Rep Jim Kasper (R-46, Fargo) started trolling the entire Democratic-Nonpartisan League party about the 'Hands Off' protests this weekend.

'Nobody Cares' Jim? I don't know, maybe your constituents do? Since you refuse to have any town halls or legislative updates since your last one a month ago, and it was at a bank.

I can’t even with this ape-titted ghoul. Look at those delicate, little hands… and everything else 😂

I work at a storage facility. It's huge we have over 2000 units, multiple stories, we have tenants who have been here since 1970. We have tenants who have never been in for the decades they have been here. We have an office crew of 4. Three admin and the manager. I just started here 4 months ago (moved from a much smaller facility the company has out of state).

This guy comes in and just stands in front of the desk. I say hello, how can i help you today. He just stands there looking at me, annoyed. Like, many moments pass. And then as I go to repeat myself he cuts me off saying "you tell me."

Ok, i ask for his name or unit number. maybe there's notes on his account explaining if we called him in for something, missing paperwork or payment issues idk. He says "I don't know that. Look me up." Yeah i am trying to JFC so i repeat it. "Ok sir, name?"

He gives me a name. For instance, Mike Jones. Ok, i input it and an account comes up but it's not him. The ID on file is a younger man, a regular i see, and I am like "Hmm, i'm sorry that's not bringing up your account. Can I see your ID?" I figure maybe he spells it weird and if I skip asking him and go right for the ID i will save myself a bunch of headache. He says he doesn't have it. Great!

"Ok sir, well i am not showing an account for you under that name, is the account in your name?"

"Uh, YEAH who else would it be in?" I am not getting started with him but it could be in a spouses name, parents name, anyones name FFS. he says angrily "I have been here since 2012 you can't find my information? Is it that hard to spell?" I explained no, but we only have one Michael "Mike" Jones in our system and it is not you.

And he says "Well that's because my name is Christopher Michaelson. I just go by mike jones."

Ok...well why didn't you tell me that to begin with??? I look up his account and it isn't showing anyone called him. So I say "Ok, it doesn't look like anyone reached out to you from our office, did they leave a message asking you to come in? did they explain why?"

He says "NO! no one called me!"

so were just standing there awkwardly and I am like "Ok...so what brings you by today how can i help you?"

and he says to me "I have a new card to put on my account my old one was hacked. it's closed.You all should have known that since my last bill didn't get paid, so I need to pay that as well."

I explain to him that actually his last bill went through without issue so he has no balance, but I can take his card to update it in the system. I ask for his card. He says no.

he says " I am not comfortable giving it to you when you can't even run my name to find me in the system."

I explain that's fine, he can update his card online if he doesn't want to give it to me.

he says "No, that's how it was hacked to begin with I am not using it online at all! I do not consent to having my card online. I want it on my account here. I will run it but I will not hand it to you.

Ok...so I give him the little card slidy thing. he slides it, and in my software it uploads all the info, the card number and name exp date and I can't do anything further until he gives the code on the back. I ask him for it and he says "You dont need that".

I tell him I actually will need that to process future charges. He says "Why the hell are you processing future charges? I am just updating my card!" UGH. I explain VERY politely that we need that info to update the card or he can't use it in the future for any charges for his next bills.

He gets upset and starts accusing me of trying to get his personal details and saying stuff like I'm scamming him and he doesn't want to give me that so I say "Well, sir I am the only person in office today so you will need to come back if you'd prefer someone else to take your card."

later I get this SCATHING email about how incompetent I am and how I refused to help take his payment or help him update his payment info, and how he can't pay his bills now and it's our fault so we have to eat that because he's done everything he can and we have made it impossible.

This is my first time posting here, but I’m a longtime lurker. My mom isn’t a quite a boomer (older gen x, I believe), so I hope I’m still allowed to post this… I swear she belongs right here on this subreddit for more than just this reason. That being said, here’s the story

I was talking to my mom and she had the tv guide open. I pointed out scooby doo, which we had missed by thirty minutes, and (jokingly) sadly said “aw man, we missed scooby doo!”. She asked if it was the older version of the show, so I looked it up (it was). Then a he brought up that she was surprised [said tv channel] would even play older cartoons anymore. I asked what she meant, and she said that people get too offended by old cartoons so they’ve taken them off of tv. I told her that yeah, a lot of times people have a reason to be offended since some of the cartoons have episodes that are made to be hurtful and make fun of minorities (and then some). She countered by naming some cartoons (e.g., looney toons) so I mentioned how there’s a couple of skits from looney toons that give people a good reason to feel hurt, insulted or offended.

