TWGB: The Watchdog Failure

 

When Trump is asked which side he's on in the @UAW strike he won't give a clear answer.

He says, "I'm on the side of making our country great..." Not a word of criticism for CEOs.

Then he says, "The autoworkers are not going to have any jobs when you come right down to it." pic.twitter.com/3waBpZ6iF8

— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) September 15, 2023

This is how the latest iteration of Meet the Press is going to play out? One former WHPC sitting down with a man who has 91 charges and four indictments and listen to him babble about labor, a thing he has no idea about because his working life has been about stiffing contractors and hiring the undocumented?  Trump knows how to cheat on his wives, his taxes, cheat his workers out of pay, but he does not and will not learn shit about the auto industry or the union people making it go. 

Autoworkers would have jobs if their company management would roll with the times. There's a failure of vision when business leaders decide money over everything: and what could be reasonably profitable businesses are looking at short-term profitability or face liquidation because quick cash yo!

I've never been persuaded that businessman Trump even understands business, and not just because he bankrupted casinos playing with house money--like buying properties practically next to each other and keeping them kind of low-rent and all. I can sympathize with people who think the casino times was just him playing with a version of money laundering--why not? Things like Trump insisting on the US having the highest CBT rate when we don't, or pretending the foreign countries pay the tariffs in his entirely not a free-market scheme kind of make me wonder just what Trump got for his Daddy-purchased business degree. 

The man's fucking dim and has been for years. His lightbulb has been blown but he insists he's lighting up the world. So why are Megyn Kelly and Kristin Welker giving his adjudicated rapist ass and four-time indicted self such a platform? 

And the Trees Didn't Even Do Anything Wrong (UPDATED)

 

Quick shoutout to the good people at @UniversalPics for trimming the trees that gave our picket line shade right before a 90+ degree week. pic.twitter.com/aZvvPYQ23i

— Chris Stephens (@ChrisStephensMD) July 17, 2023

So here's an image that got me hotter than July sun on blacktop: these studio sonsofbitches pruned the trees. Were they even their trees to prune? (Maybe not, it looks like they might have been the city's trees.) And is this even the time of year you would normally do that? (Yeah, I dunno about that, you guys.) 

Now, leave out the whole level of mental motherfuckery you would need to possess to even decide "I know what, let's just take a little bit of natural coolness away from the picketers as if that's going to make them not want to resolve this strike in a way that lets them afford to live in the town they work" or anywhere else and shit like that, but also says "and if the trees die, they die." 

Now I'm not arborist, I'm not, I know it. I had fig trees, and they weren't meant for my area of the northeast. They got wrapped but still didn't survive a deep freeze. My grape vines do alright I guess. But that there looks like deliberate and unseasonable butchery for dramatic effect.

They should leave drama to the artists and then pay them for it. And if they screwed with the city's trees trying to strike break, they ought to pay for that, too. That image of those trees is just stark stupid miser shit. 

UPDATES: Why looky here! Apparently, the city had nothing to do with the pruning mess, and that's an unfair practices violation in addition to the city investigation.  Looks like some FA is going to be followed with FO.

Good. 

UPDATE: They got fined all of $250 by the city?