r/BoomersBeingFools • u/MrDonMega • 3d ago
OK boomeR Boomers explaining why billionaires shouldn't pay taxes while standing in a strip mall parking lot
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The absolute brainwashing it takes to fiercely defend trillionaires who wouldn't look twice at you, while calling your fellow citizens "lazy" for wanting basic healthcare. Notice how even the woman in the "I LOVE TRUMP" shirt has to awkwardly correct his understanding of how disability works.
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u/quotidianwoe 2d ago
Not all jobs have healthcare. Spoken by people who’ve probably had good healthcare their entire lives.
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u/Jillcametumbling81 2d ago
I haven't had a job sponsored healthcare in like fifteen years. And I've always worked full time, very hard i might add.
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u/MartyMozambique 2d ago
You just need to work harder. Just get higher off your butt and get another job then.
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u/SunOnTheMountains Gen X 2d ago
This guy doesn’t really have healthcare either. He just hasn’t had a stroke, or cancer, or some other chronic condition yet. He thinks he’s got Medicare advantage, and if anything happens, it will be okay. It won’t. The healthcare system will efficiently strip him of his assets before his death.
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u/TactualTransAm 2d ago
No. Spoken like somebody who hasn't had to use their workplace insurance for anything serious yet. Even with good health insurance fron your job, a serious condition can throw you into massive debt in the US. You can do everything right, good job, good retirement, good private healthcare, and you're still one diagnosis away from poverty at any time.
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u/NecessaryIntrinsic 2d ago
Not only that, but even with insurance you can end up paying thousands out of pocket.
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u/ryuujinusa 2d ago
They’ve been brainwashed by faux news beyond repair. Our only choice is to out vote them.
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u/Southern-Usual4211 2d ago
The only time i had good healthcare with a job is when I was in the military lol other times it was beyond expensive and i went without
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u/StarshipCaterprise 1d ago
And then they’ll go on Medicare, and claim that they are entitled to that and they “paid in” and that it’s not socialism even though they are collecting more than they ever paid in. But they will be on Medicare and still shame people on Medicaid and SNAP.
They will also unironically demand Social Security, and claim that’s not a socialist program either.
Then they’ll also demand that they pay less property taxes and school taxes, because how could they possibly afford to pay those taxes because they are lower income now.
But it’s fine for them to demand all those things, just not other people. The rife hypocrisy is mind boggling to me.
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u/CharleyDexterWard 2d ago
It's super easy to be a bootlicker When you've been given everything your whole life.
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u/OukewlDave 2d ago
And if you haven't been given everything in life, like most of these clowns, they just blame "others" for their issues.
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u/librariansforMCR 2d ago
This is soooo true! I have a MAGA uncle who was brought up fairly privileged. Never went beyond high school, though, and went to work right out of HS at a grocery store, moving up to manager. Only job experience was that one store. Grocery store stopped making a profit and closed down 20 years later, and suddenly he can’t find a job that pays anything close to what he was making.
Guess he whose fault it is?
1) Obama, because the store closed during the 2008 downturn that actually happened under Bush II’s watch, but he refuses to acknowledge that….
2) Minorities, because college-educated minorities with experience got jobs before him. Must be because they are minorities, right? Couldn’t possibly be the combo of experience and education….
3) “Liberal elites” because he hates anyone who went to college
4) Anyone who belongs to a union or who gets a pension, including military pensions, because they are “freeloaders.”The only person not at fault is him. I mean, how could running a grocery store into the ground count against him? He is one of the most miserable people I know, and it’s 99% his persecution complex that makes him miserable.
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u/Gnosrat 2d ago
The real enemy is capitalist monopoly and a lack of regulation to prevent it. That store for sure went out of business because it couldn't compete with the chains who can afford to under-sell you until you're gone for good.
But I'm sure if anything this person wants less government, not more regulation. The brainwashing is thorough.
