The Last Good Generation: Gen X

Last week a New York Times/Siena poll found that Americans of every generation shifted to the left over the last two years -- except for one: Generation X.
Liberal Boomers, Millennials and Gen Zers were gobsmacked.
"What's wrong with Gen X?" they demanded.
As a member of that generation I'm here to tell you: Absolutely nothing.
In fact, we're the only thing standing between this country and communism -- the break-glass-in-case-of-emergency generation.
In the '90s they called us slackers. Now we're middle-aged, menopausal and holding the door at the Alamo.
Have you even said "thank you"?
No mystery why we're like this: It's because we were neglected -- latchkey kids who ate saltines for dinner.
Many of our parents got divorced and forgot they had children, which was fine because we were busy getting blackout drunk in hayfields and smoking weed in garages.
We also bullied each other -- and it made us resilient.
I'm only half kidding when I say the anti-bullying movement launched this country's decline.
Nobody came to save us, so we never expected the government to, either.
Our whole political philosophy could fit on a bumper sticker: Leave us alone.
And we vote on the basis of which party is more likely to do so.
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You can't shame us into voting the way you want; we're immune to that emotional manipulation and bullying.
Generationally, we're the middle child.
We've got Boomers on one side going "just get a good job at the factory," Millennials on the other asking "what if the factory were a co-op?" and Zoomers off filming TikTok dances on the factory floor.
We're the ones who remember the Cold War and the internet before it ate everyone's brain, so we don't fall for every Russian psy-op that gets injected into the discourse. Thank you, "Red Dawn."
And yes, I know Gen X is irritatingly obsessed with itself. In our defense, nobody else was paying attention to us.

That's completely true. It's provably true -- the Boomers were such a big generation that the media continued to push Boomer-era bands and Boomer-era bullshit (hippie liberalism, Woodstock) even when we became adults. We all naively believed that when we became adults the culture would reflect our preferences, but no, it was all Boomer Crap all the time.

Until the Millennials came of age -- and then the culture shifted from Boomer-dominated to Millennial-dominated.

Not a day of Gen X dominated.

...

So leave it to us, the slackers.
The latchkey kids raised on divorce, hose water and indifference, now caring for four sets of aging boomers, paying for everyone's benefits and mowing the lawn on Saturday.
We didn't ask for the job. We never ask for anything. That's kind of the point.
Give a guy a 30-year mortgage and a backyard, and he won't want revolution.
He'll want a Traeger grill.

Unrelated: Unexpectedly, October's job creation numbers smashed expectations.

Wages went up, too.

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 165,000 in October, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in professional and business services, in health care, and in transportation and warehousing.
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In October, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls increased by 14 cents, or 0.4 percent, to $38.00. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have increased by 3.1 percent. In October, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees rose by 12 cents, or 0.4 percent, to $32.75.

@catturd2 @WarlordDilley You are correct. And gas prices went down the day after. Who would have guessed that would happen.
— Robin Gamache (@RobinGamac682 November 6, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:40 PM

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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 06, 2026 06:42 PM (X8vlu)

2 Of course gas went down..

Posted by: It's me donna at November 06, 2026 06:44 PM (+gK6I)

3 Wonder if all those impatient little darlings who threw Republicans out will have voters remorse ?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 06, 2026 06:46 PM (+gK6I)

4 Wages went up, too.
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Yeah, that's how that works--you reduce illegal workers (supply of labor) and the price paid to the legal workers goes up, assuming the demand for labor stays the same (or increases, which it has done under Trump).

Supply and Demand. Amazing tools. Congress Critters pretend they've never heard or believed in them.

Posted by: Crusader at November 06, 2026 06:46 PM (TN0g+)

5 Now we're all in econ heaven... sure the election did it all at once!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 06, 2026 06:46 PM (NnhvP)

6 Endorsed rant.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 06, 2026 06:46 PM (X8vlu)

7 I still eat saltines for dinner.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 06, 2026 06:47 PM (P4bJX)

8 Critters pretend they've never heard or believed in them.
Posted by: Crusader

Sure they have crime pays so Congress does more of it.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 06, 2026 06:48 PM (NnhvP)

9 I don’t understand gens, and labeling people by age. People are just people, they’re not Glocks.

Posted by: Eromero at November 06, 2026 06:48 PM (LHPAg)

10 "I'm only half kidding when I say the anti-bullying movement launched this country's decline."

That is the truth. This kids were sissified in the interest of faggots not getting their ass beat.

Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 06:48 PM (MWfyi)

11
Gen X. The last of the working class. They also don't cry at work. For any reason.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 06, 2026 06:48 PM (OkYzo)

12 Do you think Trump will get credit for the good numbers? Nah, but he'll have fun crowing about it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 06, 2026 06:49 PM (7XuqV)

13 I went to the trouble of looking up this generational thing. Apparently both my kids are millennials, or Gen Y, or something.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 06, 2026 06:49 PM (4NO2D)

14 12...

