My grandfather didn’t fight in WW2 for some Australian twit to say she doesn’t like all the flags
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And I'm Tony Boswell.
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So did you hear did you hear about an Australian woman who got owned by America, Tony?
That's unfortunate.
Like, you know, what you alluded to in the intro, I'm kind of sad because like, an Australian who's not an American patriot, is that an Australian at all?
I don't know.
It's weird.
I don't even understand it.
Yeah, I saw this in a couple places.
I saw like a video teased or like a link teased.
It was like, Greg Abbott owns Australian girl.
And I was like, oh, sick, filing that away to figure out what the fuck that means later.
But yeah, I came across this post in my Facebook feed from The Blaze.
We're going to be doing a lot of blazing today, Tony, talking about a lot of blazing stuff here.
The Blaze, it's not like it's like word art, but they didn't put the background.
It's just a black background instead.
And it says, Australian annoyed overseeing, quote, too many American flags during her stateside trip gets massive lesson on U.S.
patriotism.
By which I think they mean vicious abuse, unrelenting abuse for four days on end, leading to her having to delete her fucking TikTok or Instagram account, whatever she was posting on.
Yep.
Sounds sounds like American patriotism.
It's funny because it's like It's that thing where, you know, when you tell someone to, like, calm down, that's, like, the worst thing you can do.
Yeah.
The worst thing you can do is tell them to calm down because now they're, like, legitimately pissed.
And she's like, y'all are a bit wild about that.
Y'all are a little out of your minds about this flag.
And they're like, fuck you or not.
No, no, fuck you.
You're wrong.
They're like, oh, really?
You thought we were deranged back then?
Just wait.
Here, hold my beer.
It's not a Bud Light, by the way.
And I guess it's not a Foster's anymore either.
Now you had to open your mouth.
So that's just, that's just the post.
That's the post, folks.
That's it.
The blaze.
It's not a link to an article.
It's just text on Facebook that says Australian annoyed overseeing quote too many American flags during her stateside trip gets a massive lesson on US patriotism.
And then that's it.
Like this has 6,000 likes.
6,000 people were like, wow, that's so cool.
I love to hear that.
I love to hear that in a, in just with no other information.
I believe it and it's good.
Does the Blaze just know that their fanbase will fill in the blanks for the rest of everybody?
They don't have to really do much work at all, they just know that, like, they don't need any background, they can just fill it in and, you know, let that rock?
Yeah, I mean, this is like, it's kind of like the devolution, you know, of clickbait and, um, Like online engagement.
Yeah.
Because it used to be like, oh, you know, you have to write a really compelling story to get people's interest.
And it's like, no, you just turn it into a meme with a picture of somebody.
Maybe they're making a stupid face and then big, big text on it.
And then you can laugh at that.
And it's like, why do I have to get the picture?
I'm just going to tell my audience exactly what they wanted to hear.
Ungrateful Australian gets owned by Texas governor.
And I just write that, and that's good enough, man.
Well, putting a picture in is kind of disingenuous.
You're kind of limiting the reader's imagination.
That's true.
Because usually when I think of Australian women, I think of fucking hot babes.
But if there was a picture of her, I would know that.
But since I know that she hates America, I could just picture a wretched looking human.
And that's nice.
Well, I actually, I picture as a hot woman because I also hate hot women, too.
That's also true.
I hate them for being hot.
So it's fine.
It's even better that she's Australian.
Now you're picturing the exact women, but with just much larger breasts.
Much larger, sun-bleached hair, sandy breasts.
Yeah, sandy breasts.
That's part of it for sure.
No, there is an article here.
Read about it here at TheBlaze.com.
Let's read about it, Tony.
Yeah, she's blonde, white.
Wow, she's got those husky eyes that men love.
An Australian female TikToker recently posted a video expressing her annoyance overseeing, quote, too many American- Dude, this fucking foot cleaning video.
What the fuck, man?
It's the worst thing ever.
I've never- I swear to God, my feet are fine.
I've never, like, researched Whatever this is for, what is it for?
Fungal.
Toenail fungal infection.
Alright?
I haven't played sports in 25 years.
I don't have a toenail fungal infection.
It's the equivalent of those like car interior detailing, you know, videos.
Yeah.
Except for it's being done to toes.
So it's a brush scrubbing toes.
Close up too.
So big on the fucking toe.
Alright.
Okay, an Australian female TikToker recently posted a video expressing her annoyance over seeing, quote, too many American flags during her stateside travels, the New York Post reported.
Here's Mia Chloe giving a piece of her mind to the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Does it have captions?
I can't understand what they say when they talk.
Yeah, so I'll play the video here.
And it's also been transcribed.
Good, good.
There are too many American flags.
I'm just gonna say it.
There are too many American flags.
Like they're on houses.
She looks like she's fucking 16.
Yeah, she's mad young.
She looks really young.
I'm just gonna say it.
There are too many American flags.
Like they're on houses.
They're on cars.
Some of them on couch cushions.
She's right.
I mean, it's obvious now at this point.
It's kind of like a hack thing to point out.
If that was the reason she got bullied offline for telling stale jokes, I would be like, well, yeah, sure.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Get a new joke.
But yeah, I mean, she's not wrong.
And I think it's also maybe a little bit salty because I do think that an American flag couch can look good, but I can't imagine an Australian flag couch looking good.
So she's just salty.
I disagree, because I've seen American flag couches, and they're usually outdoor couches that are faded and stained and look like garbage.
You know, maybe at best, the dog's been sleeping there.
You just hate everything that is wholesome, apparently, because the dog sleeps there, and that just made it all perfect.
Yeah, so I say at best, the dog sleeps there.
That's a best case situation, is there's a comfy home for a dog.
Yeah.
And I disagree.
She's like, oh, you see them everywhere.
You see them on cars.
You see them on houses.
You see them on couch cushions and shit.
And it's like, yeah, okay.
How many of those couch cushions have pillows that are arranged in the proper order?
