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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    Were you beaten as a child? Exploited for labor, derided for showing emotions? What lessons do you think that kind of suffering teaches? Do you think suffering builds character?

    I looked through their comments because I was curious if they’re actually a piece of shit, or if they’re just having a bad take or a bad day. No, that’s actually what they believe. They have some fascinating opinions on how zoomers and gen alpha are effectively inferior to millennials.

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

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        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.

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        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.

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        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.

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        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.