WXYZ-11/6/24-Martin says in the last yr, Trump support in her plant has grown to become the majority,Brendan Fluker, UAW member voted for Trump-“It's really good for us that he’s coming in, can enact tariffs, help keep our jobs here” said economy is #1 reason along with his pledge to cut EV mandates
I know a lot of UAW members who are MAGA. They weren't impressed when Biden was the first president to walk the picket line with them. They were fine with Trump visiting a non-union shop during his campaign. And they voted for Trump, mostly out of fear & hatred towards immigrants & trans people.
Ok so again you have no fucking proof of who these people voted for and even if you did have what is gained by saying any worker deserves to be fucking sacked mate
Your anecodotal evidence doesn’t mean shit to me mate. That other liberal I was speaking to has. I fucking direct evidence like you and she said they deserve what they get. When will liberals reflect on why they’ve lost to Trump twice and using the same stategy even now is doomed to fail
So you don’t know, why are liberals like this you blame the victims of the rights fucked decisions rather than taking them in so it never happens again. No wonder you’ve lost to that piece of shit twice mate your strategies are doomed
Why would Liberals coddle the "🤬 your feelings" crowd?... When those same people would kicked the Liberals to death while down if the rolls were reversed.
They can learn their lesson and then they will be welcomed, or they can live the consequence of their choices with the same sympathy they give
I’m a leftist mate, I don’t but into your culture war bullshit. You don’t know who these workers voted for and the fact you blame the victims of the rights policy is probably part of the reason you’ve lost to that fuckwit twice
They all knew what he was going to do and the majority of them voted for him anyway. I'm in another country and I knew what he was going to do, so they have no excuse.
Sorry, but people need to take responsibility for their choices in a democracy and learn from mistakes.
If you’re not American why do you buy into that liberal bullshit. You don’t know who these people voted for and what’s gained by blaming the victims of Trump in any case grow up
Facts are facts, fuck gd magats for electing the gd fucking convicted sexual assaulter and felon on34 counts of fraud. Who in their right mind elects a felon????Let alone a sexual assaulter???
Okay, how many democrats have fallen in line with almost all his current policies? How many are joined with the republicans in voting for more arms with Israel? I get you're frustrated, but like.. do you really think sneering down at people losing their jobs will shift them over?
I don’t care. Just like they didn’t care about who they would hurt with their vote. The only funny part is that the ones they hurt the most was themselves.
There's plenty of american liberals on display, maybe not taking pleasure but definitely looking down condescendingly. Looking in at Americans from the outside, there's sometimes a smaller gap than people realise.
I've met both - and blanket brushing people based on an "us vs them" standing is exactly what hardcore evangelical maga types do. Its a very american thing to do
Unions are not saying Trump is good for them, they are saying tariffs against their competitors is good for them. Which can be true under the right circumstances. These are not those circumstances. Blanket tariffs will be taken to the WTO and pleaded as unfair and most will be exempted. Toothless.
I wonder how many are ok with that? I listened to a fed empl from Cincinnati who called into a show & talked about his coworkers who voted for this admin remaining MAGA. Being fired and undermining their mission of keeping mineworkers safe wasn't enough to sway their cultlike loyalty.
Yeah but the bloke from Michigan shilling for Felon47 on TV said this was all good so what's the problem? Besides, with a little hardship a few of those fat fucks might lose some weight and improve their health, which Trump can use to gaslight us by claiming that was the intent all along 😂😂😂
We desperately need a third party, or a coalition of smaller groups, or something … politics shouldn’t be an us vs them match every single time. Folks act like they’re voting for a football team. System is failing horribly.
And we should have *squashed* all the Lost Cause bs back in 1865, too.
I think for that to succeed you'd need a different voting system, either ranked preferential or knock outs that aren't in party, and entrenched power doesn't like that - just see what happened when the UK tried to change
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UAW Fd up here. Kind of hard for them to buy cars when they don't have jobs. And the excess capacity argument is BS. The average person can't afford a new car due to the Big 3 setting high prices and interest rates are high so there will be no need to ramp up domestic production so more layoffs.
Stagflation. Rising prices driven up by import prices due to tariffs; domestic demand bidding up price of domestically produced goods scarce due to supply constraints; opportunistic sellers raising prices on non-tariff goods; balanced demand falling; rising unemployment; falling economic output
This is only the beginning of monstrous mass layoffs so the Fuhrer & his oligarchs can steal our money to fatten their already obscene offshore bank accounts. They all don’t give a rat’s behind about our people and they prove it every single day.
