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Post by jdredd on Oct 2, 2017 11:11:34 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Nov 7, 2017 2:46:24 GMT -5
You know, I would love to abandon paying attention to politics altogether, but I don't feel I can since we still have one of us rotten Boomers in the WH. Until he's gone, I have to shower him with as much scorn as I can. Not that I think for a minute I can make any difference.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 12, 2018 16:37:19 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/us/politics/white-house-budget-congress.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday sent Congress a $4.4 trillion budget with steep cuts in domestic programs and entitlements, including Medicare, and large increases for the military, envisioning deficits totaling at least $7.1 trillion over the next decade. The blueprint, which has little to no chance of being enacted as written, amounts to a vision statement by Mr. Trump, whose plan discards longtime Republican orthodoxy about balancing the budget, instead embracing last year’s $1.5 trillion tax cut and new spending on a major infrastructure initiative. The plan does not completely embrace the two-year budget deal struck by Congress and signed by Mr. Trump last week to boost both domestic and military spending by $300 billion. Mick Mulvaney, Mr. Trump’s budget director, informed House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, in a letter that the president is proposing to pour much of the increased domestic spending in that package into defense and fixing “some longtime budget gimmicks” that have added to the nation’s deficit Is this what the Boomers wanted when they elected Trumpty the Clown? If so, I'm glad we are starting to drop like flies.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 14, 2018 19:00:43 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/opinion/sunday/baby-boomers-to-do-list.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region"Maybe it goes all the way back to the Declaration of Independence, our founding document. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. How proud I’ve always been, through the years of protesting, the radical this and progressive that of my 1960s generation, to think of those words. That unlikely word — happiness — made me proud to be an American, not just for my own sake, but that everyone was enjoined to find a personal project of delight. Of course happiness is an illusion. Still, I’ll pledge allegiance to it." This is not the first "what we did" for the Boomers column, but it's the latest I've come across. This one is full of puppydogs and sunflowers. Even though she said she did years of protesting, no mention of her failure to prevent Trumpty the Clown, who was elected by Boomers, and is one. But her measuring stick is happiness, which as she admits is an illusion. Will most Baby Boomers let themselves off the hook like this? No doubt.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 6, 2018 15:57:45 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Jun 8, 2018 10:07:51 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Jun 22, 2018 12:28:51 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/obituaries/charles-krauthammer-prominent-conservative-voice-dies-at-68.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"Charles Krauthammer, a former psychiatrist and self-described Great Society Democrat who metamorphosed into one of the nation’s most cogent conservative voices as a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and television commentator, died on Thursday at a hospital in Atlanta. He was 68. The Washington Post, where his weekly column had appeared since 1985, reported the death, quoting his son, Daniel, who said the cause was cancer of the small intestine. On June 8, explaining what he called his 10-month “uncharacteristic silence,” he revealed in The Post that despite surgery for a stomach tumor last August, cancer had recurred, and that he had only weeks to live. “This is the final verdict,” he wrote. “My fight is over.” While Mr. Krauthammer continually extolled Ronald Reagan (he ranked him No. 2 among 20th-century presidents, behind Franklin D. Roosevelt) and belittled Barack Obama’s record, he could criticize his fellow neoconservatives and Republicans just as fiercely as he skewered liberal Democrats." Here's another Boomer who drifted from liberal to conservative. Just a couple of years ago he was probably the most influential commentator on the dark side of the cultural divide. But I do agree that FDR was the greatest President of the 20th Century.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 13, 2018 8:17:01 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/opinion/egan-millennials-boomers-trump.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"The Washington Post blamed millennials for the 2016 election result, even though they made up just 25 percent of the electorate. Yes, Donald Trump — the most self-absorbed, television-fixated, crybaby boomer of them all — is the fault of young people because not enough of them got off their phones and cast a ballot for someone else. That is bogus. Boomers gave us Donald Trump, the draft-dodging, tax-evading, wife-cheating poster child for ’60s-bred self-indulgence. It’s boomers who are bankrupting the nation with a trillion-dollar deficit from a selfish tax cut. And it’s boomers who are ignoring climate change while the earth convulses and heads toward an early end. I’ve given up hope that boomers can rescue us from the tyranny of the Trump age. Boomers were supposed to fix things, build things, save things for future generations. They would see things as they are, and instead of asking why, dream of things that never were and ask why not — as Robert Kennedy promised. Allow me to burn my generational card." Here's one more Boomer who is not buying the "aren't we wonderful?" BS from other Boomers.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 4, 2018 14:03:40 GMT -5
When I was a naive college student, I thought ahead to when my generation would be going to the senior care centers, and assumed that there would be a lot of psychedelic usage. But then we had 40 years of ignorant drug prohibitions so I thought it wouldn't happen. But now, it looks like seniors will be a able to use pot to ease their pains in many states, despite the resistance of Fed scumbags like Jeff Sessions. And now there is research going on with other psychedelics like peyote and LSD to ease depression for seniors. So maybe I was right!
