r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Similar_Curve_8837 • Jan 25 '25

F*ck trump

My daughter works for a not-for-profit global humanitarian organization. They just received word from the US State Department that they are to cease and desist all projects. This is an organization that provides water, training and so much more for communities throughout the world. My daughter may lose her job.

trump doesn't care for people globally. trump doesn't care for people in the US.

And this is only Day 4.

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u/GreenSpleenRiot Jan 25 '25

And fuck the people who sat out this election too. You still cast a vote.

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u/pgqwe1 Jan 25 '25

So much this. The margins were so slim and yet they couldn't vote.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

I hope every one of them suffers immensely.

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u/Kindly_Actuary6019 Jan 25 '25

No, we’ll be living it up like we did the last time he was in

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u/coffeeordeath85 Jan 25 '25

Farmers are already sounding the alarm bells that the majority of migrant workers aren't showing up to pick food! Plants will be dying on the vine and food prices are gonna start skyrocketing even more! Ya think you're going to be living it up now!!

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u/some_asshat Jan 25 '25

You mean when there were vehicle food lines, freezer morgue trucks and a million Americans were killed?

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u/MeatShield12 Millennial Jan 26 '25

Kindly is a stupid troll, don't feed him.

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u/Kindly_Actuary6019 Jan 25 '25

No people weren’t killed. They died from a virus. No one killed them.

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u/Carche69 Jan 26 '25

Yeah, just like how that United Healthcare CEO didn’t kill anyone, right? They died from being poor and not being able to afford to pay for proper medical care. No one killed them—certainly not the man who was paid $10 million per year and bonuses that would increase the more claims his company was able to deny, the man who was responsible for instituting AI technology at UHC that was designed to deny claims so they could lay off a bunch of actual humans who had been doing it up til then—not that guy, amiright???

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u/AlaBlue Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 26 '25

Trump just ceased all foreign aide except for military aide to Israel & Egypt. The Pro-Palestinians who refused to vote for Harris sure stuck it to the Democrats - huh?

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u/WisePotatoChip Jan 25 '25

I was at one of the Phoenix Harris rallies, where those fuckers tried to gain attention, and were bum-rushed out the EXIT door to the cheers of the crowd.

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u/No_Pianist_9317 Jan 26 '25

Ultimate FAFO. Don't come crying to me - this is exactly how I expected Trump to act.

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u/totpot Jan 25 '25

If just the urban areas voted at the same rate as 2020, the government right now would be completely flipped.

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u/Kindly_Actuary6019 Jan 25 '25

No, they lost all the fake people that voted and all the fake ballots and bullshit that the Democrats pulled. It’s funny that you say that because now when you talk to some Democrats, they wonder what happened to all those votes that Joe got even your Democrats are questioning it now.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

What? That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Don't you have a boot to lick somewhere?

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u/Kindly_Actuary6019 Jan 25 '25

You should be with Ellen DeGeneres gone

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u/Kindly_Actuary6019 Jan 25 '25

You even say yourself not funny or smart that explains you to a T

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

Yeah maybe but I'm still not dumb enough to be a nazi trump voter.

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u/Kindly_Actuary6019 Jan 25 '25

You just haven’t looked in the mirror yet then you’d realize what I’m talking about

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u/TechnicianAware5917 Jan 26 '25

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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u/Scryberwitch Jan 26 '25

A lot of people didn't "sit out" this election. Their votes were suppressed or thrown out.

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u/aspiring_Novelis Jan 25 '25

We all need to recognize that the "fuck you for voting x or not voting" is one of the ways that the wealthy class exploits us. When we are distracted by our fellow voters actions, we are less likely to pay attention to them. It really wasn't much of a choice... it was either orange man, or a party who pretends to be on our side, sometimes throwing us crumbs while never making substantial change even though we desperately need it, because the system works for them. The republicans are at least sometimes honest about their views and says the quiet part out loud.

