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re: Memo from Boomer parents and grandparents to their ungrateful children…
Posted on 9/23/22 at 3:57 pm to David_DJS
Posted on 9/23/22 at 3:57 pm to David_DJS
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Boomers have been a "minority" in the electorate for quite some time. You're thinking/acting like the Boomer you vilify - are actually in more control, and unwilling to hold yourself accountable.
I love how you cover for all those boomers destroying America in congress. I’m sure they’re happy how hard you knight for them to make sure everyone else gets blamed like a good boomer.
This post was edited on 9/23/22 at 3:57 pm
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Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:00 pm to JJJimmyJimJames
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No kidding
I'm Gen X, but all the boomers I know are hard working people who don't vote for Democrats.
If younger people keep voting for Democrats, this country is truly doomed.
They voted for Obama because they thought it would be cool to have a black president.
They voted for Pedophile Joe because of mean tweets and Biden handouts.
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:03 pm to billjamin
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I love how you cover for all those boomers destroying America in congress. I’m sure they’re happy how hard you knight for them to make sure everyone else gets blamed like a good boomer.
There are very few politicians of any age/stripe that I have any respect for.
My point isn't that hard to grasp. It's the voters that are responsible for the government we have. Period. And there are far more non-boomer voters than there are boomer voters, and that's been the case for quite a while.
And it's odd - it's almost like you don't want to accept responsibility for the vote you cast. You seem to think that you electing assholes isn't on you, it's on the assholes. It's like guy earlier in this thread that was bitching about the kids boomers have raised as grandparents. Self-aware much?
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:06 pm to David_DJS
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You seem to think that you electing assholes isn't on you, it's on the assholes.
I blame both. I also blame the assholes funneling shite tons of money into campaigns that get these assholes that I didn’t vote for elected. There’s a lot of blame to go around. Let’s acknowledge all of it.
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:15 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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Memo from Boomer parents and grandparents to their ungrateful children…
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Y’all have talked shite against your Boomer parents and grandparents, ignoring their advice and guidance, advice that came from decades of life experience along with the values and work ethic handed down from the Greatest Generation.
Yall shite on the advice the Greatest Generation gave y’all, spent our country into oblivion and sold it off to China. So don’t act like y’all are even in the same universe as the Greatest Generation.
frick the Boomers. Take your shitty advice and shove it up y’all’s asses
Thank you, I don't think the OP has a clue who the boomers are. BRANDON, HILLARY, BILL, JOHN frickING KERRY!!!
THEY ARE THE BABY BOOMERS
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:15 pm to Bass Tiger
tl;dr
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:16 pm to billjamin
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I blame both.
Well, now you do.
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I also blame the assholes funneling shite tons of money into campaigns that get these assholes that I didn’t vote for elected.
I think you might be surprised by where the money comes from that's funding the Left. My simple argument has been - two candidates for senate:
Dem is whackjob liberal, 85 yo incumbent that's drunk half the time and has lost her mind.
Rep is a 45 yo MD with not much political experience, but a pretty rational and conservative guy.
Votes are in and -
60% of millennials/GenXers vote for the Dem while only 40% of boomers do
60% of boomers vote for the Rep while only 40% of millennials/GenXers do
The Dem wins because there are far more millennial/GenX voters than boomers.
If you're going to hold a generation accountable (which I don't), who's getting the blame? It ain't the boomers.
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:20 pm to sabanisarustedspoke
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Thank you, I don't think the OP has a clue who the boomers are. BRANDON, HILLARY, BILL, JOHN frickING KERRY!!!
THEY ARE THE BABY BOOMERS
Only half of those listed are actually Boomers. And you started your post with, "I don't think the OP has a clue who the boomers are" ... do you understand when the baby boom occurred? It was after WWII, which means anybody born before 1946 is not a boomer.
This post was edited on 9/23/22 at 4:22 pm
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:25 pm to David_DJS
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Well, now you do.
I always have. Coming in and fricking with the crying boomer who started this thread does not reflect the totality of my beliefs.
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If you're going to hold a generation accountable (which I don't), who's getting the blame?
You can create all the scenarios you want to shirk responsibility, it’s boomers core competency.
Or you can just admit that as much as my troll argument that was made to poke fun at crying OP was disingenuous, so is yours that it rests solely on the voters and the people pulling the lever bear zero responsibility.
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:29 pm to Bass Tiger
Gen X here.
Laughing at the boomers above me that ultimately created tranny millennials beneath me.
All I can do is laugh and sigh.
Laughing at the boomers above me that ultimately created tranny millennials beneath me.
All I can do is laugh and sigh.
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:29 pm to David_DJS
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This post was edited on 11/9/22 at 9:14 pm
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:30 pm to NC_Tigah
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That sort of came with the early rockers, British invasion, Bob Dylan, etc., did it not? Ironically, those folks were part of the "silent" generation.
