Posted on 07/08/2016 7:35:06 AM PDT by 6ft2inhighheelshoes
It’s complete BS demonizing “Baby Boomers”. I’m on the tail end of the Baby Boom and I was 7 years old in 1968.
Sure, there were lots of older BBers protesting especially against the draft in that timeframe, but they weren’t nearly running the world.
And BBers don’t have any special animus toward each other. Arguably they were more tolerant of other races and ethnicities, on average, than any previous American generations.
It’s not just the ghetto kids — it’s also the middle-class kids on campuses, the spawn of liberal parents, who are also destroying the country.
All of them — plus ISIS people — are cut from the same cloth: they’re a bunch of narcissists who feel entitled & diminished. They seem angry at truth, or something. Essentially they want to do their own thing & have everyone cater to them.
In ‘68 there were still enough conservatives around to keep things in check. Now, the younger generation are so stunted by PC rhetoric that I worry about anarchy. These people couldn’t run a grocery store, let alone a country.
And the aging, unrepentant terrorist / former Commie mentor to our current pResident -- William (Bill) Ayers -- no doubt is sitting in front of his television right now with a semi-flaccid erection.
We need to call them BLT:
BLACK
LYING
TERRORISTS
Is the Media eagerly awaits trouble at the RNC July 18-21 in Cleveland protesting Trump
but will the trouble be at the DNC
July 25-28 in Philadelphia, just like Chicago
bkmrk
Exactly. The white college hippies are to blame too. A lot of them look like a bunch of emasculated freaks. You see it in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiADgGSGHiM
Common Vietnam War Myths Dispelled:
Myth: Common belief is that most Vietnam veterans were drafted.
Fact: 2/3 of the men who served in Vietnam were volunteers. 2/3 of the men who served in World War II were drafted. Approximately 70% of those killed in Vietnam were volunteers.
Myth: The media have reported that suicides among Vietnam veterans range from 50,000 to 100,000 – 6 to 11 times the non-Vietnam veteran population.
Fact: Mortality studies show that 9,000 is a better estimate. “The CDC Vietnam Experience Study Mortality Assessment showed that during the first 5 years after discharge, deaths from suicide were 1.7 times more likely among Vietnam veterans than non-Vietnam veterans. After that initial post-service period, Vietnam veterans were no more likely to die from suicide than non-Vietnam veterans. In fact, after the 5-year post-service period, the rate of suicides is less in the Vietnam veterans’ group.
Myth: Common belief is that a disproportionate number of blacks were killed in the Vietnam War.
Fact: 86% of the men who died in Vietnam were Caucasians, 12.5% were black, 1.2% were other races. Sociologists Charles C. Moskos and John Sibley Butler, in their recently published book “All That We Can Be,” said they analyzed the claim that blacks were used like cannon fodder during Vietnam “and can report definitely that this charge is untrue. Black fatalities amounted to 12 percent of all Americans killed in Southeast Asia, a figure proportional to the number of blacks in the U.S. population at the time and slightly lower than the proportion of blacks in the Army at the close of the war.”
Myth: Common belief is that the war was fought largely by the poor and uneducated.
Fact: Servicemen who went to Vietnam from well-to-do areas had a slightly elevated risk of dying because they were more likely to be pilots or infantry officers. Vietnam Veterans were the best educated forces our nation had ever sent into combat. 79% had a high school education or better.
Myth: The common belief is the average age of an infantryman fighting in Vietnam was 19.
Fact: Assuming KIAs accurately represented age groups serving in Vietnam, the average age of an infantryman (MOS 11B) serving in Vietnam to be 19 years old is a myth, it is actually 22. None of the enlisted grades have an average age of less than 20. The average man who fought in World War II was 26 years of age.
Sure, there were lots of older BBers protesting especially against the draft in that timeframe, but they weren’t nearly running the world.
And BBers don’t have any special animus toward each other. Arguably they were more tolerant of other races and ethnicities, on average, than any previous American generations.
