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I don’t like how this article hyperbolizes the amount of booing. Compare the moments of booing to the very end with the mix of cheers/jeers where that sounds like the entire audience giving a reaction.
Yes it’s important that jorkin depeanus vance got booed but misrepresenting the level of heckling from the crowd isn’t journalism that respects its readers.
Thanks for taking that hit for the team. No way I was going to watch that but I was certainly skeptical of the claim.
jorkin depeanus vance
Upvoted just for this.
Well, also for excellent critique of the journalistic integrity.
My favorite so far has been Joe Dirt Vance.
Please use his real name: Jeffrey Dahmer Vance.
Stolen squalor.
Yeah that's the New Republic for you.
I'm very sorry about this. But every time I read "jorkin depeanus" a picture of the Swedish chef pops into my head
I'm a union worker and I'm dismayed at the amount of my union brothers who vote for pieces of shit like this. Who buy into their bullshit and actually think that conservatives will help them. Talk about voting against your own interests. If you're in a union, voting for conservatives is just stupid
Union worker myself. I am also baffled by the strong conservative undercurrent in my fellows' views. Don't know how they sustain it.
Bigotry, selfishness, severe lack of intelligence and or basic reasoning skills. I can keep going.
A big part of it is the view that the left "gives money away". Union jobs are typically labor with long hous and their view is that "I work hard for the money I eared and my taxes go to the lazy".
I think that's bullshit obviously, but that is a pretty common sentiment from my experience.
They work long hours but also live in a society. So do they not like roads to drive on? Or having a military? Or public schools? Or libraries? You know. Stuff that benefits them?
You give them way too much credit. They look for negativity and outrage and persecution in everything, not reason and investment and public benefit. To them the biggest danger to the American economy is liberals taking the money from the working folk and giving it to the welfare queens to cover their Lexus leases or whatever.
What’s that you say? The government is taking the middle class’s money to subsidize wealthy people not paying taxes? Why are you so JeaLoUS? Why do you want to PuNiSh SuCcEsS rather than rewarding it, comrade? Now stop trying to give free food to growing children who didn’t earn it you monster!
Now that you say that, yeah, I do hear that kinda shit from my older and, ironically, youngest coworkers. I've given up arguing with them.
Please keep arguing with them
If Trump wins i will need to flee the country for my family’s safety. And i would rather not.
Stupidity combined "fuck you, I've got mine."
I’m dismayed at the amount of my union brothers who vote for pieces of shit like this.
There was a period in the 90s when Democrats took the DLC Neoliberal turn, basically abandoned the labor movement, and made it very easy for Republicans to run as White Nationalist labor-ish sounding candidates.
But ten years ago, you'd get some Joe the Plumber asshole whining about how he can't afford to drive to work because gasoline taxes are too expensive.
Now you've got this Yaley prick telling Boston Firefighters they are the Sad Virgins rather than the Woke Chads, because they don't hate migrants enough.
Karl Rove is rolling in his pile of rent boys right now.
God, imagine if Biden had backed the railroad unions... Ahh, what might have been.
The stupidity of that decision still amazes me to this day. "Railroad safety and efficacy during the shipping crisis? No! Let the monopolistic railroads regulate themselves, fuck their workers!"
He did. After blocking the strikes his administration stepped in to negotiate for the unions and got them most of what they wanted.
I guess I meant fully backed? I'm referring to the thing Biden didn't do when he had the chance, to prove how pro-union he is.
I’m referring to the thing Biden didn’t do when he had the chance
What thing?
Thing that he didn't do was fully back the union in the way that I meant. No schedule changes, no predictability, no sick days. No alarm at what is apparently a nationally vital resource being run poorly by people whose sole motivation is shareholder profits.
The concessions they got were paltry in comparison and it's honestly fucking shameful that we treat people this way.
I think it's important to note that if you only read headlines here, you might think there was overwhelming disapproval from the firefighters union. If you get your news from right wing rags, you don't hear the boos, you only hear the cheers. I'd say it was pretty mixed listening to the video, in fact more cheers than jeers. Of course that's all meaningless as we have been digitally editing crowd reactions for years now and news agencies cherry pick what they want you to hear.
The point is, go out and vote. Don't you dare think this race is in the bag, it is a hell of a lot closer than articles like this would make you believe and the actual hatred for the right is WAY less than you might imagine.
Fuckin savage caption writing.
[clapping] would have been sufficient but they really wanted to let the hearing impaired feel the awkwardness of the moment.
Oof. Homeboy has the presence of a used blood boy.
From urban dictionary:
blood boy
A young man who is a healthy specimen (no drinking, smoking, drugs, possibly vegan) and is hired by an tech billionaire to be a source of youthful, healthy blood for him, via regular transfusions.
I had to look it up, but it's wonderfully accurate. Thank you for teaching me a new term.
Is this a real thing? I thought it was just a joke from the show Silicon Valley.
It is indeed real.
Someone pointed it out on a slightly different issue the other day, but we already know how Trump treats workers, because he was president for 4 years. Voters haven't forgotten that.
It might be time to swap JD for Bobby Brainworm.
You mean ole Whaley McChainsaw?
“Semper Fi guys,” Vance said, seeming to signpost his background as a Marine to get the hecklers to stop.
"Isn't this a magic incantation that I can invoke anytime to clear me of ill will?"
Bitch you spent 6 months in as a reporter; my dad killed people in a war. You are not the same kinds of Marines.
Vance’s team is already attempting to spin his dismal reception, lauding his bravery for stepping into hostile territory.
They can spin it all they want but he wasn't in a gd firefight ffs.
JD Vance puts mustard on his pizza pass it on
One of Trenton NJ’s specialty pies is a mustard pizza. You won’t believe me but they’re actually good.
He was speaking to a union in Boston. What did he expect?
The man has sex with furniture, thinking will never be his strong suit.
Well he is basically in a union with his couch, just with less working and more... Working
Hello, Dale! I see that you are a man of culture as well.
Walking out on to speak to a bunch of Boston firefighters with some weird ass jingoist country bullshit playing: immediate boo
You're JD "Couchfucker" Vance: immediate boo
Your boss a few days before took a shit on the national gravesite of war dead by politicizing the ultimate sacrifice they made: immediate boo.
What a weird group of assholes.
The appropriate intro music when speaking to ANY crowd in Boston is "Shippin' Up to Boston" by the Dropkick Murphys
No way in hell they’ll let a political party use their music. Especially not Vance’s party