Minion Death Cult - Fewer union employees is a problem for the union business. That’s right. I said business, union business (Preview)
Aired: 2022-05-16
Duration: 05:43


=== Target's Union Dilemma (05:23) ===

[00:00:00]  Huge news.
[00:00:01]  Uh, I have an article here from the New Republic.
[00:00:05]  Target workers are joining the union wave.
[00:00:10]  Well, I got some hot takes here, but you know.
[00:00:12]  Okay.
[00:00:13]  I don't know how I feel about this.
[00:00:17]  You're worried about that self-checkout.
[00:00:20]  I don't know if I really want Target to unionize.
[00:00:25]  People might be more invested to watch the self-checkout.
[00:00:29]  Also, maybe I won't feel as good about using my coupons.
[00:00:37]  I'll be real, I abuse coupons, y'all.
[00:00:40]  I abuse the coupons at the self-checkout.
[00:00:43]  This is what we do.
[00:00:45]  But I'm going to feel bad about being a super-couponer if they unionize.
[00:00:48]  I don't know if I want it.
[00:00:50]  I don't think I want it.
[00:00:52]  You know, Marx did foresee a lot of things.
[00:00:55]  He, you know, foresaw the class struggle between labor and capital.
[00:01:00]  He did not foresee the third class that would arise in the modern era, which is self-checkout.
[00:01:09]  Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
[00:01:11]  So there is, like, kind of a weird, you know, dynamic going on.
[00:01:15]  I mean, there is, you know, sort of a contentious relationship between labor and the self-checkout shopper.
[00:01:22]  Yeah, and like, it's just where I find myself.
[00:01:25]  Like, your class is often where you find yourself, and that's where I'm at.
[00:01:29]  And that's just, I have to, you know, deal with that.
[00:01:32]  It was so funny, the other day on Twitter, I was talking about, like, oh, I got these kettlebells from Target self-checkout.
[00:01:39]  And everyone's like, that place is so expensive.
[00:01:41]  I can't believe you spent all that money.
[00:01:43]  Like you, you just got so much money.
[00:01:45]  Like, haven't you checked like secondhand places first?
[00:01:48]  And I'm like, nevermind.
[00:01:50]  Nevermind.
[00:01:53]  I believe that self-checkout customers are entitled to all the bananas they can ring up.
[00:01:59]  Exactly.
[00:02:00]  Exactly.
[00:02:00]  Yeah.
[00:02:00]  Yeah.
[00:02:02]  Bananas and Nevier hand creams.
[00:02:04]  We stay moisturized.
[00:02:06]  No, this is obviously very good.
[00:02:09]  Yes, awesome.
[00:02:11]  Target, specifically, is one of those companies that has those insane anti-union videos.
[00:02:18]  Oh yeah.
[00:02:18]  Have you ever watched any of those?
[00:02:20]  Not to specifically target one, but I love those videos.
[00:02:23]  They're so wild.
[00:02:25]  Let me see if I can find one real quick.
[00:02:27]  And because we're the best that makes those of us at Target a Target ourselves.
[00:02:33]  We're a target because we're a threat to unions.
[00:02:36]  The unions that represent grocery store workers.
[00:02:39]  When we take business away from unionized grocery stores, that means they need fewer employees.
[00:02:47]  I love that.
[00:02:47]  We're a threat because we're literally eliminating good paying jobs.
[00:02:50]  They don't like that.
[00:02:51]  They don't like that.
[00:02:53]  And fewer grocery store employees mean fewer union members.
[00:02:57]  And fewer members?
[00:02:58]  Well, that's a problem for the union business.
[00:03:01]  That's right.
[00:03:01]  I said business.
[00:03:03]  Union business.
[00:03:05]  Wow.
[00:03:07]  Wow.
[00:03:07]  That's a problem for the union business.
[00:03:09]  That's right.
[00:03:09]  Business.
[00:03:10]  Union business.
[00:03:11]  See, when your friend who works over at Kroger or another unionized grocery store, when they lose their livelihood, that's a problem for the big union.
[00:03:22]  Yeah.
[00:03:23]  Also, like, when they're business, it's bad.
[00:03:27]  When we're business, it's good.
[00:03:28]  But when they're business, it's bad.
[00:03:30]  We're going to say business three times to really make sure you understand how bad business is.
[00:03:35]  Yeah, dude.
[00:03:36]  It's literally just, oh, there's business and then there's business.
[00:03:40]  Business.
[00:03:41]  Yeah.
[00:03:44]  They represent the grocery store workers.
[00:03:47]  I don't know if you've ever met a grocery store worker, but they're a pretty thuggish group.
[00:03:54]  I don't know about that.
[00:03:55]  I don't know if you want to be tied to that.
[00:03:58]  Well, they're trying to skip over the fact that those are workers at all.
[00:04:03]  They're just talking about them as numbers on a spreadsheet that only exist to benefit the union business.
[00:04:11]  And it's that thing, too, where they kind of tell on themselves because they say, like, and if there's less union workers, that's not good for the union.
[00:04:18]  It's like, so what you're saying is if there's more union workers, that's good for the union?
[00:04:23]  Are you saying that, too?
[00:04:25]  And it's bad for business.
[00:04:26]  It's bad for our business.
[00:04:28]  Yeah.
[00:04:31]  A union is not a charity, it's not a club, and it's not part of the government.
[00:04:35]  It's a business.
[00:04:37]  A business that has to take in money to survive.
[00:04:40]  But it doesn't have any products to sell.
[00:04:42]  All it has is memberships to sell.
[00:04:44]  A union's only source of income is the money they charge members.
[00:04:47]  Have you ever heard of this, Tony?
[00:04:48]  A business that doesn't have a product to sell?
[00:04:52]  Well, I mean, I've heard of that, but like, the product that the bank is selling me is holding my money.
[00:04:58]  Yeah, so that's good.
[00:05:00]  That's an actual product.
[00:05:02]  The product of providing me with a service that negotiates on my behalf for better wages, that's not a product.

=== Blood Red Initiation Fees (00:34) ===

[00:05:09]  Not a product, no.
[00:05:10]  No, that's a business.
[00:05:12]  That's a Ponzi scheme.
[00:05:13]  You know those jackets aren't free.
[00:05:15]  Money for initiation and dues and fines and assessments.
[00:05:21]  I wish you could see this fucking graphic.
[00:05:24]  It's just cash falling in front of a blood red background.
[00:05:30]  Yeah.
[00:05:30]  And then superimposed over that is like a $20 or $100 bill and you're seeing the word initiations in blood red font over the $20 bill.
[00:05:42]  Assessments.