@Kaysharichh@ThrillaRilla369 Finding balance is the hardest part… especially if trying to split 💯 of 1 human being, who gives 💯 of herself to what is laid out before her, into 2 very different worlds. 1️⃣ family/home / 2️⃣ work world
He’s the President of the United States — not your ex, not your personal villain, and not the cause of your misery. You don’t have to support him. That’s America.
But if someone is simply backing the sitting President and it makes you rage, cut people off, attack families, or act like garbage — you are the problem.
You’ve turned politics into a personality disorder: nonstop outrage and toddler meltdowns online. Grow up. He won. The sky didn’t fall. Pay your bills, care for your family, touch grass, and move on.
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.
@bennyjohnson@kekamer I swear Democrats are literally the participation trophy party. Crying when they don’t get their way. It’s embarrassing but glorious at the same time. Suck it! 😂🤡
Hey @60Minutes why did you not tell these stories. I am going to repost all the real news and real events from Helene. You ignored us then and now you ignore it because it does not fit your narrative. Where were you when Chimney Rock needed its story told! No one of you cared then and you lie about it now. Please share remind the world of the truth.
“All of the government’s authority comes from our consent.”
“We do not derive our rights from our government.”
“Our rights and our dignity are inherent.”
“They do not come from others.”
Clarence Thomas just delivered a powerful speech breaking down why all state power depends on our consent:
“All of the government's authority comes from our consent.”
“The Constitution… is the Declaration that announces the ends of government.”
“Our Constitution creates a separation of powers and federalism.” “Truly, for the first time in modern history.” “To prevent the government from becoming so strong that it threatens our natural rights.”
“The primacy of our rights in relation to our government is crucial in reconciling the immortal words of the Declaration with our Constitution and our history.”
“The role of government is to ensure it doesn’t exceed the authority to which we have consented or intrude on our natural rights.”
@UTAustin
This is worth repeating:
I never cared that you were gay until you started shoving it down my throat, and I never cared what color you were until you started blaming me for your problems.
I never cared about your political affiliation until you started condemning me for mine.
I really never even cared where you were born until you wanted to erase my history and blame my ancestors for your problems.
I never even cared if your beliefs were different from mine until you said my beliefs were wrong.
But now I care. My patience and tolerance are gone, and I am not alone in feeling like this. There are millions of us who feel like this.
“people who get these SNAP benefits can't use that money to buy chips. It means demand goes down for those foods because the government was subsidizing consumers to buy junk food.”
“What does Pepsi do in response to a decline in demand for its products? It lowers prices.”
“That's how the free market works. The government subsidized consumers to buy junk food by giving them money to pay for it. And so that allowed the companies that sell that type of food to charge higher prices. When the government reduces the subsidy that it provides. Now the companies have to cut their prices.”
“Well, if it works with junk food, it works the same way with everything. Everything the government subsidizes costs more as a direct result of the subsidy. Why is education so expensive, particularly colleges? Because the government subsidizes students to go to college.”
“The government arranges for guaranteed loans or directly finances low interest rate loans to make it easy for people to borrow money to pay for college. That means that colleges could charge more because their customers are getting money from the government to buy their product. What would happen if the government stopped doing that? The government stopped giving out grants and loans. Well, just what Pepsi did. They'd have to cut their prices because demand would go down.”
@PeterSchiff
Chuck Norris on why he left the Democrat Party:
“I used to be a Democrat, but unfortunately the Democrats went too far to the left and the Republicans moved into their position that the Democrats were 40 years ago. See? And, so, what the Democrats believed 40 years ago Republicans believe today. And so I realized that I had to go to a Republican because the Democrats just got too far off the trail. They just got completely off the trail and lost all reality of what America stood for. And so I realized that Republicans at this point in time are more focused on what’s best for America than what the Democrats are.”
This millennial would like Gen X to sit down. Does he understand what would happen to the world if we decided to do that??
Take a listen to this response.
It is perfection! 👌🏼
🚨 WOW! The streets of Washington, DC are absolutely FLOODED with people cheering for President Trump’s kiIIing of Khamenei
This is HISTORIC.
Democrats are going to have a REALLY tough time spinning this one.