If you think things are expensive now . . .

[tblue37]

[ffr]

1. Are gasoline prices a thing for the right these days?

Dunno what gasoline costs. I own an EV.

[Mr.Bill]

5. It costs enough to make grocery prices go up,

because the trucks that deliver it to your store burn fossil fuels.

[SheltieLover]

16. When gas dropped to $3/gal, diesel was still just over $5/gal

Causing food & other goods to cost a lot more.

[Historic NY]

52. Yeah why is that considering it takes less to refine oil for diesel

its usually cheaper . Ah most cargo transportation vehicles; boats, trucks, trains, use it.

[SheltieLover]

54. So far as I know, much of it is scrap from refining process.

No expert here, but as filthy as it is, I don't doubt it.

Election manipulation.

[FakeNoose]

2. We have to stop thinking that the Repukes will "take over"

We all know that can NEVER happen!

Sensible, thinking people must get out and vote like our lives depend on it.

[NJCher]

3. We need to show that far and wide

I didn't know this fact!

Very cool.

[Meadowoak]

11. Not all baby boomers are Republicans, many of us are flaming liberals.

[stage left]

18. I'm a boomer.

I've been a flaming liberal since before I could vote. I will never be anything else.

[MontanaMama]

51. 1964 here.

Technically a final year boomer…proud liberal that came from flaming liberals…I’m raising one too.

[Hekate]

19. Yes, a lot of us are flaming liberals

[demigoddess]

22. i'm a boomer, liberal for about 50 years.

[Backseat Driver]

23. I'm a liberal blue boomer! -

[FakeNoose]

26. Oh sure, I get it! The point of this is to wake up those post-Reagan kids

A lot of them haven't been paying much attention. Or they're looking at the wrong things.

[Meadowoak]

30. Post Reagan, they weren't taught civics, government, or History.

[Trueblue Texan]

35. Here! Here, Meadowoak!nt

[druidity33]

38. I work with a lot of young people...

and they're not all liberal. They are swayed by TikTok and YouTube (note i don't mention FB)... have no interest in finding reputable sources and only listen to "influencers".

[Celerity]

41. Wow, broadbrush much? If I had a go at Boomers like that I would be lit the hell up.

My cohort (18 to 32, I am almost 26) in 2020 had the biggest turnout in history since the US lowered the voting age to 18, and we overwhelmingly voted Blue. Boomers and up as a cohort voted Red by clear majorities.

In 2024, Millennials and Gen Z will equal Boomers and up in terms of actual votes, not just numbers of eligible voters. Add in Xennials/Carter babys (micro gen born 1977-1980) and we will clearly outvote them. (I am a Zillennial, born in late 1996, within 2 months and a few days of the Millennial Gen ending and Gen Z starting, the Zillennial birth years are now accepted to be around 1992/3 to 1998/99).

Anyone who uses DU as their primary source of info about us younger (40 and under, and expecially 30 and under) folk in general (not just politics) is not being well served. This board is crazy tilted to the older cohorts. Go look at the 'What's your age' OP polls. I myself will soon no longer be in the 25yo and under choice on those polls (there are hardly any of us here as it is).

[Captain Zero]

42. Keep voting. Take more people like yourself.

There's no boomer here on DU voting Republican. FYI to everyone.

[druidity33]

45. Whatever...

I am in a rural town in a "liberal" state. I am of course only speaking about my work environment and the people i run into. It's anecdotal, yes, but this is a forum where opinions are often worth listening to. Technically i'm a GenXer, but honestly, those labels are absurd on many levels. I would say that anyone who uses DU as their primary source of info for anything... is probably going to miss some things. And the boomers i deal with at work, btw, are more likely to be liberal. I work in a grocery store...

[Celerity]

46. No.

[druidity33]

48. OK. nt.

[nightwing1240]

50. Boomer and liberal here too

And have been one even before I could vote the first time of which was 1972

[IronLionZion]

9. That's good to know

[Farmer-Rick]

4. Didn't Trump cause the COVID economic crash?

He certainly didn't do much to stop it except more tax giveaways for more filthy rich people and their corporations.

I mean if GOPers blame the president now for hard economic times, the president back then must also be blamed and held responsible.

Besides if he hadn't dismantled our pandemic response team 3 months before the pandemic hit, we may not have had such a huge crash.

GOPers have worse economic outcomes then Dems.

[dchill]

6. That has been my observation since early 2020.

[certainot]

15. yeah but democrats and progressives ignore the 1500 coordinated radio stations blaming dems

all day every day, reaching 50 mil a week. much of it's secondary and tertiary reception but it's a massive constant buzz that reaches city dwelling media and analysts as legitimate public sentiment instead of flying out the asses of a few hundred blowhards fed by RW and russian think tanks

ignoring it has been the biggest political mistake in history, considering the time lost on global warming.

[texasfiddler]

44. ☝️

Right wing “anti democrat” radio is converting Hispanic voters right now. I work with electricians, welders, contractors, etc. They show up to work sites in their trucks and I almost barf when I hear the damn Lies and propaganda coming out of their truck radios am station. They aren’t listening to NPR.

