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[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[RNMoon @RNMoon]

@TulsiGabbard May God bless your husband and your family 🙏🏻

[Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸 @EricSpracklen]

Buying a house in 2026...

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

[Dan Proft @DanProft]

Life is like a guitar. @ericchurch offers a brillianct commencement address (and guitar lesson) at his alma mater, UNC, that belongs in the pantheon of addresses of this sort with those of Steve Jobs (Stanford) and David Foster Wallace (Kenyon College).

[RNMoon @RNMoon]

@mattvanswol Family members said “yeah sad he died and all, BUT…”
If you said anything resembling a but defending the assassination of a human being, you seriously need to reexamine your relationship with God.

[First Lady Melania Trump @FLOTUS]

Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.

People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.

A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.

Enough is enough.  It is time for ABC to take a stand.  How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.

[RNMoon @RNMoon]

@SecScottBessent @FT @SecScottBessent you are a hardcore rockstar! We are sooo lucky to have you as Secretary of Treasury. Do what I do with my insufferable family and ignore them. The truth, as is said, will out.

[RNMoon @RNMoon]

@nickshirleyy @CAgovernor @JenSiebelNewsom Epic!!! 🔥

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Sam Harris sits quietly as Bill Maher calls out the NYT for pushing readers toward an opinion on the “Iran War.”

“The second day of the war… The New York Times’ headline was ‘US troops die.’ That was what they led with.”

“But then, in a country where I’ve read 80 to 90% of the people are thrilled that the Ayatollah is gone, what picture did they put? Picture of people mourning the Ayatollah…”

“I can’t believe that somebody at the desk didn’t get, ‘I’ve got a great picture of people dancing in the streets.’ Yeah, we’re gonna go with the 10% who are sorry the Ayatollah is dead because that’s gonna funnel the thought of our readers toward, ‘Oh, this is a bad war to get into.’”

“That, to me, is the difference in what the media does now and what they didn’t used to do. You’re funneling me toward an opinion, whereas I would love it if you just told me what happened.”

After a couple of low-energy “yeahs,” Harris conceded: “The boundary between activism and journalism has clearly broken down.”

[Brandon Straka #WalkAway @BrandonStraka]

My aunt died from an incredibly aggressive cancer on Sunday. She only began showing symptoms in November.

The last 3 months she endured horrendous pain and she finally let go.

We hardly spoke or saw each other the past 8 years because hard feelings about politics and January 6th kept us apart.

Of course none of that matters now. We were close when I was growing up, and I wish I could have seen her before she passed to heal the break. We did not think she would lose this battle, and we certainly didn’t know it could happen so fast.

I hate what politics has done to us. I hate it. I simply hate it.

Tears are rolling down my cheeks on this airplane as I write this.

Love and prayers for my Aunt Janene and her suffering family now, please.

[Clandestine @WarClandestine]

How many times do we have to go through this before people recognize that Trump actually knows what he is doing?

Trump is eliminating the Deep State’s militaristic capabilities worldwide.

Iran, and their terror proxies in the Middle East, are being purged. The cartels, and their terrorist organizations in the Western Hemisphere, are being purged.

Trump has been telling us for years that he is going to “obliterate” the Deep State, and that’s what he is doing. Trump has to eliminate the Deep State’s foot soldiers. The cartels and Islamic terror networks, are assets of the Deep State, that threaten the safety of everyone, and Trump knows they must be destroyed.

Iran was also the vehicle for Obama to offshore nuclear weapons directly into the hands of the ruling families. The regime must be removed and Iran returned to her People.

You want to live in a word free of the Deep State? That’s exactly what Trump is doing. It’s not always going to be sunshine and rainbows, but it must be done.

There will be no broader escalation. There will be no prolonged conflict. This will be a surgical military operation, just like everything else Trump does.

Trust Trump. He has earned it.

[RNMoon @RNMoon]

@Amelia558rs 1!!! 😍

[RNMoon @RNMoon]

@mattvanswol Don’t lose your cool 😎 haha. Just have faith that the truth will out. In it’s own time.

[Clare Anne Ath @clareanneath]

Women grow an entire human being for nine months, push it out of their body, and then are expected to be back in the office in 6-8 weeks and see the baby for a handful of hours a day.

We’ve genuinely normalized this.

It doesn’t register as insane until you say it out loud.

[RNMoon @RNMoon]

@MrPitbull07 Spinach or a salad

[RNMoon @RNMoon]

@katiecouric, sane people felt a “great deal of discomfort” with Charlie’s assassination. You have rebranded and stomped all over the First Amendment with your war on Free Speech. For all the individuals who said how sad Charlie’s assisination was and followed with any narrative starting with a “but”, shame on you.

[RNMoon @RNMoon]

@ScottPresler In no small part due to you, @ScottPresler!!!

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

One thing I was unprepared for in the professional world was how they do layoffs.

There was this one guy who had worked at the company for 10 years.
He had moved closer to the office to cut down his commute.

He had never talked bad about the company, and you could tell that this company was his life.

One day, he gets a call from his boss, who he had worked with for 10 years, and he joins a Zoom. Immediately, HR joins the call, and he knows what's going down.

After that call, laid off.
He goes back to his desk, picks up all his stuff, doesn't even say anything to anyone, doesn't say bye.

I don't blame him, though. He's probably in so much shock.

Gathers all his stuff, walks out the door.
Just like that — 10 years, and gone.

That's how layoffs happen.
And the craziest part was no one around me looked surprised because it is so normalized.

It's just another day in corporate life. And even the people who had known this guy for about 4–5 years weren't surprised.

If you ever think a company cares about you, just know they don't.
They're going to do what's in their best interest, and so should you.

[RNMoon @RNMoon]

@mattvanswol Registered Nurse!