No Trump will not get credit

Posted by: It's me donna at November 06, 2026 06:50 PM (+gK6I)

15 Wonder if all those impatient little darlings who threw Republicans out will have voters remorse ?
Posted by: It's me donna at November 06, 2026 06:46 PM

Their pension funds are.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 06, 2026 06:50 PM (4NO2D)

16 Wonder if all those impatient little darlings who threw Republicans out will have voters remorse ?

Sure, if they had any concept of cause and effect. So, no.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 06, 2026 06:50 PM (vTZFs)

17 Belt to ass and dipshit, wonder how old these two are:
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St. Louis Park Mayor Nadia Mohamed celebrated the results of Tuesday’s election with a social media post on TikTok declaring that “America has spoken” and using the phrase “belt to ass.”

“America has spoken! We want belt to ass!!! So start your engines!! #election,” Mohamed wrote in the caption of the video.

The video shows Mohamed celebrating in front of the Minnesota State Capitol while text across the screen reads, “When a blue wave hits!”

Mohamed was elected mayor in 2023 after previously serving on the St. Louis Park City Council.
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Congressman-elect Matt Little also used profane language while addressing supporters at the DFL election watch party in downtown St. Paul after winning Minnesota’s Second Congressional District.

“I think it’s pretty clear America is sending a message,” Little said. “The first message they sent is that Pete Hegseth is a dipshit. The second message they sent is that JD Vance is a dipshit. The third and final message they sent is that Donald Trump is a dipshit.”

Posted by: beckster at November 06, 2026 06:50 PM (kX27y)

18 5 Now we're all in econ heaven... sure the election did it all at once!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 06, 2026 06:46 PM
Raptured into communist utopia.

Posted by: Eromero at November 06, 2026 06:50 PM (LHPAg)

19 It’s all the people the dems hired to fill out ballots. Temp jobs.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 06, 2026 06:50 PM (P4bJX)

20
Speaking of Black female political dominance...

A whole-ass Black female city council, judiciary, local government of any kind...

Have you ever heard of a group called the Jack and Jills? An organization founded to create Black excellence about 90 years ago. Membership is through the mothers, although kids participate like 100%. it's all about getting educational and future professional opportunities for the kids.

Friend of mine knows it from the inside. He says those women in leadership are cats in a cage. Never seen such infighting, backstabbing, and conflict.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 06, 2026 06:51 PM (mmrXZ)

21 Made it home early from Lancaster

Posted by: Skip at November 06, 2026 06:52 PM (Ia/+0)

22 Eromero speaks wisdom.

Technically I'm a very late boomer I suppose. And I share about 7% of the stereotypical traits (some mentioned in the post) of so-called boomers.

Would never occur to me to tell someone "get a job at the factory". Huh? Umm I lived through the major de-industrialization of the US, know it well, have always focused on economics though it's never been my job.

Sadly I know quite a few in my cohort who are just as ignorant, or driven by resentment or envy, as is easily seen in younger segments. People whose "politics" haven't changed since they were 17 - and these are pretty lazy uninformed politics. Life experience and work experience hasn't given them any wisdom at all, it appears.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 06, 2026 06:52 PM (U/Byj)

23 Report bullying like a good little rat fink commie bastard. Run to the state every time your feelings get hurt and maybe you can make some money off of suing somebody or getting clicks or some shit. You weak pussy pencil dicks go on and have your furry fun until hard times come.

Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 06:52 PM (MWfyi)

24 I am willing to accept that I may be wrong about socialism ushering in utopia. I mean, it's against all history, nature, and experience but it could happen. I just suspect that an ideology that always ends in penury, misery, and murder is likely the one to do it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 06, 2026 06:53 PM (4NO2D)

25 Well some good news. That racist scumbag Justin Pearson in Tennessee lost his congressional run to an R. The theater kid conceded

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 06, 2026 06:53 PM (7XuqV)

26
"I'm only half kidding when I say the anti-bullying movement launched this country's decline."

Posted by: fd

================

I never got a chance to say anything, but you know that girl who got shoved onto the grass by the Mongoloid idiot at the University of (somewhere in Texas, I think)? She went to the ER afterward. For hitting soft grass on her butt. Good God. I'd have spent my entire childhood in the ER if I went there for every incident like that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 06, 2026 06:54 PM (mmrXZ)

27 And the econ stats are released (and revised) on a set schedule. Duh. This instant and actually embarrassingly dumb jump to "oh they just released this for political timing purposes!!!" is baffling. It's at the level of the masses of ignorant emotional types who produced Tuesday's results.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 06, 2026 06:54 PM (U/Byj)

28 The first thing the donks will do is lean on all the tech companies, Meta, Google (YouTube) et al to re-implement
the censorship and deplatforming regime.

