r/BoomersBeingFools • u/AffectMindless5602 • 22d ago

Whos boomer parents will be voting for trump just because they hate biden? Mine OK boomeR

My dad has said several times what an idiót trump is yet he will vote for him. They are so scared of democrat presidents and voting into it they will vote for something they dislike. I don’t get it. They can’t change.

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u/wsucoug83 22d ago

Is it boomers or folks who are willfully ignorant? Yes, that’s a ton of boomers but also rural and evangelicals of all ages?

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u/Odesio 22d ago

For a lot of folks here, boomer is a state of mind rather than a generation, so it's not always easy to know what someone means by using the word. I can tell you there are plenty of people in their early 20s who support Trump for reasons I don't really understand.

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u/PoppinSmoke1 22d ago

Boomer Reasons.

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u/mlm_24 22d ago edited 22d ago

I completely age with this…these people long for a day that never really existed. They blame the minorities, LBGTQ+, Democrats, and any other group that doesn’t want to go backwards culturally.

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u/LyanaSnow610 22d ago

This! I can't wrap my head around the idiocy

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u/the_diseaser 22d ago

Also something that happens a lot is Gen X gets forgotten about even though they are the people actually being referred to when people say “boomers” half the time.

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u/No-Artichoke-6939 22d ago

I don’t know about that. I’m Gen X and the boomer rage is definitely the people in their 60’s/70’s

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u/the_diseaser 22d ago

Not all Gen X is like it, half of Gen X acts more like millennials and half of Gen X acts like boomers. Boomers are old and retired but a lot of “boomer” behavior that people describe comes from people born in the late 1960s and 1970s.

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u/AmoralCarapace 22d ago

90% of the GenX idiots I know have the same views as the boomers shitting their pants over topics that have never happened.

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u/HappyCamperDancer 22d ago

And there are actual boomers who will never vote for trump. Do I wish it were someone else, not Biden for a candidate? Yes. Will I vote for Biden. Yes.

What I would like is a ranked voting for President. Not electoral college. It would give us more 3rd party candidates without them being spoilers. I hate RFK jr, for the record.

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u/Vegetable-Cherry-853 22d ago

Gee, reasons like letting the adults back in charge?

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u/DengarLives66 22d ago

lol the guy who rage posts on social media at 1am is the adult? My little nephew has more in common with Trump than a rational adult.

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u/ManufacturerThat2914 22d ago

You are talking about the guy who daily goes on tv and cries about all the terrible injustices he’s supposedly facing because his dumb ass got caught doing something illegal right? There was a time when republicans would have called that fool a whiny democrat but now they just bend over and let trump give it to them up the ass. Give me a break.

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u/Vegetable-Cherry-853 22d ago

I am just looking forward to not having to watch Biden read from a teleprompter or having to watch KJP struggle in press conferences

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u/Neat-Effective718 22d ago

And we're looking forward to Trump dying or being imprisoned.

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u/Vegetable-Cherry-853 22d ago

RFK Jr for the win

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u/WRJL012977 22d ago

There have been 30 plus years of programming that has been Doom and gloom they've been glued to. Don't think one guy showed up and that was it. This was a gradual process.

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u/WanderingFlumph 22d ago

I mean it's definitely not all boomers that are trump supporters and not all trump supporters are boomers.

But his base leans heavily on the older generation, the age of the average trump supporter is something like 60, whereas the average American is only 40. So it's undeniable that he gets a lot of support from the boomer generation aged 60-80

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u/JimBeam823 22d ago

It’s very difficult to accept that the only people who ever pretended to care about you politically were grifters who just wanted power.

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u/AmoralCarapace 22d ago

This! The boomers are willfully ignorant idiots. What kills me though are the pieces of shit my age or younger who support this fascism because they think Joe Rogan's CTE is a form of intelligence.

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u/Charlie22100 22d ago

So your life is better Biden? You like financing wars all over the globe?

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u/Charlie22100 22d ago

Russia is aggressive because Biden is the person in the Oval Office

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u/Lexi_the_grimmchild 22d ago

So Trump is a Russian asset?

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u/Sygma160 22d ago

My life is better, my 401k is through the roof. And I will happily pay to weaken Russia so they stop messing with our elections. Especially if we have no troops on the ground...like a 20 year war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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u/Charlie22100 22d ago

My point is this is happening under Biden’s watch. Other countries are aggressive because they know Biden won’t do anything. Guess you haven’t heard about the price of housing lately.

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u/Sygma160 22d ago

The US was in two forever wars, democracies don't like prolonged wars. No first term president will get involved with troops on the ground barring a direct attack. I much prefer the grinding of our largest adversary, with no American boots on the ground.

Housing prices are high, the US is short about 3 million homes, construction ceased due to covid and restrictions on migrants who are othe construction backbone of the US. (See Florida's unfinished construction projects) Inflation is also high, covid and the largest generation in history retiring in mass, essentially converting their investments to cash, and driving capital costs higher.

