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re: Are Boomers to blame for the current state of the country?
Posted on 4/2/25 at 5:30 pm to David_DJS
Posted on 4/2/25 at 5:30 pm to David_DJS
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you don't want to live for as long as you can, what you want to do is live well as long as you can and then die quickly.
Amen to that.
My only saving grace right now is my only child leaving for college in August. It’s just too big of a year with too big of a change to worry about my age this year. Too busy trying to prep myself emotionally for an empty nest without my husband coming home to a house full of foster children. I just have really loved every minute of being a mom and being a grandparent is (with God’s help) far into the future.
I have a large support group between my 3 tennis teams of women Ive seen weekly for 15 years. I have the Lakehouse I’ll be more free to enjoy without a teen in our home and one day my husband and I will get to travel Europe at our leisure.
But today I’m 50 with my only child moving out for college in 3.5 months and it feels like the end of the world
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Posted on 4/2/25 at 5:42 pm to The Scofflaw
Boomers are the first generation to hand America over in worse shape than they found it
Posted on 4/2/25 at 5:44 pm to BlueFalcon
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Boomers are the first generation to hand America over in worse shape than they found it
This is utterly retarded. You are clueless if you think life in America is worse today than it was fifty years ago. FFS
Posted on 4/2/25 at 5:46 pm to LSUGrrrl
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But today I’m 50 with my only child moving out for college in 3.5 months and it feels like the end of the world
Well, find solace in knowing that it wouldn't feel the way it does if you were something other than a great mom. I speak from firsthand (observed) experience.
Posted on 4/2/25 at 5:53 pm to David_DJS
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This is utterly retarded. You are clueless if you think life in America is worse today than it was fifty years ago. FFS
50 years ago a single income household had more purchasing power than a dual income household now
Save your 'war stories' about how hard life was, we all know you're full of it
Posted on 4/2/25 at 5:55 pm to Big4SALTbro
I didnt.....mine are perfect!
Posted on 4/2/25 at 5:56 pm to BlueFalcon
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Save your 'war stories' about how hard life was, we all know you're full of it
I've never posted anything but how fortunate I consider myself. My life has been much better and easier than it was for my parents. Where we're at odds is I'm calling you out for the fig you are for believing it's different for you. You're weak and it's weird how important it is to you to be viewed as a victim.
Posted on 4/2/25 at 6:02 pm to David_DJS
Thanks you very much for saying that. 
Posted on 4/2/25 at 11:19 pm to David_DJS
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I've never posted anything but how fortunate I consider myself. My life has been much better and easier than it was for my parents. Where we're at odds is I'm calling you out for the fig you are for believing it's different for you. You're weak and it's weird how important it is to you to be viewed as a victim.
Your parent's generation bled and sacrificed to make sure they passed the country off in better shape than they found it. Your generation squandered that like the degenerates you are. Everyone is right to point out how shitty yall are. Are you going to brag about "drinking from a water hose" next? I just like reminding yall that yall had it easier than anyone before you or after you so acting like you're 'strong' or 'had it hard' is laughable. If you're a Boomer and didn't fight in Vietnam your life was a cake walk.
Posted on 4/3/25 at 12:13 am to The Scofflaw
No is the answer. And we are dying off quickly. You fix it.
Posted on 4/3/25 at 12:31 am to LaBoyNTn
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Might as well blame us “boomers”! We get blamed for everything else! Just an FYI! Many of us boomers weren’t into spitting on soldiers comin home from Nam! Nor attend any of tte counterculture demonstrations! Very very many of us served our country with honor, got a job, raised a very responsible family, and continue to love America!
lol Boomers served in Vietnam...but Boomers also protested vietnam...Never forget that Jane Fonda is in fact a boomer...
Posted on 4/3/25 at 3:37 am to The Scofflaw
Pretty much.
Posted on 4/3/25 at 4:22 am to GamecockUltimate
Not a reply to the Gamecock or whatever but...
We were all duped. Boomers, GenXrs, Millenials, Alphas, Furries? Whatever. When the vaccine mandates came down, we were ALL DUPED!
Now, based on the graphic from the OP, I think it shows that the older generations trusted government entities more, because why? They were more trustworthy at the time. The global crime syndicate has robbed us of this peace in prosperity over the last 30-40 years. It's simple math if you look at the trajectory of the markets since the 1970s. So stop pointing blame on a generation. We are all guilty.
We were all duped. Boomers, GenXrs, Millenials, Alphas, Furries? Whatever. When the vaccine mandates came down, we were ALL DUPED!
