REPORT: Klepto-Tranny Sam Brinton Stole Woman’s Suitcase While on Tax-Funded Work Trip

(Headline USA) Sam Brinton, the nonbinary former Energy Department official who was arrested and charged with stealing multiple women’s suitcases, was reportedly on a taxpayer-funded work trip at the time of one of the thefts.

Documents obtained by the New York Post showed that Brinton traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, as a representative for the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy in July 2022. The business trip took place from July 6-9 and included a “meeting and site visit to DOE Las Vegas Site,” the records showed. The trip cost taxpayers $1,951.50 total.

It was during this trip that Brinton was caught on security camera footage stealing a woman’s luggage from the Las Vegas International Airport—one of three cases in which Brinton has been accused of doing so.

The suitcase and its belongings were worth approximately $3,670, court records revealed. 

Brinton was ordered by a court to pay the $3,670 to the victim in restitution, given a 180-day suspended jail sentence and ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation as part of an adult diversion program.

The cross-dressing ex-bureaucrat—who has spoken publicly about a penchant for puppy play and support for child sex-trafficking—was also caught on camera stealing another woman’s luggage in the Minneaolis–St. Paul Airport in Minnesota. That bag was worth $2,325, court records showed.

More recently, Brinton was arrested for allegedly stealing luggage from Houston-based fashion designer Asya Khamsin, who came forward earlier this year to share pictures Brinton had posted wearing the clothing that had been packed in her missing suitcase.

Khamsin said she lost the suitcase from the Reagan International Airport in Washington, D.C., back in 2018.

Brinton, who was charged with being a “fugitive from justice,” spent weeks in a Montgomery County, Maryland, jail before being released last month on bond. The investigation is being spearheaded by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police.

L.A. Times Joins N.Y. Times in Dumping Increasingly Woke Sports Section

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Amid financial struggles, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times have closed their woke sports pages in favor of online coverage.

The New York Times reported last week on the shuttering of its sports section.

It said that its coverage was being discontinued in light of its acquisition of The Athletic—a publication that, it admitted, has not turned a profit since its purchase in January 2022 at a cost of $550 million.

The “Grey Lady” reported that none of its unionized employees would be laid off as a result of the move.

However, the union itself labeled the acquisition of The Athletic and the subsequent layoffs an attempt at “union busting.”

The writers at the New York Times released an open letter describing their treatment at the hands of “the paper of record” in all things but sports, according to the rival New York Post.

“For 18 months, The New York Times has left its sports staff twisting in the wind,” the letter said.

“We have watched the company buy a competitor with hundreds of sportswriters and weigh decisions about the future of sports coverage at The Times without, in many instances, so much as a courtesy call, let alone any solicitation of our expertise,” it continued. “The company’s efforts appear to be coming to a head, with The Times pursuing a full-scale technological migration of The Athletic to The Times’s platforms and the threat that the company will effectively shut down our section.”

Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times revealed it, too, was shuttering its sports page, though the situation was “not as drastic” as the New York Times’ announcement, according to the sports blog Awful Announcing.

The changes were also reported by a tweet by the Sporting Tribune.

The newspaper “will no longer have box scores, standings, game stories, TV listings or a daily sports calendar,” the tweet said, explaining that it needed to make the change to accommodate the sale of its printing press.

The same paper had to cut 13% of its newsroom in June, according to NPR.

The Los Angeles Times attempted to put a positive spin on its decision, calling it a “new era” when it announced the cost-cutting alterations to its readers.

“The printed sports section will take on the look and feel of a daily sports magazine, with a different design showcasing our award-winning reporting and photography,” it wrote. “You no longer will see box scores, standings and traditional game stories, but those will be replaced by more innovative reporting, in-depth profiles, unique examinations of the way teams operate, investigations, our distinct columnists’ voices, elite photography and more.”

The Los Angeles Times, like the New York Times, has been going increasingly woke in its sports coverage, according to RedState.

Jim Thompson, a news cartoonist, described ending his work with the Los Angeles Times, because his cartoons were increasingly being rejected on behalf of woke political reasoning.

