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[–] 261 points 6 months ago (26 children)

She wrote that 2038 is only 12 years away, and that "YOU and your classmates will be responsible for paying down the national debt."

Nevermind that Trump and the rest of the congressional Republicans increased the national debt by 3 trillion dollars already, fuck you kid for wanting something good for everyone instead of only wanting good stuff for the Epstein class.

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  • [–] 146 points 6 months ago (24 children)

    Fun fact:

    (Add 2 trillion to this pie... wait 3 trillion? No wait.. almost 4, Now? Well, add 4 trillion to this chart for the ole pedophile just for good measure...)

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  • [–] 117 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    That chart is pre-ballroom and Iran war, too.

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  • [–] 74 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    His base: "we need a president to run this country like a business!"

    Their guy: bankrupts every business he runs... including 6 casinos. (CASINOS! Fucking literal money printers...)

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago*

    he only ever used the casino as monely laundering, like hes using with the USA. i heard some people mention if TRUMP WASNT lazy and invested index funds with his inheritence he would be ~100billionaire by now.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Mere drops in the trillion dollars buckets

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The war is starting to be more than a drop in the bucket. It's only one order of magnitude less than what is shown on the graph.

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

    This is dumb as bricks. Inflation means that the most recent government will always have an outsized contribution to any national debt.

    Don't post it just because it dumps on Trump

    (And I guess I have to say I too hate trump because otherwise everyone will conclude I'm defending him somehow)

    EDIT because apparently that caveat is not enough: try running the same calculation as if it were 2016 and you were comparing Obama's contribution to the national debt to all other presidents. Or Bush. Or Clinton.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    This is adjusted to inflation.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (7 children)

    Oh yeah, what are the unadjusted numbers then?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Here, I'll invite you to read this document published on house.gov specifically on trumps impact to the national debt throughout America's history. It is not a "slam piece" on it's own, he does it to himself with facts and figures which is what this article gives.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

    I searched for "inflation", "nominal" and "adjusted" and didn't find anything relevant.

    I believe that the $37 trillion dollars is the total debt whenever that graphic was made, and the $12.5T is the debt increase from Trump's first term, plus so far in his second term. That means you're comparing Trump's debt (issued in 2016 or later dollars) to, for example, Roosevelt's debt (issued in 1940s dollars).

    The article you link seems perfectly factual and correctly identifies that debt to GDP is more important than nominal debt. Which is why you shouldn't be using a comparison of nominal debt increases to criticise Trump.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    It's relative to the economy. The comparison is the fact that he spends frivolously when other presidents who contributed largely to the debt did so during crises. Trump CREATES crises all on his own. He campaigns on lowering debt, but does quite the opposite ten fold. So yeah, it is perfectly within the realm to criticize and compare him with all other presidents all things considering. The pie represents his failures in the simplistic of forms.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    What measure of "the economy"? The usual measure is GDP, measured in dollars, so the number is a dimensionless ratio, not a dollar amount.

    The fact that you aren't telling me how this number was arrived at, or giving any precise answers at all, is answer enough: it's not "adjusted" to anything. You made that up and are continuing to talk shit.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    You clearly have no idea how any of this works, but you can keep suckling the teet of your orange king pedophile and live "happily ever after" in your delusional little bubble till the collapse. As long as you feel loved by your king, all is well, right?

    You are definitely not an economist judging by your pure lack of knowledge, and that's okay... these numbers are unfathomable anyhow.

    Since you want some kind of answer, the national debt is analyzed regularly and adjusted for inflation already and then they compare it to the ECONOMY in real time. What answer your trying to seek is impossible, the fact is; Donald John Trump is a pedophile rapist piece of shit and that's about all that really matters.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    you can keep suckling the teet of your orange king pedophile and live “happily ever after” in your delusional little bubble till the collapse. As long as you feel loved by your king, all is well, right?

    (And I guess I have to say I too hate trump because otherwise everyone will conclude I’m defending him somehow)

    Learn to read.

    It’s relative to the economy. What measure of “the economy”? and then they compare it to the ECONOMY in real time.

    So you don't know. I'm not an economist, but I clearly know more economics than you do.

    This conversation is pointless; you had your chance to demonstrate you understood, multiple times, and you failed to do so. I see my original comment got downvoted in spite of the explicit caveat because you and three other people are incapable of understanding that "these numbers criticising Trump are bogus" does not mean "I love Trump".

    Goodbye.

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  • [–] 92 points 6 months ago* (13 children)

    "YOU and your classmates will be responsible for paying down the national debt."