How many of those people actually care about flag code?
Which means the stars pillow has to be on the left side of the couch when the stripes pillow goes on the right side.
And I mean, we've seen we've seen fucking video evidence that people don't take this seriously.
So if anything, I think we need more like more embrace of the American embrace, like the true meaning of the American flag, which is that the stars go on the left and the stripes go on the right.
It's disgusting to me that there's still American couches out there that have, they've kept the feet on the couch, therefore the flag is not at half mass, when this country is just in, you know, in shambles.
And we are in a moment of tragedy, and you need to take the feet off your American flag couches.
You take the feet off or I'm flipping the couch.
This flag is going to be distressed, in distress, one way or the other.
Yeah, you stomp on my couch, I stomp on your ass.
If I cannot have an American flag couch, perhaps I shall have an Australian skin couch.
What about that?
What about that?
Yeah.
How do you, how do you like that?
Which your, your choice, you know?
All right, let's.
These all swishes.
I don't think that'd be very good outdoors.
I don't think it, I don't think it'd work nicely outdoors.
It's soundbine real easy.
Matter of fact, Like, I don't know who's making these American flags, but they'd be making a bloody fortune.
It's true.
Follow the money.
Get to the get to the bottom of why the American flag is so ubiquitous.
It's probably the American flag.
Man, you fat.
This is like this is like a joke from a cartoon like is Simpsons cartoon or something that like patriotism was all just like what do you call like a Hallmark Valentine's Day style scheme to make five bucks off of a flag?
You'd be shocked of how much of the communist Chinese government is funded from American flags.
Yeah, see, that's why they can get high-speed rail.
And we can't.
She's bringing up a real big problem, as a matter of fact.
I'm the only country that I know that does this.
Like... How many countries have you been in?
Let's be honest.
Also, England does that shit super hard.
That's true.
You know?
But yeah, America's pretty bad about it.
I don't know.
I think other people in other countries travel to a lot more countries than we do, so maybe a few countries.
Yeah, but she's Australian.
She's not like a European globetrotter.
But that means she's probably been to Japan.
Australian coming to the U.S.
is like somebody from San Bernardino going to L.A.
Yeah, yeah.
It's not like world traveling.
Did you just call San Bernardino Australia?
You might want to walk that one back.
I don't think you feel that way at all.
You know what I mean!
The north end!
Alexander Edwards not welcome back anymore after the streets hear about this comment.
It's like a miniature version.
That's what I'm saying.
There you go, there you go, yeah.
Flag is like on the Haba Bridge.
I could not tell you what it looks like.
This is, I'm sorry.
She's a Chad.
She's total Chad.
I don't even know what my fucking flag looks.
I couldn't, gun to my, gun to me ma's head.
I couldn't tell you what the fucking Australian flag looks like.
You guys are weirdos.
You guys are freaks.
I, she's right.
She's totally right.
Um, the responses to this.
So let's get back to the, What?
People are so- I just saw that number one comment under there from The Verified.
Oh, it's just, yeah.
Just posting a million American flag emojis.
Yeah, it's a 5 by 20 grid of American flag emojis.
The persistence, this guy, Scott Pressler, who's like really tall, cheerful, young, conservative, with super long, beautiful hair.
We're a weirdo.
He's like 6'8 or something.
He's insane looking.
He should start a cult.
That's what I would do if I looked like him.
Um, he commented, we will happily pay for a one-way airplane ticket back to Australia, which is what everybody said.
And, uh, she should have taken him up.
She should have taken people up.
People are just posting photos of like, uh, boats with flags that are like one, like one minute away from crashing against each other off screen.
Uh, the, the Trump voters fire trucks on that boat.
They're just like, the captain says, and you're really going to hate this, you're really going to hate this, and it's just them showing how insane they are about the flag.
She's totally right.
Yeah, but luckily for us at Minion Death Cult, the Blaze has curated a wonderful selection of responses.
Um, but yeah, here's more to the article.
So, it appears what we have here is a rather young person from another country freely traveling as a guest in the U.S.
whose mined her many years of wisdom to lecture Americans about their dumb flag apparently visible to her everywhere.
Let's revisit her final commands.
Quote, it's enough.
Let's pull back on it, okay?
Let's stay humble.
It's worth pointing out that quote let's is the contraction for quote let us end quote which is a curious verbal usage given there is no quote us.
Chloe isn't part of the, quote, us she expresses only Americans are, but perhaps she feels as though she's tapped into that privilege even as a visitor.
Or maybe America just has that effect on outsiders.
Which one do you think it is, Tony?
Oh, I think I think it's for sure.
I think it's for sure that America just does that to outsiders.
I think that's what I think.
Yeah, people who aren't inundated with this shit from birth have a strange visceral sickness overcome them when they view it, when they catch a glimpse of what we live with.
I'm going to post a picture of her with like, you might not want to hear this, but this is what the perfect American woman looks like.
And if they didn't know this story, they'd be like, abso-fucking-lutely.
Yes.
Yes, please.
Give me more of that American woman.
But I disagree.
Despite how pedantic and nitpicky this is, I manage to disagree with it.
Because when it says lets, there is no lets.
She's only telling Americans to be humble.
And it's like, no, she's saying everybody should be humble and just forget their own nation's flag.
Yes, I think that's the way to go.
No flags, no masters.
Come on now.
Yeah, as you might expect, quite a few folks shot back at Chloe and gave her a resounding lesson in American patriotism with a healthy dose of defiance thrown in.
Dude, I love that they were defiant.
They were defiant in the face of this teenage Australian girl.
And like what that means is like posting, posting hate speech on platforms you're not supposed to.
Like that's how they're being defiant.
Yeah, they were posting like the internet version of slurs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Whatever, whatever, like, you know, dog whistle they have for Australians.
Um, Texas governor.
Great.
Oh, it just reminds me of like these posts that I see in my, my alt feed where I'm, you know, part of a bunch of stupid Facebook groups.
