Month: December 2023

End Of The Year–2023

As per an IST tradition I will look back on my last year….the good, the bad and the ugly.

I will start with the GOOD….

We had to replace our ailing Nissan Juke with a new car….we decided on a Hyundai Kona….great car but damn all the bells and whistles….but we searched for one specific feature.

As you can see Mojave needed her spot….she does not like to stick her head out the window but needs to see where she is going.

Another thing was since I am old and mobility is becoming more and more of a problem Sue and I decided that Mojave needed a sister to help her get needed exercise….and we adopted Sahara (her introduction post has not been completed)….but here she is…

This 44 pound pup has more energy than the Energizer Bunny and her batteries never runs down.

She has decimated the field mouse population….at last count 23 sent to the Great Spirit.

The BAD….

Number one was the weather down here….the Summer was way too long and extreme heat raged on for months at one point reaching 123 degrees and to make matters worse we had no rain for 156 days.

The weather wrecked havoc on my small garden.   Watering was not a big problem but because we had such a mild winter the field mouse population exploded….we planted cucumbers, squash, lettuce, radishes, tomatoes, sweet peppers, herbs and hot peppers.

The tomatoes did well, the herbs did well and the hot Thai peppers did exceptionally well but everything else was a total bust.

I am thinking of erecting a greenhouse.

Thanx to the 6 month drought my property was turned into one large dust bowl and with two pups running in and out the dust accumulation was horrendous….we have decided to bring in outside help to clean the house.

My best friend of 30 years had out patient back surgery caught a staph infection was hospitalized and died.  He will be missed for he was the closest thing I had to a brother.  May he rest in peace.

The UGLY….

Sue had to start chemo for the third time and must travel back and forth to Houston….it kicks her butt and she endures well but I can tell she is over the treatments.  She will learn if a 3rd surgery is coming or not.  I try to stay positive for her sake.

My health issues were not as bad as Sue’s but they sucked anyway….my mobility is sadly reduced thanx to all the metal in my right leg and the 4 missing toes on my right foot….walking the pups became painful too painful for an everyday thing.

And then a bout with acute bronchitis did me no favors…..after a month of antibiotics and breathing treatment it seems to be clearing up.

That was the Good, the Bad and the Ugly for the past year….all in all not the best year but it did have some bright spots.

Now for In Saner Thought…I do a look-back at the past year in blogging…

This past year has been good not my best year but the stuff to write about has been limited….wars, Donald the Orange and the antics of Congress….boring is not the right word but to be polite I will stick with boring.

I have 3661 followers down from 4500….I lost a bunch when I left Twitter but I am thankful for those that stuck with me.

IST has gotten 475,399 hits and a total of 97,828 comments on 18,318 posts….not breaking any records but I think it is a success.

I am extremely grateful for my loyal readers and commenters they make this all worthwhile…I may not be high on Google’s list but I do not care as long as the loyal are here so shall I….personally I do not give a fig about my ranking or whatever it is with Google as long as I can have the loyal then I think my rankings are perfect.

This will be my only post today….I wish everyone a gran New Year’s eve…..please if you are celebrating have a driver on hand…

HAPPY NEW YEAR MY FRIENDS!

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IST Saturday News Dump–30Dec23

This is the last news dump of 2023 and so instead of running down this past week I thought I would give my readers the most ridiculous stories of the past year.

These are 10 of the most crazy news stories….links only….

  1. This Handbag Is Expensive, Not Very Practical
  2. Some Parents Pay Thousands for Sorority Rush Consultants
  3. Ousted Disney CEO’s Exit Pay Revealed in Filing
  4. Woman Slips on Prosciutto, Sues
  5. ‘Potentially Offensive’ Language Yanked From Agatha Christie Novels
  6. This Philly Burger Will Set You Back $700
  7. Family Awarded $800K in Chicken McNugget Burn Suit
  8. What to Get for the Baby Who Has It All? $230 Scented Water
  9. Grimes Says Daughter’s Name Is Now ‘Y’—or ‘?’
  10. Ticketmaster Sells ‘No View’ Beyonce Seats

This will do it for me on this Saturday…..I hope everyone enjoys the craziness.

