US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

My parents came from nothing, Dad worked his ass off as a civil servant pulling night shifts for as long as I can remember, and Mom stayed home until we were old enough for her to go to work and eventually back to school for accounting. Dad passed years ago and Mom passed this last year, and left us two kids a substantial savings as well as the home.

Without their helping me beyond the grave, I'd be okay but having that extra chunk of cash allowed me to retire early and I am eternally thankful for being their kid. Looking back at friends from HS, we all lived decent middle class lives and had married, hard-working parents that provided well for us.

I don't get the hate for our elders and think maybe you all were just shitheads which is why your parents hate you.

Well I'm in the same situation. My parents weren't typical Boomers, they weren't hippies, they worked hard, raised me with old school values, and for their retirement were in a good position and left me in a good position.

But I still hate Boomers in general.

 

[Eggplant Wizard]

My parents came from nothing, Dad worked his ass off as a civil servant pulling night shifts for as long as I can remember, and Mom stayed home until we were old enough for her to go to work and eventually back to school for accounting. Dad passed years ago and Mom passed this last year, and left us two kids a substantial savings as well as the home.

Without their helping me beyond the grave, I'd be okay but having that extra chunk of cash allowed me to retire early and I am eternally thankful for being their kid. Looking back at friends from HS, we all lived decent middle class lives and had married, hard-working parents that provided well for us.

I don't get the hate for our elders and think maybe you all were just shitheads which is why your parents hate you.

I helped my old man build up the house my family lives in. He repaid me by going back on his word about supporting me through college in exchange. Some of us have good parents, some of us have don’t.

 

[Sister Miriam Godwinson]

I helped my old man build up the house my family lives in. He repaid me by going back on his word about supporting me through college in exchange. Some of us have good parents, some of us have don’t.

Family stories time? I got a good one.

I helped my grandfather build up the house our family lived in back in the day.

Then he remarried at 65 and left it not to my mother but to his 40 year old second wife and her 25 year old hot daughter he was banging.

Ah, drama.

I built another house for myself eventually, but I still think it was a dick move. Boomers are scum no matter the country.

 

[Eggplant Wizard]

Apologies for starting the power leveling train, I just wanted to contrast the wholesomeness with a bit of harshness.

*pulls the brake lever to the train*

 

[X Prime]

Apologies for starting the power leveling train, I just wanted to contrast the wholesomeness with a bit of harshness.

*pulls the brake lever to the train*

Look at this; this is why you don't powerlevel!

Then he remarried at 65 and left it not to my mother but to his 40 year old second wife and her 25 year old hot daughter he was banging.

Now my breakfast, as well as my respect for women, is utterly ruined.

 

[FieldPiece]

I helped my old man build up the house my family lives in. He repaid me by going back on his word about supporting me through college in exchange. Some of us have good parents, some of us have don’t.

Ooohh fun boomer story time. Family is relatively well off, then family business goes to shit. Boomer parents treat the kid that does well in school like a princess and the one that doesn't like shit. Boomer mom completely denies bad child ability to see boomer dad because he moves overseas to icky terrorist country. Boomer dad makes tons of money and lives very comfortably in icky terrorist country. Boomer mom makes bad child live in a house with faulty electricity, dirt floors, and the only running water being in the bathroom. Terrorist country is third world though and unsafe.

Years later princess is almost a million in debt. Boomer dad dies while boomer mom denies bad child ability to even go to funeral. Boomer dad leaves bad child in will for a property worth millions of dollars. Boomer mom uses lawyer horseshit to sell property for 1/3 of it's worth and spends all of the money paying off princess's debts. Years later boomer mom is stuck living her final years in a shitty trailer with no hot water and is entirely alone and isolated, somehow thinking it's a good idea to ask bad child why he hates her and if he can buy her a new hot water heater.

Yes I'm bitter and hope for total boomer death.

