Ron Johnson is the best! Whenever I see he’s a guest on a podcast, I listen to it. The last election cycle, I was more interested to see the results of WI than my own state.
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They give SS numbers to illegals, but I have a hard time getting one for my son born outside of the country after he has citizenship😂
Everything is fake and gay
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“Without consequences there can be no reform.” Here’s some consequences from history.
The Battle of Athens, Tennessee
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How is that sustainable? Energy has been spent to bottle/can the water, was the energy sustainable? Just saying it’s better to have your own water tank and water filter.
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With the billboard reading “Make America Great Again”. Personally, I think it’s false advertising.
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That’s easy. In the end, to people who don’t need any more money.
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Yea I was a bit put off by the negative references to boomers. Born in ‘59 I was, have always lived within my means, scrimped & saved, conserved where I could. My kids have way more stuff than I did at their age. Yes we were fortunate to live when we did, AND we also made very different choices than most young folks do today: cloth diapers & clotheslines, used cars, small houses, secondhand store shopping, etc. etc. Is it our fault that the corrupt government has been squandering our tax dollars and causing massive inflation for decades? Or that the paid-off media and technocrats have made deception an art form? I’ll take some of the blame for the way things are, sure, and my heart aches for the young folks, but it doesn’t accomplish anything to demonize a whole generation. We’re all flawed and just trying to do the best we can.
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(excerpt from Art Berman post) The World Health Organization says over a billion people live with anxiety or depression. Only 15 percent seek help. We once had myth, ritual, and community. Now we have reason. But logic doesn’t hold grief. It doesn’t heal.
Modern thinking is reductionist. It wants parts, solutions, action. Introspection slows things down.
Interesting piece - working in the energy space I agree with basic premise regarding renewable slow energy (lower power output) release being incompatible with high power (faster burn) civilization. I also support his suggestion that one of the options for renewables (and lower availability of fossil fuels in the future) is to slow things down and simplify our lifestyles.
People are depressed because we’re disconnected from nature and God - and eat chemical laden crappy food, take pills, and live in abstractions of reality and our noses in phones and Social Media with addictions to quick dopamine hits from acquiring likes. (Spoken as a Boomer armchair expert only mildly addicted to Peak Prosperity and interesting heterodox podcasts)
Based on a fairly limited number of videos and podcasts, I’m a big fan of Joe Salatin and his connection of faith - God’s natural systems to growing food as well as supporting healthy families and communities. (Without government intervention to screw things up.) I’d be curious to see the life cycle embedded energy in food he produces vs large corporate farms. I wonder what his net emissions to see if indeed his building soil health has a by product of storing carbon - I know it better for water use. I’ve been pitching regenerative agriculture to my energy friends, touting the many co-benefits compared with their (globalist) “clean energy” solution resulting in paving over productive farmland with solar panels made with coal powered electricity in China with slave labor. So far not much traction.
Simpler, slower life styles with more honest hard manual labor and better food more healthy.
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Havent finished listening…but 2 thoughts re liquidity. Having been in import export myself on the banking side. If it gets too dicey for the loan off8cer to maintain the line of credit even with security they will suggest the compant factor their receivables…wh8ch cost $$$$.
What i see is that the fed can really tgrow a wrench to sink the system, is f9r the fed to demand the banks have a reserve, currentky they don’t…bank reserves are at 0…thatwill lreally dry up liquidity and cascade into a systemic breakdown…what we all fear
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The choices that have gotten us where we are today are all government malfeasance.
Incoming dollars to the US Gov’t come in three main categories: Income & Cap Gains Taxes, Medicare, and Social Security.
Income & Cap Gains Taxes flow into the general fund.
Medicare and Social Security should have gone into separate funds and been invested like pensions.
The government has transformed and branded them into “entitlements” and dumps the Medicare and Social Security into the general fund.
On top of that the government has not been satisfied and has taken on debt we beyond the level of taxation.
So it is not the “boomers” it is all those across age groups that have continued to foolishly vote for the globalist progressive candidates.
By continuing to promote the “boomer” narrative we are foolishly supporting a narrative that divides us.
“If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” Mark 3:25 NMB
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Gee Chris and Evie, your continual attack of Boomers really surprises me as if they are the problem for many of our woes. Just a reminder Chris, think you missed the Boomer label by perhaps a year so that makes you on the cusp. Your contempt of this generation is way too much of a generalisation. We could lay blame on many other sectors of society (how about the Gov & Central Banks) for the way things have ended up but the truth is it’s not one class of people but the whole melting pot that has got us where we are
If the Gen x, y and z feel hard done by I’m sure they’ll appreciate the greatest wealth transfer by Boomers going forward. That wealth, incidentally did not come via the previous generation but was the result of a lifetime in the game.
When i realise what has been created by all the past generations, I feel so thankful and humble. I truly hope that the X,Y and Z folk will pick up the mantle and not look to blame others but use the opportunities that present them. Resentment, anger and jealousies are not the attributes needed in these times.
If what you believe will come to pass, then it’s likely that much of the Boomer wealth will be destroyed and provide opportunities for those that seek them.
