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.
A woman with absolutely zero following, no groundswell of support, and no name ID absolutely killed it in mail-in voting in Los Angeles. It's just the way this state counts ballots, guys!!
Free PSA: If you don't want us to assume cheating, maybe make it a little less obvious.
Her body language, facial expressions, the tone of her questions, the way she moves her hands, her hatred clouds her judgment; she’s not a reporter, she’s a political activist from @NBC intent on making the President look bad, and Trump knows it, Kristen Welker is an activist
I feel genuinely terrible for all my Southern California friends who worked so hard. It was always going to go this way because that’s how communism works.
Once you vote it in, you can’t vote it out.
I wish I were shocked. IMHO, if a real investigation were ever conducted, we’d find 75% or more of our elected officials are dirty. @data_republican@realDonaldTrump
🚨 JUST IN: Socialist Nithya Raman has OVERTAKEN Spencer Pratt in the Los Angeles mayoral election, despite Pratt’s previously sizable lead, per VoteHub
Absolutely RIGGED. This needs to be THOROUGHLY investigated.
Raman has conveniently received a WILDLY disproportionate amount of “late mail-in ballots” compared to both Bass and Pratt.
Pratt made an absolute FOOL out of Raman in the debates, even forcing her to retract her previous support of defunding the police.
God bless Spencer Pratt.
I’m the only one who is not remotely disturbed by the Democrat fraud unfolding in the Los Angeles mayor’s race. And why? Because I knew to a certainty that statistically impossible cheating would take place AGAIN. I said it, I was right, and I’m done with it.
America is lost.
This is the PERFECT example of why foreigners should not be allowed to run for office
Zul Mohammed just ran for Mayor of Carrollton, Texas. He’s from Pakistan
“No vet has made any sacrifice. I want to make that clear. I do not support the US military. No, I do not support the United States. I look down on both entities. I want to make that clear”
I can’t think of a better example of why only natural born citizens should be allowed to run for office
Also he is a Muslim, which further enforces the classic “I do not support the United States”
We need new election eligibility laws
2023. Immediately after her interview with Trump was broadcast, Kristen Welker "fact checked" Trump about his Jan 6th claim that the Mayor of DC had called for the National Guard and that they were turned away.
Welker apparently forgot about her reporting from January 5th, 2021.
You haven't been "in combat for this country" you total fraud @ScottPelley. Like countless other journalists I also have been to war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan on assignment and never in a million years would I pretend that was "combat".
Talk about stolen valor.
When I left the courthouse on Friday, multiple individuals approached Sippi and me. They were yelling and brandishing multiple firearms.
One of the men initially displayed a pistol that was slung outside of his shirt and held it at a low-ready position. The individuals were clearly making sure that we saw the firearm as they approached.
Afterward, Sippi sarcastically remarked, “That’s bad ass.”
The man then responded, “Oh, I bet you didn’t see this one,” before lifting his shirt and brandishing another firearm that was positioned near his waistband (in the center).
The group continued yelling and followed us across the front of the parking lot.
Sippi immediately escorted me to our vehicle, and we left.
I am not here to give these people any of my time or attention. I am here to report, as I have been for the past year.
It’s sad that it has come to this. They are angry that I’m doing my job, and behavior like this is exactly why we have increased our security measures and are taking additional precautions.
A large number of the men in the parking lot carrying firearms have identified themselves as members of the Black Panthers. I do not know whether the individuals who approached us were affiliated with that group or not.
As a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq I find this self-aggrandizing “journalist” to be highly objectionable.
He is narcissistic filth with a grotesquely ridiculous sense of unwarranted self importance.
People talk about “stolen valor.”
THIS is stolen valor.
California Is Blocking a Federal Audit of Its Voter Rolls
California allows first-time voters to register using forms of ID that most Americans would find surprising, including:
-Gym membership card
-Employer ID card
-Credit or debit card
-Prescription drug label
-Insurance card (California provides free health coverage to undocumented immigrants)
Full list: https://t.co/BvfviJsYG8
This is permitted when a voter fails to provide a Social Security number or driver’s license at registration. Our office believes this policy deserves a closer look.
We also have serious concerns about how California maintains its voter rolls. There are open questions about whether the state is promptly removing deceased voters, people who have moved, and individuals convicted of disqualifying felonies.
On top of that, California allows third parties to collect and turn in ballots on voters’ behalf (a practice known as ballot harvesting) with few restrictions. This makes it difficult to track who actually received, completed, and submitted each ballot.
For over a year, the Department of Justice has been trying to audit California’s voter rolls. Federal law gives the Attorney General the authority to review state voter files and confirm that only eligible U.S. citizens are voting in federal elections.
@AAGDhillon sent California a letter explaining our legal authority. California refused to comply, claiming state privacy laws block the review, an argument that does not hold up because those laws don’t apply to the federal government in this context. We’ve sued California in federal court, and the case is before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
If California genuinely wants voters to trust its elections, it should open its records, not fight to keep them closed.
What are they afraid of?
In responding to a challenge from Sen. Fetterman to prove that he did not send naked pictures to women, Graham Platner immediately raised the Jews, declaring that Fetterman is a tool of AIPAC. It appears that the tattoo may be obscured, but a certain obsession remains...
California Sheriff says their elections are being RIGGED!
Your vote in California is being STOLEN by illegals, and they're not even hiding it anymore.
Sheriff's investigators uncovered that people from PAKISTAN were voting in California elections. Multiple people living OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY were registered and casting ballots.
California's online voter registration system operates on an "honor system" where literally anyone in the world can register to vote by simply clicking a box saying they're not lying. No verification, no citizenship checks. Just click and you're registered.
Once you're in the system, you automatically get mailed a ballot for EVERY election!
California voters elect Republicans, and then Democrats figure out how many votes they need to stuff in the machines in the two weeks after the election to steal it.
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