    Well, she is absolutely right about that. She should know, because it's her generation's fault.

    Foxx, who voted for the spending bill that the Congressional Budget Office projected would add $3.4 trillion to the national debt, told a 10-year-old that he and his classmates would be responsible for paying it down.

    How are these people in charge of anything?

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    How are they in charge? They get voted in because better people are not running or not getting voted for in many cases. Gerrymandering protects some of them.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Because we select our leaders via rigged popularity contests then let them sit in office with zero accountability, zero modern standards for hiring or work oversight, and "performance evaluations" every 2-6 years. Imagine running a company that way.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago*

    Exactly.

    The greatest problem of Representative Democracy where each representative stands for tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of people - meaning voters can't know the person, only their carefully managed external image - is that it's selecting people for just Salesmanship capabilities, and salespeople are seldom good at anything that requires logical and honest thinking (in my experience, the best salespeople believe their own bullshit, and that's not at all possible if one's views are detailed and honest, rather than vague and full of wishful thinking).

    So the top managers of a nation are people selected for personal qualities that are almost antithetical to the qualities a good manager should have.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)
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    There are not more boomers anymore. Maybe a higher percentage vote.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    A big reason the DNC didn't want a primary in 2024 is because boomer votes probably can't carry primary candidates any longer.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    also because they REFUSE to release the election autopsy investigation for 2024, they definitely knew there was rigging. REPUBLICANS will call rigging regardless if they release it or not. they are totally complicit with the GOP coming into power.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Don’t pretend like it’s down to voters. Money in politics ensures that good candidates can’t succeed before voters even get a chance to show up at the ballot.

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  • I'd be a better president than most of these aging Boomers at this point, but running for president of the USA is around one billion dollars of campaign costs. Only those with already established money connections will get it and we know what that causes.

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  • [–] 61 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    An 82 year old congresswoman.

    Christ.

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  • [–] 145 points 6 months ago (12 children)

    this is age-ism, but i really don't think anyone past 80 should be in charge of anything beyond self-care

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  • [–] 33 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    You don’t have to apologize. Fuck old people. Let them die miserably in their gold filled coffers which they can’t take with them when the worms are eating their innerds 6 feet under. Greedy fucks.

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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    No prizes for guessing this congresswoman’s party affiliation.

    Not that “Yahoo Entertainment” (news is dead, i know) even bothered to put it in the entire article, much less the headline.

    The congresswoman started by thanking Christian for writing. She said they agreed about the importance of innovation in the automobile industry.

    That was the last kind thing in the letter.

    Foxx told the 10-year-old that his request meant taking money out of the pockets of hardworking taxpayers who might not be able to afford an electric vehicle themselves. She told him the country was heading toward bankruptcy and economic failure. She wrote that 2038 is only 12 years away, and that "YOU and your classmates will be responsible for paying down the national debt."

    She capitalized "YOU." She was writing to a fourth grader.

    Then she linked him to six articles from Fox News, National Review, The Washington Times, and the Wall Street Journal editorial board — articles about the failures of climate change policy.

    And then she turned on his teacher.

    What a fuckwit piece of shit.

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  • [–] 42 points 6 months ago*

    Cute, the National Debt that HER and HER generation allowed to run rampant so that SHE could make off with mad bank? Not to mention the debt that HER party has incurred the last few years alone?

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago

    Good observation. They almost gave her party affiliation, but they stopped short.

    Foxx now chairs the House Rules Committee and is running for re-election in 2026 with Trump's endorsement.

    It's not exactly ambiguous, but it's also not explicit. That's a weird choice.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    She will be high on Luigi 2.0's list

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  • [–] 45 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    This bitch runs the district north of me. I say this a native of WNC. Fucking hillbillies are stupid. Edit--- and me saying this is why I could never run for public office. I think my own people are mouth breathing morons who will vote for any dipshit that has a bible in their hand. This bitch is not even from WNC but yet but every Popcorn Sutton from the holler licks her festering taint.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    She holds a Doctor of Education degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

    Just goes to show you that even higher education can't overcome religious brainwashing. She's deeply religious and dumb as a fucking rock. Dumb people sure know how to pull levers of power though, she's in there doing a bang-up job and even has time to propagandize a child she doesn't know (by claiming he's a victim of propaganda, naturally, as projection in one form or another appears to be the sole play in their playbook).

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Well an educated populace has always been a threat to those in power so I understand why the old bat would be so volatile.

