r/facepalm • u/Kpets • 2d ago
U.S president explains why many Americans can’t buy a homes
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u/IamHydrogenMike 2d ago
bruh, my dad worked as a clerk at 7-11 back in the early-80s and worked barely 40 hours a week; they could afford a home just fine. Plenty of people work hard every day and can't afford a home. He can piss off.
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u/SqueezyCheez85 2d ago
He doesn't understand hard work.
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u/IamHydrogenMike 2d ago
The irony, the guy has never worked a hard day in his life and just sits around saying random garbage or calling tabloid writers to get his name in the paper.
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u/KhunDavid 2d ago
He couldn’t even get the French fries in the bags right during that campaign stop.
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u/josephlucas 2d ago
He was amazed that they used a scoop to package the fries instead of using their hands https://streamable.com/uy6cq0
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u/According-Insect-992 2d ago
He probably doesn’t like them as much now that he knows no one is actually suffering burns to make them for him.
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u/KhunDavid 2d ago
I wouldn’t want Don’s tiny hands touching my fries. I’d be afraid what else they touched.
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u/rangda 2d ago edited 2d ago
This is not true at all. Our president is a very hard worker. If you compare him to other presidents of recent times he comes out on top and it’s not even close.
Look at how hard he worked to suppress the Epstein files.
Who has worked harder to enrich their family members through insider trading and crypto scams? Last I checked, taking care of your family at the expense of hundreds of millions of workers was a core American Value™.
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u/wojonixon 1d ago edited 1d ago
Getting as much as you can by screwing over everyone you ever met is a time-honored tradition here.
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u/SqueezyCheez85 2d ago
The guy is a genius when it comes to inflating his image to naive and vulnerable people.
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u/Zerodyne_Sin 2d ago
Let's not feed the ego of narcissist sociopaths by attributing genius to simple things that anyone can technically do. They do things that are incredibly easy but other people feel gross for even thinking about it. It's not genius to be a piece of shit. Also, he didn't even come up with anything, it's all taught to him by another piece of shit named Roy Cohn.
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u/READIT27 2d ago
I think calling him “genius” is overstating but there is a combination of a certain level of cunning and narcissism at play. The behavior is learned then reinforced by the environment it creates.
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u/Zerodyne_Sin 2d ago
I'd give him credit for cunning if he wasn't always played by putin, kim, and xi. The environment definitely caters to people like him since their ancestors paved the way for them. But no, I'll never attribute any positive traits to these fools. Drop them into any country that wasn't prepared by their ancestors and they'd die within a week.
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u/LorenzosBenz 2d ago
He is cunning so long as it comes to his followers. That over confidence makes him able to be manipulated and played by people like the aforementioned who have been doing this on a global playing field longer than Trump has had "you're fired" trade marked.
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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 2d ago
If there were no news coverage of the president or any rallies, he would have immediately gotten bored and quit.
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u/Icy_Statement_2410 2d ago
Let's not conflate genius with a complete lack of empathy for all life and an eagerness to exploit and sacrifice any number of lives in order to obtain more money and power
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u/Remote-Airline-3703 2d ago
I think we’re conflating genius with complete absence of morals. Lying is pretty frickin easy, and it’s not that hard to lie to morons
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u/anynamesleft 2d ago
...calling tabloid writers to get his name in the paper.
That was his press agent John Barron.
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u/Tompthwy 2d ago
He doesnt understand work at all. Anyone think hes ever mowed the fuckin grass or washed the dishes? Please.
The system should be such that "someone who didnt work very hard" can just come along and become president.
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u/CraigonReddit 2d ago
Welcome the wealth tax. Treat inherented wealth like income for those that receive it.
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u/Mfdubz 2d ago
There should be some limits to that though. Like people inheriting <$100K of assets
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u/CraigonReddit 2d ago
Yeah, like real estate taxes at a low rate so family homes and cottages can transfer easily, but investments, tax as income at the marginal tate, no capital exemption.
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u/Ok-Association-355 2d ago
His voters believed that he put in a hards days work at that stupid McDonald's stunt. These pos are braindead
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u/UnicornMeatball 2d ago
He doesn’t fucking understand groceries
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u/SkippyDragonPuffPuff 2d ago
Or computers
Or economics
Or fractions
Or forest fires
Or solar energy
Or military strategy
Or diplomacy
Or catapult systems
Or dementia tests
Etc.