And it's like, One man watches Lord of the Rings on his airplane seat while the entire cabin watches the Women's World Cup.
And the caption is like unbelievably based.
This is the most based any man has ever been.
And it's like, it's posted by an account that's like traditional, traditional Western men or something.
It's like he, he watched, he watched the hard thing.
He could have watched the easy thing like everybody else, but he watched the hard one, Lord of the Rings.
And there's like somebody who's all mad because they really wanted to watch the World Cup game, but you can't watch it on planes and they were on a plane during the game.
So.
I don't know how they were watching it on the plane in general.
It's probably fake.
It's probably photoshopped or AI'd or something like that.
But yeah, that's what this looks like.
Americans, and it feels like it was more than 3% this time, stood up to the tyrannical force of outsiders' opinion about how stupid and fucked up we are.
We won't even let Australians talk about our love of the flag.
Yeah.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott gave Chloe quite a noteworthy suggestion.
Go back to Australia!
Nothing I love more than a governor using phrases like, go back to your country.
That's my favorite type of governor.
Yeah, Australians aren't welcome here.
Florida, you can't be communist.
Texas, you can't be Australian.
Um, the fucking top reply to this is from Aussie Overlawed.
Says, as an Aussie who just spent two weeks in Texas, I found the presence of the flags inspiring.
I just wish we had that kind of patriotism back home.
Unfortunately, these kids have no pride and respect for their country, parentheses, or others.
And I've seen a corresponding lack of courtesy and respect for others as well.
God, you're so lame.
You're so fucking lame.
Also, I hate to tell you this, but just like how you can't just let cop families slide, I can't let you slide.
One bad apple.
I'm picturing a bar that has the word cunts.
But then a red circle crossed out, and that's how Australians know not to go in there because they use it endearingly, and they just know they're not welcome there.
Yeah, the good ones, the bad ones, we don't want any of them.
Yeah, I don't care how you're using it.
You guys use it too freely over there.
It's kind of gross.
Uh, go back to Australia, says Texas Governor Cranky.
And like, also, just for the record, I know it's again kind of pedantic, but she is posting this from Australia, right?
I think she's... I think she's home.
I don't... I think she has the accent no matter where she is.
I think this is...
Well, I was going to say, her accent sounds a little, she's going a little soft on it.
She's kind of, she's kind of trying to, she's doing some California appropriation I don't really appreciate.
Here are some other responses.
My grandfather didn't fight in WWII for some Australian twit to say she doesn't like all the flags.
One commenter said, shut the hell up.
My grandfather's dying last words on the field were, you fly that flag couch hard.
You never let him sit on the flag couch.
This guy who posted this has hashtag Bible in his bio on Twitter.
Hashtag Bible is kind of lit.
I'm going to start hashtagging everything hashtag Bible no matter what it is.
Hashtag MAGA.
Hashtag pro-life.
Hashtag Bible.
Hashtag US military.
Hashtag vets.
Hashtag SpaceX.
What's funny is I think that you don't reference your grandfather if you also fought, right?
Yeah.
So this guy is not even really a vet?
I don't know.
Maybe being a World War II vet, he recognizes that that's even cooler than his modern operator Desert Storm status.
Is that one of the perks of being a family member of someone in the military, where you can use the military credit union?
Do you also get to use the term vet because you bank with the military?
Well, you get to appeal to the corpse of whatever connection you have.
Like, I have USAA auto insurance because my grandfather was, you know, a veteran.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I forgot to salute you when you started the show.
I should have.
So, like, I don't, you know, and I've had this conversation a lot with USAA.
I don't think my grandfather fought and died and, well, fought in World War II and then died a long time later so that you could raise my rates because of one car accident.
And it's funny because they're raising your rates, but I don't see any more American flags.
Yeah, funny.
Funny how that works.
Funny where their priorities are.
Raising rates instead of... Well, how about instead of raising rates, you raise a flag?
Raise a flag, yeah.
Listen, if you're going to raise my rates, I'm going to need to see more flags in every single... Every hub you have, okay?
Yeah.
Nation in distress.
My pocketbook's in distress.
Let's get these charges back to half-mast, folks.
What other response?
My, my grandpa didn't die.
My grandpa died in World War II so that you couldn't make fun of all our flags.
That's actually why he died.
That's a good reason to give your life.
That's a good thing to die for.
And how dare you take that away?
It's so, man, it would be so funny if we could just take, we can take that away from his grandpa, right?
If none of us accept that, that's okay.
His, his grandpa's death's in vain now.
Wow.
That's a lot of power.
This guy's a Holocaust denier, but only because he's like, they're trying to cover up the fact that my grandfather died for these flags.
They're saying they went to war for some other reason.
That's Hollywood for ya!
Didn't think American flags were sexy enough, I guess.
It's really weird that that movie was so long and they didn't find time to have my grandfather say that he's doing this for the flags.
Kind of weird thing to leave out in such a long movie.
Uh.
Quote, I'm a farmer who's flown our great American flag on this farm my whole life, just as the generations before me.
Don't come to our country hating Americans patriotism.
Another commenter said, I personally will buy you a one way ticket back to Australia ASAP.
I do wish that she just a couple of times said, OK, and then, yeah, got that money.
Right, exactly.
She should have put her cash app in there, just a troll, and like she probably would have gotten paid out the frame.
Like all the spite money.
Yeah.
We'll move on from this segment.
I love that all you have to try and correct this girl with is like, oh yeah, you think it's fucking stupid?
I've been doing it for years.
So there.
In America, what the flag represents is the rich history of having the flag.
It's the rich history of me having flown the flag in previous years.
That's why we fly it.
They're like, wow, do you just like hate the slave who Betsy Ross took credit from?
Is that what you, is that your deal?
That's kind of fucked up.
You're racist.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's Betsy Ross, right?
That's the name.
Did I nail that?
Yeah, that's right.
You nailed it, dude.
