The lost Generation
I feel as if I am one of a forgotten generation, Maybe you could say a Lost generation, I’m not sure, but here’s a few thoughts. I speak to/of the kids born from ‘62 til about ‘74, basically my age to about 47 now, where do we fit in the Generational scope? I’m a Boomer? No, an Xer? Certainly not, I learned Rock from Mom and Dad, the Stones type of thing, went through the disco era, then on to Punk rock, I suffered no ill effects but never quite fit into the scene, either too young, or too old.
Wendy and I were married in ‘88, and our Kids were either too old or too young to hang with our friends’ kids, they still had fun but it became obvious to me that we weren’t in the same generational timeline as our friends.
There are many anomalies, like Nieces being older than Aunts, that kind of stuff, in the workplace, no one likes us, we are old enough to know, can still do the job, and piss off the kids,
Many of my friends have died, half from substance, half from dumb medical issues they could have taken care of, but were too busy working for the family, a lot when I turned 53, spooky, (looking at Prince, 53 same as me at the time). We avoided War, and chose Apathy……
We are very Glibertarian if you can find someone who isn’t apathetic to the whole structure,
We are very few, tired and skeptical, we, the Lost Generation,
**** I’m not whining, I embrace the suck, 2020 was a bitch for us all….
I believe after 65 is considered Gen X.
People born in 1982 are not of the same generation as someone born in ’65. In ’82, I was 16. I was born in ’66. Someone who’s 4 y/o when I am 20 is not of the same generation. I always felt more aligned with boomers than gen X.
65 is Gen X fight me. I refuse to be a Boomer. Like I give a fuck but AAAUKshully I think there is a term for us born in this age range but I don’t care enough to go find a link. Thanks for the thoughts Yusef. I know what you mean. Never fit in to either but I did an awesome “open the gate” in 6th grade disco dance class.
And I still do open a gate that would make Travolta be jealous.
Sorry, Boomer.
I have several relatives born in this range. They are not libertarian, not even close.
One introduced me to the joys of Rock music.
I am ’75 so a generation x’er I remember Reagan, the cola wars, and being taught in school that communism was evil.
Imagine, a time when schools actually taught something useful!
’76. Same. Childhood was Red Dawn, WarGames, and thinking that nuclear annihilation was a real possibility.
ABC network using The Day After to scare the bejeebers out of anyone who thought of voting for Reagan, whom all the smart set just knew was going to get us into a nuclear war with the Russkis.
It almost worked, too. Ronnie only carried 49 states the next election.
“All the sugar and twice the caffeine”
I’m hoping they’re counting the mail in ballots first otherwise we’re all in trouble.
They are but it still looks like a win for Democrats. Republican turnout looks bad.
From what I’ve seen they’re saying in person turnout was even higher than election day.
really? hmm. ok we will see.
I know it’s confirmation bias but man… I really can’t believe so many people are voting for the Dems in this case. I mean, I almost feel like the DNC is punking the country, seeing just how awful a candidate they can get us to vote for. Maybe the Pubs are more horrible – I dunno. But I doubt it.
Ditto for me.
Looks like the same story I’ve seen evolve over the last couple decades – the Pubs have completely lost the suburbs.
Not even watching. Not a thing I can do about it.
I’m not even sure it matters at this point. The Rs are just doing the big spending/print money/ inflate the currency/devalue the dollar routine slightly slower than the Ds would.
But the GOP probably wouldn’t expand the Supreme Court or add two new states, so that’s something.
I have three brothers born in ’61, ’62, and ’63. They sometimes seem like a different generation than me (’69). Like, we don’t have any of the same “touchstones”.
Jesus. Your mom couldn’t keep her legs closed. You Winston’s sock?
Thank goodness, or I wouldn’t be here.
I meant the more three kids in three years……….holy moly that is a lot to take on. I have a story about that but not telling it in type.
’57, ’59, ’60, ’61, ’63
My older brother has daughters aged 7-5-4-2. not quite one year, but quite the investment in time and effort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzVHjg3AqIQ
Don’t you talk about a nice Irish Catholic girl like that!
I don’t feel like a part of a lost generation, but very often I feel like a very lonely soul. Which is what makes this refuge, for me, so special.
An example: last three days in a row at work, I’ve had an older woman ( they’re almost always a woman in the 45-65 y/o demographic) demand that I call the police to come and arrest a person for not wearing a mask.
Of course I’m not going to do that.
If I were to estimate the number of people I’ve interacted with like that over the past year, I would say roughly thirty or so.
What do I have in common with people like that? Nothing. They make me want to vomit.
Long-winded way of saying, “I like your stuff,Yusef. Keep your chin up.”
Did anyone else expect both D candidates to win the GA runoff by more than 10 pts, before the evening is over? I didn’t.
I expected both Democrat candidates to win.
A combination of the Dems being fired up, the Republicans being demoralized, and maybe a little cheating.
So did I, but not before 9pm with more than a 10 pt lead.
Time for rally caps!!
Buck up. The Pubes are catching up.
It’s now down to a mere 5% lead but I honestly am not following the distribution of ballots thus far.
Not too much. And remember, this is all before the 4am massive ballot secret initiative. I figure the GOP would need at least a 20pt lead by 3am to win.
oh is that all?