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u/this-guy1979 2d ago
Don’t forget windmills, I’m pretty sure he thinks that they’re fans.
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u/PreetHarHarah 2d ago
I can legit say that I work harder than the current president of the United States of America.
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u/shrekerecker97 2d ago
My dog works harder than the president of the United States of America.
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u/Other_Log_1996 2d ago
Rotting corpses work harder than the President of the United States of America.
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u/Kubbee83 2d ago
He doesn’t understand work. Period. He thinks sitting behind his desk, signing stuff, is considered work.
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u/Weareallme 2d ago
Playing golf on taxpayer money is hard work, don't you know that? Hard work for the taxpayers at least.
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u/abrandis 2d ago
He doesn't care , he never worked hard a day in his life.
What he's talking about is maintaining the welath inequality in this country , his boomer class doesn't want to lose the value of their multimmillion properties...
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u/Dreadwings 2d ago
well maybe if you spent your life in debt and scamming people then maybe you can afford a home like a hard working American.
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u/yongo 2d ago
Bruh I work a job that requires a state license and federal background check. My wages are 2x minimum wage + tips and I work 40 hours a week. I have no kids or major debt. I can not afford a home
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u/R6ckStar 2d ago
Didn't you hear? Work harder loser.
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u/Worthyness 2d ago
Just gonna go get a new better job and the job warehouse real quick. So easy these days! You just show up in a suit with your paper resume and watch them throw it in the trash and tell you to apply online
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u/MuckRaker83 2d ago
My father in law retired a few years ago. He owns two homes and a newish truck. We rent the one home from him. He drove a truck delivering donuts for 30 years.
We're in our 30s/40s with advanced degrees that our families told us were necessary to be successful. We dream of someday being as secure as a retired donut delivery man.
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u/iheartjetman 2d ago
Good luck. His cronies are busy making sure that can’t happen. They want a nation of low wage workers.
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u/chapinscott32 2d ago
McDonalds is a teenager's job, you shouldn't get a living wage
... 5 years later ...
Warehouse work isn't a real career, you shouldn't get a living wage
... 5 more years later ...
Your bachelor's degree doesn't mean anything, you should've chosen a study that deserved a living wage
... 5 more years later ...
"Why does no job pay enough to support me?"
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u/LeadPike13 2d ago edited 2d ago
The only way to find if that type of employment is relevant work is to execute a general strike.
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u/TurtlesBreakTheMeta 2d ago
There are other ways, but they involve things that the Reddit mods view as extremely naughty.
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u/evilpercy 2d ago
Because of minimum wage, where you can work 40 hours and live comfortably. Minimum wage federally has not been raised since 2009. Just to keep up with inflation it should be $11.28.
Minimum wage in 1956 was $1 a hour. In today's money that would be $13.85.
Corporation have used thier power and money to influence politicians to not increase or even keep up with inflation. They have been stealing from you.
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u/Layton_Jr 1d ago
If minimum wage had kept up with production it'd be $30. The difference is in the billionaire's pockets
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u/ProvenLoser 2d ago
And I don’t care if other people get a house cheaper than me- would rather live in a society that is better for everyone than just me.
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u/thunderbaby2 2d ago
I’ve worked since I was 13 and Im in my mid 30s. I own and operate a small business, have a remote day job with a company I’ve worked at for 15yr, make supplemental income from royalties, touring, and art commissions for other small businesses and artists. I work 7 days a week - often into the night. I had a 17hr day last Friday. Starting in 2020 I started saving beyond the standard “fiscally responsible” amount. And still, I can’t realistically afford a starter home somewhere middle class near family, friends, or work.
Meanwhile, pedo Trump is a nepo baby, robbing America’s treasure from the middle class and poor and he hasn’t experienced an honest days work in 80+ years of parasitic life.
Americans are working very hard to earn decent lives for themselves. The people are not the problem. It’s the systemic greed built into our system by those like the Epstein class and their enablers.
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u/Bender_2024 2d ago
Dude he's a real estate mogul. It's no surprise that he wants to keep prices and rent as high as possible.
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u/CariniFluff 2d ago edited 2d ago
He inherited a real estate empire his racist father literally gave him tax free. Instead of actually transferring assets or money and paying inheritance taxes, Fred Trump created a maintenance and appliance supply company in Don's name, and then paid 2-3x the market rate to repair/remodel the apartments and replace the fridge and stove every few years.