They are going to go after Musk because X will remain an open platform.

We're going to have to put up with a lot of bullsh*t for the next decade.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 06, 2026 06:54 PM (XV/Pl)

29 My kindergarten buddies and I were debating this just this week, are we Boomers or Gen X?

Truly we are neither. Key formative events:
Dads were Korea or Vietnam, not WW2 vets
Apollo moonshots
The war, POWs coming home, fall of Saigon
The landslide election, Watergate, the resignation
OPEC embargo, stagnation, inflation
Islamic revolution

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 06, 2026 06:54 PM (RIvkX)

30 Nothing worse than a libtard boomer.

Nothing better than a Conservative Boomer.

Hug A Boomer, they don't have much time left. And remind any libtard boomer of that fact. Hell awaits.

Posted by: Gen X Joe at November 06, 2026 06:55 PM (Ssbab)

31 He'll want a Traeger grill.

Can you learn to cook on one?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Charles "Chuck" Schumer (D-NY) at November 06, 2026 06:55 PM (0sNs1)

32 San Franpsycho - technically there's 'Generation Jones' in between there, I think?

As for me, tail end of GenX, and I cling to it because it's far closer to my natural mindset than anything else.

Posted by: RandomDave at November 06, 2026 06:56 PM (aJQbY)

33 That idiotic congressman-elect in MN well illustrates what we (any intelligent adult) is up against. The intellect and temperament of a dumb 20-yr old.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 06, 2026 06:56 PM (U/Byj)

34 I'm technically a millennial I guess, but I identify as Gen X.

My pronouns are "pfff/yeah"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 06, 2026 06:57 PM (aKiSo)

35 The Breakfast Club actors are Gen X, right?

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 06, 2026 06:57 PM (4NO2D)

36 Eromero speaks wisdom.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 06, 2026 06:52 PM

I believe the Style Guide recommends

"There is iron in the words of Eromero for all Morons to see."

Posted by: Duncanthrax Ten Bears at November 06, 2026 06:58 PM (0sNs1)

37 It wouldnt have made a difference, people were so pissed at Trump on personal, visceral level.

The way the voters responded was not logical, it was just pure hatred and they wanted to show it.

Posted by: engine at November 06, 2026 06:58 PM (ioML7)

38 Wonder if all those impatient little darlings who threw Republicans out will have voters remorse ?
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That would require a capacity to recognize the consequence of one's choices.

Which seems unlikely since we've just watched the exact same thing play out in the UK.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at November 06, 2026 06:58 PM (vSvIl)

39 33 That idiotic congressman-elect in MN well illustrates what we (any intelligent adult) is up against. The intellect and temperament of a dumb 20-yr old.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 06, 2026 06:56 PM (U/Byj)

I looked him up, he's 41.

Posted by: beckster at November 06, 2026 06:58 PM (kX27y)

40 I guess I'm a boomer. Especially in the morning. That aint thunder.

Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 06:58 PM (MWfyi)

41 Genx also killed Disco. Replaced it with bands identified with the definite article THE.

The Cars. The Police. The Fixx. The Smiths. The Smithereens. The Knack. The Fabulous Thunderbirds. The B52's. The The.

Posted by: Minuteman at November 06, 2026 06:59 PM (47/pr)

42 Hell yeah

Posted by: NCKate at November 06, 2026 06:59 PM (enNUy)

43 My pronouns are "pfff/yeah"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 06, 2026 06:57 PM

I'm "pfft/bronx cheer"

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP) at November 06, 2026 06:59 PM (0sNs1)

44 I have discoed.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 06, 2026 07:00 PM (4NO2D)

45 What are conservative youth of today? What are they trying to conserve? Where the hell are they?

Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 07:00 PM (MWfyi)

46 Ban hammer challenge. Interesting

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 06, 2026 07:00 PM (7XuqV)

47 I have also roller skated with those steel street skates that you attached to your shoes with a big key.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 06, 2026 07:00 PM (4NO2D)

48 Young people yearn for the 1980s that they have heard so much about, but they don't seem to understand that most of what is different between now and then is an attitude. A way of looking at things and people.

They want what we have, but they don't want to make the decisions that they have to make to get it.

I'm really not sure how to say this right. I guess I'm saying people say "decline is a choice," but it's not just one choice, it's ongoing choices made every day. Watching it is like having a friend that wants a good family life like mine, but keeps making the same destructive life choices over and over again that keep them miserable.