 

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

Years later princess is almost a million in debt. Boomer dad dies while boomer mom denies bad child ability to even go to funeral. Boomer dad leaves bad child in will for a property worth millions of dollars. Boomer mom uses lawyer horseshit to sell property for 1/3 of it's worth and spends all of the money paying off princess's debts. Years later boomer mom is stuck living her final years in a shitty trailer with no hot water and is entirely alone and isolated, somehow thinking it's a good idea to ask bad child why he hates her and if he can buy her a new hot water heater.

You are a far better man than I am. I'd have lit that fucking trailer on fire one night.

 

[Neighborhood Janny]

Shouldn't the previous generation leave their country better than how they started for the NEXT? I'm not trying to sound entitled by saying "those old people in charge should give us more money and a house!" But, they fall back into their "back in my day" spiel describing how their path to independence/prosperity but the policies they PUSH actively make it worse while they dust their hands away from it. I cannot fathom that line of thinking; eventually, it'll get to a point of no return.

You aren't wrong, because that is what every generation had done up until the boomers came along. The Silent Generation sacrificed a whole fuckton in order for Boomers to have a comfortable life.

Think about it: Silent Gen is born to the Lost Generation of WWI. Many of them grow up in hard economic circumstances resulting from the market crash of 1929. They end up having to go to war (after being told "Never Again") and die by the millions. They come back and pump the economy up to such a point that we'll probably not see again. They have kids that aren't going to bed hungry, reading by candlelight, or without access to education. Their children reap the benefits of the sacrifice by being able to have multiple options after high school whether it be going to trade school, college, or just straight up getting a job right after graduation. Unions are still a strong force and that enables good wages. A family of four can survive off the income of one person. The 80s roll along and, while interest rates are sky high, people have no problem being able to afford newer cars, homes, and every other necessity in life. And then, instead of setting up their children for the same success, the boomers pull the ladder up behind them and pontificate (as they've done the last few decades) to us about "pulling up yourself up by the bootstraps". Something they never had to do because they were born into a circumstance that didn't require it.

My maternal grandparents were part of the later Silent Generation. They were far too young to serve in WWII, but they always told me stories on how tough it was during and after the war. My grandfather was given up for adoption because his mother died after giving birth to him and his father couldn't afford to feed 5 children. So he ended up growing up on a farm and working from the time he was 13. My grandmother grew up in Dayton, Ohio and her parents were union factory workers that scrimped and saved. She would tell me about having to use newspaper as toilet paper.

My parents are both Boomers, born in the later stage of that generation. They graduated high school in 1980. Thankfully they never got the attitude of "fuck you, got mine" and taught me how to take care of myself while also looking after me. I can't say the same for many of my friends who have endured hardship and had parents who told them to suck it up.

 

[tehpope]

some memology 101 vids

the 19th amendment was a mistake

Business Journo does his job and grills Biden's Chief Economic Advisor live on air.

 

[LurkTrawl]

If you want some good Boomer shittalking listen to Tim Dillon's stuff on the subject.

Yeah sure I'll listen to a fat faggot who immediately jumped to attack the "Don't Say Gay Bill" and continued to do so long after even Rogan had talked about what it actually entailed, railing about how every single elderly person of a certain age in the country is shit because politicians and rich assholes behaved like irredeemable garbage.

No fucking thanks. Inter-generational hatred is the most retarded, and obvious, psy-op shit on the planet right up there with patriotism.

 

[Dr J]

They end up having to go to war (after being told "Never Again") and die by the millions.

Silent Generation are too young to have fought in World War II. Even the older ones. It's the Greatest Generation that fought that war

 

[AnitaSarsleezian]

I helped my old man build up the house my family lives in. He repaid me by going back on his word about supporting me through college in exchange. Some of us have good parents, some of us have don’t.

My father used to tell me that my mother ruined his retirement by not putting me up for adoption when I was born. My mother said he was serious - that he was pushing her to put me up for adoption and when she was close to delivering my father was a little too friendly with the obstetrician and she became paranoid and switched obstetricians days before I was born. Had the typical childhood for a boy who's father hated him for being born.

