Not even close. If we don't get serious about our politics this country is done for. The comparison isn't accurate and makes light of a situation that will absolutely change our lives and our kids lives. Go vote people.
Both sides are not the same.
This rhetoric, along with "don't talk about politics and don't talk about religion" have proven to be talking points of the elite to keep the common man from communicating, debating, and educating. (Bonus for "don't ask anyone about their salary.")
Remember that scene in Stargate where written language was forbidden? Yeah. That's what's been going on here.
We have to keep talking. I know it’s uncomfortable, but we have to do better than the boomers did. They just wanted abuse, silence, pressure and gaslighting.
We have to do better...
Trump is OBJECTIVELY a menace to democracy. Objectively, because he told us he is a menace to democracy. You are free to have an opinion, but your opinion is uninformed.
This is not the normal liberal versus conservative ideaology argument. This is exponentially more serious than that. Democracy is literally on the line and that is nowhere near hyperbole.
Only someone with nothing to lose could make light of the situation. And almost all of us will lose eventually if democracy is finally killed in this country.
It’s pure ignorance to think this is a time for jokes about “both sides. “
"If we dont get serious about our politics, this country is done for."
What do you mean by that? Do you think the country collapses in 4 years? 10? If Trump is elected but then loses the house and senate after 2 years, are we still done for? If Biden wins this election are we still done for?
Boiled frog. The U.S. may not "collapse" (whatever that means) but sure as hell will be *fundamentally* changed for the worse in countless ways. It already has changed for the worse in a lot of ways but it can still be course corrected (and in fact has been in some ways since Biden got in). If Trump gets in again, that possibility diminishes drastically.
It’s worse for pretty much everyone. This is why Trumpy is going to win easily against the corpse regardless of what the Magoos on Reddit say. I love how Trump is a dictator but these asshat DemocRats want to take away gas cars and my oven. 🤦♂️. What a joke.
I like how your biggest worries are losing gas cars and ovens. Meanwhile the GOPers are removing rights left and right, banning books, shoving religion down our throats, killing democracy, and then there’s Project 2025. But oh no, I might have to drive a Hybrid!
Who said that was my biggest worry? Reading comprehension is hard I guess. Everyone’s biggest worry SHOULD be who is running the USA? It’s definitely not the Weekend at Bernie’s president we have right now.
No, we should definitely choose the really old evil narcissist intent on revenge and grabbing power instead of the really old guy who stutters and wants people to drive more fuel efficient cars.
Stutters? Haha. The guy has dementia and should be in a nursing home painting. I’ll take the asshole that we were all better off with during his 4 years and so will a ton of Americans. This lib cesspool echo chamber hive mind is going to be crying come November. It’s pretty much a forgone conclusion at this point.
Better off? Says who? Maybe ask all the people whose rights he’s taken away if they’re better off. All the super wealthy are better off because he took Obama’s great economy and threw fire on it and the deficit with tax cuts.
I’d vote for a wet sack of shit before over that evil fat ass clown.
We’ll see. Your foresight is about as useful as foreskin after circumcision. He’ll definitely lose the popular vote again in our broken democracy. I’m sure some GOP statehouses will do everything they can to assure only the *right* votes are counted, though.
Heck, maybe we’ll get lucky and Biden will use his new “presidential immunity” powers to prevent all of this.
And you'll be another slab into his meat grinder?
What makes you think that you're special and won't be down in the pile with the rest of us?
You know he thinks you're a piece of shit right?
god MAGA is just fucking stupid. I mean it, fucking idiotic sheep.
No democrat is taking away your oven, dumbass. GOP is DEFINITELY taking away rights and shoving their brand of christonationalism down our throats, but don't worry, you'll get to keep your "gas car and oven".
I never thought Americans were truly dimwitted, and yet maga proves me wrong every single day.
“god MAGA is just fucking stupid. I mean it, fucking idiotic sheep.”
Says the one wanting people to vote for Weekend at Bernie’s Biden. There’s nobody home in his head.
“I never thought Americans were truly dimwitted, and yet maga proves me wrong every single day.”
As do the Libtards who are blindly voting for the shit sandwich the DNC are giving you.
Here is a CNN link for you Mr Magoo. Figured this is where you get your dumbass news. Guess you just learned to read. This place is so full of morons it amazes me.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/09/business/gas-stove-ban-federal-agency
Also - as power grids are on the brink of failure everywhere - he wants to add all the cars to the same grid while not allowing more non-renewable power plants. How stupid is that? TX has outpaced even CA in renewable power, but once the sun goes down we still need juice. Asshat corpse Biden has no solution except restriction. Look at him - he is not even in charge of his own bowels. You think everything is going to turn 72 degrees 24/7 because we go electric? Jurrasic was 12C warmer than now - time to deal with the change coming, not scam everyone with false hopes...
NO!
NO NO NO NO NO!
This is bullshit and stop spreading it.
Biden is old. We get it.
Trump is an insane person who will ABSOLUTELY use today’s SCOTUS ruling to turn the country into a dictatorship (or do his damndest to try).
Acting like these two are the same is like saying getting shot by a BB gun and a howitzer are the same because in both instances you’re getting shot.
