I'm about to show you a performance. The performer is a South Carolina senator, a politician running for president, and he's starting to feel his oats. He's starting to get his game on. He's getting used to being in front of the crowd. You can tell that he can feed off the energy a bit. Let's watch Tim Scott talk about the United Auto Workers strike by turning back the clock to the Patco strike of nineteen eighty one.
I think ro Ra Ronald Reagan gave us a great example when Federal Voice decided there was a strike. You strike, you're fired. Simple concept to me to we can use that once again. Absolutely. The second thing I would do, though, is very important. This is a probably not a well known fact. The first thing part of the challenge that we have at a with president then is I don't
mean this would be disingenuous. I mean this would be here unles sure if the words are bought and paid for, but it certainly he has been leased by the unions.
And I say that.
Because the first bill he passed, y'all remember the one point nine trillion dollars COVID relief backage I only had for COVID vaccines. I had eighty six billion dollars. I believe for union pensions.
Because they keep making these deals and as a result of the deal, they promised too much, deliver too little, and the tax payers pick up the tab.
Now, first, it is incredible that a United States senator can possibly be so ignorant. It's why we probably shouldn't get rid of teaching history in schools because someday some of those kids may grow up to be senators. And unlike Kim Scott, it would be healthy and helpful in moments if those senators knew what it was that they
were talking about. Now, the ua W strike of twenty twenty three has exactly, absolutely nothing to do with the pat Goo air traffic controller strike of nineteen eighty one, But something Tim Scott said talking about the air traffic controller strike of nineteen eighty one has a lot of relevance to workers in twenty twenty three. Sometimes politicians, when they're sloppy, say the quiet part out loud. Let's watch Tim Scott do it again when he says, if you strike, you should be fired as a worker.
I think all Unald Rayton gave was a great example when Federal Voice side was strike you sight your fired civile concept to me, No.
Tim Scott, that's not how it works in America. I'm going to explain this to you. In the mid nineteenth century, there was something called the Industrial Revolution. What the Industrial Revolution was, Senator, was an epoch in history when people who worked on farms began to move into the cities as machines began to mass produce products that could be
sold at an increasingly globalized scale. Now there were the people who owned the factories and the geniuses who invented the machines, and then there were the people who worked in the factories, and society had to deal with a changing circumstance and dynamic. The people who worked in the factories. Were they entitled to dignity? Were they entitled to a decent living from their labor? Were they slaves? Indentured servants, disposable? Were they the equivalent of what you see in China
today slave labor? And in the United States of America, through a long process of struggle and sacrifice, the American labor movement was born, the union movement. And in the United States, Senator, workers have a right to organize and they have a right to strike. Now, in nineteen eighty one, the air traffic controllers went on strike, and then there was a problem with that. The problem has nothing to do with anything that the UAW workers are talking about today.
The problem in nineteen eighty one was a nineteen fifty five law. It made it illegal for federal employees to go on strike. Now, Tim Scott, I'm going to set the record straight about the history on this for you a bit so you can do better when you're on television next time. So one you probably didn't know. In nineteen eighty Pat go endorsed Ronald Reagan did the Teamsters. It made sense. Ronald Reagan was the only union president
to ever become President of the United States. He was president of the Screen Actors Guild, which currently, like the United Auto Workers and the Writer's Guild of America, is out on strike now. The reason for the strike is because those people are part of a process that creates billions in profits, and they don't get a fair cut
of the profits. What they get is detritus, a sprinkling, not a living wage, but at any rate, what the Writer's Guild of America, what the United Auto Workers, and what the Screen Actors Guild have in common as opposed to Pat Coo, is that those union members are not
federal government employees. They are private sector employees. The UAW senator is not the federal government workforce, and they have a right under law to strike, and your calls to fire the UAW workers who are demanding higher wages so they can send their kids to college is deeply offensive and wrong in a historic Now, coming back to Ronald Reagan in nineteen eighty one, what he promised the air traffic controllers was that he would negotiate in good faith
when they went out on strike. Whether you think Reagan was right or wrong, Reagan took that strike as an assault on his presidency and on his authority, and Ronald Reagan used his maximum power under the law to end the strike. Again, this has nothing to do whatsoever with
anything that's happening forty years later. But for Tim Scott, it's always nineteen eighty it's always the Reagan Revolution, It's always Ronald Reagan's morning in America, despite the fact that it's Donald Trump's maga Republican Party today, and that is a dark party, an insidious force that is advancing fascism in America now, in the end, when Ronald Reagan fired
the air traffic controllers, someone paid attention to that. The Soviets, many years later in the archives the correspondence between Soviet officials watching domestic politics in the United States play out. Wrote to each other, and they said, this American president is different. He means what he says, he will do exactly what he says. Here's the point about that our
foreign adversaries haven't stopped watching our domestic politics. When they see people like Tim Scott, when they see the eight clowns on a Republican debate stage, raise their hands and say, we pledge forever fidelity to the man who tried to burn down the constitution. When they see Kevin McCarthy, when they see Lauren Bobert and mark my words, they do
see them. What they see is decay. What they see is weakness, and what they confuse is the national character for the lack of character, and our politicians everything that matters in this moment, every virtue that you can think of is under assault. That's why it's important to understand when you hear a United States senator talk that they have no idea what they're talking about.