“The LA Times sports section had also started to turn into a political and social justice mouthpiece,” he wrote.

“Maybe readers got tired of it and stopped reading,” he continued. “In any event, the sports section that once published my cartoons weekly and used my cartoons as front-page art has now decided that it won’t publish a lot of what people who still read newspapers want to read.”

Fauci, Health Officials Accused of Illegally Approving $26B in Tax-Funded Grants

() Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a news conference last week on what they said was Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra’s failure to lawfully reappoint 14 National Institutes of Health officials, including former COVID czar Anthony Fauci.

Following a bipartisan law passed in 2016, the 21st Century Cures Act, the HHS secretary had to reappoint NIH institute and center directors every five years, starting with those whose terms would expire in December 2021.

“There’s been a complete breakdown of accountability at the agency that has lost the trust of the American people, especially during COVID-19,” Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., said at the news conference.

“Fourteen NIH officials, including Dr. Fauci, held unlawful positions and exercised authority that they didn’t have, which included approving $26 billion in grants,” she added.

Rodgers mentioned that the NIH had misled the committee for over a year throughout the investigation.

She said that the request “has been a pretty simple one”—that being to provide documents proving Becerra reappointed the officials.

“No one is above the law,” Rodgers said. “Americans need to know that their tax dollars are being spent responsibly, effectively, and lawfully and that the people making these decisions are lawfully authorized to make them.”

Health Subcommittee Chair Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., said in the conference that every decision each official made after 2021 should be called into question. He specifically called out Fauci.

“It is unfair to the American people that, while he held this position unlawfully, he used his platform to be the voice of science and shame those with alternative point of views in addition to pushing for questionable public health guidance policies,” Guthrie said.

The committee also announced plans to hold a hearing for Becerra at the end of the month.

Psaki Suggests Comer Has Been Co-Opted by China to Smear Biden Family

(Headline USA) Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki speculated this week about whether Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., who is leading the House’s investigation into the Biden family, is being used by China to undermine the U.S.

“How concerned are you that James Comer, the chairman of the [House Oversight Committee], was knowingly [or] unknowingly, working with, co-opted by a foreign agent?” Psaki asked Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., on her MSNBC show this weekend.

Raskin declined to answer directly, but he claimed he was concerned that the House Oversight Committee was “suddenly being compromised in a really serious way.”

Raskin has previously used his position to push disinformation about the House probes into the Biden family, and his efforts to delegitimize it with the former administration mouthpiece seemed no exception.

“Our legitimacy is being eroded by the tactics adopted by Chairman Comer,” he claimed.

Psaki’s comments followed reports that a key witness in House Republicans’ investigation into the Biden family’s influence-peddling scheme had been hit with federal charges.

Dr. Gal Luft faces charges for unregistered lobbying and arms trafficking.

Luft is accused of failing to register as a foreign agent for the same Chinese energy company that partnered with Hunter Biden and is believed to have paid the Biden family millions of dollars in bribe money in 2017.

Last week, Raskin wrote a letter to Comer claiming the chairman had been “duped” into accepting Luft’s testimony and demanding access to “all materials and information” Luft gave GOP investigators.

Raskin also dismissed Comer’s investigation into the Biden family as a “wild goose chase.”

He made a similar claim during his interview with Psaki.

“There are real issues that are confronting our people and they’re off on this wild goose chase related to Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, and their main witnesses are people who are fleeing justice in America,” he said.

Comer has uncovered evidence directly linking several members of the Biden family to foreign companies, including the Chinese state-backed energy conglomerate CEFC.

He said last week that despite the charges against Luft, he still wants to hear from Luft.

“Gal Luft was paid by CEFC, the same [Chinese Communist Party]-linked company that paid the Bidens,” he tweeted on Sunday. “In fact, Hunter claimed his father was in the room when he demanded payment from a CEFC associate. We didn’t choose the Bidens’ associates. The Bidens did.”

