TODAY: We're back with Sean KB from The Antifada to talk about the supposed right wing takeover of labor by... covering their 5-year plan to get every service worker in the country fired. Spearheaded by professional Karens like Libs of Tik Tok, the Right was on a cancelling crusade in the wake of the bungled Trump assassination to fire everyone who thought it was funny. A backlash forces many on the right to double-down on their war against workers, producing interesting responses. PLUS: the finer points of which employees you are allowed to get fired (cops, managers); being a general strike accelerationist by getting everyone fired; and Sean shares a story of a union victory on his job site. Listen to this episode and hundreds more by subscribing at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult for only $5/month Subscribe to the Antifada at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada
Yeah, in light of that line of questioning, you know, is this a new movement for the working class, the American Republican Party?
I just thought a good segment we could do is about the last three days of the entire online right wing trying to get people from Home Depot and AMPM fired.
Yeah, remember?
I mean, God, the hypocrisy is just so fucking clear, right?
Like all these different Home Depot.
Yeah, it's oh, you didn't see that video.
Ansel culture now.
Yeah, libs of tick tock was on one because, of course, what happened last week was somebody tried to kill the president.
And a lot of people made some inadvisable posts and they might have been true.
Some of the posts might have been true and those posts and they were still fired for them.
Hey, I know a thing or two about that, folks.
And so there's a video that had, you know, the libs of TikTok was like, make her famous.
She she made fun of Trump online.
Make her famous.
And it was just, yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
A woman at a Home Depot behind a check stand that some other guy was like filming her.
What did she exactly say?
What did she say?
Probably that she wished Trump was dead.
That's free speech right there.
Which is not an uncommon sentiment, you know?
I think she said we should be smoking on that Trump pack tonight.
That was the post.
So it's just funny because it's like It got so bad, Libs of TikTok and these other, you know, militant internet dweeb accounts got so bad and got like so much like a dog in shit just rolling around in this that even people on the right wing were like, Oh, this is kind of embarrassing.
This is kind of like a bad look.
So you saw you saw a lot of big like I can't remember any specific accounts because I'm not necessarily inclined to give them credit anyway.
But fairly big accounts being like, wait, are we the baddies like doing that kind of thing?
Yeah.
Um, but I, or like the most sympathetic character you can imagine was just like an older lady working as a cashier at Home Depot, man.
Like all their, all that cancel culture shit right out the window.
Just.
Putting this poor woman out on, out to the pasture, man.
Well, I, okay.
Wow.
I think she was customer service.
She's really for the people.
She really puts, she's really in the shit.
Oh man.
Yeah.
You know, at Home Depot, at every Home Depot, they have, um, they have a tire hanging in their break room and it's to remind them that you can return anything to Home Depot.
So the shit this woman's been through.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
I couldn't imagine.
She's like, it's like all quiet on the Western front.
This woman's seen like first of the, She's seen it all.
Come and see the custom window that we can't ever resell because it's made to spec.
A day of that job and you come out the other side like Event Horizon.
No one's seen that movie.
Yeah, you don't need eyes.
Change, change.
I was waiting for you to say the line.
You won't even need eyes where you're going.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Where we're going, we won't.
God, what a good movie.
Fucked up movie.
If she's still, you know, people want to do the pro worker take and be like, well, she shouldn't be fired.
Well, I would say if you know anything about Home Depot, if she still has a job there, it's because she took the job of three other checkers.
True.
So, so I don't know, maybe, I don't know, maybe she does deserve to get fired, you know?
Scabbing.
Unemployed cashiers.
Okay.
So like accounts in particular had, had a very strong reaction to the suggestion that they should not be openly calling for just the average suburban mom to be fired.
and Occupy Democrats logic, yeah, is that had a very strong reaction to this idea that they should be normal on the internet.
So they just started sharing stuff like this from Peter Quinonez, who says, watching people on, quote, the right, bitching about cashiers and minimum wage workers getting fired for lamenting Trump survived goes to show even after Saturday, they still don't realize we're in a war.
A war, yeah.
They've been getting, quote, nobody's on our side cancelled for years.
And this is the tone.
This is the tone that they're all kind of taking.
They're taking, like, we are at war with, like, Sauron.