If you will be out during the New Year celebration thing then I want to wish you a safe and happy New Year’s celebration.

Hopefully 2024 will be a more calm year….but I some how doubt it.

Be Safe and Be Well….

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Repent! The End Is Near!

I thought I would move away from the depressing news of war on many fronts….and move to the depressing news at this end of another year to the total collapse that awaits this planet.

We already know that the way we have been living for the last century is not sustainable for our planet. Beyond climate ruin, however, is another threat to our society: Economic Collapse. Predicted back in 1970, experts have reviewed this information and our prospects are not looking good. This is what you need to know.

In 1972, a team of MIT scientists predicted that our industrial civilization would collapse in the future if corporations and governments kept pushing for continued economic growth no matter the consequences. They predicted 12 possible future scenarios, all of which predicted that natural resources would eventually become scarce, halting economic growth entirely. This would result in complete economic collapse and the breakdown of personal welfare. (1)

The most famous scenario in the report, known as the Business As Usual scenario, or BAU, forecasted that economic growth would peak in 2040. After that point, everything will start crashing: Availability of food and natural resources, as well as the global population. No, humans won’t be wiped off of the planet, but our standard of living will be. They predicted that this collapse will take decades to recover from.

Harvard grad student Gaya Herrington decided to look into this when she began her post-graduate studies last year. She discovered that currently, nearly half a century later, we are well aligned with two of the projected scenarios. 

Herrington measured the current state of our world using 10 different variables. These included fertility rates, pollution levels, population, food production, and industry output. She found that we are aligned with two possible outcomes: The BAU and another known as Comprehensive Technology (CT). CT is a scenario in which technological advancements help improve pollution levels and food supplies in spite of natural resources dwindling away. This still leads us to a point of sudden economic collapse – it will just be a bit more drawn out.

“[The BAU] and CT scenarios show a halt in growth within a decade or so from now,” Herrington wrote in her study. “Both scenarios thus indicate that continuing business as usual, that is, pursuing continuous growth, is not possible.”

How Close Is Total Social and Economic Collapse? | Opinion

Sorry to be a bummer and pee on everybody’s parade but we are close to a total meltdown as we close out another year.

The end is nearer than most anticipate….when you have people the hate for a living the end cannot be far behind.

Will anyone be bothered to try a stop this decline?

My guess would be no for they are more worried about the new guy that Taylor Swift is thumping than to worry about the end of the good thing we have had for decades.

Not to worry we have another year to kick this can down that road…..

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

2023–Foreign Policy Losers

That time of the year for numerous countdowns to the New Year.

The year is ending and I would like to look back on our foreign policy as corrupt and one sided as it is…..as put together by Responsible Statecraft.

The year in foreign policy was marked by bloody conflict, humanitarian catastrophe, and grief, plus political failures and missteps. Let’s take a look at the most notable ones as we approach 2024.

Ukraine: The bravery and endurance of the Ukrainian people and its military forces have been extolled time and again. But the failure of its counteroffensive in the spring and the summer of 2023 has led in part to a loss in confidence that the country can ever hope to expunge the Russians from all of its territories. This of course has been not only the goal of President Volodymyr Zelensky, but of his Western supporters. Many of those allies, including the mainstream press, are now suggesting that not only will Ukraine have to find a way to end the war diplomatically — which critics including contributors at RS and at the Quincy Institute have been saying all along — but may have to make territorial compromises.

The goal of Ukrainian NATO membership seems like a faraway dream now, and as of the end of the year, the flood of weapons and money from Washington and Western capitals has slowed immensely. Zelensky, now being pegged as increasingly isolated and unrealistic, has seemingly fallen from grace. Unfortunately for him, this is not the first time in U.S. foreign policy history that Washington has turned its favor elsewhere, to the grave detriment of its former beneficiaries.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/foreign-policy-failures-2023/

This is what the world gets when corporations and their agents, lobbyists, do the thinking for the elected people in our government.

DC is owned by these slugs and it will continue to dominate every aspect of foreign policy until some cajones are found and someone steps up to set things on a more positive course.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Closing Thought–28Dec23

There is a wealth of conspiracy theories out there for the people to uh and awe over….from earth being flat to hollow earth to aliens….

But what are the ones that most believe in?

