cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/29278337
A Teamster posted images of a fund raising letter they received from President Sean O'Brien on r/Union (warning: reddit link).
In the letter, Sean O'Brien claims that Trump is creating a new 'Worker First' republican party, and implores the reader to donate as much as they can to the Teamster 'TEAM Fund', which will be used to:
- Support Trump's 'Pro-Worker' initiatives, like 'strategic' tariffs
- Financially back incumbent 'pro-worker' republican candidates for the House and Senate
- Identify pro-labor legislatures in key states and support their campaigns
Sean then introduces the next part of the letter; a message from Josh Hawley, a Christian Nationalist and Trump loyalist state senator who fist pumped the Jan 6th rioters in support.
In the letter Hawley claims Trump has eliminated the "country club elites and business tycoons" from the republican party, as well as ending the "Woke DEI agenda".
If there was ever any doubt about O'Brien, he's certainly showing his true colors now, bending the knee to the fascists in power and even going so far as to fund raise for them.
The letter itself:
Him speaking at the RNC was not in and of itself bad--i heard him justify it later and he made some good points, that there are a lot of exploited workers in the base who could stand to hear the benefits of unions from a union leader instead of just hearing Fox propaganda. But to look at the tax cuts, the benefit cuts, and the tariff outcomes and double down on Trump makes it abundantly clear where his loyalties lie--his own pockets, and maybe his own prejudices.
Even if you accept he Senator Hawley story at face value, he completely loses the plot here:
He's right though, the GOP is absolutely at an inflection point where the authoritarianism seemed to have leveled out to "evil nanny state" levels and is now ramping all the way up to full blown Nazi.
I lol'd. I GUFFAWED at that third paragraph.
Trump literally owns the country club for elites
He works at a golf club? Wow how humble