Gen alpha is a boomer timebomb waiting to happen…

It might be even much worse if the algorithms are allowed to continue unabated and people do less and less civic-minded things, in person. I think part of the thesis of “Bowling for Columbine” is that starting some time ago, lots and lots of people doing things within their community as groups, in-person has had a steep drop-off.

I think I remember Masons talking about how boomers were almost missing from many of their lodges. Not sure of the reason for that, but due to things like Dan Brown, there was an uptick among Gen X joining up. I still think it’s probably way down for community groups of all kinds, generation after generation.

At least boomers are the ones still showing up to many in-person things. I don’t know what the civic engagement is for Gen X and younger…also, the boomers had a lot of fantastic ideas, some of the first to really go mainstream was with their generation. I think many of them were some of the first to be socialized in the broader sense, too. It’s just that Ronnie Raygunism came along and started building things like Faux and hate radio to capture that demo in particular…but I’m not fooled by the common trope of the boomer stereotype we keep seeing and blaming it all on them. I think that’s overlooking a lot by using a convenient scapegoat, especially now that most of the Silent Generation is disappearing, and nearly all (?) of the Greatest Generation is gone.

It’s just locker room talk, you guyz!!!111

I’m assuming her adult kids suddenly had to pay some big grocery bills.

It’s weird how Marj is just now figuring the Republican Party is full of Republicans.

High cost of living for the non-centimillionaires? Who gives a flying fuck!

The conservative project is about punching down on liberals, women, POC, LGBTQ, non-xtians, foreigners, and especially the poor. It’s about lifting up the very rich and platforming Nazi assholes like Charlie Kirk.

None of which is going to do anything about healthcare costs, or cost of living. It’s not intended to.

I don’t know, did the umbrella man ever get properly dragged into a court and then sent to prison?

Now that I’m an adult and in not such a red area, I do notice times when I’ll get what I think are probably a few trial balloons. When I don’t bite, they don’t go any further. For example, some comment about “men in women’s sports”. Or how they will say they “identify as an attack helicopter”. Or how they should “put on a wig and a dress” so they can go into the women’s bathroom. That last one always amazes me, and I think I’ve heard it way too many times for it to be purely anecdotal. I do think the trans stuff is the go-to for this kind of thing as attacking trans is still considered mostly okay, and it’s the gateway drug for the rest of it…

But back when I was a kid/teen/adolescent - in the 70s/80s/early 90s - wow, some of the stuff just said casually, nearly all the time - unbelievable, even back then.

Freedom!

Get ready for demands that ChatGPT is trained only on utter dreck like Conservapedia.

Get ready for the conservative jagoffs to start painting themselves as the exclusive victims, much like they still do when it comes to social media platforms - "mah kawtehnt iz gettin shadoah banned, ya’ll… " and something something argle bargle Hunter Biden’s “laptop”. And something something argle bargle ermagawd, I wasn’t able to say just whatever crazy shit I wanted on a private platform when it came to Covid conspiracy theories! How is this even America?

The party of Small Government.

Would have been way cheaper just to sell tickets for the cult members and loyalists to line up and/or watch other loyalists fellate the felon-in-chief. Pam Blondi, Noem, Mikey Johnson, Bessent, “JD” “Vance”, and Stephen Miller can lead the pack.

When does Stephen Miller step down?

This is conservatives and Republicans we are talking about, so…yeah.

Just look at Taco’s cabinet.

Agreed; if the State Regime Media was able to cover up the terrorism of J6 and paint the terrorists as the victims that needed a pardon from the felon-in-chief, AND have most of their audience feel that “cities burned to the ground” during BLM protests (and one of their more idiotic viewers - Taco - seems to think that Portland is still burning, FFS), then there is a sizable chunk of this country that will believe all kinds of obvious bullshit.

Yeah, she probably thinks she is one of the “good” ones, then, if she is sitting there and watching him downplay Nazi shit. His kids are still rather young-ish, so probably are not aware of just how evil their father is…

They support this, too. They don’t give a fuck if it’s a teenager that did nothing wrong. They want to get the brown people and “own the libz”. They won’t give a flying fuck until one of their immediate circle is affected.

Sorry, she doesn’t have a dong. If you’ll notice - the only people that Taco was able to beat were women. He didn’t win against men.

Not sure how America gets over its stupid and backward misogyny, but it’s not going to happen by running candidates like Hillary or Kamala. Clearly.

It’s because the frogs are gay.

“JD” “Vance” can just fuck right off with his bullshit attempt at whataboutism.

I wonder how his wife and kids feel about him sitting there and trying to downplay the venomous racism in his own party and his conservative movement.

So very true. Murdoch and Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh continued the damage in the 90s, as well.

I love this for them.