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Shell Employees Forced to Go to Trump Rally
Aug 18th, 2019 at 7:03am
 
'NO YELLING, SHOUTING, PROTESTING': SHELL WORKERS CAPTIVE AUDIENCE DURING TRUMP VISIT


https://www.newsweek.com/shell-pennsylvania-trump-union-ethylene-1454858

Workers at Shell's new $6 billion plant 'were told they wouldn't get PAID if they didn't attend a Trump speech' and 'were ordered not to protest during the event'


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7366867/Shell-employees-told-wouldnt-PA...

Workers at Trump speech told they had to use time off or receive no pay if they didn’t attend


https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/workers-at-trump-speech-told-they-had-to...

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Reply #1 - Aug 18th, 2019 at 7:42am
 
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Fake news. My son works there.       ...........


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Reply #2 - Aug 18th, 2019 at 7:47am
 
Is this the Shell plant Trump took credit for, even though the deal was done under the Obama Administration?
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Reply #3 - Aug 18th, 2019 at 8:38am
 
Fake News.  Roll Eyes

American Energy workers love Trump - Obama was shutting the industry down but now under Trump they are energy independent and are also exporting energy  Smiley
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Reply #4 - Aug 18th, 2019 at 9:03am
 
SerialBrain9 wrote on Aug 18th, 2019 at 8:38am:
Fake News.  Roll Eyes

American Energy workers love Trump - Obama was shutting the industry down but now under Trump they are energy independent and are also exporting energy  Smiley


It isn't fake news Maganic.
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Reply #5 - Aug 18th, 2019 at 9:30am
 
In the land of the free where private competition is everything what in dogs name is the government doing building multi billion dollar refineries for a private company? This is a place where the government don't believe in doing anything for their own people, they hate welfare but happily provide billions in wealthfare.
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Reply #6 - Aug 18th, 2019 at 9:31am
 
SerialBrain9 wrote on Aug 18th, 2019 at 8:38am:
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Really..?

Again with the bullshit.

Not only is it not fake news but the workers were paid to attend as confirmed by a Shell spokesperson and the community of the 17th district of Pennsylvania after voting for Trump in 2016 by over 18 points were betrayed by him when the promised tax cuts failed to materialize and voted for Democrat Conor Lamb in the midterms.

Unlike you, they saw through Trump's bullshit and aren't having a bar of him anymore, especially after this latest lie.

So we're happy to attack Biden when he confuses dates for shootings when he was Vice President and when he wasn't, but we're ok with Trump "confusing dates" for something that was approved before he was even in politics with something he claims to be directly responsible for?

Seems like Trump is getting senile in his old age.

[Insert attacks against Biden but with Trump's name inserted instead here]
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Reply #7 - Aug 18th, 2019 at 9:32am
 
AiA wrote on Aug 18th, 2019 at 9:03am:
SerialBrain9 wrote on Aug 18th, 2019 at 8:38am:
Fake News.  Roll Eyes

American Energy workers love Trump - Obama was shutting the industry down but now under Trump they are energy independent and are also exporting energy  Smiley


It isn't fake news Maganic.


Yes it is very much fake news, to the right news that they don't like is universally defined as fake news. In fact the more true it is the more fake it is classified.
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Reply #8 - Aug 18th, 2019 at 9:34am
 
SadKangaroo wrote on Aug 18th, 2019 at 9:31am:
SerialBrain9 wrote on Aug 18th, 2019 at 8:38am:
Fake News.  Roll Eyes


Really..?

Again with the bullshit.

Not only is it not fake news but the workers were paid to attend as confirmed by a Shell spokesperson and the community of the 17th district of Pennsylvania after voting for Trump in 2016 by over 18 points were betrayed by him when the promised tax cuts failed to materialize and voted for Democrat Conor Lamb in the midterms.

Unlike you, they saw through Trump's bullshit and aren't having a bar of him anymore, especially after this latest lie.