RFK Jr. Refuses to Comment on Biden Corruption Scandal

(Headline USA) Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shrugged off allegations of corruption within the Biden family on Saturday.

“I don’t have a comment on that,” he told Fox News.

Kennedy spoke at the FreedomFest conference in Memphis, Tenn., and was asked about the federal charges against Hunter Biden and whistleblower reports that accused President Joe Biden of accepting bribes from Ukrainian and Chinese officials—including while he was vice president.

But Kennedy—the scion of one of the Democrats’ greatest modern political dynasties, who is currently challenging Joe Biden for the party’s presidential nomination—refused to opine.

 

“What I’ve tried to do in this campaign is to focus on issues and focus on the values and not focus on ad hominem attacks on people,” he said.

When pressed on whether he believes the corruption allegations are something that affect the country, Kennedy acknowledged that they are a concern but again refused to explain why.

“I think on every side it’s something that people should be concerned about, but it’s not something that I’m making a spear tip to my campaign,” Kennedy responded. 

Kennedy has not weighed in on the plea deal struck between the Justice Department and Hunter Biden either—a deal that Republicans have blasted as further evidence of DOJ corruption.

At least two whistleblowers have alleged that U.S. Attorney David Weiss wanted to bring severer charges against Hunter Biden but was prevented from doing so. The New York Times confirmed part of this allegation in a report earlier this month.

“[I]n mid-2022, Mr. Weiss reached out to the top federal prosecutor in Washington, Matthew Graves, to ask his office to pursue charges and was rebuffed, according to Mr. Shapley’s testimony,” the Times said.

“A similar request to prosecutors in the Central District of California, which includes Los Angeles, was also rejected, Mr. Shapley testified,” it continued. “A second former I.R.S. official, who has not been identified, told House Republicans the same story. That episode was confirmed independently to the New York Times by a person with knowledge of the situation.”

McCarthy’s Call to Decentralize FBI Highlights Growing Alarm w/ Deep-State Corruption

(Headline USA) When House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., suggested last week that he might stop the FBI from relocating its downtown headquarters to a massive new facility planned for the Washington suburbs, it was more than idle thinking about an office renovation.

The nod from the Republican speaker is elevating a proposal to upend the highly partisan and deeply corrupt FBI in the aftermath of the federal indictment of Donald Trump over classified documents and the Justice Department’s selective prosecution of its political rivals—including some of the nearly 1,000 people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 uprising at the U.S. Capitol.

It comes as several other conservative House leaders—including Reps. Lauren Boebert and Ken Buck, both Colorado Republicans, were among those who suggested invoking the Holman rule on appropriations to revoke the salaries of top Biden officials until they ceased their weaponized abuses of power and begin enforcing the laws in good faith.

The deep state’s alignment with Democrats, which began in earnest during the Obama era when civil service shifted from a primarily nonpartisan focus to a deeply political one, marks a dramatic shift from Republicans of yore, who steadfastly supported the intelligence community as an essential component of national security.

Now, it appears the agency’s goal is quite the opposite, to undermine democratic values and institutions in favor of upholding a system of Marxist authoritarianism that empowers unelected bureaucrats like themselves.

“This is a pretty dramatic reversal of what the politics would have been 50 years ago,” said Beverly Gage, a historian at Yale who won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for her biography of the legendary FBI director, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century.

While political criticism of the FBI has followed the bureau since its founding with Hoover, who famously wiretapped civil rights leaders and orchestrated the infiltration of left-wing political organizations, the right-flank campaign against federal law enforcement had mostly simmered at the margins of party politics.

But the Justice Department’s indictment of Trump, who has pleaded not guilty to 37 felony counts over storing and refusing to return classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club, and the targeting of other conservative organizations for exercising their constitutional rights, have fueled conservative anger.

Conservatives criticize the federal law enforcement on multiple fronts; among them, its work with social-media companies to censor conservative critics, and a COVID-era memo from Attorney General Merrick Garland directing resources to target parents who were speaking out during local school board meetings.

