Soft Life Era Is Over in Trump's America

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  • Опубліковано 17 лис 2024

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  • @gogan
    @gogan 4 дні тому +23

    Irami is dropping hot fire these days!

  • @The10thdrago
    @The10thdrago 4 дні тому +45

    Truck driver here. Everyone disrespects us, but if trucks stop moving people die. What a way to bite the hand that feeds you.

    • @nomadgrappler9410
      @nomadgrappler9410 4 дні тому +3

      Well I disrespect you guys cause you pass other truckers going like 1 mph faster than them. It's even better when you push me off the road cause you decide to lane change while I'm passing.

    • @sarahbaartmansrevenge
      @sarahbaartmansrevenge 4 дні тому +5

      there are too many of you on the roads, and many of you drive like bats out of hell. having fewer trucks on our roads doesn’t sound like such a bad thing

    • @stanecot6607
      @stanecot6607 4 дні тому +3

      They’ll eventually use a.i. to replace you like the Elon electric cars. Be grateful for what you have now

    • @The10thdrago
      @The10thdrago 4 дні тому

      @@nomadgrappler9410 Proving my point to a T

    • @The10thdrago
      @The10thdrago 4 дні тому +1

      @@stanecot6607 Guess what genius, ai is about 30 years away. In the meantime, go get your gas from the refinery.

  • @eduardoroca1991
    @eduardoroca1991 День тому +1

    Everyone who wasn't born rich knows that life is hard.

  • @eduardoroca1991
    @eduardoroca1991 День тому +1

    The contempt for teachers is astounding, I gotta say.

    • @WithoutRemorse12
      @WithoutRemorse12 14 годин тому

      It's a jobs program for mediocre white women.

    • @AaronParks
      @AaronParks 3 години тому

      Sry but teachers r among the people he is talking about when he says bs jobs..I'm one too

    • @WithoutRemorse12
      @WithoutRemorse12 3 години тому

      @@AaronParks It's basically a jobs program for mediocre white women.

  • @MauríceB-t9l
    @MauríceB-t9l 4 дні тому +6

    I understand and appreciate my "Pops" more over the years. He made sure I knew what effort and focus was all about. No sugar-coated advice. Greatest gift.

  • @francisboone2978
    @francisboone2978 4 дні тому +5

    I just started working as a maintenance mechanic for the USPS. I can not express how fortunate I feel for a having a hands on job that isn't connected to the market

  • @andreforde4319
    @andreforde4319 4 дні тому +18

    In my view, this is part of a series of three "tough" videos, that you've released after the re-election of President Trump. These are classics, that are among the best works you've ever produced on this platform. Your analysis of and commentary to the liberal and academic BS job elites is succinct and perfect. I'm reminded of the words of Logan Roy spoken with sadness and resignation to his children in Succession. "I love you, but you are not serious people".

  • @Gundum
    @Gundum 2 дні тому +1

    I've seen too many BS jobs in my lifetime... it always felt like as long as you can prove you are "smart" you get a paycheck but you also gotta know the right people, being in the right circles. To hear you says those people might see their come upance would be a sight to behold

  • @ChristopherJones-lt3le
    @ChristopherJones-lt3le 4 дні тому +16

    I agree to a certain degree. Trump’s America, the soft elite will be the ones deciding if your lower level job is worthy.

  • @winstonwarfield3526
    @winstonwarfield3526 4 дні тому +23

    My two sons, and I'm a lefty, repair and replace decaying urban natural gas pipelines in one instance, and in the other builds and repairs bridges as a pile driver and welder. Their jobs are hard and dirty and dangerous and they make a lot of money. They went to some college but dropped out. I did not try to talk them out of that. They have no college debt. Their jobs actually contribute to the well-being of a functioning society in a very material way.

  • @jeremylawson6648
    @jeremylawson6648 4 дні тому +4

    As a stagehand, carpenter & in the sign business this is probably the best news i’ve heard in a while.

  • @tayhonorable7421
    @tayhonorable7421 4 дні тому +10

    3:30
    I love showing your conversations to people because they sound insane to them until you bring it right back. "If you make $500,000 to sit on two committees, then everyone who does/has to do a dirty job will start to look like a *loser*."

