Workers went on strike at three Midwestern plants: a General Motors assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri, a Stellantis assembly plant in Toledo, Ohio, and part of a Ford plant in Wayne, Michigan. So far, they're the only plants involved in the strike, meaning that just 9% of the union workforce is walking a picket line.

UAW President Shawn Fain—part clown, part rabble-rouser—wants Biden to eschew the traditional role of a president being neutral in these strikes and choose a side. Fain is fond of making short videos, and in a recording made in the beginning of August, he histrionically threw a contract offer from Stellantis in a wastebasket. Feigning anger, he said, "That's where it belongs—in the trash—because that's what it is."

Fain is not going to let Biden off the hook. The UAW donated $27 million to his 2020 campaign, and Fain now believes it's payback time—not only for Biden but other Democratic politicians as well.

In an interview on CNBC, Fain said it's time for "politicians in this country to pick a side."

Fain says that the automakers "could double our raises and not raise car prices and still make millions of dollars in profits. We're not the problem. Corporate greed is the problem."

That's total nonsense, and the scary part is that he might actually believe it.

"This is our generation's defining moment," Fain told UAW members at a Facebook Live event on Thursday night. "The money is there, the cause is righteous, the world is watching."