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re: “They’re Repulsive” - Tucker’s Rant on How Baby Boomers Betrayed Gen Z.
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:06 pm to tiggerthetooth
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:06 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Boomers would sell out every American citizen they could for a few more boomer bucks.
H1B, illegal immigration, etc. Was all boomer-con-INC. scam
Sold out their own kids and the country for a few GDP points.
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Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:08 pm to atlgamecockman
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To those who are defending boomers, who are millennials supposed to blame for this?
There is the root of your problem. “Who can we blaaaaame???” “How do we coooope????”
Is it ONLY boomers that are making it nowadays? You telling me no millennials have anything? The entire millennial generation.. top to bottom… is poor and nearly destitute? NO one is succeeding? The boomers have everything and won’t let you have anything? This from the generation who grew up so “enlightened”? The generation who founded platforms that other people make fake glorified videos of themselves and everyone thinks they should have all that? The generation who won’t pull their heads out of their phones? Do those phones not tell you a single life skill?
My dad is a boomer. Built his house I. The 80’s for about 45k. You know how? He did the dirt work. He did the concrete footings, he did the plumbing, the electrical, the painting, everything but some of the carpentry, AC unit, roof, and brick.
Now people have to have a service to change their friken AC filters and wonder why they can’t have what others had 30 years ago.
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:11 pm to Grumpy Nemesis
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So if Dylan is fricked up he probably needs to have a discussion with his Gen X parents or even Millennial parents
People born in the 80s are going to save all your asses from the boomer failures. Our kids are right leaning, we survived the boomer financial crisis in 2008 with a healthy cynicism for the noise, and we're bringing fat shaming, retarded, and gay back into the mainstream zeitgeist.
You're welcome.
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:11 pm to Grumpy Nemesis
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that generation largely created the American you are jealous of now
It's the first generation in american history who is going to leave the country worse than the way they found it.
Truly shameful stuff.
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:12 pm to GRTiger
Some of these boomers should have pulled out, is what I'm getting from this thread.
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:14 pm to Bunk Moreland
Boomers will hear zero criticisms and take zero responsibility for all the bullshite they have inflicted upon society
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:18 pm to atlgamecockman
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To those who are defending boomers, who are millennials supposed to blame for this?
The frick do you need to blame anyone for anything? Quit searching for someone else to blame, dipshit.
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:20 pm to Rize
quote:We have a Revocable Living Trust that goes to our kids and grand kids. I don't understand what their hate is about. Am I supposed to give it all to them while we are alive and move to a commune?
My parents are awesome. All they do is live to help their kids.
Not sure what all the fuss is about boomers.
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:20 pm to atlgamecockman
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Oh yeah? And what were the prices? People love pointing this out and then neglect to mention a house was like 60 grand
Well.. let’s actually look for factual information. According to Google:
“In the 1980s, the median home price in the U.S. ranged from $47,200 to $73,600, depending on the specific year. When adjusted for inflation to 2023 or 2024 dollars, those prices would be significantly higher, ranging from approximately $147,879 to $374,032.22.
You saying you can’t buy a home today between 147 and 375? Now Could you do it on 16 percent interest?
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:21 pm to MemphisGuy
quote:Boomers are responsible for the Millennials. A lot of them have Boomer parents.
To those who are defending boomers, who are millennials supposed to blame for this?
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:23 pm to TDTOM
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Posted like a whiny little bitch living in perpetual victimhood.
You just can’t justify your own worldview without looking like a self absorbed clown so you’re lashing out at me instead of arguing the points.
I’ve never inherited a single dollar and likely never will because my parents lacked the means to do so. What I have I’m proud of and have earned without any help.
When im done what I’ll think back on is what I’ve taught and passed along to my children so they can live a better life than I did and build for future generations. Im damn sure not gonna be focused on the time I had the newer model range than the neighbors or the flights I took private to various places.
It’s legacy vs self-focus and clearly it’s such a foreign concept to you that there’s no point arguing any further people can judge for themselves what’s important.
This post was edited on 7/24/25 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:24 pm to Diamondawg
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We have a Revocable Living Trust that goes to our kids and grand kids. I don't understand what their hate is about. Am I supposed to give it all to them while we are alive and move to a commune?
No it sounds like you’re doing it exactly right.
Live and enjoy yourselves, give what you can when you’re done if they aren’t irredeemable twats.
