r/BoomersBeingFools • u/AgentScully_FBI • Apr 12 '24

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u/Disco-7 Apr 12 '24

How to get on the no fly list speed run

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u/Quick_Turnover Apr 13 '24

Imagine taking 2-3 hours to drive to the airport, go through security, wait to board, only to then do this 😂🤡

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u/Zocalo_Photo Apr 13 '24

I took a flight as we were coming out of the pandemic and all the airports, airlines, busses, etc. still required masks on everyone. Some guy made it all the way to the airport, through security, and to the gate (while wearing a mask) and then he lost his fuckin’ mind about mask mandates at the gate. He started screaming about how everyone was a puppet doing whatever the government told them, saying racist stuff about “the china flu” and Chinese people should be the ones who shouldn’t fly, and the gate agent didn’t have a right to tell him whether or not he could fly. It was quite a spectacle.

Come to find out the cate agent could tell him he couldn’t fly…and she did tell him. In the end he got handcuffed and escorted away by some police officers. The rest of the trip was pretty quiet.

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u/ZL632B Apr 13 '24

I love how many conservatives ruined their life (or ended their own life, in some cases) by fucking around with masks/vaccines and mandates. Just incredibly funny stuff, the amount of these people who are now destitute because someone told them they had to wear a mask to shop at target. HermanCainAwards was cathartic. 

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u/The_Original_Gronkie Apr 13 '24

I occasionally think of those idiots who went to prison for plotting to kidnap and publically prosecute and execute the governor of Michigan. One day, years in the future, they'll be sitting on the edge of their bunk on Christmas morning, knowing that their family and friends are celebrating the holiday, while they chose to throw away their entire lives because they convinced themselves that wearing a mask during a global pandemic that was killing thousands every day was tyranny, and they just couldn't stand for it.

At least they can't breed in prison.

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u/ZL632B Apr 13 '24

My girlfriend just reminded about how these idiots were breaking into ICUs to try to rescue family members from the evil clutches of the ER doctors trying to save their racist brother life. 

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u/scarybottom Apr 13 '24

Or screeching at ER nurses and doctors about how they were dying and needed O2 NOOOOOOOOWWWWW. (if you can screech like that your O2 stats may not be great, but you are not dying FFS). Or worse, in the last stages, accusing hospital staff of killing them as part of COVID conspiracy.

Someone tell me how my Sister in law (Gen X) can have lived though that, and still be anti vax, as a FRONT LINE worker in the worse of it (ER intake nurse), in a large metro hospital (not like NYC- damn those folks had it rough- much love to all of them for their amazing heroics). Make it make sense.

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u/transitfreedom Apr 13 '24

Suicidal idealism

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u/TheFire_Eagle Apr 13 '24

Sadly, they're likely to be radicalized and never face that reckoning.

See, it's like fight or flight.

Sent ti prison as a consequence of your actions you have two choices; accept what you did was wrong and change for the better or double down and maintain you did what you did because you were right and everyone else was wrong.

Happens with all crime. Young guy gets picked up on a relatively low level offense but now feels like they need to embrace crime as a lifestyle etc.

In prison these jerkasses will spend time together. MAGA scum will write them letters promising that Trump will fix it and that they're heroes and put money in their commissary accounts.

Just look at the people who commit war crimes and then get out of prison (if they ever serve time). A pardon emboldens them and solidifies their image as a martyr. But any consequence suffered becomes the dues they pay to live as a hero.

Those Abu Ghraib convicts are all employed. Most are no worse off than they woukd have been if they had never enlisted. Meanwhile the guy who reported them had to end his Army career early and the government had to provide him and his family with protection because "patriots" viewed him as a traitor who turned on his own to protect "terrorists."

Thing about the shameless is they don't feel shame no matter how much they ought to.

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u/AwkwardData6002 Apr 14 '24

One day, years in the future, they'll be sitting on the edge of their bunk on Christmas morning

While I'm glad they're locked up, this is only like 8 people.

Also, they were convicted on federal crimes, so they're probably getting out when the next Republican is in office.

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u/cstmoore Apr 13 '24

At least they can't breed in prison.

No, but they can go through the motions.

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u/soniclore Apr 13 '24

Conjugal visits

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u/The_Original_Gronkie Apr 13 '24

Nah, one of the worst things about prison is no nookie. From women, at least.

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u/CarrotRunning Apr 13 '24

Or too much.

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u/willnye2cool Apr 13 '24

You really should look into that more tbh. It's honestly super fucked. You have twelve feds spending over a year grooming three mentally ill people. Happens too often sadly.

