@TomiLahren Go figure. When Trump touted no new wars and cheap everything on day one as his campaign slogan, many people expected something at least close to that. Instead it’s endless conflict, tariffs and inflation higher than when Biden left office stacked on top of his 9%…
I’m sorry if you’re a Republican and don’t want to hear this but the National Debt is $3.6 Trillion higher than when Trump took office 18 months ago. Here’s the 90 second speech I gave the night they passed the Big Bankruptcy Bill.
Boomer Republicans pretending food is affordable, high gas is fine, war is great, unlimited support for the country that got us into said war is 'America First', the Epstein files are a Democrat hoax, and Biden level spending is being conservative.
@Halo@ske7ch Hard pass. Get your studio in order and make something other than Halo CE for the upteenth time. All these years and you guys barely managed a remake that’s already been done.
Apparently the boomer-led GOP's strategy to address to young people's concerns over the rising costs of basic living costs (food, housing, and gas) is to gaslight them and tell them just to work harder and save money.
These people were born into a life where the majority of America could buy a home on a one-income, pay for college with a summer job, and retire comfortably on a pension and social security they didn't even fucking fund.
Then they turned around voted for every single shit policy that made that life impossible for everyone behind them.
Policy that strangled housing supply for forty years and turned their own house into a lottery ticket. Reckless deficit spending on a scale no previous generation would have tolerated, financed by devaluing the dollar their kids and grandkids would earn. Federal student loan guarantees that let universities price like cartels because the government promised to pay whatever they charged.
Every one of those policies moved wealth in one direction. Upward, into assets they already owned.
They did not just get lucky. They pulled the ladder up behind them and sat in comfortably in retirement gambling and going on cruises instead of creating generational wealth for their families.
And now their answer is skip the coffee, get a second job, learn to budget. Like the 30 year old making 70k in a market where the median house costs 450k has a spending problem and not a math problem.
That's not advice, it's the story they tell themselves so they never have to be accountable for their selfishness and greed.
They are the most ignorant generation in modern American history. Because they had it all and decided their comfort mattered more than their children’s future.
Young people should be furious about this.
Genuinely, sit with it and let it burn kind of furious.
Now, understand something harder. This is still your problem. The people who did this do not give a flying fuck about you and most of them will be dead before the bill fully comes due.
There is no reckoning coming for the boomers. There is only what you guys build from here.
Fixing this will take more than complaining online. It will take a generation that outworks, outbuilds, and outlasts the one that broke it. It will take men who have kids they cannot quite afford, start businesses in a market rigged against them, own property they had to fight for, and refuse to hand their sons a worse country than they got.
I fully believe the younger generations will become the greatest generations of modern Americans.
Not even the most fiscally irresponsible zoomer you can imagine could hold a candle to this insanity.
If we are going to be budget-hawks when it comes to American households' budgets, we ought to be real budget-hawks when it comes to the federal government's budget.
Most Americans want to live free, safe, and secure, and to know that if they work hard they can get ahead.
It’s fair to ask why Congress doesn’t live by the same standard. Families have to make tough choices. We should too.
Fiscal responsibility isn’t just good economics, it’s a prerequisite for preserving the American Dream.
Ideologically captured people are incapable of genuine discussion.
Republicans dismissing the impact of this pointless war deserve the obvious repercussions coming in the midterms.
I’ll be watching (and laughing) from the sidelines until they get the message.
@JakeIsHere5x5@phonys0prano@JoelWBerry No it’s to make it clear to you ignorant clowns that a problem most voters have acknowledged needs to be addressed if you want their vote.
Dismissing the obvious is the poison most republicans seem intent on chugging while smugly thinking it won’t come at a cost.
Trump is polling at 27% approval with voters under 30
Fox News boomer architects of the Iraq war telling them to shut up and stop "whining" about war and affordability after you ran on stopping war and making life more affordable is pouring gasoline on the fire
@DanCrenshawTX Right on cue, as predictable as always, here you are with the most counter productive and destructive take.
Republicans will lose big in the midterms and then wonder why. Disrespectfully, pound sand. You are part of the problem being rightfully pointed out.
What a joke.
@Fair_and_Biased Nah, anyone not focusing on issues facing potential voters deserves the negative impact.
We are collectively tired of voting for the less shit option year after year while prices climb and our nation’s debt, at the average person’s expense, continues to skyrocket.
My son works full time here in Florida. Let me run his numbers.
State minimum wage is $14/hour. He's at $15.
40 hours a week = $600/week
That's about $2,600/month before taxes.
Florida has no state income tax the thing they sell you on. So after federal and FICA he takes home roughly $2,200.
Average one-bedroom in our area runs about $1,600.
That's 73% of his entire paycheck gone to rent before he eats a single meal.
Leaves him around $600 a month for:
- groceries
- gas
- car insurance
- health insurance
- phone
- emergencies
- savings
Car insurance alone eats a third of that in this state.
He works 40 hours a week and cannot save a dollar. Not because he's careless because there's nothing left to be careless with.
I spent thirty years paying off a house here. He's doing the same job I did at his age and he can't afford a one-bedroom.
That's not a discipline problem. That's not avocado toast.
The floor moved and nobody lowered the ceiling.
Working full time should cover a roof. In Florida it barely covers the rent on one.
@JoelWBerry 2.25 lbs of ground beef is about $17, 2 of the packs of the tortillas you show below are almost $5, and whatever toppings (sauces, seasoning, veggies) only add to that. Can we just stop with this everything is actually cheap narrative that the right is adamantly running with?
@AuronMacintyre As someone who leans right, they are absolutely tone deaf and going to rightfully suffer for it in the midterms. Depending on boomers to win elections won’t cut it forever.
This is what people fail to realize and I’m so glad someone is shining a light on it. We paid more, not China, not these Billion dollar companies. They also helped put smaller businesses underwater removing competition.
What a nightmare. By implementing the tariffs illegally, and now having to unwind them, the Trump administration created over $100 billion of profit for corporations selling foreign products, at the expense of American consumers.
Your refund: $0.00
Apple’s profit: $2.2 billion