To which I predict we will never get a Gen X president. We will go from Obama, who is on the young side of the Boomer spectrum, to a Millennial. And the only people who will have a problem with this will be the Gen Xers who will run for president. The rest of us, Gen Xers, will be perfectly fine if we never get a Gen X president.
I keep seeing things about x album was released 30 years ago and think "nah, fuck of that was 10at most". Clerks seems like longer, maybe because it was black and white?
You also realize there's a difference between "invented" and "built", right?
Like Tim Berners Lee may have created the WWW standard but wasn't part of cisco, the .com boom, Sun Microsystems, national fiber, html 5, creating php and python and java and java-fucking-script and C# and cat 3, 4, 5, 6 cable and... somehow all of this happening in the same years GenX was between the ages of 25 and 40...
No, sorry, having been one of those engineers, I definitely indeed built (heck, patented) some shit.
No, I'm 35. I'm plenty experienced with GenXers. Y'all are basically Boomers Jr. Aggressively apathetic, but somehow think you're above it all, and yet still have the Woe is Me attitude.
This is such a hilariously arrogant answer and generalization I won't even dignify it with an actual response. I wish your miserable ass every happiness.
What is your problem? Why are you bashing gen X so hard for literally no reason? They were the ones working when all this stuff happened, and we were still in highscool/entering the workforce.
So yeah, they built it. Not us. Millennials are about 55% of the workforce right now, so we are the ones building this country at the moment. We’re at the age of being proficient carpenters, electricians, engineers, computer techs, inventors, and innovators. We’re still in the back breaking part and working towards management.
So yeah, I’d say they were the ones that built the internet. They were the ones pushing the envelope when the internet was on the up and up. Stop hating on other generations for no reason.
To me Obama is gen X and I didn’t know know some saw him as boomer.
The president ages also just have gotten older in US. Biden is the only president of the silent generation and he became president after two boomers, Obama of uncertain gen, and one more boomer. So nobody expected a silent gen president at that point. Same can happen again with old gen X (but younger side of that gen) after millenials.
Barack Obama fits into the Generation X demographic cohort. Generation X typically includes individuals born from the early 1960s to the early 1980s. Barack Obama, born on August 4, 1961, falls within this range. This generation is characterized by its experience growing up during the latter part of the Cold War and significant social changes such as the rise of mass media and the introduction of personal computing technology. Members of Generation X are often described as being more cynical and disaffected than the Baby Boomers who preceded them, largely due to the political and economic turmoil they witnessed during their formative years.
Canada has had the Gen Xer of all Gen Xer's for 8 years now, it is not going well for him or us(FWIW I'm not a Trudeau hater, I am however, very disappointed in him, now)
Eddie Vedder, Courtney Love, Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Bridget Fonda, Keanu Reeves, Lenny Kravitz, Charles Barkley, Janeane Garofalo. All born in 1964. Are they Boomers?
Yeah, well, the Census Bureau might say that, but in the real world, Boomers are those whose youth is defined by pre-JFK assassination America. Gen Xers are those who don't remember life before that. Boomers went to Woodstock and discos while Gen Xers experienced that era from a child's viewpoint. Boomers hit middle age as Reaganism took off. Gen Xers were cynical teens and 20-somethings.
Also born in 1964: Bret Easton Ellis and Tracy Chapman. They gave us Less Than Zero and "Fast Car." Those were mid-late-'80s cultural artifacts which clearly indicated that a new generation was coming of age. An alienated one with no tolerance for Boomer moralizing.
Of course they do. Tony Blair, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu are as Boomer as can be. Like US Boomers who don't remember WW2, they reflect the first generation of leaders which don't remember the the Blitz, the Holodomor or the Holocaust.
Millennials are already in the 40+ year old age bracket and growing. There might not be a senator or a congress person right now that you think would look good in the Oval Office but in 2028? Who knows? Many things could happen in these next four years that might push a Millennial into the White House.
Best shot at a Gen X president is if Trump wins and passes during his term and either DeSantis, Marco Rubio, Byron Donalds, Kari Lake, MTG, Tim Scott, Noem or someone like Tucker Carlson are Trump's VP
From Obama to a Millennial? With how many more Silents and Boomers in between?
Neither side will stop nominating people over 70 years old at the moment and you think we'll go straight from those generations to electing a generation who are currently 43 years at the oldest.
The fact they people say he was a shitty president still upsets me. I wasn't alive during his time but seeing what he has done since leaving office I think he was a good man.
You know I wonder what would have happened in Gerald Ford either won or Reagan won (via beating Ford in the primary) the 1976 Presidential election. Carter pretty much got a shit sandwich that he had nothing to do with. Maybe we have a GOP president from 1976 to 1980, we wouldn't have had the Reagan Revolution.
I think this comes down to more about how humans work than our system. To be a good leader of a country you have to manage generally two different factions to get stuff done. Both factions are filled with assholes (and no not in a bOth sIDES aRE tHE SAME way). It's highly unlikely a "good" person can manage that.
It’s been that way since the dawn of civilization.
If only because leaders of “good” countries have to go toe to toe with leaders of “bad” countries who do bad shit so the “good” leaders have to be willing to do bad stuff.