All right, The last subject of the night is something that always piques my interest when a bit of the reality of what it's like to be a working person in this country forces its way into the public consciousness and even into right wing spaces.
It becomes.
These sort of actual populist, you know, vaguely left wing working class sentiments become so popular because they are popular that the capitalist media can't ignore them anymore and has to report on them.
And it's always so fascinating to see a how You know, these corporate media sources are going to report on it, and it's also, obviously, with, you know, who we are as a show, it's fun to see how their readership is going to respond to these messages.
So I have here, from Fox News, Alabama mom goes viral with concerns about her kids' futures.
Quote, not the same as it was.
So this is in response to, yeah, a viral tick tock about.
How awful it is to try and make a living, make your way, especially when you don't have any sort of when you don't have, you know, a decade of previous economic gains behind your belt, you know, you don't have any real estate or anything, how hard it is for for, you know, younger people now.
And she cites the cost of housing.
She cites the cost of food.
She cites low wages.
Let me read here.
So she apparently appeared on Fox and Friends as well, but I don't think we're going to be watching that.
And just real quick, just from just from, you know, the framing of what she's saying is so important.
Because, you know, the common sentiment from what we see on Fox News is not, it's not the same as it was.
It's that people aren't the same as they were.
Yeah.
And this is finally like, this is, you know, what we've known the whole time, where it's the circumstances that are different.
So just the framing from the headline is already, already like a huge leap for Fox News.
100%.
That's another thing that makes it so interesting to Read this on Fox News is because she is, she, like you said, Tony, she is doing, she is not doing the generational warfare thing.
She's not doing the thing that is so common on both on the internet, but especially in Fox News, you know, Fox News, whose viewership skews older there, they are the Facebook posters.
Yeah.
Who are just going to blame any sort of economic woes on Kids today, unless they can get away with blaming it on Biden, because they'll happily admit to how terrible it is, how terrible the economy is, or how people are struggling as long as they can pin it on Biden, which is obviously something we're going to see.
When I was a kid, they didn't even have those stickers.
He didn't do anything.
I know it because I didn't see him pointing to anything he did.
I've got some old C-SPAN footage for you to watch, Tony.
You're going to love it.
An Alabama mother of two adult children went viral after sharing her frustrations with the financial realities that face her millennial and Gen Z children.
Jessica McCabe joined Fox & Friends on Tuesday to defend her concerns after receiving backlash from some online.
Quote, it's not 1988 anymore, she said.
We have to, as parents, realize that the economy has changed.
I understand inflation.
Prices always go up.
But I think that lately the wages are not keeping up with how big the inflation has gotten.
And we have to listen to our children.
Uh, and this is, you know, we'll see this a little bit here throughout the comments.
I think it's smart if you're on the left, if somebody says, it seems like lately wages haven't kept pace with inflation.
I think you're maybe just better not disillusioning them at that moment and just being like, you're so right.
You're absolutely 100% correct.
Wages have not kept up with inflation whatsoever.
We need to do something about that.
You don't need to get into an argument about how it's actually, you know, 50 year old fiscal policy.
We have to listen to our children.
So right, right here, I'm like fucking throwing my computer across the room.
Broad's telling me to listen to my children?
They're fucking stupid!
Why would I listen to them?
I would never do that.
My child's 10 years old.
I would never listen to them.
Yeah, every day she's saying... About anything.
Every day she's saying, Daddy, no, I don't want a hug.
Daddy, no, I don't want to wear this promise ring.
You think I listen to that shit?
No way.
No way.
And you know, she doesn't have to listen to me once she gets married off.
Right.
Yeah.
That's why.
Yeah.
There's a whole ceremony of me giving, giving away that privilege, giving away that authority.
Um, quote, I am so tired of feeling helpless as a parent.
She said in the video, yes, my kids are grown adult adults.
My oldest is 28.
My youngest is 25.
And I thought by teaching them what I learned, which is you work hard, you get a good job.
You're going to get the things in life that you need.
All right.
Work.
All right.
Worked for me.
Why wouldn't it work for them?
Because it doesn't because the world has fucking changed.
Yes, I understand.
Struggling is a part of life.
We all struggle, but there's a difference between struggling and drowning, she added.
McCabe expressed her concern over whether the American dream is still achievable for younger generations, specifically given the state of the U.S.
economy.
It's really I don't know.
It's it's really I don't mean to get on a soapbox or anything, but it's really important for this message to get out there because.
Around surrounding us everywhere are the signs of decay.
Are the signs of this system failing hundreds of thousands of people.
And we're seeing those symptoms in the news every day.
If you're only consuming right-wing capitalists, corporate media sources, you're seeing the effects of, you know, rampant capitalism and just, you know, decades of the upwards transfer of wealth.
And the opposition, they're going to come up with their own, you know, reasons for that.
They're going to come up with their own like genocidal, racist, authoritarian, bigoted excuses or explanations for why this is happening.
And we need to be able to articulate because.
I mean, what's that saying?
In every crisis, there's an opportunity like more and more people are realizing the system's fucked up.
And we need to get as many of those people on our side as possible, you know?
Yeah.
Well, the thing that makes this story so appealing is that it's the perfect victim thing, you know?
This is a good victim.
When you're watching this lady, you're looking at a really nice-looking white lady, who I'm assuming has nice-looking white kids, who she says went to college, got degrees, got jobs, went and got jobs, are working, still can't, you know?
So there is no moment of, you know, Well, of course they didn't work out, you know?
Right.
There's no moment that's happened.
But even though these people have existed forever, you know, they're us, they're our friends, you know?
But hearing it from the parent's point of view, because there's something very likable about her.
She seems like a lovely lady.
Um, and like, that's great.
And we, we need people to come out and say more like, you know, I have, I have, you know, I have family, right?
Where it would be really nice for my aunt to finally come out and be like, Oh yeah, my kids are struggling.
One's kind of a fuck-up.
One's kind of a fuck-up, and you know what?