  • @zainmudassir2964
    @zainmudassir2964 4 дні тому +4

    Thanks for being real

  • @G43X
    @G43X 4 дні тому +12

    I was in the military and now I get a check every month

    • @YouGotOptions2
      @YouGotOptions2 4 дні тому +1

      What do you do with your check every month??

    • @G43X
      @G43X 4 дні тому +3

      @ It’s enough to pay all my bills. And I still have a full time job.

    • @YouGotOptions2
      @YouGotOptions2 4 дні тому +2

      @@G43X nice. I take mine as "early retirement" pay

    • @biz1boom
      @biz1boom 3 дні тому +1

      I retired from the military at 20 years. I get a full pension and 100% VA. I'm thankful I have that to live out the rest of my days if I choose to. I did government contracting for about 8 years with one of the Big 5 defense companies, but the bureaucracy became too much to bear. Now, ironically alot of those same companies will be laying off left and right now.

    • @G43X
      @G43X 3 дні тому +1

      @ I’m a radar technician. I was medically retired at 9 years and 100 VA.

  • @DeniseJean24
    @DeniseJean24 4 дні тому +5

    I appreciate your commentary and bringing light to all these different complex aspects. Breathe of fresh air from the reductionist political propoganda that passes off as policy solutions or political commentary. Love love love your unapologetic unique take that is steeped in facts and reality.😊

  • @rmeddy
    @rmeddy 4 дні тому +6

    There was a Southpark episode recently that nailed this

  • @thecollector6746
    @thecollector6746 4 дні тому +3

    Basically the era (at least for the next 4 years) of Women feeling entitled to being given what Men had to grind for has come to an end.....and there has been a rise in Women's existential dread as it is starting to dawn on them that they will no longer be prioritized at the expense of everyone else.

  • @universaljustice7376
    @universaljustice7376 4 дні тому +18

    Not so fast, Ayn Rand ended up on social security. Libertarians like austerity until it hits them.

    • @slickrick8046
      @slickrick8046 4 дні тому +1

      @@universaljustice7376
      That’s because Social Security was already available and she had been paying taxes.

    • @wesleystreet
      @wesleystreet 4 дні тому

      @@slickrick8046 If you work, you pay taxes that go into SS now. Libertarians are ladder pullers.

    • @universaljustice7376
      @universaljustice7376 4 дні тому

      @ why are you jocking that fake hypocrite, she had to apply for it to receive it.

    • @slickrick8046
      @slickrick8046 4 дні тому

      @@universaljustice7376
      It doesn’t matter because she was paying social security taxes. I don’t like the social security system either, but when it’s time for me to retire…I’m going to apply for it because the government has been taking social security taxes out of my income.

    • @universaljustice7376
      @universaljustice7376 3 дні тому +1

      @ she was born before social security was implemented so she really did not pay into the system plus according to the principles of her fallacious arguments she should have been against applying for any government benefits.

  • @hmurchison8123
    @hmurchison8123 4 дні тому +18

    I'm here for it. American have been way too soft.

    • @JayFortran
      @JayFortran 4 дні тому +6

      What does that even mean?

    • @hmurchison8123
      @hmurchison8123 4 дні тому +8

      @@JayFortran It's far easier to ask the simple question "what does the United States do better than most other first world nations?" That is beyond military industrial complex and the ability to create Billionaires?

    • @mrjonathank92
      @mrjonathank92 4 дні тому +1

      @@hmurchison8123 Tech industry, financial industry, etc

    • @wesleystreet
      @wesleystreet 4 дні тому

      @@hmurchison8123 Nothing and that's not going to change. It has nothing to do with "soft" and everything to do with a system that incentivizes exporting jobs and cutting wages so that the "line goes up."

  • @SwiftySanders
    @SwiftySanders 4 дні тому +3

    I would argue that some people will complain about the inefficiency. What I mean by that is that some conservatives don't want efficiency because that would be bad for the economy.