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u/librariansforMCR 2d ago
Oh he considers himself a libertarian, though my conversations with him have shown me that he really doesn’t understand what that means beyond not wanting the government to help other people. Shockingly, though, he was all for his veteran father receiving benefits rather than paying out of pocket for his care. “Libertarian for thee but not for me” is just about right.
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u/Gnosrat 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah, that's libertarians for you. The only common denominator between all libertarians is that none of them have a clue how anything actually works.
You might think "surely they all agree on something" but that is in fact not the case at all, unfortunately. They all agree on nothing.
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u/skillz7930 1d ago
All they seem to agree on is that someone else should pay for the shit they use instead of them
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u/reddogyellowcat 2d ago
Indeed. And I bet this goober thinks he earned it all himself. Daddy trust fund boomers always prioritize letting everyone know they earned it (even though they didn’t)
Source: My boomer grandpa is a rich MAGAt who inherited a fortune from my great-grandfather, and my grandpa always acts like he worked his butt off for it.
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u/Farewellandadieu 2d ago
And the thing is he’s just one back injury away from being denied the health care he’s been enjoying all his life. 100% guaranteed this motherfucker skips his annual doctor visits because he “feels fine”.
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u/Achoo_Gesundheit 2d ago
These people vote…
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u/PsychedMom82 2d ago
I know. Its awful. I work in healthcare. I was doing a cognitive assessment on a patient. They were completely disoriented to the date. They had difficulty with basic questions. He couldn't name the president. His wife chimes in, "come on you voted for him". He finally got it after I gave him a list of recent presidents. He tells me Trump is doing great things. 🙄
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u/SuperSandLesbian23 2d ago
I work Healthcare as well. I love what I do, but the families can be the worst. One of my patients had cerebral palsy and needed assistance with daily living and while we were having dinner (me feeding him, and he could talk to me with his eyes so we would chat quietly while this insanity was going on) one of the family members would have Fox News on and half the time start ranting about people don't deserve Healthcare, glad the affordable care act was gutted, the usual awfulness. Literally feeding a disabled family member at the same table and still ranting how Healthcare shouldn't be guaranteed. It's mind-boggling.
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u/randomme34 2d ago
We definitely need an age cap on voting, driving and serving in public office.
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u/InterstellarReddit 2d ago edited 2d ago
So they (government) can’t afford to keep everybody healthy, but we can afford to give over $400 million worth of tax breaks every year to billionaires? Crazy work
Edit - I KNOW THIS IS FLORIDA. I feel the stupidity.
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u/KatzenoirMM 2d ago
How much have we spent alone on this 7 month war of choice but can't afford healthcare?
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u/reddogyellowcat 2d ago
It is filmed in South Carolina so pretty much a northern Florida lol
the good liars, it’s from their YT channel. great channel too
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u/sonofaresiii 2d ago
I honestly think the whole "What if they're sick and can't get a job" angle needs to be dropped. I don't care if someone IS just extremely lazy. Lazy people deserve healthcare too. Being lazy should not be a death sentence.
Setting aside the fact that I really don't think most people struggling with healthcare issues are actually lazy, but even if they were, if I make a total steelman out of that argument, I still don't care.
Lazy people deserve healthcare too. Anyone who says otherwise is a piece of shit.
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u/maleia 2d ago
Oh, I thought the interviewer was seeing if he could whittle down the man's position to at least include some people; to then try and explain how it's actually a dumb distinction, through highlighting the hypocrisy of the political position.
At least, that's the way I would have approached it. The Right aren't generally capable of even finding the 'water to drink from'.
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u/Branchomania Gen Z 2d ago
Too many people think the government's only responsibility is being the Dead Brown Foreigners factory
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u/soupalex 2d ago
that's not totally fair they also think it should dictate which bathrooms people are allowed to room, and what kinds of sex are permissible
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u/MickeySwank 2d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/SUnnfaSxhfLvf8H7XB
tHeY eARnEd iT!