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I don't even need to look up her party affiliation to know that she's a republican. I mean, the average age of congress can be blamed equally on both parties, but an octogenarian who talks shit on education, is super "concerned" about the national debt, and speaks in a shitty manner toward a child is definitely republican.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

    There was a similar story/video a few years back of (the late) Diane Feinstein being a dick to kids when they tried talking to her about climate change. -But I don't think she ever attacked education.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Clearly unacceptable, and part of the reason the elderly need to be stripped of their seats. I will say, however, it takes a certain kind of evil to do it pre-meditatively like the woman in this story did.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    And Barbara Boxer before her. It's just an old lady in politics thing. Men in politics generally have learned that yelling at children is bad. Notallwomenbutalwaysawoman

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I think it has to do with how a lot of women in politics especially those who got in before the turn of the millennium have this need to prove themselves, which just kinda manifests into being the biggest assholes. A good example is how Wako was caused largely by some cunt being stupid and wanting to be seen as tough on crime, no I'm not gonna look up her name she isn't worth my time I will remember her fuck ups regardless. Damnatio memoriae is perfectly valid in my opinion.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Janet Reno, and the name of the city is Waco.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    In my defense I've read way too much shit that uses K instead of a hard C that my brain just forgets hard C is a thing. Also why do we even have a hard C let's just use Ks instead.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I'll go one step further. Why have Cs at all. Hard Cs can be Ks, and soft Cs can be Ss. And while we're at it, Ph can get the fuck out too.

    I've said as much to my wife, who reminded me my name has both a C and a Ph.

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I feel like she would be surprised that her stocks in "Consolidated Slave Trading" are no longer liquid.

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  • [–] 61 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    We need age limits on politicians.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I'd thought about this and I came up with term limits instead. Holding office should be limited to 30 years over a lifetime. This should go across specific appointments such as federal reserve and senate.

    This prevents people from just staying on forever and accumulating too much power and favors. It also increases the turnover of politicians a lot more without breaking continuity and getting rid of the most qualified politicians.

    Not sure what the exact structure would be but I'd also increase the senate term lengths but add a 2 term limit. Governors also 2 term limits, house of reps 7 terms and president 2.

    I believe 100% that people in power become more corrupt over time and this fixes that but allows for long careers.

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  • [–] 29 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    I am so ready to move on from the boomer generation.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    There are still stupid millenials and Gen Z. This isn't a problem with a lifespan.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Gen X grew up with daily exposure to the highest levels of lead in their environment. Boomers had the second highest. Their mothers smoked and drank while pregnant. These generations are more brain damaged than any before or since.

    Only the oldest Millennials can even remember leaded gasoline, and it was off the market long before they learned to drive. Zeds are obnoxious, but they aren't wrong. The sooner they engage with politics, the better.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    The only benefit to being Gen X is we were shut out by the Boomers maintaining their grip on everything for so long. Oh, don’t get me wrong. There’s plenty of Gen X idiots, too. We were the biggest trump voting group, for instance. (Seriously, my people? The anti-authoritarians whose anthems were Breakfast Club, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or even Total Recall? Hate the system, hate the Nazis, hate the rich corporate overlords?)

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    I mean ok, she's definitely an awful woman and shouldn't be doing this job, but judging an individual for their membership of a group that represents some statistical shift from the median is as close to textbook bigotry as you can get. You wouldn't tolerate someone suggesting that women shouldn't be allowed physical jobs because they're statistically weaker.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I do agree with the general idea of what you are saying, however I do not think it really applies to what the original commenter or the article/post we are replying to are saying.

    When it comes to politics and making changes that impact our future, we are playing a really stupid game always putting people in charge that feel zero consequences for poor, shortsighted decisions. In many cases, the shortsightedness of the decision actually benefits them, as they won't be around for the consequences. In our current plight, that happens to largely be the boomers.

    Alternatively, using your example, a (theoretical, statistically weaker) woman works a physical labour job, any consequence is felt immediately. If she can perform her job, then she isn't too weak to... perform her job, I guess.

    I guess what I'm saying is that I don't see it as bigotry to assert that we should have the groups invested in our future making those decisions. Eventually it isn't the statistical chance that the boomers aren't capable of doing the physical labour (or work in general), but instead the totality of the boomers being too old to work.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    There's something to be said for possible lead exposure of that generation and how it's affecting as they age. There were studies about it and apparently the newest one is showing that their exposure is increasing the risk of Alzheimer.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    the only thing I'm genuinely looking forward to as I get older is watching every single boomer rot in the ground.

    worst. generation. ever.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago

    If you pitched this as a scene in a satirical movie, you'd be told to tone it down a bit.

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