Shortly after Donald Trump made good on one of his core campaign promises on Monday morning by signing an executive order formally withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade deal, Trump told labor union leaders that he would renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement "at the appropriate time." The remarks came at the start of a meeting at the White House with leaders of construction, carpenters, plumbers and sheet metal unions, during which Trump pledged to stop trade deals that harmed American workers.
According to the White House, participants included North America's Building Trades Unions President Sean McGarvey, Laborers' International Union of North America President Terry O'Sullivan, SMART sheet metal workers' union President Joseph Sellers, United Brotherhood of Carpenters President Doug McCarron and Mark McManus, president of the United Association that represents plumbers, pipefitters, welders and others. The union meeting also included several local union officials and follows a gathering of 12 chief executives of large companies at the White House to discuss revitalizing the U.S. manufacturing economy.
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and labor union chiefs praised President Donald Trump for withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Monday. Sanders, who fell short of Hillary Clinton in last year's Democratic race for president, said the TPP was bad for American jobs and had to go.
"I am glad the Trans-Pacific Partnership is dead and gone," the Vermont lawmaker said in a statement. "For the last 30 years, we have had a series of trade deals — including the North American Free Trade Agreement, permanent normal trade relations with China and others — which have cost us millions of decent-paying jobs and caused a 'race to the bottom,' which has lowered wages for American workers."
That is quite stupid because it makes him look like an idiot porky cocksucker since he praised Trump and not the removal of TPP and that is a giant difference!
Justin Smith
The wording could have been better, but idon't how is it bad that he praises Trump for removing TPP
Camden Cooper
One sucks porky's dick, the other doesnt.
Jose Lopez
keep pushing that narrative
Jordan Stewart
Thank you for correcting the record.
Leo Ortiz
like pottery
Luke Cooper
like usual
Elijah Howard
How long before we merge with /liberalpol/? Is it a coincidence that this mindset has become more evident since Reddit fags started infecting this board?
Jason Jones
Should be easy enough to prove me wrong then.
Jeremiah Torres
Donnie Tinyhands gets off on compliments, it's literally his raison d'être. Praising him when he is right costs nothing, and is useful to keep him off your back until you can get rid of him.
Let him fight it out with the identity politics crowd while Bernie builds a new populist coalition.
Dominic Bailey
We don't want people who liked the TPP to think that they are welcome in any new left movement. If you want "free trade" please become a Republican or at least stop calling yourself leftist or progressive.
Leo Russell
Agreed bigly.
Leo Evans
you faggots (probably 1 shitposter tbh) don't realize that although Sanders isn't a /true/ socialist, this board does kind of like him for the most part
go fuck yourself and your dividing tactics>>1282121
Jose Taylor
wew com. more like people ask sanders to praise the defeat of tpp without acquiescing to work with a plutocrat
Ryder Jenkins
If you are triggered by this then you are a liberal. Go away.
Gavin Flores
Karl Marx supported free trade.
Andrew Taylor
Reading articles is hard. And TPP would have been a real pain in the ass to deal with. Didn't people learned anything from media treaement of Corbyn?
Austin Bennett
The TPP is not a free trade agreement. It is a "free trade" agreement. It actually reinforces corporate and state dominance. It says little about actual trade.
Christopher Scott
If that plutocrat occasionally makes proposals to help the working class I don't blame him for working with him on those particular issues. He can oppose him on things that he's doing wrong but it's fucking stupid to oppose him when he occasionally does something good. It's an idiotic partisan mindset that's making this country worse than it already is.
Pretty much this.
Marx was easily the worst socialist of them all. Sorel and even Proudhon are much better theorists than Marx.
Gabriel Reed
Most presidents up until today have been a plutocrats, Clinton would have been too. Don't focus so much on the bogyman and build a movement.
Henry Davis
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Jose Kelly
If you are mad that Sanders praised Trump for killing the TPP then you are a partisan sack of shit that is just mad that you cannot sneak pro-TPP faggots back into the fold under the guise of "resisting" Trump.
Wyatt Martin
i saw in the $$$news$$$ that tpp withdraw will damage latin american economies, is that true?
Ryan Robinson
im mad at sanders for praising trump in the same way im mad at sanders for saying just vote hillary. people are pissed and refuse to work with trump, build that base by inserting class consciousness and leftism into the mix
Daniel Ross
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Gabriel Lopez
You are talking about politics for politics' sake. What we need are deliverables not political bullshit.
Benjamin Green
What's everyone sperging out over again?