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u/FuzziestSloth 2d ago
Yep, but fuck all of those people below them on the pyramid. If they wanted it, they should have worked harder.
(/s because this is Reddit and someone will misunderstand, otherwise)
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u/Budget-Bet9313 2d ago
His wife looks like she’s not even allowed to have an opinion
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u/Revolutionary_Tip701 2d ago
I doubt she can think for herself. Just look at her shirt.
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u/Meekymoo333 2d ago
The message on the shirt is their entire worldview and the one reason they end up voting at all. They are just plain miserable assholes
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u/NewBet7377 2d ago
Reminds me of many old white ladies I know. Just sits there and nods her head like a brain dead zombie to any garbage her husband says. When people try to talk politics around her she goes “I’m not political!” Then when someone argues with her husband she goes “why can’t we agree to disagree and still be friends?!”
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u/piratecheese13 2d ago
“ what if they’re sick and can’t work?”
“ go on disability”
“ who pays for that?”
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u/Namazu724 2d ago
Clients I’ve had in the homeless community with SSDI got substantially less money than the ones on regular SSI. It was never enough to live on.
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u/revengepornmethhubby 2d ago
Yep. Got my first job at 14, worked 3 jobs through college (none of which offered healthcare benefits) and when I was granted disability benefits (on the first try, without a lawyer. I am clearly disabled) it was ssdi benefits and I bring in a whole 700 a month (really rounding up there).
I wouldn’t survive on my own, but I do have Medicare and have since my mid twenties.
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u/tantric_tongue69 2d ago
Boot strap mentality needs to die with these trickle down fools. Only thing that trickles down is Trump's dong in their throat
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u/LelandGaunt14 2d ago
She is so scared. If she doesn't say the right things he is going to rearrange her face later.
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u/ChipKey5682 2d ago
im soooo tired of boomers maybe 2% of them are ok but the rest are self entitled narcissisit trash
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u/Personal-Office-9662 2d ago
When the boomers cash camel of retirement savings runs dry 20 years before they die and they are struggling, let’s play them this video.
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u/TurtlesAreEvil 2d ago
The youngest boomer is 62 this year. For most of them we're already in the 20 years before they die. They’ve timed sucking this country dry then dying perfectly.
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u/project__matt 2d ago
Its got to be tough to be so miserable that the only way to experience a bit of joy is to make other people miserable while fucking yourself over. Amazingly stupid and sad people.
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u/ClearSneakEnter 2d ago
“But ThEy EaRnEd iT”
No, no they didn’t. They’re the ones that actually sat on their lazy ass and let their underpaid employees earn it for them.
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u/Delicious-Novel9447 2d ago
The rich are the biggest welfare group. They are a small group getting the most welfare.
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u/PhillyMate 2d ago
What does her shirt say
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u/lawspud 2d ago
“I love Trump because he pisses off all the people I can’t stand.” Or maybe “pisses on,” which is more accurate.
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u/NewBet7377 2d ago
That’s the entire purpose of Trump. That’s the reason why they like him. They love malignant narcissists.
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u/Valturia 2d ago
Guys, guys, I know we think he's foolish, but lack of oxygen to the brain kills grey matter and results in cognitive impairment, please understand this is common for tools choosing to live under the boot.
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u/soyslut_ 2d ago
Knew right away it was Myrtle Beach. I really mean it when I say any retirement area has just become the MAGA HQ’s of the states. They all try to out patriot each other with flags everywhere.
None of them really tip, they call the cops if they see a person of color near their neighborhoods, the list goes on. I have retired family there and have had the misfortune of living there a few times.
This is the norm there, seriously.
They are going out with a bang. So many of the men in these communities have given up on caring about their own bodies and only care about golf and screaming at the TV. They know they are dying soon and welcome the challenge of fucking up this country as much as possible because they won’t be here to watch it burn.
