Class traitor
user
IDK I think it may have been a 5head move. He cooked in a room full of people who don't agree with him and still got some kind of feed back.
assistant
Yeah I don’t understand the hate. If he went up there, sucked Trump’s dick, then fucked off, it’d be different. Instead he gave a lengthy speech about the benefits of unionization and called out corporate greed to an audience he (most likely) knew wouldn’t receive it well. 

I think it was a ballsy move and any positive support for unions on a platform of that size is great in my opinion. Especially when people who are normally opposed to this sort of rhetoric are shown to be clapping and cheering for his messages.
user
Well, we know the Republicans are anti union and anti worker, right? So the next time that gets pointed out they can just point to this idiot and say "but what about the union guy who spoke at the RNC??"

He will just be used to mask their shitty agenda. Absolute buffoon imo.
assistant
Likely a good 50/60% of the teamsters (and unionized workers in general) are Trumpies who watch Fox News. They wont watch the DNC but they will watch the RNC. He did not endorse Trump in his speech but did give a good speech TO HIS BASE.
user
Even if I agreed with that...to what end? What was the point? What was gained?

I know what the conservatives gained, I have no idea how this helped unions. Other people in this thread acting like he was "getting his message to a conservative audience" confuse me. Do they think conservatives don't know what unions are? It's not like the general public doesn't know unions exist. Most of the people at the RNC (and watching) *hate* unions and actively fight against them. What are we even talking about?!
assistant
&gt;I have no idea how this helped unions

You have no idea how the leader of the biggest union in the country speaking to his base on the biggest platform any union leader has ever had helps unions?

&gt;Do they think conservatives don't know what unions are?

Genuinely? No, many of them don't. Have you ever worked a blue collar job? Have you ever had  to explain the benefits (with receipts) of unionization to a union-backed new hire who didn't know if he wanted to pay his union dues because "unions are corrupt and do nothing for us"? You come across as INCREDIBLY sheltered when you come in with this extremely acerbic black-or-white take.
user
I don't believe for a second that this moved the needle at all and if you think it did then we can just agree to disagree.

And since we are on Hasan's sub, he and his union/labor contacts seem to disagree.

Quick edit: I am not downvoting you. At the end of the day, I assume we agree 99% of the time so its all good, disagreeing and talking it out is a good thing people! Respond with your own input or move on. Downvoting in this case is silly.
assistant