But Jon Stewart is 61. He was born in 1962. He's a BOOMER!
Boomers, Boomers, Boomers. We were born to dominate the culture forever. I say "forever," because without us... well, it's all always been about us. What is anything without us?
Generation X is and was always in our shadow. Eventually, we'll pass on, but it will be too late for them. The Millennials — The Generation Created by Us, the Boomers — have always overshadowed Gen X, and as the Boomers vacate cultural space The Millennials will seize it as their rightful entitlement.
Now, let me cherry-pick from news articles about the return of Jon Stewart to "The Daily Show":
NYT: "Mr. Stewart’s return to cable television... will send a jolt to the late-night world, which in recent years has been rapidly losing viewers and cultural relevance."
NPR: "It's an arrangement which makes sense. Instantly, this announcement reinvigorates the show...."
Axios: A just-the-fact piece. Nothing to excerpt.
MSNBC: "Back in the aughts, liberal Jon Stewart plied his craft in a milieu in which the majority of influential comedic entertainers worked within a broad liberal consensus.... At his peak, Stewart could not be ignored by conservatives.... The rise of a self-enclosed right-wing 'politainment'... [means t]hose to Stewart’s right no longer need to pay any attention to him.... Those to Stewart’s left might also tune him out.... [P]lease trust me when I say that [Gen Z] is, um, different... They react to art — especially comedic art — differently than their 'it’s just a joke, man!' forebears...."
TIME: "You can see why the show might see Stewart as a godsend at this precarious moment, when behind-the-scenes flux could thwart any potential for an election-year viewership bump.... It seems likely, though, that many who tune in will be Stewart loyalists doing so out of nostalgia...."
WaPo: "... Chris McCarthy, president and CEO of Paramount Media Networks, said.... 'In our age of staggering hypocrisy and performative politics, Jon is the perfect person to puncture the empty rhetoric and provide much-needed clarity with his brilliant wit.'"
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I have never watched this guy.
I like how "the perfect person to puncture the empty rhetoric" is itself empty rhetoric.
It sounds dire when you put it like that, but except for the immediate post-war baby boom, these generations are a journalistic fiction. They don't really exist as neat categories and most people don't think about them very much unless encouraged to by the media.
Oh great. Progressives have their most loved NEWS anchor back...which is hilarious considering he works for the Comedy channel and Progressives are a joke.
REHAJM: “…so, he got shit-canned from Apple TV+ because he refused to ‘Stifle Edith!’ with the China criticism…and now he’s slumming it back on The Daily Show? Did they just shit-can Trevor Noah? Last I knew they were trying to get me to believe he is the next Jon Stewart…”
The globalists are pulling out all the stops.
And we knew they will.
John Leibowitz = Globalist Shill.
Always was.
Again.
Still.
Picture a Boomer….stomping out a Mersey Beat….forever!
JSM
Kaus has been reminding us of the time when Stewart denounced the "two sides to every question" type of TV "politics" show. He opened the door to one-sided shows 5hat are generally much stupider.
Am I the only one who can’t keep these Gen names straight? Honestly, except for Boomer, of which I am one, I am lost.
Nope, he's GenX, same as I am per the guys who wrote the book on it. (link to wikipedia summary). A generation is not defined by highs and lows in the number of births
Nomad (Reactive) generations enter childhood during an Awakening, a time of social ideals and spiritual agendas when young adults are passionately attacking the established institutional order. Nomads grow up as under-protected children during this Awakening, come of age as alienated, post-Awakening young adults, become pragmatic midlife leaders during a Crisis, and age into resilient post-Crisis elders. Examples: Gilded Generation, Lost Generation, Generation X. (from Wikipedia)
The mark of GenX is that you can't in anyway have memories of JFK's assassination, including the reactions of significant adults.
Seinfeld, the show about nothing, is completely GenX.
Hard pass, thanks.
Sumner Redstone’s old Paramount is dying quickly as a business and is about to be carved up by private equity. Line management is desperate to find a survival strategy. Even if it means reviving Jon Stewart.
Expect this to be filed alongside the "exciting returns to TV" of Jack Paar, Dick Cavett, Phil Donahue, etc. They all failed.
Let's remember that Jon Stewart was available because he'd been fired by Apple TV, ostensibly for cause but probably for poor viewership. I was among his biggest fans for The Daily Show, but that show's takedowns of people in interviews became more and more obviously based on deceptive and dishonest editing.
