Story is very fresh right now with several outlets blowing it up as a 'we won!' moment and AOC calling for his arrest for incitement or some shit.
He needs to do a Rubin or something similar as he was the one thing that made people even watch fox sometimes because of his anaylsis. I sense Fox's viewing figures are going to dive again...
This is unfortunate, because even though he may have a bigger audience being on his own, he was reaching a lot of folks on Fox who are boomers and who do not seek out alternative content. Now he will reach only people who are already critical of the establishment.
I have a Boomer parent. They don't matter any more, they are dying off. They are mostly totally oblivious to what is really going on in the world anyway, as most of them still think the country they grew up in still exists.
My boomer mother desperately clings on to that illusion and gets really upset when I plainly talk about the state of the world, because she’s intelligent enough to see that I’m correct but she can’t deal with the anxiety and fear of her propaganda-built worldview being flawed.
My Mom was that way until recently.
When they stole the election from Trump, we were commiserating about it and at one point she said pulled out the boomer classic, "If we survived Carter, we can survive Biden."
I told her that was naive. We didn't have Dominion voting machines back then. We didn't have mass mail-in voting with ballots being counted for weeks or even months post election.
We discussed other differences, and to her credit, now she laughs at herself for that take.
But yeah I suspect that the overwhelming majority of boomers either still think that way, or they don't want to face the truth for one reason or another.
We also don't have 1976 demographics. The country was like 80% white back then.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying. But, this Dominion deal, it's not a good look for us. It's kind of like, in current year, pretending that Trump actually got pissed on by Russian prostitutes. This is a conspiracy theory that not only failed to materialize but was so wrong it has been used to shut down all criticism of election procedures.
I am so glad it's not just me dealing with this, the boomers are all in particular denial about the state of the pension system which I know is going to collapse soon, France is just the beginning.
Let your poor mother be.
They’re still the only cohort that regularly turns out to vote, dude.
Assuming we mean old people in general and not the actual baby boomer generation
My parents are in their late 70s and they know exactly what's going on. They were conservative back in the 60s when many other people their age were being degenerate hippies.
They are a tiny minority.
I have boomer relatives and while all this is true it is exactly why they are so dangerous in politics.
They want to keep pushing the "anti racism" narrative because in their head they still live in a time when 89% of the country was white so being "anti white" had no meaningful affect.
They easily push the trans narrative because they've lost their sexuality because of their age and they prefer to live in a situation where everyone else has to so they don't have to feel bad about it.
They're like a political terminator, they just keep going and going and going and nothing is going to stop them - not even accomplishing their goals, or the results of what they're doing being bad.
boomers held onto power, and jobs too long. I think their defining characteristics are "I've got mine, so they can fight over the rest like I had to" not realizing the wealth and opportunity they were born into, and blaming everyone else before them or after for the problems they caused as they raided and squandered the public commons.
They resent their own children, and never let them have power politically and in the workplace, and if you wanted to keep them in your lives, power over your personal relationships, career, and hobbies, and always in a misguided way taking into account none of your own needs or desires & based on outdated ideas of a world that doesn't even exist any more. now that they are finally being forced to retire, or die, they want to skip over all the adults, and hand things over to their spoiled grandkids.
Spoiled by the boomer grandparents who want to make up for fucking over their own kids. spoiled by their parents, overcompensating for the shitty upbringing of their own boomer parents and trying to give their own kids a 'better childhood' but still giving them just as shitty of parenting, just in the opposite direction. Spoiled by technology and instant gratification. spoiled by being completely isolated from the real world and fed propaganda their entire lives before being tossed into the world with no real preparation, much like their parents but to an even more extreme degree.
Boomer money (esg) being used to destroy this country. Rip
It depends, I've seen more boomers using YouTube now and podcast information services. I think we're at the point it's less tech illiteracy and more loyal viewing patterns so once what the watch is gone and the switch, they're never coming back.
It's cultural. Just like how Zoomers were raised by iPads and phones, Boomers were raised by the television. So they have an entire lifetime of reflexively turning on the TV and absorbing whatever it outputs.
My parents are hilariously frustrating with this. I will go on and on to them about how insidious TV is and how propaganda-laden all TV news outlets are and they will totally agree with me. Won't stop it from being on the TV though. And if I am there and I see it on and I mention it again, they will agree but then say "we know it is biased BS but then where would we get news from?"
my mom is the same way. she litterly goes stir crazy and starts pacing wildly around the house. she 'has' to do something, and sit down for the tv is it. she can't accept that the restlessness comes from lack of purpose, and she just needs a fucking hobby as an outlet. but she is 'to old' to 'learn' because you are 'born with all your braincells you will ever have, and they just die of after that' (supper old quack science)
She is anti tv now, so she just watches youtube all day, the algorithm feeds her stuff it thinks fits her views, trying to pull her to the mainstream, and she just clicks through her subscriptions and the alternative stuff, and ignores the mainstream stuff.
the only way she was able to make the transition was to get a roku (which she used to love, but has moved away from as they locked down and got more shitty) to make her youtube on the tv work like a cable box.
My dad is exactly the same way. I've repeatedly told him that TV news is BS propaganda, and he even agrees, but he still nevertheless tunes into it.
Yes but they don't explore content the same way we do, they have it spoon fed to them through the trending pages. I've been repeating this ad nauseum because it's important to know how boomers and normies think to fight them. The corporations now are moving away from the television model and making sure various parts of big tech net are only giving boomers information they want them to see.
You see this with how massively triggered they are over Elon's twitter buyout. He doesn't curate anything like they did and is actually fixing a lot of their bullshit tweaking of the trending pages so that of course means stuff like anime is getting to the frontpage instead now. I would not be surprised if big tech got together at some point after realising Elon's a lost cause and establish some kind of new twitter.
You can't put a group of people defined by being born in an 18 year period into a category like you're trying to do.
People are individuals. You might be able to predict trends, but not individuals.
You should be addressing concepts here. Some people are going to keep watching Faux, some are going to leave MSM altogether. Try to exert some influence in the right direction when you get a chance.
Generalizations are 100 percent necessary to have any meaningful discussion about many of the topics discussed on this board. That doesn't mean there aren't plenty of individuals that buck the trend, and it doesn't mean people shouldn't do all they can to help those that seem helplessly predisposed towards being apart of the trend. This is setting aside whether or not this specific generalization is accurate or not.
In my family (not the other poster) we have no ability to influence when the older generation.
They watch the perceived "authority figure" on tv, use it to jockey for position amongst each other. There's not much space left for us that doesn't threaten their sense of losing control to their "below them" children.
I've been able to convince my older family of this or that, or convince them something they're pushing is bad before, but all that happens is they go back home to watching their media and debating amongst themselves and come back just more enraged that I disagreed with their group consensus - who's fundamental center is the big screen they watch every day.
With them captured by the big screen there seems to be no room left to influence them.
People do that all the time very successfully and they make money off it lol. I'm not saying it's necessarily 'right', I'm actually somebody who always makes a point of celebrating the exceptions to the rule, that doesn't mean you should just blindly ignore trends and categories that people fit into.
Tucker leaving Fox is another nail in the coffin of traditional television media.
Who is going to watch that shit anymore when all the talent has gone elsewhere?
Boomers are going to finally start using Youtube so they can subscribe to Tucker.
It will hopefully bring some of those people over to alternative content specifically to watch Tucker. And, once there, their eyes will open even wider.
They will find another limited hangout for the boomers dont worry