Cameron Richardson
If donarudo enacted socialism tomorrow would we somehow have to be opposed to it because his motivation was retarded?
Jacob Diaz
TPP would have actually been a benefit to the USA and its allies in the pacific and it would have been a negative for China.
Jonathan Myers
It will damage it the same way it will damage US economy: loss of profit for Porky. Something being good for economy is not neccessary good for the people.
Luke Sanders
TPP is only good for you in the USA if your job can't be outsources or you're porky. Cheap prices on goods does fuck all for you if you're unemployed
Logan Carter
American corporations would have benefited, not American workers.
Grayson Martinez
B.S? You mean a member of the US MAFIA isn't on our side?
None of these people are. Either join them or pull out so we can reclaim our freedom.
Choose now: mafias/pedos/rapists/gangs/cartels/barbaric armies/ignorant fucks/ivory tower fucks or people who aknowledge that you are a real person
It doesnt matter if its communist or capitalist or what, we need a society run by reasonable people. The kings are beyond repair.
Jaxson Brown
well it would block out cheap steel and the other rift rat that china sends us. So it would benefit american workers.
Cooper Gomez
What the fuck do pedos and rapists have to do with anything?
Ryan Nelson
Donald is going to deliver economic growth and jobs through tax cuts, removal of environmental regulations and labor protections, immigration controls, and MASSIVE military spending. Since most people are concerned about jobs outside of the coastal areas, what are you going to propose to deliver to them that is going to surpass this? If you all just rise up tomorrow to overthrow capitalism we can have a Stalinist planned economy run by the vanguard party, trust us, it will work this time?
You can't exactly have growth with more labor regulations, higher wages and more environmental protections.
Christopher Jenkins
Yeah and it would send millions of jobs overseas and enact draconian new copyright laws that can cause someone to go to prison for 10 years for downloading a torrent. That really helps American workers. Reddit please leave.
Alexander Allen
Some form of piracy protection agency is needed though, every form of media appears on Piracy sites the day after. Its so bad that content creators have to rely on donations and not the actual product they produce.
Kevin Phillips
Allegedly. Never trust porky. Trade deals are never in your favor. I know Reddit loves the TPP now but try to be more class conscious about this.
Leo Cruz
Are you seriously and unironically defending the TPP right now? Seriously?
Gabriel Cook
Is this some sort of COINTELPRO plot by the FBI, /r/socialism, or Holla Forums to decrease moral and cause divide?
Julian Myers
Ideas can't be owned. Copyright is simply a bourgeois mechanism to create more monopolies.
Nathan White
a little bit of all probably, with newfaggotry on top of that.
Cooper King
Do anyone still have the infographics about TPP?
Adrian Edwards
Its needed if the internet is gonna be integrated into the economy. Things like Patreon and the like only exist because of the vast amount of piracy online.
I'm not talking about Ideas I'm saying stuff like music, movies should be able to defend their copy right on the product for at least 5 years.
Cooper Brooks
it had problems, but they were mainly copyright provisions and not "WE'LL LOSE ER JERBS"
Jack Jenkins
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Jason Smith
Kindly remove the capitalist cock from your mouth.
Easton Williams
So someone should go to prison for 10 years for downloading an MP3? That's pants on head retarded.
Colton Thompson
I take back what i said, this is not newfaggotry, it's litteral corporate shilling.
Alexander Price
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Justin Evans
Where do you think you are right now?
Parker Moore
Porky plays them like a fiddle.
Ian James
Well during USSR times the creator of tetris defended his copy right.
Jeremiah Hughes
i support trade on utilitarian grounds
i dont care if im a capitalist or commie. i just want whatever helps the most people, and that's certainly not protectionism.
Alexander Fisher
Patreon is a pseudo gift economy. Same as many pay-what-you-want schemes. The patreon model is the closest example though because the payment happens after the customer receives the product. Buying shit from people's Amazon wishlist is even closer actually.
Andrew Bennett
This , when will Holla Forums fuck off? I ve seen them cry liberals every time someone shits on their boy Trump.
Sorry this is a leftist board, not a capitalistic pig felatio board like Holla Forums.
Tpp dying is good, Trump is not
Kevin Roberts
Neither is TPP. I must still have the TPP project want to take a look?
Nicholas Stewart
Yeah you are a capitalist big because you can't into revolution because of the primary sacrifices that will be required.
Brainless moralfags aren't communists after all, communism is the ideology who doesn't depend no morality and goodness, that is capitalism