He's become too full of himself, which combined with the collapsing world of cable TV, has me predicting a failed return. Six months.
Dave, now you'll get a second chance. It will be on cable tv. Comedy Central station. Google it.
As a Gen X person I am fine with that.
But, here's the thing. The one word that had always defined Gen X is "apathy." So, I see these concern pieces "poor, poor Gen X, left is left out," and for the most part WE don't care. I think think we have been right about that.
The ONE thing that's sucks about being Gen X is being sandwiched between the two most entitled generations in history.
The Boomers bled us dry. They cared about so many things (themselves) that they could pay for. But, but they ate and ate and ate. They invented economic theories to give cover for their greed and lack of self awareness so the could justify living high on the hog while robbing their offspring's piggy bank.
We have always known the Boomers will bankrupt Social Security and that we are paying into a Ponzi scheme that won't be around for us.
So we said: "Fine. Fuck you. DIY. We will build our own social security. We will save for our own retirement. Raise our families. Drink cocktails and play air guitar."
And, now along come the Millennials, whose needy, coddled little heads have been filled with nonsense like "you didn't build that." And, when "you didn't build that" collides with "we need the money in your 401(k)" what will happen? So the answer, in my mind, if figure out how to live more simply and need less stuff.
BTW- lots of GenXers have Boomer parents too, but our parents didn't go to college and didn't have the luxury of dicking around for their entire 20s. Our Boomer parents are the ones who got jobs and started families in their early 20s.
They must be desperate.
Stewart is just another talking head looking for leftist applause instead of laughs.
Jon Stewart taught a generation that snark is an argument, that you can refute facts with sneering derision, that it's ok to lie about people you don't like. He has been a disaster for public discourse.
I saw Stewart early in his career doing standup a few times in NYC (late 80s, early 90s), and I thought he was very funny. He was a regular at one of the clubs in Greenwich Village. I also thought he was quite good when he had The Jon Stewart Show on MTV. I don't recall if he was apolitical or just relatively non-partisan in his humor at the time, but I used to look forward to seeing him. (I'm not someone who can't laugh at his own "side" being skewered by a comedian.)
My impression is that he became much more partisan, snarky, and downright juvenile at The Daily Show. The live audience made it worse. It often felt to me like they were Romans at the Colosseum.
Aside from the paywalled WaPo and NYT, I read the linked articles. It was interesting that none of them actually mentioned Trump, aside from the Time article, which only mentioned Trump indirectly (see below). The absence of Trump from the articles was particularly striking given how often Trump appeared elsewhere on the pages, i.e., in linked sidebar articles and videos.
The editorial decision to leave Trump out of the articles seems to be a case of the dog that didn't bark. Does anyone doubt that Trump's looming candidacy is the primary reason, if not the sole reason, for Stewart to return to The Daily Show?
PS. Here is the mention of Trump in the Time article: "...during a George W. Bush administration whose absurdity seems in retrospect like a dress rehearsal for the Trump years..."
I was born in 1962 but never considered myself a Boomer. I've seen "Generation Jones" coined to describe our place at the tail end of that generation because we experienced the world in differently from the earlier, post WWII, "leading edge" Boomers. We're actually closer to Gen X in many ways. Supposedly, Generation Jones is the people who were born 1954 to 1965. Personally, I would say anyone born in the first half of the 60s would be more accurate.
That said, Jon Stewart coming back seems like one more desperate weapon being thrown at Trump's relentless re-election bid. They've used up all their big guns, and have resorted to throwing pots, pans, odd cutlery, and now this used up old douche bag to try to stop him. Perhaps they should add Michael Moore to the mix to really freshen things up!
Ann said...
"Generation X is and was always in our shadow. Eventually, we'll pass on, but it will be too late for them. The Millennials — The Generation Created by Us, the Boomers — have always overshadowed Gen X, and as the Boomers vacate cultural space The Millennials will seize it as their rightful entitlement."
Generation X said...
"Whatever, dude."
Millenials said...
"OK, Boomer"
Karl Marx said...
"A specter is haunting America; the specter of Boomerism... Let the ruling classes tremble at a Boomer revolution. The lesser generations have nothing to lose but their chains; we have a world to win. Cultural workers of the world, unite!"
