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At last, the exploitation of the proletariat will come to an end at the Elizabeth Warren presidential campaign. CNBC reports:

A majority of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 campaign staff has said it wants union representation.

Nonmanagement campaign employees authorized the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2320 to represent them in negotiations with campaign leadership, according to Steven Soule, the local’s business manager.

“We look to move to the table to come to a bargaining agreement that provides pay and benefits and working conditions that are the best in the nation,” Soule said.

“Best in the nation” translates into “most expensive in the nation.” It must also mean time-and-half pay kicking in after working 40 hours in a week and maybe even the right to decline overtime.  Just what a presidential campaign needs. Especially when the candidate is not a stellar fundraiser.  William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection notes:

As of last quarter, she was burning through all the cash she could raise, and had to fall back on a $10 million transfer from her Senate campaign account to create a reserve for the primaries.

Warren’s campaign strategy was to hire aggressively and build a large campaign staff earlier than anyone else. It’s paying off in terms of her ability to generate publicity, but if she can’t ramp up fundraising and she has to pay union wages to staff, Warren may be caught in a cash squeeze.

That $10 million Senate account infusion could dissipate pretty quickly just as the primaries and caucuses approach early next year.

Campaigns, of necessity, are the opposite of factory routine, where shifts are predictable and tasks generally unchanging. “Organized chaos” is about the best one can hope for. Traditionally, campaign workers throw themselves into their tasks, dedication to the cause, or hopes for future patronage and influence, motivate them far more than the paycheck.

But this election cycle, Democrats know they have to win back blue collar union workers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan in order to win the presidency, so they have to pander to the unions. Even if it means the money running out and the staff behaving like employees of a factory when it comes to performing unanticipated tasks.

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore (croppped)

At last, the exploitation of the proletariat will come to an end at the Elizabeth Warren presidential campaign. CNBC reports:

A majority of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 campaign staff has said it wants union representation.

Nonmanagement campaign employees authorized the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2320 to represent them in negotiations with campaign leadership, according to Steven Soule, the local’s business manager.

“We look to move to the table to come to a bargaining agreement that provides pay and benefits and working conditions that are the best in the nation,” Soule said.

“Best in the nation” translates into “most expensive in the nation.” It must also mean time-and-half pay kicking in after working 40 hours in a week and maybe even the right to decline overtime.  Just what a presidential campaign needs. Especially when the candidate is not a stellar fundraiser.  William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection notes:

As of last quarter, she was burning through all the cash she could raise, and had to fall back on a $10 million transfer from her Senate campaign account to create a reserve for the primaries.

Warren’s campaign strategy was to hire aggressively and build a large campaign staff earlier than anyone else. It’s paying off in terms of her ability to generate publicity, but if she can’t ramp up fundraising and she has to pay union wages to staff, Warren may be caught in a cash squeeze.

That $10 million Senate account infusion could dissipate pretty quickly just as the primaries and caucuses approach early next year.

Campaigns, of necessity, are the opposite of factory routine, where shifts are predictable and tasks generally unchanging. “Organized chaos” is about the best one can hope for. Traditionally, campaign workers throw themselves into their tasks, dedication to the cause, or hopes for future patronage and influence, motivate them far more than the paycheck.

But this election cycle, Democrats know they have to win back blue collar union workers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan in order to win the presidency, so they have to pander to the unions. Even if it means the money running out and the staff behaving like employees of a factory when it comes to performing unanticipated tasks.

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore (croppped)

See also: Joe Biden is too stupid to win the nomination (#1) 

Since plagiarism killed an earlier Biden run at the presidency and dogged him in law school, the first rule of a rational Biden campaign this time would be: nothing that even vaguely looks like plagiarism. But evidently, the subject never came up when Joe Biden assembled his presidential campaign staff. But it looks as though the Biden campaign panicked when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that his lack of a radical plan to restructure our thriving economy so as to emit less CO2 was a “dealbreaker.”

 

This is a dealbreaker.

There is no “middle ground” w/ climate denial & delay.

Blaming “blue collar” Americans as the main opponents to bold climate policy is gas lobbyist 101.

We’re not going to solve the climate crisis w/ this lack of leadership. Our kids’ lives are at stake. https://t.co/KvrBmaJd75

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 10, 2019

 

But with almost 4 weeks to work on something, the best the campaign could come up with was copying and pasting, and in some cases re-wording the work of others on similar “Green New Deal” proposals, to produce the “Biden Plan.”

Of course, as anyone with a triple digit IQ could predict, people noticed right away. The Washington Post:

Joe Biden’s presidential campaign lifted language without credit, at times word for word, when crafting its education and climate plans, incidents the campaign acknowledged and said were inadvertent.

The incidents appeared to be staff errors when detailing Biden’s policies, and they underscored how hastily his campaign was attempting to put out specific proposals. But the issue was a particularly sensitive one for Biden, whose 1988 campaign was derailed after he plagiarized, in speeches, rhetoric used by British politician Neil Kinnock.

Reports also emerged that he used lines from two Democrats, Robert F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey, without attribution. Biden had also been cited for plagiarism in a paper during law school, an error he blamed on not knowing how to properly cite sources.

He quit the campaign shortly after the flurry of uses were reported.

Biden’s campaign said Tuesday that it would update his policy plans online to properly attribute the sources of information, which in the case of his environmental plan included a coal industry entity. But the controversy nonetheless threatened to overshadow the policies themselves — and, for some liberal advocates, it was a sign that the policies were not taken seriously by the campaign or the candidate.

