[twoodfin]

Here’s an article on their front page today on a few thousand dollars in campaign contributions, no allegations of fraud or anything illegal:

https://www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-michael-alfons...

The Teamsters bailout was something like a million times that, from a Democratic president to a critical Democratic constituency.

[toomuchtodo]

Teamsters members in a majority voted for Trump. Google it. Biden helped people who didn’t value it. You blame Biden for “buying support” when it didn’t help Democrats; he did it because it was the right thing to do to protect the retirement promises made to union workers.

Can’t fix uneducated, unsophisticated voters I suppose.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/18/election-tea...

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/sean-obrien-sold-labor-t...

[twoodfin]

I’m not arguing the merits of the policy. I’m arguing that if the Big Beautiful Bill contained a $70B slush fund for the administration to hand out to its tech buddies, ProPublica would have gone wall to wall.