This all started with an idiot post by Chris Rufo that "the economy is strong and income has never been higher." Why would someone in the Trump coalition say something so retarded not a couple months removed from the election? Because people are still mad that about legally flooding the country with Indians. archive
Chris then kicked off the party in earnest by insisting that everything is doing great because someone, somewhere got a $70k job at Panda Express. archive
This is basically "full employment." The Panda Express near my house is offering $70k/yr plus benefits for the assistant manager. You can make $100k/yr working at Chipotle for a few years and working up to store manager.
People are talking about H-1B foreigners replacing American engineers AND THIS IS YOUR INPUT IN THE CONVERSATION??
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Boomercon influencer "Wanye Burkett" had a Helen of Troy moment that kicked this off (he deleted) (archive)
I literally don't care if the entire country burns down and everyone I love dies, that would be better than giving an inch to "right wing" 24-year-olds who are indistinguishable from progressives except they hate immigrants
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Matt Walsh appears, of course. No boomercon situation would be complete without the Daily Wire's Ron Swanson showing up to give us the astroturfed bearded family man position archive
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Reminder that Chris just hired a porn star lib for a $300k journalist position (archive)
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My absolute favorite part is Rufo retweeting a guy who did exactly what he's recommending (worked his way up to manager position in fast food) without reading the whole thread where the guy says it was a horrible experience that he would only wish on his worst enemies archive
If Vivek's "Saved by the Bell" post was his Waterloo, this is the Con Inc Pearl Harbor. The entire conservagrifter alliance turned out to get decimated on X. Bottom line is, nobody would be taking issue with "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" except the people preaching that want to import foreigners to replace the people they're talking to!!
"Learn to code" has now become "learn to shovel fried rice." Amazing economy!!
If someone can get 70k working for Panda Express then inflation has hit a hell of a lot harder than we realized. The value of our currency is dropping like a rock if someone can get that kind of salary as entry an level fast food worker.
It's assistant manager, so you would have to grind for years of 4am lo mein cooking sessions and dealing with riffraff customers for the privilege.
From the former Chik-Fil-A guy I linked at the bottom, who worked out a deal to get auto-promoted to manager
I've seen entry level jobs at $16-17, which is still way higher than it used to be. In Texas it's probably $12/hr. The hard inflation stat from Biden's reign is 20%... everything is 20% less value (or worse) than it used to be. Which is insanity.
Either way, Rufo is a privileged imbecile who should be forced to make a career out of Taco Bell. But I'm sure he's too high skill for that
Rufo apparently lives in Gig Harbor, WA. I have been to Gig Harbor, and $70k/year isn't going to get you very far there. You'll certainly never be able to afford a house on that.
Yes, this is the part they are desperately trying to hide. If these H1B engineers and tech workers are truly the best of the best like Silicon Valley claims, then they why are they getting paid at the same salary as a Panda Express manager? The math isn't adding up.
Thank you. Not only that, but there's one manager per store. If someone caps their advancement, hits manager, and stays, no one else at that store can be the manager.
"They can transfer to another store." Well then, no one at that store currently can be the manager. Having one decently paying job per site does not make for a strong economy or society.
The boomers do have somewhat of a point that demotivation is an issue, but they're the ones who set the wrong expectations in the first place. They grew up when a college degree had value. Not when it was a entry-level requirement. People are still fed the idea that degree => good job. And a lot of them believed it enough to go into sizable debt. Finding out they were lied to and are now starting with a huge handicap is a shitty surprise. It's kind of understandable that so many of them are doomers.
When I worked at a country club, my boss started as a busboy and was promoted due to merit and experience. But if I wanted to get promoted, I was expected to have a degree in hospitality management. The days of starting off in the mail room and working your way up are long gone.
China, Israel, or India, These faggots all suck cock for one of them.
Matt Walsh coming in like a Harris voter
Historical perspective? Lol, someone with an x account should give him a historical perspective on what happens when an entire generation of young men believes they have nothing to live for. And these are American men who keep getting passed over for hiring and promotion because of DEI policies and the great replacement, so it's a very well armed generation.
And no, that's not calling for rule 2 action, simply a recognition that, historically speaking, we are in a very dangerous situation right now.
"They" know that too, which is why they forced Biden out, entertained us with a circus election, and now want us to "calm down" because "our guy" supposedly won. But notice how Trump's handler -- Vance -- is doing all the talking as of late? J6 Pardons? "Eh, we have to consider the facts." Mass deportations? "Eh, temper your expectations." And Trump appointed Soro's long-time fund manager to head the U.S. Treasury. Huh? That's the guy that shorted the Asian economy and is banned from setting foot there. That guy is going to save our economy?
