They are not just Manly Jobs. They are also Mostly White Manly Jobs. I live in Minnesota and the amount of money the state has spent subsidizing white men's jobs on the Iron Range in northern Minnesota is mind-blowing. (And it has since become a red Congressional District and pretty Trumpy.) If the Minnesota's Iron Range was full of Black and Brown men, it would have been abandoned by the state (and feds) decades ago.
I feel the same way driving across Michigan's Upper Peninsula: all these federal highways and state roads going to very small, dying BUT WHITE AND MANLY small towns, all of whom decry federal spending and vote for Trump and the GOP. If Black and Brown people made up most of Michigan's Upper Peninsula population, roads and infrastructure would have disappeared decades ago. As with so many things in America, it's about White people and their needs and feelings. (And I say this as a White, blonde, blue-eyed person.)
Paul, all Trump has to sell is "manly jobs". He is trying, unsuccessfully I believe, to restore heavy manufacturing in the United States. He truly has his head shoved up his rear end and his rear end firmly planted in the '50s and the '60s. He appears incapable of understanding that we have moved on from that era. We can no longer compete with Third World Country's on cost of production. Donnie seems to have missed that point.
Of course it should be said that Trump has screwed over every single lower class worker he's ever employed and he's never done even an hour's worth of what he'd call "hard" work, having gotten his start driving a Cadillac around the outer boroughs to collect rents for his slumlord father.
The Republican President is perhaps the stupidest ass in the world! His head and rear end both seem to be firmly planted in the '50s and '60s. He doesn't understand that the world has changed. The US can no longer compete with Third World Country's in heavy industry. Steep increases in steel and aluminum tariffs will only hurt US manufacturers. Don't forget the US consumer who actually be paying this tax. It really is too bad that Trump failed both Economics 101 and Teriffs 101 at University of Pennsylvania.
Doug Ford, premier (governor) of Ontario, just announced yesterday that his province will be re-activating its shuttered steel operations, and moving quickly to stop all steel imports from the US as soon as possible. It's great news for Canada, which is seizing on this moment to liberate itself from the US, and could really use the jobs.
But it's going to take the US steel industry's biggest customer out of the pool. So I'm not sure who Trump thinks he's going to be selling all this steel to.
Especially the subtitle: “stop romanticizing the manly jobs done by manly men.”nHere on the cutting edges (chainsaws: it takes many cutting edges to make @Paul Waldman’s Avatar) of the carbon-optimizing economy, the low-hanging fruit in the world of EV+ actions to avoid atmospheric CO2 (and methane) is the reduction in the density of the trees in the forests, both eliminating immediately a big chunk of the expected injections of CO2 from catastrophic wildfires, and over the Seven Generations increasing the bank of avoided CO2 captured by the forests as they return towards the state they were Seven Generations ago.
We have shown, at least in the northern mountains of California, that hand crews supported by rubber-tyred machines, followed by low-intensity ground fires, using best modelling techniques (thank you, here, Google for helping with the high-granularity high-iteration modeling, that saves firefighter lives as well as trees today, while guiding the cutting for the Seven Generations tomorrow), is EV+ compared to the alternatives we know about.
Hand crews and equipment, firefighters and fire shepherds. People who Rake the Forest Floor (a term I first heard at a meeting of the Plumas FireSafe Council, unless it was from a Forest Service manager on a site visit for a forest-health project.
Now, this is in the Northrn Sierra of California, so there are a lot of badass women on the logging and fire crews, and as many of our friends and neighbors who think we melatonin-deprived partners should call them American Indians to help us remember the Genocide, so this manly work done by manly men is done by a whole bunch of people who are as woke as all get-out even if nobody talks about it.
We don’t need no romanticizing, no sir, no ma’am. We just need more people who are ready to work hard for good pay to help us save our forests and planet.
Republicans idolize performative masculinity —- strutting, swaggering faux macho — over the real thing. That is why they were so enamored with guys like John Wayne who refused to serve in WWII and Ronnie Reagan who made sure he stayed state side making movies for the Army while their peers risked their lives and careers volunteering to serve.
Jimmy Stewart was a bomber pilot who flew many missions over Germany; Henry Fonda served on a destroyer in the Pacific; Clark Gable flew combat missions and volunteered to be a gunner, the most dangerous job on a fighter plane.
And then there was George HW Bush who also volunteered and served as a fighter pilot and was shot down. Republicans — and the media — saw him as wimpy; they saw the combat-avoiding, strutting Dubya as the real man’s man.