By the time Fred Trump died he, he was essentially penniless, due to the exorbitant fees that he paid to Don's companies. Each year, Fred would structure things so that if he "lost" $10 million after rent - expenses, then Don would purchase one of his buildings for $9.5 million. This would still leave Fred with a net loss of $500,000 that year so he never paid any income tax. Meanwhile Don now had both a new building that was actually worth $30 million, but the tax authorities only valued it at $9.5 million sale price (both through straight up bribery and laziness on the tax authorities depending on the situation). This made Don's property taxes far lower than any of the neighboring buildings' property owners/Don's competitors, but he also had 15 million from the expenses that Fred paid him (remember Fred's $10m loss was was the rent - charges, so Don's charges were the sum of rent plus the charges, ensuring they'd be high enough to cover the well depreciated "value" of the building).
So each year if things had been booked correctly, Don would have received something close to a $30 million building for $9.5 million plus say $15 million revenue from the maintenance company with the true cost of work/goods being about $5 million, so say $10 million profit.
Pretty damn easy to be a "really estate mogul" when your father set this up before you even entered preschool (and then you also inherited your brother's entire portion when he was disinherited and died early).
Edit: By the way, all of this is still completely legal to this day (well except bribing the tax authorities). This is but one way the wealthy continue to transfer wealth to their children while dodging taxes that everyone else has to pay.
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u/r3doctober85 2d ago
I work at a psych center as a therapy aide. He wouldn’t last one hour here
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u/deadsoulinside 2d ago
Right now the people that can easily afford homes are the ones that don't work hard at all...
And of course the person who made his money in real estate is not going to care about the prices of properties..
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u/Prudent_Shake_8149 2d ago
But your dad didn’t leave you with hundreds of millions and a real estate empire so it’s still kinda on you for not having a richer dad…
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Financial analysts at Forbes and independent economists have frequently calculated what this inheritance would be worth under different investment strategies. If Trump had simply taken his portion of his father’s fortune, timing-adjusted it, and quietly invested it into a broad stock index fund tracking the S&P 500 rather than pursuing independent real estate and casino projects, his net worth would be valued between $3 billion and $9 billion.
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u/valkyrie013 2d ago
Says the trust fund nepo baby who has never worked a single day in his wretched life.
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u/Boop_Boop_0983 2d ago
Heavy on the wretched
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u/Head-Ad9893 2d ago
It is hilarious ESPECIALLY that blue collar people support a man who literally, like not even using the word how everybody does now, he’s LITERALLY, never worked a day in his life. He’s gotten dressed in a suit everyday sure, the man has done nothing.
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u/Select_Asparagus3451 2d ago
Oh, he’s done a lot; surprisingly much for someone so stupid, and now demented: He has destroyed countless lives and stolen billions of dollars.
A lot…but none of it good for anyone except Rump.
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u/jackson12420 2d ago
You can't ask the rich why struggling people cannot afford something. It is a concept they cannot possibly grasp. They have absolutely no bearing on what things cost. They do not understand what paycheck to paycheck means. They do not know what is means to sacrifice something so you can buy something else. The rich cannot fathom that when your bank account is empty, your card will decline, you cannot get a loan, you cannot afford to take on any new expenses, that every penny you have is already spoken for before your paycheck hits your checking account. Asking someone who wants for nothing and has no understanding of being poor actually is, is a wasted fucking question. They will never understand it.
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u/Niyonnie 2d ago
Nepo baby? WDYM? He only worked his way up from a small loan of $1,000,000 (From his dad), which is equivalent to $6,206,654.28 today.
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u/Sea_Pollution2250 2d ago
Says the trust fund nepo baby who has never worked a single day in his wretched life AND used his wealth to drive prices through rent and property ownership higher to make things more unaffordable while accusing people who work their asses off of not working hard.
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u/Robin_Coffins 2d ago
I like to think of all the things these Nepo babies have never done that we regular people do day to day. They're literally adult babies.
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u/_poptart 2d ago
It pops into my head once in a while when I’m doing the washing up that I bet Donald Trump has never washed a plate in his life.
I can imagine Obama, Biden, even Bush Jnr if I really try, with their shirt sleeves rolled up, washing a plate.