  • @LiquidFlux66
    @LiquidFlux66 4 дні тому +4

    On the title alone! 💯🏆

  • @johnwhitson8015
    @johnwhitson8015 4 дні тому +4

    So it sounds like the end of public education, and the true desimation of the working class. Hard to have bus drivers without the schools to drive to.

    • @poorman2457
      @poorman2457 3 дні тому +1

      Public education has been dead for a long time. Most of the young people I deal with can barely read, know 0 history, and barely can do math.

    • @johnwhitson8015
      @johnwhitson8015 3 дні тому

      Not all of them, some actually go on and become educated, productive members of society. And it's not dependent on the wealth of their family. Without public education, even as animic as it is would mean that only the wealthy would gain financial stability.

    • @jasminedtucker
      @jasminedtucker 2 дні тому

      ​@johnwhitson8015 that's exactly what they want. The US is a corporate oligarchy. The wealthy run the US. They don't care about poor people and their children.

  • @BothTeamsPlayedHard
    @BothTeamsPlayedHard 4 дні тому +2

    Reminds me of when you were Yvette Carnell’s hype man. Much love for your old state!

  • @AH-fk6bd
    @AH-fk6bd 4 дні тому +3

    Everybody, PLEASE ADD MORE LIKES, 10 % is not a good look and shouldn't be the case for this kind of insight, and believe it, it's coming!

  • @jon-snow-GOT
    @jon-snow-GOT 4 дні тому +2

    David Graeber - Bullshit Jobs. This book really exposed how the Emperor has no clothes as it relates to capitalism. He also lectures and answers questions about the concept in numerous UA-cam videos. Its a great recommendation and worth a read/watch.

  • @KingStreetBrody
    @KingStreetBrody 4 дні тому +6

    You can’t regulate individual intelligence/choice bro everyone will not make it

  • @Wanderer25
    @Wanderer25 4 дні тому +8

    It will be interesting to see the federal and corporate landscape in a couple years. That said, the working class will not be any better off neither. Expect inflation and accelerated wealth concentration to the 1%

  • @dcwashingtonpresident5938
    @dcwashingtonpresident5938 4 дні тому +1

    Agree 💯... You broke this election down

  • @scowlistic
    @scowlistic 4 дні тому +2

    Nah, I'm bartending. 🍻
    Recession proof tried & trued..

  • @KennyNiii
    @KennyNiii 4 дні тому +2

    Great videos this month

  • @TommyStrategic
    @TommyStrategic 4 дні тому +5

    16:30 Hmm, as a former teacher, this more subjective than it would seem. Teaching has become a degraded profession, and the means and end of teaching are compromised by corporate interests. As a single teacher, it did me no good to analyze and protest my situation, for those reasons and the added reality that public school teaching now tracks more with blue collar realities than middle-class, and labor as a whole has been degraded. I used my teaching degree to homeschool my own kids with great success, once I was free from the entanglements that stymie public education.

  • @markfregly4148
    @markfregly4148 3 дні тому

    Guaranteeing everyone a job isnt self governance. Its government control of tge work force

  • @bruceramirez7836
    @bruceramirez7836 4 дні тому +6

    Philosophy professors are going to be the first ones to go 😅

    • @SwiftySanders
      @SwiftySanders 4 дні тому +12

      Maybe maybe not. Teachers and professors teaching kids to think better is a real job.

    • @bruceramirez7836
      @bruceramirez7836 4 дні тому +7

      @SwiftySanders I agree, but I don't think MAGA does.

    • @cmathews5909
      @cmathews5909 4 дні тому

      @@bruceramirez7836 bruce, when you find time, you have to find a course on Plato's "The Republic". Its a three thousand year old book, but "the real" issues then are the same today. One of my favorite is when Socrates explains when a money based economy turns into a debt based economy. Soon after, a family will NOT be able to afford the basics of life without getting themselves in debt, and eventually debtors will take everything they own. Believe it or not, the book also warns of people like Trump and the voters that put those kind of individuals in power.

    • @IOFrimpong
      @IOFrimpong  4 дні тому +2

      @@cmathews5909 Republic Book VIII is actually one of my favorites.

