Unsurprisingā¦ I know one time they facilitated a debate at a show between that faction and the left leaning factionā¦
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Some of it depends on how they themselves feel about itā¦ itās sort of on the cusp of two.
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Thanks for this concise list of everything that defines me as a person! (Not sarcasm! Fear of nuclear annihilation and fascination with computers is pretty much me.)
That quote makes me wonder if Trump was present and thought that this was genuinely an option available to him.
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I fall into that early 80ās category, and have taken to calling myself an Elder Millennial (credit to the comedian Iliza Shlesinger). In general, I feel like generations are mostly marketing devices, but my experiences align more closely to Millennial than Xers. Iāve also hear of us as a micro category called the Oregon Trail Generation, which cracks me up. Old enough to remember a time before the internet, but almost as tech savvy as the newer digital natives.
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Yeah, thatās why I argue that itās culturally driven and a social construct. The market just happens to be one of the key ways in which they are constructed sociallyā¦ I would say that the Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials, Gen Zers all have more in common than the Boomers had with their parents. The lack of understanding between those generations was relatively genuine, and a relatively new historical development, that was both driven by different experiences in their respective youths (with Silents/Greatest) living through the depression and the second world war, and not having much of a teenagedhood to speak of, while their kids, the boomers had an extended childhood and more leisure time, freedom, and cashā¦
Did they all die of dysentery? 
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I donāt mind the generational goalpost battles, because itās way more palatable than what came before it.
Iām talking about āthe Decadesā, where each ten-year block was supposed to have a completely different intrinsic character: somehow hard-wired by the calendar. 50s 60s 70s 80s 90sā¦ all packaged and the overlaps elided or papered over by mainstream pop cultural punditry (historians had more nuance, of course). People tended to ignore that 1963 was a lot different than 1969, but mooshed them together under a decade banner.
I feel like that decade-blocking mostly died down as a marketing gimmick after 2000, and itās been a lot harder to demarcate 2006 from 2017 socially, musically and fashion-wise, than the way a person could more easily cleave and stereotype
the differences between the worlds of 1979 and 1981.
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Not yet, but a combination of lead poisoning and measles might do the trick.
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Turns out Rod Rosenstein is a massive kiss-ass.
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- That is somebody who has job-related stomach evacuations at the end of most days.
- I wonder if heās resigning so he can enthusiastically be a Congress witness, or instead so he can avoid being a Congress witness.
- Isnāt saying, āI liked those lofty goals you said youād do when you started,ā kind of a quiet burn? Thatās not, āI like what you actually did.ā
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Did Trump just try to out Napolitano?
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I mean, sort of. Trumpās supporters and Trumpās detractors could say a lot of the same sentences, the difference being how clever the person saying it is.
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So much for his continual assertions that he has nothing to hide.
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Itās the lack of a common prefix in the names of the current numbers.
Itāll pick back up again once weāre a few years into āthe twenties.ā
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A heads up about a late morning shitshow on cable news today
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Most transparent presidency ever right?
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I genuinely donāt understand how this lawsuit is supposed to work. Iām not sure if itās legally possible that complying with a subpoena from congress can get you into civil trouble. But if it is possible, you still have to comply with the subpoena and the civil legal trouble is your problem.
I think the usually metaphorical phrase, āeat shitā has never been more appropriate. Bad stuff comes out of your body. [ETA: Thatās why your body gets rid of it]
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The guest being Marc Morano, a professional climate-change denier who literally gets paid to lie about the environment.
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