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25 April 2024 - Vote For Your Paychecks!

Back in January the leader of the UAW, Shawn Fein (yes, I wanted to write Sinn Féin, heh), announced that the UAW was endorsing Biden for President. This was after very strained relationships between the UAW leadership and Biden, but Biden had supported the UAW during their strikes in 2023 (see this article at Reuters for more) and so Shawn Fein returned the favor. Whether that translates into union votes for Biden or not remains to be seen. Fein himself admitted that it probably wouldn't (from the article by Wilmer J. Leon III, discussed more below):

Following the union endorsement Fein explained that he expected most of the UAW membership would not vote for President Biden in November. During an interview on Fox Business Network’s Your World with Neil Cavuto, Fain stated, “Let me be clear about this. A great majority of our members will not vote for President Biden…The majority of our members are gonna’ vote for their paychecks, they’re gonna’ vote for an economy that works for them.”

Strikers at the General Motors Lansing Delta Assembly Plant on September 29, 2023 in Lansing, Michigan. Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images from CNN article here.

The last time I posted here I left this little tidbit from Moon of Alabama:

...one wonders what means the deep state used to push Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and Trump, into this full capitulation.

Well, The Grayzone weighed in on this. Here's the relevant part of the video:

Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken is going to China. Here are the Alexes discussing its ramifications.

The Supreme Court is currently hearing a case which would allow cities to officially criminalize poverty.

For some reason the airstrike on PMF forces in Iraq the other day got very little media attention. The Iran-backed militias blamed the U.S., but the U.S. denied it.

For air traffic controllers as a result of the recent near collision at, wait for it, Reagan Intl. Airport.
Yeah, the same guy who fired all the striking air controllers and disbanding their union over the same working conditions being complained about still today.

When Biden became president I had almost no expectations. He had a horrible Senate record, so I expected more of the same. However, he has exceeded my expectations in two ways - labor union policy and anti-trust enforcement. A good rule of thumb is that the media doesn't cover things that are actually important, which explains why you probably haven't heard about these things.