    • @slickrick8046
      @slickrick8046 4 дні тому

      @@SwiftySanders
      🤡 courses. This dude is even promoting unions which were used to kick many black men out of the job market to protect the wages of white men. Also, look at the Rust Belt.
      Intellectuals/academics are the cause for practically every economic disaster in this country and around the world.

  • @markfregly4148
    @markfregly4148 3 дні тому

    EVERYONE has to reapply?

  • @deloresturner9404
    @deloresturner9404 3 дні тому

    Real question are primary care physicians working class?

  • @faith5614
    @faith5614 4 дні тому +5

    So, like said before I was a janitor at the local schools. I was working 5 3/4 hours cleaning sixteen rooms and four restrooms at the elementary. I did switch to the intermediate about year 1 1/2 I was there. It was little easier but I still had 12 class, four restrooms, stairs I had to clean. I am glad I went through that. It taught me a lot. Little after covid is when I left. I needed health care and more money. Plus, most the workers I knew were getting ready to retire.
    Now, for some stories!
    I remember working one night at the elementary and teacher from a different district was there with her daughter. She was looking around at all the work hung up on the walls. She stops me tells me she is looking for ideas for class and she ask me do I clean this whole hall. I said yes, all sixteen rooms and four bathrooms! Her daughter giggled. I don't why but I never forgot that!
    During parent teacher conference as I was cleaning I was listen to a teacher on the phone talking to a parent. As, I was sweeping I listened in. She, told a parent that as she was teaching, she asked the class what else she could do to help the class. That student said this, you could give us extra work. She told that parent that hurt feelings. I have no idea, why that hurt her feelings!
    I also remember the teachers talking about another teacher and how there child cheated on something. It was at different district, I did not find out what grade they were in and what they cheated on. But the way they were talking it did not sound to good!

  • @BStucThaPoet
    @BStucThaPoet 4 дні тому +7

    Show this to Eboni K Williams and her outright disrespect of bus drivers

    • @MrShugg2u
      @MrShugg2u 4 дні тому +2

      “Only if he owns the bus Iyanla… Only if he owns it” 💅🏾😂

    • @teeletsetse445
      @teeletsetse445 4 дні тому +1

      😂😂😂

  • @rellis881
    @rellis881 4 дні тому +2

    lol I get it. I almost clicked off of this because I thought that you were saying the opposite. I'm glad that I stayed to listen more and everything that you were saying makes perfect sense. but what you didn't say yet, and you might say it, I haven't gotten to the end yet. people forget about the pile on effect, meaning or actually here's an example, when Elon musk fired all of those people at Twitter a light bulb went on and Google's head and they fired a whole bunch of people and a bunch of other tech companies did the same thing. well when the government starts downsizing if Trump does what he says he's going to do, it will embolden other companies to downsize management. I work out a company it's the biggest company of its kind in the world it's electrical discharge machining, the guy who started the company was a genius he never had a whole bunch of management here he has like one night manager or actually supervisor and that's pretty much it there's not a whole bunch of managers of different departments and a bunch of supervisors and supervisors under them it's not management heavy, he did something amazing, he saved millions a year and salaries but he also gave his workers the autonomy to get their jobs done without looking over their shoulders. what I'm saying is I work at a company that thought of what's getting ready to happen in this country, years ago. now, it's going to happen all over the country and maybe the world once people see that they don't need all of this bloat and that it's okay that there's not a government agency that they can go run to and go to court on it will be a better place to live companies will have money to reinvest into the company's workers will be able to do their jobs and not be paranoid there's a whole bunch of management people, because the problem with management, is when they're unnecessary they nitpick they find things to make it seem like they're doing a good job we call it fake it to you make it management, which is a whole bunch of grease boards directives memos posted up everywhere but nothing really is getting done if you're in production or machining manufacturing, the emphasis is supposed to be on raw materials coming in one door going out another door to customers but when you have over bloated management these managers get in the way because they need to try to prove their worth a lot of times they don't even know what they're doing, you have managers and companies that have no idea what's going on you have machinery and things breaking down software glitches and upper management don't have a clue but they're making spreadsheets having meetings doing useless things things that have nothing to do with what the company does and they get salaries, don't get me wrong I don't care what another person makes that has nothing to do with me I have absolutely no interest in what the next person makes My thing is a lot of times upper management is in the way because they have something to prove they have to prove their self-worth, and the truth is a lot of them are worthless they actually slow down production they make the company lose money by coming up with just dumb shit. anyway I hope there really is a reckoning and an awakening in this country

  • @illijah
    @illijah 4 дні тому +1

    In America, respect = $$$, talk is cheap and getting cheaper by the day.
    Hard skill laborers have been making $$$, what more did they want?