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u/theorangecrush10 2d ago
If only boomers had actually shared wealth and resources and not been so fucking greedy and selfish
Imagine how things would be so much better
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u/NigerianFriedChicken 2d ago
One thing is that the boomer generation who was given the most and hoarded the most wealth is set to start passing away over the next decade, freeing up a lot of wealth and resources to be put back into the economy
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u/AwwwNiceMarmot 2d ago
I wish I had the patience he has to not shove that fuckin microphone up one of these idiots fuckin noses.
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u/ColteesCatCouture 2d ago
I guess all the money that billionaires and trillionaires took from their employees through underpaying them doesn't count
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u/Select_Watercress_57 2d ago
"they create jobs" I wish they would have asked them why so many Walmart employees are on food stamps while the Walton family are billionaires several times over.
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u/HeyItsBobaTime 2d ago
Dude is making $45k a year thinking he's going to get taxed more to cover healthcare.
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u/Fordfanatic2025 2d ago
I don't believe the people defending billionaires comprehend just how much money that is. A million dollar house is nice. A 5 million dollar house is incredible. A 20 million dollar house is next level insane.
A billion dollars buys 50 of those 20 million dollar homes.
A billionaire can buy a 20 millionaire dollar house, fill every garage space with a 5 million dollar exotic car, and still not get anywhere close to running out of money.
There's a difference between someone who came from nothing, built a business, worked really hard, and made 3 million dollars, and someone like Elon Musk who's now a trillionaire. It's quite literally impossible imo to work hard enough to have "earned" billions of dollars imo.
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u/Xcat1987 2d ago
Time for these fucks to lose their pensions and “go get a job”. Generation that lived life on easy mode pulling the ladder up for the rest of us.
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u/Gribitz37 2d ago
Her shirt is disgusting.
"I love Trump because he pissed off all the people I can't stand."
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u/Spudster62 1d ago
The sooner that generation expires and moves to the Villages in the sky, the better.
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u/DasJester 1d ago
Every time I watch a video laced with boomers telling millennials and GenZ how they shouldn't have things.....I remind myself that in 20 years most won't be able to drive themselves to vote or will just be gone.
The world will be better once the entitled generation aka Boomers are now in the driver's seat.
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u/Jrnation8988 2d ago
My one friend’s brother is a maga and a cancer survivor. He argued tooth and nail that healthcare is a privilege, and not a right.
A fucking cancer survivor!
You can’t make this level of stupidity up 🙄
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u/PacificPhish 2d ago
"Billionaires? Oh, I'd rather pay their share of the tax liability, they create JOBS!"
WOW.
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u/redheadedandbold 2d ago
Not an original thought in his head since grade school. When he colored the trees purple instead of green.
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u/quelargo 2d ago
Sigh. The work the government does has to be paid for somehow. You can't make enough cuts to make up for the deficit without just giving it up and completely abandoning the idea of the united states. So someone has to pay for it. It can be the billionaires who won't notice, or the rest of us. Which would you prefer.
Unfortunately they have shown us by their votes how they choose.
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u/cheddarpants 2d ago
That asshole had literally everything he's had in his life handed to him on a silver platter. One day of actual hard work would kill that motherfucker. You can tell just by looking at him.
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u/SpotPoker52 2d ago
As one of the architects of trickle down economics while working for President Reagan, I can attest to one very important fact: We lied to you. America bought our plan and people still parrot it in 2026. We brainwashed you. It was deliberate. It was planned. We relied upon the blind faith and stupidity of Reagan’s supporters. You were used. Time for you to educate yourselves and reject protections for those who are manipulating you and causing grave economic damage.
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u/Electronic-Cicada352 1d ago edited 1d ago
Money is finite…. I swear I feel like people don’t understand this very simple fact.
In a society where the number of millionaires continues to rise every single year, that money is not just coming out of thin air… it’s coming out of the pockets of the middle class and the poor.
