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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:

  1. Support Trump's 'Pro-Worker' initiatives, like 'strategic' tariffs
  2. Financially back incumbent 'pro-worker' republican candidates for the House and Senate
  3. 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:

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[-] noodles@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] brendansimms@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I lol'd. I GUFFAWED at that third paragraph.

[-] Taldan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Trump literally owns the country club for elites

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

He works at a golf club? Wow how humble

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

At this point I'm starting to wonder if they have something on him. Of course, it could just be garden-variety corruption.

[-] comeonitsnotlike@feddit.nu 1 points 1 month ago

Flight logs to Epstein pedo-Island contains a wide variety of actual, now living, human creatures. Raping children is not a foreign concept for conservatives.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

This is crazy. At best he himself has fallen for the propaganda. Gotta vote him out ASAP.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

At best he realizes the average Teamster is the bedrock of MAGA and they'd rather leave the Teamsters than vote Dem.

What probably happened is he got a bribe.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It's crazy that such a toxic political party intent on hurting as many people as possible will ever help anyone who works with them. The teamsters are being driven by a man that will steal their benefits, protections, and cut their pay permanently.

[-] olbaidiablo@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

What's with these top union people being so blatantly stupid, näive and gullible? The conservatives of pretty much every western country are liars, all of them. How stupid do you have to be to believe the word of people who lie so much it's basically their brand at this point.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

What's with these top union people being so blatantly stupid, näive and gullible?

greed

The conservatives of pretty much every western country are liars, all of them.

don't forget greedy.

How stupid do you have to be to believe the word of people who lie so much it's basically their brand at this point.

so greedy they'll sell their children out for more.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That formatting. Ugh. I'm all for use of ~~bold~~, underline and italic so long as they're creative. Dude wouldn't even use italics because he thinks they aren't white enough ffs

[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

I knew he was nuts, but my god, that font choice! Did he type that on a 1920s typewriter?

Also he's a fucking scumbag.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

teamsters have always been conservative leaning compared to other unions, police unions dont count as they arnt a true union.

[-] hazardous_area@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

This is not surprising given any previous interactions with teamsters management. I thought they were slimy and I was on the corporate side of the equation.

Also to be clear fuck corps, hurray unions.

[-] WarlockLawyer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Where's the mob when you need them

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

The mob was and is conservative.

[-] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

The mob is currently behind the guy in the white house, at least they have been through all his businesses historically.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Well a mob.

The mob is the Sicilian mob but Donnie is in with the Russians.

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