KelBelle

New Mexican born/raised and proud of my multicultural state. Animals are better than people. Protect the vulnerable. Fight for democracy.

[DawneStacey/SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🌻🦔🐇🐈🦉 @nightowl2110]

@atrupar

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Dear Gullible White Male Trump voters,

I made something for YOU.

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

Trickle-down Econ 101 in 2 1/2 minutes

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

The Trump dictionary explained

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Trump said the quiet part out loud when he joked “smart people don’t like me”.

[Athena is her 💫 @Athena_is_her]

@KyleKulinski

[KelBelle @kelbelle0808]

@mjfree Omg, this dude is so yesterday 🙄

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 @jamestalarico: “The only minority destroying America is billionaires: Trans people aren’t taking away our healthcare. Muslims aren’t defunding our schools. Immigrants aren’t cutting taxes for themselves + their rich friends… It’s billionaires & their puppet politicians.”

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

Everything trump does is treason

This is the way

[KelBelle @kelbelle0808]

@Suzierizzo1 Get a lawyer....

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

So according to Trump the Democrats forgot to rig the election in 2016 (letting him win) then somehow rigged the election in 2020 (while Trump was in power) and then completely forgot to rig it in 2024 (letting him win again). Do I got that right you silly MAGA dipshits?

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

MASSIE: “We control the house, the senate, the White House. (And to some degree the Supreme Court)— so I ask my Republican colleagues: why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the damn elections!”

Also: REPUBLICANS were in charge when Trump says it was rigged 🙃

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Epstein survivor on Todd Blanche “Blanche spent 9 hours meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell. He did not even spend 9 minutes meeting with the survivors.”

Horrifying.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Outing the victims / survivors and not the perpetrators is INFURIATING!!! Do not confirm Todd Blanche

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature.”

— Hubert Reeves

[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.

[KelBelle @kelbelle0808]

@charise_lee We should stop paying taxes. Time for another tax revolt🤬🤬🤬

[Michael Steele @MichaelSteele]

“If y’all could give us less than zero seats you would do it…The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy."

Nailed it.

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

This conversation with .@TimothyDSnyder and .@katiecouric from her podcast is disturbing, but as usual, Snyder is calling it as it happens around us. If this doesn’t make you think about what is happening, I’m not sure what would. #DemsUnited

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

“To be a good guy; it’s more than just not being the bad guy.”