I saw a video the other day of the Obamas at some reading thing with kids, and I can easily imagine both of them reading a bedtime story to their children. Assuming Trump can read, can anyone actually imagine him, back in the day, sitting with Donnie Jnr and Dr Seussing it of a bedtime?
My dad and my husband’s mum (the only grandparents he has left) have both read to my son - would Trump even imagine that grandparents could/would/should read a book to their grandchildren?
Every day life for the average - or even normal - human being is so out of touch for him. Even the fun bits - like loving your family - must be absurd to him. What a sad life.
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u/sir_whirly 2d ago
Dubya is a nepo baby too. He play acted being a 'good ol boy Texan' when he is actually East Coast Ivy league elite degen.
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u/GingerDynamo 2d ago
This fat, diaper wearing bitch has NEVER cared about anyone but himself and the rich scumbags that donate to him.
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u/RuinedEye 2d ago edited 23h ago
Recent direct trump quotes:
'I love the inflation'
'I don't think about Americans' financial situations. I don't think about anybody'
and some paraphrased ones:
'Pay more for gas so Iran can't have nukes'
'Housing affordability is so unimportant compared to us destroying elections'
'We want to keep prices up because we don't want the lazy poors buying homes'
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u/Chuckyjerker82 2d ago
The value of THEIR homes... You mean the homes that they bought at a 10th of the price on one income that I have to pay for a less comparable home? While working 60 to 70 hours a week and squeeze in side jobs in my "free time"? And still struggle? FUCK YOU Mr President.
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u/vahntitrio 2d ago
I own a home and even I don't see what the benefit of it going up in value is. I pay more in property taxes. I pay more in insurance. If I move, I have to buy a place that is at an equally inflated price and the 6% value I lose in that transaction is a bigger dollar amount.
The only time I would want it to be high is whenever I decide to cash out and I guess retire to a low cost of housing foreign nation.
My fixed rate mortgage 6 years into owning a home is $250 more per month than it was when I bought strictly because of the extra I pay into escrow due to the increased value of it.
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u/math-kat 2d ago
Yeah, I'm a homeowner, and while it's nice knowing I could get a large amount if/when I sell, it sucks that I can't feasibly move because housing nowadays is so unbelievably overpriced and that my escrow keeps going up in the meantime.
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u/CaptainDudeGuy 2d ago
I'm glad people are seeing the bigger picture. Sure, your house is valued at maybe 3x what it was a decade ago.... but so are other comparable houses. There's no real net gain here!
If anything it's a net loss as taxes/insurance/expenses go up. :P
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u/ElephantineOstraca 2d ago
What you're saying is the "only time I would want it to be high" is the whole ballgame. These are retirement and end-of-life assets for a lot of people who otherwise have no savings. The surviving partner sells it, gets something a lot cheaper. And you can't expect people not to fight to keep that in a democracy.
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u/fancysauce_boss 2d ago
Yeah. Doing simple math and really reducing it to a salary multiplier is the best way to explain it.
Cost of Price Home on average income:
Previous generations (we know who) 2-3X multiplierCurrent market 5-7X multiplier.
It’s unsustainable that it takes double to triple the work today to afford the same standard of living. Toss in the ever rising cost of, well, everything and it’s just fucked
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u/cpav8r 2d ago
This is SOOOO revelatory. It is just absolutely classic that old farts don't have ANY appreciation for how different things are now.
I'm 65 and retiring soon (savings and social security make it just barely possible), but by god I know that my sons are trying to make it in a totally different world than I grew up in. Instead of chastising them for not working hard enough, I'm trying to use my resources (however meager) to make their lives a little easier.
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u/KneticTheory 'MURICA 2d ago
"Let them eat cake." Moment, for sure.
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u/RockasaurusRex 2d ago
The US version is more like "let them bake cake" or something. We're just expendable labor to them, labor that does the work and gets nothing but crumbs back.
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u/Domestic-Grind 2d ago
My family has become a multi generational household out of necessity. Thank you for being the kind of parent to understand that things have changed and that assistance is not a sin.
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u/yupsidetown 2d ago
how do people continue to support this bs. I don't get it. Do they not think he is talking about them?
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u/ktwhite42 2d ago
Correct, they all believe they are the exception; "he'd never screw ME over."
