- 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.

"Now" is much more a function of your Gen than mine... but that blame game is still a stupid one.

The Elites have been the driving force in wage to living disparities since 1975... which is pre-Boomers having control of the economy, which has been in the hands of the Elites since well before then.

SO next we should be blaming the Greatest Gen in general for not controlling the Elites that have given us Planned Recessions and Top Down Economies since the mid '70's?

No, there's not one Gen to blame... unless of course you want to blame Boomers for scaring the living shit out of Elites in the late 60's and early 70's when they realized that the People might just stand up and Protest.

Which led to pro-Corporate SC decisions in the late '70's and Elites funding Reagan in the '80's, and eventually the far right Tea Party-ish movements and Citizens United, which sealed the deal we have now; Money is Speech, and he who has the most money has the most speech.

"The president's suggestions as to who could top the Republican presidential ticket in 2028 have been so quiet that they're practically murmurs.

Without ever explicitly signaling his support for Vance to lead the party, Trump has lauded his number two, publicly describing Vance as "very capable" and the "most likely" choice to front the Republican ticket."

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"Somehow, Vance is the best that the party's got"as of right now. No other GOP figure, including longtime presidential wannabes State Secretary Marco Rubio and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, eclipsed five percent in the CNN poll.

The largest group of respondents"some 64 percent of those polled"said they had "no one specific in mind" to top the 2028 ticket, suggesting an open playing field in which just about anyone could step in to win the Republican nomination.

Still, several of Trump's most ardent supporters"including his first term chief strategist Steve Bannon"have advocated that the president should attempt to seek a third term. Vance, Bannon claimed in August, is simply "not tough enough" for the job."

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They're going to have to pry Trump's tiny cold dead hands from the Presidency.

The first thing the expert says in the linked video is that, 'the same thing happened in 2024, and we are seeing it again in 2025.".

SO, in 2024 the trend started under Biden, sans ICE bullies and Gestapo Tactics from this Admin's Cult of Hate and Violence against Americans from the dull-witted likes of Herr 'Sieg Heil' Miller, Nutty Noem, Krash Patel, Bloody Blondi.

Thanks, Trumpers!

(and thanks for dumbass posters who disprove their own talking points)

aka... Making Proud Boys and Prison Guards Greatly Rich Again!

Hitler's Secret Police were called...

"Hitler's secret police was called the Gestapo, an acronym for the German term Geheime Staatspolizei, which translates to "Secret State Police".

The Gestapo was a critical instrument of terror for the Nazi regime, operating without judicial review and wielding immense power to identify and eliminate political opponents, Jews, and other groups deemed undesirable by the Nazis."

MAGA is Revolting!!

(always has been)

"The CIA carried out a drone strike bombing on Venezuelan soil last week, making it the first U.S. attack inside the country that we know of.

The strike, reported first on Monday night by CNN, hit a dock on the Venezuelan coast that the U.S. administration claims was being used by Tren de Aragua for narcotrafficking. The Trump administration also claimed that the dock was empty when the strike was carried out, resulting in zero casualties.

While Donald Trump vastly expanded the CIA's ability to act independently, they still do not have the authority to carry out land strikes in Venezuela"although that means nothing when they've already extrajudicially murdered dozens of fishermen in Venezuelan waters and quite literally stolen an oil tanker.

While Trump alluded to hitting a "big facility where ships come from" last week, he refused to confirm or deny whether that attack was the one we now know was carried out by the CIA."

- examine what those people were thinking, and why.

It is the same in all recent Gens... all the Elites are mostly of one or more Gens, but those Gens are mostly not the Elites, they are average Americans.

From #9: "As I mentioned above, most of the Elites who funded the Oil Wars and Reagan were indeed Boomers, but most Boomers were not Elites.

Today, Musk and Thiel and most of the other major Trump billionaire's aren't Boomers... "

Examining the facts is fine, but playing blame games with Gens when it's the Elites that make the decisions with their bribes to politicians (and SC Justices) is frankly useless.

It's a Distraction not unlike Trans, Immigrants, and Abortion; "Look over there, not at us!".

"Trump's influence on politics is undeniable. The MAGA movement that propelled him to office twice has reshaped the Republican Party.