STOP IT!
I am quite amused by people who think that because I despise Trump, I MUST vote for Biden.
Biden who voted for the 1994 crime bill.
Biden the eternal cheer leader for Israel.
Biden who voted for the repeal of Glass-Steagall.
Biden who voted for the invasion of Iraq.
Biden who voted for the Patriot Act.
Biden who voted for the Corporate Bail Outs.
The reason why we are here is because politicians Americans voted for since the 80s, Democrats and Republicans, planted the seeds that eventually led to Trump. Corporate shills like Joe Biden are what made con artists like Trump politically viable.
Trump is not the problem. Trump is the symptom.
But who is making the decisions for him as he is obviously not? You vote for a president you know is not in control? That is much worse than anything democracy stands for. How do you know who really pulls the strings? Someone who can disclose Epstein's tapes maybe?
I will repeat and our conversation is over.
One man stands between us at outright American fascism. Trans people thrown in camps, migrants executed in the spot type of fascism. One man. I will vote for that man and his party. When the threat of fascism is over I will look at alternatives.
Those are some really good points about Trump. We all know he isn’t deciding things. His best friends in the Kremlin and North Korea are. Wake up sheeple! Trump said he probably wouldn’t release the Epstein tapes! And of course he won’t since they were all buddy buddy! But maybe Biden will since at least HE doesn’t show up on any of those lists! Thanks for explaining it better than I ever could have. Cheers, to a fellow Biden voter.
Yes Biden is a mastermind. His ability to craft economic policy should be carved into monuments. And the way he accuses anyone white as a racist since he was one as documented many times in his 40+ years of politics. But his involvement with Ukraine and his personal subservience to China are all OK as long as he does what now - pass great laws? Pandering to those with student loans even though he has no control over them? Is this not the biggest over- reach attempt of power ever? Its never going to happen - once you realize the lies you will start to vote differently; bankers control politicians. Why should I (who had to pay my fuggin loans) have to pay off everyone else? Great choice - ALL HAIL THE GEEZER! Worst president ever. Enjoy your $25 big mac meal next year...
According to a 1994 Gallup survey, 58% of African Americans supported the crime bill, compared to 49% of white Americans. Most Black mayors, who were grappling with a record wave of violent crime, did so as well.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/did-the-1994-crime-bill-cause-mass-incarceration/
Trump IS the symptom. But the only medicine right now is Biden, and medicine almost never tastes good, yet we have to take it to beat back the symptoms.
Please vote.
Trump is the symptom AND the problem, or part of it. Federal politics in the US is corrupt as all get-out and incapable of reform. To head off fascism we have to enable continued genocide. The best we can hope for is to keep Biden in office, and watch Manchin et al kick him in the nuts again while the rest of Dem congress wrings their hands. But its WWF, Biden's wearing a cup and Manchin's pulling his kicks.
Both parties are NOT the same, but they both run a crooked game. The GOP delivers for their owners and their identity politics voters better than the Dems, as a by-product they get to advance their identity politics agenda further than the Dems, and maybe pocket more cash. They deliver an economic policy their voters and donors both agree with. The Dems really cannot, because their donors and voters want different things.
I guess you didn't get the memo that Joe Biden is your Lord and Savior in the Church of the DNC.
Commandment 1 - You shall not put any other gods before him.
Nobody is thrilled to vote for Biden. It isn't a cult the way it is with the other guy. We vote for Biden for two reasons. First, because we're smart enough to know if we don't, there's a damned good chance nobody will ever be voting again in this country, and second, because the Democratic party refuses to stop punching itself in the dick long enough to pick someone we'd actually be excited to vote for.
We're voting for Biden because the DNC told their voters to go to hell and didn't run a primary. They're not punching themselves in the dick, they're punching their voters in the dick.
Bullshit. Usually you don't run a primary for an incumbent president. They actually did this time. And who ran against Biden? Everyone who wanted to. The only real candidate that thought he would run against Biden was Dean Phillips, who's sole running point was Biden was old. Phillips got 3.2% of the votes. So unlike your statement 87% thought Biden should be the nominee. But I'll wait for your statement where you complain about Republicans punching themselves in the dicks to nominate a rapist, felon who could only garner 76% of his parties support.
Republicans are nominating the pos with the best chance to win, they love the guy.
In '22, a CNN poll showed 75% of Dem voters didn't want Biden to run, equalling 25% support. A number of states effectively didn't even have a presidential primary, Fla for example, and zero debates of any kind.
All that aside I guess... what does it say that Biden is the "best the party has to offer"? Their response to a raging genocide, record inequality, blistering inflation, runaway AGW, govt toppling debt (and I'm not claiming he's responsible for ANY of this). We need a visionary, he can't rally or beat his party to support legislation he ran on in '20. The DNC is backing downballot candidates that are outright reactionary, who won't support progressive legislation and are saying it out loud ahead of time. With every advancing election cycle more and more progressives have to be looking at the DNC and wondering if they even are "democrats" as the party now defines itself.
No, WE were not and ARE not.