Isn't this backwards? I hate the tariffs but the one thing they do is make American made products more competitive price wise than their imported equivalents?
Am guessing these people work on cars still made overseas and just finish them here? And the tariffs make that no longer financially viable?
Trump wears a full face of makeup and Vance has started wing tipping the eyeliner. Mike Johnson has a very bronzed contour look of late. MAGA is beyond hypocritical and some of the leadership appears to be closeted.
Thats 900 angry people available for the protest here in Detroit. The more they fire or get fired the more angry people there will be set against them.
Now that the felon maniac is disabling all of our resources that we have paid for, over the past decades with our blood, sweat and now tears. Poof 70 days by a manic madman who says the world, ( not JUST the immigrants) are the evil wrongdoers of king felon. They didn’t bow to me- I tariff them☠️🤡
Specifically they only supported the 25% tariff on foreign vehicles. Because it's protection isn't and will help them. Only problem is, a lot of the other tariffs hurt them.
Most of them voted for Trump. How much sympathy do they expect from others now? They can redeem themselves for their mistake by standing up with others against Trump and his cronies! This is a government that wants to sell out American citizens who are not wealthy! Your company is protecting money.
Reading the comments in here and I get that so many of them couldn't get past a competent black woman president....so they voted for a rapist felon. But, do you think ANY of them will take this experience and use the lessons for future elections? (Assuming there is ever another election)
How does that new “Joe the Plumber” who cheered on tRump saving the country the other day feel about this? I heard he was already retired, but can’t believe everything.
I’m referring to the UAW stooge who cheered on the tariffs at White House on Tuesday. I don’t know his name and don’t care. Yes the original Joe the Plumber is dead I know.
That's not what you voted for? That's exactly what you voted for. Rich people don't think like we do. Rich people will NEVER think like we do. We will NEVER think like they do because WE will NEVER be Rich. God's plan? Who cares?
Here's what Trump is doing while you suffer because of his actions.
Tariffs become the ultimate form of a “protection racket”. Basically it’s a corruption tax. Trump can cut tariffs until the US producers scream. He can then increase tariffs and “protect” them from foreign competition when they pay him and fellow Republicans off. And most Americans are on the hook.
What pisses me off is that we’ve watched this movie before. These white dudes find it hard to fathom a Black woman as their president and are willing to rewatch the movie again, hoping it will result in a different ending.
I believe this thinking also applies to military personnel and veterans as well.
They could not imagine a woman CIC. They opted for the guy who doesn't respect their sacrifice. Again.
I feel for them. I'm glad that they, the union employees, will receive benefits and a percentage of their salary. Too bad some of them voted for a union busting president and the guy who screamed tariffs every chance he got before being elected.
Somebody please help me understand why the auto workers from Detroit supported, praised, and clapped for him on Liberation Day. If it was a snake, it would have jumped up and bit them in the face. Oh wait, it just did.
The thing about this kind of voter bashing mindset a huge percentage of society seems to have is this. Even if 80 out of 100 people voted against their own interests, there are still 20 who did NOT vote for it and are suffering along with them. It makes my heart hurt.
But we accuse the whole group & pin the poor results on all of them. So not only are the poor innocent bastards SUFFERING consequences of their neighbours' bad votes, they suffer shame cast on them by society at large. For NOTHING. I just don't like it. I think it's wrongheaded.
White electorate continue voting against their own interest—livable wage, universal healthcare, affordable housing, government funded higher education—because of their disdain for Black, brown, immigrant people. They'll suffer, but can feast off their racism and xenophobia.
To state it correctly, SOME White people voted for this. Also SOME POC voted for it. I can't understand ANYONE voting for it. But there it is. I worked with Black people in 2016 who personally told me they were excited to vote for T45. I found that even crazier than the White majority voting Red.
That's exactly what I'm talking about. I'm White. I have always voted Blue. Started at 18. I'm 63 now. I don't have any White friends who vote Red. Do I KNOW White people who vote Red? Of course. But I don't associate with them. Assuming all White people vote Red is textbook racism.
I love her (despite the several accounts that have attacked me, called me a liar, or accused me of being a Republican). You can still love her!
There's a lot going on to drive her statements/public positions. The UAW likes the tariffs (for now). This is typical 'Detroit Democrat brain'. It's OK. 🧢
The tariffs along with the other actions of the regime are deliberate and planned to have the specific effects they are having. They are not for the reasons being presented by the regime. They are for other reasons.
