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Teamsters Head Sean O’Brien Is a Punk!

Forgive me for speaking so nastily about a sick person. The record must be set straight, though.

B Kean
5 min readSep 20, 2024
Courtesy of Washington Post

Sean O’Brien is ill. Sure, physically, he looks okay in this photo, but if we could pull the camera in close to his eyes, we would notice that they have lost the normal brilliance of a curious and mentally sound human being. One could imagine that First Man had a somewhat similar dull look millions of years ago.

Sean O’Brien is “MAG-ick.” The head of the Teamsters Union came out the other day and declared that neither presidential candidate is worthy of his support. Donald Trump, in a free-wheeling chat with a supporter of South African apartheid, Elon Musk, giggled when he reminisced how Musk fired striking workers. Trump, a few months ago, held a “pro-union” rally with autoworkers at a non-union company. The irony of this situation is palpable, with audience members holding bogus signs that read, “Unions are with Trump.” Many of the workers gathered in the room were scabs who had been used to cross strike lines in the past.

O’Brien’s sickness has shown all of the same symptoms it does in the millions of other infected former Americans. The first sign is to be against your own interests. If the passengers on the Titanic were MAG-ick, they would have burned the…

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B Kean
B Kean

Written by B Kean

The past holds the answers to today’s problems. “Be curious, not judgmental,” at least until you have all the facts. Think and stop watching cable news.

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