Posted on 11/04/2026 7:38:49 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
An elderly man both verbally and physically assaulted a young Turning Point USA volunteer at the polls, a video posted to X shows.
An elderly man both verbally and physically assaulted a young Turning Point USA volunteer at the polls, a video posted to X shows.
An 18-year-old man was volunteering with Turning Point Action outside a polling station in New Hampshire on Tuesday when an elderly man approached him and began to raise his voice. The confrontation then escalated, as depicted in a video included in Turning Point Action’s Tuesday afternoon X post.
The context of the conflict in the 40 second video is unclear. However, the elderly man is seen yelling, “you have no idea who I am, so how dare you say I don’t know much!”
The volunteer then responded, “you haven’t presented a single statistic.”
The elderly man then seemed to grow increasingly agitated, continuing to yell at the 18-year-old.
“Neither have you! Goddamn. I cannot believe that bullshit. You sat there and dare to look me in the face. And say I don’t know anything,” he shouted, gesturing at the teen before giving him the middle finger.
“That’s what I know. **** you,” the elderly man continued, slapping the volunteer in the face.
After bystanders can be heard saying “woah,” the old man marched away.
“He stayed calm. The left got violent,” Turning Point Action’s X post featuring the video stated. “Don’t cede the ground, show up to the polls. Your vote helps us outnumber these people.”
It’s probably because we expect someone that age to have a more level head and more dignity.
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Trump is an outsider in the Republican half of the Uniparty. They've left him hanging because he's not blackmailed like they are.
I’m a 68 year old boomer who lives in a rural community with other boomers my age.
I see their Facebook posts. I see their actions as they act out like this guy.
Hell, we see this guy personified here at Free Republic every day.
Boomer hate is often justified.
Well we can certainly expect dignity and a level head out of a conservative old guy, not surprised that it is a lefty going off the rails.
Yep, and most likely he will get off with probation and having to do some type of Anger Management classes. Assuming he is a first time offender and doesn’t have a criminal record.
He is probably not wealthy, so the county will provide an attorney. He will plead guilty or no contest. He will have to pay a fine and write a letter of apology. IF he has any money an attorney is going to need $5K up front.
He made a costly mistake and lack of judgement.
An example of how the term “boomer” is used, is noticing how the the “Silent Generation” is never used.
It is so bad that most people think of names like this as boomers rather than as their actual generations.
Bob Seger, Jane Fonda, John Denver, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Paul & Mary, Grace Slick, Neil Young , the Beatles, Van Morrison, Joan Baez, Jerry Garcia, Pete Townsend, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Jimmy Page, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Williams Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn, Chicago Seven, Rod Stewart, Abbie Hoffman, Hunter S. Thompson, Malcom X, Charles Manson, Brian Wilson, and the Rolling Stones, the Jefferson Airplane, and the Mamas and the Papas, Jimmy Page, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, etc, etc, etc, just about everyone that you can name from the hippie 1960s.
Not to mention we survived the Great Recession without going into bankruptcy.
And faces a lawsuit for assault and spends the rest of his days in jail, or on probation at the least.
I’d bet that the Turning Point young man won’t take this any further. He’ll probably consider that the exposure the old guy has brought on himself is justice enough.
The point I was trying to make in my original post was that there seems to be some sort of effort in media to promote boomer hate. Of course there are examples of unhinged boomers. But when individuals from other generations act out are they identified by which generation they are categorized into?
Haha...I have no desire to talk to you.
‘Boomer hate is often justified’
For obvious reasons.
Dayum!!! That wasn’t just a slap, that was a straight up Bitch Slap, which is not to be confused with the Pimp Slap which is a forehand slap, and not a backhand slap as is the Bitch Slap. You’re welcome.
Are you kidding? I'm probably older than that guy and I would have put him on his ass.
I'm sure there a lot of us here who would.
This is the kind of guy who’d sue YOU even though he started it. (And the way they are today, the courts would side with him.)
I’m older than he is too, and he’s everything I abhor in many of my ‘old people’ peers.
Obviously he is a flaming leftist who happens to be old. Do we even know if he is a boomer?
FB page remains up. He's being dragged, and doxxed.
I think I read that he’s 70, so he qualifies.
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