  • @markfregly4148
    @markfregly4148 3 дні тому

    Why isnt free market capitalism the right way? Why force companies to pay people big money if they cant afford it

  • @S.L.T.P.E.
    @S.L.T.P.E. 3 дні тому +2

    Necessary to stop using demeaning and dehumanizing language regarding men in general

  • @slickrick8046
    @slickrick8046 4 дні тому +11

    With all the kids who are performing below state levels in reading and math…there is no public school solution.

    • @qwallace4832
      @qwallace4832 4 дні тому +2

      Because we valued graduation rates over proficiency.

    • @slickrick8046
      @slickrick8046 4 дні тому

      @
      Because union workers suck and the government shouldn’t be in the educational business. The educational system is just a work program for adults…the academic hustle.

    • @Redactedlllllllllllll
      @Redactedlllllllllllll 4 дні тому

      Yeah put 1 teacher to 30 students and expect good results 😂 America never really valued education and we have the dimwits we deserve, electing a nepo baby thinking he's going to look out for them.

    • @wesleystreet
      @wesleystreet 4 дні тому

      @@slickrick8046 "Union Workers Suck" = "People Shouldn't be Allowed to Collectively Bargain Against the Rich Because I'm a Bootlicker."

    • @slickrick8046
      @slickrick8046 4 дні тому

      @@wesleystreet
      Government unions don’t collective bargain against the rich…they collective bargain against the tax payers.

  • @markfregly4148
    @markfregly4148 3 дні тому

    Discarded? To where?

  • @SwiftySanders
    @SwiftySanders 4 дні тому +5

    So true. I am someone who always had this question around work and I mean real work not just busy work. Im curious as to how this would work in the healthcare industry an industry with lots of useless middle men driving up the cost of health care.

  • @thinkingman2
    @thinkingman2 4 дні тому +2

    Do you think that humans are contributing to climate change? I ask because a plan like having all those teachers driving to and from schools to teach 2 children seems like an environmental nightmare.

    • @nnenne4
      @nnenne4 4 дні тому

      Capitalism and suburbia is doing us in. Public goods are socialism (trains, busses and schools) and that's good for the environment. Car lines are bad for the environment and that's what you get in the suburbs.

    • @wesleystreet
      @wesleystreet 4 дні тому

      Yes.

  • @ajwalker4416
    @ajwalker4416 4 дні тому +1

    I really appreciate you and all you do. But I don't agree with Trump bringing in "Libertarians." The people so far aren't remotely close to "libertarian." But this was an otherwise great critique.

    • @wesleystreet
      @wesleystreet 4 дні тому

      They are 100% Anarcho-Libertarian.

  • @JayFortran
    @JayFortran 4 дні тому +2

    People have a soft life in America?

    • @tonywims8848
      @tonywims8848 4 дні тому

      some people

    • @willia3r
      @willia3r 4 дні тому +4

      If you have or had a job that allows you to work from home, yes.

    • @Redactedlllllllllllll
      @Redactedlllllllllllll 4 дні тому +1

      I think he's mad at the democratic party, and the people who run it, and who it really caters to, I don't think he means everyone, he kind of puts me off a bit too but I think this is what a long time in left politic does to a man.

    • @wesleystreet
      @wesleystreet 4 дні тому

      @@willia3r You think working in an office makes you hard?

  • @grandregentthragg7896
    @grandregentthragg7896 4 дні тому +1

    This is such a dumb take especially since Job studies show black people above anyone else face job discrimination in the private sector especially. The public sector is one of the main drivers of wealth in terms of employment in the black community. For you to not know that and have this almost gleeful disposition is disgusting.