Trump's re-election last year momentarily deflated Democrats. But just a few months into his second term, his policies re-energized the party's progressive left wing, including the election of Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, as New York City mayor in November."

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He's also losing voters faster than you can say, "Jeffrey Epstein"!

Should be called the Trump Voter Reduction Act.

"The protests were the largest since a wave of demonstrations rocked the country after Mahsa Amini, 22, died in police custody following her arrest for not wearing the hijab correctly. At the time, Iranian police responded with force, imposing an internet shutdown and violently cracking down on demonstrations with teargas and gunfire.

Analysts say the Iranian government has reduced its domestic repression since the 12-day war with Israel during the summer, as it seeks to shore up support after suffering significant blows to its image as an impregnable regime.

The "morality police", for example, have at times relaxed the strict application of social edicts in Tehran."

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"The erosion of purchasing power is exacerbating an already dire economic situation in Iran, making food and other daily needs increasingly unaffordable.

According to Iran's government statistics centre, food prices are up 72% and medical goods 50% compared with this time last year. At the same time, the government has said it will increase taxes in the Iranian new year, which starts on 21 March."

Jonathon Turley, lmao... what Alan Dershowitz wasn't available to comment on, 'European censorship'?

- Boomers end in '64-ish. Thiel and Musk are definitely Gen X. Like Kavanaugh. They're early Gen X.

Like I said.

They and their billionaire friends gave us Trump with their bribe investments for Media buys, were we to be playing JPW's game.

Which we aren't.

Here's a good New Year's quote for all of us to keep in mind:

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

(often attributed to Socrates, encouraging focus on concepts, progress, and intellectual growth rather than gossip or trivial happenings. While widely shared as Socratic wisdom, the exact wording isn't in Plato's dialogues, with some tracing the sentiment to historian Henry T. Buckle or Eleanor Roosevelt.)

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Apparently, as you obviously have no actual retort other than one big whine.

Musk and Thiel and most of DJT's biggest donors are your Gen. Own it.

But I'm not going to play your stupid kid's game.

- corkandsniff

That was very grown up! Good job (pats head).

Generational blame games are Distractions to the point of what's happening now... sorta like rwing distractions about Trans and Immigrants.

Perhaps you should blame Boomers for stopping the War in Vietnam (that killed at least 4 million people outright, and is still killing people today with chemicals), running Tricky Dick out of Office, JFK, The Great Society, and Women's Rights.

The Greatest Gen, who won WWII and elected FDR 4 times and gave us the New Deal... also dropped the atomic bombs on Japan. No Gens are perfect... well, except maybe yours.

One could blame your Gen for there being little good music anymore. Or Tic-Toc, ffs.

Also for Trump if you want to look at swing voters... although they are flocking back to center now.

Boomer accomplishments

"The Baby Boomer generation (born 1946-1964) significantly advanced social justice, spearheading the Civil Rights Movement, second-wave Feminism (fighting for reproductive rights & workplace equality), and the anti-war movement (Vietnam), leading to lasting policy changes and increased social freedoms.

They also drove technological adoption (personal computers, internet), shifted consumer culture with their large numbers, championed environmentalism, and fostered an era of public service and volunteering, although their legacy also includes significant national debt and debates over economic inequality."

#10

It IS curious. I don't know about Pee Tapes, but Vlad does have access to all of the money
laundering deals DJT did for Russian Oligarchs over the years.

Not to mention that Former KGB spy Yuri Shvets claimed Russia cultivated Trump for over 40 years, exploiting his ego and desire for flattery, making him a useful tool, even if not a classic spy.

Chinese Death Tolls 20th century

"The 20th century saw catastrophic death tolls in China from war, famine, and political purges, with the deadliest events being the Great Chinese Famine (1958-1962) (15-55 million dead), the Taiping Rebellion (mid-19th century, spilling into early 20th) (20-30 million), and immense casualties from the Sino-Japanese War/WWII, the Chinese Civil War, and the Cultural Revolution (hundreds of thousands to millions), making it one of the most lethal periods in world history, driven by man-made disasters, famine, and conflict."

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"Russia's losses in Ukraine rise faster than ever

Over the past 10 months, Russian losses in the war with Ukraine have been growing faster than any time since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, BBC analysis suggests.