By contrast, Garland and others in the Biden administration have allowed leftist scofflaws to act with impunity, including a sweetheart deal for Hunter Biden, the president’s son, who avoided felony indictments despite damning evidence of multiple crimes after the FBI and DOJ spent years slow-walking an investigation into him and actively colluding to cover up his illegal activities.

“Looking at the actions of the FBI, I think the whole leadership needs to change,” McCarthy told reporters at the Capitol last month.

Fresh from a visit with law enforcement in California, McCarthy said he envisions decentralizing the FBI by spreading operations into the states.

“This idea that we’re going to build a new, big Pentagon and put all the FBI mainly in one place, I don’t think it’s a good structure,” McCarthy said Friday, panning a conservative-led proposal to relocate the FBI to Alabama.

“I’d like to see the structure of a much smaller FBI administration building, and more FBI agents out across the country, helping to keep the country safe,” he said. “To me that’s better.”

The Heritage Foundation is among those outside entities and advocacy organizations encouraging Congress to reimagine the FBI.

“The Washington headquarters is symbolic,” said Steven G. Bradbury, a former Trump administration general counsel who is now a senior fellow at the conservative think tank.

Bradbury’s “How to Fix the FBI” report outlines nearly a dozen options. One is scaling back its jurisdiction.

Another is to overhaul section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA, that abused by the FBI as part of the Trump-Russia hoax.

“We have our finger on the pulse of what conservatives are reacting to,” said Bradbury. “The FBI needs to be rebuilt.”

Last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray appeared before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time since Republicans took control in January, facing a long list of criticisms, complaints and accusations of bias at the bureau.

“Are you protecting the Bidens?’ asked Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.

“Absolutely not,” Wray said.

At another point Wray said, “The idea that I’m biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me, given my own personal background.”

He is a longtime Republican who had been appointed by Trump to fill the job after Director James Comey was fired in 2017.

Trump has since acknowledged that the hiring of Wray—which was endorsed by other cronies in his inner-circle who have since proven to be deep-state plants and sycophants, including former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie—was a mistake.

Wray told the lawmakers that dismantling or defunding the FBI would be disastrous for the bureau’s 38,000 employees and “hurt our great state local law enforcement partners that depend on us each day to work with them on a whole slew of challenging threats.”

Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, called the hearing “bizarre.”

“I didn’t think I would ever see Republicans attacking a Republican appointed by Donald Trump to lead the nation’s largest law enforcement agency, essentially saying they want to defund the FBI,” she said.

The lawmaker said it was also odd to find herself defending the federal law enforcement agency that she, too, believes needs strong oversight from Congress. But she felt Democrats had to step in to counter Republican attacks on the FBI.

“That’s their message: They want to shut down the FBI because the FBI is continuing to investigate Donald Trump,” said Jayapal. “And that is really what this is about.”

Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, submitted a proposal before the hearing that calls for “eliminating taxpayer funding for any new FBI headquarter facility.”

Jordan said in a letter to the Republican chair of the House appropriations committee that he also wants a plan for moving the FBI headquarters out of Washington, noting an existing facility in Huntsville, Alabama—a recommendation Heritage has also made.

“One of the goals we’ve set in this Congress as Republicans is to do the oversight so we can impact the appropriations process,” Jordan said in a brief interview at the Capitol, and “put limitations on how taxpayer money is spent to stop the weaponization of these agencies against the American people.”

Jordan also called for the DOJ to halt all politically-sentitive investigations until the department and its corrupt agencies were able to make the changes necessary to proceed in a nonpartisan fashion.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

GOP Hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy Lists Sens. Cruz, Lee as Possible SCOTUS Picks

(Headline USA) Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur and anti-woke author, on Monday released a list of 16 people he’d nominate to the U.S. Supreme Court or federal appellate courts if he becomes president, making him the first in the party’s field to itemize his possible top judicial appointments.

Ramaswamy’s list includes Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah as possible nominees for the nation’s top court, as well as elevating federal judges who struck down President Joe Biden’s airplane mask mandate and the FDA’s two-decade-long approval of the abortion pill.

