Vance was brutally burned during a campaign stop, ironically at a firefighters’ union conference.
  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
    89·
    8 months ago

    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

    • iamtrashman1312@lemmy.world
      34·
      8 months ago

      Union worker myself. I am also baffled by the strong conservative undercurrent in my fellows’ views. Don’t know how they sustain it.

    • warbond@lemmy.world
      213·
      7 months ago

      God, imagine if Biden had backed the railroad unions… Ahh, what might have been.

      • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
        211·
        7 months ago

        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!”

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      7 months ago

      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.

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
    841·
    8 months ago

    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.

    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      8 months ago

      Fuckin savage caption writing.
      [clapping] would have been sufficient but they really wanted to let the hearing impaired feel the awkwardness of the moment.

  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
    71·
    7 months ago

    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.

  • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
    32·
    7 months ago

    “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?”

    • mPony@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      lickspittle

      I’m so glad this term is coming back into modern usage. It showed up twice in one episode of HOTD (and a few others) and I was happy to hear it.

      Also, how tf has JDV been a politician for this long without the ability to be likeable and/or know his audience for a public speaking event? Holy shit.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        If it matters, I didn’t hear it recently at all, and it’s not a word I use often - it’s just that when I went deep into my lexicon for the best word for him, that’s what I came up with. Maybe the lickspittles are the ones bringing it back.