It's even harder than it should be for them.
That would be great if you could say that, but that doesn't happen.
So this is, you know, kind of refreshing.
I don't, you know, there's, there's no real way of knowing this except like anecdotal data.
You know, nobody's actually gonna document all this stuff, but I imagine this does happen.
I imagine this happens all the time.
I imagine fucking Republicans in Alabama are constantly looking at the world around them going, damn, this shit sucks.
Damn, this system really fucking sucks for my kids.
Now, you know, what they choose, where they choose to take it from there is, is another thing entirely, but I bet a good portion of them don't even blame Biden personally for why, you know, the economy doesn't work for their kids.
Like I, a lot of them are looking for something that, that makes sense looking for, for like an actionable I don't know, because if, like, your argument is, oh, there's woke corporations or, like, oh, Biden personally, you know, fucked up the economy...
Well, that's not very invigorating for me.
How am I going to make the corporations not woke by buy a different product?
Oh, OK, cool.
I guess I can maybe pretend to myself that that's fighting some sort of ideological battle.
Or maybe I vote for Trump and what they steal the election from him again, you know, like.
So I it's if you frame this in terms of like class warfare and actual It's I don't know.
It just seems like there's an actual avenue here for getting something done.
You know, if we all team up along along.
Material lines and don't just pretend that it's like what country song I listen to is going to change the world.
You know, I think I think I think it would be even more.
Enticing to a lot of these people, you know, the fucking QAnon games they want to play online or whatever.
Well, forming a union, trying to trying to set up a union behind your boss's back is just as thrilling.
That that's a that's a kind of like a I wish that we could sell it that way, because that's so true.
You know what you think you're doing here, what you think you're doing, what the storm you think you're bringing.
You can do that.
It's just not at all.
You know, you can actually is work, though.
Yeah, but it's literally just as much posting.
You're just not posting anymore.
You're actually communicating and emailing and collecting signatures and talking to people.
The thing you already think you're doing, you could be doing.
We gotta just point that out to him somehow.
I don't know what it is.
Well, it is, it is difficult stuff.
So I'm not saying that it's like, yeah.
And it's, and it's also, I'm doing fantasy football here by saying, if we just get enough people to set up unions in their shop, that's going to whatever.
It's all, it's all depends on the material conditions.
And I believe the material conditions are trending in a way that's going to make a lot, make a lot of people more proactive about their situation.
Um, Anything that gets them more critical of whatever is happening is good.
Sure.
It's a step step.
Yeah.
The reason why I made the video is because I was so frustrated I went out yet again with my son to try and find an apartment he can afford.
She said half the places I felt like should have been condemned that he could afford.
And the other half they're running four times your rent.
They want you to show that you can have like four times that.
So it was getting frustrated.
Um, she talks about inflation a little bit.
Um, yeah, that's, that's the main thrust of the story.
Like she's absolutely correct on how fucking expensive housing is getting, how expensive food is getting.
And anybody in their right mind can point to the record profits that these corporations and real estate, you know, holdings companies are making and be like, well, that's the problem.
Very obviously all of these people come to their own cook.
They say, Oh, well, the reason housing is so expensive is because black rock Bought it all up and now they're renting to people.
I know theoretically a monopoly is bad on prices or whatever.
BlackRock doesn't have a monopoly on housing.
But like if you're going with for-profit, a for-profit product or service, right?
The bigger, more robust, more spread out company is going to be able to offer you that service at a lower price.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's how it works.
You go to the mom and pop store to support mom and pop.
You don't go there because they have the shit for the cheapest.
You go to Walmart because they have the shit for the cheapest.
Because they can afford to do that, right?
That's just an idle thought about People being upset that BlackRock now owns these privately owned rentals.
And it's like, how is that any better than a mom and pop landlord?
You know, it's just because you can picture yourself as the mom and pop landlord.
You can't picture yourself as a corporation or whatever.
But they realize that profiteering in the private sector is the problem.
Now, they're not able to probably admit outwardly that Anybody profiting off housing is necessarily bad, but they're on the right track, like they're that's pretty fucking close to the correct answer.
And I feel like we can push a lot of these people into that into that correct lane.
Yeah.
Let's get into responses here.
Dialogue with me is by invitation only.
Sorry.
Says that's a that's a pretty good username.
I like that.
I like it.
Yeah dialogue with me is to expect yeah Does not expect do not interact I'm a Republican voter But I don't love the fact that the median standard of living has steadily declined in this country from end of World War two forward While over that same time frame the gap between the ultra wealthy and the rest of us has progressively Widened and I just want to say yeah, welcome comrade.
Thank you.
Yeah, I Come on in, the water's real nice.
What are you a Republican for?
For guns, I guess?
Maybe abortion too?
But like... Yeah.
This is a normal sentiment.
This is an absolutely normal sentiment that people know that the wealthy are getting wealthier and everybody else is suffering.
But their only solution is you vote for D or you vote for R, and a good chunk of people, I mean judging by voter apathy, a huge chunk of people, don't think the Democrats are going to get those numbers back down.
No, no.
And I mean, I'm happy.
I'm happy that people don't think they're going to get those numbers back down.
Because they're not.
They're not.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like that's that's that's the that's the bottom line.
It is kind of nice because this does give at least some actual things that can be addressed and we need to be addressed and we need to demand as like a people like housing.
Because like you can't just say like we need to pay people more because we also need to bring prices down.
Yeah, it's like both all of it needs to happen.
So at least like Maybe hearing from from somebody like oh, no, my kid has a real job with a degree a degree that Because they told us we got degrees.
We're fine We're supposed to just be fine.
Well people in the replies are saying Sorry, you fell for the liberal propaganda that if you get a degree, you'll be fine, but they lied to you and They're all on the trade school bullshit, which isn't bullshit.
It's true that you can make a good money by doing a trade, but if everybody who was going to go to college for not a STEM degree went into the trades instead, Your wage is going to go down.
I'm sorry.
