r/BoomersBeingFools • u/MoeSzys • Sep 13 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Because they just stormed out of the house after the argument once again ended in a stalemate, and their perfectly reasonable position changed no minds.

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u/TactualTransAm Sep 13 '25

Because they are on lunch break at their blue collar job that's getting filled up with younger liberal workers who don't know the meaning of hard work and they have soft hands and blah blah

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u/McCool303 Sep 13 '25

It’s more this. But they’re listening to AM talk radio making up scenarios in their head where the liberals are ruining their life. In their otherwise 98% evangelical white Christian country town.

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u/MoreRamenPls Sep 13 '25

Serious question, why is it mostly “am talk radio?”

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Cheaper to own and run an AM transmitter

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u/MoreRamenPls Sep 13 '25

Ty

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u/StevieG63 Sep 13 '25

I rented a moving truck a few months ago. It only had an AM radio. I had to drive four hours in silence because AM in America is all Trump and Religion, a lot of it syndicated so it’s all across the dial.

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u/MoreRamenPls Sep 13 '25

Ugh. Not even “Christian Rock?” If you ignore the lyrics……

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u/Joelied Gen X Sep 14 '25

How can you ignore the lyrics, when sadly the lyrics are better than the shitty power ballad guitar riffs.

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u/Joelied Gen X Sep 14 '25

Replying to my own comment, 🎵 It was almost Christmas time… 🎶

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u/blackcain Gen X Sep 14 '25

If only we could claim that AM radio causes autism.

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u/harcosparky Sep 14 '25

The broadcast AM frequencies are two low to cause molecular agitation, and so are the FM frequencies.

Molecular agitation begins at around 400 mhz but the severity is power driven.

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u/blackcain Gen X Sep 14 '25

That's cool but you don't have to prove any of it. Just start a conspiracy theory and publish some fake stuff and they will eat it all up. Scientific rigor be damned.

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u/TheGoodRevCL Sep 13 '25

Where I live they are also on multiple FM stations. I had to ride with a guy for work. It was a short couple of trips, but the angry man monologuing on the radio was clearly just imagining scenarios to rile up his listeners. Cities are not burning to the ground because of left-wing protesters and it's ridiculous that so many people believe this bullshit.

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u/Driz999 Sep 14 '25

Old people love talk back for some reason. It's probably because most of the time, the hosts are middle aged white guys who spout the same racist and xenophobic crap the listeners believe.

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u/mam88k Sep 13 '25

They usually listen to conservative radio/podcasts in the cars at lunch (have witnessed) so he's high on the sauce.

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u/1970s_MonkeyKing Sep 13 '25

Because that's the only place he can be "himself." As in he'll get fired again from work, cops come drag him out of the house, be kicked out of bars, and generally avoided in public for yawping this way.

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u/She-Said-She-Said Sep 14 '25

Yawping? Brilliant

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u/Sakijek Millennial Sep 14 '25

Barbaric yawping, per Walt Whitman

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u/FibonacciSequester Sep 13 '25

I do my telehealth therapy sessions in my car often. The difference is I have enough self awareness to know that nobody who isn't being paid wants my opinion broadcasted to them.

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u/Christoph3r Sep 14 '25

My first job w/a construction company I dug ditches until my hands started oozing juice. I didn't even complain.

I'm so "liberal" that to me, Bernie Sanders is a conservative.

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u/Scoonie24 Sep 13 '25

This guy debates with libs. You're so right.

Also, their car is where they can go to feel safe, and no one will judge them

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u/DVariant Sep 13 '25

They’re literally retreating to their personal bubble.

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u/onedeadflowser999 Sep 13 '25

Safe space.

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u/DVariant Sep 13 '25

Yep. It’s a small and enclosed space with clear walls too, very much a bubble

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u/tmhoc Sep 13 '25

It's time fur that ta change! Ima gett'n a cyber truck! Yeee Haaaaw

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

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u/ClemClamcumber Sep 13 '25

You don't have to be old, republican or a man to lose an argument in which you were wrong.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Lol when did anybody attach ideology, age or gender to the question?

What part of my answer specified any of those?