• Plurrbear@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    When applying for the same job I had 10years ago which was lost due to a massive layoff now posted again, WITH THE SAME SALARY…. Nope! America is trash!

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    His inner circle of sycophants and/or billionaire has been getting richer at the depends of everyone else in the country. He has no idea of the reality happening outside of what that circle tells him.

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      More like all the people there are chronically trying to manage the emotions of an enraged toddler so they don’t accidentally cause a ketchup-flinging incident, so they tell him what they think he wants to hear, only then he tantrums when reality pierces the baby carriage.

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      The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

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      Good lord, what is happening in this country!?

      …Greatest Economy?

      Uh… Greatest Economy? During this recession, when people can’t afford food because nobody has money, while it is entirely being hogged by your billionaire friends!?

      Yes!

      …can it trickle down?

      …No.

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      Yup. Bingo. This is exactly it, and other billionaires think this is the case also.

      They’re going to be really confused and outraged when people start eating them.

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        They’re going to be really confused and outraged when people start eating them.

        Yea! It’s like they’ve never learned from history! If they ever opened up a history book they would see… Umm…

        Flips through history book

        Oh… Uhh…

        Flips more frantically through history book

        Oh… Oh no… Err…

        Throws history book away

        Anyways, the rich are definitely going to learn their lesson this time!

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      They’ll just keep at it until it does change. Remember, everyone was frantic and upset the day after January 6 but nowadays it’s all just “peaceful tourists taking a walk”. Repeat a lie long enough and loudly enough - especially with the help of complicit propaganda engines across all types of media - and people will believe and defend that “reality”.

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      We all start development as deuterostomes, meaning we all start off as just an asshole and grow from there, Trump’s biological development never progressed. He’s just an asshole.

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    It’s super cool how the regime thinks they can dictate what the economy does and what socioeconomic conditions exist on the ground by just insisting that they’re true, despite copious and obvious evidence to the contrary.

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      To be perfectly fair to the Cheeto gremlin, which is a good deal more than he deserves:

      Since he has been constantly surrounded by sycophants and yes-men for a long time, it is quite possible that he actually believes the economy is doing great due to nobody having the spine to tell him any different. All day every day it’s “everything is going great, sir” and “you’re the best President the planet has ever been graced with, sir” and “size doesn’t matter and the female orgasm is a myth, sir”.

      It’s still his own fault for creating such an environment with his incompetence and his fragile ego, of course. But he might honestly believe his own bullshit in this case.

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        Apparently this is closer to the truth than people know. Trump is so simple-minded that he has his morning briefs presented to him in video form with bullet points that contain simplified explanations. Also lots of AI chaff is put in front of him, like Portland on fire and reduced to a smoldering heap, people eating dogs and cats and angry kids assaulting ICE agents and being violently taken down. Anyone not recall the pictures of Kilmar Garcia’s hands with the obviously shittily Photoshopped MS13 letters on the knuckles? Tie bad eyesight to simpleminded, drug and age related mental decline and well… here we are.

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    he switched places. he won because he didn’t do this and pretended he understands people are suffering. now that he’s in power he doesn’t want to admit that so he’s doing the Democratic Party Special™ which is just to tell people their experiences and feelings are wrong and things are actually great which is why they fucking lose all the goddamn time. stupid move when mamdani wiped the floor with the entire elite class with his affordability message.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    Boomer logic … they have life so good that they honestly believe that everyone else of every generation should be like them. They have no clue or little understanding that times have changed and people are living with little or not enough but they just don’t care.

    • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.ca
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      Slightly more boomers voted conservative in the last few elections than voted liberal. Slightly more of the younger generations voted liberal. The difference isn’t that stark. If you attended any of the no kings protests, you saw that the overwhelming majority were older folks. This kind of age prejudice isn’t helping anything.

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        That’s what shocked me last No Kings protest. I saw tons of older folks and even some people I know are die-hard conservative Republicans with signs out in the middle of town.

        Things are worse than Trump and the beltway oligarchs know. Gilded fishbowls and all that.

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          At least some of the demographics is likely because older folks often have more free time to be able to get out and protest, but I know an awful lot of passionately liberal boomers.

          And you’re right, now that conservatives are being undeniably impacted, it seems that their support of Trump might be faltering.

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    He thinks that because he is grifting like a motherfucker and racking up billions in schemes like crypto shitcoins.

    He is completely divorced from reality.

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      Exactly! Although I think it’s more that his only reality is what’s directly in front of him at any moment, but sama sama.