Jon Stewart. A pain in the derriere, but the kind of pain we need more and more these days. And if you have Tucker Carlson for an adversary it only proves you are doing something right. This will make the next 10 months bearable and entertaining.
Or collectively.
DEMMEDIA: We hate Trump. We hope Stewart can get some votes for Biden.
Why, isn't that amazing, what an absolutely astonishing coincidence, Jon Stewart returning to the airwaves just as we're embarking on another Presidential season - featuring, front & center, his absolutely Fave-O person.
It's almost as if....somebody in Programming thinks Something Must Be Done, and it's time again for another 5 years of Two-Minutes-of-Hate.
I've never watched him either, aside from occasional clips of his wittier stuff. To me, it's like watching German potty humor - too obvious, too puerile, too stoopid.
It's like when they had to bring Jesse Ventura off the bench as the last stalker in "The Running Man" because Schwarzenegger (Ben Richards) already slaughtered the rest.
Jon Steward is an arrogant puke. I don't think the ratings will be high, but he'll get viral clips on X like everyone else.
For some, he is a "burden". For others, still viable. For others yet, a bitter clinger. Surely, a deplorable state of consensus.
"Seinfeld, the show about nothing, is completely GenX."
But Jerry Seinfeld himself is indisputably a Boomer. He was born in 1954.
I agree that Stewart is X adjacent, born in '62, but he's still within the years that are designated Boomer. He's just not a core Boomer (like me, born in 1951).
@Beth B -- same. I've always preferred Generation Jones since I heard the term.
I guess that means that Stewart is also Gen Jones. That explains his endless whining about the state of the world. We were cheated, by God, and we'll never let you forget it.
Ann Althouse said...
"I agree that Stewart is X adjacent, born in '62, but he's still within the years that are designated Boomer. He's just not a core Boomer (like me, born in 1951)."
So are you a 33rd degree Boomer according to the Scottish Rite?
Stewart should know his place: generation whatever. #SelectiveJudgment #TooManyLabels
I'm tired of all the slagging on boomers
Boomers MADE it all work.
The woke they/them easily corrupted by the propaganda they are fed by NBC et al.. - these are the folks who are going to flush us all down the toilet.
Jon Stewrt is back on board to Bash Trump once a week.
wow - how special and fresh. zzzzzzz
the Trump-hate lefty base love it.
Joe Gibbs came back to the Redskins, but he couldn't recreate the magic of his first tenure because the world had changed around him. Jon Stewart may find the same thing.
How many Stewart-Colbert for president bumper stickers did I see in prog-land back when they were in their prime?
Lots. Progs love their modern Riefenstahls.
I am skeptical this will work out. First, Stewart is just getting old, to the point that he's officially an old white man. This puts him at a comedic disadvantage off the bat. Second, he's boring. His most mainstream (and pro-semitic) of liberal politics are barely distinguishable from Bill Maher's and have increasingly less and less attraction to the trendy lefties who make fashion now, but I don't see him having the guts to push back against the loony or pro-Hamas left the way Bill does.
NOTE: He'll only appear on Mondays. The rest of the week might suffer in comparison.
MSNBC: "Back in the aughts, liberal Jon Stewart plied his craft in a milieu in which the majority of influential comedic entertainers worked within a broad liberal consensus...
This is an opinion piece. I was surprised to see MSNBC label him honestly as an ideological comic, but it was just a contributor.
I hate political "comedy," but I have to admit Stewart dished out standard leftist critique in a way that was genuinely witty. Same with Bill Maher, who at least had the ability to see where the Left was going and disassociated himself from its extreme elements.
Will Jon Stewart be "Classic Jon Stewart" or a "Bill Maher" who tosses some cold water on the clapping seals?
I scrambled the Jon S... comedians.
Jon Stewart's return to "The Daily Show"
He should do his "Justice Chick-with-dick" bit. Zoomers probably aren't familiar with his best material.
Boomers suck and will never stop talking about themselves (I fully expect to hear "When President Kennedy was assassinated we were in school and the principal got on the loudspeaker to say [drone, drone, drone]" coming out of the casket as the dirt is shoveled on it).
But don't worry about GenX. We have our own things going on and don't really care about garbage popular "culture" and who gets to run it. Let the Boomers and Millennials fight over which of them is King Crap of Turd Mountain.
Well, definitionally Boomers have a 20% larger time frame.
Cheaters!
USA Today:
Generation X is anyone born from 1965 to 1980.
