Bricklayers Union

03/01/2026

02/16/2026

FAFO

02/07/2026

TJ Sabula is back on the line at the Ford plant and roughly eight hundred thousand dollars richer after getting suspended for calling Donald trump a “pedophile protector” in the middle of a presidential photo op. That is not how this kind of story is supposed to end in corporate America, where workers are usually reminded how replaceable they are the second they step out of line. Instead, a guy in coveralls heckled the president, got punished, and then watched a wave of small dollar solidarity turn his suspension into a payout that Wall Street lobbyists would kill for.

Ford tried to turn him into a cautionary tale, slapping him with a suspension and putting out the familiar language about “inappropriate” conduct, while trump snapped and flipped him off like a bully who just got clowned in front of the whole cafeteria. The script was obvious: make an example of the worker, close ranks around the president, and hope everyone else gets the message. What nobody planned for was the internet deciding that if the system was going to come down on Sabula, then regular people would just buy him some breathing room.

The GoFundMe haul and his return to work do not magically fix the power imbalance between a president, a multinational automaker, and one union guy in Dearborn. But they do puncture the myth that trump is untouchable and that workers have to swallow their anger in silence just to keep a paycheck. A single shouted insult on a factory floor turned into a kind of crowd sourced strike fund, proof that when someone stands up to trump in public, there are hundreds of thousands of people out there willing to throw in a few bucks to make sure he does not stand alone.

01/13/2026

This is another good union.

11/29/2025

This punchline is a classic example of Frankie Boyle’s signature dark, aggressive, and highly intellectual humor. It takes a recent, sensitive public event—the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs—and uses it as the setup for a cutting piece of corporate satire. The humor derives from the shock of the subject matter immediately followed by the undeniable, relatable truth about Apple's products: the often-frustratingly short battery life of their devices. The joke reframes a profound moment of global mourning as a cynical, darkly poetic reflection on consumer electronics.

Boyle’s comedy is built on finding the blackest, most unexpected angle to attack powerful figures and institutions. He excels at using linguistic precision to deliver a devastating blow, and here he uses the word "fitting metaphor" to lend a serious, almost literary weight to a deeply irreverent gag. The audience laughs not just at the joke, but at the sheer audacity of connecting mortality with mobile phone technology, forcing a moment of cognitive dissonance that is central to his style.

His influence in modern comedy is significant, representing a defiant, uncompromising brand of satire that refuses to be constrained by political correctness or sensitivity. Boyle’s relentless use of controversial topics and his sharp, cynical intelligence have proven that comedy can be a powerful, unsettling tool for social critique. His work remains a vital counterpoint to softer, observational comedy, providing an outlet for aggressive, unfiltered, and often thought-provoking laughter.

10/24/2025

10/15/2025

This is the way