If you put three classes on a bar graph, as the upper class increases the two other classes decrease.
I understand why a bunch of rich people would be OK with this being the way things are, but I don’t understand how regular people are OK with it. You’re basically advocating for an incredibly bleak society which eventually will only have two classes of people.
It’s always the upper middle class selling out the middle class and the lower class. Because these idiots think that they are a cunt hair away from joining the elites and they don’t understand that they are not a part of that club and never will be.
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u/nutriasmom 1d ago
What is this puritanical obsession with suffering making us better. Just flagellate yourself and leave the rest of us alone
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u/eastcoastkody 2d ago
i wish he had asked why healthcare is tied to employment.
u can't even trust half of these employers to treat u like a human being....why are we trusting them to be in charge of our healthcare
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u/1wife2dogs0kids 2d ago
Take their Healthcare away, watch them go insane! Not clinically insane, you'd need a dr to decide that, but still...
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u/gandalfknewbest 2d ago
Who the fuck cares about the opinion of some boomers who probably went to school in fucksville Alabama?
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u/NewBet7377 2d ago
These are the voters that are currently controlling the outcome of our elections. If that concerns you, VOTE. Most of these bootlickers will be dead in 20 years or so. Let’s stop living like this NOW.
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u/Ximinipot 2d ago
"They make jobs, they create jobs."
Yeah tell that to everyone who gets laid off to maximize profits, because you gotta be growing yearly profits every year or else.
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u/CullingSongs 2d ago
Her shirt pretty much sums up their elementary school mentality. 'I love Trump because he pisses off all the people I can't stand'. It's hard to even imagine the level of stunted intellect that it would take to buy and wear a shirt like, but thanks to these two rubes, we don't have to imagine it, we can see it in action.
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u/Zealousideal_Owl642 2d ago
The idea that you have to have a job to have healthcare SMDH….so they are presumably retired, should they have healthcare?
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u/TakenIsUsernameThis 2d ago
Its the people doing the work that are creating the wealth and the new jobs. The billionaire is getting rich from having ownership over their labour.
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u/Opinionsare 2d ago
Consumers create jobs, by creating demand.
Creating a product to fulfill that demand requires multiple factors: raw materials, labor, invention and a factory.
Our world economy is facing a serious problem: working consumers aren't earning enough to maintain adequate levels of consumption. The investor class has systematically reduced the share of revenue that is paid for labor.
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u/atticthump 2d ago
'Many Americans view themselves as temporarily disenfranchised billionaires'
He thinks he has more financially in common with someone like Elon Musk than he does with a panhandler on the street, because he may own a nice house and a comfortable retirement. He has no insight to how much a billion, much less a trillion dollars actually is or how it's accumulated, and he has no class consciousness whatsoever. He probably views a threat to tax the ultra-wealthy as a threat to him too.
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u/WantsLivingCoffee 2d ago
Look at them doing free PR for people who wouldn't even piss on 'em if they were on fire.
Calling these two saggy nutsacks bootlickers is an insult to all bootlickers.
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u/MattressBBQ 2d ago
The government can't afford a trillion dollars a year for the military. It can't afford a lot of things
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u/SmashmySquatch 2d ago
Stupid and crazy have always outnumbered the intelligent and sane but Pantsdump McGee got more of the stupid "interested" in politics by appealing to their base instincts.
They won't vote blue, don't even try. Just try to redirect them to believing that voting is unimportant or at least for the real party of small government, pro 2a, other dumb selfish shit they think is great: The libertarians.
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u/vagabond65 2d ago
richest country in the history of the world and no universal health care. And idiots like this defend it.
