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President Joe Biden stumbled down the shortened stairs of Air Force One into the Motor City on Tuesday to show solidarity with auto workers.
It was unprecedented, the lapdog media brayed.
Biden is the first sitting-president to walk a picket line with a union on strike.
Albeit he stood for about 12 minutes, then spent 87 seconds spitting slogans through a bullhorn, before jetting off to a San Francisco fundraiser where donations topped out at $100,000.
Regardless, it was billed as an unparalleled show of support.
More likely we’ll look back on this moment and say: that’s why Democrats lost the White House.
Biden wore a United Auto Worker baseball cap, a jacket emblazoned with the Presidential seal and fist-bumped the men and women on the line. He repeated tired talking points about corporate greed that he’s levelled at every industry from oil producers to meat packers.
Then a reporter in the crowd shouted a question.
Does the President agree that auto workers deserve the whopping 40% pay raise they’re demanding.
‘Yes!’ Biden yelled in response.
Ford’s CEO has said that’ll put them ‘out of business’.
Start the clock to when the White House walks that Biden blurt back. We all know the President isn’t responsible for the things he says.
So far, the administration has refused to officially endorse the UAW’s wage hike demands or full-time pay for a slimmed down 32-hour work week.
President Joe Biden stumbled down the shortened stairs of Air Force One into the Motor city on Tuesday to show solidarity with auto workers.
It’s all malarkey, as our aging commander-in-chief often whines.
He can cosplay a working-class hero all he wants, but he’s really knifing them in the backs.
Biden is a union auto worker’s worst nightmare.
These are the Americans who mostly viscerally feel the gut punch of inflation stoked by Biden’s profligate federal spending.
Forty-four percent of Americans say they’re worse off financially under Biden. Only three in 10 approve of Biden’s handling of the economy.
Do Joe’s handlers think his screaming into a megaphone can change these realities? Maybe have him belt out a few Woody Guthrie songs.
And it’s not just about money.
These folks, mostly white men without college degrees, hear the left-wing tout diversity, equity, and inclusion and environmental, social, and corporate governance and ask why their lives continue to get worse year after year.
Though nothing quite captures Biden’s real disregard for these blue-collar workers more than his Environmental Protection Agency proposal to mandate electric vehicles make up two-thirds of U.S. auto sales in less than a decade.
Today, EVs are just six percent of the market.
It’s nothing short of a pledge to kneecap the industry in the service of the climate alarmist cult that Democrats now serve.
Everyone wants clean air and water, but how quickly and at what cost?
You see, regular gas-powered cars with combustion engines have thousands of moving parts that must be assembled by skilled workers. A Tesla has all of 17.
More EVs and fewer gas-guzzlers mean fewer union jobs and under Biden’s timeline that impact would be crushing.
An estimated 117,000 auto-manufacturing jobs nationwide would be destroyed by the rule. Michigan stands to be hit hardest – losing 25,000 positions.
Don’t just take it from me.
Though nothing quite captures Biden’s real disregard for these blue-collar workers more than his Environmental Protection Agency proposal to mandate electric vehicles make up two-thirds of U.S. auto sales in less than a decade. (Above) Ford all-electric F-150 Lightning truck prototype is seen on an automated guided vehicle
On Tuesday, Trump called the EV mandate ‘draconian and indefensible,’ claiming ‘it will annihilate the U.S. auto industry and cost countless thousands of auto worker jobs.’
‘Workers who are making engines and transmissions today’ will see their jobs ‘eliminated when we make a transition to electric vehicles,’ said UAW research director Jennifer Kelly.
What’s more is that Biden’s mandate doesn’t require the electric vehicles be produced by union workers. Foreign manufacturers and non-union shops will swoop in to produce these cars at a fraction of the cost.
Across the Rust Belt, job cuts will devastate communities, not just in direct losses, but also in the closing of restaurants, and other small businesses dependent on the big factories.
Is it any wonder that the UAW hasn’t endorsed Biden for president in 2024?
Biden is no union man. He’s a champion of the wealthy college-educated elite, who demand ideologically purity at the expense of everyone else, and even the environment gets the short end of the stick.
China controls 90 percent of the supply of rare earth minerals critical to the production of EV batteries. And Communists set on global domination are not above tearing these modern-day gold nuggets out of ground at any ecological cost.
Amid all of this stupidity, hypocrisy and frustration, who walks in with a promise to set it all right?
David Marcus is a columnist living in West Virginia and the author of ‘Charade: The COVID Lies That Crushed A Nation.’
None other than Donald Trump.
On Tuesday, Trump called the EV mandate ‘draconian and indefensible,’ claiming ‘it will annihilate the U.S. auto industry and cost countless thousands of auto worker jobs.’
On Wednesday, Trump travels to Detroit to meet with the workers.
Comparison may be the thief of joy, but it’s also the winner of elections and voters will remember that under Trump they could afford groceries and fill up their gas tanks.
The bottom line is that Democrats desperately need these unions to get in line and vote for Biden come November. Lose union-heavy Michigan, nearby Wisconsin or Pennsylvania and you can kiss your White House dreams goodbye – just ask Hillary Clinton.
So, what can Joe offer the unions if he insists on EPA rules that break their backs? Maybe more handouts? Government subsidies? More U.S. taxpayer-funded giveaways to the union bosses to help paper over the pain inflicted on their members?
All Americans should expect to pick up the tab for Joe’s destruction of the auto industry workforce, if he blindly gropes his way back to the White House in 2024.
I think the good people of Detroit know better.