Down to a 4% lead.
Time for a pipe to burst.
Already happening. Fulton and Dekalb counties are already experiencing voting machine breakdowns. Isn’t that weird that both of those are Atlanta metro and no one else in the state is having an issue counting votes? But no worry, that will be fixed right after 4am.
Perdue now leads slightly but is well short of the 20% margin he needs to win.
I’m sure they have the 30% covered at 4am if they need it.
I’m a bit surprised that Ossoff is trailing Warnock. I thought Warnock was the weaker candidate, or is Loeffler even weaker and that’s why?
Warnock is the more woke commie. That’s what progtard morons want. Ossoff is just a fully paid for CCP puppet.
Take a look at Dekalb and Fulton. There are massive amounts of votes still not counted there because they’re mail in ballots, waiting to fraud, while the rest of the state is done counting.
I am on Decision Desk while listening to Tim Pool’s show. They just said something different than I am seeing there. What election source are you guys on?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/05/us/elections/results-georgia-runoffs.html
Warner is +0.16
Perdue is +0.57
Gone from Dems up by 10% to a tie.
I’ve learned how to read election maps. There is a MASSIVE amount of votes in Dekalb county up for grabs, and most of those are ballots, look for yourself.
Loeffler +0.30
Perdue +1.0
In normal times, you could say, oh look, The GOP are winning, look at that, but that would be because you are NOT looking at the massive amounts of uncounted votes lying around in Dekalb county. And more will be found at 4am.
The lead is less than 1% now.
Keep an eye on Dekalb county. It’s the proggiest of prog counties there and also the one that has been able to count only 15% of the votes, despite everyone else at 90+. Machines breaking down. This is where they get the 4am steal.
I’ll add this. Fulton has been at 86% counted for at least 30 minutes now. Now it’s 81% again? How the fuck does that happen. It’s begun.
yusef,
I work with a bevy of guys in their mid fifties and they are all fine. We get along just fine.
I was born in 1987. I think that puts me in the top end of the millenial generation. I was raised without a cell phone and just cable some years and some years just network tv. I don’t much feel like your typical millenial. Probably a rural vs urban perception of things type deal.
Get off my porch, Yusef the Ice Man!
I was born in ’88 and it was much the same. We didn’t have cable until I was in high school. I had a cell phone when I could drive, but I literally kept the battery separate because it was an automatic suspension if your phone went off in class. It had an antenna you had to pull out.
Rural/urban is part of it, but there is a huge gap between early millennials (86-93) and later millennials.
I think the older millenials, say 1985-1988 or so have legit reason to beef with the system. I was just starting to make good money for the first time in my life with the 08 recession hit and i took a steep pay cut at work that lasted better than a year. what little i had put up for saving in a 401k was creamed and took years to returrn to where it was pre 08. I started work in the peak of housing boom, and got shafted when it collapsed.
Now here i am 12 years in a FED created monetary bubble, and I’m about to get hosed again, I have navigated well enough, but i have spent my entire working life in a FED fueled and increasing severe boom-bust cycle.
As someone who farted around until the late nineties before getting serious about a career… right there with you.
Born in 1984 here… Which is sadly the direction the world seems to be heading. My younger brother was born in 1991. We were world’s apart in terms of personality and work ethic, however he was pretty Libertarian.
My twin younger brothers were born in 1990. They have both turned out to be pretty much libertarian, even if they don’t necessarily call themselves that. They have both been at the receiving end of the police state enough times to figure out that its a serious problem. Brother Zach started listening to POTP about 6 months ago.
People generally lump a 20-year period into a “generation” — such as the “boomers” running from 1945 to 1965. But culturally, that’s really two, maybe even three, different cohorts. There is the first half of the boom, roughly 1945 to 1954 that rebelled against the establishment and the war; started the free love movement; and dove deeply into recreational drugs. My cohort, roughly, 1955 to 1960, basically watched in awe and frustration as the first half of the boom ravaged everything it sight. It was like following a horde of locusts. My youngest brother, born in 63, shares almost nothing in common with my cohort and absolutely nothing in common with the first half boomers. His cohort were the beginnings of the disillusioned, disaffected Genx that followed the boom. But he’s not GenX either.
My kids (born ’76 and ’79) straddle the fence culturally being not really GenX and not really millennial.
I generally find these classifications of generations to be pretty much worthless. Year of graduation from high school — the culture and the politics — seems to be a better indication of shared traits that a 20-year grouping of generations.
Exactly! For me it is did you jerk off to a Madonna MTV video when she went all ripped fish net thigh highs? Then we can relate as the same generation.
*contemplated deleting that comment and then didn’t* I would like to use this as further evidence of my bad judgement.
I had Titanic on VHS. There was a particular scene which was watched more than it should have been.
The scene where the ship breaks in half?
The one where DiCaprio drowns?
Baby Busters
Lookit all these olds appropriating GenX cultutre!
I’d trade all of my tomorrows for just one yesterday.
No, I wouldn’t. For a long time I was worried that I wouldn’t see the end of the world as we know it (The Reckoning of the Debt) and then this past year seems to have sped everything up, Now I look forward to each day as I perceive more crumbling away at the edges.