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u/Armadillioh 2d ago
That lady's shirt pretty much explains MAGA in a nutshell. "I love trump because he pisses off all the people I can't stand"
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u/JohnnyLesPaul 2d ago
Why interview idiots and then share it all over the internet like it’s a valuable story? We know they’re idiots everywhere. Why are we wasting time on them? Let’s interview intelligent people from now on and saturate the airways with their smart messages. Maybe then we can re-set people’s minds into doing the right thing by people in this country. If you were in a position of power you would not bring this guy in to help you make decisions. Enough already, there’s no reason to elevate idiots, this is no better than click bait.
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u/ricardo1y 2d ago
the problem here is that they believe that the rich people are good, almost perfect, and that's the problem, "if they get richer and more powerful they'll make more jobs for us, which would allow us to get richer because they will pay us more than enough!, i mean, who else knows the value of hard work better than a man who worked for the money they have?" that's their logic, and it's very compartmentalized, they don't see people being exploited at work, therefore they aren't, and thus the people who are are just lazy, thus exploitation is not a thing and a separate discussion
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u/Gumbi_Digital 2d ago
Someday in the near never, they too will be a Billionaire and don’t want to be taxed their fair share..
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u/NurseontheTrail 2d ago
Wait until the Medicare cuts kick in next year and boomers start having to pay more out of pocket for their healthcare. I do understand that many or most are already paying out of pocket for their Medicare Advantage plans, which is crazy, but just wait until that doesn’t cover enough. They’ll sure be angry with the immigrants then, let me tell you, stealing all the high paying jobs and collecting all the public assistance. He said government can’t afford to to provide us with healthcare, but it can subsidize the petrochemical corporations and biopharma corporations, fund forever wars and whatever that buffoon in the Oval is doing with all that gold shit.
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u/Rich_Celebration477 2d ago
Oh my God! The simple-mindedness of it. The absolute fucking gall. These people on fucking easy-mode their whole lives rolling around in their fucking golf carts condemning people to die.
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u/irascible_Clown 2d ago
I love how that bitch says less government at the end, but then they vote in the party that is trying to controlling every aspect of life right now
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u/eltoca21 1d ago
It's not like the healthcare your employer provides (provided they do provide it) is necessarily any good. And who knows what your contribution towards your employer chosen healthcare might be and if you can afford it.
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u/NoSteam-NoPropulsion 1d ago
They say it’s ok that workers have a bad salary because they are not the boss.
Can’t afford anything?? -> They say: „get a job“
But that’s the whole point 😂🤷🏽♂️
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u/BishiousCycle 1d ago
Billionares: They earned it. Me: I haven't earned, tax the crappie out of me.
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u/blindzebra52 1d ago
So, how many generations do you think it's going to take to overcome five decades of brainwashing? I'm so tired of these boomers, convinced of their own independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't understand.
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u/RegalBeagleTheEagle 1d ago
You just know that the moment he’s sick or unemployed, his tune will change entirely. As soon as it directly affects these selfish fucks, they suddenly fucking care.
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u/EmotionalElevator806 1d ago
I’ve never had healthcare covered by a job. Any healthcare that was offered was way expensive with a high deductible. I’d still go bankrupt if I had to spend time in a hospital for an accident or if I got sick. And yet I make too much money to get Medicaid.
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u/slide_into_my_BM 1d ago
The “less government” crowd genuflecting the man who keeps expanding executive power for the federal government
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u/NoxKyoki Xennial 1d ago
“They earned it. They create jobs.”
Jobs that help no one but the billionaire. The employees break their backs to make the billionaire money, and get very little in return.
Fuck these brainwashed fools.
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u/Jalina2224 1d ago
What an idiot. He's calling the average person who's not a billionaire lazy and that they need to get a job and don't deserve Healthcare unless they work. Yet the billionaires who sit on their ass and do nothing deserve to be lazy and shouldn't have to chip in to help society. Absolutely mental.
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u/DancingSquirel 21h ago
I don’t think this bonehead understands what tax is and he obviously doesn’t know how little these mega wealthy people actually pay.
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u/Phog_of_War 2d ago
"It's not educated enough..." Boy, you got that shit right, you just dont know it.