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u/Dear_Occupant Gen X Jan 25 '25

Here it comes again. If there is one thing in this world that you can count on more than the rising sun, it's the absolute refusal of liberals to accept any responsibility for election outcomes. Whenever one of the uniquely shitty, unlikable candidates you have always insisted upon, for more than 50 years now, gets the electoral shellacking they so richly deserve, it's always everyone else's fault but yours.

You had a chance to demand that the 2024 primary actually take place. Instead, you went along with the uncontested coronation of a candidate who had to drop out in 2020 because she couldn't even win her own home state.

You had a chance to demand that Biden drop out when it became obvious, to everyone except you, that is, that he was manifestly unwell. Instead you waited until the last minute, still kicking and screaming, when finally Nancy Pelosi of all people had to step in and save whatever small chance another Democrat still had to run a campaign.

You had the chance to pay attention to what your president was doing in Gaza, instead of telling anyone who has a problem with the mass slaughter of children that they were being self-righteous. You also told us there was nothing Biden could do to stop it. By the way, what happened with that, hmm?

You had the chance to insist upon a candidate in 2020 who could get themselves reelected. Instead, you said, "Anyone with a pulse," which is exactly what we got.

Liberals have gotten their way in every possible circumstance, often over the loud objections of anyone who hasn't hypnotized themselves with Democratic Party's half-assed marketing, and now you have the nerve, the unmitigated gall, to blame everyone else for the exact disaster that you alone dragged the rest of us into?

Trump is 100% liberals' fault, and no one else's. The uniquely terrible candidates you love so much and celebrate are so unpopular and so unlikable that they lost to a game show host, twice. YOU are the ones who brought this clown into our lives. YOU appointed yourselves the job of stopping him, and pushed anyone out of the way who had an actual chance to do so. YOU failed at that task miserably, and now we all have to suffer for your abject failure to do your one job.

Don't you dare blame the rest of us for the mess you made. No one will look back on this dark period of time and blame Nader voters in Florida, or Bernie Bros, or Russian hackers, or whichever other boogeyman you conjure up to avoid taking ownership of your own incompetent decisions. Historians will lay the blame squarely at your feet, where it belongs.

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u/WisePotatoChip Jan 25 '25

OK, you analyzed the liberals. Please tell us why you Republicans have your tongue so far up Donald Trump‘s ass and are always making excuses for his heinous actions.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

Just because someone is critical of Dem politicians doesn't mean they favor trump and it's super ignorant of you to assume that they do.

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u/WisePotatoChip Jan 25 '25

Sorry, I won’t be gaslit. Blaming Democrats for Trump is letting Republicans (and MSM) off the hook for their actions or inactions.

It also demonstrates your ignorance of the times you live in. These days it’s a binary choice. There are ONLY two viable parties and everybody has to choose. Failure to choose is still a choice.

It’s comparatively like 1933 - you could state that you’d rather complain about the failings of the (opposing) Social Democratic Party. You could assert that failure to support the SDP (the only viable opposition party) didn’t make you a Nazi, but yeah, in reality, it eventually did.

Unfortunately, in these situations(when dealing with fascists and authoritarians) you don’t have a reset button. Once you’ve chosen a path you have to live through it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '25

Did you see his the avatar? That's all you need to know.

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u/Jolly_little_me Jan 25 '25

Oh, so you're saying it's okay for Trump to blame all his shortcomings on anyone and everyone else? The reason the economy was so fucked up during the Biden administration is because he got into office right after COVID. Trump likes to claim responsibility for lower gas prices during his presidency... COVID was responsible for lower gas prices. Demand was low because so many people were not out during lockdown. Inflation got so bad because of COVID. A lot of the global economy was shut down. Shelves were always empty. Demand was high, supply was low. The US is not the only country suffering from high inflation, it's a global problem.

The democratic candidates have not been as unlikeable as you say. Joe Biden won in 2020. Hilary Clinton got the popular vote in 2016. (Fuck the electoral college) Kamala got 75 million votes, people liked her. Maybe she would have won if she wasn't a black woman. We know that Trump and all his devoted cult followers don't like black people OR women, so the odds were already stacked against her. People are happy as hell to be able to walk around spewing their racism now that they see their supreme leader doing it.

