This is how overtime is supposed to work, I believe; most regulators would rather employers cut off at 40 hours than eat the cost of making people work longer.
Buried in Project 2025 is a not-so-secret plan to eliminate overtime pay. It is a generous gift to corporations and an insult to the American worker. Many American families,... rely on overtime to make ends meet and to save for their future. --Rep. Debbie Dingell
Teamsters head honcho must be super proud of his decision
Guess it’s tough to differentiate between someone who has seen men and women go out of business for refusing to pay them for their work and instead making them go to court to try recoup their loss, or the Black woman who supports unions
They're mesmerised, hypnotised. He is slowly but steadily training them to worship him ("you've never seen a more beautiful body [than mine, in a swimsuit, on the beach]") and to believe everything he says, without question, no matter how unbelievable it might be.
Not for nothing, but NYC and NJ knew this guy screwed over 100’s of vendors and contractors as the mobster he was through the 80’s & 90’s. Still lost it all, then got in bed big time with Russia!!!
There’s a video made by a man who recounts the story of his friend who finally got trump to pay pennies on the dollar, liquidated his equipment, paid his bills then committed suicide. Trump destroyed businesses and lives.
Grew up in south jersey. Knew some people (knew, they’re in the cult now) who ironically used to tell me stories about how Trump put their other buddies out of business by not paying what he owed them on projects in AC.
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Yet they clap and cheer every unhinged word of it.
Hell, he had it down on the first time around with his “i could shoot somebody on fifth avenue and not lose any voters” observation.
The people who go to the rallies are largely white laborers, and particularly this crowd definitely is. That's the *audience* I meant.
And also that they are not generationally poor, but temporarily embarrassed billionaires.
All the same, if I'm a strategist for him and I hear this, I've got my head in my hands going, "goddammit." 😆
I hate that for us
Too bad there isn't anyone who actually gives a single sh*t about him that could get him away from this worldwide embarrassment.
Like the fact he never paid taxes because he's " too smart "
Yeah 🤷🏼♀️
They're cheering for that.
"Vote for me and I'll screw you out of your hard-earned money".
People with faces: wooo
He still owes millions in campaign security 💵 in states since 2015. It’s why they starting asking him to pay upfront for rallies.
whoa
I know I'm only getting context from that one clip but like
are those people
not happy he said that??
His Republican cohorts and his MAGA cultists would eat his shit, rub their bellies and say yummy if he told them to.
Because, you know, that's what's happening.
So many people in that crowd are making ends meet by working overtime - or 2 to 3 jobs with no overtime.
May that stick in their head, wake them up at night, and keep them from voting for Trump
what suckers (and losers, according to him)
Guess it’s tough to differentiate between someone who has seen men and women go out of business for refusing to pay them for their work and instead making them go to court to try recoup their loss, or the Black woman who supports unions
F U C K Y O U
#IBT #Teamsters
https://x.com/ThomsonSherin/status/1840415986861981799/video/1
If you say "I shouldn't say this" then don't!
https://progressive.org/op-eds/how-trump-and-vance-betray-americas-workers-cook-20240723/