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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • My point about the Greatest Generation is that the kinds of things I would hear them saying (when they thought they were in a “safe space” anyway) back when I was much younger is stuff I never heard much of since, except to be mocked by people in my generation (Gen X) and by the boomers…until I started hearing some of the edgelords from much younger generations now saying it. And getting an audience for it.

    It’s almost like an echo…it’s…actually kind of terrifying if I really think about it. I thought that kind of thing was mostly over/kinda fringe. It seems like some kinda zombie virus that is now spreading among the younger population. Even someone as atrocious as Rush had to dog whistle this stuff…the younger versions of him are just saying it out loud.




  • I would not be surprised to see someone trying to fund something like the teabagger movement after Taco’s exit. If they call it the “America party”, I would not be surprised. Whole lot of people will be too young to know or have strategic forgettery about the first teabagger movement. And the “mainstream media” is not likely to do a good job telling them, either, if they bothered to watch it. Certainly, their information bubbles will not.

    If fElon plays the role of financing and astroturfing that, I would not be surprised, either. He needs some way to disrupt anything that might end the corporate welfare pipeline or start up any inconvenient regulation of his companies…getting morons to vote for Republicans under the guise of a “new party” (teabagger/“Tea Party” 2.0) is a great way to do that.




  • Yep. Even if they lived through both and experienced both and this is not even their first rodeo on the ups and downs of the economy. If Donvict or a proxy says something, by golly, it’s true, even if part of them knows otherwise. Gas is now fifty cents a gallon and it was 5 dollars a gallon just last year! Taco is creating millions of jobs here when there were no jobs to be had just last year! We (well, at least white xtian cishet males) are going to deport and tariff our way to all be billionaires!

    You could almost forgive someone too young and naive to know better; it’s the people who have been around a while and seemingly have learned sweet fuckall in the process that are the most infuriating.