So we're happy to attack Biden when he confuses dates for shootings when he was Vice President and when he wasn't, but we're ok with Trump "confusing dates" for something that was approved before he was even in politics with something he claims to be directly responsible for?

Seems like Trump is getting senile in his old age.

[Insert attacks against Biden but with Trump's name inserted instead here]


Seems like Trump is getting senile in his old age.


No it is just that he lies a lot.
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Reply #9 - Aug 18th, 2019 at 9:38am
 
Dnarever wrote on Aug 18th, 2019 at 9:34am:
SadKangaroo wrote on Aug 18th, 2019 at 9:31am:
SerialBrain9 wrote on Aug 18th, 2019 at 8:38am:
Fake News.  Roll Eyes


Really..?

Again with the bullshit.

Not only is it not fake news but the workers were paid to attend as confirmed by a Shell spokesperson and the community of the 17th district of Pennsylvania after voting for Trump in 2016 by over 18 points were betrayed by him when the promised tax cuts failed to materialize and voted for Democrat Conor Lamb in the midterms.

Unlike you, they saw through Trump's bullshit and aren't having a bar of him anymore, especially after this latest lie.

So we're happy to attack Biden when he confuses dates for shootings when he was Vice President and when he wasn't, but we're ok with Trump "confusing dates" for something that was approved before he was even in politics with something he claims to be directly responsible for?

Seems like Trump is getting senile in his old age.

[Insert attacks against Biden but with Trump's name inserted instead here]


Seems like Trump is getting senile in his old age.


No it is just that he lies a lot.


Of course, I know that, just trying to highlight the usual hypocrisy where the right will attack their opponents but then not hold Trump to anything close to the level they demand of the left.

That said, there is no doubt Trump has been showing an accelerated mental decline over the past 2 years.
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Reply #10 - Aug 18th, 2019 at 12:10pm
 
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What a despicable thing to do.

Guess they found out that nobody would go otherwise. It was force the employees to turn up or issue high viz jackets to Crickets.
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Reply #11 - Aug 18th, 2019 at 1:15pm
 
Dnarever wrote on Aug 18th, 2019 at 12:10pm:
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What a despicable thing to do.

Guess they found out that nobody would go otherwise. It was force the employees to turn up or issue high viz jackets to Crickets.


There is a little more to the story.  Nobody was forced to go, but, given they were considering the day a "training day" and Trump considered a guest speaker, those who went and signed in with their ID would have been paid to attend.

If you wanted the full day's pay including accruing the full overtime benefits, you had to attend.  Anyone who didn't want to attend would have to take an excused, but non-paid, absence.

Those who were in attendance were forbidden from protesting, however.

So if you wanted a full days pay, you were forced to attend.

Different, an important distinction, especially in a district that voted heavily against Trump in the mid-terms compared to the 2016 election but still an instance of a crowd needing to be paid to attend a Trump rally.
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Reply #12 - Aug 18th, 2019 at 6:24pm
 
Sprintcyclist wrote on Aug 18th, 2019 at 7:42am:
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........   Jeff, Indy, United States, less than a minute ago

Fake news. My son works there.       ...........


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7366867/Shell-employees-told-wouldnt-PA...


The paper stands by it's reporting and nobody has denied it....Why would anyone not accept that Shell would support an anti environment President who is allowing them to destroy the Planet....Everything about Trump is fake and orchestrated....Why would this be any different???

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Reply #13 - Aug 18th, 2019 at 7:11pm
 
These were not Shell plant workers.  They were construction workers who have nothing to do with the Shell Plant employee practices. The plant isn't even finished yet!

The job site was shut down for the day and the Construction firm was actually being pretty generous to the workers by not just sending them home for the day.

I don't like Trump either, but you could at least try to find out the facts instead of running BS posts.
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Reply #14 - Aug 18th, 2019 at 7:22pm
 
the average chode should give up a months salary to go and absorb the vibe of an inspirational superman
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