Heartbreaking. Canadians are wishing you all well, and hope that this terrifying and chaotic time will soon come to an end. You need to showTrump that this is NOT ok because, while families are suffering, he is posting things like this:
Oops!! Went and voted themselves out of a livelihood. 🤷♀️ With all the immigrants gone, I wonder who’ll they’ll blame their poor decisions on! (Women, we know they’ll blame women.)
I don’t think it’s the state itself. Chicago/Cook County is the only place in Illinois that’s kept us blue. Downstate is red as the day is long. UAW endorsed the felon so I would imagine that’s the majority of their members.
Fair point. As I say, demonising working class people for being lied to isn't the way to get them back to sanity.
If they voted on union lines, I sort of feel sorry for them. If they voted thinking "everyone else will get it but we will be fine" ie MAGA, then fuck em.
Ah it was Wayne County the number I gave, not just Detroit. I took into account a lot would travel in for work even though it didn't strengthen my point.
In general, you're right it was turkey's voting for Christmas. I just think it's important to not demonise people as a whole.
Detroit city is only 10% white. Looking at the makeup of this video and taking into account the percentage inside the city was 89% Dem and the whole county was only 62%, the OP is probably right.
Can anything change? He's there for 4 years. If he steps away, it's JD Vance, a worse person if there could ever be than Trump.
So, we are just screwed and so are these workers. Only courts and stubborn resistance can slow down the overturning of democracy in USA
Doesn't have a following but if he has the power, he can do the same thing that Trump is doing. Republicans work together in sync for their political gains unlike Democrats.
The idea that carmakers would swallow the tariffs is Fantasy 101. When prices increase, there will be less demand, and the car market will cut jobs—including union-paying jobs.
Yup.
And any new 'jobs' will be done by machines.
Nobody is going to build new plant in the USA and pay US wages if the work can be done by a robot.
Nobody.
And the jobs that remain will be centered around the high tech maintenance of those multi billion dollar machines that require advanced skill training few have. (Oops, Trump is destroying educational system as I type.)
I really don't feel bad for someone who voted based on sexism, getting fired because they chose the guy with 34 felonies who bankrupted casinos, because their masculinity was too fragile to vote for an intelligent woman.
Yeah it sucks for everyone that didn't vote for him... and that's everyone around the world who's going to feel this hard. I'm in Canada and we are bracing for war, as Trump threatened our sovereignty.
I'm feeling so many waves of grief, anger, and guilt. None of this should have happened, but it is, and it's been a slow-moving trainwreck that I've been powerless to stop. This sh*t show is inexcusable.
Well, an update, clairifaction.. (partner is in the automo industry) this is awkward a f!
They did support Harris & now support the tariffs. Really disenhartening. The layoffs. The supply chain disruptions. We're f'ed!
Good to know. I heard they supported Trump. I'm glad they were wrong. I originally thought they supported Harris. I literally cried during the DNC when all the unions spoke. There was such hope.
Just a heads up that leopard chewing on faces doesn’t care what you believe or think. It just wants to chew on faces. Maybe you can avoid the leopard if you’re very wealthy in America maybe you can avoid the leopard outside of America. Maybe.
they are walking out of a places some of them have worked over a decade with no job during a recession in a city without many other prospects. how far do they have to fall before you will recognize them as workers exploited by the same plutocracy?
The point is that THEY need to recognize it. We already do. And we will be there to help them when they are ready to admit that MAGA is not the way forward.
Hear ya, and agree, but also believe, just like with alcoholics and drug addicts, step 1 is admitting one’s problem and owning it. trump voters need to start calling him out—many of them are just mad at the “government” and refuse to say trump is the problem and are still addicted to him.
They aren't in Detroit that's Hamtramick. And I live in metro Detroit. All those people probably voted for trump. I work HR in a uaw shop. 90% of our union workforce voted for 🍊💩💨🤡
We’ve tried that. It didn’t work because here we are again. If they want to join our movement then they are welcome, but I’m done bending over backwards so they feel welcome. Decorum days are done. They put us in this mess…again.
Those people walking out of that factory know exactly what Trump did to them. The last thing they need is to be kicked by people who don’t support Trump.
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People let themselves be duped.
Trump won MI by 80k votes. He flipped Wayne County, where many UAW members live, by 80k votes. It was in part due to UAW members who voted for him.
