Posted on 10/10/2005 8:08:11 PM PDT by weegee
Before we bust out the .50 caliber rifles and start shooting people from a mile away it’s important to know exactly who we’re talking about. Your parents, the baby boomers, are between 40 and 60 years old. They “stopped a war.” They “can’t remember the 60s” and they ruined everything for every generation to come. Though their politics were knee-jerk liberal 25 years ago, today they combine the worst of both parties. They pretend to be Democrats but secretly vote Republican at the last second so they don’t have to pay taxes on the incredible amount of income they’ve accrued doing nothing. Almost everything bad about today can be traced back to them. The lack of honesty in the media is from their old hippie propaganda. The incredible debt we’ve been burdened with is from their overspending.
The endless warmongering of the neocons comes from the boomers’ old “save the world” dogma. Even the apocalyptic state of the environment comes from their inability to discuss overpopulation. And those songs! Can we not have to listen to Motown, the Beatles, or Hendrix ever again, please? It’s not enough we have to suffer through the sh*tpile of a planet they left us. Now we have to listen to the soundtrack of their wonder years while we do it. Oh, and here’s some more things we hate about the baby boomers...
THEY KEEP CALLING EVERYONE HITLER...
(Excerpt) Read more at viceland.com ...
I'll give a warning on the language (profanity) in advance.
This is not a "conservative" publication but they are critical of political correctness, some elements of liberalism, and other things of interest to people on this forum. They seem knee-jerk in some of their own criticisms of Bush/Republicans.
In some other articles in this issue, they identify some people they do like (including the parents of baby boomers).
Gen X (and Y?) in the wake of the Baby Boom.
And there are several more "pages" online that are not in the print editon. A shame, more of their readers (it is a free glossy magazine) could have used this information:
BILL CLINTON – THE FIRST BOOMER PRESIDENT
Boomers grew up without having to face true evil, unlike the generation before them (Hitler, Stalin and Mao) and our generation (Osama and co.). This ignorance of evil means Boomers don’t know the difference between right and wrong, and have a hard time spotting a bad guy when they see one. It was fine for a while, when the worst thing a Boomer without a moral compass could do was throw “swinger parties” and occasionally go off the rails like Charles Manson and Jim Jones. But things got serious when Bill Clinton, the “first Boomer president,” was elected. Not knowing the true face of evil meant he was unable to recognize the genocide in Rwanda until after a million innocent people were hacked to death with machetes. It also led to President Clinton not being able to recognize the threat of Osama bin Laden and killing him when he had the chance. There was even a White House memo that outlined the threat of bin Laden, which apparently had handwritten notes on it from President Clinton himself, dismissing the threat of bin Laden. We say “apparently,” because nobody will ever know for sure. See, last year, after being subpoenaed to the 9-11 Commission, Sandy Berger (Clinton’s National Security Advisor) snuck into the National Archives, stole those memos and shredded them (a crime for which he will be sentenced in September 05).
(and this is embedded with links on the website)
LoL...Best thing I've read in a long time.
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This is the funniest thing I ever read! and I'm a boomer.
this article is ACID! and I loved every bit of it...although I wish he werent so hard on the conservatives of this nation. Screw the politicians...there are people out there who do give a damn!
Baby boomers have been smothering themselves in themselves for so long it never occurred to them that A) they are wrong and B) we don’t like them. They are the kings of the universe and what they say goes. While the new working class gets pushed out of jobs by people that are willing to work for $2 an hour, you have anuses like Thomas Friedman responding with, “American workers need to pull up their socks.” What is his f^%^*ng problem? Why do these rich bastards pretend they like the poor as they squish them into the ground? Hey Tom, shipbuilding used to be Scotland’s biggest export but people in Bangladesh were willing to work all day for a free lunch so the industry went there. Are Scottish people lazy?
ROTFLOL!!
Not everyone from that generation is the problem but there are plenty who caused the problems we now face.
And if you read the blog comments below the article online, you'll see liberals calling names, criticizing their politics, and accusing them of being Dittoheads.
Thanks for the ping. As a person who grew up during the sixties and hated the "classic baby boomer", I had tears rolling down my cheeks from laughter. This was a hoot.
Seems to mirror the way a lot of my fellow Gen-X'ers feel about our hippy-Boomer predecessors.
I can't wait to hear the hippies whine and screech when WE control the government and get around to some REAL Social Security reforms! Heh heh heh...
Holy crap...I heard about this but never checked it out.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for posting this.
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