Baby boomers are anyone born from 1946 to 1964.
Millennials are anyone born from 1981 to 1996.
Generation Z is anyone born from 1997 to 2012.
I 'might' concede that Boomer influence on culture is largest, but I'm not sure that Millennials have always overshadowed Gen X.
See X'ers, Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, all of the founders of Twitter, Satya Nadella, Joe Rogan, Kim Kardashian, Jay Z, J.K. Rowling, Most of N.W.A., Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, ...
BTW, many of the Boomer's cultural icons were not themselves Boomers, e.g. all of the members of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, and Monty Python (and most of the producers). Also, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jim Morrison, Johnny Cash, Bruce Lee, Hugh Hefner, Andy Warhol, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, Lorne Michaels, Elvis, Jack Nicholson, Muhammad Ali, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, ...
A pre-boomer thought that did not adequately adhere ... George Carlin, on groups:
"The larger the group, the more toxic"
George Carlin on Grouping, and Individuality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi1DMu48z2c
They did have a test run. It was his show on Apple. Apparently not enough people watched it to offset the commentary running against it. So it was cut short. The official word is that he wanted to say things about China, but Apple, dependent on China as much of the West is, could not allow it.
Still...the ratings were not like the old days. Not even close. I suspect his regular Mondays on his new/old show will bring in swarms of Leftist Boomers, but the younger crowd won't follow it. Oh sure, they'll tune in for the hyped first couple of episodes. But they'll drop off. They're different than we are- and that's a good thing. They'll figure out their own way, with their own people.
I mean, if we want them to laugh at our funny stuff, we should bring back The Dick Van Dyke Show, Taxi, Cheers, and The Huntley-Brinkley Report.
Hoisted by Nature's unrelenting progress and the intrinsic biases of generational prejudice.
Be interesting to see if he's past his expiration date. I'm so far past my own expiration date that I don't have a clue what young people find funny or why they don't tuck in their shirts.....Gosh, I remember a time when there were comedians like Jack Benny or Red Skeleton and even on to Johnny Carson, when you didn't have a clue as to their political affiliation....What primitive days. Think of how much funnier Red SKeleton would have been been if he wore a reg MAGA hat and his pratfalls were portrayed as the result of his typical MAGA clumsiness and stupidity.....It's been at least thirty, maybe forty years since I had an inkling on what's risible versus what's sacrosanct. Fart jokes are the only things that endure in our ever changing society.
"I'm tired of all the slagging on boomers
Boomers MADE it all work."
No, their parents did. And then Boomers pissed it all away with their selfishness and hysteria. Not all Boomers. But enough to stamp the generation as ridiculous.
Every weird public encounter I've had in the last eight years has been with a, absurdly entitled, White person that's elderly or in late middle-age
I'm tired of all the slagging on boomers
Boomers MADE it all work.
No, the Boomers breathlessly recount their time at Woodstock and marching at Selma with Dr. King.
Then they raised a generation of children determined to exceed their triumphs.
Their grandchildren are marching around Sproul Plaza, carrying signs and chanting about what they want "right now".
It's GenX that's keeping the lights on.
Comedy, like all art, is a reflection of its time.
If they think the old Daily Show is going to be well-received, they are about to learn a painful lesson.
Many years ago, around the time of his "run" for president, I heard Stewart do a straight (radio) interview of some important person. I don't remember anything about it, except that I was vastly impressed by Stewart's grasp of the relevant context, and his ability to draw out real information, especially by intelligent follow-up questions.
I literally ranted at my wife, later, about how annoyed I was that such talent was being wasted, for partisan and mercenary reasons. I'm still angry about it today.
Blogger Rich said...
“Jon Stewart. A pain in the derriere, but the kind of pain we need more and more these days”
You and your “pocket gerbil” need an enema, Rich. It will probably clear your mind as well…
Given where you’ve parked your head.
I’m technically a Boomer, but JFK was assassinated shortly before I was born. I am the oldest child in my family and my siblings are all Gen X. It’s less about a birthday and more about your sensibilities. My son is technically a millennial but he is Gen Z all the way. You fit where you fit.
Stewart is a partial sell out. Kudos for his stance for the 9/11 survivors and the Green revolution in Iran. Other than that, meh. For comedy to work it has to be 100% authentic and the truth. Any hedging of bets or pulling of punch lines it'll fall flat.
