So everyone is losing their retirement funds because other people included pronouns in the bios & resumes? Seems like we’re living in a pretty stupid country.
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All based on out of control emotions and twisted thinking. I’ve always been aware that nations must be careful when nutters rule. Too late now the nutter has been given power by the people
Since we don’t have a functioning Congress currently the majority of Americans should decide on one of our current leaders to run in an emergency election. If we convince enough state governors/legislators to run an election: by a popular vote tallied, we can replace him.
And then there’s my hysterical sister who paid cash for a new car three weeks ago because the old car was only 2 years old. She’s down to her last million and crying the blues. Thanks technology for caller ID.
But he said he would Make America Great Again! I don't know when we stopped being great, but he said we weren't so it must be true cause he's orange like Cheetos and Cheetos are great therefore he must be great too.
Well, at least half stupid anyway! But they sure are pretty good at the Grift driven by hate. I mean after all they stole the election. I’ve watched Vigilante Inc.
Well yeah, but the 🚻 thing is all about freedom.
I'd rather we all starve and maybe even start some wars, than urinate in the same room with Trans people.🙄 Don't even get me started on foreigners eating our pets....
OMG you are seriously not gonna believe this. I trust Rachel Maddow but if it were anyone else reporting this I’d be convinced this is fake news. Unbelievable but unfortunately, totally believable. How the f@ck could Congress let this continue to happen????
Hate to tell you but the balance of the world has been giving frustrated sighs about the US for a fair while now.
Granted we've moved to "for fucks fucking fuck fuck sake!" Since last November
I can remember back when President George W., VP DICK Cheney, Known Unknowns Rumsfeld, and Tenet, and Powell (got to be fair here) lied us into a 20 year war in the Middle East.
That did wonders for our credibility status in the world.
That's why bitching at Europe et al for "not spending enough on defence" is about as popular as a fart in a space capsule.
For decades our defence budgets were spent on the US' wars that it lost.
Plus, the hypocrisy of it all. We proudly served as the world’s law enforcement agency with our super bloated military/defense budget. We elected legislators that funded that Department of Defense budget. It’s so nuts.
My wife (she/her) convinced me (she/her) to sell all my mutual funds(they/them) in February (it/month) just before Trump (fuck/him) crashed the markets (om/fg).
This is a market correction. It's a buying opportunity for those who are willing to take risks.
These corrections happen every few years and it was to be expected with a market that had been pretty hot for quite some time.
The drama is helping anything. Keep the theatrics down
People losing $20K - $10 Million of their money in the market, losing their Federal jobs, because they want $1.50 eggs instead of $2.50 eggs, and now the Trump eggs at $10.
I mean, being born to a shitty parent who rejects you is a tragedy, really. 🫤 She is thriving, at least, and her mother seems like she's a good mom to her.
Their retirement is being stolen. Let all politicians & corporate sponsors show their portfolios prior to crash to date. But even if there is malfeasance, who will hold them accountable and enforce the punishment?
Here's the thing. Your post highlights one of the reasons we lost the (bought and rigged) 2024. Focusing on topics that affect a miniscule proportion of electorate pulls low info voters' attention from issues that directly affect them, like corruption and the broligarchy.
We need a simple compelling story and trans athletes aren't simple or compelling to *the voters we need to reach*. We can't help trans kids if we don't have hands on the levers of power.
What we need is ranked choice voting. Want socialism? There's your candidate. Don't want the lesser socialist evil and want someone focused on palestine? There's your candidate. Want to erase POC and collect feminazi tears? There's your guy. Want to pay no taxes? Here's your guy.
Yep and I could have told you that a year ago. Americans don’t like to be told what to do - especially if it is regarding something they don’t appreciate or understand. Not saying it’s wrong but the left values identity politics over climate, education, feeding the poor - you name it.
Conservatives are the kings of identity politics (and projection). If you don't agree with a,b,c you're a RINO. They all claim to be "faith and family" as a cavalcade of Republicans have been jailed over sex crimes. If you're not a Christian, you're out.
If it was only your country, I wouldn't be horribly concerned. But no, Trumplestiltskin is not content just talking the US economy. The mango messiah is tanking economies around the world!
Why won't anybody stand up to that idiot? Remove him from power and give him a black Sharpie to sniff.
It's difficult to get millions of people who live as close to the bone as we do in a country with a societal and governmental setup like ours to move in unison. Frankly I'm amazed that as many are protesting as they are. But it's actually growing, and it's getting louder and uglier by the day.
Don’t lump us all in that bunch. My retirement fund is going down and I voted for Harris. I don’t understand how anyone could not see through Trump’s lies. Funny how they forgot how he tanked the economy before.
At this point, there is no excuse any longer. Anyone who supports or voted for Trump is my enemy. And when you are having trouble and regret your vote, you are on your own suckers. Trying not to swear in Mrs. Bowers feed...respect.
Many elderly retirees are affected. They are infirm; they can't just get a p/t or f/t job to compensate for this robbery. It'd be the difference between getting by and not getting by.
To think just 40 years ago, we never had to rely on 401k’s for retirement. We were rewarded for hard work with pensions that were derived from the profits of the organization you worked for. The fact that the stock market now dictates our retirement is a testament to the decline of workers rights.
social media and opinion based ‘news’ exploits base instincts like fear, anger, and hatred to trigger strong emotions and bypass reason. needs to be held to the same standards journalists are, for anyone who reports facts and has a large enough following.