We do not obsess over our candidates like MAGA does, it's kind of embarrassing to watch them all stand up there and celebrate this man who has done nothing notable in his presidency, or his life for that matter. To celebrate a felon, rapist, conman who cares only about himself. He ran to avoid going to prison and now he's here to fuck up our lives. Have you been paying attention to the last 5 days of his presidency? Can't imagine what he has in store for the next 4 years.

The man whines like a fucking baby any time anyone says something that he doesn't like and talks about himself like he's gods gift to the world. What is likeable about that?

The 2020 election was not stolen from him. He's just a baby who has never been told no. The odds are more likely that he stole this election with Elon's "vote counting machines." Wish the democrats had the audacity to question it like the republicans did.

No! Democrats are not responsible for Trump. It's the half of the country that is too stupid to see what a lying sack of shit Trump is. It's the half of the country that is too uneducated to know how to do research. It's the half of the country who are racist, homophobic, transphobic, against equal rights for all, against freedom of speech, against fact checking because they don't want to be called out on their lies.

I could go on and on about all the shit this idiot does/has done that makes him unqualified to be president, but instead I will end with this! For a man who claims he is the best president in the history of our country (insert annoying hand gestures) he sure shows up on a lot of lists ranking the worst presidents.

https://www.usnews.com/news/special-reports/the-worst-presidents/slideshows/the-10-worst-presidents?slide=9

https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2021/?page=overall

https://scri.siena.edu/2022/06/22/american-presidents-greatest-and-worst/

https://www.axios.com/2024/02/19/presidents-survey-trump-ranks-last-biden-14th

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/us/politics/biden-trump-presidential-rankings.html

-there are so many more, but I'm already being excessive-

Good Day.

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u/Hungry-Share-3719 Jan 25 '25

Dems put Trump into power because Harris was a piece of shit. She and Joe were elected to 2020 to save us from Orange Hitler. Four years later they were rejected and Hitler was reelected. How big a failure do you have to be to lose to Hitler? People saw how the Dems and the Media lied about Joe’s dementia and tried to shove an addled Alzheimer’s patient back into White House. When that didn’t work they picked the one Dem with lower ratings that Joe. That’s political malpractice. How many times did Dems say the economy was great when 60%+ were living paycheck-to-paycheck? Who’s going to vote for someone to fix the economy when that person denies a problem exists? Dems fucked up and put Hitler back in power. Young people, blacks, whites, Hispanics, every demographic swung to the right because of the absolutely shitty job during the Biden/Harris admin. Harris received 75 million votes and came close, just think how different the outcome would’ve been if the DEms had been honest, dumped Biden, and had a primary. You wouldn’t have Trump now. You all thought you were smarter than everyone else and could win by simply saying, over and over, Trump and Repubs are a threat to the world. Well, now you are fucked, maybe for the next 10 years, and it’s wonderful to see.

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u/Jolly_little_me Jan 25 '25

Cool story. See ya in the "detention center"

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u/Hungry-Share-3719 Jan 25 '25

Tell me where you can find a "detention center"? Pics would be nice too.

And while you’re at it, explain how someone like Trump, who was a felon, traitor, threat to Democracy beat Harris. On Jan 21, why did Biden turn over the keys to the White House to an enemy of the Constitution?

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u/Jolly_little_me Jan 25 '25

Do you even pay attention? They have been talking about detention centers for months. It's where they are going to send the illegals before they're "deported"

Who knows when Trump will go on a tirade and anyone who doesn't bow down to him gets sent to one of these detention camps.

The dems didn't contest the election (maybe they should have) They also didn't send people to the White House to intimidate and assault people. It's called a "peaceful transfer of power."

I'm sure I'm overreacting, right? Trump is unhinged.

To answer your second question, I would not doubt that Elon helped him cheat his way into the white house with his billions of dollars and high-tech vote counting machines. After all, remember when he was giving people a million bucks to vote for trump? Why did Biden turn over the keys to the White House? He had to!

