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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wanted to try the Herman Cain Award style post of a Trump faithful realizing their face has been eaten. This Trumpette retired recently, doesn't know much about how the stock market works, but is seeing her retirement funds go up in smoke. Helpfully, a fellow MAGAt advised her just to buy the dip. Not sure what money she's supposed to do that with...

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This was a GLORIOUS format! I missed the Herman Cain award mini stories and this was a breath of stank air.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not gonna lie, I used to binge the Herman Cain Awards like I was huffing paint.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"We have officially been unburden"

This lady word good!

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Unburdened of her life's savings, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Must be. Because she was clearly unburdened of common sense and objectivity a long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

She can enjoy a nice cup of American grown non tariffed Covfefe.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Why say lot word when few do trick

[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 months ago (8 children)

STOP being Mean to this WOMAN! She CLEARLY was Taken in by Trump's Promises! She thought ONLY TRANS KIDS would be effected! And BROWN PEOPLE! She had No Idea WHITE PEOPLE would ALSO be effected! Cut her some SLACK!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

So uh... I had to look up the term 'CJ Degree.'

... Criminal Justice.

As in... learn 'industry practices' to be qualified as a corrections officer (jail/prison guard), private detective, cop, paralegal, etc.

The first thing that came up was a particular college's course overview and goals checklist... one of the goals was ...

Attend a financial literacy workshop.

So not only is this person a moron, not only is this person in all likelihood a prison guard, not only did they go to college to become a prison guard, they shouldn't have even graduated with their degree.

As a person from a white trash neighborhood, who got real degrees, first in the family to go to college... I have not gotten white trash vibes this strong in quite a long time.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately there’s a lot of criminal justice jobs that only require a two year technical degree. Depending on location and school it’s likely that it was “check the boxes” kind of program for a field that is understaffed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ah, the prison-industrial-degree mill complex.

Love it.

Fucks over everyone, in so many ways.

... A good portion of the families I grew up next to just actually had half of their family as criminals, in prison, usually for consistent DUIs or drug charges and domestic abuae...

... and the other half were prison/jail guards/staff.

Thats what I mean by 'white trash.'

People that unironically described themselves as 'wiggers' back in the 00s.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

thanks for the info I’m uneducated, seriously uneducated

Huh.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

He is self-aware at least, I'll give 'em that.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just put your money into stocks! Buying 10 shares of Apple right now would cost $2,000 but once it bounces back to the price it was at before the dip you'd have $2,500! That's a profit of $500 in just a few years!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

That's actually a pretty good return, but only helps people with cash lying around, which generally are already rich fucks.

It also assumes this is the bottom. That $2000 could become $1000 and it may take years and years and years to get to $2500 instead.

There is no indication this is the bottom.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

That's actually a pretty good return, but only helps people with cash lying around.

Exactly. A 25% return is amazing, but turning $1 into $1.25 isn't really that impressive. Turning $1,000,000 into $1,250,000 is. The two returns are the same but one made 25 cents and the other made 3x the yearly median income of a US citizen. "Buying the dip" only makes a difference if you're already filthy rich.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ron Howard voice:

It was not the bottom. In fact the bottom would not be discovered until the food riots of 2026.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Exactly. All the morons planning on buying the 'dip' before EU nations even announce their response to these tariffs are about to hurt themselves in confusion

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

🤣 those last few are priceless. I hope she liquidates all her shit and buys up. Us pleebs haven't even begun to feel the pressures this likely recession is going to bring on. The market has only just started to react.., is what I would say if my tin foil hat hadn't just fallen upon my dome... These fuckers are purposely crashing the market temporarily to get rich quick... I hate all of it... These grifters are the worst.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I like how she's retired and her fellow Trumpers are telling her to buy the dip. Guess she should sell her house so she can buy more stocks? I'm sure that'll work out.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Wait a minute. Are you telling me that you don't have a couple million in liquid assets that you can use to buy stocks right now?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

'seriously uneducated'.....

has degree in criminal justice.

was it the only program they could get accepted into?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

~~Dry~~ Don't cry, clown lady. Your retirement savings may be gone, but at least prices will skyrocket.

edit: dry cry? what happened, brain?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Better broke than woke **tm

/s

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Pure karma lol.

Maybe she need to stop her dumb whining woke and socialist (pension) crap. We live in capitalism, it is just business. You have been unburden by pension.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Should have been biting your tongue when you chose to vote for Trump. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

I think they are being programmed to blow all their money on the market they know fuck all about. My mom is a dumb ass always going on about thinking she knows anything about investing and always saying stuff that’s just vastly wrong and watches all that magat bullshit all the time

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Most of boomers will have their 401k (unknowingly) invested into the stock market by their employers.

If they didn't have the independance of mind to recognize shit was going down because of the prez, then it could take their retirement years to recover.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

the whole right wing outrage over mayor wu giving condolences to the family of the attacker is wild when you realize that she was doing that because first responders killed him without any other casualties or injuries to victims.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Until the ultra rich buy everything up at bargain basement prices.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

There's so much wrong with this. I'm sure that whomever this is will be in for a rough go over the next few years.

[–] Clent 10 points 2 months ago

May she sell at the bottom and buy back after the recovery.

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