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...
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.
You know my grandparents really piss me off about that. They complained about the first wave of immigrants to get special treatment and government backed loans, now they complain about racist Nazis.
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'm a programmer and I tell you that voting machines shouldn't exist in a fair election, paper ballots only. Even without the 'conspiracy theories' around dominion voting machines, there was plenty of proof that showed they could be accessed from outside and connect to the internet. That alone should have invalidated them as a concept but we're dealing with tech illiterate boomers who regulate this stuff.
Nothing was proven wrong. They simply denied everything while preventing anyone from looking under the hood, and declared anyone who questioned it an "election denier."
Many voting machines were connected to the internet. Many machines were wiped and reset after the final pre-election systems checks. Both of those are direct violations of the contracts.
We know that adjudication rates were through the roof in Georgia and probably other key states. They didn't let anyone look at those ballots to see why the adjudication rates went up by orders of magnitude.
Then you have the comments made by a Dominion employee about doing something to prevent another Trump term.
I know I'm forgetting other fishy stuff but the point remains. They didn't disprove a damn thing.
Fuck off you're either a glowie or actually a low info goblin that just headline browsed and clapped for the kraken bullshit.
If you actually dived into the statistical analyses and watched the evidence in 2020 and 2021 while shit was going on, massive fraud was clearly shown and some of it was the voting machines - hundreds of witnesses testified to this in PA and AZ.
Eric.
Coomer.
Did you not stop to think for a moment what you were typing? Conspiracy theories get shut down harder when they're wrong? Trump dossier and collusion theories were mainstream bread and butter for years. Even now, what you find on google for 'trump dossier' or 'trump piss prostitute' are very different to what you find with 'dominion stolen election' or 'dominion eric coomer'.
What is your basis for saying that all of the Dominion claims were wrong? Courts, which can be stolen just like a country can, who refuse to look at evidence? Robert 'ISLAMOFASCIST!' Barnes?
Abandon shame-driven reasoning.
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