The direction of the Supreme Court was a powerful issue for Donald Trump in his 2016 bid with the court’s narrow majority up for grabs following the unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia, a much revered lion of constructivist legal philosophy and a conservative stalwart on the court throughout the treacherous Clinton and Obama years.

Had Hillary Clinton won, the selection likely would have gone to deeply corrupt Democrat shill Merrick Garland, the choice of then-President Barack Obama, who was a federal judge in the D.C. appellate court at the time.

During the 2016 primary, Trump released his own list of possible appointments to the high court to reassure his new party’s voters that he was in line with their judicial agenda.

While the move was a political hit, it also gave far-left activists the opportunity to begin planning their attack by providing a potential target list. They did precisely that with a baseless and spurious last-minute rape allegation that nearly derailed Trump’s second of three picks, Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Like Trump, Ramaswamy, 37, has been gaining grassroots momentum as a political outsider who appeals to those beyond the traditional GOP base.

In an interview, he said he was releasing the list of possible appointments to show voters where he stood.

“It’s important, when you’re asking voters to select the next president of the United States, that you be as transparent as you can about what you’re going to do,” Ramaswamy said.

Ramaswamy is the latest Republican candidate trying to recapture conservative enthusiasm around the court as left-wing activists have become increasingly mobilized by its recent rulings, including the overturn of the controversial rulings that long upheld abortion and affirmative action.

Despite those victories, the court, led by centrist Chief Justice John Roberts, also has delivered some substantial setbacks to Republicans, including rulings that Democrats declared victories on related to court-enforced gerrymandering—a power that the U.S. Constitution delegates exclusively to state legislatures.

All three of Trump’s picks—Kavanaugh, along with justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett—have wavered at times, including Gorsuch’s role in abetting the controversial ruling that extended Title VII workplace protections based on gender identity.

That 2020 ruling, in turn, emboldened the transgender community to launch a wave of “equal rights” activism that has alarmed conservatives due to its targeting of biological women and preoccupation, in many cases, with young children.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has said he’d appoint stronger conservatives to the bench than did Trump.

But Ramaswamy said he sees no reason to criticize Trump’s appointments.

“That is a bizarre criticism,” he said of the argument that Trump’s picks weren’t conservative enough.

Ramaswamy’s own list includes prominent conservative legal names. He said he’d only nominate Cruz or Lee if it wouldn’t change the balance of the U.S. Senate, which Democrats currently control by a two-vote margin, 51–49.

Another prominent name on the list for the high court is Paul Clement, who served as former President George W. Bush’s solicitor general.

Ramaswamy also proposed elevating several district court judges to the nation’s appellate courts. He cited Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an Amarillo-based federal judge whose April ruling against the abortion pill was swiftly reversed by appellate judges.

The list also included Kathryn Mizelle, whom Trump nominated at age 38 to a judgeship in Florida, and who struck down Biden’s air travel mask mandate last year.

An additional prominent conservative judge who made Ramaswamy’s Supreme Court list is James Ho, another Trump nominee to a position on the Texas-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ramaswamy said Ho first came to his attention because the judge quoted his own book, Woke, Inc., in one of his rulings.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Homeless Woman Killed by Lawnmower While Napping in Calif. Park

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A California lawn care worker ran over a 27-year-old homeless woman sleeping in the tall weeds with a lawnmower, leading to her gruesome death, Breitbart reported Sunday.

According to the report, the worker was “driving a John Deere tractor with a pull-behind motor,” and he did not know the woman was sleeping in the weeds until it was too late.

The woman, Christine Chavez, leaves a nine-year-old daughter behind.

She often spent time at Beard Brook Park, according to reports.

Her father, Christopher Chavez, said that he remains horrified by what he saw at the scene before he called the local police.

“There were many pieces of [her remains] around there, and I called the police,” Chavez told reporters.

“I went there, and I still have pieces of bones, like pieces of her skull and some teeth. It’s terrible.”

The park had been purchased by E & J Gallo Winery just one day before. The winery hired Grover Landscaping Services to clear the overgrown area.