For years I claimed the best era was 1950-2000. WW2 was over, prosperity returned. We had a couple wars thrown in but we still had guns and butter, the economy was good, on the surface. We were learning from our mistakes, as a country.
For now it seems to me the future is not looking so bright when it absolutely should be, with all the tech stuff, war fairly minimized. The political jungle is strangling us, it’s as if we haven’t learned a damned thing, in spite of all the historical data.
I learned to square dance in grade school, there weren’t a lot of moves to impress the ladies but I was a happy kid to do-si-do with that little blonde haired girl.
I worry (a lot) about my own kids and grand kids, not much I can do and worrying doesn’t change anything. I’m looking for all you libertarians to take over for me. Mrs Fourscore was lamenting the end of the world but I assured her that the rules of Washington will not translate too well in Podunkville. There is hope.
#metoo
I wonder if that still happens.
#methree
(in fact, I’m in this video https://youtu.be/kZLyPFCB8zk?t=58)
You kids (all girls) had some moves too. A little Lindy Hop stuff thrown in there. Great, KK, you are living proof all is well. No one can take those days from you.
1985 was one of those memorable magical years. 2019 was another one.
Great little terpsichoreans! Which folkid are you?
LOL.
We didn’t do outfits, it was just gym class. And it wasn’t Vermont, but “inner city” upstate New York. I can’t seriously imagine any of this happening there today.
On the plus side, we had someone calling out the dosey-does.
They were still teaching square dancing where I went to grade school in the middle 90’s.
Same here and we were partnered up for a couple weeks and we didn’t get to choose our partner. I just happened to get the girl I had a crush on. Never talked to her again after that awful 2 week experience.
“rules of Washington will not translate too well in Podunkville. There is hope.”
I hope you are right.
4X20 knows. And thanks for some insight and wisdom. When I was learning my “open the gate” move we also square danced. Small towns man, small towns are the best place to learn the best dance moves.
Remember when the Berlin wall came down and the Soviet Union collapsed. The future looked really bright in those days.
Mid afternoon, on 11 Sep 2001, I told one of my friends that United States of America was dead and that the future was an eventual totalitarian state. It’s well on its way there now.
I think you’re right, Kinnath, big changes and quickly pushed through.
I didn’t wake up as early as Sept 11 itself, but when I heard “Patriot Act” and (gulp) Department of Homeland Security, i knew we were well and truly fucked.
I like the new avatar, if only because Major Eaton was my first avatar here before I went full amphibian.
Fun fact, the same actor was Porkins a long time ago (actual documentary footage from the Battle of Yavin).
September of 2001 usher in the age of the all seeing national security state. March of 2020 ushered in the age of the all pervasive healthcare/nanny state.
Much as the steps taken after 9/11 have not been taken back in the past 19 years, I expect the steps taken in the wake of Covid will be with us permanently.
So the terrorists won.
I picked the wrong Armageddon to quit drinking…
I’d say that the U.S. has been carrying out the foreign policy wishes of Osama Bin Ladin for the better part of 2 decades now. so yeah, at least that particular group of terrorists are winning.
Even without 9/11, it was inevitable. Fate was sealed in 1913. Maybe even in 1863.
My vote is for 1863. The federal government gained supremacy over the states.
Party on, Yusef!
I have often said that I was born too late. I would have fit in better with my mom’s generation (she graduated in 1971 (after giving birth to me the year before)).
Big Nick or Mike Banning – who ya got?
Big Nick is my, ahh, “stage” name.
The helicopter traffic tonight is…concerning
Remember, tin foil amplifies the signal so it’s easier to read you mind. You need a good steel hat.
I have heard recently that general military air traffic is up lately. Idk what that means if true.
Conversational traffic, that is.
I made a flight down south a few weeks ago, and the amount of military training traffic that ATC moved me around was quite high. I’d never experienced that before. And it wasn’t just in MOAs, it was over airspace I wouldn’t normally consider “military.” Probably a lot of traffic on the MTRs. They actually pushed me up to 11,000ft to fly over a bunch of it.
I just chalked it up to them needing to burn the last of their training budgets so they can say they need more next year.
Fiscal year starts October.
Huh, well it wasn’t budget burning then, I guess.
A lot of bases have been on a ‘lockdown’ status. So maybe they are increasing their flying hours for the year?
Sweet. Hoppe time?
I’m a ’74, and this description fits me pretty well. I have mostly had friends 5-10 years older, and was also culturally behind due to living in small town Oklahoma. So I’ve done the rotary dial thing and remember the cold war, Reagan’s near assassination, etc.
At work, there is a dearth of engineers in the 40-55 year range. And we are still “kids” to the old farts, but we are resented by the 20-30 yr old guys scrambling for primacy.
And my husband robbed the cradle, which kinda makes sense.
Two years older than my son.
Yep. Creeping ever closer to the big 5-0.
I’m also a ’74, and I see the same thing regarding engineers in my company. We have a bunch in their late 50s-60s-70s, and they all look at the 20 and 30 year olds the way they look at their own kids. They’re so impressed that the 25 year old engineers can tie their shoes and keep from wetting themselves, while they themselves are contributing little in the way of technical prowess. Those few of us in our mid-40s handle the bulk of the work and get little notice.
5-0 in 18 days.