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Post by jdredd on Dec 31, 2018 15:16:47 GMT -5
Finally read our annual Christmas card from Mrs. Dredd's super-Boomer relatives. Let's see: In 2018 they went on a Caribbean cruise, a quilt show in Tucson, saw Elton John in Vegas, spent a weak in Maui, took an Alaska cruise, then two weeks in their Thai time-share. What did the Dredds do? We drove to Anaheim. So do I have a point here, other than the Dredds are boring? Is it that traveling Boomers obviously are not worried about Global Warming? Who is? Or that there is a non-stop Boomer party, whatever the consequences? On the other hand, spreading American wealth around by traveling is a good thing, right? The husband made his wealth in the defense industry, by the way.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 18, 2019 11:07:12 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/obituaries/patrick-caddell-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Obituaries"Patrick Caddell, the political pollster who helped send an obscure peanut farmer named Jimmy Carter to the White House, later became disillusioned with fellow Democrats and finally veered right to advise supporters of Donald J. Trump, died on Saturday in Charleston, S.C. He was 68. His death, from complications of a stroke, was confirmed by a colleague, Prof. Kendra Stewart of the College of Charleston. While Mr. Caddell was considered instrumental in Mr. Carter’s victory in 1976, he also shared the blame for limiting him to a single term. He helped persuade the president to deliver a speech that was intended to inspirit the nation during an energy crisis and economic slump, but instead tarred Mr. Carter as a weakling who was unable to lift the country out of its malaise." "In 2016, he became a frequent commentator on Fox News and advised Stephen K. Bannon, who became President Trump’s chief White House strategist, and Robert Mercer, a computer mogul and contributor to the Trump campaign." Here's a Boomer that help elect a Greatest Generation politician to the White House, a Southern Democrat, in 1976. Carter was so bad no Democrat got into the WH until Clinton, another Southern ex-governor, won in 1982. That's what the tactic of nominating moderates to get the "moderate" vote gets ya. And then like many white Boomers, he turned to the Dark Side in his old age.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 27, 2019 4:46:25 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/opinion/older-politicians.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Characterizations of Congress as a gerontocracy are often accompanied by complaints about the ruinous gluttony of the baby boom generation, which encompasses people from about Donald Trump’s age down to mine, 54. We’re rightly charged with befouling the environment, running up the debt and letting the American dream slip away from the middle class. But you know what else baby boomers did? Helped bring an end to the Vietnam War. Advanced the causes of equality for women, for black people and for L.G.B.T. Americans. Engineered the digital revolution. If we’re not the dynamos we once were, maybe it’s not because we’re sanguine or jaded. We could just be pooped." Here's a guy trying to defend the Boomers and older clinging to power. My favorite part is using the digital revolution as one of our accomplishments. As they say, there are the same rooms in Heaven and Hell.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 24, 2019 1:25:02 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/world/asia/trump-afghanistan.html"KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan demanded a clarification on Tuesday of President Trump’s comments a day earlier that he could have had the country “wiped off the face of the earth” but did not “want to kill 10 million people.” In a sharply worded statement, the government of President Ashraf Ghani noted that Afghanistan expected its relationship with the United States to be “grounded on common interests and mutual respect.” Mr. Trump made the comments on Monday during an Oval Office meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan. The president said he was referring to prepared military plans for Afghanistan, adding, “I could win that war in a week.” Wouldn't there have been a great uproar about this statement if Nixon had said it about Vietnam? Which shows the moral tone deafness of aging Boomers.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 25, 2019 2:00:33 GMT -5
You don't agree the Boomers are the worst generation? How about four rotten Presidents in a row? When Trump leaves office in 2025 that will be 36 years of corruption.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 9, 2019 1:20:25 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/opinion/baby-boomers-report-card.html "If there’s one thing young adults can agree on, it is that baby boomers have ruined the world. This seems a tad harsh. So maybe it’s time for a resentment-free assessment of the boomers, conducted by a trained pop sociologist with no ax to grind. What follows is a report card of a generation. And we’re only counting real boomers here — those who had youthful, lived experience of events like Vietnam and Woodstock. Despite what the Census Bureau people say, those born after 1960, like Barack Obama, don’t count." I'm sure he's not the first, buy he's the first one I've noticed giving the Boomers "grades". He gives them an overall grade of "B". I laugh at him. Just say one word: Trump. The Boomers deserve an F. They have failed.
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