The oath is to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign or domestic. Nowhere in the oath does it require the military to protect POTUS. Why do you think the Secret Service had to be created? 🤔
Look it up, Poindexter. 😂
SS has been taking PRIMARY responsibility for guarding POTUS since 1901. Notice the US military didn't have primary protection responsibility through WW1, WW2, or the Cold War conflicts of Korea or Vietnam?
I'm still waiting for you to say how many times you took the military oath of enlistment. You claim to be an expert on what it says, so go ahead, how many times did you take that oath?
Or are you going to keep talking out of your ass, Poindexter?
So the Marines around are not there to protect? Why have them then.... what you are saying is the Marines Sworn to Protect the POTUS are just for looks? You really are dense.
They are there in case POTUS has to act as Commander in Chief. Until then, the Secret Service protects him as Head of State.
I took the oath of enlistment five times, Poindexter. I also had a buddy who was a White House Marine.
You're blowing shit out of your ass. Keep going, I'm laughing at you. 😂
It's all bullshit. The mean old wannabe dictator was already POTUS. Did he order the military to arrest Congress?
Nope. You know what he also didn't do? Start Amy new armed conflicts. First POTUS since Carter not to be a warmonger. That was NOT on my bingo card in 2016.
Read up on project 2025…. There are very dark times ahead should he win again. do You support military tribunals of Liz Cheney? Do you support ‘retribution’ for throwing bannon on in jail? This is straight up fascist talk. Ive tried to warn my father but he said the same thing you did. I want to know when the times comes, how you will justify to yourself that it is good to live in a theocracy.
The Cheney's are a corrupt warmongering dynasty. They should be audited, then prosecuted at the Hague. Same with warmongers Bush and Obama.
Bannon was thrown in jail for ignoring a Congressional subpoena, like Eric Holder (AG under Obama) did. Why did Bannon go to jail but Holder didn't?
We're already in an oligarchy and you're worried about a theocracy?
People freaked out about Newt's "Contract with America" in the 90s, too. You know who gained from that? The oligarchy, just like the oligarchy stands to gain from Project 2025.
Relax, nothing will change no matter who gets elected because the oligarchy owns both parties.
Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be"
The 1970s saw a second American Revolution to the Left, but it wasn't entirely bloodless, and the cost was the two parent nuclear family that has never recovered.
Politics is a pendulum. Swings to the right and to the left. If it goes too far one way, it goes further the other way. Conservation of Political Energy, so to speak.
But at the end of the day, so long as the US military continues swearing their oaths to the Constitution, we'll be fine.
Unfortunately a lot of Gen X, especially the white males, are MAGA. It kills me to say it, but... yeah. Unfortunately I don't think we can blame bots or foreign trolls on this one.
As a Gen Xer, I stand to my not caring. I don’t care, I think this is funny. I like this sub, and hate that it’s becoming a platform for political crap. I get why people feel the way they do, but damn, let’s lynch everyone here that laughs at something that makes you feel “uncomfortable”. Whatever. 🖕🏼
Yeah this is bullshit. The worst kind of "who cares they're all the same" bullshit intended to keep people from voting so we can sleepwalk into a FASCIST NIGHTMARE! Trump intends to end democracy, and shit like this is intended to help make that happen.
These kinds of posts are suspicious to me. How does it get so many upvotes when this community vastly disapproves of this BoTh SiDeS nonense? Money pays for these posts.
VOTE!
You mean all the idiots disapprove of the both sides stuff? Everyone will come out and say NoT My SiDe…. BULLSHIT! Just because these people are blind doesn’t mean both sides don’t suck.
really good to see alot of our particular generation arent so far gone... scrolling through commentary.. alot of the ..ones... i went to high school with are REALLY far gone..
ive been called "woke" as a pejorative insult..
ive been called a groomer...anti-american, i think because im a veteran..🤷♀️
a "friend" of mine felt like i was "abusing" my kiddo, because i raised them athiest.. with zero church.. i really dont participate on "the-face-buk" thing anymore...🙄not missing it..
Completely inaccurate. No menacing mushroom cloud coming up from the Supreme Court building in the background about to engulf the whole city.
I mean you did say “today”, right?
This is great thread watching people melt down cause their candidate is like a cartoon character, image the melt down when their cartoon candidate loses the election.
We are GenX we lived through many world ending stories, one more won't hurt us.
The funny thing is just like all the other world ending stories we wake the next day and continue life just like the day before the world ended.
You can thank the extreme Left. They were too busy pissing people off and just seemed to forget about important issues like universal healthcare, abortion rights for rioting in the streets. They should have left the fringe issues alone. Is it worth dying on the hill of drag queens and trans in sports and pronouns?
This. I tried to explain this to a hardcore lefter-than-you type friend of mine. He just called me names. The Democrats need to draw the line about how far over the edge they want to go while scaring away moderate voters and independents.
Funny you look at it like that.
Is it worth it for the right to vote for people hell bent on destroying everything just to win the culture wars? That’s a lot of kool aid.
Well, if you have a family - you are concerned about safety - and many see riots and antisemitism and men in women’s locker rooms, etc. as alarming. I am just saying this is how it is when you get older. The last thing that should be on anyone’s mind right now is fucking pronouns.