I am glad you asked for I happen to have an answer for you.

The latest Economist/YouGov Poll asked Americans their opinions on prominent conspiracy theories relating to vaccine-autism links, sex-trafficking among top Democrats, and a secretive shadow government ruling the world. To understand what drives belief in these theories, we looked at how opinions vary based on the social and demographic groups Americans say they belong to, as well as some of their other views and behaviors.

The results of our analysis suggest that belief in some conspiracies is closely linked to views on QAnon, an internet conspiracy theory and political movement that first emerged in 2017 on the anonymous website 4chan. Two-thirds of Americans say they have heard about QAnon and 14% of those who have heard of it say they have a somewhat or very favorable opinion of it. One in five Americans say they know someone – themselves, a family member, a friend, or an acquaintance – who supports QAnon.

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/41873-which-groups-americans-believe-conspiracies

Just as regions across the US have their own urban legends, many have controversial conspiracy theories as well.

Throughout the US, there are people who believe the government, large organizations, or secretive companies are hiding the truth from the public. These conspiracists strive to uncover the “truth” behind some of the biggest news stories, from supposed UFO sightings to the JFK assassination to the Kentucky Derby.

These are some of the wildest conspiracy theories from around the US.

https://www.insider.com/popular-conspiracy-theories-united-states-2019-5#some-of-the-most-popular-conspiracy-theories-in-the-us-surround-the-kennedy-assassination-1

Which do you believe in?

Ever wonder why some believe in certain theories?

Pre-pandemic, the question I would most often get was, “How do I know whom to trust when it comes to health and science information?”

Over three years after a new virus began sweeping the globe, the question I hear again and again is, “Why is it that my husband/sister/aunt/father believes in all this conspiratorial nonsense?”

As it turns out, the two questions are related (more on that later), but until now, I could only offer empathy and hypotheses. Although conspiracy theories have been stowed away on humanity’s whispers for millennia, research into the people who hold these beliefs only got started in earnest about thirty years ago.

Studies have attempted to see if people who believe in a particular conspiracy theory or who have a general propensity for believing in these theories have something else in common. This link might predispose them to be convinced by stories of sinister machinations or it might be something that is fed by conspiracy theories and grows as a consequence. Either way, scientists were looking for associations and they found plenty. But early on, these studies were not very good or generalizable, which meant there were plenty of contradictions in the literature.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-pseudoscience/who-likely-believe-conspiracy-theories

Enjoy and smile.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Ukraine: A New Direction?

Thanx to Israel we have not heard much about Ukraine and in case you are interested they are still fighting and dying.

Is it time for a re-think about the direction this war should take?

Let’s look at what has happened while you were busy writing glowing stuff about Israel…..

Ukraine’s top general, Valerii Zaluzhnyi admitted that the war with Russia was at a stalemate. In December, Republicans in the US House of Representatives torpedoed the Biden administration’s request for billions in new military assistance to Ukraine. At the European Union, Hungary vetoed desperately needed monetary assistance. President Biden’s mantra that the allies would support Ukraine “as long as it takes” became a pledge to support the country “as long as we can.” From Europe, a stalwart Ukraine supporter, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis reported that “apparently as long as it takes means as long as we can agree.” Clearly, the time of magical thinking is over.
Ukraine’s startling early success in repelling the Russian attempt to take Kiev produced widespread euphoria. Russia’s military was exposed as incompetent and bumbling. The US mobilized its allies to provide arms and support and impose harsh sanctions on Putin. NATO was galvanized and expanded. Putin would be handed a defeat without NATO troop involvement. As the noxious Lindsay Graham put it, “Russians are dying” as Ukrainians fight “to the last person,” so aid to Ukraine is “the best money we’ve ever spent.” Sanctions would isolate and bankrupt Russia. China, Iran, North Korea and other adversaries would learn that aggression doesn’t pay. Putin might even be deposed and hauled before the International Criminal Court. In little more than a year, the US alone rushed $75 billion in largely military aid to Ukraine, a sum nearly as great as the entire annual Russian military budget.
(the nation)
Fight to the last man mentality has done little to secure a victory for Ukraine and the millions sank into this war by the US has done little to secure a victory….then what is the new direction?

