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Bill to to revoke Trump's "emergency order" to bypass congress in proclaiming tariffs failed because two senators were absent. (www.cnn.com)

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Vice President JD Vance traveled to Capitol Hill late Wednesday to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate that killed a bipartisan effort to rebuke President Donald Trump’s trade policy.

Earlier in the evening, the Senate rejected the resolution that would have effectively blocked Trump’s global tariffs by revoking the emergency order the president is using to enact them. Two senators who were set to vote for the resolution, Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, were absent, allowing the resolution to fail 49-49.

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[+] [email protected] -26 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Ask a Gen Z or Boomer to boot up in safe mode for their computers. Shits wild how uninformed these generations on average are. It’s sad that I sit with nephews and try and inform them. But they have no interest in understanding how their Roblox machine operates. Just like how I deal with my elders who scream at their iPad because they split the screen between two tabs on the browser app. It’s sad. They really are just that dumb. How many of them can even rotate a pdf?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Kids these days just don't know what they're doing. Their car breaks down, they won't even open the hood. How many of them can even change their oil? They really are just that dumb.

You see how you sound? You have knowledge that you needed and wanted. Just like boomers needed and wanted to understand how cars worked. Kids don't need to debug or reformat or rotate PDFs, and so they don't know how. It's a skill, it's not intelligence.

So, with all that said...

OK Boomer.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Ask a millennial to hook up a horse to a carriage, or to iron a shirt. Shits wild on how uniformed these generations on average are.

Don't mistake your competency with the technology of your generation with superiority.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Did you not realize that the younger you are, the worse you are going to be screwed by Traitorapist Trump on: nuclear proliferation from Trump's new world disorder, global warming, spread of Fascism, massive debt on tax cuts for billionaires, gutting of government infrastructure and services, new victimless crimes, etc? The Boomers aren't going to be the ones who pay the worst price for Treason Trump's massive enshitification program.

[–] natecox 23 points 1 day ago

“I know a computer word so I’m smarter than an entire generation of people”.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

boot up in safe mode

Sir, this is a Lemmy. Our computers don't have that, they have ~~GRUB~~ idk, systemd-boot or some shit.

EDIT: Of course it's a real thing.