They are not just Manly Jobs. They are also Mostly White Manly Jobs. I live in Minnesota and the amount of money the state has spent subsidizing white men's jobs on the Iron Range in northern Minnesota is mind-blowing. (And it has since become a red Congressional District and pretty Trumpy.) If the Minnesota's Iron Range was full of Black and Brown men, it would have been abandoned by the state (and feds) decades ago.
I feel the same way driving across Michigan's Upper Peninsula: all these federal highways and state roads going to very small, dying BUT WHITE AND MANLY small towns, all of whom decry federal spending and vote for Trump and the GOP. If Black and Brown people made up most of Michigan's Upper Peninsula population, roads and infrastructure would have disappeared decades ago. As with so many things in America, it's about White people and their needs and feelings. (And I say this as a White, blonde, blue-eyed person.)
Not to mention that we import only 25% of our steel. Not much room to expand our industries here!
Paul, all Trump has to sell is "manly jobs". He is trying, unsuccessfully I believe, to restore heavy manufacturing in the United States. He truly has his head shoved up his rear end and his rear end firmly planted in the '50s and the '60s. He appears incapable of understanding that we have moved on from that era. We can no longer compete with Third World Country's on cost of production. Donnie seems to have missed that point.
Of course it should be said that Trump has screwed over every single lower class worker he's ever employed and he's never done even an hour's worth of what he'd call "hard" work, having gotten his start driving a Cadillac around the outer boroughs to collect rents for his slumlord father.
The Republican President is perhaps the stupidest ass in the world! His head and rear end both seem to be firmly planted in the '50s and '60s. He doesn't understand that the world has changed. The US can no longer compete with Third World Country's in heavy industry. Steep increases in steel and aluminum tariffs will only hurt US manufacturers. Don't forget the US consumer who actually be paying this tax. It really is too bad that Trump failed both Economics 101 and Teriffs 101 at University of Pennsylvania.
Doug Ford, premier (governor) of Ontario, just announced yesterday that his province will be re-activating its shuttered steel operations, and moving quickly to stop all steel imports from the US as soon as possible. It's great news for Canada, which is seizing on this moment to liberate itself from the US, and could really use the jobs.
But it's going to take the US steel industry's biggest customer out of the pool. So I'm not sure who Trump thinks he's going to be selling all this steel to.
I agree with everything here.
Especially the subtitle: “stop romanticizing the manly jobs done by manly men.”nHere on the cutting edges (chainsaws: it takes many cutting edges to make @Paul Waldman’s Avatar) of the carbon-optimizing economy, the low-hanging fruit in the world of EV+ actions to avoid atmospheric CO2 (and methane) is the reduction in the density of the trees in the forests, both eliminating immediately a big chunk of the expected injections of CO2 from catastrophic wildfires, and over the Seven Generations increasing the bank of avoided CO2 captured by the forests as they return towards the state they were Seven Generations ago.
We have shown, at least in the northern mountains of California, that hand crews supported by rubber-tyred machines, followed by low-intensity ground fires, using best modelling techniques (thank you, here, Google for helping with the high-granularity high-iteration modeling, that saves firefighter lives as well as trees today, while guiding the cutting for the Seven Generations tomorrow), is EV+ compared to the alternatives we know about.
Hand crews and equipment, firefighters and fire shepherds. People who Rake the Forest Floor (a term I first heard at a meeting of the Plumas FireSafe Council, unless it was from a Forest Service manager on a site visit for a forest-health project.
Now, this is in the Northrn Sierra of California, so there are a lot of badass women on the logging and fire crews, and as many of our friends and neighbors who think we melatonin-deprived partners should call them American Indians to help us remember the Genocide, so this manly work done by manly men is done by a whole bunch of people who are as woke as all get-out even if nobody talks about it.
We don’t need no romanticizing, no sir, no ma’am. We just need more people who are ready to work hard for good pay to help us save our forests and planet.
Help wanted.
Republicans idolize performative masculinity —- strutting, swaggering faux macho — over the real thing. That is why they were so enamored with guys like John Wayne who refused to serve in WWII and Ronnie Reagan who made sure he stayed state side making movies for the Army while their peers risked their lives and careers volunteering to serve.
Jimmy Stewart was a bomber pilot who flew many missions over Germany; Henry Fonda served on a destroyer in the Pacific; Clark Gable flew combat missions and volunteered to be a gunner, the most dangerous job on a fighter plane.
And then there was George HW Bush who also volunteered and served as a fighter pilot and was shot down. Republicans — and the media — saw him as wimpy; they saw the combat-avoiding, strutting Dubya as the real man’s man.