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2022-02-03 -Great Cultural Revolution
Boomers, Meet the Based
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Posted by 746 2022-02-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [17 views ]  Top

#1 The divide is between those who think our major institutions are run by competent, credible authorities and those who view them as decadent, not worthy of deference and run by mendacious and corrupt fools.

The former group is overwhelmingly based in or near the D.C. Swamp and incapable of seeing that the system which benefits them so handsomely is literally destroying millions of normal Americans who lack their access or credentials.

Does anyone still believe that the CDC and NIH and FDA really have our best interests at heart, or that they practice disinterested science to advance public health?

When AstraZeneca's COVID vax in the U.K. and Europe was found to cause a spike in clotting that caused death in a few cases, it was halted by those nations' public health authorities. Pfizer's own data show their vaccine killed over a thousand people and caused many times that number of serious adverse effects in its first three months.

Was the Pfizer vax pulled here, as AZN's vax was in the U.K.? No. Instead we've heard nonstop bullshit about how safe it is, how anyone who expresses doubt or demands to see and scrutinize and discuss the data is a "denier" or a "conspiracy theorist" or "killing grandma" etc.

And yet the skeptics have been proved right again and again-- on the stupidity of the lockdowns, on the criminal suppression of effective treatments such as HCQ and ivermectin, on 'with' vs 'from' and the vast overcounting of COVID deaths and undercounting or denial of the vast number of deaths caused by the elite's botched public policies.

Ditto for the Ukraine farce, the endless overseas interventions to support gender studies at Kabul U., for all the BS about "systemic racism" and St George Fentanyl, for the notion that our elections are fair and honest, for the demonization of Russia or Hungary's Orban, for the UniParty's embrace of illegal immigration etc etc.

There is literally not one American institution's leadership that deserves our respect today.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-03 07:50||   2022-02-03 07:50|| Front Page Top

#2 COVID has peaked at Worldometers (Thanks, G(r)om!)

New "Serious/Critical" cases have dropped every day for almost two weeks, and yesterday's "Active Cases" dropped for the first time in two months.
Posted by Bobby 2022-02-03 11:14||   2022-02-03 11:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, LBJ destroyed us baby boomers' belief in government and institutions pretty well.
Posted by Tom 2022-02-03 11:17||   2022-02-03 11:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Brandon is LBJ x10
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-03 11:39||   2022-02-03 11:39|| Front Page Top

#5 free based?
Posted by Greng Black3494 2022-02-03 12:13||   2022-02-03 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 they suspect that many older conservatives, with their comparative financial security, are too insulated from the current crisis. Boomers have “made it” and will likely not live long enough to suffer the consequences of a financial or political collapse; they have seized the lifeboats and left the young to fend for themselves.

Unfortunately true, although I have tried to educate my adult children, but they already know everything.
Posted by Bobby 2022-02-03 12:43||   2022-02-03 12:43|| Front Page Top

#7 
I have tried to educate my adult children, but they already know everything.

Should they ever be so blessed as to grow up, they will be surprised to find out how much the old man has changed!
Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2022-02-03 12:48||   2022-02-03 12:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Agree with Tom at #3. LBJ introduced us to the credibility gap, sent our boys into a war with no clear plan for victory, gave us Affirmative Action, Medicare, raised taxes and stole money from Social Security which was never anything but a Ponzi scheme anyway. His Great Society and Vietnam War were the classic definition of guns and butter that bankrupted and poisoned our whole country. Remember HUD? HEW? I don't think we've ever really recovered from LBJ's time in office. That's certainly when I realized the government cannot be trusted.

Naively, I still believed in the media. It took me a long, long time to fully appreciate how biased they are. But I think that up until the 1990's there were still some newspapers, at least in southern California, that tended conservative. They're all gone now.

Now the TV and newspapers are nothing but Democrat Party propaganda, a vile pack of lies. Now we have the cancel culture with people like Neil Young trying to tell us what is misinformation and what isn't.

Neil Young can kiss my ass and then Joni Mitchell can too. Get Roger Waters in the line too. I'd rather listen to Pat Boone. But it's kinda sad, really, that we can no longer just kick back and listen to music or watch TV and be entertained by it instead of getting pissed off at all the lies, the stench of all the corruption.

I think it was when all of our major corporations, which include the major media outlets, got into bed with the Chinese Communist Party. The corruption stinks to high heaven.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-02-03 13:10||   2022-02-03 13:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Boomers have “made it” and will likely not live long enough to suffer the consequences of a financial or political collapse

My RETIREMENT plan!
Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-03 17:33||   2022-02-03 17:33|| Front Page Top

#10 There is literally not one American institution's leadership that deserves our respect today.

Gavin Newsome getting a maskless picture taken with a maskless Magic Johnson while preparing LA and lockdown emergency California for the Super Bowl:

"I can't breathe."
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-03 18:51||   2022-02-03 18:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Getting crowded down there Abu
Posted by KBK 2022-02-03 19:12||   2022-02-03 19:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Gavin Newsome getting a maskless picture taken with a maskless Magic Johnson while preparing LA and lockdown emergency California for the Super Bowl:

"I can't breathe."

LA Mayor Garcetti in same photo op: I didn't inhale. ‘I hold my breath’
Posted by Ulelet Snusotch7182 2022-02-03 19:29||   2022-02-03 19:29|| Front Page Top

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