[certainot]

49. MSNBC shows have been talking about hispanics and the shift to the right and have no idea

where it's coming from

they don't poll for it and don't ask

[IronLionZion]

7. Remember all those times tax cuts trickled down to working people?

me neither

[Meadowoak]

12. The working people in China maybe.

[Meadowoak]

14. The working people in China maybe.

[calimary]

21. It was never "trickle down."

It was more like “pee upon.”

Those on the economic levels below could expect steady and regular “deliveries.”

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

43. Yep, and Colbert explained it best (and most hilariously.)

https://www.cc.com/video/ce9wme/the-colbert-report-the-word-ownership-society

[LetMyPeopleVote]

55. Fifty Years of Tax Cuts for the Rich Didn't Trickle Down, Study Says

There is no tax cut fairy and tax cuts for the rich do not work in the real world

Link to tweet

Tax cuts for rich people breed inequality without providing much of a boon to anyone else, according to a study of the advanced world that could add to the case for the wealthy to bear more of the cost of the coronavirus pandemic.

The paper, by David Hope of the London School of Economics and Julian Limberg of King’s College London, found that such measures over the last 50 years only really benefited the individuals who were directly affected, and did little to promote jobs or growth.

“Policy makers shouldn’t worry that raising taxes on the rich to fund the financial costs of the pandemic will harm their economies,” Hope said in an interview....

The authors applied an analysis amalgamating a range of levies on income, capital and assets in 18 OECD countries, including the U.S. and U.K., over the past half century.

Their findings published Wednesday counter arguments, often made in the U.S., that policies which appear to disproportionately aid richer individuals eventually feed through to the rest of the economy. The timespan of the paper ends in 2015, but Hope says such an analysis would also apply to President Donald Trump’s tax cut enacted in 2017.

“Our research suggests such policies don’t deliver the sort of trickle-down effects that proponents have claimed,” Hope said.

[IronLionZion]

57. No matter how good or bad the economy is, GOP candidates will run on tax cuts

if the economy is down, they'll say tax cuts will help. If the economy is up, they'll say Americans deserve tax cuts as a reward.

[SalamanderSleeps]

10. Perfect point! Trump is not the problem. He is the indicator of the mess we are in.

The filthy rich always think that they have nothing to fear.

Because, we let them.


Here's a link to their pathology.

https://psmag.com/economics/money-makes-you-less-likely-to-savor-small-pleasures-16203


Bottom line; being a normal progressive human his harder than being a filthy rich shithead, but alas they still procreate.


Meritocracy is not a part of American life.

It is a part of American myth.

[area51]

36. +1 n/t

[Emile]

29. Yep it's all Trump's fault!

[Mad_Machine76]

53. If TFG and several red-state governors

hadn't declared COVID restrictions to be a culture war issue, things might have been better. But nobody is talking about THAT

[budkin]

8. I would literally run on this 24/7

Billboards everywhere.

[nowforever]

13. People are generally short sighted and stupid

Most people don't think beyond their own nose....how else do you explain over 70 million of them voting to have an Orange Ignoramus lead them. When the oceans turn purple and disease's wipe out most of the life on this planet...don't worry the invisible all powerful God will then save us. Not only can't you fix stupid...maybe it isn't worth it.

[peppertree]

17. Assley's thinking: "Boy - is THIS what these things look like these days?"

"Last I remember using one - before I sold my soul and became filthy rich - they looked like this:"

[HubertHeaver]

20. The last time Grassley pumped gas,

he had to pump the gas, by hand, from the underground storage tank up to the overhead measuring jug. Then, gravity feed it into his tank.

[peppertree]

24. Didn't he once say that 'everything started going downhill when FDR was elected'?

Ah yes. The good ol' Herbie Hoover days.

[erronis]

25. That picture is just an old white man who's chauffer had the day off and can't figure out how

to pump gas. Probably shouldn't be behind the wheel either.

All (r)epuglicons shouldn't be behind the wheels.

[A HERETIC I AM]

27. Never mind.

[erronis]

28. So we're both right! And repuglicons shouldn't be allowed to control anything more than

a kiddie-car in a secured perimeter.

[Sogo]

31. I'm taking no prisoners....

I've posted this meme and the article from another thread about "Top Rs keep talking about cutting SS and Medicare" to my public FB feed. I have friends who have been Rs from before the MAGA and Tea Party days, we all grew up together, and we're all now retirees together. I just said on my heading to the post: "To my fellow retirees, be careful how you vote. They're not even trying to hide it now."

[Evolve Dammit]

32. That is truth. Spread it widely. So many more, but that's a good short list for voters. nt

[Niagara]

33. GOTV!!

[roamer65]

34. What the repukes are proposing is the Second Great Depression.

The hit on the economy would be MASSIVE and deflation would be rampant as unemployment goes through the roof.

[Cha]

37. Yeah Voters Please think of That!!💙nt

[JoeOtterbein]

39. K n R ! Thanks for posting! nt

[YoshidaYui]

40. We need a blue Tsunami

To wash away these Republicans.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

56. The Republicans have no plan.

Link to tweet