Now, based on the graphic from the OP, I think it shows that the older generations trusted government entities more, because why? They were more trustworthy at the time. The global crime syndicate has robbed us of this peace in prosperity over the last 30-40 years. It's simple math if you look at the trajectory of the markets since the 1970s. So stop pointing blame on a generation. We are all guilty.
Posted on 4/3/25 at 4:42 am to GamecockUltimate
quote:Right .... except, of course, "Jane Fonda is" NOT "in fact a boomer." But never allow facts to interfere with a good narrative.
...Never forget that Jane Fonda is in fact a boomer...
Posted on 4/3/25 at 5:23 am to BlueFalcon
quote:By your mindless stereotypic yammering, if you're an American Gen X, Y, or Z, and didn't fight in a war, your life was a cakewalk by global comparison as well.
Your parent's generation bled and sacrificed to make sure they passed the country off in better shape than they found it. Your generation squandered that like the degenerates you are. Everyone is right to point out how shitty yall are. Are you going to brag about "drinking from a water hose" next? I just like reminding yall that yall had it easier than anyone before you or after you so acting like you're 'strong' or 'had it hard' is laughable. If you're a Boomer and didn't fight in Vietnam your life was a cake walk.
The fact is, you come across here as a spoiled, whining, butt-hurt bitch. Perhaps it's because you're stuck in Aberdeen, Scotland watching that country and the UK disintegrate and extrapolating UK woes to the US?
E.g., American millennial households earn more than TWICE the income that median Scottish households do!
That earning-level is what you are on this board sniveling about?
Posted on 4/3/25 at 5:27 am to The Scofflaw
No, government is to blame.
Posted on 4/3/25 at 5:40 am to The Scofflaw
I’m a cusp Boomer - 1960.
While the course of history is more complex and fluid than the input of a single generation, its arcs can be embodied in and influenced by contemporary cohorts. (The Greatest Generation, for example).
Very generally, the Boomers took the reigns from the justly weary Greatest and were allowed to recalcitrantly act out infantile and narcissistic notions of superiority which manifest in a wide array of idealistic imaginings that were and are obviously unrealistic (not to mention stupid).
So, the Boomers DEFINITELY bear responsibility.
However and going back to the premise that history is fluid, I will note that the Greatest bore the Boomers and, it would seem, let them on their merry way. So, again, history doesn’t turn simply on discreet generations.
All that said, it’s well past time for the Boomers to let go and for successive generations to take control. That is one element of the Trump agenda that is undervalued: it’s emphasis on bringing younger generations into political power.
Oh, and frick all the libtards…
While the course of history is more complex and fluid than the input of a single generation, its arcs can be embodied in and influenced by contemporary cohorts. (The Greatest Generation, for example).
Very generally, the Boomers took the reigns from the justly weary Greatest and were allowed to recalcitrantly act out infantile and narcissistic notions of superiority which manifest in a wide array of idealistic imaginings that were and are obviously unrealistic (not to mention stupid).
So, the Boomers DEFINITELY bear responsibility.
However and going back to the premise that history is fluid, I will note that the Greatest bore the Boomers and, it would seem, let them on their merry way. So, again, history doesn’t turn simply on discreet generations.
All that said, it’s well past time for the Boomers to let go and for successive generations to take control. That is one element of the Trump agenda that is undervalued: it’s emphasis on bringing younger generations into political power.
Oh, and frick all the libtards…
Posted on 4/3/25 at 5:53 am to Knight of Old
quote:Negative Hoss.
Very generally, the Boomers took the reigns from the justly weary Greatest
Boomers succeeded Jane Fonda's ironically-termed Silent Generation.
quote:What are you blabbering about?
recalcitrantly act out infantile and narcissistic notions of superiority which manifest in a wide array of idealistic imaginings that were and are obviously unrealistic
Seriously.
You say you are a "cusp Boomer"? Lay out some specifics backing your assertions regarding "cusp Boomers."
This post was edited on 4/3/25 at 5:55 am
Posted on 4/3/25 at 6:19 am to The Scofflaw
They retired and left vacuum in the workforce. You ger generations don't know how to work to make it worse.
Posted on 4/3/25 at 6:51 am to NC_Tigah
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By your mindless stereotypic yammering, if you're an American Gen X, Y, or Z, and didn't fight in a war, your life was a cakewalk by global comparison as well.
Who cares about global comparison? My point is that the Boomers, the worst generation in American history, are the first generation to leave the country in worse shape than they inherited it.
Spare me the global comparison BS. Boomers inherited the strongest America in history and ran it into the ground. They didn’t build it, they coasted on what greater generations gave them, then lit it all on fire. No other generation has done less with more.
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The fact is, you come across here as a spoiled, whining, butt-hurt bitch.
Meet me at Sonic, going to knock your dentures out
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