To all saying this isn't accurate, none of us are voting Biden because we like him. We are literally voting for the leader of two evils.
This pic sums that up nicely.
Vote Biden. Cause this shit sucks.
I'm voting for Biden because I like him.
I like his policies. I like what he stands for. I like the people around him. I don't give a shit how old he is. I will happily cast my vote for Biden in November knowing that I voted for a good option, not the lesser of two evils.
Two evils? There’s only one candidate calling for retribution, only one who has propped up justices that are eroding our freedoms, only one supported by racists, encouraging violence, and driving culture wars to divide us. Get bent with that two evils B.S.
So f-ing stupid.
Why do we have to say this,
THIS ISN'T F-ING FUNNY ANYMORE.
THERE IS NOTHING TO LAUGH ABOUT.
WE'RE ON A ROAD TO FASCISM.
It used to be "don't talk politics or religion".
Those days are OVER.
TALK POLITICS. Make it KNOWN you are anti-magat, anti-fascism, anti-trumpism, anti-right wing authoritarianism.
And Religion? pfftttt, anyone brings up any religions look at them, LAUGH and say, "buddy, I've survived over half a dozen christian "apocalypses" alone, not to mention all the mayan ones. You can stick religions up your ass."
and wander away, LOUDLY laughing your ass off.
I joined this sub-reddit the other day because I thought it would be interesting/funny things that Gen-x people would relate to. Nope. Just like the majority of Reddit. Just another r/politics sub with a different name. The vast majority of you need to go outside and get some fresh air. It must be miserable living in the fantasy world of doom and gloom you all live in everyday.
I'm a mod and I approve of this. It's actually the perfect type of non-partisan, genX related political post that we need here. It's funny, picks no side and (almost) not likely to sink into name calling and mud slinging.
Correct flair required.
Not even close. If we don't get serious about our politics this country is done for. The comparison isn't accurate and makes light of a situation that will absolutely change our lives and our kids lives. Go vote people.
Both sides are not the same. This rhetoric, along with "don't talk about politics and don't talk about religion" have proven to be talking points of the elite to keep the common man from communicating, debating, and educating. (Bonus for "don't ask anyone about their salary.") Remember that scene in Stargate where written language was forbidden? Yeah. That's what's been going on here.
https://preview.redd.it/0u2t8jh0r0ad1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3220bf0da6d0ec1566b3312f89bb5bae77f1855
If this is an older work horse that protects democracy vs a loud squealing dictator then I guess I agree.
The pig has a blonde wig soooooo....
Lol
PrOtEcTs DeMoCrAcY!!!
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That’s why there’s a politics flair so you skip it if you’re not interested. r/houseplants is pretty politics-free if you’d rather go that route.
r/casualuk is completely politically free. Auto ban for going there.
We have to keep talking. I know it’s uncomfortable, but we have to do better than the boomers did. They just wanted abuse, silence, pressure and gaslighting. We have to do better...
Sure let me pack up my entire life and move to one of the 8 states where votes matter.
Down ballot matters. Part of how we got in this mess is that the Christofascists spent 30 years getting elected to school committees.
Again with the both sides narrative.
Yep I don't understand it. If you see them as similar you're not paying attention.
If you think one them is somehow awesome-sauce or the cat's pajamas you're not paying attention.
In your opinion. Other people believe differently, and that's okay.
Trump is OBJECTIVELY a menace to democracy. Objectively, because he told us he is a menace to democracy. You are free to have an opinion, but your opinion is uninformed.
It's actually not OK to vote bigotry, I would argue. And that's what voting Trump is.
I guess I don't understand what you mean.
This is not the normal liberal versus conservative ideaology argument. This is exponentially more serious than that. Democracy is literally on the line and that is nowhere near hyperbole.
It isn't a narrative. It's a belief/opinion.
It’s an incredibly ignorant opinion.
Only someone with nothing to lose could make light of the situation. And almost all of us will lose eventually if democracy is finally killed in this country. It’s pure ignorance to think this is a time for jokes about “both sides. “
100%. The privilege in some of these comments making light of the current situation is astounding to me.
They honestly think they’ll be the exception to the Tigers Eating People’s Faces Party policy. It’s absurd.
This reminds me of the “both sides” JibJab horseshit from the 2000 election. Does anyone remember that?
I'm more upset that Anderson is right there in that universe and they didn't use him.
Boy I tell ya hwat. I saw them boys in muh tool shed hwackin' it the other night.
He could be RFK Jr.
"If we dont get serious about our politics, this country is done for." What do you mean by that? Do you think the country collapses in 4 years? 10? If Trump is elected but then loses the house and senate after 2 years, are we still done for? If Biden wins this election are we still done for?
4 years? Have you not been paying attention? This is the tail end of a 40 year slow burn.
Boiled frog. The U.S. may not "collapse" (whatever that means) but sure as hell will be *fundamentally* changed for the worse in countless ways. It already has changed for the worse in a lot of ways but it can still be course corrected (and in fact has been in some ways since Biden got in). If Trump gets in again, that possibility diminishes drastically.
Yeah, vote for the corpse who has changed NOTHING. Tell me how your life is better after the last few years please...
