Sean Spicer
speaker
520 appearances
10 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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No, but and then, you know, you make a great point. So through this whole year, let's say, right, the Republicans and we've worked with a lot of great Republicans in the Senate. Josh Hawley has been great with us. J.D. J.D. Vance has been great with us. You know, Roger Marshall has been great. And, you know, I'll give you a Josh Hawley, for instance. Josh Hawley was, you know, we met with him.
We had a conversation, didn't know him. Had a conversation with him early on and we were telling him like, look, one of our biggest issues is national right to work. And we explained to him why the right to work is not good for this country, why it's not good for his constituency.
And soon after that meeting, he come out with a statement on X saying, I met with the Teamsters Union, I'm supportive of working people and they've basically educated. We've talked about right to work and I don't support national right to work. And then we had a strike with a company in his state, Graybar. He went out and walked the picket line, and that strike was settled the next day.
Now, I'm not saying because he walked the picket line, but he demonstrated that that's what he's willing to do because his constituency works there. Those are the people that he represents. Who vote for him. That's right. And he's been great on our issues. And I think the Republicans have a great opportunity right now to show working people that...
what they were saying during the election is going to hold true. And I think Trump proved early on when he actually listened to us and when we lobbied for Larry Chavez de Riemer to be the labor secretary. Now, you know, I don't think it was a popular decision from a lot of his donors that supported him. But, you know, I went down and I had a frank conversation with the president.
I'm like, look, this is important to us. If you truly want to show that you're going to embrace working people and work hard on their behalf, this is an early indicator that you're willing to do this. And he did it. So people that are saying Trump's anti-labor, he's anti-worker,
It's a very tough job, Sean. Sit up straight.
Well, I think part of that problem is we haven't had the conversations with those folks either. I totally agree. Because there's been such a line drawn in the sand... Where if you were on one side or the other, especially in our world, labor, if you're a Democrat, you shouldn't be talking to the Republicans. I'm like, that's bullshit. I agree. How are we going to get stuff done in this country?
Forget anything else. It's like, you know, if you're looking to truly collaborate— actually make things happen, you've got to talk to people that you normally wouldn't. You've got to express your ideals, your opinions, and there's got to be common ground. I mean, I deal with probably the worst employers in the world.
I deal with corporate greed, white collar crime syndicates like Costco, United Airlines, and there's a list of them. And I could go on and on for days. And You know, a lot of the times you get problems solved by having discussions and finding out, you know, where you can work together.
I mean, who would think that, you know, Mark Wayne Mullen and I almost fought twice in the middle of the Senate floor. He's a pretty scrappy dude. Yeah, I'm from Boston, man. I don't sweat anybody.
but him and i have had a conversation we've actually had many conversations and you know we agree to disagree on what we can't agree on but at the end of the day there's going to be a lot of things that we can work together on on behalf of his constituency my members um you know because i don't agree with you on one issue should i draw a line in the sand and not talk to you again i mean there'd be a hundred percent divorce rate in this country if that was a key
Right?
Yeah, it's bad to hook people who depend upon keeping their electricity and the utilities on when they have to pay with a credit card at 22%. Because, again, the corporate greed... A lot of these CEOs at these banks, there's such a disparity between the people that are their customers and what the banks are making.
There should be a platform to regulate these banks and make certain that everybody is playing, have a level playing field like these credit card companies. You made a point earlier off the record. You said there should be a union for credit card, people that have credit cards, right? Yeah. But what we do as a labor organization, we're not being treated fairly like Amazon or anybody else.
When our members are not being treated fairly, what do we do? We withhold our labor. Well, imagine if we, to your point earlier, withheld our payments as a country to these credit card companies. and these banks that obviously support these credit cards would send a pretty strong fucking message.
I like chaos.
Well, think about it this way. Not in a hundred years. Why is that? Well, we talk about, well, they're so powerful, right? We talk about the old school values of growing up in a neighborhood and growing up with simple things. Just remember, the neighborhood banks that we dealt with They actually cared about the people. Yeah, knew them anyway. They knew them in your neighborhood. They knew them.
No one knows TD Bank. No one knows Bank of America. There's no personal connection there. No. It's all about bottom line and how much money they're going to make. Oh, yeah. And, you know, that's what's missing as well.
Yeah, how many times have you got a mortgage and, you know, the bank you go through sells it to someone else? They're making money every single day. I believe we had a financial crisis over this one. Yeah, I think it was 2008, 2009. Ish. I think there's a movie about that, right?
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