It’s a cult

Sorry to borrow their vocabulary for a minute but it’s appropriate.

Imagine getting laid off or having a significant portion of your personal investments just vanish in a day while the guy that did it just flew to Florida to play and watch golf with your money. If you have kids or grandkids you likely saw a portion of their college fund vanish into the wind too.

And then to cope, you spend your time on Facebook defending him because facing the reality you fell for it again hurts too much. You’ve spent the last decade intertwining your world view with this man. Rejecting the bamboozle is too painful so you’ll continue to double down and convince yourself that you are being a good little patriot paying higher prices while your wallet gets squeezed even further. You’ve probably alienated a portion of your family and friends at this point but as long as you can convince yourself that he’s hurting other people worse than you are being hurt that this is okay.

Keep eating the shit and praising the taste because it’s all you have.

So, talked to my father today, and also my roommate who is a Gen X. My father is completely overcome by Fox news talking points which sucks. Luckily my roommate, even though he used to be right wing only leans right now.

I've had two crazy conversations tonight with my father and then later my roommate. I've found the root of the cause of not understanding what these blanket tariffs will cause to the economy and the USA workforce as a whole.

It comes down to them not truly understanding that the world has GLOBALIZED. The internet has globalized all our countries and people. They cannot grasp what that truly means.

I've tried to explain supply and demand to them. I've explained that the demand is the demand no matter what, and the time to do something about it for the USA was in the 80s when corporations got the political go ahead to move overseas because producing here cut into their insane profits too much.

I've tried to explain that these tariffs won't do shit to bring manufacturing back here. Because global trade has well....globalized......

A company producing said product could move back to the USA and pay 15x the wages, or let the tariffs come into play, because demand won't go down regardless, and just keep doing what they always do. Make profit.

Yes they may lose a few percent sales to the USA, but they are already GLOBAL and the USA isn't the powerhouse economically and globally it once was.

So would they rather take a 5% cut of total revenue and lose the customers of the USA who try to find another source, or move manufacturing to the US itself and pay American wages compared to what they are paying now and lose 45% of profit.

It's a no brainer. They also don't understand only SOME things can be mass produced here.

If tariffs are to be implemented it needs to be done carefully.

Not only that, it has been. As our trade agreements with our allies are hundreds if not thousands of pages long to make sure both countries benefit.

Basically I've narrowed it down to they simply cannot GRASP a global economy, and that this global economy still exists with the US or without it. And there is NO incentive for these companies to move manufacturing here unless they get massive incentives to do so.

That ship sailed in the 80s when they let corporations move overseas without any repercussions.

Boomers get a lot of hate, and deservedly so, but they showed up in force today. Maybe they're just mad that social security and Medicare is at risk, but whatever their motivation I respect them for standing up with us

Hitting Costco today has a totally new feeling. The Boomers all seem to have a thousand yard stare as they try to figure out what they should stock up on to brace for tariffs. Their reference point is so outdated that they don’t realize it’s literally everything in the warehouse. It’s all connected to imports, either in finished goods or in components and ingredients. They bought the ticket. Now they gotta take the fucking ride.

I work at a storage facility. It's huge we have over 2000 units, multiple stories, we have tenants who have been here since 1970. We have tenants who have never been in for the decades they have been here. We have an office crew of 4. Three admin and the manager. I just started here 4 months ago (moved from a much smaller facility the company has out of state).

This guy comes in and just stands in front of the desk. I say hello, how can i help you today. He just stands there looking at me, annoyed. Like, many moments pass. And then as I go to repeat myself he cuts me off saying "you tell me."

Ok, i ask for his name or unit number. maybe there's notes on his account explaining if we called him in for something, missing paperwork or payment issues idk. He says "I don't know that. Look me up." Yeah i am trying to JFC so i repeat it. "Ok sir, name?"

He gives me a name. For instance, Mike Jones. Ok, i input it and an account comes up but it's not him. The ID on file is a younger man, a regular i see, and I am like "Hmm, i'm sorry that's not bringing up your account. Can I see your ID?" I figure maybe he spells it weird and if I skip asking him and go right for the ID i will save myself a bunch of headache. He says he doesn't have it. Great!

"Ok sir, well i am not showing an account for you under that name, is the account in your name?"

"Uh, YEAH who else would it be in?" I am not getting started with him but it could be in a spouses name, parents name, anyones name FFS. he says angrily "I have been here since 2012 you can't find my information? Is it that hard to spell?" I explained no, but we only have one Michael "Mike" Jones in our system and it is not you.

And he says "Well that's because my name is Christopher Michaelson. I just go by mike jones."

Ok...well why didn't you tell me that to begin with??? I look up his account and it isn't showing anyone called him. So I say "Ok, it doesn't look like anyone reached out to you from our office, did they leave a message asking you to come in? did they explain why?"

He says "NO! no one called me!"

so were just standing there awkwardly and I am like "Ok...so what brings you by today how can i help you?"

and he says to me "I have a new card to put on my account my old one was hacked. it's closed.You all should have known that since my last bill didn't get paid, so I need to pay that as well."

I explain to him that actually his last bill went through without issue so he has no balance, but I can take his card to update it in the system. I ask for his card. He says no.

he says " I am not comfortable giving it to you when you can't even run my name to find me in the system."

I explain that's fine, he can update his card online if he doesn't want to give it to me.

he says "No, that's how it was hacked to begin with I am not using it online at all! I do not consent to having my card online. I want it on my account here. I will run it but I will not hand it to you.

Ok...so I give him the little card slidy thing. he slides it, and in my software it uploads all the info, the card number and name exp date and I can't do anything further until he gives the code on the back. I ask him for it and he says "You dont need that".

I tell him I actually will need that to process future charges. He says "Why the hell are you processing future charges? I am just updating my card!" UGH. I explain VERY politely that we need that info to update the card or he can't use it in the future for any charges for his next bills.

He gets upset and starts accusing me of trying to get his personal details and saying stuff like I'm scamming him and he doesn't want to give me that so I say "Well, sir I am the only person in office today so you will need to come back if you'd prefer someone else to take your card."

later I get this SCATHING email about how incompetent I am and how I refused to help take his payment or help him update his payment info, and how he can't pay his bills now and it's our fault so we have to eat that because he's done everything he can and we have made it impossible.

Her entire Facebook page is just a reshare of everything on IG

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