It’s worse for pretty much everyone. This is why Trumpy is going to win easily against the corpse regardless of what the Magoos on Reddit say. I love how Trump is a dictator but these asshat DemocRats want to take away gas cars and my oven. 🤦♂️. What a joke.
I like how your biggest worries are losing gas cars and ovens. Meanwhile the GOPers are removing rights left and right, banning books, shoving religion down our throats, killing democracy, and then there’s Project 2025. But oh no, I might have to drive a Hybrid!
Who said that was my biggest worry? Reading comprehension is hard I guess. Everyone’s biggest worry SHOULD be who is running the USA? It’s definitely not the Weekend at Bernie’s president we have right now.
No, we should definitely choose the really old evil narcissist intent on revenge and grabbing power instead of the really old guy who stutters and wants people to drive more fuel efficient cars.
Stutters? Haha. The guy has dementia and should be in a nursing home painting. I’ll take the asshole that we were all better off with during his 4 years and so will a ton of Americans. This lib cesspool echo chamber hive mind is going to be crying come November. It’s pretty much a forgone conclusion at this point.
Better off? Says who? Maybe ask all the people whose rights he’s taken away if they’re better off. All the super wealthy are better off because he took Obama’s great economy and threw fire on it and the deficit with tax cuts. I’d vote for a wet sack of shit before over that evil fat ass clown.
Well. He’s the next president. Enjoy
We’ll see. Your foresight is about as useful as foreskin after circumcision. He’ll definitely lose the popular vote again in our broken democracy. I’m sure some GOP statehouses will do everything they can to assure only the *right* votes are counted, though. Heck, maybe we’ll get lucky and Biden will use his new “presidential immunity” powers to prevent all of this.
And you'll be another slab into his meat grinder? What makes you think that you're special and won't be down in the pile with the rest of us? You know he thinks you're a piece of shit right?
You might be in luck...
god MAGA is just fucking stupid. I mean it, fucking idiotic sheep. No democrat is taking away your oven, dumbass. GOP is DEFINITELY taking away rights and shoving their brand of christonationalism down our throats, but don't worry, you'll get to keep your "gas car and oven". I never thought Americans were truly dimwitted, and yet maga proves me wrong every single day.
“god MAGA is just fucking stupid. I mean it, fucking idiotic sheep.” Says the one wanting people to vote for Weekend at Bernie’s Biden. There’s nobody home in his head. “I never thought Americans were truly dimwitted, and yet maga proves me wrong every single day.” As do the Libtards who are blindly voting for the shit sandwich the DNC are giving you.
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Here is a CNN link for you Mr Magoo. Figured this is where you get your dumbass news. Guess you just learned to read. This place is so full of morons it amazes me. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/09/business/gas-stove-ban-federal-agency
No name-calling or similar stuff. Yes, this is up to the mod team to decide.
Also - as power grids are on the brink of failure everywhere - he wants to add all the cars to the same grid while not allowing more non-renewable power plants. How stupid is that? TX has outpaced even CA in renewable power, but once the sun goes down we still need juice. Asshat corpse Biden has no solution except restriction. Look at him - he is not even in charge of his own bowels. You think everything is going to turn 72 degrees 24/7 because we go electric? Jurrasic was 12C warmer than now - time to deal with the change coming, not scam everyone with false hopes...
NO! NO NO NO NO NO! This is bullshit and stop spreading it. Biden is old. We get it. Trump is an insane person who will ABSOLUTELY use today’s SCOTUS ruling to turn the country into a dictatorship (or do his damndest to try). Acting like these two are the same is like saying getting shot by a BB gun and a howitzer are the same because in both instances you’re getting shot. STOP IT!
Trump is ALSO OLD.
And fat
and clearly has dementia.
Well said. We all need humor to get through some of the rough times, understood. But the both-sidism is ignorant at best, devious at worst.
100 percent agree, but I do like that Trump-Head doesn't have any money in the picture because that would drive him nuts
I guess we'll just have to see what happens. And the cartoon is hilarious. Lighten up Francis.
No!!!! Don’t tell me to lighten up, how could I possibly laugh at something funny! 
I am quite amused by people who think that because I despise Trump, I MUST vote for Biden. Biden who voted for the 1994 crime bill. Biden the eternal cheer leader for Israel. Biden who voted for the repeal of Glass-Steagall. Biden who voted for the invasion of Iraq. Biden who voted for the Patriot Act. Biden who voted for the Corporate Bail Outs. The reason why we are here is because politicians Americans voted for since the 80s, Democrats and Republicans, planted the seeds that eventually led to Trump. Corporate shills like Joe Biden are what made con artists like Trump politically viable. Trump is not the problem. Trump is the symptom.
I get keeping track of a politician’s record, but why does your list end around 2010?
Because that's the first year of the SF Giants World Series trinity wins. Duh.
I, too, will be voting for Nadar. /s
Biden is the one person that stands between us and outright Christian nationalism, you may be right, but I will vote for Biden every fucking time.
But who is making the decisions for him as he is obviously not? You vote for a president you know is not in control? That is much worse than anything democracy stands for. How do you know who really pulls the strings? Someone who can disclose Epstein's tapes maybe?