Mrs. Bowers it has been proven that most Americans unfortunately are not the sharpest tools in the place where they keep the sharp tools. They know more about reality tv than..reality. They prefer to be told what to do rather than do the hard work figuring it out.
Yes, what better way to kill older people and force near retirees to work longer.
If I’ve learned anything it’s that it seems harder to eliminate dictators than it ought to be.
Remember that book that Samuel Jackson narrated, “Go the Fuck to Sleep”? I think he needs to narrate “Go the Fuck Away Mr. President” or “Leave Us the Fuck Alone Mr. President”. Can’t he just go play golf & quit doing shit. I’m just so tired of him. It feels like he’s been President forever.
Yeah.
Fascists are destroying everything and the people are convinced holding hands will convince them to stop. Just like it did in every other fascist state!
Imagine how demonstrative the hands off March would have been had the protesters been armed and organized. Instead of waving preformative signs and chanting slogans, they targeted the very real people who are the direct cause of all of this. People who have names, addresses, and everything to lose
Fascists are a cancer. You cant reason with a cancer, there's no emotion to appeal to, there is no rehabilitation for disease. Until the snake is pulled from the earth and beheaded we will not stand on sacred ground
People see fascists in their streets, in their government, and in their homes and assume they're human. They're an imitation of people living like animals until they die like one
Oh we are. That’s provable by the fact that for the second time there’s a moron who may be amongst the dumbest people I’ve ever encountered instead of a much better qualified and intelligent woman in the Oval Office.
The cancer must be excised. If this administration has any positive things it has done, it is that they have made the cancer readily visible for the surgeons.
We did the same here with brexit. Some people didn't like hearing Polish in shops and it's taken 5% off GDP and we've lost trillions. The UK is just as thick
Every country that has allowed Murdoch free reign to repeatedly publish propaganda has fallen victim to the divisiveness, hate, fear and lies that were spewed.
You know what's wild, brother? I have a coworker in the UK, Polish emigrant, who told me with no sense of irony that Brexit was an incredible success. I've learned to stop asking him about his life because he complains about immigrants and crime every other conversation. He lives in the suburbs.
It's very frustrating. It's like all the ex pats in Spain voting to leave and then being shocked that it affects them because of the end of free movement.
Republicans have depressions, recessions, pandemics, myriad crimes against humanity... Democrats have virtue signaling and politically-correct language.
Both parties have their flaws; I'll accept Democrats' flaws 1000 times out of 1000.
America has from it's infancy been a stupid country.
We have not gone about our takeover of native people's nations nearly as respectfully as we should have.
Populism is the least successful method of choosing leadership.
Growing up is hard.
Being smart is hard.
Listening to dummies is bad.
Clearly this what happens when you have billionaires and a POTUS that have never went without “Groceries”. The Supply Chain can break and it would make Covid look like an all you can eat buffet for those Walmart’s Shoppers! Congress are you out there or is it “Ferris Bueller's Day Off“?
Most of us live check to check so there’s no room to save for the future - survival mode comes doesn’t allow much room for growth when your in a cycle of poverty
This is the sole reason my next-door neighbor offered when she told me why she "hated" Biden and was voting MAGA last May. We used to hang out. I had to stop after hearing a very ugly racist drunken confession. Alcohol IS truth serum.
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I'd rather we all starve and maybe even start some wars, than urinate in the same room with Trans people.🙄 Don't even get me started on foreigners eating our pets....
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-2671678361/
Granted we've moved to "for fucks fucking fuck fuck sake!" Since last November
That did wonders for our credibility status in the world.
For decades our defence budgets were spent on the US' wars that it lost.
These corrections happen every few years and it was to be expected with a market that had been pretty hot for quite some time.
The drama is helping anything. Keep the theatrics down
Pronouns, bio males in female sports, CRT, masks, Target, Bud Light, Disney, Sesame St., M&Ms, Potato Head, etc.
It worked.
Ds have failed to devise an effective messaging strategy.
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The Marianas Trench of stupid.
Conservatives are the kings of identity politics (and projection). If you don't agree with a,b,c you're a RINO. They all claim to be "faith and family" as a cavalcade of Republicans have been jailed over sex crimes. If you're not a Christian, you're out.
Why won't anybody stand up to that idiot? Remove him from power and give him a black Sharpie to sniff.
"confiscate."
Willful ignorance and stupidity in the White House
Plenty of Trump haters think Pro Nouns are toxic
They are not stupid
They've always had a plan
Project 2025
We've been complacent and are now paying the price
Count 'em...
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-11-15/how-many-people-didnt-vote-in-the-2024-election
If I’ve learned anything it’s that it seems harder to eliminate dictators than it ought to be.
while our President is screwing up the world economic system.
Fascists are destroying everything and the people are convinced holding hands will convince them to stop. Just like it did in every other fascist state!
Both parties have their flaws; I'll accept Democrats' flaws 1000 times out of 1000.
We have not gone about our takeover of native people's nations nearly as respectfully as we should have.
Populism is the least successful method of choosing leadership.
Growing up is hard.
Being smart is hard.
Listening to dummies is bad.
Question is, will they.
“The Law is an ass.”
Uriah Heap?
Who knows
They're not wrong.
We can’t sustain this wealth gap. It’s not okay.
I was just being rude and tard-phobic.
They won’t care until prices go up, but they’re dumb enough to swallow the standard GOP “it’s because of gov’t spending” schtick
Black Monday has arrived.
Will your 401k survive?
Due to his dumb tariff war,
No one can retire anymore.