So, I got that going for me. Which is nice.
Perdue now leading pipe burst coming soon.
You sound like you’re calling a horse race.
Pipe burst does sound like a good horse name.
“It’s power outage leading around the turn, but he’s overtaken by Pipe Burst at the half, and now making a huge move down the stretch and gaining to win the election for the Dems is Mail-In Ballots by a nose!”
But wait here comes Dominion out of nowhere!
All the remaining counties are ATL suburbs. We are all so so fucked.
To be fair, I understand that Ossof is your run-of-the-mill Trustfund Socialist douchebag while Warnock is a Marxist. Pubs did it to themselves with all the in-fighting
Projections show he’s basically doomed though.
Who is doomed? I hope you mean Warnock
nope. the republicans. there are way too many blue votes outstanding.
That’s what I figured. Sucks that this stupid race in this one state going to turn the fucking Progs loose on the entire country.
For all the crap said about you Boomers , folks should remember this: not one Boomer voted for that piece of shit Lyndon Baines Johnson. LBJ was thanks to the “Greatest Generation” and their parents.
Johnson lied, people died.
Here’s how the British sold it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG9wCSrTbXs
STP, Jane’s Addiction, Mad Season, Hydroponics, Pete’s Wicked Ale, Expired plates, Midnight Run, Pick Up Hoops, Quarter on The Pool Table, Buzzed Not Drunk Driving, CD Scratch Paste,
Missing somethings, but never GAF about politics.
“Pete’s Wicked Ale”
That stuff was great, then turned to crap.
I still have a fridge magnet of Pete’s. That was the very start of the craft beer explosion.
True.
“Pete’s Wicked Ale”
Set the throwback machine!
Saw Jane’s at the UCSB main field in ’89 when I was a senior in high school. Put way too many quarters on pool tables, but usually drank Miller at that point.
Genuine Draft. Oh. Yeah.
On a happier note, I ordered bees today, delivered in early May, enough for 4 hives. Let the Good Times roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU97w2DH5mc
Bees
Bees!
Bees!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6uhtT_ThoQ
BEES?!
Oh, dear. The hubby is watching Letterkenny. Welp, It’s his birthday so I will let him enjoy the binge watching.
I am forbidden from talking about GA election though, so I’ll probably pop open a book or something.
pitter, patter, let’s git at er
Jesus. Im at work in the middle of the night again. We had a couple guys in out department test positive for Covid this morning, so we had to put an entire maintenance crew off work until they can be tested. This sucks. A quarter of my workforce gone. Im carrying a tool bag all night tonight, because there aren’t enough people available to cover the shifts. This shit needs to end.
Sorry to hear it. Did they even feel ill?
I agree about this shit needing to end.
Are they deliberately destroying the economy to get us on our knees, or are they just ignorant of how wealth is created?
A bit of each. Amoral fools, the lot of them.
One has mild symptoms, one none.
We have had a couple dozen people test positive in my plant since this all started. Only 2 have gotten sick and zero have been put in the hospital. We are giving people a paid vacation everytime they get put off work due to exposure. I think this is putting the incentives in the wrong place and is leading to more and more abuse as people learn they can get a free week of vacation everytime they claim they have been exposed to someone with a positive test.
Was talking to my brother yesterday and he’s a right leaning libertarian. He was getting all worked up about the Georgia election. I can’t help but not care about it. How many humans throughout history have gotten completely fucked? How often was justice meted out to the monsters of the day?
I just can’t get worked up about one branch of the DC monopoly gaining power over its ideological twin. I never expected the US would vote itself out of this mess and I don’t even think it’s clear team red would slow down the descent.
To me, it’s starting to come down to self preservation. One party is hostile to me, my family, my faith, and my way of life. The other is a bunch of cowards out to make a buck and play the part of the controlled opposition. One is better than the other only in that it buys time to prepare for the inevitable.
See y’all in the camps, comrades!
I am in FEMA Region 9….luckily Region 8 is only 60-75 miles away to escape to.
Yeah, I don’t see how giving the Progs full control of undivided government with a total grip on media coverage of said control is a recipe for anything other than disaster for all of us. At least the Pubs will only let us fall over the cliff rather than pushing us themselves.
*Looks at Federal Spending*
I’m just saying Team Red’s poison may be just as bad. Not as cringe as Team Blue, but end result is about the same: total reordering of govt due to fiscal collapse.
Word.
In the long run, yep, but in the here and now… when the Dems impose nationwide “critical race theory” and free “male chest reconstructions” you won’t care but some of us will.
If I believed the long run meant more than a couple years, I’d care. The wheels are coming off well within my lifetime.
*urge to buy guns and ammo rising*
That right there is something that is useful.
I do not participate in virus theater and I sure as hell will not participate in marxist language theater, let alone mutilation bullshit. I need to move away from Richmond.
Our family was spread out, ’69, ’74 and myself ’79. GenX’ers all around and I wouldn’t change a thing.
Not even The BackStreet Boys?
Nope! They needed to happen otherwise we would never have Donnie and Mark
Shit..thats New Kids on the Block…..still needed to happen.
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That urchin is a gentleman!