It's imperative that Stewart tame the wild ass before it pins the tail on him.
I would say Jon Stewart was one of the leading causes of the well-deserved loss of respect for journalism, but he's not really the problem. He's a symptom, not a cause. The fact that people took a news parody as a serious news source merely revealed how much the mainstream news had destroyed their own credibility.
I agree that Stewart is X adjacent, born in '62, but he's still within the years that are designated Boomer. He's just not a core Boomer.
Adding qualifications in either direction (in this case, both directions) defeats the initial declaration that he's a Boomer. At some point you either are or you aren't. I accept that the map isn't the territory. The line is always going to be arbitrary.
The point of generational delineation is that different groups of people have different experiences and most importantly they have them at different life stages. To take a different example, someone born in 1941 or later would have no memory of the conditions that existed before 7 December 1941, even from the attitudes and actions of their parents. Generations are anchored in events other than changes in the number of births in a given year.
For someone born in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the question of whether the person is a Boomer depends on a two-part test:
(1) Was a parent or sibling of a parent of age to serve in the military during World War II? Korean War does not count.
(2) Was an older sibling of the person, or anyone the person was in high school with (such as a senior when they were a freshmen) subject to the Vietnam War draft?
If the answer to either question is yes, the person is a Boomer. If the answer to both questions is no, the person is not a Boomer.
Oh good. Mugging for the camera was a lost art.
"Boomer" has lost all meaning by the time we hit a birth year of 1960 or so.
So Stewart will continue excuse-making for the Josef Robinette Boomhauer administration.
Wake the fuck up, America!
Having watched the Beatles on Jack Parr's Friday night show, I want to know who you are tagging with this Obama catastrophe we're living through?
Gonna vote for Moochelle too?
As job losses continue in Tech, we are now in Gen AI.
Douglas Coupland, the guy who wrote the book "Generation X" was born in 1961. For me, a '62-er, I feel more aligned with X'er thinking than Boomer thinking. I'm sure Coupland feels the same. Like astrology though, I know I'm on the cusp.
Have you read "Generation X"? It's excellent. I love the imagery Coupland creates, describing work cubicles as "veal fattening pens" and white color work as "McJobs." It's a quick read, well worth it.
I never watched Stewart, more of a Conan O'Brien guy here.
Iman, that's not a good comparison.
Boomhauer was as omnicompetent as he was inarticulate. FJB is an inarticulate incompetent at best.
Boomer (1953) that I am, I've never really understood the later Gen-talk. And as for fucking everything up for you youngsters, well . . . My soon to be 38 y.o. son stands to inherit everything from my wife and me, and from my youngest brother (1959). (Assuming anything is left after the coming financial meltdown engineered by people only slightly older than my son.)
Left Bank,
My father has a WW2 service medal, though he was still in training when the war ended. Then he served in Korea.
I was old enough to be subject to the Vietnam draft, barely. Though my father (then a senior USMCR officer) later revealed he intended to move me to Canada if I was drafted.
Does that make me some sort of edge case?
I'm sure Stewart will be just as "iconocastic" and "irrerevent" and "edgy" as he was before. That is to say, 95 percent of his jokes/satire will be directed at Christians, Conservatives, and Republicans.
One looks forward to his witty "eyebrow raise". And if he exposes any "Hypocrisy" it will wont be the liberal/left. IOW, Steward is just more comfort food for the Rich and powerful liberal/leftists over 50.
But anyway, I'm glad Jews are finally getting a chance to host a comedy show. And stick up for Israel. After all antisemitism is at all time high..
Left Bank of the Charles said...
"For someone born in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the question of whether the person is a Boomer depends on a two-part test:
(1) Was a parent or sibling of a parent of age to serve in the military during World War II? Korean War does not count."
Yes. My father and several uncles served in WWII. Oddly, only one served in Europe. The rest were in the Pacific.
"(2) Was an older sibling of the person, or anyone the person was in high school with (such as a senior when they were a freshmen) subject to the Vietnam War draft?"
Yes. My oldest brother, a National Merit Finalist, got a deferment to go to college and become an engineer. Several Nam vets were among my sisters' peers. And several cousins served in Nam as well.
"If the answer to either question is yes, the person is a Boomer. If the answer to both questions is no, the person is not a Boomer."
Yes to both. Except I'm Gen X. It seems odd that your test of Boomerness is centered on military service.
Tom T. said...