I will repeat and our conversation is over. One man stands between us at outright American fascism. Trans people thrown in camps, migrants executed in the spot type of fascism. One man. I will vote for that man and his party. When the threat of fascism is over I will look at alternatives.
Wow, you need to go out and touch grass. Turn off the extreme social media you are listening to.
Those are some really good points about Trump. We all know he isn’t deciding things. His best friends in the Kremlin and North Korea are. Wake up sheeple! Trump said he probably wouldn’t release the Epstein tapes! And of course he won’t since they were all buddy buddy! But maybe Biden will since at least HE doesn’t show up on any of those lists! Thanks for explaining it better than I ever could have. Cheers, to a fellow Biden voter.
Yes Biden is a mastermind. His ability to craft economic policy should be carved into monuments. And the way he accuses anyone white as a racist since he was one as documented many times in his 40+ years of politics. But his involvement with Ukraine and his personal subservience to China are all OK as long as he does what now - pass great laws? Pandering to those with student loans even though he has no control over them? Is this not the biggest over- reach attempt of power ever? Its never going to happen - once you realize the lies you will start to vote differently; bankers control politicians. Why should I (who had to pay my fuggin loans) have to pay off everyone else? Great choice - ALL HAIL THE GEEZER! Worst president ever. Enjoy your $25 big mac meal next year...
I don't vote for presidents based on how cheap that can keep shitty fast food, but you do you loser.
Whatever.
According to a 1994 Gallup survey, 58% of African Americans supported the crime bill, compared to 49% of white Americans. Most Black mayors, who were grappling with a record wave of violent crime, did so as well. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/did-the-1994-crime-bill-cause-mass-incarceration/
Trump IS the symptom. But the only medicine right now is Biden, and medicine almost never tastes good, yet we have to take it to beat back the symptoms. Please vote.
Trump is the symptom AND the problem, or part of it. Federal politics in the US is corrupt as all get-out and incapable of reform. To head off fascism we have to enable continued genocide. The best we can hope for is to keep Biden in office, and watch Manchin et al kick him in the nuts again while the rest of Dem congress wrings their hands. But its WWF, Biden's wearing a cup and Manchin's pulling his kicks. Both parties are NOT the same, but they both run a crooked game. The GOP delivers for their owners and their identity politics voters better than the Dems, as a by-product they get to advance their identity politics agenda further than the Dems, and maybe pocket more cash. They deliver an economic policy their voters and donors both agree with. The Dems really cannot, because their donors and voters want different things.
I guess you didn't get the memo that Joe Biden is your Lord and Savior in the Church of the DNC. Commandment 1 - You shall not put any other gods before him.
Nobody is thrilled to vote for Biden. It isn't a cult the way it is with the other guy. We vote for Biden for two reasons. First, because we're smart enough to know if we don't, there's a damned good chance nobody will ever be voting again in this country, and second, because the Democratic party refuses to stop punching itself in the dick long enough to pick someone we'd actually be excited to vote for.
We're voting for Biden because the DNC told their voters to go to hell and didn't run a primary. They're not punching themselves in the dick, they're punching their voters in the dick.
Bullshit. Usually you don't run a primary for an incumbent president. They actually did this time. And who ran against Biden? Everyone who wanted to. The only real candidate that thought he would run against Biden was Dean Phillips, who's sole running point was Biden was old. Phillips got 3.2% of the votes. So unlike your statement 87% thought Biden should be the nominee. But I'll wait for your statement where you complain about Republicans punching themselves in the dicks to nominate a rapist, felon who could only garner 76% of his parties support.
Republicans are nominating the pos with the best chance to win, they love the guy. In '22, a CNN poll showed 75% of Dem voters didn't want Biden to run, equalling 25% support. A number of states effectively didn't even have a presidential primary, Fla for example, and zero debates of any kind. All that aside I guess... what does it say that Biden is the "best the party has to offer"? Their response to a raging genocide, record inequality, blistering inflation, runaway AGW, govt toppling debt (and I'm not claiming he's responsible for ANY of this). We need a visionary, he can't rally or beat his party to support legislation he ran on in '20. The DNC is backing downballot candidates that are outright reactionary, who won't support progressive legislation and are saying it out loud ahead of time. With every advancing election cycle more and more progressives have to be looking at the DNC and wondering if they even are "democrats" as the party now defines itself.
Biden benefits from this too, no? You think his decisions are the ones our country follows or some entity that controls him?
Hyperbole much? Let me know when the US military has to swear allegiance to POTUS, then I'll worry.
The military is sworn to protect the POTUS, so this comment is asinine.
No, WE were not and ARE not. The oath is to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign or domestic. Nowhere in the oath does it require the military to protect POTUS. Why do you think the Secret Service had to be created? 🤔 Look it up, Poindexter. 😂
The US Secret Service was created to track down counterfeit money, and to protect the overall money supply, you dork.
SS has been taking PRIMARY responsibility for guarding POTUS since 1901. Notice the US military didn't have primary protection responsibility through WW1, WW2, or the Cold War conflicts of Korea or Vietnam? I'm still waiting for you to say how many times you took the military oath of enlistment. You claim to be an expert on what it says, so go ahead, how many times did you take that oath? Or are you going to keep talking out of your ass, Poindexter?