The winery released a report soon thereafter explaining what had happened and expressing condolences.

The accident, they noted, involved “an individual who was not visible and laying in a tall, weeded area.”

After the incident, which took place on July 7 around noon, “the contractor immediately contacted the Modesto Police Department, and upon arrival, MPD officers declared the individual was deceased.”

Esmer Chavez, Christine’s sister, blamed society for its lack of concern for the homeless population.

“It’s just the worst way to die without doing absolutely nothing wrong,” Esmer wrote on her GoFundMe page for her sister’s funeral expenses.

“And it hurts so much that she was just sleeping, not doing any harm to anyone. We know there’s a lot of homeless people out there, and I can’t believe the driver of the tractor didn’t see my little sister laying on the floor.”

WH Spins Kamala’s Population-Control Gaffe, Claims She Meant ‘Pollution’

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) White House handlers were in damage control after Vice President Kamala Harris said that “reducing the population” is needed to combat climate change.

“When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water,” Harris initially told a Coppin State University audience in Baltimore, Maryland on June 14. The White House then corrected Harris’s speech on climate change, claiming she meant to say “pollution” instead of “population.”

“Every day, all across our nation, we feel and see the impact of the climate crisis,” Harris alarmed. “I mean, if you watch the morning news, it will be the lead story. It’s been every day for the last couple of weeks. It is the lead story. I think we finally, at least in our progress, come to the point that most people can no longer deny it because it is so obvious.”

The Democrats have a knack for raising concerns about climate change and have cautioned Americans that the earth will soon be uninhabitable unless they stop consuming meat and using gas-powered vehicles.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., declared that Americans could fight climate change by eating fewer hamburgers. Vermont Senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was criticized after arguing population control should be part of tackling climate change.

However, a study conducted by the European Physical Journal in 2022 revealed Democrats exaggerated their warnings on global warming. The study determined that climate change should not be environmentalists’ sole objective, and that other global issues needed to be addressed as well. 

“We need to remind ourselves that addressing climate change is not an end in itself, and that climate change is not the only problem that the world is facing,” the study concluded. “The objective should be to improve human well-being in the twenty-first century while protecting the environment as much as we can.”

Socialist S.F. Labor Union Blamed for Killing Iconic Anchor Steam Beer

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A far-left labor union has effectively forced the closure of the 127-year-old Anchor Brewing Co. in San Francisco after causing labor costs to skyrocket, the New York Post reported on Saturday.

According to former San Francisco mayoral candidate Richie Greenberg, the socialist labor union stifled the legacy small business.

“You schmucks ruined a legacy business,” San Francisco political commentator and former mayoral candidate Richie Greenberg told the Post. “Your union fought for 25% raises, and now your members are getting 100% of zero. Bravo.”

According to locals, the Democratic Socialists of America group which drove Anchor Brewing Co.’s 61-man labor force into unionization caused the beer company to go belly-up.

“This union was not prioritizing the long-term health of the business,” said Greenberg, who further suggested that the union’s leaders are ineffectual and greedy.

“These Democratic Socialists really don’t care about the workers they’re getting involved with. They only want power, and more membership in their screw-loose cult.”

The far-left union is led by organizer Brace Belden, who calls himself a Marxist-Leninist and a DSA member.

Belden led the charge to get workers to unionize.

“We didn’t just dedicate ourselves to this project for the sole reason of starting a union,” Belden crowed in 2019. “Campaigns spearheaded by socialist labor organizers. . . give us a foundation for a labor movement ready to take on the power of capital.”

But now, after totally destroying the “capital” that they sought to “take” control over, union leaders expressed frustration with the outcome.

“We’re sad, we’re defeated, we want to be left alone,” the union tweeted Thursday.

Investor and author Carol Roth, who penned the book You Will Own Nothing, the workers and their union failed because they ignored basic limitations of finance.

“I’m very sympathetic to the workers, but there also has to be some reality,” Roth said. “And that’s the problem with socialism: in the real world, the economic and math tenets quite literally do not add up.”