If I said anything close to that, my dad would definitely end up yelling at me and my family would hate me lol
I said as much in the thread. I take my dad's opinion into consideration given I consider him one of the smartest people I know, and I am never rude or argumentative about it when I disagree with him. I'm respectful to my dad even when he's being very disrespectful to me. There might be a real reason for my dad to worry (He does have stocks, has been maxing out his 401K contributations for years, and has other financial assets that I don't understand), but the fear mongering media is not helping matters and is causing him to stress out way more than if he wasn't Doomscrolling all day.
Have you tried asking him why exactly there's a link between DOGE and his retirement?
I read about this. TBF, the ramp to the Ambassador Bridge was redesigned in a way that someone not paying attention can easily choose the option to go across the bridge to Windsor without realizing it and missing their one and only chance to pull off and stay in Detroit on the US side even with the signs clearly stating there is NO REENTRY to the US for those proceeding forward. That said, I wonder if this person can read written English. (For the purposes of balanced reporting, this bridge ramp gotcha has snagged plenty of legal residents, too.)
A number of protestant denominations have become more liberal and LGBTetc friendly to attract that community into their pews and prop up their otherwise sagging memberships. It's also not uncommon for some liberal ministers to believe their denomination is neither liberal nor inclusive enough so they form their own splinter churches where anything goes when it comes to sexual identity and behavior.
I've seen this tactic labeled "Verbal Judo," but the idea is still the same - Don't let the other person control you with their words. I'm not surprised how the liberal that screech the most generally parrot talking points without any sort of thought behind what they're saying - making to easy to confuse them when they have to stop and think about what's being said.
Meanwhile, Boomers believe everything they see on TV. The TV is the supreme authority in the land and every other source is a lie because the talking heads didn't say it. Everyone who doesn't believe the Establishment lowest common denominator lies the talking heads promote are dumb or naive.
Try telling your dad "it's ok, I will never be able to retire either, we are in this together"
Yup. It's not really very much of a "trick" to apply the Socratic method to insane rants. "What do you mean?" is a great start. They never make it very far before the smoke starts pouring from their ears.
What do you mean?
They have a special term for this, created during GamerGate: Sea Lioning, from some overhyped webcomic. Demanding they explain themselves or address a logical inconsistency instead of just shouting their virtuous beliefs and then expecting asspats updoots and social credit points to flow is "harassment."
So this is what it's going to be like these next 4 years?
2 years at least, yes. They have nothing else. They CANNOT let him succeed, they CANNOT let him undo their long march through the institutions. If they can kill him they will. If they can kill his cabinet members they will. Until then, they're going to do whatever they can to slow him down until they can get a replacement for the USAID slush fund and grift machine going and pray they can rig 2028.
I doubt it. Eventually the SCOTUS will begrudgingly step in and slap this stupid practice down (it's threatened to do so during Obama's and Biden's terms, not just Trump's), and if it doesn't, eventually the executive will just stop paying any attention to the orders and pull an Andrew Jackson ("let them enforce it"), relying on support from the legislature to avoid punishment. There isn't enough support in Congress to impeach Trump at the moment, much less actually convict and remove him, and enough congresscritters are nervous about this judicial overreach that it's unlikely Congress would actually remove Trump from office for ignoring these retarded decisions.
Gonna be tough to get their bills signed if they don't back him on this one. But yeah, I expect foot dragging all around. There seems to be an eagerness to kick the can down the road rather than actually lock horns and "settle" this nonsense directly. Makes sense they'd want Trump to stop "threatening" courts. If he cranks up the rhetoric they might actually have to deal with it sooner rather than later.
92% of injunctions against Trump came from Democrat appointed judges.
Democracies* plan until the next election, it is one of their major downsides. Countries like Russia and China can afford to be a little more forward thinking because their leadership isn't changing every decade or so. Granted being able to plan ahead doesn't mean those plans will be good or fool proof either.
Because they think the working class are retards who need to be saved from themselves with globohomo, and instead of adjusting to the growing nationalist-populist attitudes of union voters they simply need to double down until the plebs finally get it
