Lol, no fuck them too. The generation of the Patriot Act, freedom fries, and the forever war? Nope. No sympathy for them either.
We really did fight the war on terror in a retarded way.
Lol, no fuck them too. The generation of the Patriot Act, freedom fries, and the forever war? Nope. No sympathy for them either.
We fought it the way we did because It was a surprise crisis. People do not react well in a surprise crisis situation and the RINOs took advantage of it to not only curtail our liberties but line their own pockets as well.We really did fight the war on terror in a retarded way.
Neocons suck news at 11. Their actions have generated a lot of ill will for us domestically and abroad. their choices have poisoned a fair amount of Gen X and Millennials against republicans likely permanently. a fair portion of the country will only think of Bush, "trickle down economics", and racism when they think of Republicans. Bluntly that the boomer cons ceded so much institutional power to left leaning managerial types fucked us hard. not to mention how far the left the media was allowed to drift without much of an attempt building counter narratives. Rush was only nationally syndicated in 88 and fox started airing in 96. Right wing boomers kinda checked out at a certain point and only some have realized how bad a fuck up that was.We fought it the way we did because It was a surprise crisis. People do not react well in a surprise crisis situation and the RINOs took advantage of it to not only curtail our liberties but line their own pockets as well.
. . .Bluntly that the boomer cons ceded so much institutional power to left leaning managerial types fucked us hard.
This all ignores the elephant in the room; Conservative Boomers were always outnumbered by centrist and liberal or progressive Boomers after Veitnam killed, or converted to liberals, many young Conservative Boomers.. . .
No, the Boomers were the ones that actually built the foundation of the modern Conservative movement. When they came of age the institutions were already completely compromised, and had been for decades. They never had the opportunity to "resist" the slow creeping power of the Left in the US, rather, they were the first generation that actually began to successfully fight back.
When did the Communists infiltrate much of the US State Department and over government institutions? In the 1930s and 40s... before the boomers were even born. When did academia begin its fall to corruption? As far back in the 1920s when the Fundamentalists were driven from Academia by the Modernist. Who wrote and developed theories about sex that the Boomers embraced? It wasn't by other Boomers, but by Kinsey, who's infamous reports were published in 1948 and 1953, oh, and Kinsey was born in 1894. When was Hollywood infiltrated by communists for their propaganda purposes... oh right, that was ALSO back in the 1940s and 1950s, when the Boomers were infants or not yet even born.
Meanwhile, as the Boomers came of age you saw the conservative movement suddenly begin actually BEING A THING. Reagan got elected in massive landslides, and enabled the first growth of counter establishment media via AM radio... and who led that charge? Rush Limbaugh, a Boomer. While many Silent Generation and earlier types laid the intellectual foundations with publications like the National Review, it was Boomers who spread the work out on radio. Further, know who predominately led the charge in allowing homeschooling in the US? A group known as the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, founded by Michael Farris... another Boomer. Further actual Conservative Republicans basically ran the US House through the entire 1990s starting with the 1994 Republican Revolution, which was the first time Republicans took majority in the House in 42 years!
I understand it's popular to blame the Boomers for the problems, but they're as much victims of the situation as we are, they just happened to come earlier than us and at the time it wasn't as obvious how critically bad things were. They did what they could to push back, laying critical foundational frameworks everyone here takes for granted (for instance, people constantly say: "just homeschool your kids" without realizing that before the 1980s THAT WAS BASICALLY ILLEGAL TO DO.). Could they have done more? In hindsight, of course? But that's with HINDSIGHT! Frankly, as far as generations go, Millennials get a much worse grade. As Boomers came of voting age and power they elected Reagan... whereas the first major election Millennials widely voted in gave us Obama...
So perhaps learn more history and understand how long term this fight actually is, rather than simply blaming your parents... or perhaps grandparents... for not doing enough.
He embraced Hollywood fame and Cowboy cache, along with corporate conservatism, which still thought the finances of nations states and households operate the same way.Then how did Reagan win
Then how did Reagan win
There's also one elephant in the room that the Lefties don't like to talk about, or one that even the most braindead in the US government would like to admit: Musk is indispensable to them because of what he's bringing to the table in things like technology and infrastructure and any future plans/ideas that'll fall out of his ass/brain.
When push comes to shove, they'll happily sacrifice all their little cats' paws to keep Musk around, and the Defamation League? Yeah, despite their importance to entities like the WEF, they'll get sold up the river harder than Jews in Nazi Germany if needed.
I'm... honestly not betting on the ADL's chances here.
And good. Fuck 'em.
He is only indispensable for people with aspirational values. For people who see the world as a zero sum game, he is only an enemy because of how he violates their world view.I’m not so sure about Musk being indispensable to them. Though a lot of that flip flops for me because there are Boomers who don’t (at least appear to) have the best grasp on modern technology.
I’m not so sure about Musk being indispensable to them. Though a lot of that flip flops for me because there are Boomers who don’t (at least appear to) have the best grasp on modern technology.
So for me it’s hard to tell if they won’t get rid of him because they think they can ‘just’
get some one else to replace him. Or if they think Musk is much more important then he is because they don’t grasp the technology.
Of course all this assumes that Musk won’t switch sides. It’s not like we haven’t had that happen before.
The guy is literally pushing the envelopes of a lot of technologies critical to the advancement of Western civilization e.g. space travel. Everything else like Twitter is just a side-amusement for him which is tolerated/ignored by everyone but dyed-haired weirdos, masked thugs and pro-Black racists, and feminists.He is only indispensable for people with aspirational values. For people who see the world as a zero sum game, he is only an enemy because of how he violates their world view.
The guy is literally pushing the envelopes of a lot of technologies critical to the advancement of Western civilization e.g. space travel. Everything else like Twitter is just a side-amusement for him which is tolerated/ignored by everyone but dyed-haired weirdos, masked thugs and pro-Black racists, and feminists.
They'd happily throw every SJW cats' paws of theirs, the people who see him as their "ideological enemy" e.g. not a transtrender, a Leftist weirdo, a Black Power communist, or AntiFa, under the bus with a big smile on their faces as they're ground into paste.
Those in the government/areas of power that do view him as an enemy won't act because they know the moment they do, they become the liability/enemy to their former peers.
They're not that stupid.
Space travel is only of interest to them if they control it. Ergo, why the absolutely will nationalize any space company that gets too successful.
Governor Ron DeSantis said he sent planes to Israel to evacuate 700 people.
NBC News Fact Checkers have discovered this is only half true.
Governor DeSantis only funded the planes to Israel to evacuate 700 people.
(Fact checkers proceed to start screaming about how racist you are, much to your bafflement as this conversation had nothing to do with race).My question to the "fact checkers" would be thus "would the planes have went if the Governor hadn't funded them?"
Governor Ron DeSantis said he sent planes to Israel to evacuate 700 people.
NBC News Fact Checkers have discovered this is only half true.
Governor DeSantis only funded the planes to Israel to evacuate 700 people.
The governor ordered the evacuation via an EO. The mechanics of how it was done doesn't negate the fact that the Governor's statement is true.