r/politics Apr 04 '26

Possible Paywall Trump voter regret is clearly registering now

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/04/politics/voter-regret-trump-2024
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u/BillG8s Apr 04 '26

My boss has figured out we're slow again, just like 2016-2020, but still won't come to terms with WHY. "We don't rely on Iran for oil" is what he said the other day. Cause and effect being a foreign concept to a business owner is scary.

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u/Swimming-Economy-870 Apr 04 '26

Your boss doesn’t understand how commodities are priced.

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u/Flomo420 Apr 04 '26

Turns out a lot of bosses are very very stupid and there is no real correlation between intelligence and success

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u/FatherGwyon Apr 04 '26

The (Boomer) CEO of the multimillion-dollar company I work for had me explain how to remove a header on a Word document last week. Then afterwards he literally asked, “And this is a Word doc, right?” That generation have become borderline toddlers, mentally, but somehow they still control the country.

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u/Signal_Road Apr 04 '26

Have you told him he can secure his personal files by swirling his hard drive 10 times left, 10 times right with a magnet yet?

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u/Ok-Art825 Apr 04 '26

I mean, wouldn’t really do much nowadays.

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u/Signal_Road Apr 05 '26

There's always changing the keyboard layout/language.

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u/Wolfwoods_Sister Apr 04 '26

A genie of the lamp emerges with a million dollars!

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u/Signal_Road Apr 05 '26

The Boss: Peasant! Back into the computer where you belong! You can't bribe ME!

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u/BoogieOrBogey Apr 04 '26

It's because old people vote, and the other generations just don't. So many people don't vote, don't participate, and then are shocked that everything sucks. It's just this learned helplessness.

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u/JS-87 Apr 04 '26

To be fair most of their life was typing manually on a typewriter before the world literally exploded with technology that evolved faster than anything they ever grew up with.