I am with santara, joe is a piece of garbage for this and will go down as the worst president since donald j trump.
I hope ALL rail workers strike anyway.

Or they can just have their cronies in the federal government suppress the striking workers for them, that sounds like smart business. They won't need to negotiate or fire workers en masse, when they simply stripped them of their right to assemble. If the rail workers try to strike anyway, they'll be doing so with all protections revoked, and the rail companies free to retaliate against them and the workers denied all their benefits, same as if they quit en masse, except because Joe Biden and the democrats stepped up the rail companies can replace the workers by mobilizing the military / national guard like Reagan did during the ATC strike. This is union busting 101, its a show of force: The workers have no right to strike or collective bargain, and if they attempt it they'll be stripped of all rights and military forced authorized to both stop them and replace them.


And to revisit a previous point. What were the worst elements of each president? Reagan's union busting. Jimmy Carter letting Iran implode and leaving Americans behind, and presiding over stagflation. HW directly lying about domestic policy promises to the public on the campaign trail, 'read my lips'. Bill Clinton's sex assault allegations, personal scandals in general and presiding over an economic bubble. W dragging us into foreign wars and being an incoherent gaffe machine. Obama centralizing authoritarian powers and his reckless foreign interventions including trying to oppose Russia but backfiring. Trump enflaming partisan divides and failing to take the pandemic seriously, at least in signaling if not in the vaccine moonshot.
I'd contend that Joe Biden has managed in 2 years to encapsulate the worst of every post-nixon era president. We've got scandals over his corruption through Hunter Biden, the woman he molested, weaponizing the FBI to pursue his critics and even spy on that woman, letting Afghanistan implode and leaving people behind, stabbing unions in the back, directly lying to voters about 'no covid mandate', fed officials are now trying to spin the stagflation as a necessary and good thing (lmao), an economic bubble in both housing and tech and in general with overinflated money supply, just look at an M2 graph, and all while dragging us into the Ukraine war and risking WW3 and failing to stop Russia and then LARPing as V for Vendetta's norsefire while he calls Republicans enemies of the state. And they all dropped their masks, both literally and figuratively, the moment he went for the state of the union last year, because it turns out they never cared about covid risk any more than Trump did. And god damn does he make W look eloquent.


...and I'd like to remind you all I supported Biden for president, back in 2008...

This post was edited by Goomshill on Dec 3 2022 10:22pm

also I think the retrospective deserves some credit;

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/02/joe-biden-is-no-friend-of-unions



Biden's betrayal could have been predicted by someone paying close attention.

Biden administration is almost the fictional Underwood administration, minus the eloquent monologues.

You should really read some Gramsci...
Attaining and sustaining "cultural hegemony" is one of the most important battlefields of the overarching class struggle.
That point aside, I think you're deluding yourself if you believe that society will perpetually become ever more open, tolerant and peaceful.



Many railroad workers have very specific skillsets which don't translate easily to other professions. If railroad workers quit their job, but the railroad companies can cope without them and don't come crawling back (begging them to return to their old job for better pay and with more perks), then the workers have completely shredded their career.

It's also a money issue if the government prevents the union from declaring an official strike - it means that there will be no strike pay, and many many workers will not be able to sustain a strike of sufficient duration out of their own personal pocket.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Dec 4 2022 12:17pm

it's refreshing to see that the far right has finally come around to admit that biden is NOT the "radical leftist" they have been fear-mongering about, but yet another corporate puppet, placed in "charge" to disenfranchise the american people on behalf of special interest groups - just slightly less egregiously and subtly than republicans do, throwing them the occasional tiny bone, which republicans in congress immediately challenge and block, lol.

It's almost as if politics isn't a one-dimensional affair and someone can espouse radical leftist ideas on some issues while being a corporatist on others.

One of the most apt and prescient political quotes in recent memory is still Josh Hawley when he said "the interests of big business and big government are increasingly aligned".

What "radical leftist ideals" has Biden espoused, in your opinion?

I see. Thanks for explaining.