President of the AFL-CIO says two factions of the White House are racists and "Wall Streeters."

Courtesy of Business Insider:  

Richard Trumka, the head of the largest labor union in the US, had harsh words Wednesday for the members of the Trump administration. 

Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, told an audience at a Christian Science Monitor event that it's difficult for him to work with either of the two major factions in the White House. 

"You had two factions in the White House. You had one faction that actually had some of the policies we would have supported on trade, on infrastructure — but they turned out to be racist. And on the other hand, you had people that weren't racist, but they were Wall Streeters. And the Wall Streeters began to dominate the administration and have moved his agenda back to everything he fought against in the election."

Hard to argue with that actually. 

Interesting that Trumka felt that the folks that had the most in common with the union are racists. He might want to check his charter.

Trumka by the was WAS part of Trump's manufacturing jobs council, right up until he learned his was working for the reincarnation of Adolph Hitler.

The AFL-CIO President has somethng to say about Sarah Palin, and I don't think she is going to like it very much. Update!

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka gave a speech last night at the Biennial Convention in Anchorage.

He discussed the goals of the unions, the recent recession, the Obama administration, and then he got around to Sarah Palin.

Courtesy of  CNN:

What is this crazy magnet that’s pulling people to the right? I mean, look at your former governor….

Who is she, anyway?

Sarah Palin?

She used to have a job, your governor…. You knew her…. Or thought you did…. I know I thought I did. She seemed like a decent person, an outdoorswoman. Her husband’s a steelworker. She seemed to take some OK stands for working families.

And then things got weird. After she tied herself to John McCain and they lost, she blew off Alaska. I guess she figured she’d trade up…shoot for a national stage. Alaska was too far from the FOX TV spotlight.

I bet most of you, on a clear day, can see her hypocrisy from your house.

I think Sarah Palin quit so she wouldn’t have to be accountable… so she wouldn’t have a record that could be scrutinized…

Instead, she’s hanging out on cable TV, almost a parody of herself, coming out with conspiracy theories about Obama and his “death panels….” Talking about “the real America.” Talking about building schools in “our neighboring country of Afghanistan.” Writing speech notes to herself on her hands.

Sometimes – about Sarah Palin – you just have to laugh…. But it’s not really funny. In this charged political environment, her kind of talk gets dangerous. “Don’t retreat… reload” may seem clever, the kind of bull you hear all the time, but put it in context. She’s using crosshairs to illustrate targeted legislators. She’s on the wrong side of the line there. She’s getting close to calling for violence. And some of her fans take that stuff seriously. We’ve got legislators in America who have been living with death threats since the health care votes.

And down in Tyler, Texas, she’s talking about—and I quote— “union thugs.” What? Her husband’s a union man. Is she calling him a thug? Sarah Palin ought to know what union men and women are.

Oh, she goes to great pains to talk differently about unions and the working people who belong to them, knowing full well we’re one and the same.

But using the term “union thug.” That’s poisonous. There’s history behind that rhetoric. That’s how bosses and politicians in decades past justified the terrorizing of workers, the murdering of organizers….

To me, it just doesn’t seem OK to go where she’s going…. It sits wrong with me…. The Mama Grizzlies, Sarah Palin says, just sense when something’s not right. Well… I wonder if those Mama Grizzlies can sense something’s just not right with her.

Quite frankly, America works because lots of people contribute lots of ideas—that’s good—even when some of them are just plain wrong. But people need to come to the table in good faith. That’s not Sarah Palin. She’ll go down in history like McCarthy. Palinism will become an ugly word.

Who is this woman, anyway? What happened to her?

Wow! 

Well you know there is not really much I could add to that. Mr. Trumka did an excellent job of calling Sister Sarah out on her bullshit, and I hope that leaders in our communities continue to do exactly that.

Did I say "Wow" yet?

Update;  You knew it was coming.  Ram has fired up her computer. Put on her Sarah Palin wig and signature eyeglasses. And fired off a venom filled mean girl response.

I’m not sure why he’s attacking my record when I’m not the one responsible for the policies resulting in continued mass unemployment and a weak economy (that would be the man in the large white house on Pennsylvania Avenue). Among my “crimes,” the union boss cited the fact that I sometimes write notes on my hand (guilty as charged!); that I appear on cable television every once in a while to comment on the news (it’s called the First Amendment, Rich); and that my commonsense conservatism makes him laugh. Well, I guess that’s better than the failed leftwing big government policies of “his friend” Barack Obama, which makes the rest of us cry.

By "the rest of us" I am guessing she means the Republicans who are losing their minds while watching President Obama get more work done in less than two years than most presidents get done in two terms.

You should read the whole rant.  I really believe that RAM is the one who handles ALL of Palin's emotional overflow these days, and she sounds almost schizophrenic.  Of course considering that she is posing as a completely different person on Facebook I guess that is an obvious diagnosis, don'tcha know.