As peace efforts intensified in 2025 under pressure from US President Donald Trump's administration, 40% more obituaries of soldiers were published in Russian sources compared with the previous year.

Overall, the BBC has confirmed the names of almost 160,000 people killed fighting on Russia's side in Ukraine.

The real death toll is believed to be much higher, and military experts we have consulted believe our analysis of cemeteries, war memorials and obituaries might represent 45-65% of the total.

That would put the number of Russian deaths at between 243,000 and 352,000."

Some Trumpers appear to be on the verge of figuring out that Trump45 and Trump47 aren't just Spinoff TV series from The Apprentice... and that the lead actor might really be having an impact on their lives and their country.

Not in a good way; he's a reflection of their prejudices, racism, bigotry, misogyny, and a number of other irrational fears.

"Trump sides with Russia on claims that Ukraine targeted Putin residence

Russia on Monday accused Ukraine of trying to attack President Vladimir Putin's residence in northern Russia, which President Trump said he was "very angry" about, even as Kyiv has denied it happened.

The Kremlin's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow's negotiating position to end its war in Ukraine was under review after it claimed Kyiv tried to attack the presidential residence in the Novgorod region overnight with 91 long-range drones. Lavrov said all drones were destroyed by Russian air defenses, with no injuries or damage.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, meanwhile, said Russia's claims were "a complete fabrication intended to justify additional attacks against Ukraine" and undermine peace talks, according to a post to the social platform X.

But Trump later on Monday appeared to take Russia's side.

"I don't like it, it's not good. I heard about it this morning. You know who told me about it? President Putin told me about it. Early in the morning he said he was attacked. That's no good, it's no good," Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., of the claimed strike.

"It's a delicate period of time. This is not the right time," Trump added, likely referring to ongoing peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. "It's one thing to be offensive, because [Russia is] offensive, it's another thing to attack [Putin's] house. It's not the right time to do any of that. ... I was very angry about it."

Asked if there's evidence of the attack, Trump replied: "Well, we'll find out. You're saying maybe the attack didn't take place? That's possible, I guess, but President Putin told me this morning."

"Countries that impose both an annual property tax and some form of unrealized capital gains tax include Denmark and Norway, primarily through specific mechanisms such as exit taxes or lump-sum fund taxes."

"Marjorie Taylor Greene, now just days away from stepping down as a congresswoman for Georgia, has said in her latest mea culpa interview that she "was just so naive" for believing that Donald Trump was a man of the people.

Greene said the Epstein files represented "everything wrong with Washington" and said it was a story of "rich, powerful elites doing horrible things and getting away with it. And the women are the victims".

After meeting with victims, she claimed, Trump called her and yelled "my friends will get hurt" if the files were released.

In the interview, Greene said that she had been wrong to accuse Democrats of treason. She acknowledged that she is now a political outcast from both sides of the political divide."

This vid goes over the original NYT article @6 mins in:

-Property and unrealized capital gains are not.

But should be, which is the point.

1. The JCT calculation excluded the increased value of investments: Billionaires and other hyper-wealthy people can use their unrealized capital gains to pursue lives of luxury and buy key sectors of our economy without ever having to report it as taxable income.

It stands to reason that those gains should be included in the calculation of their income.

According to the Federal Reserve's 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances, the top earning 0.01% of households had on average $124 million of unrealized capital gains, that is in addition to the $26.3 million of reported income that JCT estimates for the same year.

If all of the top 0.01% income is counted, their effective tax rate goes down dramatically.

A White House study determined that the average tax rate of the nation's 400 wealthiest families between 2010-18 was just 8.2% when unrealized capital gains are included. Using this metric is a more realistic definition of income for the super-rich."

The meme that the Elite will just take their money and go elsewhere if taxes are too high... is largely a myth.

"It also comes after Beijing expressed anger at a remarks by Japan's Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, who said her country could respond militarily if China were to move to take control of Taiwan by force.

"This exercise serves as a serious warning to Taiwan independence' separatist forces and external interfering forces, and is a legitimate and necessary action to safeguard national sovereignty and maintain national unity," Shi said.

China's Communist Party claims self-ruled and democratic Taiwan as part of its sovereign territory, despite never having controlled it."

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Watch out, Greenland... DJT will need to keep up with Xi!