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:26 pm to TN Tygah
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My boomer uncle was working a shite job that didn't pay much more than minimum wage and owned a house at 22. Try doing that shite now.
Boomer here.
I came from a family of 9 children, all Boomers. We lived in a house my parents bought for $4k in 1961.The house was approximately 1500 sq/ft counting the basement, on average homes that were built in the early 1900's through the 1970's were much smaller than they are today. This particular house was built in the early 1900's, had 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. . The house use to be configured as an up and down duplex before my parents bought the house.
Mother stayed home raising the children until all the children were going full-time to school and then she went to work as an RN. When daddy was the only one working we slept 2 in a bed, got donated food and clothes from our church and we did fine....nobody went hungry. Our idea of fun was playing outside, didn't matter the weather, we were outside doing something, sometimes shite we shouldn't have been doing.
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:29 pm to CleverUserName
You’re missing the wage bit mentioned above. What’s the inflation rate on wages?
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:30 pm to TigersHuskers
I don’t want to hear the whining, any more than my dad did. He went through the depression, the dust bowl and fought in WW2. He taught me that if you wanted something, work for it.
I worked in a coal mine to pay my way through college, others went on their veterans benefits. Damn near everyone I knew worked.
Social Security wasn’t started by boomers. I would love to have had the opportunity to invest my SS money in stocks or funds. I would have loved that employer match. When Reagan started IRAs in 1983 I jumped in because I knew SS wasn’t a guarantee.
A lot of the technology and infrastructure you use was brought about by Boomers. Judging people by age is stupid. Judge people by their character.
I worked in a coal mine to pay my way through college, others went on their veterans benefits. Damn near everyone I knew worked.
Social Security wasn’t started by boomers. I would love to have had the opportunity to invest my SS money in stocks or funds. I would have loved that employer match. When Reagan started IRAs in 1983 I jumped in because I knew SS wasn’t a guarantee.
A lot of the technology and infrastructure you use was brought about by Boomers. Judging people by age is stupid. Judge people by their character.
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:31 pm to CleverUserName
quote:Have you looked at the difference in a house built in the 80s vs now? Shag carpet, cheap arse countertops, cheap bathrooms to now with everything is granite, expensive flouring, maxed out bathrooms, outdoor kitchens with fireplaces and 3 car garage. My first house in 1981 didn't have a garage. None in our subdivision did.
Well.. let’s actually look for factual information. According to Google:
“In the 1980s, the median home price in the U.S. ranged from $47,200 to $73,600, depending on the specific year. When adjusted for inflation to 2023 or 2024 dollars, those prices would be significantly higher, ranging from approximately $147,879 to $374,032.22.
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:32 pm to tide06
quote:And it would take a stupid person to believe what you just described is, in any way, the norm.
It would take a self centered person not to understand that a parent bragging and being focused exclusively on their own passing whims without any sense of wanting to better not just future generations but their own children’s start is exactly what was being made fun of on that podcast.
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:38 pm to Bass Tiger
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on average homes that were built in the early 1900's through the 1970's were much smaller than they are today. This particular house was built in the early 1900's, had 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms.
My parents' house was built in 1946. Last month I came upon a British video showing how there are still homes in England designed from a U.S. plan after WWII for soldiers coming home and getting married with little money. The design was exactly like our home. Two small bedrooms, 1 small bath, small kitchen and a living room with a dinner table.
I admire the men of that post war era. They worked very hard at tough jobs. There was no welfare nor food stamps. I do not admire the women. They worked when single but refused to work after marriage even if they didn't have kids. They wanted to stay home and use the new rotary dial on telephones to chat with other married women.
This post was edited on 7/24/25 at 12:40 pm
Posted on 7/24/25 at 12:39 pm to DMAN1968
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Or maybe the mindset is that...after multiple generations have passed on more to the next one, building a sizeable nest egg...and you look at little 18-28 year old jimmy/jane, shacked up with 4 friends, no job, no college, high half the time, playing video games...no plans at all.
In that scenario the child has failed whether due to being given too much too early or general failure to launch and probably wouldn’t value your financial legacy.
It’s not uncommon with trust fund kids who were given too much without understanding the value of what was being imparted and I’m not advocating for giving to those who aren’t doing for themselves.
I would say that parental intervention before they turned into twenty something’s who live that way might’ve led to some different outcomes.
Money isn’t the only way to give to future generations, time and involvement matter just as much if not more from a legacy standpoint.
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