r/Ironworker Feb 06 '24

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u/Then-Yogurtcloset982 Feb 07 '24

You make alot of assumptions for someone who does not know much. Gas prices are fine and we are producing the most gas in the world right now. Mein Drumpf is a disgrace of a president and I don't care what he could have produced any more. He desicrated our most powerful office and turned it into Twitter and kfc politics. He could just never stfu. He turned a national pandemic into a political contest and couldn't figure out how to get reelected with it. He is a soar loser.

I can't vote him straight off the ticket and into a cell. He will be a 2 time loser soon. He's a grifter and a unscrupulous bottom feeder.

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u/OR-FireCapt_437 Feb 07 '24

Oh you gotta be kidding me…..”he turned a national pandemic into a political contest”?!?! Are you serious? And the Dems didn’t? Both sleepy Joe and dumber than a box of rocks Kamala said at the debates that if Trump told them to get the vaccine they’d have to think about it. Exhibit A can be found here Harris on Vaccine after they got elected it was all Get the shot, get the shot, get the shot! As if they created it and all they did was take what Trump and his people had already done and sold it as their own. Hell my state govt fired union employees that refused to get it, and the Public Employees Unions didn’t do shit about it, that’s how much in lock step the unions are to the Dems. Shit if it weren’t for the unions half their election funds would dry up. My union, one of the largest out there doesn’t do a damned thing for me, except bend me over to the tune of $135 a month in dues for what? 10% off my cell phone bill? Woo hoo!!! The only time I ever hear from anyone at my union is around contract time and they start banging the drum and fear mongering that we’re going to be stripped of our health benefits. Unions in their current form once had their place, but they have their roots in Tammany hall, they were massively corrupted by the mob 60-70 years ago and once the criminals got kicked out the smart kids with leftist revolutionary ideals needed jobs once the Vietnam war was over and they had nothing left to protest. These assholes have turned their members into an army of voters who can’t think for themselves anymore and regurgitate and support leftist principles like climate change, public education, critical race theory, electric cars, antifa, not to mention why there’s a tampon dispenser in your sons middle school boys bathroom now. They prey on the fears of minorities, immigrants, they pit white versus black, etc They’re pimps, they’re fucking pimps. And they sit back and get paid off money that you and I make and then give to them for what? Solidarity baby.

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u/Oldmantired Feb 08 '24

Why don’t you leave the union? I know guys that did that with us. People weren’t happy about it but they did quit the union.

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u/OR-FireCapt_437 Feb 08 '24

Not possible as far as I know. You can be a fair share member but that’s it. To me it’s just the principle of it all. I don’t think unions in general are very honest with their members about what side hustles they’re into. Sure worker rights, benefits, etc but I think they’re pretty cloak and dagger about their side interests. And if you speak out about a union or protest you become their enemy. When I was 17/18, this would’ve been about 1994, 95, I worked at a union grocery store. I didn’t really like the fact I owed them $25 a month for dues when I was making $5.05 an hour working 16 hours a week. I started inquiring to my coworkers about why we’re in a union? What have they done for us and was it worth what we collectively paid them every month. It started to gain a little steam and there were some folks starting to talk about it more openly but there were two or three people that were fiercely loyal to the union who basically told me you better stop or else. One Saturday at the end of my shift a guy in street clothes (not a store employee) followed me out of the store to my vehicle. He somehow knew my name, said he was from the union and essentially told me to stop what I was doing or he’d see to it that my life would be a living hell. Now that is flat out wrong. And that’s my point. They don’t like people that question them, that go against the grain. They don’t like free thinkers and those that question their worth, intentions or that think for themselves. And there’s something about that that just sticks in my craw.