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re: Great video by Tucker *trigger warning for Boomers
Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:34 pm to scottydoesntknow
Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:34 pm to scottydoesntknow
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Essentially, our youth are being saddled with debt just to afford a comparative lifestyle to the generations before them...and even then still cant afford it. We applaud the banks and universities who essentially take advantage of young people
Interestingly enough I just had lunch with an associate who said that his wife who does work for the government just had $250,000 off her student loan debt removed because she has worked the appropriate length of time
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Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:35 pm to David_DJS
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These boomers are evil threads always fascinate me.
Things ARE different... but times are always different generation to generation.
Some things are better, others comparatively worse.
To fault an entire generation for the sins of government and globalism is overly simplistic and hyper-emotional.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:36 pm to scottydoesntknow
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Essentially, our youth are being saddled with debt just to afford a comparative lifestyle to the generations before them...and even then still cant afford it. We applaud the banks and universities who essentially take advantage of young people
Interestingly enough I just had lunch with an associate who said that his wife who does work for the government just had $250,000 off her student loan debt removed because she has worked the appropriate length of time
This is not a boomer issue it is a government issue who screwed everybody by giving colleges and people all of the free money in the world to do what they want
Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:38 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Explain this
What's to explain? The quotes don't give enough information to argue for or against.
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"basically on board" with democratic socialism
Ok, what does this mean? What is he on board with? What is he not?
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Tucker Carlson shocked viewers Wednesday night when he praised 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren’s economic plan, which she called A Plan for Economic Patriotism. After spending nearly four minutes reading an excerpt from Warren’s extensive plan, Carlson described a few of the principles Warren lays out, expressing agreement.
Ok, he agrees with a few principles from an excerpt of Warren's entire economic plan. What few principles? What were the principles he didn't agree with?
Your entire argument is based on the idea that if a person agrees with someone on something, then he automatically supports everything that person stands for. It's an argument without any thought.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:38 pm to scottydoesntknow
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Essentially, our youth are being saddled with debt just to afford a comparative lifestyle to the generations before them
Is that why the debt is being acquired?
Take social security as an example. Here is what AI has to say…
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Baby boomers have contributed more to the Social Security system than the present value of their benefits, largely because earlier cohorts benefited from a pay-as-you-go system and added benefits for spouses and survivors, as explained by CNBC. While individual experiences vary, the generational differences indicate that the boomer cohort, as a whole, will have paid more in than they will receive in benefits
Social security is 21% of the budget, and we see that the Baby Boomers are net contributors to it.
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Health insurance: Four health insurance programs — Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace health insurance subsidies — together accounted for 24 percent of the budget in 2024, or $1.7 trillion. More than half of this amount, or $912 billion, went to Medicare, which in June 2024 provided health coverage to around 67 million people who are age 65 or older or have disabilities. The rest of this amount reflects the federal costs of Medicaid and CHIP ($626 billion) and ACA subsidy and marketplace costs ($125 billion). Both Medicaid and CHIP require states to pay some of their total costs. In March 2023, Medicaid and CHIP provided health coverage or long-term care to 93.9 million low-income children, parents, older adults, and people with disabilities. That was significantly higher than the 70.9 million enrollees before the pandemic because of temporary pandemic-related coverage protection, which expired in April 2023. With its expiration, enrollment dropped to 82.8 million by March 2024 and is likely to fall further, though projections are highly uncertain.
So there is 24% of the budget, and do the Baby Boomers take a disproportionate share of the blame for this. Probably a little because of Medicare, but everyone will eat up their share of this when they get old. The Baby Boomers just happen to be the old ones right now.
Military? Veterans benefits? All Americans benefit from this equally. This is another 13% of the budget.
The rest of the budget is for programs that are going to young people as well as old people.
Our problem is that we spend too much, but that spending is being consumed by younger generations just as it is by Boomers.
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America stands at the edge of the most dramatic shift in personal finance ever measured—a generational transfer of nearly $124 trillion in assets over just 25 years. According to a wealth transfer report from Boston wealth management firm Cerulli Associates, published in June 2025, a combination of demographic and economic forces will see a record amount of wealth move from baby boomers and older Americans to heirs
I have an idea. If young people think we Boomers have screwed them by running up $40 trillion in debt, let’s just tax their inheritances. Instead of $124 trillion, they’d get $84 trillion and the national debt would be wiped out. Deal?
This post was edited on 11/21/25 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:40 pm to dafif
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Interestingly enough I just had lunch with an associate who said that his wife who does work for the government just had $250,000 off her student loan debt removed because she has worked the appropriate length of time
I think a LOT of people drowning in student debt are the ones who dropped out and have all of the debt and none of the reward.
Or those who went university the whole time at huge cost instead of starting at community or tech.
Not everyone is drowning- some people invested wisely in their education, others invested poorly.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:40 pm to SallysHuman
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Things ARE different... but times are always different generation to generation.
Some things are better, others comparatively worse.