Like if a million more plumbers spring up overnight, what do you think that's going to do for the wages of plumbers?
Yeah, that's just the bottom line.
Yeah, that's just how it's going to be.
It sucks because the reality is that That the whole thing is they have a degree and the truth is that does mean they have a leg up on people who don't have a degree and even they are struggling.
Right.
They have a leg up to like an entry level position where you're making 20 bucks an hour.
Yeah.
Which is like, you know, depending on where you live, that's a lot of money, but.
Not in a lot of places, but yeah, I just like there was general agreement with I think with this woman, but of course like The comments are the people where there's is the place where people go to pop off.
So yeah, that's what we're gonna be seeing here Knights who say knee So Monty Python guy this might be one of the right-wing Monty Python guys now commenting this Says Biden is solely responsible.
Massive spending and borrowing in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Massive spending causing inflation to explode.
Massive attack on energy doubling the cost of gasoline used to deliver every item.
I just I love Biden is solely responsible.
We all remember this.
We all remember how cheap it was to buy a house before Biden got in office.
We all remember how cheap it was to buy groceries.
A lot of people do this.
They'll be like, man, I miss Trump.
Back when Trump was president was a dollar sixty two a gallon.
They do have that weird narrative in their head.
Imagine thinking that Biden is that competent.
Biden was able to maliciously tear all this down calculated in the time he's been in office.
Like, I don't think so, bud.
I don't think so, bud.
I mean, it's kind of it's been trending this way.
I mean, our entire adulthood.
Yeah.
Yeah, I lived through the fucking 08 recession, man.
Things haven't been good for a while.
Yeah.
But yeah, I love just like Biden is solely responsible.
Like you are just telling people, hey, click this button, click this like button if you don't want to have to think about anything ever.
Yeah.
Well, if you don't click on this button, then you love Biden.
Bella, and so this is the response.
This is like probably my favorite response out of all this.
Bella's gran, so Bella's grandma, replies to Knights Who Say Knee and says, I can't stand Biden, but many of the economic woes of the young are their confusion between need and want.
Um, um.
I love this so much.
Alyssa, I would love to blame Biden because I hate Biden, but you know who I hate even more?
Bella, my granddaughter.
Bella, my granddaughter, who, like, complains about needing, like, housing with, like, maybe, you know, air conditioning and a heater.
Yeah, it's something that I don't have to share a single room with three other roommates.
Yeah.
It's so perfect.
It's just like an immovable object meeting an unstoppable force.
The immovable object of, yeah, Biden's I did that sticker with the unstoppable force of hatred for the next generation of people.
Man, that's the only reason I give Biden a pass is because of how much I hate kids these days.
People just, they like to mix up, you know, human rights and amenities.
Totally.
You know, not everything's a spa day, alright?
Some days you do, listen, you do need to eat ramen for the rest of your life.
Mhm.
I mean, that is, like, the predominant argument against this stuff.
Their confusion between needing it.
When I was, listen, in the 60s, when I was there, yeah, sure, houses might have been cheaper and yadda yadda yadda, but I also didn't need an iPhone.
I didn't need an $800 iPhone, right?
You know how many followers I had on Instagram in 1973?
That's right, none.
Not one.
And here I am.
So like, WDZ says, my generation didn't rack up $100,000 plus in student loans so we could live on it and party on it during spring break.
Definitely what student loans are for.
And have an expensive apartment.
When's the last time you saw footage of a spring break?
You know, I don't know probably probably somebody on tick-tock pretty frequent.
Oh, that's true I say cuz I'm thinking like, you know, this guy's thinking of MTV, you know You know, I I know your I know your son might have a hard time finding an apartment But maybe he shouldn't have gone to Cancun, right?
Maybe five years ago spend a little less on Jim and his tan and maybe he can afford to do the laundry.
I Uh, did you see there's a there's a current Jersey Shore reboot?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it looks like everyone's doing good.
It looks like everyone's doing doing great.
I was like it was like making me sick trying to like watching it even without sound on.
I was just like no no these people like.
They look so weird now to me like they don't look awful, but just they're just old.
They're not like living together, right?
I don't know.
Cause I just, it'd be really hard for me to be a past member of Jersey Shore and someone who's used that clout to like fund my, you know, at least hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It'd be really hard for me to like go live with a roommate again.
Um, totally.
Um, but I guess you're getting more clout.
So that's cool.
We didn't buy $800 phones, have $150 cable slash subscriptions.
It's definitely something Gen Z is known for.
cable slash subscriptions.
It's definitely something Gen Z is known for.
$150 cable subscriptions.
Yeah, yeah. - Yeah.
Bought cars we could afford, parentheses, not $900 payments.
Saved to put, and then still parentheses, saved to put 20 down 20% and bought an affordable home slash condo hyphen, not the maximum home price that the bank said we could afford, parentheses.
Again, this is like the second set of parentheses still inside.
If life goes perfect the next 30 years.
Saved four vacations instead of charging it on a credit card.
Who's going on vacation?
What Gen Z kids are going on vacation, man?
The problems were balling too much?
Get the fuck out of my face.
The problem with kids, the problem with Gen Z is too many of them drive cars.
Too many of them drive expensive cars.
Yeah.
All the Gen Z's I see are all driving Mercedes Benz Teslas.
They want a lifestyle you have to work hard for, but they want it now and cry when they put like, again, just making stuff up like that guy in the UPS group who was like, for those of you who are always screaming, I'm offended.
Well, I'm offended.
It's like, I've literally never seen anybody scream.
I'm offended.
Except you, except you guys.
That's, that's it.
And it's the, it's the same with it.
Like they're, they're, they're, Heads are too saturated with their social media feeds.
That's what they think in now.
They don't have real memories anymore.
They just remember the memes they've seen.
There's like some conservative hearing you say that only they say I'm offended.
They're like, wow, he must really not spend time in queer spaces.