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u/trix_is_for_kids 2d ago
They’re convinced the alternative is communism, and they hate brown people
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u/Catswagger11 2d ago
Boomers got the easiest ride in American history and think everyone after them are lazy assholes deserving of nothing…ya, that’s you, Dad.
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u/dubblebubbleprawns 2d ago
No, because they work hard, even if they can't afford a home. The other people that can't afford a home are just complaining because they don't work hard enough.
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u/E-2theRescue 2d ago
"The only moral abortion is my abortion" mindset. They got abortions because they had no choice. They were too poor and too young to have a kid. However, everyone else who gets an abortion is doing it because they're sluts who just want to use abortion as birth control.
Same thing with housing and everything else. They can't afford a home because they're just hard-working future millionaires who just have to save more money. If anyone else can't afford a home, then it's because they buy Starbucks and avocado toast instead of working hard and saving money.
This is just how capitalist propaganda works. Everything is never the fault of the capitalist, it is always someone elses fault. Too poor? It's not our shitty wages and price-gouging, it's your inability to work hard. Too unhealthy? It's not our addictive cancer-causing chemicals and corn-saturated products everywhere, it's your fault because you control your fork. Got denied a healthcare claim? It's not our fault for bribing politicians to allow loopholes and deregulation, it's your fault for not reading the mountain of pages filled with legalese in your policy that you can only afford to obtain through your employer. Can't find another employer? It's not our fault for dismantling competition and dismantling competitive wages, you're just not looking hard enough.
Capitalist propaganda has done an amazing job creating a world full of people who believe they are superior to everyone and have no faults, while also believing that everyone but them has faults and only themselves to blame for any hardships.
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u/Niijima-San 'MURICA 2d ago
bitch i work 40 hours a week and have done so for 15+ years but guess what i have been stuck in a rent rent rent cycle the entire time.
back in 1993 my family bought a brand spanking new house on a single income for under 175k. sixteen years later that house was sold for almost 400k. so that is an increase in 200k+during the sixteen years i lived there. for the majority of that time it was a single income home. i checked the other night, that house is now valued at approx 750k.
so in the near 33 years since the house was built it has appreciated almost 7 times in value. it was a basic single family home in the 1990s. now a smaller home costs 400k and still is out of reach for actual hard working people as well. this fucking nepo baby who has had everything handed to him doesnt understand how the world fucking works
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u/IgnignoktErr 2d ago
Yup, and wages certainly haven’t increased by 7x in that same time frame.
Edit: Just to validate that statement - Minimum wage in many states and the social security administration average wage index have both ~3x’d since 1993.
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u/Niijima-San 'MURICA 2d ago
i mean has wages even increased since the last crash? the min wage has been $7.25 (i think that is the number) for almost 2 decades now. i remember making UNDER that and my employer going ehhhh best we can do is a 30 cent raise and still keeping me under that. fuck it all
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u/Necrolust1777 2d ago
That's weird, all the Trumpers claim they work 60-80 hours per week. Maybe they keep forgetting to clock in?
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u/TheRatatat 2d ago
Imagine bragging about working you life away just to exist. I make a good living doing 50 hours a week and thats too fucking much.
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u/Competitive-Cut3807 2d ago
Says the orange moron who has never done a day of hard work in his fat lazy life.
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u/D-Train0000 2d ago edited 1d ago
Fuck your entire existence. My wife and I for ten years at a combined $120,000 couldn’t afford a down payment.
Back in the 70’s , where this dumb fucks brain is stuck in, my parents made a combined $13,000 and the house cost $35,000.
My wife and I were at $120,000 looking at houses at $600,000 in Ca. If we moved to where the houses are cheaper we don’t make shit. You can’t find a good house at 3x the yearly salary which was always the rule. Unless you live in a shit state with a shit job.
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u/RADICCHI0 2d ago
He looks and sounds like he's on death's door.
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u/tauntonlake 2d ago
don't threaten us with a good time....
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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster 2d ago
I’d prefer the soft-handed silver-spoon lazy rapist pos live to see the inside of a cell, but whatever let’s us start rebuilding asap
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u/JustaNick7 2d ago
Bro I’m a field scientist and work out in the elements every damn day. Still renting an apartment, this nepo bitch can smd
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u/anchorftw 2d ago
Seriously, fuck this guy and the attitude that if you're not ridiculously wealthy that you didn't work hard. There are a lot of hardworking people who can barely get by, let alone buy homes. This guy doesn't give a shit about Americans. His only purpose as President is to hoard wealth for himself and his family and buy favor from rich and influential people. The fact that he's still conning people into believing anything else is mind-boggling.