In '68 I was 14 going on 15, and not in control of much at all other than my homework.
All will be right when the faggot Mooselimb is out on the street. Free at last; FREE at LAST. Good riddance O’faggot......
1968 was bad. Real bad. I dropped my single action revolver for a 13 shot Browning Hi-power.
Ever try to load a single action revolver in a bad part of town while driving a standard shift truck? Not enough hands.
1968. When SOUL BROTHER signs were supposed to protect you from rioters.
Others had THIS HOUSE IS NOT ARMED signs. That did not last long.
Politicians were trying to ban the “evil” 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifle and small foreign made handguns, and the SCOTUS could not cease from making real bad rulings in favor of the lawless which made things even worse.
Obama renews gun control push after ‘senseless’ Dallas murders
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/08/obama-renews-gun-control-push-after-senseless-dallas-murders.html
“...We also know that when people are armed with powerful weapons, unfortunately it makes attacks like these more deadly and more tragic, and in the days ahead we’re going to have to consider those realities as well,” Obama said.
Prayers and condolences to all of the families who are so thoroughly devastated by the horrors we are all watching take place in our country — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 8, 2016
The attack on police officers in Dallas last night is horrifying and despicable. We must as a nation stand against violence of all kinds. — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) July 8, 2016
I mourn for the officers shot while doing their sacred duty to protect peaceful protesters [sic], for their families & all who serve with them. — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 8, 2016
I was 21 in 1968 and joined the Marines a year later. And you are correct. It is not 1968 again.
Which generation allowed this to prosper? Which generation of “men” where too busy watching football and obsessing over their 401Ks to pay attention to what was going on around them? The generation that couldn’t (wouldn’t?) control their wives or their kids. The generation that put 2 cars in the driveway and 4 bedrooms to sleep in while they handed the kids over to the state. Civic responsibility? Giving half a shit? Not even close.
What generation raised such nihilistic people? The Greatest Generation. I think not.
LIBTARDISM:
The collectivism and determinism of libtardism creates, promotes, and exploits divisiveness, which leads to hatred, and the desire to kill and destroy.
I hope it wasn't a Colt.
Myth: Common belief is that a disproportionate number of blacks were killed in the Vietnam War.
Fact: 86% of the men who died in Vietnam were Caucasians, 12.5% were black, 1.2% were other races. Sociologists Charles C. Moskos and John Sibley Butler, in their recently published book “All That We Can Be,” said they analyzed the claim that blacks were used like cannon fodder during Vietnam “and can report definitely that this charge is untrue. Black fatalities amounted to 12 percent of all Americans killed in Southeast Asia, a figure proportional to the number of blacks in the U.S. population at the time and slightly lower than the proportion of blacks in the Army at the close of the war.”
When I told my now ex-girlfriend this fact, she challenged me. She said that “Everybody knows that more Blacks were Killed than Whites”.
I said, “look it up”
She did. When she found the truth?
She got extremely agitated and called me an A88hole.
From that moment on, I took virtually every opportunity I could to send her into a state of Cognitive Dissonance just to watch her physical and emotional reactions. You could see her body language and facial expressions go through these uncontrolled contortions and twitches. Then came the wicked verbal attacks and her physically attacking me.
Maybe I am an A88hole.
But, this is what we are dealing with on the Left.
They will do whatever it takes to avoid having their worldview undermined by the truth.
It was a cheap foreign SAA. I also had a COLT .45 peacemaker but it was no good as it kept breaking the cylinder stops (bolt).
The people that led the movement in the 60's are old enough that they are concerned about their 401-k's and retirement funds. They're OK with supporting gay rights, abortion, and anything else that doesn't add risk to their portfolio, but they won't be very supportive of rioting and destruction.
Maybe Obama is OK with anarchy. He is now high enough up the food chain and has free security for life.
However, the upper middle class aging hippies will not be behind him. This is an opportunity to get a new silent majority on our side.
“outre”? “jejune”? “Rousseau”?
C’mon, man. Who are we trying to impress?
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