Leftist Lens, October 6, 2024, Episode 46/14
Intro
Hello, Im Matt and this is James
The Longshoreman strike is over? The Election is heating up and the middle east is still on fire
We will tell you about it on this week’s edition of the Leftist Lens
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Longshoreman strike is paused.
ILA and the Maritime Alliance agreed on wages and will continue working while negotiating the automation sticking point until January
This agreement was negotiated by Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su and her staff
Machinists union on Boeing is on strike, seeking to get their pensions back that they gave up in 2014, negotiations are to resume Monday 10/7
kamala campaigns with liz cheney
Continuing to court far right votes so she doesn’t have to stop the genocide
Iran managed to destroy an air base
Then spokesperson after spokesperson said it didn’t happen
Israel is relentlessly bombing lebanon and have begun a ground invasion too
Trump's illegal fundraising
The only bible in existence that meets the requirements for Oklhoma’s bible in schools program, is the Trump bible, so they are buying thousands
Trump is also selling a $100,000 watch that doesn’t actually exist. But you can reserve one for 100,000 dollars from anywhere in the world.
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Jack Smith new filing
If you somehow didn’t think Jan 6 was intended to be a violent coup, ready Jack Smith’s new filing
Trump was going to let Pence get hanged
Trump wanted to encourage more violence
He apparently promoted Guiliani to be his lead lawyer when other lawyers were trying to prevent the coup
Another surprisingly good jobs report
Unemployment is down to 4.1%
Odds and ends
Vanderbilt beat Alabama
Then students tore down the goalposts, carried them out of the stadium and through the streets of Nashville, then threw them in the river.
It’s What’s Inside - good movie, you have to learn the characters names to really understand
Outro
We will be back next week with election updates and our opinions on whatever crazy things happen between now and then.
Thanks for watching/listening
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