He died a few years ago. I got the cheapest cremation I could get - literally something like cheapcremations.com or something. They gave me the ashes in a cardboard box that looked like a chinese food container. A couple of days later when it was trash pickup day, I put the box in a black bag and tossed it in the back of the truck when it stopped in front of my house.

Doesn't bother me in the least that somewhere my father's final resting place is in some landfill. I have no idea where...probably Arthur Kill in Staten Island.

 

[Pascal's Wagie]

I am far too old and cranky to deal with gay ass phone apps just to get a cheeseburger in a reasonable time. Fuck that.

They sell pre-cooked burgers, the brand is Don Lee Farms in ten-packs at Costco and Sam's that are actually really good.

However they used to cost $10 two years ago and now cost nearly $20, but it's still $2 a burger patty.

Come on guys, how hard is it to glomp up a clump of hamburger in your giant powerful mitt and fuckin plop it on a rip-roarin pan or griddle and smash it with your spatula into a nicely golden-seared thin piece of pure USDA-approved American pride?

 

[The Ugly One]

You aren't wrong, because that is what every generation had done up until the boomers came along.

Hard disagree. Playing favorites with your kids was the norm. IMO, boomers were more likely than any previous generation to not play blatant favorites, not that it never happens, obviously.

Example, my WW2 veteran grandfather paid in full for my aunt to go to college and law school. My mother, who was only one year older, had to pay for everything herself. Oh, and my aunt also got a new Mustang as a high school graduation gift. My grandfather loaned my mom money to buy her first car. There was no high school graduation gift.

Going back as far as we have family stories, there's always the one child who got everything, and the child who was treated worse than furniture. I'm the first generation where, out of all of us cousins, there's only one family where the mother acted like that. The rest of us, our boomer parents largely tried to give us all pretty equal treatment.

 

[Your Girlfriend's Dad]

My parents are boomers. They're decent people. The generation as a whole is gibbon delusional about how easy they had it, though.

 

[Anasûrimbor Kellhus]

My father used to tell me that my mother ruined his retirement by not putting me up for adoption when I was born. My mother said he was serious - that he was pushing her to put me up for adoption and when she was close to delivering my father was a little too friendly with the obstetrician and she became paranoid and switched obstetricians days before I was born. Had the typical childhood for a boy who's father hated him for being born.

He died a few years ago. I got the cheapest cremation I could get - literally something like cheapcremations.com or something. They gave me the ashes in a cardboard box that looked like a chinese food container. A couple of days later when it was trash pickup day, I put the box in a black bag and tossed it in the back of the truck when it stopped in front of my house.

Doesn't bother me in the least that somewhere my father's final resting place is in some landfill. I have no idea where...probably Arthur Kill in Staten Island.

I am so thankful I have relatively good parents. We work as a family unit especially now they're getting older

If my parents had done even a 10th of the stuff I hear about from people on the internet I would have left them to fend for themselves the moment I could.

 

[xX_rAcE_wAr_420_Xx]

My parents came from nothing, Dad worked his ass off as a civil servant pulling night shifts for as long as I can remember, and Mom stayed home until we were old enough for her to go to work and eventually back to school for accounting. Dad passed years ago and Mom passed this last year, and left us two kids a substantial savings as well as the home.

Without their helping me beyond the grave, I'd be okay but having that extra chunk of cash allowed me to retire early and I am eternally thankful for being their kid. Looking back at friends from HS, we all lived decent middle class lives and had married, hard-working parents that provided well for us.

I don't get the hate for our elders and think maybe you all were just shitheads which is why your parents hate you.

