UAW's Shawn Fain On Trump's Tariff-pocalypse

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3. Fain's heart is in the right place, but it's in the past. The manufacturers were all for Nafta...

they're not going to build new auto plants which take years and cost millions then pay American workers $30-40.00 an hour or more when Mexican workers mka so much less. That math is easy to compute.

That ain't gonna happen. And I was a union member #409, United Press Workers Union. Workers, and unions, now have to take advantage of retraining programs, college grants, certification programs, things never stay the same. We have to prepare ourselves for work places of the present and future.

It's all on the line now. trump is an authoritarian, and the only thing holding the democracy together right now are the Democratic Party, the district and state courts and some media outlets as the republicans are all in with trump so they don't get fired or primaried.

We gotta hold the line and it's not going to be easy. Too may working class dumbos are still out there supporting trump as it's only just under 3 months in for this precursor to fascism administration.

trump is Jesus Christ to so many of these fools and the republicans backing him are John the Baptist — one who comes first. And here if trump wins, it's Fascism 'R Us.

Once the tariffs fully take effect and prices go up on everything and the reality of all the firings and a recession or worse a depression sets in, we'll see then if they back the MFer.

Democracy or fascism is what's on the line.