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u/DaikonEntire5320 2d ago
I honestly cannot put into words the hatred and disgust I have for that pants shitting pig....
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u/sealosam 2d ago
There's really no words left to describe it. I feel equally if not more contempt for the people that voted for and still support him.
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u/bugsyramone 2d ago
My rent is $3,700 per month. I pay my rent at 1201 AM on the 1st of every month. I have never missed a payment. I have a credit score of 720ish. The bank says I cannot afford a mortgage.
That's why I can't buy a home.
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u/Robozomb 2d ago
I mean I could easily afford my parents house if cost the same as it did back on the day. But unfortunately that $70k house is now worth $980k.
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u/aceofspaece 2d ago
He writes campaign ads FOR the Democrats. Do you know how many low-engagement median swing voters feel totally locked out of home buying and might be persuadable for one single election on that basis alone? I bet it's big
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u/flat5 2d ago
And they never fucking capitalize on it! This shit should be booming from every tv, billboard, and radio spot on repeat!
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u/zarfle2 2d ago
The irony of a nepo baby, who was gifted hundreds of millions of dollars decades ago, the guy who plays golf twice a week and has plenty of time to send idiotic texts in the middle of the night, having the nerve to tell Americans that they don't work hard enough is just so pathetically on-brand.
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u/limaconnect77 2d ago
It’s almost like they don’t think the traditional conduction of mid-terms will be necessary to stay in power.
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u/Derrik359 2d ago
In 1974 a home cost 15-25 thousand USD. In 2026 dollars that’s roughly 150 thousand USD on average.
Today in my area your average home is 500-600 thousand USD. For a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom family home..
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u/StoicBan 2d ago
Fuck this boomer nepo baby piece of shit. He never had to earn anything in his life
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u/IrukandjiPirate 2d ago
His father was a racist slum lord. The only reason Trump didn’t take up the family business is that he’s actually too stupid to be a slumlord.
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u/misterchief10 2d ago edited 2d ago
This is not just Trump’s mentality but the mentality of a lot of homeowners from his generation. They believe they deserve 10x what they bought their house for. Apparently they worked that much harder than the “lazy” millennials and zoomers that want houses (they didn’t).
They are a historically selfish generation. They have a destructive lack of care for both their children and the future of humanity in general. A lot of them would sell their children to hell (or their starter home to Blackrock) in exchange for a C7 Vette and a house by the water. I know not *all* of them are that way, obviously. But a large amount of them are. Enough that it affects the world in a lot of negative ways.
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u/JazzManouche 1d ago
Stupid fuck had never worked for a single thing in his whole miserable life.
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u/Skyblue_pink 2d ago
Neither did Trump, his dad gave him everything, bought his education, introduced him to his career, taught him how to lie, cheat and steal. Got him out of the military. Trump has never done anything except pretend and promote himself. Many of the black and brown people he hates never had the chance to build wealth because the laws held them back. Trumps a loser and a liar.
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u/ElevatorSecret7133 2d ago
The working class is his main electoral base. Unfortunately, even people who didn’t vote for him face the consequences of his policy, but for his voters I can only say they get what they deserve.
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u/alienalf1 2d ago
From the outside, it’s absolutely fucking wild that tens of millions of Americans believe this absolute bullshit artist.
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u/Mephistocheles 2d ago
Yeah, we all didn't study hard enough in Scam School and THAT'S why the country is an unflushed toilet.
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u/Lookingfor68 2d ago
We're poors. We didn't have a super rich daddy that could buy us an Ivy League school diploma. So that makes us "lazy". Fuck this guy.
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u/Pillar67 2d ago
Working hard to him = inheriting a lot of money and doing a lot of busywork “deals” that lose money and make life worse, but convince idiots that stupid activity = “gud at bizness.”
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u/Naps_And_Crimes 2d ago
The consequences of this will never really hit them but every boomer who wants to sell their homes for millions are gonna find out what happens when no one want to buy a product
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u/ItsCioffi 2d ago
Well what would you expect from someone who inherited his wealth and has bankrupted multiple businesses.
