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Hello, ElPlywood. Thanks for participating, and I appreciate your passion! I'll try to answer the first few here as best as I can. 1 Why do you...

“I think what you’re reacting to is that, at the moment, Biden is an unpopular president seeking a second term while Trump is a popular figure inside his party who is winning primary races. I wouldn’t necessarily compare the two.”

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I’m trying not to bring it up because I don’t want just a sprawling argument about everything, but after Biden “union busted” the rail workers, his labor department kept working the issue and got the workers their sick days anyway. Like a lot of the quippy little criticisms, “union busting” has a lot more to do with cherry-picking one event people are familiar with and trying to create a Biden-is-bad picture out of it, than it does with reality.

Or to put another way every year Biden’s been in office, union membership has risen by a tiny amount, after having fallen by a tiny amount every single year that the last guy was in office. If he’s trying to do union busting he’s doing a pretty shitty job at it.

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“We finally got a raise after far too long!!! Praise Biden?”

sets watch for 3 years when they fully understand they have no recourse to force negotiation

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He codified, in law, that they couldnt strike, and then made private one time not codified deals with the owners after the fact.

It isnt cherry picking, it is observing the whole truth and not chomping at the bit to spout Democrat spin.

I remember in 2022 when Biden passed the 1926 Railway Labor Act(PDF link).

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