Posted by: 29Victor at November 06, 2026 07:01 PM (0MjtC)

49
I couldn't care less about these labels and generalizations about "generation" this or that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 06, 2026 07:01 PM (mmrXZ)

50 I never got a chance to say anything, but you know that girl who got shoved onto the grass by the Mongoloid idiot at the University of (somewhere in Texas, I think)? She went to the ER afterward. For hitting soft grass on her butt. Good God. I'd have spent my entire childhood in the ER if I went there for every incident like that.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 06, 2026 06:54 PM (mmrXZ)

Should have gone to a gun shop, instead.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2026 07:01 PM (yky4J)

51 I feel pretty lucky with my birth timing.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 06, 2026 07:01 PM (4NO2D)

52 Not gonna fight about the value of various generations.

Proud Gen X'r, and the essay rings true.

But I have to wonder if our cohort has a blind spot. Coming of age with our embassy staff held hostage, I'd gladly pay $5 a gallon for years if that was what it took to bring that regime down. But that loathing seems to end with us.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 06, 2026 07:02 PM (4HoLg)

53 Clean up on Aisle 38.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 06, 2026 07:02 PM (0sNs1)

54 Fuck you ace. The conservative youth of today are far better than you fucking neocon/ boomercons ever were. You grew up on the coattails of a great generation and fucking destroyed it. Fuck off.
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Typical millenial.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 06, 2026 07:02 PM (RIvkX)

55 46 What are conservative youth of today? What are they trying to conserve? Where the hell are they?
Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 07:00 PM (MWfyi)

They don't exist. Nor should they. There's nothing left to conserve. Liberalism is back to being a revolutionary ideology locked once more into battle with Marxism under the rim to catch the rebound of an ossifying and moribund aristocracy based solely on birth.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 06, 2026 07:02 PM (aKiSo)

56 Typical millenial.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 06, 2026 07:02 PM

Haha! Yessssss.

Posted by: Ed McMahon at November 06, 2026 07:02 PM (4NO2D)

57 Genx also killed Disco.

And there was much rejoicing.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 06, 2026 07:03 PM (3Ope8)

58 Like, my mom was super-overprotective for the 1980s, but I still had more freedoms than parents give their kids now. And the 1980s were a far more dangerous time to be a kid than now (unless you live in a blue city).

Those parents harken back to the 1980s, but refuse to change how they raise their kids.

Posted by: 29Victor at November 06, 2026 07:03 PM (0MjtC)

59 I guess I'm a boomer. Especially in the morning. That aint thunder.
Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 06:58 PM (MWfyi)

Well, I disagree.

Posted by: The Thunder Bucket at November 06, 2026 07:03 PM (Ssbab)

60 Genx also killed Disco.

And there was much rejoicing.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

COJ gets it.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 06, 2026 07:05 PM (NnhvP)

61 You're gonna care about generation when the power goes down.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 06, 2026 07:06 PM (0sNs1)

62 Yes there are conservative youth out there. I have a meeting with a bunch of them next week.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 06, 2026 07:06 PM (8Uo7a)

63 from September to October 2026: foreign-born employment rose by 809,000 (from 31.253 million to 32.062 million), while native-born employment fell by 64,000 (from 132.185 million to 132.121 million
_-_
That doesn't sound like good news to me.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 06, 2026 07:06 PM (bWl9e)

64 61 You're gonna care about generation when the power goes down.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 06, 2026 07:06 PM (0sNs1)

And we find out some damn nosepicker ran off with the kirk key and we can't switchover the CUPS panel now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 06, 2026 07:07 PM (aKiSo)

65 Guilty as charged.

Posted by: garrett at November 06, 2026 07:07 PM (/izzV)

66 Thank you, Generation X (I had to look it up, being in the middle of Boomers, sired by The Greatest Generation and a bit tipsy on my 2nd glass of wine).

Hold firm.

Our sons are Millennial's, conservative Christians, raised right by their crazy parents who shed their hippie ways before their births.

They have had good to great education and degrees, great jobs, beautiful and successful wives who also work and one balances 3 kids, gorgeous grandchildren with the hope for more who will someday vote similar.

I am unsure what their generation will be named but they embrace God and family at young ages and in private Catholic school. They love God, family and country as we instill this in them.

I thank God for those of all colors holding on in 2026. I don't care what your hair color or piercings if you voted the right way for America.

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

We are having Beef Black Bean Enchiladas tonight and I am having my second and last glass of white whine.

Bless you all and Ace's Place to vent.

Mis Hum, if you are reading, I already miss you.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 06, 2026 07:08 PM (hzuYO)

67 It would appear CWII will be... "complicated."

But in all seriousness... it'll last all of a day if we're motivated.

And.. as for the labels. Fuck that. It's always been divisive. For a reason.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 06, 2026 07:09 PM (RORbl)

68 Posted by: NickM at November 06, 2026 06:58 PM (yg7C6)

The Boomers were raised by the Greatest Generation.
The Greatest put in all of the government programs that we are fighting against today.
They invented the UN, NATO, World Bank, IMF and all of the other international institutions we've been watching take more and more control over eight decades because that generation, and their parents, had fought a bloody war and wanted a better life for their children.