They can learn their lesson and then they will be welcomed, or they can live the consequence of their choices with the same sympathy they give
They all knew what he was going to do and the majority of them voted for him anyway. I'm in another country and I knew what he was going to do, so they have no excuse.
Sorry, but people need to take responsibility for their choices in a democracy and learn from mistakes.
Though I don’t take any pleasure in their downfall. Only the self righteous Christian Right would do that
I know scores of empathetic Liberals
what are you doing for these workers?
Congrats, you're getting what you voted for.
The first step is admitting you have a problem.
Those massive lunch boxes
So 90's and 35 years later...
In 20 years of my labor - never ate that much food. It only results in zzzzzzzzz and feeling unwell.
https://cwa-union.org/trumps-anti-worker-record
And we should have *squashed* all the Lost Cause bs back in 1865, too.
https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/8-ways-the-biden-administration-has-fought-for-working-people-by-strengthening-unions/
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“Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers Union, praised President Trump's move to impose tariffs on vehicles and auto parts imported into the U.S.”
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/uaw-president-shawn-fain-tariffs-auto-works-donald-trump/
Prove me wrong.
Am guessing these people work on cars still made overseas and just finish them here? And the tariffs make that no longer financially viable?
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371051391112
They don't get credit for being 😢 that the loaded gun they pointed in our faces, then pulled the trigger, blew up in theirs
His hateful bloodlust and lawless cruelty are widely celebrated
Enjoy your unplanned vacation time
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2025/04/02/president-donald-trump-features-michigan-auto-workers-at-tariff-unveiling-white-house-uaw/82782972007/
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Seems important.
Here's what Trump is doing while you suffer because of his actions.
These men are brothers, husbands, sons, and yes, Americans.
Even the black men’s lower-than-usual Dem support was higher than every other group—except for black women.
They could not imagine a woman CIC. They opted for the guy who doesn't respect their sacrifice. Again.
Americas finest. NOT!!
Maybe they can go pick apples, mow lawns or build houses. 🤣
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They voted for this.
I'm comfortable saying white pepple.
There's a lot going on to drive her statements/public positions. The UAW likes the tariffs (for now). This is typical 'Detroit Democrat brain'. It's OK. 🧢
If they voted on union lines, I sort of feel sorry for them. If they voted thinking "everyone else will get it but we will be fine" ie MAGA, then fuck em.
In general, you're right it was turkey's voting for Christmas. I just think it's important to not demonise people as a whole.
Here are my ShopRite strawberries from a plastic basket this morning.
All huge. This is what happens when there’s no one willing to pick them.
How many voted for the tangerine dumpster fire?
So, we are just screwed and so are these workers. Only courts and stubborn resistance can slow down the overturning of democracy in USA
"UAW President Shawn Fain said in a statement Wednesday evening that the union applauds the Trump administration for following through on 25% tariffs on foreign-made vehicles and parts."
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2025/03/28/united-auto-workers-supports-donald-trump-auto-tariffs/82686652007/
And any new 'jobs' will be done by machines.
Nobody is going to build new plant in the USA and pay US wages if the work can be done by a robot.
Nobody.
i wish someone, anyone, would fix detroit. anytime. :(
"I am an auto worker, and no tax on Overtime is why I voted for him"
I wonder how he feels now, likely out of work, and no tax on OT was a joke.
I hate to say we all told you so, but come on, we all told you so!
And these critters manage to find mates and breed.
They did support Harris & now support the tariffs. Really disenhartening. The layoffs. The supply chain disruptions. We're f'ed!
https://uaw.org/tariffs-mark-beginning-of-victory-for-autoworkers/
But the tolerant left, the party of compromise and coalition, compromised themselves into a shallow grave covered over with Maga spit.
The radical left wants blood.
Not this time.
Don't expect us to cry when the leopard eats their delicious faces.
#NomNomNom
Progressives have been trying for YEARS to explain to "conservatives" (reactionaries) that GOP policies are bad for workers.
They needed to FAIL to understand.
Coworkers said “only a beta votes for a woman.”
Day after election, plant manager says “there will be layoffs because of tariffs” & they were shocked.🤦🏻♀️
WE KNOW they are being used, but they were led by prejudice.
It is a CULT addiction that only they can break
So do
Many do not
Went for Kamala 89-10
https://detroitmi.gov/webapp/election-results
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2025/04/02/president-donald-trump-features-michigan-auto-workers-at-tariff-unveiling-white-house-uaw/82782972007/
Oops.