Sure does.

“I don’t know why you’re laughing.”

Yes, but how is the Dow?

Well, meanwhile, Pedonald is being “urged” to cancel the elections.

Are these people doing the urging named?

Well, to be fair, each person only has to find one job in order to make their move to another nation.

Also, if they are going to be targeted for other reasons (race, gender, religion, political views) in the longer term, or think they might, moving might be the far more preferable option even if they are initially not working in their field.

Oh, sorry, I misread your first sentence there. Yes, appropriately, then. I read it as him influencing people to stop talking about decades and start talking about generations.

I don’t know if that really started in the 2000s, though? Maybe it really got adopted by a lot more people, I don’t know.

I seem to remember seeing lots and lots spilled ink where self-identified boomers were wringing their hands over what to do about Gen X and their aimlessness (before the Gen X thing was really firmed up, we were called baby busters, slacker generation, twentynothings, MTV generation and probably some other names I cannot remember now. I like Gen X a lot more and the book is actually quite good, even though I think it better describes Generation Jones as filtered through a Canadian than my age group. ).

I remember seeing Gen X writing things about how they had a bleak future (many of us entering the workforce during a recession), that the contract between employee and employer was broken in the 80s, that Gen X was not going to collect Social Security after the boomers took it all, that the idea of working 50 years for a company and being repaid with that loyalty with a good pension and gold watch at the end of it was long over when we were still kids, etc.

This seemed to quickly shift to hearing/reading more Gen Y moaning about the boomers and boomers complaining about Gen Y, probably because both groups having larger numbers than Gen X.

So maybe that’s what Adam was pointing out - that it wasn’t so much only the chattering classes and marketers adopting these positions, it was also much of the people themselves…I definitely feel that of almost any “generation” that boomers were probably one of the first that were so studied and so regimented and probably had a lot of commonalities that were formative, at least early in life. I seem to remember Timothy Leary - who was of an older generation, but hugely popular with boomers and he learned to cater to them, I think - commenting on that to some extent. He might have even mentioned the Dr. Spock thing.

And the “emergency” is that too many Americans hate Pedonald and the Republicunts and will vote Democratic instead, I guess?

TBF, I would have taken Biden in a coma over this guy.

I suspect my reasons for that are far different than the people that actively ignore(d) Pedonald’s mental acuity issues.

Mine are because I trust the Democrats would have executed the line of succession protocols in a far more sane and orderly way than the cons are likely to and any risk/damage to America would be minimal.

Conversely, I think those that support Pedonald no matter how scrambled his brain is is because they want to maximize the damage against America as much as possible, which of course they call “making America great again”. If he goes off the rails on the crazy, that’s a benefit to speedrunning the very worst things.

Yeah, what is with the “mistakenly” part? Are they implying someone in the DOJ just turned on OpenClaw and did some vibe redactioning?

I sure hope so. Starting with the very fucking top, I want them disbarred ( if they are lawyers ) and sent to prison for multiple years.

LOL, as if they really have to sit there on meditate on that or something.

“Gee, are we covering up for the pedo president?”

I’m sure it’s a real puzzler.

Hm, “political storm”.

How some imprisonment?

You don’t say. Isn’t it for things like this why fElon bought Xitter?

It certainly was not about “free speech maximalism” or “making comedy legal again”, no matter what fElon and his dumb fanboiz might say.

His brain was always mush, even before he got up there in years.

He’s one of those dumbasses that you always ask yourself: if he had dementia how would the layperson even be able to tell the difference between the crazy shit he did and said before and the crazy shit he does and says now?

I mean, it’s still not clear to me whether he really thinks exercise is something that is bad for you. It’s not clear to me if he really thinks stealth planes are invisible. It’s not clear to me if he thinks people that seek asylum are somehow associated with insane asylums.

And so on.

Ironically, he also did a rather famous talk where he dismantles the idea of generations being anything more than a construct of marketing.

I cannot say there will be pogroms against intellectuals, although some radical movements certainly have had theirs when we look at history. I also cannot say how many of the scientists leaving are also in at-risk groups from a Nat-C government.

I definitely understand people that just want to live their lives just picking up and moving to where they can do that. The people in this article concern those that worked toward something in science, it’s not like they are professional activists or poli sci majors.

It’s the crazy redcaps that decided to politicize everything to such an extent as to threaten reality-based livelihoods. And so if these people now have a choice of: being completely impoverished thanks to the childish “maga” (baby word) thing and maybe even targeted for violence or imprisonment, or move to a place that actually welcomes the reality-based community? It seems like a fairly obvious choice.

These people are seriously fucked in the head.

And their feigned concern for “fraud” is so ridiculous. They don’t give a shit about what Pedonald did to make 1.4+ billion, they don’t give a shit about Noem’s bang plane, they do nothing about Patel flying all over the fucking place for his (and his girlfriend’s) personal pleasure.

Maybe whoever doesn’t win this runs for President?

JFC. The Republicans always find the worst examples of things worldwide and then turn around and lecture others about how “good” things here are in contrast, so why are you even complaining?

They really just don’t understand how morals and ethics work at all, do they?

So far this is seeming rather asymmetric. Is this going to be like MeToo 2.0?