You want to hear about the lost generation? Kids who can’t buy a two story, 1200sqft townhouse in a trendy locale for the same price their grandparents paid. We borrowed a fortune for an education, and then no employer is willing to pay us for our boutique degrees. But we’re still expected to pay the money back! We can’t afford health insurance, which should be free, and the waiting lines at the free clinic SUCK. Our parents are still decades from leaving us our money. Old people expect us to know about nineteenth century shit like the moon landing and Civic Rights, and they don’t believe SCIENCE and get angry about stuff like masks. Republicans keep getting elected and Democrats are way too moderate. WE’RE the lost generation.
Derpetologist has competition
Absolutely. You had me going CS.
“My latest on how the pandemic has upended many perceptions, including ideas about freedom. Chinese don’t have freedom of speech, freedom of worship or freedom from fear, but they have the freedom to move around and lead a normal day-to-day life.”
https://twitter.com/LiYuan6/status/1346255681255403520
CWAA
Pretty ballsy from a NYT columnist.
Keep your chins up boys and gals. Some people thought they could make life easier by enslaving others. Sometimes they win, sometimes they lose. Shouldn’t matter to your mindset. You don’t choose battles because you’re guaranteed to win. You choose them because you have to and to hell with the odds.
Straight at ’em, sir?
As an aside I will add: To fight and conquer in all battles is not supreme excellence. Supreme excellence is derived from breaking the enemy’s will without fighting.
I have no control over when I was born. I therefore refuse to identify as a member of a group on the basis of birth year.
“Critical generation theory” incoming. Apologize for your age, bigot.
What do you guys think of the jacob blake thing?
Democrats/leftists care about victims of sexual assault until they don’t.
Exactly this. I find it incredible they ignore the guy violated a restraining order held by a woman he sexually assaulted.
11 pm and somehow DeKalb county still had less than 50% of the vote counted. What a surprise.
I really don’t understand it.
You can’t chalk it up to county size either – Fulton is well over 90% at this point. If there’s an explanation other than waiting to see how many votes need to be manufactured, I’d love to hear it.
If they have the ability to manufacture votes why wait, just dump them all now.
Ok, so why is DeKalb so massively behind all the other counties in tallying the votes?
Slackers?
They are holding out for the ballot dump.
Nope, Fox already called both races for the dems. So no need to mid morning cheats now. All because of Dekalb county, who took longer than all the other counties to count their votes. What a fucking joke, again.
Ooof. Big vote count dropped in DeKalb…that tightened it up a lot.
And we have Senator Fidel Worshipper officially. Tremendous.
with ossoff soon to follow right?
Hasn’t been officially called yet, but most likely. Perdue’s still up 3000 votes at the moment.
but there are 150,000 votes outstanding,
how much does dekalb have left?
DeKalb is at 95% reported right now.
oh hmm
Fox and PJMedia both already balling both races for the dems.
Well that sucks. Hopefully some historic (in the pro freedom sense…) Shit goes down tomorrow. Goodnight, Glibs.
It will not though.
*hangs head*
I guess I should check the schedule so i don’t Miss MY Own Posts!
/kinda fucked up,
Late Eisenhower baby here. I was old enough to watch the wonders of Apollo and young enough to miss the draft. Rural and small city AZ meant I missed most of the crap. But on the other hand had a classmate whose dad was a “guest” of the North Vietnamese.
But even in a state with country stations, western stations, and they all started with the crop and irragation reports, we had this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrkNoWIho_M
(Yep Wolfman Jack and Tx high school football on the radio when the atmosphere was right.)
Which scenario is better: The Dems stole another election or the election wasn’t stolen and the US is becoming blue?
I doubt the Dems “stole” either election in the technical sense.
I think the new loose laws in place favor Democrats and it swung some close places. Republicans lost some big legal battles leading up the elections and that decided it.
I’m not asking which was more likely. How would I know? I’m asking which would be better if true?
True, but I don’t think either scenario is the case.
I guess stealing?
What’re the other scenarios?
That Democrats changing election rules won it. It’s technically not cheating, but I don’t agree with it.
It would be better if it was stolen. But I strongly doubt it was.
Either way, a bunch of people that weren’t ardently against the state, media and democracy itself just a couple months ago are now taking a hard look at all of them.
I think it comes down to the mail in ballots. People who don’t normally vote got the ballot and the Dems swooped in and told them who to vote for. Hence the reason we have marxists winning Georgia.
So do i.
I agree but let’s not excuse Trump. He publicly stated the Georgia presidential election was stolen. This fed right wing conspiracy theories that voting is pointless. At the same time he is a lightning rod for the lefties. Sure the Republican candidates sucked. Trump made their path to victory more difficult.
Wasn’t just that.
Polling for the Democrats swung almost immediately when he submitted the $2000 demand.
Democrats said “we win this election, you get a $2000 check in a week”.
Polls swung 3% overnight.
Donald Trump may have just destroyed the Republican party.
“Donald Trump may have just destroyed the Republican party”
For that we can thank him.
Unless he also ensured permanent left wing rule.
(I don’t actually think this btw. People usually overreact to these things)
I mean, the Dems will almost certainly overplay their hand, yet again. How much damage will they do before there is a reaction, though?
I’m looking forward to being permanently angry.
It’s a one-way ratchet. Whatever damage they do is permanent until they get power again.
Rinse, repeat.