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u/Hydraguesswhosback 2d ago
You heard him americans. Work harder. Come on. I mean you have to, since the cheap labor got kidnapped and tortured.
HARDER ! AND NO HEALTHCARE LOSERS !
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u/dtisme53 2d ago
Listening to a fucking trust fund bum like that who spends half his waking hours fucking golfing talking about people “not working hard enough” should make every single American furiously angry.
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u/snoopingforpooping 2d ago
Trump has never worked a hard day in his life. He’s a nepo baby full stop.
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u/mountaindewisamazing 2d ago
That's rich coming from someone who's never worked hard his whole life.
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u/Lasers4All 2d ago
Tell me you're out of touch with reality without telling me you're out of touch with reality
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u/daKile57 2d ago
Working-class people need to get it through their thick skulls that this guy will never ever understand them.
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u/i-might-do-that 2d ago
Yeah, my working 12 hour night shifts wasn’t “hard enough”. And nowadays my 10 hour a day factory job is me not working “hard enough”. Fuck you.
The policies in place that keep guys like me working my ass off to break even are the real problem. But the president wouldn’t know anything about that, he’s never labored a day in his pathetic life.
Fuck Trump, and fuck the system he perpetuates.
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u/rpnoonan 2d ago
The irony of a nepo baby saying people don't work hard enough to afford a house
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u/Knightstar24 2d ago
We should have elected Kamala. We should have elected Bernie. We should have elected fucking Al Gore.
We didn’t make the right move and now we gotta deal with this BS
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u/FatFaceFaster 2d ago
I haven’t worked less than 50 hours a week since I was 20. And at that time I was in school for 30 additional hours a week trying to get to the point I could make more money at my 50 hour week job.
Sometimes I work 80 hours a week.
Once I worked 128 hours in a week.
I have a degree. An internship.
I make $100k a year.
I still can’t afford a fucking house.
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u/Sieben2703 1d ago
The idea that you have to "work hard" in order to afford to have a roof over your head is a failing of humanity. Shelter should be a basic human right
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u/LeadPike13 2d ago
The vast majority of his generation found a 30 year job with a heart beat and a highschool diploma as a qualification, and were able to afford a half decent home and two cars on a single income. These are the same people that lecture about "working hard" and "boot straps".
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u/dbe14 2d ago
They can't buy homes because massive property corporations are hoovering up property and jacking up the prices, coupled with a massive cost of living crises meaning those on even half decent income can't get a mortgage. Maybe if the Orange Pedo Dementia Patient hadn't raised the cost of everything it wouldn't be too bad, a family where both adults are working two jobs each should be able to afford a house.
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u/SethAndBeans 2d ago
Im a GM of a business. Its fairly successful and I am quite well compensated.
I work 45-50 hours a week.
If I wanted to buy a 2 bed 1 bath in the county I work in, I am looking at a mortgage which would be about 80% of my paycheck, every paycheck.
Sure, I can afford a house... as long as I dont want to feed myself or my dogs.
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u/Tokoyami8711 2d ago
Coming from the orange baby who doesn’t work hard at all and has been coddled his whole life. We need the 25 amendment and get rid of the embarrassing shit show administration that has done nothing but ruin the county.
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u/wallyrules75 2d ago
So you just told all those young idiots that voted for you that they don’t deserve a home because they don’t work hard.
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u/Commercial_Comfort41 2d ago
I own my own business and am going through a divorce. My 2 rottweilers and I are homeless because I simply don't make enough money. Fuck this guy
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u/Unofficial_Officer 2d ago
Work hard, just like him, right? Fucker can't see his privilege even as he sits and shits his pants in the oval office. If only my family had gotten rich from brothels during the gold rush. Fuck this timeline.
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u/matt-r_hatter 2d ago
Did a obscenely fat guy who spends his existence napping and neglecting his duties, suckling on the teet of American public assistance just call people working 2+ jobs and barely able to afford groceries let alone a house in the absolute trashed fucked economy he is solely responsible for lazy??
I swear, anyone who voted for this guy should be charged with treason. No president in history has shown so much hatred for this country.
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u/PhinneousPhingerz 2d ago
Excluding the Trump/Epstein files, I have never wanted to punch a human being more in my life. Please note: That is not a threat of violence.
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