Yeah, I guess so, but they usually don't like if I do see, I do see people say this is offensive, which is always funny to me and I've said it too, but it's just, it's always, it's always hard for me to take it seriously now just because my head, my brain has been, you know, grated like cheese.
Yeah, anyway, time to grow up and be adults.
Many parents spoiled them and didn't tell them how life is hard work and you will eventually be held accountable.
Everyone deserves a trophy generation.
Welcome to the real world.
So stuff we've already heard 1,000,000 times.
I wanted to.
Yeah, JFCA says, well, in the 80s, we didn't pay $9 for a fancy cup of coffee or have 150 a month phone bills.
You lived within your means.
Please, please take me to the $1.50 coffee.
Please take me to the $10 phone bill.
Take me there.
I'll take it.
I'll use it.
Well, you make your own coffee for a dollar coffee, but... That's true.
But you have to have a phone bill now.
You have to have the internet.
Yeah.
You have to have a smart device to interact with professional society at all.
Sorry you're retired and you only use your phone for looking up You know, funny pictures on the internet.
Listen, you bought your phone to waste your time on the social media and brainwashing yourselves.
I bought a phone for Candy Crush.
I bought a phone for scamming LinkedIn, for creating 15 different LinkedIn accounts that I could use as references.
Yeah, again, Hillary's thong Says, and they have a picture of a thong as they're like, just, it's just a thong.
Is that a reference to her like risque pics?
I think it's just a reference to the idea of Hillary's thong.
A thong for Hillary.
Imagine, imagine the shit this guy's seen.
That's, that's the song.
That's the thong that Cisco was singing about.
Hillary's thong.
Yeah.
I love hating someone so much, you making a screen name about being their thong.
That's how I would show them.
I'm going to make one called Hitler's Thong.
I hate that guy.
That's definitely a liberal's account.
It's definitely a liberal trying to own Hitler by calling him gay.
Yeah.
Okay.
I graduated high school in 1984.
Everybody in their teens and twenties had beater cars.
Many of us went to college or joined the military, but almost all of us left home at 18, lived broke as we, and again, all this is like ignoring all the data about what wages were relative to the cost of housing, what wages were relative to the cost of food, um, what car, the prices of cars, a brand new car, not even a fucking beater, but a brand new car back then.
And then you get people who do acknowledge that, and I don't have one capped here, but they will say, yeah, well, kids today think their starter home has to be 3,000 square feet.
Instead of buying an 800 square foot shotgun home that they're definitely still making, that you can definitely still find on the market.
They're available.
I've seen them.
I've seen them.
I've seen them because I bought one.
I bought one in 1991.
And you were lucky to buy one in 1991.
Oh, hell yeah, you were.
I mean, you'd be lucky for a bigger house, sure.
But I mean, just like, yeah, they haven't made those in like, you're talking about a mobile home at this point, which no shade.
But like that's the closest analog to like the size of what you're talking about.
People, you have...
It doesn't matter the square footage if that's what's available and the price is out of reach of so many people.
But yeah, today's kids drive around nice cars with expensive rims and thumping radios.
Like, even Peter still exists.
I promise you.
I promise you people are still driving crappy cars.
I love this guy tried to, like, search for millennial stereotype and in his head, and it was just a file not found.
What about black stereotype?
What about anti-black stereotype?
That'll work.
Yeah, rims and bass rattling.
Stumping rims.
I mean, all the kids are black now.
That is true.
All the kids are black now.
So that's why they hate him.
That's why they're doing generational warfare.
They think it's just racism.
Yeah, that makes sense.
It all makes sense.
It all adds up.
I mean, if they weren't black, why would they say the word?
Yeah.
If they weren't black, why would they be friends with each other?
You know, that's what I'm saying.
Yeah, why would they hang out in groups?
Yeah, look at this one.
And it's the same thing.
It's just these it's just so like insane the way these people think about the this issue.
MJ 623 said millennial and Gen Z generations focus on the wants and not their needs.
Wanting to leave the nest with everything their parents have not realizing it took decades to achieve.
They also focus on wants and not basic needs.
basic needs comma iphone comma gaming systems and the newest games comma 500 shoes comma 250 jeans comma jobs that report to work at 11 a.m dash take an hour lunch dash leave at 12 noon out to eat every night new vehicle do you get it yeah it was only lunch at work That's what these kids want.
And they're shocked when they're shocked when me as an employer will not say, yes, you can work one hour a day for a full year's salary and also by work.
I mean, have lunch and then go home.
Yeah, go home.
They refuse to they refuse to do anything else except that.
Out to eat every night some people do eat out too much though, but that's true It's not gonna get you a new home, but you should just be healthier and maybe spend less money on that kind of stuff It's good.
It's good for you.
It's good for your soul to like cook and you know make food and nourish yourself It's a good skill to have New vehicles parentheses not used Not used.
Not used like me.
I was, just need to mention that there, there was an alternative, right?
And we took it.
It's called buying used.
And the biggest is tens of thousands in student loans instead of working and paying as you go.
Yeah.
So just delusional people, but I just love how it like manifests.
If there was a job that you could get to pay for the schooling you're getting, you probably, you might just keep that job.
You wouldn't need the schooling at that point.
You wouldn't go to school.
Because school costs that much.
Yeah, that's a really good point.
Young people do buy new cars sometimes because they get taken advantage of because that's where you can get the loan rates better.
Or a bad loan at all.
Right.
Like this is all, none of that's new.
This is stuff that's been around forever.
Yeah.
All these people, uh, I don't know, a core element of their argument is that children are stupid and they're making all these bad decisions.
And it's like, children are kind of stupid, but that's fine.
That's normal.
Like, you know, they have to learn.
But you're acting like the problem is that kids are kids and not that there's several industries designed to exploit that.
Designed to prey upon that.
Yeah, the whole thing.
The whole thing.
If you get out alive, then good for you.
Smartest guy 991 says instead of college young people should look into trade schools.
There is a severe lack of skilled technicians to repair electronics Is there?
