President Biden isn’t about to cross any picket lines, asserts pro-writers stance
Ahead of a White House screening of American Born Chinese on Monday, the President said that he hopes striking writers "are given the fair deal they deserve."
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Given that the average sitting commander-in-chief regularly relies on an entire communications department to help craft their public persona, it’s not too much of a surprise that President Biden seems to understand the importance of writers and not pissing them off. Ahead of a Monday evening screening of the upcoming Disney+ series American Born Chinese hosted at The White House (where he was joined by Ke Huy Quan), Biden offered a few words on the ongoing Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) strike, now in its second week.
“Nights like these are a reminder of the power of stories and the importance of treating storytellers with the dignity, respect and value they deserve. I sincerely hope that the writers strike in Hollywood gets resolved — and the writers are given the fair deal they deserve, as soon as possible,” the president shared. His statement was met with immediate applause and cheers from the audience.
Per Variety, the White House declined to comment on the situation last week; the WGA began striking on May 2, after the Guild’s contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) expired on May 1. Across the country—but primarily at studios in New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA—picketing writers have come together to loudly and proudly voice their industry concerns, which range from the growing creative-copyright threat of A.I. to the financial instability created by piddly streaming residuals and truncated mini rooms.
President Biden concluded: “This is an iconic, meaningful American industry. We need the writers — and all the workers — and everyone involved to tell the stories of our nation. And the stories of all of us.” Following the speech, the Writers Guild of America, East shared the clip via their official Twitter account. Watch the full video below:
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Dude is a corporate centrist, he’s not some kind of old time liberal who actually likes unions. Do not expect him to back any union efforts.https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-signs-bill-block-us-railroad-strike-2022-12-02/
Biden has back unions a thousand times you 1-inch deep broken record.
And that’s ok. He could be alot worse…
Not backing unions isn’t ok. I mean I voted for him but ‘he could be worse’ isn’t great.
I didn’t think if it as voting “for Biden”, I thought of it as voting “for not-Trump”.
And that’s a terrible way to run a campaign and why he very nearly lost to trump. Covid won’t win him the election again next year
Sometimes you have to walk in the world as it is. I only know what was in my head and heart in that booth.
I’m sorry but this is such a funny take. “Biden ran a terrible campaign, that’s why he defeated a sitting President.” Dude, come on.
I assume they think Sanders would have beaten Trump by 20 points. Whereas of course Sanders would have just led to 4 more years of Trump.
Exactly. They campaigned on “We’re Not Trump” and almost managed to lose one of the easiest elections ever. If The DNC campaigned on more than just “we aren’t Trump” then we’d have a lot less literal White Supremacists in office. But here we are.
Easy election? Sitting Presidents usually win. Please tell us which Dem candidate would have won the election by a massive margin?
And that’s a terrible way to run a campaign and why he very nearly lost to trump.In what fucking world is winning the electoral college 306 to 232 and the popular vote 81 million to 74 million a “very near loss”?
“why he very nearly lost to trump”Without the rural advantage that the EC confers on the GOP, it would have been a blowout. Don’t blame Biden for something the founders cooked up.
I don’t like to think of my vote being ‘against’ someone because it perpetuates the failure that is American politics as a team sport.
In the perfect world sung of by Huey Lewis, I agree with you.
Gotta get back in time!
I wanna new prez! One that does what he should!
You call the NEW PREZYeah that’s who you call!…oh wait, wrong song
It’s hep to be old!
“He could be alot worse” is the limpest political stance you could possibly hold. Wake the hell up, man.
bullshit takes like this are why the democrats are never going to be held accountable for all their pro-corporate, neoliberal policymaking. nothing is ever going to change so long as huge swaths of dem-voters are mindlessly content to hand-wave away all the worst things about the party simply because biden and company clear the unfathomably low bar of not being outright republicans
…he’s not some kind of old time liberal who actually likes unions.I mean, you could read the WHOLE story:https://www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1155763336/freight-rail-workers-union-paid-sick-leave-bernie-sanders-csxIt’s almost like the railroad situation wasn’t as straightforward as people wish politics were.
That’s fine. The writers won the last strike with Bush in the White House. So long as Biden doesn’t get in their way, I’m confident they can handle it without his help.
True, I’m more disappointed about the railroad and port workers that he’s not backing.
That’s fine. The writers won the last strike with Bush in the White House. So long as Biden doesn’t get in their way, I’m confident they can handle it without his help.
Exactly. Agreed on all points. But he’s got to stay close to entertainers, who else will help them get out the vote to maintain their do-nothing positions of power?
Only because entertainers are far more important to the public image of Democrats and their campaigns than railroad workers are. I’m sure that if Democrats were as tight with your average workers as they are entertainers they’d be fighting for all unions.But here we are.By the way, no, I’m not a Republican, Trump supporter or conservative. I’m just calling out Biden’s BS for exactly what it transparently is.
Completely missing in this thread: How’s the NRLB been under Biden’s tenure?