A profound quote from our wise Dear Leader:

Trump said, "If we do them, we'll do it really beautifully. I promise there will be no men playing in women's sports."

Cat, TV, Giraffe, Pencil...

The economics of 1975 is on the Boomers?

You shorted it. On purpose, I suspect.

Changes began in the 70s but really began to move in the 80s.

When boomers were in their 30s and 40s and were moving into positions of leadership and power. They brought the breaking of the social contract with them because they thought they deserved more.

That's why they've left little to nothing for their children and grandchildren.

Corporations/Billionaires everywhere appreciate you blaming their actions on entire Gens...

Yawn.

particularly your Gen that, in your own formulation, is responsible for funding the rise Donald Trump.

Nope. Trump was primarily funded by boomers and Gen X. Even then, a small handful.

You're also intentionally ignoring things work on a continuum, not in discreet blocks of convenient facts and time.

Perhaps you'll get a promotion at the Lab.
#44 | Posted by Corky

Perhaps one day you won't be a pompous ---- with zero critical thinking skills and a predilection for regurgitating what you read as your own original thoughts (BTW it's extremely easy to spot what you regurgitate vs what you think in your posts, like night and day...)

Your major shifts in thinking, management and exercise of power came during the boomer years.

That beloved stat of CEO to average worker earning? Relatively consistent through the 60s when it was the Silent Generation and tail end of the Greatest Generation running things. When things like pensions were the norm, loyalty was a two-way street and one salary could provide for a household.

But that ratio begins ticking up once the 30 and 40 something Boomers start moving into upper-level and executive management during the 70s and 80s. It only accelerates from there.

Your attempts to obfuscate the issue seem like an intentional ignorance.

There have always been some division between the "elites" and the rest of the population. Pinning it on that constantly is lazy.

The inflection point occurred when the social contract was deemed invalid in the pursuit of wealth and power. THAT is on the boomers who exhibited that trait among elites and normies alike. Everything after has built on that basic collapse of societal responsibility and decency.

And once the administration begins trying to force lower prices, MAGA will cheer it while intentionally ignoring the fact that it goes completely against the ethos they've claimed to live by their entire lives. Trump will try to force markets by government intervention more than any Dem in our lifetime, but they'll remain silent and intentionally oblivious to that fact.

Also, I washed dishes, lifted picture tubes 300 times a day, and paid for my own tech education.
I spent zero time whining about those -------- that created the Great Depression.

#34 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

As per usual, boomers think their relatively normal life experiences are special, as are they.

I've worked kitchens. Was a cashier at a gas station on weekends and nights as well as working in the campus bookstore to float my undergrad degree. Worked two summers at a golf course.

But here's the difference - when a boomer worked through a summer and (maybe) the school year, they made enough to actually pay for their education. In my day, that work minimized loans and provided money to live. Kids now? The same words (minimize loans and provide money to live) but as a mere shadow of the meaning.

When I graduated, getting a job wasn't a steep hill to climb and starting a career wasn't a distant dream. Now? Forget it.

Yes, I recognize Gen Xers and some Millenials have contributed to the steep decline of the middle class; however, they are a symptom of the decline begun and entrenched by boomers to recalibrate our economy to hunger games, zero sum mentality where the social contract is non-existent in the face of making every dollar one can by any means necessary.

Of course, that stupid pile of s*&^ believes the garbage he reads on social media.

Holy f*&^ you're an idiot.

Let me guess, that's from the Hodge Twins or some nonsense?

See, right on cue:

"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people,"

Corkandsniff's usual pomposity.

Boomers were handed the world and they decided to keep it all for themselves.

That is an inescapable fact, no matter how many times you act like dismissive garbage is a sound argument.

There, fixed that for you.
#8 | Posted by boaz

Except there are countless examples of migrants with legal status being arrested and deported.

So STFU you worthless pile of s*&^. You're an embarrassment to this Republic.

Convincing the bottom of our societal barrel that they're toy soldiers who should attack their fellow citizens is bound to end well.

I can only imagine some of the goobers I went to high school with falling to this kind of recruitment drive and they are the absolute LAST people who should have a badge and a gun while wearing a mask...

I was watching/reading some of the reporting on the Manhattan Institute's Gen Z expose over the last few days and whoa. We're far more screwed than any of us older folks want to believe.

Every time I open a new browser tab I'm reminded just big a failure the media is and has been.

There's always some MSN headline about "Judge Delivers Legal Blow to Trump..." or "New Polling Data Big Problem for Trump..." or some other nonsense treating this like it's a boxing match during normal times.

Meanwhile, in reality, this administration has showed that they'll flagrantly disregard judicial rulings, even going so far as to attack judges and the judiciary for daring to be the co-equal branch they are, and don't give two s*&^s what polling says as they blatantly gut social programs and policies that hurt their base and the 90% the most while favoring extreme wealth inequality and the torrent of upward wealth movement.

Rather than presenting a balanced picture of the administration's efforts, the media have jumped on any opportunity to make ICE look incompetent or, better yet, malicious.

Because they are malicious. They're authoritarian pieces of s*&^ that have to be excused by dishonestly using an exception to avoid criticizing the norm.

F*&^ off, ballwasher. You're an idiot who entrenches their idiocy by reading garbage like that.

#8 | Posted by BellRinger

You'd think you'd find better sources given how wrong you are on every damn thread you chirp up on.

Still believing National Review trash. GTFOOH.

The moral of the story - diversify your news sources.

#9 | Posted by BellRinger

The follow up moral is avoid whatever garbage ballwasher reads.

The idea that Venezuela, with the backing of Russia and China, is a "little guy" is laughable.

#13 | Posted by sentinel

The only thing laughable is this take.

Venezuela wouldn't last more than a few weeks in a conventional war against the US. China and Russia aren't going to directly intervene.

They'll just ensure the same thing that happened in Iraq happens again - the nonconventional war is protracted, bloody and expensive, thus bleeding the US dry of a generation of young men and money we don't have because we're too stupid to simply walk away.

What if it comes out that Trump really has dementia, and he is staying in office because he is so valuable to the far, far right...be is totally a tool of those at his elbow.

I've more or less assumed this to be the case for the last six months or so. I've assumed Russ Vought and Steven Miller are the primary pushers, but I think that's only because I know their names. There are likely far more disciplined members of the admin who are much much worse but smart enough to stay out of the spot light. (which was always the worry for someone taking over the Trump model of politics...)