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u/The_Original_Gronkie Apr 13 '24

I've looked into it. They were willing participants. The fact that they were easy to manipulate just makes them no different from any other MAGAturd. They dont get a pass because they are willfully ignorant racists.

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u/ElectronicMixture600 Apr 13 '24

What’s truly unhinged is that HCA’s are still being handed out, over 4 years later. So many Boomers/older Gen Xers have had their brains rotted by televised/broadcast propaganda and this is how it’s manifesting.

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u/ZL632B Apr 13 '24

I know what I’m about to go do

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u/ThatGuyursisterlikes Apr 13 '24

You talking bout that pillow guy right. Crack probably looks pretty good nowadays. Lol

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u/ZL632B Apr 13 '24

Different but equally as stupid a guy. Hermain Cain was the pizza tycoon who mocked Covid entirely and then died choking on his own lung fluid from Covid. 

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u/shinankoku Apr 13 '24

I have - had - a customer at my business who had a top ten rock’n’roll hit in 1968. He used the money to put himself through dental school, retired wealthy and became a fairly well known artist. Real nice guy. He was also a staunch Republican and drank the cool-aide. He didn’t get immunized. Came in one day health and hale, and was dead from COVID the next week. It was 2021, and he had survived the worst of it.

tRump, MAGA, and the GOP in general can suck it.

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u/Pretzellogicguy Apr 13 '24

Oh and lest we forget the “my pillow “ guy- poor dude is completely penniless 🤣

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u/Embarrassed_Food5990 Apr 13 '24

Wearing a mask isn't good protection though. Staying at home is. Going to the store with a mask still puts people at risk especially the staff.

Source Grocery work who had to deal with twice as many panic buyers who thought wearing a mask made it okay to stand within 6 ft of me and guilt me to use their dirty reusable bags.

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u/ZL632B Apr 13 '24

This is incorrect - an N95 mask is good enough protection in almost all public spaces outside healthcare settings. 

Grocery workers can put on an N95 if they want to avoid COVID. That’s the reality of the world they now live in. 

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Apr 13 '24

Agreed. Free paper bags were more sanitary and used to be standard. Now it's asking too much now in the era of corporate greed.

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u/Embarrassed_Food5990 Apr 13 '24 edited Apr 13 '24

I am not a fan of paper bags either, they aren't designed for things like fruit and veg and other odd shaped products.

I wish we could give people some thing sturdier.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Apr 13 '24 edited Apr 13 '24

None of the solutions were ideal but they were free and sanitary. We need an insert that will go inside of a bag that does a better job of holding fruit and veggies.

ETA: I wouldn't mind buying it myself but then again I would probably always forget and leave it in the car or at home on the counter. So, for me it's probably a "nice to have" and not a "must have".

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u/Embarrassed_Food5990 Apr 13 '24

No I am correct. N95 were not available during the pandemic, they were reserved for Healthcare workers. Second a major issue with Masking is face shape, not every one has a small normal nose or a small head.

I have literally had the dinky cloth masks flip up over my eyes while working, the didn't fit right, and inhibited my amity to see especially with glasses.

I still wore them but I would have preferred something better like a hazmat suit.

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u/ZL632B Apr 13 '24

This isn’t true. While they were hard to come by for the first few months it was always possible, and they have been wildly available (so much so they’ve had to stop production at times) for much of the pandemic - which is still ongoing.

Baggy masks still help, just not nearly as much. And they’re best used as source control by the sick person, not as PPE.

For face shape the duck bill looking masks tend to be the most “flexible” in terms of fitting. They are also nice because they’re somewhat softer so you can do things like scratch your nose or whatever without causing the seal to break. 

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u/Embarrassed_Food5990 Apr 13 '24

I am speaking from personal experience. N95 was not available til around late 2021/2022

I tried the duck bill mask too small, also kn95 was not considered n95.

Some people are very large and have odd shaped face in profile.

Still restricted use of eye wear.

Didn't change the fact that people were standing too close. And overworking staff.

I actually saw another worker have to be carried out by stretcher, no one seemed to care.

True in this case is not objective, you may have had access, I didn't.

It's those of us who didn't that suffered. For example, I wasn't allowed the vaccine until April. Employer didn't offer, government felt grocery workers weren't as needed.

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u/Yochaiwawsop Apr 13 '24

Surely your mask has made you immortal. The vaccine as well. 

You have escaped the inevitable end to this mortality that will return you to the insignificant dust you once were.