I love my parents, and enjoy their company, they've helped me in life, and they're still boomers who don't get it. A few years ago when interest rates were good, I was talking with my dad about how expensive housing in general is, and he tried telling me how their mortgage was like 10% interest so it was expensive back then too. Point out that their house cost something like 1/6 the ones I was looking at, went right over his head. He's a smart guy too, he understands math, it's just something about not being able to admit that your economic struggles were comparatively not that bad. They inherited some solid assets from my grandparents, investments and some property and that kind of thing, and 80% of it has been sold off at this point since... that's their retirement plan. Thankfully they still sort-of-helped pay for college so I didn't spend too many years in debt dealing with that, after being pushed by my entire family to get a degree that I rarely use, and once I hit 18 I just assumed I would never really get much financial help from them or anyone else so it worked out okay.

To bring it more on topic, the issue with all of this is that this shit is impossible for 90% of people without a ton of leverage from people with means. Sure, you might luck into a good tech job or get a good apprenticeship doing a trade that makes a lot, some of this is effort and skill but some is luck. Aside from these kinds of opportunities, you'd better have an old relative who invested in a dozen rental properties in the 60s when they were inexpensive, visit him in the old folks' home and get your way into the will so you can inherit a house to live in; shame about the property taxes and insurance, given your modest starter home is valued at half a million lmao. And increasingly in big cities with a "tax the rich" mindset, they fund all kinds of public works with property taxes and then are retard-gobsmacked when the cost of buying AND RENTING goes up because that extra $1k a year gets passed on by landlords.

Really, the arch-boomer is a hybrid of the worst of both LibDem and RINO political leadership. Insists that cause and effect aren't real and everything happens in a vacuum without affecting the larger situation, and that we should spend all YOUR money helping other people, but also you can manage just fine on your own.

My father used to tell me that my mother ruined his retirement by not putting me up for adoption when I was born. My mother said he was serious - that he was pushing her to put me up for adoption and when she was close to delivering my father was a little too friendly with the obstetrician and she became paranoid and switched obstetricians days before I was born. Had the typical childhood for a boy who's father hated him for being born.

He died a few years ago. I got the cheapest cremation I could get - literally something like cheapcremations.com or something. They gave me the ashes in a cardboard box that looked like a chinese food container. A couple of days later when it was trash pickup day, I put the box in a black bag and tossed it in the back of the truck when it stopped in front of my house.

Doesn't bother me in the least that somewhere my father's final resting place is in some landfill. I have no idea where...probably Arthur Kill in Staten Island.

Maybe I'm just weird, but I wouldn't be able to resist the urge to have that shit pressed into a diamond and put it on a ring or similar phylactery. Trap that soul forever, suspend it in a cool glass orb maybe? Get it engraved with "grandpa's soul orb", put it in a safe, and let your next of kin try to figure out what the fuck is going on when they go over your estate.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Trump might win the presidency but the house and senate is going to the Democrats.

Not because the Democrats are popular or the rigging, but that conservatives finally managed to punch the air out of the lungs of their voters.

The polls showing Biden losing also show Democrats still having an edge in house and senate races. Which is suspect is due to voters just casting the ballot for Trump only then going home.

The 2022 midterms went for the R even with the massive self sabotage by the GOP and the DNC spending over double in propaganda and the push of Roe v. Wade scandal. Chances are if Trump manages to avoid the fraud that 2026 will be a wipeout of historical proportions as he staffs the GOP candidates with only loyalists.

At least one hopes.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Isn’t there a French Canadian song about how Boomers basically destroyed generational ownership of shit so they could party? Like the Grandfather in the Depression saved every penny including the filthy ones and saved his business by the skin of his teeth and then the parents sell it for a small fortune and live like retards working self-important jobs?

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Isn’t there a French Canadian song about how Boomers basically destroyed generational ownership of shit so they could party? Like the Grandfather in the Depression saved every penny including the filthy ones and saved his business by the skin of his teeth and then the parents sell it for a small fortune and live like retards working self-important jobs?

Yes, kinda. But worse in a way, not sold to have fun and enjoy life like a American boomer but to just be a civil servant / office drone instead. The party mentions are at the end where the song pretty much says "don't forget to touch grass though go to a party and dance a bit".

Unexpectedly based for a Qu*becois song.