"Joe Gibbs came back to the Redskins, but he couldn't recreate the magic of his first tenure because the world had changed around him. Jon Stewart may find the same thing."
Arrested Development is another example. They went through the same motions, but couldn't replicate the quirky charm of the first run. Seasons 4/5 were awful.
"That is to say, 95 percent of his jokes/satire will be directed at Christians, Conservatives, and Republicans."
A real comedian could have a field day with Dementialini. But he's not a real comedian.
"...the Boomers — have always overshadowed Gen X..."
But Elon renamed Twitter after us, so we'll always have that.
It's going to be really hard for Stewart to ignore President Biden and the condition his condition is in in 2024.
Any attention to the senility will be devastating for Biden's support from an audience that has been shielded from it for years.
And, he was willing to call out the lab leak theory denial. And, he has Bill Maher and Dave Chappelle as examples of the benefits to an entertainer of ridiculing the more extreme aspects of wokeness and the far left. And, I haven't looked but I would guess that he is firmly in the Israeli corner as relates to the recent dust-up in Gaza.
So it may not be as bad as it could be. Or not, we'll see.
To quote a Gen Xer speaking in 1993, "The Baby Boomer grew up to make everything they did illegal for their kids to do".
And it's true, when the early and mid-Boomers, they started raising the alcohol age, even going after marijuana smoking. And they went heavy with the Moral Majority to demonize "pre-marital" sex.
I, a late Boomer born in the 1960s, got all the crap dumped on them just as we were getting out of high school. And we didn't know that Reagan would overcome the horrible 1970s when early Boomers reigned with bad hair, bad clothes and during my high school year, bad music. I hate Disco.
And as a late Boomer, along with Gen X, we found career advancement near impossible as he jobs were jammed with early Boomers. The trades? Well, they were stuffed by 1980 with all the earlier Boomers dumped out of the factories by globalization.
And those Boomers who got a classical education went on to deny it to their victims, I mean, students in later years.
philosophicalconservatism:
The Baby Boomer college student who militantly rejected classical Western ideals and principles during the 1960’s did at least have the opportunity to receive a classical education so that he could neutrally encounter what he eventually decided to reject. That same group has offered no such opportunity to their own children. The modern college student is not given the chance to authentically encounter the Western ideal. The version of the West to which he is first introduced is a caricature; it is a scathing editorial about the West written by parties who despise it. And so many of these young people are cut off from the best of what history and human accomplishment has to offer. In its place they are given hollow, cynical ideological speculations invented five minutes ago, which have never been used to build a single civilization, but which are working quite efficiently to tear one down.
"Beatnik, slacker, hippie or a freak,
Ain't it all the same thing all of us seek
What our parents do, way back when?
Makes me hear the same thing again and again.
Generation Why.
Generation Why.
Baby boom or "X",
I don't know what I am,
All I need to know is when it's time to slam,
Threw a little party cause it just felt right,
It lasted ten years and it's goin' on tonight.
Generation Why. (Yeah!)
Generation Why.
It's the same way,
It's the same way,
It's the same way,
It's the same way they treated you in your day!
Generation "A" or Generation "Z",
Who the hell are you to put a label on me?
This label of the week is getting kinda lame,
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Generation Why. (Yeah!)
Generation Why.
It's the same way,
It's the same way,
It's the same way,
It's the same way they treated you in your day!
- Reverend Horton Heat
Chapelle is Gen X.
So is Tom Brady.
Stewart is GenX because he is and always has been immature for his age.
He’s gonna be all riottt grrrll clown nose off I’m guessing.
It they were actually interested in money they'd be giving a show to Chappelle.
They want a reliable liar to try to rig the election.
He'll be gone in '25.
Point taken, narr!
No prob, Iman.
Kevin said...
"It's GenX that's keeping the lights on."
Exactly. As the senescent Boomers FINALLY shuffle off and pass on their "leadership" roles to their hand-picked millennial successors who can't wait to finish looting the cultural capital of previous generations, a few of us are trying help GenZ keep at least a tiny fraction of what should be their patrimony.
Also, we LIKE having indoor plumbing and electric lights and would like this things to be able to persist even as millennial "managers" discover that you can't take a shower with your wishful thinking or cook your food with your self-righteousness.
Hmmmmm. Maybe the reason the Powers that Be are flooding the country with third-world peasants is that they're used to outhouses...
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