It's almost an open secret that Trump's benefactors will be given the war with Iran they've wanted for decades.
First, thank you OP for putting in the work to summarize this.
Second, the real thing to focus on is not why Panda Express managers are making 70K a year, but why workers in far more difficult and skilled positions are making less in comparison. We are scolded that H1B is necessary to attract "the best," but if they truly are "the best," then why are H1Bs being paid the same salary as a fast food restaurant manager? The narrative and the math aren't adding up.
Third, we spent four full years with these same shithead influencers complaining about the economy, but as soon as immigration is on the line, they do a complete 180 and start parroting the same Biden-era lies about the economy that they once complainined about. It's all so tiresome and transparent. Having lived through 9/11, COVID, BLM riots, and the Trump years, I don't why I am surprised anymore to see history being rewritten in real time, but it never fails to shock me when they try. They truly hate us.
Conservatives did not win 2016 or 2024. MAGA did, and people need to learn the difference.
It's a shame that none of these fuckers will ever get what they deserve. It's a travesty that their bloodlines are allowed to continue.
Make flyover country into a no fly zone. They hide in their gun free enclaves on the coast because they fear us.
Amazing how all of these corporatist scumbags have dropped the mask
My litmus test for who is actually on the people's side remains who is against both illegal and legal immigration.
The 'gig economy' is a neoliberal exploitative model that treats workers as disposable temp workers. It was adopted by both the Dems and the Republicans in the late nineties as the answer to a globalist economy.
The 'gig economy' is per definition a component of the globalist mentality that has lowered living standards in the West.
During the 'Great Recession', you could also get a job at McDonald's when you lost your high-paying job at Wallstreet. rofl Are we back at the 'Great Recession' standards now?
Wow. That thread is an absolute goldmine for soundbites from neoliberals in conservative clothing. I keep wanting to pick one part out to repost for visibility and comedy but there's actually too many, so I was eventually just left scrolling while flabbergasted. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns a million men into nazis.
My lasting take aways:
the absolute religious fervour that the 'broadminded classical liberal' descends into once you introduce the possibility of deporting their based hardworking brown immigrants or their descendants, as with Wayne's outburst.
how all of this is enabled by latent feminism and boomers' resentment of their sons. There's a disturbing pattern, impossible to unsee once noticed, that these fucks will wriggle endlessly in order to spin a narrative of expectation management and harsh competition for men, but when it comes to women they still have the participation prize parade lined up, and suddenly you remember where all the 100k/year remote working fake corporate jobs are actually going. Rufo employing a random former pornstar is an extreme example, but this mindset of feminist boomers who hate their sons has apparently been destroying us for nearly a century.
Bruh, you're a racist idiot. Without immigrants, who's going to pick our fruit, bruh? Who's going to clean my toilet? You're too busy quoting "Mein Kampf" with Nick Fuentes to think about the big picture. Just imagine all the sweet, sweet Latin pussy you can score from desperate Latinas looking for an easy path to citizenship? Ask your landscaper to introduce you to his daughter, bruh! 😎
There was one reply Rufo retweeted which was basically "You could live the 1950s lifestyle on this budget so I don't get why you're complaining."
First of all, lol no. That's enough to buy your home and raise a family on a single income and have a comfortable retirement if you live in Smallville. How many fast food manager positions are there in Smallville? Two? Three? You're gonna be the one in a thousand who gets that position? If you live somewhere with an active tech industry (you know, the places that have the jobs you're qualified for), your cost of living is gonna be way higher. And god forbid you're trying to find work in your hometown, rather than being an economic migrant in your own country.
Second, what happened to 70 years of growth? What happened to four generations of sacrifice between now and then that we can only afford 1950s wealth to our own people? Well I know what happened to that wealth. You formed an Everyone But White Men coalition, paid off the peons, and took the rest for yourselves. Or at least, some people did - Rufo gets paid more in momentary influence than actual wealth, because he apparently has the disposition of a woman who settles for being the third wife in a polygamy.
Any minute now Hannity is going to come out jerking it to a picture of Christopher Wray
I'm just waiting for the Boomer-instigated wars to start. We'll see what happens when a bunch of hopeless, bitter 24-year-olds are told to die halfway across the planet so some fat, 72-year-old geriatric can live a couple of years longer.
I/o is Asian? His tweeting style reeks of jew to me
Asian and potentially female. It's obvious because of the directionality of the tweets for months, zero regard for white people.
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Damn, homie. That hit hard.