They had no clue that so many of their children would be brainwashed, indoctrinated and turned into socialists by the time they got to college.
Then hundreds of thousands of them got sent off to Vietnam.
That was the 60s and 70s and it only got worse from there.

To blame the Boomers for the way they were raised and for things that occurred that were beyond their control is ridiculous.

The Boomers just so happened to be born at and grew up during a post-war boom that lasted for twenty years and made America the most powerful country in the world.

Stop blaming old people for your own problems.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 06, 2026 07:10 PM (6ydKt)

69 >>The Cars. The Police. The Fixx. The Smiths. The Smithereens. The Knack. The Fabulous Thunderbirds. The B52's. The The.
Posted by: Minuteman at November 06, 2026 06:59 PM (47/pr)

The Bad Brains, The Ramones, The Minutemen, Minor Threat, Black Flag

Posted by: garrett at November 06, 2026 07:10 PM (/izzV)

70
Steyer is insane. Our prison system doesn't deliver justice or safety? Whose safety???

Tom Steyer
@TomSteyer
·
3h
I commend Governor @GavinNewsom for taking this historic step.

California will no longer be complicit in a racially biased system that delivers neither justice nor safety.

NBC News
@NBCNews
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Nov 5
BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom commutes all 548 death sentences in California to life without parole, saying he opposes "state-sanctioned killing."

Posted by: beckster at November 06, 2026 07:10 PM (kX27y)

71
I have also roller skated with those steel street skates that you attached to your shoes with a big key.
Posted by: toby928(c)p/i]

Was it a brand new key?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 06, 2026 07:11 PM (Cqx++)

72 "pissed at Trump on personal, visceral level."

Almost find this fascinating.

Main reasons? Lowering inflation (including gasoline prices, until the war)? Securing the border? Starting the process of restoring rule of law in immigration? Unshackling US energy production resulting in greatest output in history? Initiating process of repatriating manufacturing industry to the US? Again, starting a climb in real wages for the middle/lower tiers - for the second time, he did it already in Term 1 prior to The Great Idiocy? Cutting government for the first time in 4 decades? Beginning to uncover and correct the massive, massive fraud ongoing against taxpayers in welfare programs? Building a ballroom (free to taxpayers) of the sort that's been a highly desired and overdue project for 3 or 4 presidents? Removing a hostile and dangerous and vile regime in Venezuela with one special forces operation?

And the list goes on.

Wonder which particular thing made so many voters so furious? "Mean tweets" perhaps?

Posted by: rhomboid at November 06, 2026 07:11 PM (U/Byj)

73 >>Guilty as charged.

Now what did you do?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 06, 2026 07:11 PM (viF8m)

74 Sometimes I’m fancy and have chips and salsa
For dinner.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 06, 2026 07:12 PM (aH/pT)

75
Nov 5
BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom commutes all 548 death sentences in California to life without parole, saying he opposes "state-sanctioned killing."
Posted by: beckster at November 06, 2026 07:10 PM (kX27y)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HIS STATE IS LITERALLY SANCTIONING THE RELEASE OF MURDERERS BACK INTO THE WILD TO MURDER AGAIN

OK NOT FUNNY HAHA BUT STILL

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISSBERGER at November 06, 2026 07:12 PM (aKiSo)

76 >>Wonder which particular thing made so many voters so furious?

Enough about the Romans - What have they ever done for US!?

Posted by: garrett at November 06, 2026 07:12 PM (/izzV)

77 >>Guilty as charged.

Now what did you do?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 06, 2026 07:11 PM

The Permanent Record knows.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 06, 2026 07:13 PM (0sNs1)

78 There are two cohorts of Boomers, post WWII and post Korea.

Posted by: davidt at November 06, 2026 07:13 PM (Q+gd/)

79 73 >>Guilty as charged.

Now what did you do?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 06, 2026 07:11 PM (viF8m)

Robbed a car battery store in a wetsuit?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 06, 2026 07:13 PM (aKiSo)

80 I'm only half kidding when I say the anti-bullying movement launched this country's decline.

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Been saying this for a while. They have these school campaigns against bullying that don't focus on actual bullying but more of wrong opinions, and criticism.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 06, 2026 07:14 PM (tB7nu)

81 Has any president in a century done and tried more that would promote native-born employment? Actually has any other president done *anything* that would move in this direction?

Just wonder, in context, how people can bitch about non-native employment numbers. What exactly is the administration supposed to do that it's not already doing, or trying to do (often hampered by a broken constitutional system wherein the judiciary lawlessly usurps and dictates)?