Of course things are different, but the fact is materialistic life (in the US) has never been better or easier than it is today.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:43 pm to scottydoesntknow
quote:Oh scotty, you poor dear.
No but if they get in power and and start confiscating your wealth
You are being played like Jimi's guitar, just before he sets you on fire.
Getting in power and confiscating "boomer" wealth is the plan, my man. The method is to evolve your mindset to exactly where it seems to be now. Then when silents, boomers, and X's pass on, their money will pass to Uncle Sam, not to you.
That's the game afoot. You're going to be a patsy at that poker table?
Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:45 pm to scottydoesntknow
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comparative lifestyle to the generations before them
what an asinine thing to say. Most homes are larger and come with far more amenities than homes the boomers bought. Most didn't have AC, a washer and dryer, were under 1800SqFt, didn't have a two car garage (cause Boomers didn't own 2 cars), no granite countertops, smaller bedrooms, closets, etc. There's nothing comparative about it.
Boomers may have done a lot of damage, but the spoiled, soft youth of today wouldn't be caught dead in a boomer's "first house". So spare me. Homes are more expensive today because standards of luxury have evolved adding to the cost. Not because the boogeyman boomers screwed everyone behind them.
And quite frankly, I think Tuck throws this shite out there just to play you frickers. And yall lap it up like its craft beer.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:46 pm to Tmcgin
Tucker always looks so triggered.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:46 pm to David_DJS
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Of course things are different, but the fact is materialistic life (in the US) has never been better or easier than it is today.
Agreed.
It strikes me that the early struggles of adulthood used to be a badge of honor... ramen, red hotdogs, trundling down the road with a gascan, deciding between tickets or a late rent, all kinds of stuff.
Now even the very shadow of adversity is harming the very souls of over pampered young adults.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:47 pm to TenWheelsForJesus
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Your entire argument is based on the idea that if a person agrees with someone on something, then he automatically supports everything that person stands for. It's an argument without any thought.
All youve done is bury your head in the sand and deny.
It shouldnt bother you that Tucker is a DS, Maga is getting closer to that every day.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:51 pm to SallysHuman
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Now even the very shadow of adversity is harming the very souls of over pampered young adults.
Like many things from my perspective, I blame the Left. The Left, particularly as we see it on campuses across the country, is astute at dividing us and creating victim/oppressor pairs. They have done yeoman's work creating the "boomers stole our prosperity" thing. Even young conservatives have bought it hook, line and sinker.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:53 pm to David_DJS
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Like many things from my perspective, I blame the Left. The Left, particularly as we see it on campuses across the country, is astute at dividing us and creating victim/oppressor pairs
Bingo.
How great would it be if that mindset vanished overnight? Everything is viewed through some "lens" or another to great detriment of our society.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:55 pm to scottydoesntknow
quote:I'm not a boomer, but how exactly did boomers accomplish all this? It's truly impressive. None of my boomer relatives told me they were engaged in these things.
Its too bad yall gave us, 30 trillion in debt, decades of immigration from third world, a fake economy based off printed money, 3 waves of feminism, 21% less whites coupled with growing white hatred. Thanks!
Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:56 pm to Tmcgin
quote:Lamest deflecting non-reply I'll read all day.
Tucker changes his tune for $$ and clicks like them all
Posted on 11/21/25 at 3:58 pm to AlxTgr
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I'm not a boomer, but how exactly did boomers accomplish all this? It's truly impressive. None of my boomer relatives told me they were engaged in these things.
It's easier to blame your elders than ask why government and globalism had these effects.
Also, by blaming "boomers" they signal their intent to beg government and globalism to save them.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 4:00 pm to SallysHuman
quote:But it's been done in nearly every generation since Thales. It literally is nearly as regular an intergenerational phenomenon as birth and death, or crime and punishment.
To fault an entire generation for the sins of government and globalism is overly simplistic and hyper-emotional.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 4:03 pm to David_DJS
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Of course things are different, but the fact is materialistic life (in the US) has never been better or easier than it is today.
Oh boy
Back in the day you’d do your 8 hours with your friends at the fun factory job that had a pension and then you’d go get drunk at the bowling alley and then you’d hop in your $2000 chevelle or whatever and drive home to your $12000 house and your wife that didn’t have to work. This was the American dream George Washington intended
What we have now? Way worse.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 4:03 pm to scottydoesntknow
Bringing in 8-12 million illegals, giving them government benefits, and putting them into homes tends to push the housing market upward with demand.
Bad for these younger ones.
Donald Trump immediately starts to kick them out of the country, which will help the housing situation, and these younger "anti-fascist" hunters protest to keep those illegals here.
Hard to feel bad for people who can't see Trump is actually trying to help them.
Bad for these younger ones.
Donald Trump immediately starts to kick them out of the country, which will help the housing situation, and these younger "anti-fascist" hunters protest to keep those illegals here.
Hard to feel bad for people who can't see Trump is actually trying to help them.
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