What the Hell Was Teamsters’ President Thinking With That RNC Speech?
What the Hell Was Teamsters’ President Thinking With That RNC Speech?
Sean O’Brien, which side are you on?
“I think we all can agree, whether people like him or they don’t like him, in light of what happened to him on Saturday, he has proven to be one tough SOB,”
Uh, no we can't. He is and always will be a giant thin-skinned coward. Where did he prove to be tough?
253A shot grazed his fucking ear. Every teen goth girl has taken more direct hits to their ear.
Plus, he doesn’t listen to anyone anyway. The only more useless part of his body that they could have hit is his hair.
138Did we ever get actual footage of his ear? The day of, we saw an ear with blood on it, then today we saw an ear with a bandage covering it. Are there any shots of the ear cleaned up enough to see actual tissue damage?
The tinfoil hat in me is still wondering if the performative display we saw was something like a gunman hired to pop a few shots at expendable followers behind Trump, so that Trump can duck below where the cameras were aimed, slather some shit on his ear, then pop up with that cheesy movie-esque fist pump.
Kinda expected info on the gunman to snuff those kinds of theories, but it's sounding like he was just another dipshit Nazi who could easily be duped into a deal like that, then popped off by the SS.
The ear itself could disprove it, but so far I haven't seen any articles with a pic.
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He refused to leave without his shoes and pumped his fist in the air. Strength.
14He refused to leave without his ~~shoes ~~and pumped his fist in the air. Strength.
his LIFTS. he wouldn't leave them on the stage to be a photo op. because he's ashamed of them.
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He raised his fist after the sniper team had already killed the shooter while missing a little chunk of his ear. Super brave. I remember after my dad broke his leg in 16 places in an accident he went to work in a wheel chair and kept at it until he got out of it after the doctors told him he would likely not be able to walk. That's tough. There are a lot of actually tough SOBs in America powering through their own problems to do what needs to be done. Trump isn't one of them.
14It takes a tough man to worry about his shoes after getting shot at.
14Guy got his ear-pierced and we call that "fighting for his life", gimme a fucking break
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Corrupt class traitor shows his true colors, every teamster should be voting this clown out.
Also this is on top of him challenging a Republican to a fist fight this year during a committee session where he and the Republican idiot had to be gaveled down by Bernie.
Absolute 🤡
205“I refuse to keep doing the same things my predecessors did,” O’Brien said in a speech that criticized both parties. “Today the Teamsters are here to say we are not beholden to anyone or any party. We will create an agenda and work with a bipartisan coalition ready to accomplish something real for the American worker.”
Too cowardly to even admit he’s a conservative. I’m sure he’ll be speaking at the DNC too.
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74The entire show was evil as fuck. The way they treat democrats as monsters, dehumanizing them all just because they cannot tolerate black people, gay people, transexuals and women, it's just incredibly pathetic and demonic to watch
70He was thinking about money...for himself. Fuck everyone else, of course.
67Like a true Republican!
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Racism > worker rights.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/31/teamsters-racial-discrimination-lawsuit
64Fucking clownshoes.
I had high hopes for him, but he's just another Hoffa.
57Who knows, he may yet still be Hoffa.
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That reminds me, I need to order solar panels.
40His whole speech was a call for bipartisanship and for all workers to unite along class lines. Aside from a tiny bit of pandering to the venue/audience which makes the rightwing audience more receptive to the message, he didn't endorse or praise the Republican party. If you want Republican voters to wake up and vote in their own interest, this is how the message has to go. It's also a great way to sow division within the Republican party.
28Teamsters President Sean O’Brien praised Donald Trump as an ally for the working class and “one tough SOB,”
Yes, very bipartisan...
41Lmao trump is a weak piece of shit. The weakest around. He can't even fire people to their face, he did it over tweets when he was president and never even told the person directly. God I'm remembering what an awful shit show his failure of a presidency was. Awful 4 years.
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I used to think this guy was half decent. Never mind.
20Mmmmm daddy... More dirty tasty boots for my filthy little pig mouth!
16Thinking about his fattening bank account if fat orange pushes through his agenda
9Yeah the angry orange is so tough he needs half a dozen guards keeping his candy ass safe
7this man glows in the dark
6Relevant Beau of the Fifth Column:
6It seemed to me like he was thinking what an excellent opportunity to reach a new kind of audience to further the objectives of the teamsters.
The attendees applauded a lot of statements, whether forced for pageantry or authentically, that is bound to get some gears turning.
And those who didn't applaud, well that's a different useful signal.
There's really a lot of opportunity for workers advocate to get good messaging out to this crowd. I would also point out that his address was probably the most substantive one of the whole convention so far.
The reality is Republicans will not disappear, they might even take majorities. Labor topics are super important to get out to them.
I thought this whole play was really interesting.
5He loves that billionaire money. Slurp
4Money and a hatred of the gays?
3It was him recognizing that for some reason there are still folks in labor that vote republican.
1That's the secret. By playing both sides he always comes out on top!
1Dunno, but if I was a Teamster, I’d leave the union over that nonsense.
-5Nah, that just takes power away from working people. Organize militant committees within the union for the sole purpose of getting working politics into leadership positions. That is the play.
48I’m work in a teamsters shop. You can’t even get these idiots to vote on their contracts let alone start a splinter group.
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The teamsters are more of an extortion racket than a union.
He fits right in.
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