Category: Ch-ch-Changes; Generational Politics
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The Democrat Party’s Stormtroopers
On this, the anniversary of the last major catastrophic attack from without, it’s time to look at a potentially vastly more devastating attack from within. Worse than 9/11? Very likely, yes. “Anti”-Fa – which, we are assured, doesn’t actually exist, except in the earnest hearts of a bunch idealistic kids – is worse than a…
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Ted Antoinette
Remember when your “progressive” acquaintances would scoff and say “there’s no such thing as a ‘limosine liberal’, a ‘condo pink’, or any of that?” I do. And they’ll do it again. But here – along with Lori Lightfoot’s haircut and the blowout that was apparently inflicted on Nancy Pelosi by GOP operatives – is Exhibit…
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Rolling Waves Of Generational Doom
Millennial parents, themselves raised by insipid helicopter parents, are reproducing. God help us all.
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For The Children
As this is written, the general trend in research indicates that children – under 10-ish – suffer exceptionally mild symptoms of Covid, frequently none at all, and may not even transmit it when infected (which may or may not be related to the observation that asymptomatic people may not spread it, either). At the same…
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If It’s A Spurious Correlation, It Leads
Correlation doesn’t equal causation. Every kid with a decent junior high science teacher knew that by, well, the end of junior high. But Millennials didn’t have good science teachers. Seriously – how did medical schools find students, much less graduate doctors, over this past 15 years? But I digress. It also seems to be what…
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Open Letter To Governor Walz
To: Governor WalzFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: State Of Non-Emergency Your Highness, Your ongoing, and apparently endless, emergency declaration is, put mildly, draconian – especially if you’re in the private sector, especially an entrepreneur. You’ll notice that a sizable majority of people supporting the your most extreme quarantining provisions are public, non-profit or academic employees,…
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Imagine My Shock
Bernie Bro youtuber Carlos Maza isn’t especially oblique about his politics: He’s one of those “eat the rich” “socialists”. I’m not going to link to his material – I watched a bit, so you wouldn’t have to. Anyway he’s a little more reticent about disclosing his own background. Fortunately, the NYPost isn’t: Through his clan,…
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Slap A Layer Of “Feminism” On It
A friend of the blog emails: Obama talks about undeveloped countries and opportunities for women in those countries. “It turns out that one of the best indicators of whether a country is developed or not is how does it educate its girls and how does it treat its women,” Obama said. “And typically, those countries that do a bad job…
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OK, Millie
A friend of the blog emails: “I’ve often found great enjoyment watching millennials fight with baby boomers in St Paul over “save the earth” issues. They seem to think they are vastly different from each other. I have yet to notice the difference. “So, I found the Disney heir’s recent comments even more…
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Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
You thought the DFL was crazy-left? It is. But tomorrow’s DFL is demented batspittle-crazy: A bevy of progressives are challenging longtime Democratic incumbents in the Legislature in next year’s elections, potentially sending more women, millennials and people of color to the State Capitol while shifting the DFL dialogue to the left.The movement is a muscular…
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Stymied
Gloomy, rainy day. I have things I should do, but don’t want to. I have things I want to do, but shouldn’t. So I’m sitting here, on-line, complaining about it. OMG I’m becoming a Millennial. Joe Doakes The email’s from last week. But the sentiment – and millennial kvetching – is eternal.
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Entitlement
A friend of the blog writes: This thread! I read it and think back to my own woes 20 years ago after I graduated from college. People were being laid off in my chosen field, so there were no jobs for new grads. Some of my cohorts refused to take jobs that they were also…
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Salute To The Baby Boom
My parents were 9 and 5 on VJ day – nowhere near child-bearing age – so I’m not a baby boomer. Culturally, I share none of their references; my only memory of the Beatles was hearing they’d broken up. I didn’t hear a thing about Woodstock until I was probably in fifth or sixth grade…
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Priorities
My office assistant is a nice young lady, pink hair and piercings, knows nothing but she’s cheerful and shows up every morning, which is about as much as you can expect these days.She complains that she has no money, living in her uncle’s basement cuz the rent is cheap, then says she has to take…
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The Beef
I’ve spent most of my life – virtually my entire adult life – first raising and now working with millennials. And getting used to their various quirks – like, the way the seem to collect diagnoses and physical and mental illnesses (or at least their labels) the way they used to collect Pokemon cards. If…
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Deep Fried Woke
“Infinite Elgintensity” is a comically-arrogant and usually hilarious lawyer and Youtube bodybuilding videoblogger… …who does some of the best commentary about the Social Justice militia out there, on the side. I say that to point out that while I thought about writing something about Burger King’s self-parody-ingly “woke” Unhappy Meal campaign, once I saw IE’s…
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Sobering
As I remind pouty millennials, the state of the world has never been better. A lower percentage of the human race is beset by war or famine than at any time in history. For the first time in history, obesity is a bigger problem than famine. But sometimes, you get a cold, hard reminder that…
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Stupid Myopic Panic-Stricken Millennials
I almost thought this tweet, apparently by a 20 year old Grievance Studies major from Oberlin College, to be the sort of thing that only Snopes would think wasn’t parody: Does…anyone at that White House understand the significance of that song? https://t.co/IK9h8fOwNj — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 18, 2019 Of course, “Edelweiss” was written by…