Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on May 22, 2022 17:41:04 GMT -5
A damning new report proves the deadly cost of Trump's working class betrayal
A congressional select committee investigating the pandemic recently released a report on Covid outbreaks in the meatpacking industry early in the pandemic, and it turns out that company executives knew that the workers were catching Covid-19 and dying. In response, they enlisted the help of the Trump administration in preventing local health departments from requiring safety measures to keep their plants open, insulating themselves from legal accountability and starving their workers back onto the job. When corporate profits — or capitalists’ control of their workforces, especially diverse ones — are on the line, then Donald Trump and his goons have their backs, always. It’s an illustration of the fundamentally fraudulent nature of Trump-style “populism.” He and his party might rail against “globalist” bankers, corporate fat cats or slanted trade deals and occasionally might even make some token policy gesture in that direction. But when corporate profits — or capitalists’ control of their workforces, especially diverse ones — are on the line, then Donald Trump and his goons have their backs, always. Trump’s whole 2016 campaign, recall, was about reclaiming American greatness that had been stolen by corrupt Washington elites. We “are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the American people,” he claimed in his inaugural address. “For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. … Politicians prospered — but the jobs left, and the factories closed.” Trump’s critique had some bite to it, to be fair, but in power he let foxes into every regulatory henhouse, from agriculture to the environment to finance, and his most obvious personal priority was lining his own pockets. A truly awful context to the meatpacker story is that it likely would have been possible for these companies to have remained open without turning their operations into Covid factories. Meatpacking facilities were perfect for spreading the coronavirus because they’re heavily air-conditioned; the virus is more stable in cooler temperatures, and the A/C recirculates any virus-containing air to every corner of the building. But countervailing steps could have been taken. Complete article here: A damning new report proves the deadly cost of Trump's working class betrayal
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Post by djAdvocate on May 22, 2022 18:50:22 GMT -5
the workers in this industry should be keenly aware of this.
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Post by busymom on May 22, 2022 21:55:16 GMT -5
It's always about the money. Especially with the Trumps.
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Post by djAdvocate on May 22, 2022 21:59:35 GMT -5
stuff like this is always an opportunity. we are so lazy in this country that we never see it that way.
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Post by seriousthistime on May 23, 2022 20:37:22 GMT -5
We “are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the American people,” he claimed in his inaugural address. “For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. … Politicians prospered — but the jobs left, and the factories closed.”
Tump did not actually have to mean what he said.
He just had to say it. And his mainstream supporters believed it because he said it.
They don't recognize bullshit when they hear it. And they will vote for him again.
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