What kind of presidency would Biden conduct? One with key staff too stupid to avoid obvious issues – the kind that have come up again and again. The criticisms of President Trump as impulsive and undisciplined pale in comparison to Biden’s recklessness and lack of prudence. Ultimately, Biden’s pander failed to persuade Ocasio-Cortez:

Ocasio-Cortez told The Hill that she prefers Inslee’s plan our of all this that have been introduced thus far: “I do think that Jay Inslee’s plan is a phenomenal blueprint and example of where we need to go. It’s got the scale, the jobs and justice,” she said.

An utter and complete failure. Imagine this clown as president.

Biden tries to look thoughtful at the LBJ Library in 2017

Photo credit: Jay Goodwin, LBJ Library

See also: Joe Biden is too stupid to win the nomination (#1) 

Since plagiarism killed an earlier Biden run at the presidency and dogged him in law school, the first rule of a rational Biden campaign this time would be: nothing that even vaguely looks like plagiarism. But evidently, the subject never came up when Joe Biden assembled his presidential campaign staff. But it looks as though the Biden campaign panicked when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that his lack of a radical plan to restructure our thriving economy so as to emit less CO2 was a “dealbreaker.”

 

This is a dealbreaker.

There is no “middle ground” w/ climate denial & delay.

Blaming “blue collar” Americans as the main opponents to bold climate policy is gas lobbyist 101.

We’re not going to solve the climate crisis w/ this lack of leadership. Our kids’ lives are at stake. https://t.co/KvrBmaJd75

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 10, 2019

 

But with almost 4 weeks to work on something, the best the campaign could come up with was copying and pasting, and in some cases re-wording the work of others on similar “Green New Deal” proposals, to produce the “Biden Plan.”

Of course, as anyone with a triple digit IQ could predict, people noticed right away. The Washington Post:

Joe Biden’s presidential campaign lifted language without credit, at times word for word, when crafting its education and climate plans, incidents the campaign acknowledged and said were inadvertent.

The incidents appeared to be staff errors when detailing Biden’s policies, and they underscored how hastily his campaign was attempting to put out specific proposals. But the issue was a particularly sensitive one for Biden, whose 1988 campaign was derailed after he plagiarized, in speeches, rhetoric used by British politician Neil Kinnock.

Reports also emerged that he used lines from two Democrats, Robert F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey, without attribution. Biden had also been cited for plagiarism in a paper during law school, an error he blamed on not knowing how to properly cite sources.

He quit the campaign shortly after the flurry of uses were reported.

Biden’s campaign said Tuesday that it would update his policy plans online to properly attribute the sources of information, which in the case of his environmental plan included a coal industry entity. But the controversy nonetheless threatened to overshadow the policies themselves — and, for some liberal advocates, it was a sign that the policies were not taken seriously by the campaign or the candidate.

What kind of presidency would Biden conduct? One with key staff too stupid to avoid obvious issues – the kind that have come up again and again. The criticisms of President Trump as impulsive and undisciplined pale in comparison to Biden’s recklessness and lack of prudence. Ultimately, Biden’s pander failed to persuade Ocasio-Cortez:

Ocasio-Cortez told The Hill that she prefers Inslee’s plan our of all this that have been introduced thus far: “I do think that Jay Inslee’s plan is a phenomenal blueprint and example of where we need to go. It’s got the scale, the jobs and justice,” she said.

An utter and complete failure. Imagine this clown as president.

Biden tries to look thoughtful at the LBJ Library in 2017

Photo credit: Jay Goodwin, LBJ Library

The purported front-runner of the Democrats’ presidential field is certain to self-destruct before the Democratic National Convention votes on a nominee more than a year from now. because he loves to talk and is too stupid to avoid making fatal mistakes.   Exactly a month ago, I predicted he would not get the party’s nod and I stand by that. But secretly, I hope that I am wrong because he would fall apart when faced with Donald Trump.

The latest example of Biden’s stupidity: downplaying China’s threat to us on the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. No, I am not kidding! Only 30 seconds of your life are required to savor the stupidity. Biden ends with “What are we worried about?” That’s uncomfortably close to “What, me worry?”

This statement is all the worse given his son Hunter’s financial involvement with China, a can of worms that Biden would be well-advised to leave unopened. But the problem is that he has a microphone in his hand and an inability to filter what comes out of his mouth with anything approaching good judgment.

Photo credit: YouTube screen grab (croppped)

The purported front-runner of the Democrats’ presidential field is certain to self-destruct before the Democratic National Convention votes on a nominee more than a year from now. because he loves to talk and is too stupid to avoid making fatal mistakes.   Exactly a month ago, I predicted he would not get the party’s nod and I stand by that. But secretly, I hope that I am wrong because he would fall apart when faced with Donald Trump.

The latest example of Biden’s stupidity: downplaying China’s threat to us on the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. No, I am not kidding! Only 30 seconds of your life are required to savor the stupidity. Biden ends with “What are we worried about?” That’s uncomfortably close to “What, me worry?”

This statement is all the worse given his son Hunter’s financial involvement with China, a can of worms that Biden would be well-advised to leave unopened. But the problem is that he has a microphone in his hand and an inability to filter what comes out of his mouth with anything approaching good judgment.

Photo credit: YouTube screen grab (croppped)