The US and its European allies are quietly shifting their strategy in Ukraine from supporting Kyiv’s unrealistic goal of driving Russian forces out to encouraging a defensive posture with future negotiations in mind, POLITICO reported on Wednesday, citing US and European officials.

The US and its close allies have discouraged peace talks throughout the conflict, including in March and April of 2022, when a peace deal was on the table that would have left Ukraine territorially intact in exchange for the country’s neutrality, something that was recently confirmed by Ukraine’s lead negotiator.

Instead of pushing for peace, then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Ukraine to keep fighting, and the US declared one of its war goals was to “weaken” Russia. Now, Moscow has made it clear any future peace deal must recognize the territory it has annexed as Russian. The New York Times reported on December 23 that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been signaling through diplomatic channels that he is open to a ceasefire that freezes the fighting along the current lines.

The POLITICO report said that US and European officials are discussing deploying Ukrainian forces in a defensive posture instead of continuing the failed counteroffensive.

The shift in strategy comes as both the US and Europe are struggling to come up with more funding for the proxy war. Part of the Biden administration’s long-term strategy is to help build up Ukraine’s own military-industrial complex so the country is not so reliant on foreign aid.

The Biden administration has not publicly outlined its shift in strategy, but there are signs that the US is thinking about winding down the proxy war. A mantra commonly repeated by US and NATO officials was that they would support Ukraine against Russia for “as long as it takes.” But when President Biden met with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky earlier this month, he said the US would continue supplying Ukraine with weapons for “as long as we can.”

For his part, Zelensky still maintains his war aim is to drive Russian forces out of all the Ukrainian territory that’s been captured. Time Magazine recently spoke with an aide to Zelensky who said the Ukrainian leader “deludes himself” into thinking Ukraine can win. “We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that,” the aide said.

(antiwar.com)

All that is needed now is a network of trenches on both sides and we can have a replay of World War One.

Anyone that knows history will tell how moronic that war was on so many levels.

The US just cannot come up with alternatives that will save the country of Ukraine and find a peaceful solution.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Who Will Do The Absorbing?

We all know of the carnage in the Middle East these days….and that the IDF is pushing and pushing people into a position where they can be eliminated.

Good Old reliable BiBi has floated an idea for Palestinians……

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a meeting of his Likud party on Monday that he’s working to bring about the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza and looking for countries willing to “absorb” them, Israel Hayom reported.

“Our problem is countries that are ready to absorb them, and we are working on it,” Netanyahu said. His comments are the latest sign that Israel’s ultimate goal is to cleanse Gaza of its 2.3 million Palestinian residents.

Netanyahu said the world is “already discussing the possibilities of voluntary immigration” and pointed to comments from former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, who is currently running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Haley said last week that Palestinians in Gaza should migrate to “pro-Hamas” countries.

Netanyahu said that a team must be set up to “ensure that those who want to leave Gaza to a third country can do so. It needs to be settled. It has strategic importance for the day after the war.”

Last month, Israeli Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel penned an op-ed for The Jerusalem Postcalling for the “voluntary resettlement” of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to other countries around the world. Two members of the Israeli Knesset wrote a similar op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that said Western nations should accept Palestinian refugees.

While Netanyahu and other Israeli officials have framed the plan as “voluntary resettlement,” Israel’s brutal campaign in Gaza is making much of the enclave uninhabitable. About 90% of Gaza’s population has already been internally displaced.

 A leaked document drafted by Gamliel’s Intelligence Ministry said pushing all 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza into Egypt was the ideal scenario for the Israeli government. But Egypt has refused to take in any Palestinian refugees, forcing Israeli officials to look elsewhere to facilitate their planned ethnic cleansing.

(antiwar.com)

I am sure that AIPAC has enough clout in Congress that the US could absorb these people….after all according to idiots we do have an open border.

Personally, I would give BiBi the finger and tell him he created the problem then he needs to deal with it….but that would take balls and those are sadly lacking here in the Congress and the country.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Russia/China Partnership

For years now we all have heard of the growing power that is China and then the South China Sea became part of that saga with the bull’s eye on Taiwan…and with all the chest thumping the War Department gets lots of cash…..and then as if on cue Russia invades Ukraine and BAM! we have new threat to American world domination…..and the War Department smiled a large grin.

