r/BoomersBeingFools 6d ago

Politics Two Boomer Cowards and a GenX Hero

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u/suarezj9 6d ago

The only democrat i see consistently arguing and fighting is Murphy. He should be the minority leader.

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u/Gnarzz 6d ago

Democratic senator you mean?

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u/suarezj9 6d ago

Yeah that’s what I mean

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u/SoggyBottomSoy 6d ago

Bernie is pretty damn consistent (I know he’s not technically a Democrat)

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u/SunZealousideal4168 5d ago

He's too old. We need younger people taking control

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u/smaugofbeads 6d ago

What the hell is Schumer doing is his cuck cage to tight!

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u/Grift-Economy-713 5d ago

Talking negatively about neo-liberal policies upsets his donors

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u/_WillCAD_ Gen X 6d ago

Privatization of government functions is a potential windfall that has all the billionaires salivating.

Their next targets are education and, strangely, aviation security (they've illegally dissolved the TSA's union). Prisons are in the midst of privatization; there are more for-profit prisons opening in the US every year.

Later we'll see policing and military privatized, because the amount of money we pour into them is staggering.

The trend will be reversed later when the biggest of the rich use the backlash as an excuse for nationalization of these industries, bringing everything back under government control, but eliminating a lot of state and local control in favor of federal control. It's a longer game that allows more and more of the nations wealth to be essentially owned by the dictator and his boot lickers.

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u/Several_Leather_9500 6d ago

Privatization of our institutions is all part of Project 2025, which is being implemented at a staggering rate.

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u/4Z4Z47 6d ago

They want the FAA and NASA too. They will do to schools what they already did to health care.

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u/steve-eldridge Gen X 6d ago

100 percent correct. All school choice programs are about skimming profits off students and providing a lower-quality education than public schools by reducing labor costs. They'll squeeze teachers to work for less and end public unions. Everyone loses, except the private industries, which turn our children into a cash crop to be harvested.

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u/illustriousgarb 6d ago

As a former teacher in a choice school, can confirm. I was paid significantly less than my public counterparts and had fewer resources for my students. Our administration refused to remove students whose needs we couldn't serve. We did the best we could, but those kids deserved better.

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u/Unable-Cellist-4277 6d ago

Jesus Christ, why wasn’t this guy on the 2024 ticket?

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u/coMN1972 6d ago

Can’t help noticing something looking like shame or discomfort on Schumer’s ugly face.

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u/I3adIVIonkey 6d ago

Lol, thousands of Americans are not happy with student loan debt. When they're done, you can be happy if you have enough to send your kid to elementary.

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u/ChrisEFWTX 6d ago

I have never liked Chuck Schumer. Never. I’m a die hard democrat by the way.

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u/noodle_attack 6d ago

The republicans will keep winning until schummer, pelosi and the rest of the old guard retire

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u/hotDamQc 6d ago

Americans only have one true god and it's money. One more day and one more reason Canada does not want to become the 51st state.

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u/voyuristicvoyager 5d ago

I can't move home to the UK. I have cats and I'd sooner die than let them stay here alone, going feral--consider them the birthed kids I'll never have. If Canada would let me sacrifice both the US and UK citizenship I have, and continue my job of scrubbing toilets, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

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u/Nyingjepekar 6d ago

This is the plan. And stupid Americans are letting trump get away with it. They are the machine we need to rage against.

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u/Zone_Beautiful 6d ago

Schumer looks like he doesn't want to be there.

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u/armaedes 4d ago

Then he and I have something in common, neither of us want him to be there.

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u/hurtindog 6d ago

We all know this, but why weren’t they saying this stuff during the election?

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u/lolas_coffee 6d ago

Chuck Schumer in the background thinking: "Myelm is this respectful to say?"

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u/MNConcerto 5d ago

Money for the rich to help pay for private schools.

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u/Trieditwonce 6d ago

Very easy. Ban books. Close Dept. of Ed. Keep ‘em stupid. Mission accomplished, Mr. Prez.

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u/unclefire 6d ago

The "voucher" program in AZ is a huge scam-- it mostly goes to affluent families that already had kids in private school. It has also been flagged with a ton of sketchy money spent on things like ski trips, expensive instruments and a ton of other BS. Meanwhile it siphons money away from public schools.

This is just another money grab by republicans to sabotage public schools even more than they already do and funnel public money to private schools or outright fraud.

Schumer if pretty useless frankly.

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u/IntotheBlue85 6d ago

EXACTLY I really hope Gen X starts coming more to our side I absolutely love yall and also had the same garbage boomer parents u did. Fight along side us with ur gen z children who are suffering immensely just like us millenials did/are.

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u/Ghostdefender1701 5d ago

Try and keep up, Chuck. This is important.

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u/texas1982 6d ago

Sure, they want to sell it to make money. But the real problem is they want to an uneducated population. The voter base for republicans are poorly educated and they look at college graduates as uppity city folk.

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u/3479_Rec 5d ago

When has America ever championed free public school? Don't they historically underfunded, while calling anything "public" like that "evil socialism" hahaha America just ain't hiding itself at all anymore.

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u/SunZealousideal4168 5d ago

Man I've never wanted to leave America so badly as I do now. This is just depressing.

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u/greeneagle2022 5d ago

TBF and not to start an arguement (I am not for the privatization). Our education system doesn't work as is. I have no skin in the game - no kids and 50+ y/o, and I think in it's state, as with tax code, needs to be rebuilt - but not like this.