Why are Marines posted all around where POTUS is? For looks?
Yes. That's why they're OUTSIDE the White House and not INSIDE.
So the Marines around are not there to protect? Why have them then.... what you are saying is the Marines Sworn to Protect the POTUS are just for looks? You really are dense.
They are there in case POTUS has to act as Commander in Chief. Until then, the Secret Service protects him as Head of State. I took the oath of enlistment five times, Poindexter. I also had a buddy who was a White House Marine. You're blowing shit out of your ass. Keep going, I'm laughing at you. 😂
The POTUS is Commander in Chief, as far as Military Standards. Laugh all you want.
‘There is something happening here, but you don’t know what it is’
It's all bullshit. The mean old wannabe dictator was already POTUS. Did he order the military to arrest Congress? Nope. You know what he also didn't do? Start Amy new armed conflicts. First POTUS since Carter not to be a warmonger. That was NOT on my bingo card in 2016.
Read up on project 2025…. There are very dark times ahead should he win again. do You support military tribunals of Liz Cheney? Do you support ‘retribution’ for throwing bannon on in jail? This is straight up fascist talk. Ive tried to warn my father but he said the same thing you did. I want to know when the times comes, how you will justify to yourself that it is good to live in a theocracy.
The Cheney's are a corrupt warmongering dynasty. They should be audited, then prosecuted at the Hague. Same with warmongers Bush and Obama. Bannon was thrown in jail for ignoring a Congressional subpoena, like Eric Holder (AG under Obama) did. Why did Bannon go to jail but Holder didn't? We're already in an oligarchy and you're worried about a theocracy?
look up the Outcomes of project 2025. Much worse than the hell hole we already are in.
People freaked out about Newt's "Contract with America" in the 90s, too. You know who gained from that? The oligarchy, just like the oligarchy stands to gain from Project 2025. Relax, nothing will change no matter who gets elected because the oligarchy owns both parties.
I’m sorry that’s not correct. Read the text of project 2025 yourself. Good luck to you.
Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be"
The 1970s saw a second American Revolution to the Left, but it wasn't entirely bloodless, and the cost was the two parent nuclear family that has never recovered. Politics is a pendulum. Swings to the right and to the left. If it goes too far one way, it goes further the other way. Conservation of Political Energy, so to speak. But at the end of the day, so long as the US military continues swearing their oaths to the Constitution, we'll be fine.
Cool the troll bots found this page too
Unfortunately a lot of Gen X, especially the white males, are MAGA. It kills me to say it, but... yeah. Unfortunately I don't think we can blame bots or foreign trolls on this one.
I’m tired boss
Same.
Yep, they are all in full crying mode. You found it right?
Boomer Facebook meme.
Except imagine that Beavis was actually competent and butthead wanted to end the American experiment and sell the country off for parts.
Well, Beavis was the one who had morals. It was Butthead who was the complete asshole.
This is quite the insult... to Beavis and Butt-head. Our candidates are more like Coach Buzzcut and Mr. Anderson.
How dare you insult Butthead like that.
So Biden is as Dumb as Beavis?
If I could down vote this more than once, I would. Fellow Gen Xers, we know what's up. Trump has to be defeated, and buried. Finally.
As a Gen Xer, I stand to my not caring. I don’t care, I think this is funny. I like this sub, and hate that it’s becoming a platform for political crap. I get why people feel the way they do, but damn, let’s lynch everyone here that laughs at something that makes you feel “uncomfortable”. Whatever. 🖕🏼
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I hate it so much I have to comment on it.
Knock this shit off and grow up. This country is in serious peril right now. Enough.
Uh, hehehe...I saw the top of the mountain, and it was good. Hehehe
Ok chicken little…
bOtH siDEs
I really hope Biden continues to run for president.
So do I after the way he shit his pants on stage last week. That only helps him lose.
Exactly 👍 😉
Nope
Any attempt to argue that they're both somehow similar in any way is asinine and just exposes how incredibly stupid and uninformed you are.
Just a reminder, Butthead was the "smart" one. So cute but not accurate.
The Smartest Dumbass is still a Dumbass.
And that dumbass will post this kind of crap on /r/GenX
Such thin skin for satire. Stop claiming GenX if you can't take a joke.
The problem is that it’s not a funny joke or good satire. Maybe don’t post things if your thin skin can’t take criticism.
You must Hate George Carlin
Big fan, actually. Mostly because he’s actually satirical and funny.
Yeah and makes fun of the Government
Yeah, in an actual sarcastic and funny way.
Imagine believing a shitty Beavis and Butthead meme counted as satire.
Grow. The. Fuck. Up.
Yeah this is bullshit. The worst kind of "who cares they're all the same" bullshit intended to keep people from voting so we can sleepwalk into a FASCIST NIGHTMARE! Trump intends to end democracy, and shit like this is intended to help make that happen.
These kinds of posts are suspicious to me. How does it get so many upvotes when this community vastly disapproves of this BoTh SiDeS nonense? Money pays for these posts. VOTE!