And then the two also rans started working together…..on several levels and a new more potent adversaries emerges….one that should keep the War Department in cash for many years to come.

For decades, the military might of the US was unchallenged.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US was the world’s only military superpower, with its forces deployed all over the world to defend allies and deter aggression.

But as 2023 draws to a close, conflicts are flaring across the world, and Russia and China are growing increasingly aggressive in their shared ambition to topple the US as the world’s biggest power.

Their authoritarian leaders, Xi Jinping of China and Vladimir Putin of Russia, are seeking to exploit global instability to damage the US and its allies, say analysts, and are drawing closer to forming a military alliance that poses the biggest threat the US has faced in decades.

“It is clear that the two states see themselves as military partners, and that this partnership is growing deeper and more experienced, even if it is not a formal alliance in the Western sense,” Jonathan Ward, CEO of the Atlas Group, told Business Insider.

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-china-brink-military-alliance-may-overwhelm-us-putin-xi-2023-12

Now there is a new ‘spot’ that will need an influx of American taxpayer money if China is to be stopped….the Philippines.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi says the country will maintain military pressure on the Philippines amid a dispute over sovereignty in the South China Sea that could involve U.S. forces defending their treaty partner.

In a phone conversation Wednesday with his Philippine counterpart, Enrique A. Manalo, Wang “warned that if the Philippine side misjudges the situation, goes its own way, or even colludes with ill-intentioned external forces to continue to stir up troubles, China will defend its rights in accordance with law and respond resolutely,” the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Wang’s comments follow China’s mobilization of its coast guard and maritime militia to block Philippine supply missions to support its soldiers and fishermen. China claims sovereignty over virtually the entire South China Sea, one of the world’s most crucial waterways for shipping, putting it at odds with the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei, who all maintain claims over islands, reefs and undersea resources in the region.

In particularly sharp comments, Wang was quoted as accusing the Philippines of having “changed its policy stance so far, reneged on the promises it has made, provoked troubles at sea, and undermined China’s legitimate and lawful rights.”

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-12-21/china-vows-to-keep-up-military-pressure-on-the-philippines-as-territorial-dispute-grows-tenser

Not to worry the War Department will be there with cash in hand to make things ‘better’.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

I Have A New Label!

Just a mere few weeks ago I was told by the Secretary of War that if I did not support unlimited aid for these many many wars that I was an non-interventionist.

In case you missed my label from a few weeks ago…..

Non-Interventionists Are Bad!

I explained in my post why I thought the Sec of War was speaking out his rectum.

Now Congress weighs in on people that criticize Israel…..now thanx to the House I am a anti-Semite….

This should explain it….

The House on Tuesday passed a resolution that says “anti-Zionism is antisemitism,” the chamber’s latest piece of legislation conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

The resolution, which is presented as a resolution condemning antisemitism, passed in a vote of 314-14-92. Only thirteen Democrats and one Republican voted against the legislation, while 92 Democrats voted “present” in protest of a line buried in the bill that explicitly claims anti-Zionism is antisemitism.

The Republican-drafted resolution declares that the House of Representatives “clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is antisemitism.”

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), the most senior Jewish member of the House, criticized the language of the bill ahead of the vote. “The resolution suggests that ALL anti-Zionism is antisemitism. That is either intellectually disingenuous or just factually wrong. And it unfairly implicates many of my orthodox former constituents in Brooklyn, many of whose families rose from the ashes of the Holocaust,” he said.

Nadler claimed that “most anti-Zionism is antisemitism” but added that if authors of the bill “were at all familiar with Jewish history and culture, should know about Jewish anti-Zionism that was, and is, expressly NOT antisemitic.”

“This resolution ignores the fact that even today, certain orthodox Hasidic Jewish communities—the Satmars in New York and others—as well as adherents of the pre-state Jewish labor movement have held views that are at odds with the modern Zionist conception,” he said.