I prefer Sisyphus but the boulder gets heavier with each reiteration.
It’s not entirely one way. I can think of about 40 things of Obama’s off the top of my head that Trump reversed for the better.
That’s a good point. I hadn’t considered that.
It was such a perfect own goal it was amazing.
The media in lock step only reported the $2000 thing.
Democrats submitted a bill with the $2000 and a bunch of partisan bull crap so Mitch had no choice but to reject it. He offered to pass any bill that was just the $2000 thing but does anyone give a crap?
Vote for a particular candidate and you are promised $2000 next week. Everyone knew the simple pitch. Easiest mobilization tactic I’ve ever seen.
We’re fucked, that’s the scenario straff,
The probable is swinging left. Free stuff sells.
And probably better if stolen if I were to pick.
Thanks. I’d choose that, too. Time to white pill the fuck out of people.
White pill? I haven’t heard that one before.
Opposite of the Black pill which is hang dog nihilism. Realizing the systems are crumbling and holding out hope that something better can replace it.
Thanks
#collapsitarian
The only song for tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iAYhQsQhSY
Doesn’t really matter, the results are the same.
One is a political party forcing it; the other is the people want it.
I say that because they won’t have to steal another election ever again; they’ve got complete power now so they’ll change the rules to never lose again.
1) Corrupt/pack the courts
2) Give DC and PR statehood
3) Eliminate the EC
4) Automatic “dry foot” citizenship
People here can’t be surprised; most of libertarianism is pretty black pill and people were talking about the imminent collapse at TOS when I started lurking there a decade ago. Many of you seem shocked that your doomsday theories are actually coming true; as if predicting their existence would prevent it from happening. No such luck. No last minute pardon from the governor, no hero here to save the day, no deus ex machina.
The white pill is that the Gods of the Copybook Headings always get the last word. Always.
They need a constitutional amendment for DC though
That is black pilled. I’m not taking it even when they have me up against the wall. People have had it much harder and put up a fight.
The way you describe things Yusef you sound more like the blank generation.
https://youtu.be/v9FkQLjOSZ8
So while the Med is threatening an eruption, Hawaii delivers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWkWxGjF6TA
So it looks like Harris will need to cast a bunch of tie breaking votes. The silver lining is she is loathsome. I expect swing voters to swing against her in 2024.
I think the house is likely going pube in 2 years but this will be a rough 2 years.
I think so too if they can get their act together i. e. remember not to be the stupid party.
Since my memory, I think now is the time the country and the people are ripe to break off and create a new party altogether. It is obvious there are fractures in the GOP and the Dems. But that requires work and dedication.
On the one hand, I feel pretty stupid for caring whether two shitty GOP senators lose. On the other hand, the Democratic Party is THAT loathsome.
You’re not alone.
Eric July has lasers coming out of his eyes. He explains tonight in a way only he can.
https://twitter.com/EricDJuly/status/1346680572211560448
“Each election is ‘this is not the time to do something different.’ To that I ask… WHEN THE FUCK IS IT?”
I’d argue that Trump’s election was exactly this. Trump was about as flawed as you can get, but he was, without a doubt, “something different”. He also forced all the crypto-commies out of the woodwork and drove the MSM completely around the bend. For that we can thank him.
Prepare to be stunned:
Stephen Moody WJCL
@StephenWJCL
UPDATE: just confirmed. Chatham County is done counting votes for the night.
The board of elections annex building is empty. Workers say they’ll be back at 8 a.m.
Still thousands of votes to be counted here. @WJCLNews
10:36 PM · Jan 5, 2021
What’s left besides them?
For the record that’s ridiculous. Poll workers should never be allowed to leave and then return the next day.
At least the Republicans watched them all leave this time. Although I would leave people to watch the building.
DeKalb still has 5% left, which is why Perdue is toast
Ah so then it doesn’t matter. That should be at least 20,000 votes.
Eh…I think that needs a 12 hour rule applied. Word I am seeing is all the votes they have are counted and now its just absentee ballots that need to be counted. So its no way near accurate. Even from what I read.
What do you mean?
Chatham County didn’t just stop. They completed the counting of everything they have in. That includes Election Day, Advanced, & all of the absentees they had in. The last left will be the absentee by mail that came in today. #gapol
Ah I see.
LOLOLOL
How pathetic. And people were emptying their fucking pockets donating to these clowns!
LOL!!!!!
And they will again.
But is it stunning AND braves?
*uptwinkles, jazz hands*
Just in time for 80 crates of Dem votes to come in.
I think a bourbon night cap is in order.
A night cap is fine, but what about my Night Court tapes!? You lazy fucks!
The home theater experience scene is so good. Poor Jay.
I’m getting kind of board after this long of Covid bullshit, maybe I’ll start taking my days off to drive down to Milwaukee and stalk them. We’d be bethtetht friends!
*Tents fingers*
Excellent.
https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1346660619676745732
Either this goes over with a whimper or something stupid happens. Here is hoping for a whimper with people realizing no one is looking out for them.
Maybe these geniuses will rethink “back the blue.”
Aint that exactly what he’s doing?
I take it as pleading with the cops to take their side. I think CS gets it about right below.