Rob
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Some agreement with this. My better half and myself are boomers who have won and lost big in life several times. Sometimes we worked over a year straight…like every day…no days off to build an enterprise. Much of the aforementiomed was hard physical labor on my part. Our goal was not only to build a comfortable life, but the deeper focus was to provide a mechanism for future generations of family to create wealth and build on our efforts.
Being currently in pretty Ill health because I delayed seeking treatment because my son (the current CEO) had a health crisis and I had to be there for the business and clients that I spent 30 years nurturing, my concern was for him and the family, not myself and “my wealth”.
Yes, we have stuff, stuff that was always aquired with the thought of “what will the family be able to do with this when we move on.”
I had a serious conversation with the next gen a few days ago. It was a I want you to get involved in the process of enhancing and inheritance…crickets…they don’t appear to be interested in making any effort. From my perspective the next gen is jealous of what we worked our asses off for yet too lazy to take over the ship.
My best friend ever from highschool who is a very successful very high net worth person (he’s a boomer that spent a lot of time unclogging toilets for tenants and other such stuff) has the same issues with his kids. No one wants to lift a finger to take over a multimillion legacy. They just want cash. His kids have a talented corporate team at their beacon call to make things happen…they are too lazy to pick up the phone. Some perspective from a boomer. Rant off.
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Some folks are pushing back on Chris for criticizing Boomers.
I don’t see his comments as an attack on Boomers as such but on a fairly regular criticism by some Boomers on the younger generations. Chris’ criticism does not apply to all Boomers.
Chris is quite right that Boomers grew up in a very different cultural and economic context, including lower debt, lower home prices, and a growing energy environment. Those tailwinds provided lift for many to achieve a comfortable middle class life.
At the same time, this doesn’t mean all criticism of younger generations are unfair. Yes I too see a big problem of entitlement and a lack of work ethic. It is not at all universal though.
So while it would be wrong to ascribe the same virtues or vices to all of a given generation, there are common trends and common contexts that can explain them. I’m fine with what Chris said… it certainly is a fair criticism of a fairly common view.
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Heck, I’ll even wear the mantle of Boomer so that my criticisms perhaps carry more weight.
My generation fucked up royally. We’re leaving behind a far worse world than the one we inherited. We Boomers are the first generation in a long time to have failed so spectacularly. We broke the unspoken obligation to pay our own way and leave the place better than we got it.
Our epithet shall read:
- Boomers destroyed the insect populations.
- Boomers left behind a wall of debt, mostly spent on baubles and wars
- Failed to invest in infrastructure
- Didn’t appreciate the two-edged nature of technology
- Turned away from God and toward Fauci, et al
- Ruined education by promoting communism in colleges
- Took every opportunity to enrich their generation at the expense of the younger
All in all, we behaved like entitled, spoiled, narcissistic brats. We were a generation of privilege.
It does not escape my notice that the average age of the people most freaking out about Elon’s activities is “Boomer.”
Their message: “Please don’t make me have to experience any hardship or difficulties at all. I’m entitled to a trouble-free life!”
As a Boomer, I am disgusted by the lack of context or gratitude these people hold as they virtue signal to each other about their self-serving ideology of generational greed.
In response, I have dedicated my life to working to correct these deficiencies, and I am quite cognizant of my own relative advantages that being born a certain time handed to me. I have no lectures for the younger generations, only compassion for the rough hand dealt to them.
I am preparing a farm for future people to benefit from, whom I shall most likely never meet or know. I have dedicated my life to becoming wise and seeking to pass that along as best I can to the next generations.
I hope that helps to clear up my position on the Boomers some.
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I would think Chris is probably GenX not a Boomer.
Also as a member of the feral generation, GenX we are allowed by contract to hate all other generations. Its in the handbook.
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And just so it’s obvious that this is a generational thing, and not a US-specific thing, here’s a University lecturer in the UK “of an age” who has the emotional intelligence of a 13-year-old:
https://x.com/TPointUK/status/1910055615570813393
Yes, I expect better from people who are in a position of being a university lecturer, and I expect wisdom and sage-like calmness from them when addressing 16-year-olds,
The older guy never grew up for some reason.
Exhibit B:
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He just plays one on TV.
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LOL. Our faith in the annointed and educated class evaporated the day an entitled professor bypassed a bunch of bathroom out of order signs, walked up to a partially installed urinal that had no trap, proceeded to relieve him self into said urinal in front of two spellbound plumbers to accomplish a thoroughly glorious peeing on his shoes. He than proceeded to scold the workers for not having a working urinal for him in his bathroom. They pointed out that the signage said to use the other bathroom 100’ downt he hall. He brought the issue up to management. An indelible life lesson.
ETA This incident occured in a campus hall that, at the time, housed the teaching school and the fine arts dept. The student bulletin boards were always an angry activist read.
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Gen X,Y and Z love to blame everything on us boomers. They’re not interested in working and saving and scrimping, they all want what their parents took their whole life to accumulated NOW and if they don’t get it, It’s the Boomers fault.
Chris probably had parents that could afford to put him thru an expensive college
and perhaps his parents were exactly what he complains about now, but for most of us dealing with 18% mortgage rates in the early 80’s and a couple of bucks an hour jobs it’s easy for him to lay the blame on boomers. Accountability is especially Gen X,Y and Z’s kryptonite.
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