While coming out strongly against the language, Nadler voted “present” instead of “no.” The thirteen Democrats who voted against the bill include Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Cori Bush (D-MO), Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA), Jesús García (D-IL), Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Summer Lee (D-PA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was the only Republican to vote against the bill. Last week, he was the lone member of Congress to vote against a resolution that claimed “denying Israel’s right to exist is a form of antisemitism.” Explaining his opposition, Massie said the resolution also equated anti-Zionism with antisemitism, although not as explicitly as the bill passed on Tuesday.

(antiwar.com)

First these well paid toadies of AIPAC wanted  to make it illegal to boycott Israel and its products….now if anyone criticizes Israel they are anti-Semitic….

What CRAP!

When it comes to religion I could care less what they believe or care to worship that is between them and the Great Spirit.

My criticism has nothing to do with religion but rather how a country that pretends to be a world citizen can act in such barbaric ways.

The Congress can kiss my ass….I will not buy any product or service that originates in Israel…..and I shall continue to criticize Israel when I think they are wrong.

So Congress take your best shots.

Has anyone asked why the Congress is so gung-ho for Israel?

The simple answer is….MONEY!

I know you think I am making this shit up….well I am not….

One of every three members of Congress boarding a jetliner on a privately-funded all-expense paid trip overseas has Israel as their final destination. Only one out of a hundred ever visits Palestinian territories as a final destination.

Analysis of Gift Travel Filings made to the US House of Representatives Office of the Clerk over the past half-decade reveals Israel is far and away their top foreign destination. House of Representatives members made nearly 1,400 trips to Israel, while total subsidized visits to foreign countries other than Israel were 2,500.

The vast majority of Israel trips are funded by the American Israel Education Foundation which raises tax-exempt contributions from pro-Israel donors and Jewish federations. They typically last eight days and cost $10,000. AEIF is a corporation created in 1988 by the domestically-registered lobbying group AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. In 2009 66% of AEIF’s board was comprised of AIPAC directors. Since AIEF is merely a lobbying funding conduit with no employees, whenever members of Congress travel to Israel, they are accompanied instead by staffers from AIPAC. In 2017 AIEF reported raising $60 million in revenue and expending $57 million. Another sole-purpose entity set up by AIPAC in 1984 is the Washington Institute for Near East Policy which works to portray policies favored by the Israeli government as being in the American interest.

https://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2019/02/28/do-members-of-congress-take-too-many-private-trips-to-israel-with-aipac/

Like I said….MONEY!

I raise my finger to Congress and I do not think they are number one.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

What About Those ‘Boomers’?

The holiday is over time to readjust my thinking and get back to doing what I can do best….

I am what is called a ‘Baby Boomer’ and because of all the turmoil this country has been through I thought I should apologize to the nation for my generation….

Read it here in case you missed it….

Apologies From A Boomer

Yes us Boomers have been doing wrong but under that we did a few things right….so I decided that I should point those out as well….

Over the past few years, Baby Boomers (1946 to 1964) have been getting a lot of grief from the generations that came after them, Gen X (1965 to 1980), Millenials (1981 to 1996), and now, Gen Z (1997 to 2012). Their grievances include environmental destruction, wealth hoarding, political polarization, and being judgemental when they don’t understand how hard it is for younger people to make it in America these days.

Every Baby Boomer is different, so it’s wrong to paint them all with a broad brush. But it’s undeniable that each generation shares common values, and some are bound to come into conflict.

However, life in 2023 isn’t without its annoyances. Many that came about after the technological revolution put a phone in everyone’s hands and brought a whole new host of problems. Add the younger generations’ hands-on approach to child rearing and penchant for outrage, and a lot of modern life has become insufferable.

These problems weren’t created by Boomers but by their hyper-online children and grandchildren who can’t seem to get their faces out of their phones.

A Reddit user named AnitaVodkasoda took to the AskReddit forum and asked posters to admit there were some things that Boomers got right. “What is something you can say ‘I’m with the boomers on this one’ about?” they asked, and many responses came from people fed up with the modern-day frustrations caused by technology and social media.

Here are 19 things that people think that Boomers got right.

https://www.upworthy.com/how-old-are-baby-boomers-right-now-rp2

So you see with all the chaos around our political system there are a few things that us Boomers did right….it is a shame that those advances are overshadowed by the pettiness of politics.

I apologize for the chaos but am damn proud that my principles have not changed in my 76 years.

Enough said.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”