Clearly they just need to take their own advice:
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No more avocado toast
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Stop buying so much coffee out. Make it at home.
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????
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Profit.
Simple as.
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Also they could just get an easy job at McDonald's?????
They just arent qualified for that job.
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Boot straps. Don't forget about the boot straps.
They could eat the bootstraps.
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“I don’t want to have to worry that everyone is constantly changing my financial reality,” said Alison Carey, 64, of Oregon, a freelancer in the theater industry. “Let the economy do its machinations, but don’t put me in the gears.”
Sorry you had to learn it this way, Alison, but "the economy" has always been grinding people up in its gears. The main difference is, that it is now reaching you, personally.
I gotta assume a theater freelancer in Oregon probably didn’t vote for him
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“I don’t want to have to worry that everyone is constantly changing my financial reality,”
Welcome to my entire adult life, Alison
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It's ok everyone they will all be a lot better off once manufacturing comes back to the US, they can make up the difference by working in a local sweatshop.
Didn't you hear? Vance is saying that manufacturing is never coming back to the US.
So even working in a sweatshop won't be an option. Well, I guess until we're colonized.
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But it's so worth it when you remember that he ended all that DEI stuff and stopped those two trans kids from playing women's sports.
Over two trillion has been wiped out. That's one trillion dollars per trans kid.
Is America great again yet?
Since inauguration it's $11 trillion.
For a trillion dollars I'll stop playing any sport you want.
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Let's go vote republican !
Aw dang it Aw dang it Aw dang it Aw dang it Aw dang it Aw dang it Aw dang it Aw dang it Aw dang it
"But... but... but at least we stuck it to the libs didn't we? Right?... Right???!"
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Oh the thing professionals all said would happen? That's what they are stunned about? The very thing they were warned would happen if trump did the thing he said he would do.
Well, if you voted for these dumbasses and are now pikachu over how idiotic they actually are....hard to feel sorry for you.
BTW, if you say "I didn't vote for that"......YES YOU DID. It's not like donvict was quiet about his love for tariffs.
I mean, I know quite a few retirees who actively voted for his opponent. So I wouldn't feel right saying that THEY voted for it, no? However, around my area, they definitely are a minority in their age group, so I think statistically speaking you are probably going to be right most of the time.
Oh, of course. I don't think anyone DESERVES to live in destitution - and this is probably where progressives like me get made fun of, but it's just how I was raised - even if they voted for donvict.
My lizard brain immediately wants to condemn people that were told not to vote against their own interest, but did anyway because of their hate of wokeness and DEI or whatever the hell. However, though I do rant here and elsewhere, I ultimately have compassion for people, even if it's from their own actions...
As for those that voted against donvict, of course they don't deserve it, though I know it's now quite fashionable to dunk on "boomers" as if they are some monolithic block and that means every single one of them, to a person has caused the Republicans to get worse and worse. Personally, I believe this thinking is goaded on by elites, because it only divides us further...in addition to racism, xenophobia, transphobia, if you can whip up the various age groups and pit them against one another, you can sit back and count your money and be comforted in the notion that few people will cop to the reality...
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You keep saying retirees when I think you mean future walmart door greeters.
My fucking parents are going to end up Wal-Mart greeters and they will not admit, even after everything, that they fucked up voting for Trump.
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oh that reminds me, our local old lady Walmart greeter passed away 😔
R.I.P. Ms Wendy
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Don't let them fool u by saying that this is just a correction. A correction needs a catalyst. The catalyst here is the tarriff. Trump created this mess. Rise up. Fight.
Turns out woke wasn't so bad, huh
I can only have an opinion when Fox News informs me of the new outrageous fad for this week.
Oh no, are the Boomers finally collectively suffering the consequences of their own collective actions?
What a shame.
Anyway, welcome to the 'you can never retire or afford a house' club along with all your children who've been begging you for the past 20 years to stop voting for policies and politicians who made this current situation inevitable.
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It’s almost like this is exactly what we warned them would happen.
I just took a couple Ubers. They were driven by retirees as a way to make a little extra cash and get out of the house. Both of them said they would have to quit driving and get another “real” job again if the market continued to tank. This shit rolls downhill…gonna create a job crunch again. People not leaving jobs, no jobs for people entering the marketplace, and companies are going to start crushing labor’s wages and benefits again.
Maybe that IS the end goal. Get old people working so wages get fucked for everyone and the corporate overlords can increase their profit margins from a measly 99% to 99.9% or whatever
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Lol, I rolled my 401k to an IRA as part of a actively managed fidelity fund right after Trump got inaugurated. If I hadn't I would be down about 150k, instead I'm up 35k already, and that was after cashing out just below all time high.
That said,I decided to ride it out in my fuck around E-Trade account. I went from being up 25k on jan 1st to being down 9k today.
Trump's 'plan' is to crash the market so that people with large reserves of cash can buy at all time low. Then he'll back pedal his bullshit and things will go up, so they'll sell. It's not going to go back up to what it was before his watch, at least not with him around. People who don't have the cash reserves/appetite to buy in a recession will get fucked, and that's most people in the country
Yeah but you can't just say "ok the plan worked, tariffs are off now" and expect the rest of the world to be chill about that. It's too late to backpedal.
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Oh well, should have raised your kids to be better people.
Retirees 'idiots' as they keep savings they need to live in volatile asset classes such as stocks.
Boomers lived their entire lives failing upwards. Why wouldn't they expect things to just go their way?
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Going to brag a little bit. I've been very suspicious of tech and the US stock market for a long time. When I finally got the job I have now and got to choose 401k contributions I went heavy with international stocks and specifically avoided anything involved in too much tech. My 401k has gone down in the last week but we're talking barely 3%. The paranoia sometimes works in my favor
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That’s the best part. The baby boomers created this shit and now they can’t retire. Good for them!
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Bootstraps or whatever
I live in Canada and have a locked-in retirement fund, from a former employer, which I have zero control over. It's lost 10% since the Dumpster was elected.
That mf'er is killing us too.
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