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  • Indeed. If things get bad enough where they experience a twinge of embarrassment for their stupid choices, they’ll slink away and pretend they were always teabaggers voting for a non-existent party called “The Tea Party” and never even heard of the Republicans or this PEDOnald guy…

    The playbook they did when GWB cratered the economy, bungled Katrina and Iraq was clearly a quagmire to even the stupidest of Americans at that point.

    They’ll lie in wait until another Republican that “says what they think” comes along and do it all over again.












  • Shrug, you can laugh I guess? Even if it’s quite en vogue at the moment to lay all the problems at the feet of one generation, I think it’s incredibly simplistic and naive to do so. Especially when we can see an incredible rise in younger men embracing the tenets of fascism right now, and they are nowhere near the age of boomers.

    This is the boomers we are talking about, and they contain multitudes. They fought for gay rights, they fought for civil rights, they fought for women’s rights. Prior to the boomers, women could not even have a bank account without a man in their life signing off on it.



  • Nope, sorry, absolutely not buying into this narrative.

    At all.

    The “term limits now!” has been around forever and I think would solve absolutely nothing. It’s a terrible idea - trying to apply a simplistic solution to systemic problems, but tends to never die. I group that in the same place as Tort reform when it comes to zombie solutions that refuse to never go away.

    And I think the inter-generational warfare thing that’s being stoked (probably orchestrated) is even worse than that. The notion that people that went around the sun a certain amount of times cannot relate to the average person is one of the dumbest ideas going, in my view. It is complete nonsense.




  • no generation will be able to do more damage to the earth than the Boomer generation

    I highly doubt that. It seems younger generations have learned neither the lessons of vaccination nor the lessons of fascism from WWII.

    If that Fourth Turning thing turns out to be right - and Zeus help us if it does, the boomer generation will be viewed as a Renaissance era (and a lot of what they worked for was - all kinds of awakening happened thanks to them, regardless of the current en vogue narratives).