r/Enough_Sanders_Spam 17h ago

Horseshoe moment. Laura Loomer pushing inaccurate+misleading left wing economic talking about.

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u/grettlekettlesmettle 15h ago

whenever people my age and social bracket (early 30s, college-educated parents) who I know are making 40k more a year than me complain about having no money my question is always "what are you spending it on?"

and then they admit that they never cook and they have five million subscriptions and also just bought a starter house and an 80-inch flatscreen TV to go with it. what they mean is they can only afford vacations to myrtle beach and not to italy. what they mean is they have one household car and not two. what they mean is that they never really learned how to budget properly and they could actually be saving $230 a month if they learned how to make crockpot chili or limited themselves to three drinks at friday cocktail hour or didn't do retail therapy every weekend. no cut to quality of life other than some mild reconsideration of choices and acceptance that sometimes you have a lean month.

i think people who were raised middle class/umc have a really hard time with the idea that their parents needed 10-15 years to get the house and the second car after college, and I know Loomer here is aware of that and playing this tune because it gets a bunch of people who still have not figured out that they are among the richest people in the world attuned to her grift

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u/FormerOven Here, there, everywhere, the Malarkey will die 11h ago

The good and bad thing about the US economy is Americans spend their money like drunken sailors.

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u/nottoodrunk 10h ago

People making $120k / year in HCOL city be like:

  • door dash min $30 of food every night.

  • $2000 / month apartment in new construction with all amenities possible.

  • $100 bar tab on Friday night and Saturday night

  • $50 in Ubers each weekend night

  • even more money on Amazon retail therapy

  • and then blame their inability to save on their $300 / month student loan.

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u/Bricktop72 10h ago

There was a study a few years ago that said something like 70% of people that live pay check to pay check have budget problems not income problems. It was a part of an article about how they were obscuring people that have real issues

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u/HuskyBobby 14h ago

There’s a disconnect for sure, but I’m going to disagree with you on housing. 10-15 years for parents to get the house? That’s not true, and it’s not a horseshoe position to say wages are stagnant and the housing market is fucked for younger generations. The average age of a homebuyer is at an all time high of 54.

Those are just facts.

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u/jasonab 13h ago

The housing market is bad, but wages are not stagnant - they are higher than ever for everyone, and especially for those making the least.

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u/BoysenberryLanky6112 11h ago

Wages (both average and median, so not just at the top), are at all-time highs even adjusted for inflation and it's not close. Home ownership rates are also pretty similar today as they have been for most of recent history, and Gen z has higher home ownership than boomers did when they were gen z's age. Millennials are doing a bit worse but have mostly caught up. I study the housing market for a living and the average age of a home buyer is not a stat I've ever heard discussed by actual experts, but do you have a source for that stat?

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u/The-Son-of-Dad 16h ago

The McDonald’s thing is probably a callback to dumbfuck Jesse Watters earlier this year saying fast food workers making $20 an hour are making over $100k per year or whatever it was. Anyway, fuck him and Loomer.

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u/Lycanthrowrug 16h ago

According to Wikipedia, Marjorie Taylor Greene has called Loomer "mentally unstable." When you're not even sane enough for MTG, that's a pretty low bar.

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u/Currymvp2 17h ago

Autocorrect somehow changed the last word of my submission title from "point" to "about"...wtf?

Goes without saying I detest Musk and think he's a mendacious massive asshole but

  1. Plenty of single Americans live alright with an income less than 70,000 dollars annually. The median individual income is 41,000 ffs.

  2. There's no universe where a McDonald's worker makes more than 70,000 annually. Even with overtime, they're making like 38,000 annually.

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u/DoctorAKrieger 15h ago

I haven't followed what's going on, but Loomer has correctly pegged Elon's belief system by making the "welfare queens" reference.

You have to remember that Elon believes in socialism, but only for the in-group he believes deserves it (aka fascism).

His end goal would be socialism for white people that pump out kids.

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u/Lycanthrowrug 13h ago

His end goal would be socialism for white people that pump out kids.

Now that's a summation that cuts through the bullshit. It's so obvious that Republican pro-natalism really means, "Have more white babies!!!"

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u/papyjako87 13h ago

Weird how everyone is working 80h a week but still find a way to whine about it on Twitter 24/7.

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u/poleethman 15h ago

Let's see her plastic surgery budget.

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u/Fit_Sherbet9656 5h ago

Her lip fillers could send my nephew through college 

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u/poleethman 5h ago

Oh boy, I hope we're taking about finances.

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u/johndelvec3 Tan Suit Enjoyer 15h ago

God would I fucking love to live off of 70k per year

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u/LeftyRambles2413 15h ago

No kidding. It would be a nice raise.

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u/Dioonneeeeee 14h ago

Exactly. 70k a year is incredible

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u/ZooterOne 12h ago

I'm not going to sit around and analyze which sect of the Nazi ghoul party is correct.

I am going to enjoy the conflict, though, and, if given the opportunity, egg them on.

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u/QultyThrowaway 11h ago

Who the fuck is working 80 hours a week. That's 16 hours a day with weekends or maybe if you go everyday 11.5 hours a week.

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u/CZall23 11h ago

I'm not holding my breath on this lasting. She's mad because Elon took away her blue check.