Posted by: rhomboid at November 06, 2026 07:15 PM (U/Byj)

82 BBQ with fried okra and a glass of unsweetened tea, followed by an NHL game. THAT’s what’s for dinner!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 06, 2026 07:15 PM (3Ope8)

83 'm only half kidding when I say the anti-bullying movement launched this country's decline.

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Been saying this for a while. They have these school campaigns against bullying that don't focus on actual bullying but more of wrong opinions, and criticism.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 06, 2026 07:14 PM (tB7nu)

They created a different type of bullying.

Posted by: runner at November 06, 2026 07:15 PM (AKptf)

84 Wonder which particular thing made so many voters so furious? "Mean tweets" perhaps?

Some of it really does seem to come down to cost of living. Here in Texas there were two surprising waves. The second was that most tax increases (mostly schools, I think) got voted down.

This was not your typical blue wave.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 06, 2026 07:15 PM (waqbs)

85 I've said for years not getting your ass beat down at recess by the other kids because you were being weird made weird normal to the weirdos. And here we are.

Posted by: NCKate at November 06, 2026 07:15 PM (enNUy)

86 Some kids deserve wedgies, indian rope burns, and getting shoved into a locker.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: So-called Bully at November 06, 2026 07:16 PM (0sNs1)

87 garrett you stole the line I've been meaning to use here - "so what have the Romans ever done for us??" for days now. It's the first thing that came to mind when I started seeing all the "voter anger" and etc.

Not claiming perfection, of course not. But utterly baffled as to specific things done/not being done that people who are so unhappy want to see.

Specifics please?

Posted by: rhomboid at November 06, 2026 07:17 PM (U/Byj)

88 Bullying is self-regulating, as well. If the biggest kid in your grade is being too much of a dick to his classmates, the big kids in the next grade up would eventually put the little fucker in his place.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 06, 2026 07:17 PM (aKiSo)

89 "Wonder which particular thing made so many voters so furious? "Mean tweets" perhaps?
Posted by: rhomboid '

They are a bunch of ungrateful ignorant sheep who believe everything The Media tells them.

Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 07:18 PM (MWfyi)

90 My dad used to say that people confuse kindness with weakness right up until the moment your hands are on their throats.

It would be wrong of you to believe that guy holding the door is doing so because he’s obsequious and servile. He’s been raised to show respect right up until the moment you show you don’t deserve it.

It feels like a lot of people are going to learn this the hard way.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 06, 2026 07:18 PM (7S15B)

91 The way the voters responded was not logical, it was just pure hatred and they wanted to show it.

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They (and we) are going to get it in the ass good and hard too

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 06, 2026 07:19 PM (tB7nu)

92 >>Now what did you do?

I drank from the hose.

But, I also filled the bong from it and packed a fresh bowl. Because I'm a mench like that.

Posted by: garrett at November 06, 2026 07:19 PM (/izzV)

93 Why is everybody always pickin' on me?

Posted by: Scott "Scut" Farkus at November 06, 2026 07:19 PM (0sNs1)

94 Stephen Blair, yeah I noted that, in several states I think bond issues voted down (usually a good thing, sadly, for the last few decades).

Cost of living. I guess people expect a return to 2019 prices, or something. Of course not the way it works.

The hidden zinger here, which does blame Trump for much of the inflation, I never say. But it goes back to 2020 of course. And it muddies the waters since his successor greatly exacerbated things without even a (flawed) rationale of any kind.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 06, 2026 07:19 PM (U/Byj)

95 the last bastion of civilization starts to fall at last

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 06, 2026 07:20 PM (CHHv1)

96 What exactly is the administration supposed to do that it's not already doing, or trying to do
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I said nothing about President Trump. As far as I can tell, our biggest problem over the last two years was a congeess that accomplished very little compared to what is still needed.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 06, 2026 07:20 PM (3UxRL)

97 Some presidents get to play in god mode and dick around destroying the whole map, killing NPCs, and just doing random bullshittery while cheating in cash with console commands to do whatever they hell they want.

Other presidents have to pull off a no-hit 100% speedrun world record or else they suck and have no idea what they're doing and should probably quit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 06, 2026 07:21 PM (aKiSo)

98 Some of it really does seem to come down to cost of living. Here in Texas there were two surprising waves. The second was that most tax increases (mostly schools, I think) got voted down.
This was not your typical blue wave.

I had an argument with a lefty instructor at my junior college once on The "Great" depression and FDR. He said the people just wanted someone to do something, anything to help them in the economic downturn. I argued that the best thing to do is nothing, let it run it's course. He called me entitled and an elitist, while at the time I was making minimum wage. So I got that going for me.

Posted by: Entitled Elitist at $2.65 an hour at November 06, 2026 07:21 PM (Ssbab)

99 >>I have also roller skated with those steel street skates that you attached to your shoes with a big key.