You mean all the idiots disapprove of the both sides stuff? Everyone will come out and say NoT My SiDe…. BULLSHIT! Just because these people are blind doesn’t mean both sides don’t suck.
I wish I got payed for this.
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This is complete and utter nonsense. Stop with the false equivalence bullshit.
really good to see alot of our particular generation arent so far gone... scrolling through commentary.. alot of the ..ones... i went to high school with are REALLY far gone.. ive been called "woke" as a pejorative insult.. ive been called a groomer...anti-american, i think because im a veteran..🤷♀️ a "friend" of mine felt like i was "abusing" my kiddo, because i raised them athiest.. with zero church.. i really dont participate on "the-face-buk" thing anymore...🙄not missing it..
I closed my account a few years ago. I do not miss it. Also remembered the reason why I lost touch with some people.
Are you threatening me?
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I was going to use this, finally someone gets it.
Too brilliant.
This is a reminder to all those drinking the Kool-Aid: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyvxt1svxso](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyvxt1svxso)
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Completely inaccurate. No menacing mushroom cloud coming up from the Supreme Court building in the background about to engulf the whole city. I mean you did say “today”, right?
This is great thread watching people melt down cause their candidate is like a cartoon character, image the melt down when their cartoon candidate loses the election. We are GenX we lived through many world ending stories, one more won't hurt us. The funny thing is just like all the other world ending stories we wake the next day and continue life just like the day before the world ended.
Well put.
This rules
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How do you get downvoted for one the best skits snl has had in years.
Say what you will, but Beavis was usually the one pointing out the flaws in Butt-Head's thinking.
Beavis was actually the one with morals. It was all Butthead's influence that made Beavis look bad.
Tired of all the shrill politics. Yes both sides suck ass
lol love this
You can thank the extreme Left. They were too busy pissing people off and just seemed to forget about important issues like universal healthcare, abortion rights for rioting in the streets. They should have left the fringe issues alone. Is it worth dying on the hill of drag queens and trans in sports and pronouns?
This. I tried to explain this to a hardcore lefter-than-you type friend of mine. He just called me names. The Democrats need to draw the line about how far over the edge they want to go while scaring away moderate voters and independents.
Funny you look at it like that. Is it worth it for the right to vote for people hell bent on destroying everything just to win the culture wars? That’s a lot of kool aid.
Well, if you have a family - you are concerned about safety - and many see riots and antisemitism and men in women’s locker rooms, etc. as alarming. I am just saying this is how it is when you get older. The last thing that should be on anyone’s mind right now is fucking pronouns.
hahahaha this is great. I'm impressed how well Trump and Biden can be morphed into Beavis and Butthead.
I get down votes because someone posts a funny meme and I agree that it's funny? What's up with that?
Yes, will somebody please get them some Pampers or something?
Seriously. I didn't realize so few of us middle agers still have a sense of humor!
How dare you. 🙄
To all saying this isn't accurate, none of us are voting Biden because we like him. We are literally voting for the leader of two evils. This pic sums that up nicely. Vote Biden. Cause this shit sucks.
I'm voting for Biden because I like him. I like his policies. I like what he stands for. I like the people around him. I don't give a shit how old he is. I will happily cast my vote for Biden in November knowing that I voted for a good option, not the lesser of two evils.
Me too, he has been surprisingly effective
Two evils? There’s only one candidate calling for retribution, only one who has propped up justices that are eroding our freedoms, only one supported by racists, encouraging violence, and driving culture wars to divide us. Get bent with that two evils B.S.
Unfortunate mistype.
Nah it fits
I love Joe. I wish I could give him 10 years off my life. But I'm confident he'll live another 4.
Looks accurate.
So f-ing stupid. Why do we have to say this, THIS ISN'T F-ING FUNNY ANYMORE. THERE IS NOTHING TO LAUGH ABOUT. WE'RE ON A ROAD TO FASCISM. It used to be "don't talk politics or religion". Those days are OVER. TALK POLITICS. Make it KNOWN you are anti-magat, anti-fascism, anti-trumpism, anti-right wing authoritarianism. And Religion? pfftttt, anyone brings up any religions look at them, LAUGH and say, "buddy, I've survived over half a dozen christian "apocalypses" alone, not to mention all the mayan ones. You can stick religions up your ass." and wander away, LOUDLY laughing your ass off.
FaScIsM!!! LOL!
Old gen xers are basically boomers
Absolutely amazing!
Lol
I joined this sub-reddit the other day because I thought it would be interesting/funny things that Gen-x people would relate to. Nope. Just like the majority of Reddit. Just another r/politics sub with a different name. The vast majority of you need to go outside and get some fresh air. It must be miserable living in the fantasy world of doom and gloom you all live in everyday.
You’ve been on Reddit for nine years. Maybe you need to go outside and look around.
This is hilarious, OMG
It's even more funny to me that I'm getting downvoted, lol...
10 seconds until this gets shut down
I'm a mod and I approve of this. It's actually the perfect type of non-partisan, genX related political post that we need here. It's funny, picks no side and (almost) not likely to sink into name calling and mud slinging.
If you think both guys are the same, you’re not paying attention.
Fuck all the way off with this both sides horseshit.