Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) this week headlined a "Black Americans for Trump" event in Atlanta that The New Republic's Talia Jane has deemed a "major bust."In her dispatch on the event, Jane notes that Trump didn't even bother to show up and instead spoke to attendees via telephone about his planned t...
  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
    65·
    4 months ago

    How is it possible to be a member of the pre-civil-rights generation of white people and be so oblivious as to

    • DON A SHIRT that says in huge letters “Blacks for Trump”
    • Wear it in public
    • To an event ostensibly targeted to black people
    • Willingly pose for a picture wearing it with no black people in evidence except those laughing at you or giving you the side eye from a distance.
      • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 months ago

        But oh how they want to, and they’ll vote for the guy they think will make it so they can say it and have everybody think they’re cool again.

    • StinkySocialist@lemmy.mlEnglish
      301·
      4 months ago

      Lead poisoning is known to make people dumber and angrier. It seems the boomers got the bulk of the lead poisoning in America. To me, this explains the behavior you’re talking about 🤷. I have no other theories. I think they’re all just brain dead from lead poisoning dude.

      • TheMonkeyLord@lemm.ee
        6·
        4 months ago

        I have genuinely thought this for years.

        I originally thought that generational bullshit is stupid and, without any other influence, each generation is really the same as the last and the changes only really happen within the society itself. So I always thought it was stupid when people would say, “X generation is the dumbest!”

        But then I realized that Boomers were hit with both massively spread lead poisoning and swaths of radiation through especially Midwest America throughout their developmental periods that it is fair enough to say that, should there be such thing as the “Dumbest Generation,” it would likely be the Boomers

        • Snowclone@lemmy.world
          4·
          4 months ago

          In retail it’s always boomers losing their shit about almost nothing, and being 40 now, I recall the past 30 years pretty well, and there were also recipts with coupons, you had to pay cash and using a CC or Debit was a curtesy you couldn’t expect, banks gave you cards and pin numbers, but NOW they can’t handle it. At all.

        • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
          2·
          4 months ago

          Plus, a lot of them got Covid without a vacchine and that disease attacks your nervous system and can shave of between 3 to 6 IQ points with each infection. So they are likely even dumber now than they were before Covid.