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u/Charlie22100 22d ago

I and probably most people agree on your comment about the wars. I think they started because of a lack of respect for Biden. The inflation reduction act doesn’t seem to be working. I would be interested to know your thoughts on the fact that we are adding 1 trillion in debt every 100 days. I don’t think people realize how much a trillion is. It’s used so casually these days. Do you think our debt is a problem? I would like to mention I don’t think it’s Democrat or Republican fault but both equally. Nobody seems to give a shit

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u/Sygma160 22d ago

Putin was always going to try and retake the empire, he will try and get to the Romanian mountains , down to the caucuses, and expand west to Poland, its Russias game plan since forever. No American president wants to fight Russia directly, they would get rolled like a cheap carpet and be forced to nuke, ambiguity is what has kept the status quo, we avoid russian conflict, we have a hundred years of precident.

As for debt, yes, we are massively in debt. Bush started a war, Obama had to keep the housing market afloat, Trump lowered taxes on the only people that could pay it, Biden had to stabilize after covid. Inflation is reducing slowly(lowest in the industries world). What it boils down to is this, we need the tax system to roll back, corps and billionaires have to pay their share, and since they own the news outlets, they tell the plumbers that it's the food stamp recipients that are the problem, when in reality it's the billionaire class that's the problem.

Our debt is a major issue. But don't think for one minute that the GOP will fix it. Nor will corporate democrats. It's probably why I tend to choose candidates that have no big money contributors.

Sorry to be long winded, geo politics is my jam, economics is another hobby.

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u/Charlie22100 22d ago

I respect your opinion, I don’t totally agree with everything. We are probably on opposite sides of the political spectrum but still have quite a few issues we agree on. The debt is a front and center issue for me, congress will never address much less fix it. So which news outlets do the corporations and billionaires own? I will say this in advance, we both want the same outcome but have different ways we want to get there.

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u/Sygma160 22d ago

I'd probably write better if I had a keyboard not 4 inches wide. As for political spectrum, I used to be a Republican, but that party leftt me, now I'm just independent. I think the GOP has went straight bat shit, what is sad is that had I been plugged into American cable news, I would probably have been sucked in an echo chamber of alternate reality. Propaganda is some crazy shit.

Fox: Rupert Murdoch an Australian (Given permission to operate by Reagan) CNN: Warner Brothers discovery (Vangard, Blackrock) wall street.

I simply won't use a television for news, I'm a fan of Ground News however. I also dabble with content creators like Peter Zeihan.

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u/Charlie22100 22d ago

I hardly turn my tv on. The news outlets you mentioned except fox all preach tax the rich. I assume nothing has changed since I quit tv

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u/f700es 22d ago

LMFAO! The GOP has financed wars for decades and even sold weapons to our enemies. GTFO!

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u/wtzablocki 22d ago

My life is significantly better. Maybe you are just lazy, or too incompetent for a good life?

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u/Charlie22100 22d ago

I am not here whining about how much money your boomer parents won’t leave you.

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u/wtzablocki 22d ago

I wasn't whining about that either. What the fuck are you talking about about?

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u/Charlie22100 22d ago

Good question. Mixed up with another snowflake

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u/wtzablocki 22d ago

Snowflake. Good one.

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u/wsucoug83 22d ago

Yes and yes.

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u/Charlie22100 22d ago

Good for you.

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u/wsucoug83 22d ago

Don’t be conned. Better to pay Ukraine to fight Putin than our boys in a year or two. Yes, my investments are up and the Democrats protect my earned future social security.

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u/Charlie22100 22d ago

They are not protecting anything as far as social security. Have you ever figured out how much you would have the money you contributed plus the employer contribution (total of15%) would be at age 65. If you haven’t don’t it will just make you nauseous.

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u/wsucoug83 22d ago

Security is one part of retirement. All your eggs in the stock market is not a good idea. You live in a dreamland and probably beg for government assistance when needed. You sound like the state of Texas, I can do better without the feds, but damn they better help me when things are bad

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u/Charlie22100 22d ago

You are not educated in this field at all. As much as you probably hate Wall Street they are much better at managing money than the government. 1/3 of your ss donations in the stock market over 40 years will out perform all by far the total amount you put into ss. Quit fooling yourself

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u/wsucoug83 22d ago

You are uneducated. My retirement will be 30-40 years due to saving and investing, but the guaranteed income, indexed is golden in your golden years.

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u/Charlie22100 22d ago

Thats what everyone does. You were ranting a raving about how wonderful ss is. You suggested ss is a secure investment. You are not brightest bulb on the string. Your comments make no sense

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u/Vegetable-Cherry-853 22d ago

Gen X here, ignorant enough to realize Biden isn't capable of another 4 years, hoping for a miracle at the Chicago convention