There used to be an excuse to drink a lot tied to a tour that went from Watertown to Marblehead, MA called The Great Race. It was really just a drunken clown show that required drinking pretty much non-stop for 26 miles and finding some way to get to the finish line. Which was a bar.

People rode bikes, not racing bikes, walked, ran skateboarded and whatever and stopped frequently. To drink. My ex used to do it on those metal skates you attached to sneakers.

We were young once. And stupid.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 06, 2026 07:21 PM (viF8m)

100 And furthermore, f--k JD

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 06, 2026 07:21 PM (Ydd86)

101 Just wonder, in context, how people can bitch about non-native employment numbers. What exactly is the administration supposed to do that it's not already doing, or trying to do (often hampered by a broken constitutional system wherein the judiciary lawlessly usurps and dictates)?
Posted by: rhomboid at November 06, 2026 07:15 PM (U/Byj)
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I have yet to see any immigration enforcement conducted against the corporate leadership of industries rife with illegal employment; hospitality, homebuilding, health care.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 06, 2026 07:22 PM (RIvkX)

102 There are two cohorts of Boomers, post WWII and post Korea.
Posted by: davidt at November 06, 2026 07:13 PM

This is very true and I also prefer the term cohorts. A cohort is smaller and includes the people with similar life experiences and hence, way of thinking. I find that when I meet people of my HS cohort, it is very easy to like them.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 06, 2026 07:22 PM (4NO2D)

103 Don in SoCo I was referring really to this generalized "anger" thing, not your comment really.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 06, 2026 07:22 PM (U/Byj)

104 For those knocking Boomers, and I don't care:

We were poor when we bought our first house under Reagan in 1985 at 12.45% interest rates. Saving money on one income (well, I worked as a nurse 1 day/week) for five years after we married.

Two houses later we are doing very well. Without any help from anyone.

We ate Hamburger Helper and other stuff we cooked at home. Going out to dinner was reserved for a birthday or our wedding anniversary poor.

Starbucks did not exist then. Taco Bell or McDonald's was a treat. It was rare to spend money on anything but rent or food. I was wearing college sweaters during my first pregnancy 2yrs later.

So, shut thy pie hole at 7.18% interest rates for a 30yr mortgage with a downpayment you saved for. We had it worse with two kids to raise. We didn't complain and had a great life.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 06, 2026 07:22 PM (hzuYO)

105 >>The way the voters responded was not logical, it was just pure hatred and they wanted to show it.

Kids who were 12-13 during the Covid event are now 18-20ish...

we are just starting to see the wages of a completely brainwashed generation.

Posted by: garrett at November 06, 2026 07:22 PM (/izzV)

106 96 What exactly is the administration supposed to do that it's not already doing, or trying to do
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I said nothing about President Trump. As far as I can tell, our biggest problem over the last two years was a congeess that accomplished very little compared to what is still needed.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 06, 2026 07:20 PM (3UxRL)

We nee d anew "Contract With American" crica 1994 and leaders and candidates committed to getting the job done.

The GOP should be focusing on that contract and their get out the vote operations for the next two years above all else.

Will they do that?
I doubt it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 06, 2026 07:23 PM (6ydKt)

107 Look up the Number of Days Brent Drude was above $100 for the Obama, Trump 1.0, Biden and Trump 2.0 administrations and get back to me on the Affordability Crisis.

Posted by: garrett at November 06, 2026 07:24 PM (/izzV)

108 Brent Crude, dammit.

The numbers are quite shocking, btw.

Posted by: garrett at November 06, 2026 07:25 PM (/izzV)

109 The GOP should be focusing on that contract and their get out the vote operations for the next two years above all else.

Will they do that?
I doubt it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 06, 2026 07:23 PM

Well, we can't do it without your generous financial support.

Can you chip in $25 right now, which, thanks to some generous donors, offers a three-to-one match for the next 24 hours!

Posted by: GOPe at November 06, 2026 07:25 PM (0sNs1)

110 We were young once. And stupid.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 06, 2026 07:21 PM (viF8m)

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We were in Marblehead once. Sons and I wanted to (oddly) see Salem,MA. Which was a waste of time.

Marblehead was gorgeous.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 06, 2026 07:26 PM (hzuYO)

111 107 Look up the Number of Days Brent Drude was above $100 for the Obama, Trump 1.0, Biden and Trump 2.0 administrations and get back to me on the Affordability Crisis.

Posted by: garrett at November 06, 2026 07:24 PM (/izzV)

They believe prices should be back to 2019 levels and can't understand that that can't happen unless we go through a deflationary depression.

They enjoyed that COVID cash, but they just can't put two and two together and realize that they're still paying for it now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 06, 2026 07:26 PM (6ydKt)

112 "The GOP should be focusing on that contract and their get out the vote operations for the next two years above all else.