Was it here that some linked a Tik Tok video where the cops show up to confiscate firearms and the guy answering the door has a seizure after looking back and forth between his “back the blue” and 2nd amendment posters?
Yes I believe so.
I’m betting there’s more than a few BTB cretins who are Karens at heart, and fully buy into the lockdowns and mandates and their precious blue heroes crashing parties and cracking skulls cuz covid.
But maybe a few of them have another think coming.
I hate everyone. Also, I thought Sam Kinison was dead, but apparently he joined the marines, started a business and supported Trump.
?
That dude yelling at the cop, sounded somewhat like…whatever…
Sorry. I completely missed it.
If the Dems do indeed become 50-50 tie then Moobs or Harris are not the most important person in the Senate. Joe Manchin becomes the center upon which the Senate will revolve.
If the Dems push him too hard then he just flips to the GOP. Goodbye Moobs and welcome back to the Turtle (maybe, probably?)
Harris only gets to vote if there is a tie. Both sides will be trying to secure Manchin’s vote and he is a vulnerable target in 2024. He has a shitload of power, except for Mittens Romney potentially flipping because to say he has the backbone of a jellyfish is insulting to jellyfish.
Senator (R-UT) since 2019
This is going to sound geeky but I see freedom as the One Ring. We carry it and it gets heavy and harder to maintain the longer we hold it. Those that want to squash that freedom or use it for their own is Sauron, always seeking it, always calling us to just give it up.
This bourbon is not good but not bad. Pretty honey color, but its a blend and sourced. Jefferson’s Ocean
You have my bow.
And my Axe!
There we go.
Thank you.
You have my load. If you wanna share it.
NERD!
And to think when you are absent, I boldly stand for the Hyperbole way of calling these nerds out.
You blew it. You needed to say “and my axe”.
It’s little I know of the duties of the nerds of the sea.
The Nerds of the Sea.
I am really having a hard time getting this glass finished. At least Fraiser is keeping me company.
This is going to be fun…
VICTORY in Georgia must lead to transformative change across America!
Recurring survival checks, union jobs that pay a living wage, guaranteed health care, racial justice, voting rights, immigration reform, climate action, repro justice, education, and MUCH more.
It can’t wait!
I can’t wait till I get ma knew
ObamaBiden Phone!I was hoping for a rendition of this but changed to Biden Phone!
“Recurring survival checks, union jobs that pay a living wage, guaranteed health care, racial justice, voting rights, immigration reform, climate action, repro justice, education, and MUCH more.”
Lol.
For those of you currently popping black pills:
Consider that the Pachyderms had the Presidency, the Senate and SCOTUS (nominally) for 2020 and still we’ve seen the biggest curtailment of freedom in a century because of Kung Flu. The virus is killing representative government and freedom worldwide; it’s the Trojan Horse being used to replace democratic process with Chinese-style authoritarian technocracy. Pseudo-Bolsheviks burned cities to the ground, people were prevented from making a living, travel was restricted; why would anyone assume the Pachyderms keeping the Senate would make any difference? These things were primarily done by state governors and the instruments designed to stop them failed utterly.
Let’s assume the R’s retained the Presidency and gained a supermajority in both houses; what would be different about the tyranny coming from the states?
Wife asked “Is it going to be worse?” and I said “The same, just more overt”.
I was surprised by Wisconsin Republican Party. When they won the State Supreme Court case to end the lockdowns I thought they’d just ‘compromise’ to get some grift in. They didn’t. No new lockdowns since May. But they haven’t done shit to stop any of this since then. All the businesses still have signs up saying it is ‘state mandated’ that you wear a mask, but as far as I know that order ended couple months ago. I have no clue where the legality of any of this shit stands now. When you lose the rule of law you lose civilization, even if it is over something so minor.
I get the desire to see the wokesters get their asses handed to them, but it isn’t my goal in life. From my perspective, Team Red can suck my balls. I’m not playing their dumb game.
That is what my brother, the die hard Bern’er fan cannot understand. I don’t want to play the game anymore. He insists I must choose a side and play. Its as if we didn’t watch WarGames together.
Here’s what I believe on any issue you care to ask about. Oh, and no, I won’t be supporting warmongers or taxmongers. People have a hard time with that. “But you gotta choose one!” Oh, no I don’t.
Did you draw the new avatar?
Yes, I did. He needs a giant dick, doesn’t he?
Well that depends, it’s kind of small on my screen, is he a pencil? Then a pencil dick is in order, I’d guess.
You Japaniggas be crazy!
No white gloves or pointing and calling? Fail.
But, can you get him to play Tic-Tac-Toe with you?
Our tic-tac-toe usually consist of one game and then one of us decides to tackle the other cause they cheated. How? Doesn’t matter.
Sounds ‘Merican AF.
BTW, who was the idiot the other day that said they didn’t understand why Allie Sheedy was hot? She’s old enough to be my mom (Almost) (sorry) And I’m still impressed.