Agreed, but there is a lot of crossover between the end of one generation and the beginning of the other. Dylan, for example, was born in 1941. There's no reason to believe the large pushback against the culture of the time by those slightly younger than him didn't impact him as much as he would eventually impact it. The same can be said of others like Hendrix, Lennon, Jagger, etc. The issue is that they were influential on the rest of their peers and that influence was to be "counter-culture" in any way possible.
The Bill Ayers of the world would be born right around the same time.
It's the large pushback against the culture of their WW2-era parents that we see expressed from the Boomers. While every generation pushes back against the prior, I see this as a bit different as the Boomer(ish) generation was so much larger than that which it pushed back against, but it also had an enhanced capacity (due to television) as they grew into adulthood and began getting into positions of management and decision-making in advertising, broadcasting and education.
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:31 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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frick the Boomers. Take your shitty advice and shove it up y’all’s asses
The plan of the overlords seems to have worked. They are influencing people to fight with each other …..divide and conquer…..
Just stop. Please be kind to each other and try to see others point of view. Realize that these fricks like it when we fight each other because it makes us easier to RULE.
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:35 pm to billjamin
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I always have. Coming in and fricking with the crying boomer who started this thread does not reflect the totality of my beliefs.
You understand you're the one crying, right? Does it make any sense to "frick with boomers" by crying about shite boomers do, when, frankly, I hardly feel fricked with, certainly not by you.
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You can create all the scenarios you want to shirk responsibility, it’s boomers core competency.
Weird.
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Or you can just admit that as much as my troll argument that was made to poke fun at crying OP was disingenuous, so is yours that it rests solely on the voters and the people pulling the lever bear zero responsibility.
And here's the entertainment for me. You've twisted yourself into being precisely what you whine about. Oblivious to reality, not holding non-boomer generations accountable for things they're far more in control of than boomers.
There is nothing disingenuous about holding voters accountable for the government they vote in. I don't look at it as a generational thing like you do, but only a retard does not hold voters responsible for the shite we're living through now.
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:38 pm to TigerIron
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Except that it was the boomers who raised those younger voters, many of whom got divorced leaving them to be raised in broken homes, and also the boomers who (mis)educated them in the universities. Things are likely to get worse, and each generation bears its own share of responsibility, but the Boomers really seem to have been the tipping point into decline. They were born on 3rd base and somehow managed to strike out.
Why would it be on the boomers? You've laid every generation's faults at the feet of boomers, but why isn't it the silent generation that's more at fault? And the generation before them more at fault? This makes no sense.
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They were born on 3rd base and somehow managed to strike out.
I agree that boomers were born on 3rd base. What's lost on you is that GenXers were born leading off from 3rd, and Millennials were bord five steps beyond that towards home. The fact is life gets better and easier with every f'n generation.
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:40 pm to Bard
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but it also had an enhanced capacity (due to television) as they grew into adulthood and began getting into positions of management and decision-making in advertising, broadcasting and education.
Can't the same argument be made for GenXers/Millennials with the internet/social media?
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:42 pm to David_DJS
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From posts of yours I've read before, I'm surprised you made this argument. Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the greatest run up of debt/deficit spending occurred over the last 10-15 years?
What is the average age in Congress? 64 years old.
The Baby Boomer generation is roughly 1946-1964 (76-58 years old).
How does the age breakdown look? Like this:
The average term of service for a current member of Congress? 10 years.
So we have half of Congress being Baby Boomers and members of Congress serving an average of 10 years (the longer they have served, the more likely they are to be Boomers).
Over the last full 10 fiscal years we've accumulated $25T in deficit spending, that's $25T out of the $30T of debt.
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:46 pm to Bard
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What is the average age in Congress? 64 years old.
So, you too? Okay, briefly - which generation if accountable for an individual 85 yo liberal whackjob in office; the generation that voted her in, or the generation she's a part of even though her generation voted for the younger/conservative guy?
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Over the last full 10 fiscal years we've accumulated $25T in deficit spending, that's $25T out of the $30T of debt.
Exactly. And over this time, generations younger than boomers have been in clear control of the electorate.
This post was edited on 9/23/22 at 4:50 pm
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:46 pm to David_DJS
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You understand you're the one crying, right?
I’m not crying, I think it’s funny. None of this has any real impact on my life.
Posted on 9/23/22 at 4:49 pm to billjamin
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I’m not crying, I think it’s funny. None of this has any real impact on my life.
I'm glad to hear it. Like I've poste before, I have 3 adult kids 30/under, and know most of their friends and close colleagues - and I never hear them whine like many do on TD. Likewise, when I was younger, I really didn't sit around and think about how my parents' generation fricked me over. It has been clear to me from early on that life is better and easier with each generation.
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