    • @IOFrimpong
      @IOFrimpong  4 дні тому +2

      I've had multiple shows on how the private labor market stigmatizes Black participants, so that Black millionaires are your union teacher married to a union cop.

  • @MADMOGtheFrugal
    @MADMOGtheFrugal 4 дні тому +3

    The days of lollipops and fancy pants are coming to a close. If you are not providing real ACTUAL value to your community, your relationships and your job you are out of luck

  • @nnenne4
    @nnenne4 4 дні тому

    Facts, you cannot be soft and successful.

    • @IOFrimpong
      @IOFrimpong  4 дні тому +3

      Sure you can. There are just fewer avenues now.

    • @nnenne4
      @nnenne4 4 дні тому

      @IOFrimpong I as a middle class black immigrant's child cannot be soft and successful . Maybe if I were white and rich

    • @slickrick8046
      @slickrick8046 4 дні тому

      @@nnenne4
      Or, you get a liberal arts degree and an Affirmative Action government job.

    • @nnenne4
      @nnenne4 4 дні тому +1

      @@slickrick8046 just telling you that in my household and in many other Nigerian households that I know of you were not allowed to go and get one of those frivolous degree. it was get a medical degree, MD or DO a pharmacy degree a nursing degree, a law degree maybe you could do engineering or worst case scenario go and be a teacher but you had to go to college and get some meaningful degree otherwise you would be shunned from society. It was never even a consideration for me to go into psychology or philosophy anything like that.

    • @slickrick8046
      @slickrick8046 4 дні тому

      @@nnenne4
      The gentleman who made this video is a 1st generation Nigerian, and he has a basket weaving leftist liberal arts degree.

  • @CelestialSci
    @CelestialSci 4 дні тому +3

    Damn, your all sunshine and rosey today huh? You over doing it a bit.

  • @nathanratermann9204
    @nathanratermann9204 4 дні тому +1

    Shit I have been building bridges for 17yrs!! Lots of my Hispanic brothers voted red!! Wallets matter

    • @coreybee6900
      @coreybee6900 4 дні тому +6

      some of your brothers won't be here to enjoy it

    • @nathanratermann9204
      @nathanratermann9204 4 дні тому +2

      @ not true!! They be legal baby!!! They want the illegal ones out too!!! The bridge company I work for is a WBE if you know what that means!! All RED!!!

    • @ChristopherJones-lt3le
      @ChristopherJones-lt3le 4 дні тому +1

      @@nathanratermann9204if the administration is exploring ways of revoking naturalization, your brothers are on the chopping block.

    • @Redactedlllllllllllll
      @Redactedlllllllllllll 4 дні тому +1

      ​@nathanratermann9204 you think that can't change, which is funny.

    • @wesleystreet
      @wesleystreet 4 дні тому

      @@nathanratermann9204 Yeah, sure. You're going to see ICE show up and grab people who you thought were "one of the good ones."

  • @slickrick8046
    @slickrick8046 4 дні тому +5

    The black middle-class is highly concentrated in the Southern Right To Work States…so you’re wrong.
    Unions cause higher unemployment rates and higher prices because they can’t compete in a competitive market. Unions also lack innovation and efficiency.
    It’s predominantly low & no skilled workers who unionize and try to hold employers and consumers hostage.

    • @wesleystreet
      @wesleystreet 4 дні тому

      Counterpoint: no.

    • @slickrick8046
      @slickrick8046 4 дні тому

      @
      Meanwhile a unionized Pepsi plant in Illinois and a unionized tire plant in New York closed down a week ago. The Pepsi plant had already started moving their operations to Texas (a right to work state).

  • @jamesgrace1934
    @jamesgrace1934 4 дні тому +3

    You're job of being a professional feminist is over.😆
    Definitely a come to Jesus moment.

    • @wesleystreet
      @wesleystreet 4 дні тому

      What's a professional feminist? Is that like a president who bankrupted a casino?

  • @americanlady738
    @americanlady738 День тому

    "Ya betta thank a union memba!"