Yeah, it is hard to find I don't know I have I have two different Electronics repair places around me.
I think like every even small city has like an electronics repair store The thing is electronics in general are not built to be repaired Yeah, that's the it's not that no one wants to like fix your iPhone or nobody wants to fix whatever.
It's like I Yeah.
No, that's not how it was made.
It's trash.
Yeah.
It's not how it was made.
It was made to do what it just did, which is die.
So you have to buy another one.
Um, so I just thought it was fun.
Another like misunderstanding of the structural issues you actually face.
You just think it's an individual.
There's individuals are making poor decisions not to fix my whatever.
Okay, different kinds of responses here.
Nebraska Man 23708 says, I suspect the U.S.
will begin to formally divide within the next 10 to 20 years.
If the election of 2024 goes the wrong way, it will be the start of it all.
Parentheses, regardless of who the candidates are.
So yeah, Minions Law.
Minions Law over a viral video of a mom sympathizing with her kids.
Love it.
And you know what's funny, it's that thing too, it's like, in this case, you are talking about like a class divide.
I just hope you understand what side you're supposed to be on.
Because you are right here.
I hope that is the way we go.
The people realize, the proletariat realizes that they are being taken, but they won't see it that way.
No, he's talking about culture.
He's talking about red states versus blue states.
Shit.
Yeah.
Yeah, it sucks.
The midwest and portions of the southeast will be one, and the east and west coasts will somehow connect, likely via North Dakota as the new U.S.
You know how North Dakota spanned the entire northern border?
Yeah, it is that middle state between the two coasts.
That's why it says North and North Dakota.
Okay.
Okay.
I get it now.
I get it.
But this country unfortunately won't make it another 50 years because of Democrat policies and woke ideology.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
I liked this one.
Fed Up With My Dem Party says, the middle class is still there.
We're sucking it up, battling, waiting for a president that runs the country based on what's good for the country, rather than a president that is a puppet of socialist Euro-style economics and policies.
If you mean neoliberalism, then yeah, sure.
But your point is well taken because under the current administration the lower class expects to live like upper class on the tab of those that actually produce for the economy and pay taxes.
That's why it seems the middle class is shrinking.
She didn't say that her son's on welfare?
Like what are you talking about?
She's responding to another reply that was like less interesting so I don't remember what it was but she's...
She's yeah.
Somebody else is like maybe blaming welfare or blaming just people living beyond their means in general.
The lower class expects to live.
You know, it's so funny to be like we in the middle class were suffering, but we're we're good and we're suffering.
Whereas the people in the lower class, well, they're they're suffering, but because they're bad, that's why they suffer.
And I like it how it's like a choice.
We're suffering, but we're just holding out for the right president.
Listen, I'm not going to thrive under you.
I refuse to thrive under you.
I'm going to wait for the right one.
And when the right one's there, oh... Hey, when the right president comes in, it's over for you, hoes.
Um, yeah, Fed Up With My Dem Party also said, reading this article merely affirms what most of us over 55 year old folks already knew.
And that is that this mom is of a generation of parents that expect their spawn are coddled by society as she has done for them their entire lives.
You, ma'am, are the problem.
And now you want your children to be society's problem because you fail to instill personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, Oh my god.
that reasonable expectations can be achieved only if one works hard and make sacrifices to build a future.
The generation of kids that this generation of parents have produced, expect instant gratification and success at their birthright time to stop breastfeeding your adult children and force them to buy their own milk.
Oh my God.
Like, listen, if you, if you think that I'm going to like care and support and talk to my kids when they get older, you, You got another thing coming, bud.
Yeah, I mean, it's easy when you're over.
Again, I don't want to do generational welfare.
And I know this is like talking about older people.
You're talking about like you're doing that test with the airplane, looking at where, you know, the bullet holes are to determine how what's what's whatever.
I'm going to edit that out because I don't remember what the fucking analogy what it's supposed to be.
But.
Like the main reason there's so many conservative older people is because those are the wealthier ones.
Those are those are the ones who have had enough money, you know, maybe not wealthy at all, but just had enough money and good conditions to survive.
Yeah.
When you refuse to engage with the data, when you refuse to acknowledge that so many people literally are suffering, the hard the data is there, it's literally getting worse for so many people.
And you refuse to acknowledge that your only argument is, yeah, just like platitudes about working hard or whatever, yada yada.
So you just think that everybody is bad now.
All the individuals are bad now and that's why they're suffering.
Yeah, it's just, I don't know, you can only think that if you're like this detached from other people.
It's also just so foolish because You might be still working right now, maybe, or still generating some sort of income right now, but there's going to become a time where you're not going to be making as much money, and you better hope that whatever you're living off of, whether it's your retirement or Social Security, that's probably not going to be there for a lot of these people still.
It's going to hit you.
You're not out of it.
You're not dead yet.
Yeah.
You're not dead yet.
You still have time when you're going to be, you know, not able to support yourself.
And you better hope something gets figured out by that time.
Right, because what I was going to say about like...
You know, all the middle class is suffering, but you know, the lower classes, like that's because they're only suffering because they're living outside their means or whatever.
Like, you know what rich people, like what the actual like movers and shakers, the actual fiscal policymakers and, and you know, the people who shape the economic reality, you know what they think about you?
They think you having a running refrigerator is a luxury.
Yep.
They think that you having a TV in your house at all and you probably have a fucking smartphone.
Why?
If you're suffering so bad, why do you have a smartphone?
Huh?
Yeah.
Um, yeah.
So you're like, again, you just have so much more in common with these people that you've been taught to hate than you would ever have with the people you're aligning with ideologically.
You're much closer to that 20 or eight-year-old who can't find a one-bedroom apartment funding $2,000 than you are to any elected official or any CEOs.
And they just have no idea.
Yeah, you're the joke to them.
You know how much fun you have laughing at millennials or Gen Z or whatever?
You are that to those people.
But they also get to make a shit ton of money off of you.
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