She was hot, now She’s a Cat Lady,
Huh..wonder if my work will question me if I pull up this audio. I guess I could go to LiveATC to find it.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/threat-air-traffic-control-iranian-general-qassem-soleimani-revenge/
My Generation is pretty much this,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddhjgxk4zL0
when I get sad,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddhjgxk4zL0
I don’t want to feel like this, but I do , DRI,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-MTO9gHmqY
For a friend,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKcl4-tcuo
For another friend,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYcyacLRPNs
Maybe it’s just me who is lost,
Let’s laugh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyK1bZZ7E-s
Let’s Rock!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLJtO_iRbA8
Tosh,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jV8FWoaytM
I wasted so much of my life, I should leave while I can,
“Man, what are you doing here?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEPV4kolz0
Shit! I sing Garfunkle better than Simon! Never knew,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEPV4kolz0
A Classic,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQUlA8Hcv4s
The best song in the World, Fight me,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sONL6QUMR9E&list=RDsONL6QUMR9E&start_radio=1
Hello?
Hang in there, Bob!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EVSjCivCKfg
???
https://www.wfmz.com/entertainment/100-worst-comedies-of-all-time/collection_c1f9915f-aa1f-5e13-b018-8454a61fb5a3.html#28
At a glance, this seems heavily weighted toward the last twenty years. I suppose to some, that is “all time.”
Once linguistic drift sets in, comedy starts to lose the funny.
And as in all media, over time the bad stuff fades into well-deserved obscurity.
And many of those films are not comedies. Cats isn’t a comedy, the human centipede films sure as shit are not comedies.
Whoever compiled the list should have excluded unintentional comedies.
I think the person who made the list just forgot that the topic was comidies, not generally bad movies from time to time, then realized it was due to be published and said: “Screw it, close enough” and submitted it anyway.
Zapped! is cinema brilliance and should not be on that list.
Morning.
Morning, UCS.
Did you finish the second review of the mystery?
Perilously close – page 59 of 67.
I’ll save the interrogatories for when you get there.
Just got to an “a-ha!” moment. See e-mail.
For the record, none of my page numbers correlate to those on your device, simply because of the quantity of words per page.
But I do recognize the dialog being quoted.
Morning y’all.
Thomas Sowell, best of 2020.
Starts with a grim prediction on a Biden presidency.
https://youtu.be/22IK5BevoNI
Mornin, HS. Are you up early or still up late?
The FBI tracked down Gislaine Maxwell using a Stingray:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-06/fbi-located-ghislaine-maxwell-by-tracking-her-mobile-phone/13035274
Wasn’t she taking pictures outside of coffeehouses in the town and well known to be a friend of the guy who owned the house? I think I could have found her if I’d wanted to.
How the fuck do you lose to an asshat like Warnock?
“ GOP Georgia election official: Blame Trump if Perdue or Loeffler loses”
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/05/gabriel-sterling-blames-trump-455279
That’s how, the local Georgia GOP has been in CYA mode since November and has alienated the base like nobody’s business.
Being a shit candidate put in place by a shit establishment that the people hate would be a good start. The Dems field people their voters actually like while the local Reps failed to support Trump who is the guy their voters actually like.
Oh fuck me.
I didn’t really think there was going to be any accountability for the Democrats’ shenanigans and outright fucking lunacy over the last four years. But it’s still a kick in the gut that they’re going to be rewarded for it.
I’ll refrain from expressing my thoughts on the future of the American Experiment.
Eat, drink, and be merry. Ain’t nothing any of us can do about the macro issues. The American experiment was over before ant of us were born, and it’s a testament to the truth of the olfounding principles that the system was so resilient as to make it over 100 years, even as it’s enemies chipped away at it. Whether everything implodes tomorrow or in 25 years, the best things we can do are prepare for the inevitable and enjoy every day before the inevitable happens.
any*
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*founding
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I struggle with the prospect of explaining my thoughts on America with the kids.
I want them to be hopeful, yet I only see downside for their future prospects.
I can sort of understand Ossof, he is just your typical rich liberal who will never have to suffer the effects of his preferred policies. Warnock, who dabbles in racism, communism, and anti-Semitism, I can’t understand. He is worse than the guy the Republicans ran a few years ago.
I had the giggles driving in this morning. NPR ran a tearjerker of a story about a poor Madison Ave handbag boutique (showroom by appointment only, mostley Hermes) that is just sufferring under Trumps’ tarrifs on France. Her customers are considering buying Swiss watches instead of handbags!
You’re shitting me.
To be fair, I don’t approve of the tarrifs either. That being said, that’s about as much of a First World Problem as you can get. Cry me a river. When that person is eating knock off brand macaroni and bussing tables as a side gig to survive, I might care.
Oh ya, SLD: tarriffs suck.
It’s just that NPR picked the most over-the-top bougie “victim” to slap their template over. The pronunciation of “‘ermez,” pointing out how a 25% tarrif on a $10k purse is just so much money… it could have been the Bee.
Yep, agreed.
One of the few reasons left for me to visit YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Tm0SxIp6w&list=PLRE-UFLEgWzBuOiqemhEI9b4gmmBbutnC&index=1
The Screen Rant Pitch Meeting guy taking the piss out of the new Wonder Woman flick.
Spoilers
That one is a classic. It’s hard to believe that they had so long to work on that flick and it sucked so hard.
I guess they think since the chick playing WW is freakishly good-looking it will keep most people distracted from the incoherent, ridiculous plot?
I dunno.
What makes her so Good looking? I’m not seeing it
I mean, she isn’t even a redhead.