Then I told her about a remake of a song called Puttin’ On The Ritz that came out in the 80’s. I showed her the song, and said it sounds fine, right? But when Taco (the artist) put out the video for that song, it included a bit of black face. That’s not okay, and obviously it’s understandable for people to be insulted by that today. It’s a GOOD THING that people are using their voice to speak out on the unfairness that they’ve been subjected to for decades.

She asked me what black face was. Said she didn’t know. It’s fine I guess, it gives me a chance to educate someone. So for the next few minutes, I taught her what I know about the history of black face and racism.

By the time I was done, I told her that I would really recommend she look into the history of racism and Jim Crow [laws] to educate herself on that. Maybe buy some books or something. Here’s why I’m posting this on here…

She literally said to me (direct quote): “I’m not going to because I prefer to disassociate myself from racism” UHM. EXCUSE ME??? That’s not how that works!

I told her that’s like me saying I’m not going to educate myself on the holocaust because I prefer to disassociate myself from n/zis and h/tler. 😐 (Maybe a little drastic, but it’s the same concept.)

She then proceeded to prove that she knows enough about racism by telling me what she knows about the triple k’s. It’s good that she knows what they’re doing is wrong, and that groups like that aren’t okay, but to refuse to learn anything else about this part of history just because you don’t like it? I understand that it isn’t pretty, and a lot of it makes me ashamed to be white if I’m being honest, but that’s why we NEED to know about it. It’s important to learn from our history so that we don’t end up hurting people again. To use what we know about the past to better our futures, for EVERYONE.

Side note to end this on: this is the same woman who banned me from watching My Little Pony when I was younger because Scootaloo had two lesbian aunts. But she can complain (and has, many times) about how people get offended by old cartoons, which could have anything from racism to SA to sexism/misogyny because that’s what was normal when it was made. It just doesn’t make sense.

Just exiting my local Walmart when I noticed this guy. No handicap tag or anything I could use to excuse the behavior. Boomer in mentality and generation. Thought the sub would enjoy. 🍻

I have one 70 something year old aunt, pretty much the last living part of my dad's side. She was always the person when I was a kid to bring birthday presents, take me to do things...the stuff that a woman with no kids will do for others. I can say honestly I love her and it makes me so sad that she is pretty much alone. She also has historically been the nicest person in our family...the one who would always go help out someone sick, or be the person you could call when you had a bad day. When I came out as gay, I started with her and her first question was how she could help me tell my father....I can still remember her saying something about how important it was to be truthful to yourself, and also to others.

I call her several times a week, try to stop by with lunch once a week, try and keep her pills straight. The countdown to her going into a care facility has started in my head.

Last year her building decided to get cable for all of the units, so for the first time this sort of vibrant woman started watching cable news. There was channel switching going on between CNN / MSNBC / FOX....and unfortunately FOX won. And she went down the rabbit hole of maga-land. It's really hard to watch someone you know and admire pretty much join a cult.

Which brings us to this week. She calls me and asks if I could bring with me a roll of toilet paper. I grabbed one from the pantry, stopped and got her a fast food chicken basket, and walked into her house.

I could not help noticing the 36 pack of toilet paper sitting on the floor by the door. I asked her what was going on, and she pulled out a receipt from early January, and a receipt from last week. There was a $4 price difference in the cost of the toilet paper....even before the store put if on 'sale'...she said that she was bothered by that and was going to take it back to the store for an explanation but did not want to open it until she could get around to doing it.

I try and explain to her that one of the biggest imports from Canada is paper pulp, so it makes total sense that the price went up. (Indeed, when I looked, the TP itself is imported from Canada).

She asks if this is because of the 'Biden Inflation'....I tell her that it is likely a market reaction to the Trump tariffs on goods from Canada. She looks at me dead in the eye and says 'Tariffs do not increase our prices, Canada has to pay them for us, there must be a different reason.'

She literally has proof that she is paying for a tariff, but is choosing to just disengage from reality to keep her trump affection in a good light. She would not allow me to redirect the conversation....she just kept spewing on these weird half truths.

She is also saying the loss on the stick market is minor pain for future wealth gains.

This local boomer lady comments on all of my stuff. I swear to you it’s like she sits and waits for things to be posted on FB so she can comment .8 seconds after it’s published. She’s the absolute bane of my existence. I have soooooooo many boomerisms from her, I could make a photo album from them all.