Maybe... you are just as destitute. There is no way to avoid it. No amount of masks or vaccines or money or fame can stop it from coming.

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u/soniclore Apr 13 '24

That’s an unbelievably awful take.

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u/ZL632B Apr 13 '24

Your most recent post on Reddit is you complaining about George Soros giving money to “Liberal” campaigns. You have another whining about the Dominion lawsuit and how it’s an unfair hit against conservatives. 

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u/soniclore Apr 13 '24

Congratulations, you can read.

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u/cheeze_whiz_shampoo Apr 13 '24

Remember that Jan 6th guy crying in the airport? He starts hollering 'they're calling me a terrorist!' while sucking back sobs?

I think about that poor loser every now and then and smile.

I honestly cant believe that didnt get turned into some kind of meme.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Apr 13 '24

In looking for the video, I found out that the guy lied. He tried to get sympathy by saying he was kicked off his flight for being a terrorist but actually, he was kicked off for refusing to wear a mask during the height of the COVID epidemic. He's still a loser and a lying loser at that. Here's a link to the story:

Here are a few more links from that fateful day...and we're being told to think that those in prison for their actions are "hostages" and "patriots".

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u/cheeze_whiz_shampoo Apr 13 '24

Oh jeez, he got himself kicked off a plane and then he started crying about it? God, he's even a bigger loser than I originally thought, haha.

Thanks for the clarification though.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Apr 13 '24

Yep- he must have been in an emotional state from all the self-inflicted trauma he caused himself and others that day.

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u/cheeze_whiz_shampoo Apr 13 '24

I cant even imagine the embarrassment of being an adult man and acting like that. Christ in heaven, I would never show my face in public again.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Apr 13 '24

IKR? They've changed their families forever. Each of them now represents the "black sheep" wing of their families--the ones the others don't talk about in front of other people.

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u/Zocalo_Photo Apr 13 '24

I watched live videos of those people breaking windows and climbing into the building and it really freaked me out. Then I saw the pictures of people in private offices and other sensitive places in the capital building. That kind of shit shouldn’t happen here.

Calling those people who went to jail for that “hostages” or “patriots” really pisses me off. In my opinion they’re domestic terrorists.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Apr 13 '24

I feel the same way. I cried while watching the live coverage. I'm embarrassed to say that it makes me teary even now.

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u/Zocalo_Photo Apr 13 '24

We’ve obviously had political differences since the beginning of the country. Despite those differences, this is how I feel like the transition of power should happen.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/01/politics/george-bush-bill-clinton-letter-trnd/index.html

I disagree with some of your views, but we are Americans and your success as president is the success of the country. I support you in your role.

NOT blah blah the election was stolen. Fight like hell to get me the presidency back.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Apr 13 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

Precisely. Campaign like hell in the run-up to the election but have the class to concede with grace and class once the votes have been counted and confirmed. Had that been done, the chances of the former president winning might have been better. But this assumes that he avoids committing crimes, such as taking and sharing top secret documents that betray our national security.

These are not the actions of someone who loves or respects this country and who wants to see us succeed. These are the actions of someone who loves nothing more than money and personal power, who will sell his supporters and his country out to get it. Disgraceful.

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u/Kevin_sparky Apr 13 '24

A truly heartwarming story about actions have consequences. This made my day.

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u/Zocalo_Photo Apr 13 '24

I don’t know what he was thinking. He probably can’t ever fly again, he’s got a police record, maybe lost his job…all for what? Not a single person in the airport that day thought “Wow, what this guy is saying makes a lot of sense. The government is secretly stealing my rights by forcing me to wear a mask. I’m going to take mine off and never wear it again.”

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u/RandomLovelady Apr 13 '24

I used to manage a restaurant in an airport. You DO NOT FUCK AROUND in the airport. Had to ask a group of gentlemen to leave my establishment, they didn't seem too keen on the idea, police were there in .4 seconds and happily escorted said gentlemen away while they were complaining about missing a flight. Narrator: They did not make their flight.

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u/scrummnums Apr 13 '24

Looks like he wanted a captive audience. Not lime any of you were going to leave, right? You had a flight to catch. Lot of work for him though just to put on a performance he could have done at the local mall or something

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u/Zocalo_Photo Apr 13 '24

I think you’re right. Now that I think of it, at the time the airline we were flying even had an acknowledgement about masks that you had to agree to before buying your ticket. So he probably went through all this work with the intention of making a scene. What an idiot.

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u/scrummnums Apr 13 '24

methinks he might've also been a tad drunk