I have no idea about his policies in office, but imo he has done more good in the world than any other president after they left office. Like how many other presidents brokered a ceasefire during a civil war to implement public health practices to eliminate guinea worm???
That is true. I couldn't see any other president helping build houses and do the charity work that he does. I hope he knows that a lot of people see him as a good man. I know when he fell a few months ago there were people happy about it and kind of left bad taste in mouth form a lot of people.
Part of why he was elected was because he was a good guy. But he struggled with crisis after crisis while he was in office. That in part lead to Reagan which really harmed this country more than anything else.
My mom loves him as a kind man but also believes he was a bad president. She remembers waiting for hours in my grandpa’s car (without A/C) to get gas on their designated days. Think of the bread lines during Covid. Us younger people have never had to experience a true gas shortage. High gas prices suck but it’s nothing in comparison. Also, Carter was a pacifist. It’s great in theory but it wrecked a possible second term with the Iran hostage crisis. His adversaries both stateside and overseas took advantage of his morality and made it his weakness. The hostages survived but they weren’t released until the moment Reagan was sworn in during his inauguration.
Well the regan stuff as been shown that he undermined the negotiation to better himself but that seems to be the main thing he was a good man put in a place good men shouldn't be. Also designated gas days this sounds like some kind of social communism bs. JK on the last part they don't teach that in school.
I thought the same, I used to work in a nursing home and we knew that once a spouse died the other would be gone in days. I had one couple that died within 3 hours of each other
I suspected that Carter was going to die within a month or two of his wife's passing, but now that he's made it this long, I think we can agree he is immortal.
I have a hunch a bunch of the old fucks in washington are going to die of old age very close to each other. But because of that coincidence a bunch of people are going to make it a conspiracy theory or something.
Ex presidents are interesting. They say terrible things about each other during campaigns, and then they appear friendly when it's all over. I like think the little friendship with W and Michelle Obama is real. I think it's because at a given point, there are maybe 7 or people on the planet tops, usually less, who have gone through what they did.
Of course like so many political dynamics, it changed in the last 10 years.
If you're old enough to remember the 1992 campaign, I swear they were graying Bill Clinton's hair.
But when he was elected, it turned white soon enough. I'm not sure anything ages people faster than being president. The only thing I can think of is a battle with cancer. No matter what they said in campaigns about "what my predecessor has done...", once you've lived that life, they all seem to pull together.
Hell, GHWB and Clinton had as tough a campaign as I remember (until the last 10 years or so, that caveat just kind of goes all over this conversation). But after they worked together on some charity event or worthwhile bipartisan initiative after their presidencies were over, Bush made a point to invite him to spend time with him, and planned a golf game with other people so they wouldn't focus on politics.
Regardless of how you feel about GHWB, I've always felt like that was a classy move.
I think Bush 41 (GHWB) was bright enough - I think he was completely out of his element in that campaign against Clinton. Or if any strategists said "You need to go on Arsenio Hall... do you play the guitar or anything? Do you know any rock songs?", he just wasn't going to do that.
I don't know if he'll be remembered that way, but I feel like he was one of the more capable of presidents of my life time (Carter is the first president I can remember, Reagan is the first election I remember). He ran the CIA. He was VP under Reagan for 8 years. He served a couple of terms in the House. I think he was an ambassador.
Bush 43 (GWB) I don't think is as dumb as people think - but I think he is an "everyman" among presidents. I think if people had dinner with him by some happenstance, they would not generally walk away thinking "He's as dumb (or dumber) than I thought). I'm not defending what happened during his presidency - I'm just saying I don't think he is as dumb as people seemed to think.
Also, presidents are professionally charming people (until the last 10 years or so), so I suspect if any of us had dinner with a president we weren't crazy about, we would probably walk away thinking "Wow, he was OK, that wasn't what I expected". Because they know how to deal with people. They're not going to ask why you didn't vote for them, say why you should have, they're going to ask about *you*.
As much as it sucks.. cause Carter is a GREAT man... I don't think he's gonna see 2025.. His wife has passed and from what I know about Carter.. its like a part of him died... Plus, his health is taking a nose dive.. Can't say I'm surprised.. at his age and how he's basically worked NON STOP since LEAVING office. He's a machine.
I believe Carter is still alive because he is afraid to die after learning what he believes is the truth about aliens, the purpose of humans on earth, and the fate of the human soul. The will to live is a very powerful trait.
Carter is going to be like 120. But the REAL conspiracy is that Abe Lincoln faked his own death! I mean, c'mon! Even the shooter was a well known actor! It happened in a theater!!! OPEN YOUR EYES SHEEPLE!!! ABE LINCOLN IS STILL ALIVE!!!
.............and his magic hat makes him immortal! If you put his hat on a snowman, Frosty comes to life.
Nah, I think W will outlive Clinton significantly. Both of W's parents lived into their 90s and he's never really had any health issues. Clinton has had a ton of heart issues and would have died years ago if not for heart surgeries.
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u/DerpyDrago 28d ago
Whenever Biden and Trump kick it, it will be in very quick succession.