The GOP is not going to do that. Maybe they will start to realize why people don't vote for them but I don't think they care. As long as they are in the game the grift will flow.

Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 07:26 PM (MWfyi)

113 If one of the Carolinas had deposits of high-quality crude oil, do you know what we'd have?

Sweet Caroline.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 06, 2026 07:27 PM (0sNs1)

114 I've had it with the GOP myself. Unless someone can give me a compelling reason to vote for them I aint. Just telling my that you aren't as bad as the Democrat is not enough.

Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 07:29 PM (MWfyi)

115 Calling Nood nude
Getting into shower this time

Posted by: Skip at November 06, 2026 07:29 PM (Ia/+0)

116 Anti bullying = anti white bullies. Hope this helps.

Posted by: Max Power at November 06, 2026 07:30 PM (SwyyQ)

117 Who bitch dis is?

Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 07:31 PM (MWfyi)

118 We had a few days off and were tooling around London when we ran across a flea market. One of my brothers finds some of those old roller skates you slip over the shoe. It will be fun he’s says. After the pub crawl we skated down St Michael’s Alley not too far from London Bridge. The local police weren’t amused, but I don’t think I ever laughed that hard.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 06, 2026 07:31 PM (7S15B)

119 >>Marblehead was gorgeous.

Haven't been back in years but I used to race out of there. The end of The Great Race in the early days was at Mattie's Sail Loft which as the name would indicate was a sailor's bar. Then it got too popular and had to find a new venue.

Great little town. Lots of memories.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 06, 2026 07:31 PM (viF8m)

120 The GOP is not going to do that. Maybe they will start to realize why people don't vote for them but I don't think they care. As long as they are in the game the grift will flow.

Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 07:26 PM (MWfyi)

Partly, I suppose.

But their main problem is they are too disorganized with too many egos and too many chiefs and not enough Indians and too many who leave the reservation when their feelings get hurt.

The Dems are ruthlessly disciplined compared to the GOP.
Cults tend to work like that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 06, 2026 07:31 PM (6ydKt)

121 Who bitch dis is?
Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 07:31 PM

He seems nice.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 06, 2026 07:32 PM (4NO2D)

122 who is this chicken raising inbred ? must be Kentucky...

Posted by: runner at November 06, 2026 07:33 PM (AKptf)

123 74 Sometimes I’m fancy and have chips and salsa
For dinner.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 06, 2026 07:12 PM (aH/pT)

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Add cheese to chips first (in hunks, not shredded), microwave. Add salsa. Drink wine.

Complete meal. Protein, carb, veg and fruit.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 06, 2026 07:34 PM (hzuYO)

124 >>Your golden-age boomercon view of the world is ridiculous.

You're aggressively stupid and boring.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 06, 2026 07:34 PM (viF8m)

125 90 My dad used to say that people confuse kindness with weakness right up until the moment your hands are on their throats.

It would be wrong of you to believe that guy holding the door is doing so because he’s obsequious and servile. He’s been raised to show respect right up until the moment you show you don’t deserve it.

It feels like a lot of people are going to learn this the hard way.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 06, 2026 07:18 PM
Your Dad was on the money.

Posted by: Eromero at November 06, 2026 07:34 PM (LHPAg)

126 >>Your Dad was on the money.

Seconded.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 06, 2026 07:36 PM (viF8m)

127 Society started going downhill when kids quit saying “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 06, 2026 07:39 PM (sbGbc)

128 I was born in 63, so I think technically I'm a boomer, but all my attitude and likes and dislikes line up with Gen X.

Posted by: Biergood at November 06, 2026 07:39 PM (PwgSL)

129
from September to October 2026: foreign-born employment rose by 809,000 (from 31.253 million to 32.062 million), while native-born employment fell by 64,000 (from 132.185 million to 132.121 million

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I would like to come back to this at some point. Is it real?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 06, 2026 07:40 PM (7xqnr)

130 NOOD

Posted by: Max Power at November 06, 2026 07:40 PM (SwyyQ)

131 >>32 San Franpsycho - technically there's 'Generation Jones' in between there, I think?

>>As for me, tail end of GenX, and I cling to it because it's far closer to my natural mindset than anything else.

Born in 1957, me (and my younger siblings) were too young to be part of the Summer of Love ('69) and the hippie generation. We hit our teens in the early '90s, and I think of people my age to and up to the start of Gen X and Gen Jones.

Still, I'm nearly 70. Booo!

Posted by: Reno_Dave at November 06, 2026 07:43 PM (yXKEQ)

132 I was born in 63, so I think technically I'm a boomer, but all my attitude and likes and dislikes line up with Gen X.
Posted by: Biergood at November 06, 2026 07:39 PM (PwgSL)

Same here. Or Generation Jones as some would call it.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 06, 2026 07:43 PM (iIyc0)

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