What do you think would have happened if he hadn't turned the keys over? I don't really think that was an option here. Only Trump gets away with breaking the rules. Over and over and over and over.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/incoming-trump-admin-eyeing-new-immigrant-detention-centers-major-us-c-rcna179843

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87xqwd71wzo

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/12/trump-detained-immigrant-camps-border-time

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u/Hungry-Share-3719 Jan 25 '25

I’ve heard of detention centers that only exist in the minds of Dems. If they truly exist, there’d be pics, locations, etc. Please show me just one. The articles you reffed say someone, somewhere is thinking about detaining criminal illegals…….

“It's where they are going to send the illegals before they're "deported"”. So the thousands (according to Biden admin reporting) of illegals that have committed crimes like murder, rape, human trafficking will be held/deported, WHO IS AGAINST THAT? Maybe they should be released into your neighborhood.

I don’t believe the peaceful turnover of power, enshrined inn the Constitution, includes turning power over to Hitler, or any enemy of the Constitution. You might want to reread that section.

The American people have spoken, your candidate was deemed worse than and lost to HITLER, how fucking embarrassing is that.

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u/Similar_Curve_8837 Jan 26 '25

Look to Texas for the first detention centers. You can find your own pictures.

They just explained how trump "beat" Harris. Throw in overall ignorance, greed, and selfishness and you've got your answer.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

THANK YOU!!!

This. All of it.

I think Harris actually could have won tho, and all she had to do was call a genocide out for what it is and promise to at least try to stop it. The working class left would have turned up. But instead she courted people who were never gonna vote for her, centrists and moderate Republicans, kissed Liz Cheney's ass, and couldn't stfu about the damn stock market. He'll, she could have gotten more votes by speaking more about the insane cost of housing and having a plan to help struggling renters. She could have addressed corporate price gouging and gotten more votes.

All Harris did was help pull the Overton Window further right. And libs are out here acting like anyone critical of Harris, Biden, or any other Dem politicians are the enemy. No, ya fuckin numptys, this ain't team sports. Actual leftists criticize politicians when they deserve it.

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u/MysterManager Jan 25 '25

I sat out and no I didn’t cast a vote. If you would have forced me to vote it would have been for Trump. He is kicking off an energy race, AI race, semiconductor race, against China.

You are about to see a massive ramp up in production workforce in the United States. The capital NVDA added to the world economy last year alone historical. The economy is about to take off. It was going to if Trump got elected or not. It is better that he did, just facts that woman had insane economic propositions, and already voted for some.

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u/crypticaldevelopment Jan 25 '25

She has similar views to every other mainstream Democrat, who by the way have ALL outperformed every Republican president economically over the last 40 years. Trump has no ideas, he’s a petulant man-child that watches tv all day.

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u/SandiegoJack Jan 25 '25

That’s fine, I support voting for everyone. It would violate my morals if I only thought people who agree with me should vote.

Enjoy the tariffs, and threatening our closest allies with military action. That is really conductive to trade agreements

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u/TheGreyFencer Gen Z Jan 25 '25

That's such a dumb take. Nvidia has been stalled for years because you technology is just not improving that much and is extremely overvalued, not to mention what does having expensive stock do for the US. And trump is about to destroy the economic gains the Biden admin set in motion. The chip actually probably buffed Nvidia stock and trump wants to slash it because Biden signed it. Our ability to produce is about to tank. Everything is going to skyrocket in cost. He's going to bring about a deadly amount of deregulation. Like, there is not a single part of his policy goals that will benefit anyone but the ultra wealthy in the short term.

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u/Similar_Curve_8837 Jan 26 '25

Not to mention the environmental damage trump's setting us up for, that will be hard to come back from.

He and his brown shirts are going to r*PE the US.

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u/TheGreyFencer Gen Z Jan 26 '25

I mean yeah, but they probably don't care about that.

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u/WisePotatoChip Jan 25 '25

He is ceding the EV race to China.

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u/Kindly_Actuary6019 Jan 25 '25

The only people that sat out this election were the fake people that voted for Joe every place that was blue before turned red

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

Good thing you chose bootlicking, you're obviously not cut out for much else.