Trump hit the daily double a long time ago: FINANCIAL BANKRUPTCY and MORAL BANKRUPTCY. while financial bankruptcy may be expunged after seven years, moral bankruptcy is a stain that generally lasts forever. Trump is possibly the most morally bankrupt person this side of Hitler in modern world history. Eradicating the stains he has left on America and the world will likely take a long, long time.
I agree with your belief in our future, or at least I share your hope. There is one difference I have with your view. I would like to leave the White House as it is today, with the East Wing nothing but a disproportionate, ugly construction site. I want this to stand as a monument to what happens when people don't show up to vote, when people are brainwashed into thinking that both sides are the same. I want a permanently ruined White House to remain as a monument to people who withheld their votes as protests ("but Gaza!!!"), who were too lazy, who were brainwashed by Fox, who lied to themselves about both parties being the same. I want every eighth grade class on their trip to the capital to see that pit in the ground as a testament of not caring enough to vote. I want Congress to pass a law making every Election Day a national holiday, and a special USPS bureau to protect the vote.
The White House should be restored. Though I concur with election day being a national holiday, In addition, I suggest making voting a mandatory exercise of citizenship. With civics being a mandatory course of study for the every eighth grade class in the country. If a student wants to advance, they must pass civics with a grade no less than an A.
I think you’re dead wrong about this being the fault of the baby boom generation and it’s dangerous to pit generations of us against each other.
The fact is the uber wealthy, tech & news media have purchased our democracy & they have been enabled by a congress of whom less than 1/2 are baby boomers. And most in trumps cabinet are not baby boomers.
There were 76 million babies born into 2 very different decades between 1946 to 1964. Boomers drove civil rights, women’s rights & protests against the Vietnam war & the military draft. They have been instrumental in making significant improvements in technology. But there is a massive difference between the lived experience between those born before 1954 & those born after 1954. And plenty of us do not support this Republican administration.
"I think you’re dead wrong about this being the fault of the baby boom generation and it’s dangerous to pit generations of us against each other."
CJ, I totally agree. Steve has a difficult time dealing with the fact that he was a Republican operative for most of his life and he is blame-shifting. Blame for the disgraceful state of our country falls squarely on the shoulders of "conservative" Republicans and their allies in the Christian Nationalist movent and the weirdo Qanon conspiracy theorists. The rot and corruption was made possible by Republican appointees to SCOTUS.
To blame an entire generation is counter-productive, dead wrong, and very dangerous.
More like the gilded age on steroids. This is not a generational issue. It’s predatory capitalism & the same old story of the business owners & uber wealthy believing only they should make the choices of who ‘deserves’ to benefit from the country’s riches. Supported by the white Christian nationalists who’ve used this wedge to advance their own un American views.
And it’s doubtful we get out of this mess without the support of many baby boomers. We saw many of those boomers out on the protest lines against ICE in Minnesota.
Agree Anthony. I have never voted Republican or at any time for Trump, and I am a baby boomer. Most ? ( many) of the protesters now against Trump are baby boomers. It is naive of Steve to portray us all as of one mind.
Thank you for pointing this out and I would like to add that the current, public protesters of this administration are overwhelmingly baby boomers. See any No Kings demonstration, for example. I would also bet that many of Sam's and The Warning's subscribers are baby boomers. I wish people would stop painting us with such a broad brush.
Thanks a million, Steve. This hit the spot with my morning coffee. I'm really sick of all this shit every day, day in and day out. I'm just gob smacked that the republican senators just sit and watch him destroy our country and bleed it dry. The party of the fiscal conservative my ass. We are going over the cliff, and they all just sit on their hands. My senator, Jon Ossoff, is right. ENOUGH is ENOUGH!
Lucky you for having Ossoff as your senator 😘. I would add onto your statement about the Republican Party’s responsibility in this. Also every single one of the voters who made this happen share that. It was a perfect storm. Now not only do we not want any of them in power, it is a monumental battle to get them out. This must never happen again.
As a boomer, I can admit feeling shame for the Me Generation. Unlike too many aging Americans, I never voted for Trump. However, I do see the worst characteristics of my generation reflected in Trump.
Trump's excesses and atrocities were reflected in 1930's Germany, in Antebellum America, in ancient Rome and throughout every age and generation that has existed. His revulsions are not a baby boom phenomenon. They are a human trait that happen to be expressing during the baby boom era. Trump is not who we are. And, I might add that tons of young people voted for this guy and worship at his foul feet.
I love your posts...They give me hope. I am a baby boomer. I am proud of what my generation accomplished and very ashamed of what we are respomsible for. No way would I go to Wahington DC until he is out and his name is ripped down. I can't go now it would be too upsetting. The whole thing is beyond despicable.
Do not blame trumpism on the Baby Boom generation of which I am a member of just because Trump was born in that generation. Many of us have opposed him from before he ever claimed entrance into politics and have been stalwart in it. That generalization is as misguided as a racist’s logic.
I agree, Alyce! While I am immensely proud of my parent's Greatest Generation and their sacrifices and accomplishments . I am also proud of the generation they raised: Mine! I'm proud that we started the first Earth Day and brought the protection of the environment to top of mind. I'm proud that we marched to end the Vietnam War and that we demanded women's rights and Civil rights. Look at the ever expanding No Kings marches and the country wide bridge brigades. Who is out there? We are! Still marching. I refuse to feel responsible for the fact that the Republican's 40 year war on the "educated elite" finally resulted in the dumbing down of America to the point that half this nation can't read beyond the 5th grade level. And as they drool over the stooges on Fox, can't have a single thought that can't fit on a bumper sticker and are so ill-informed they thought a profoundly stupid man playing a "business man" on a fake reality TV show was real, the rest of us are left to do what we've done after EVERY Republican administration since Eisenhower: clean up their mess!
From your pen to god’s ears, as they say. I really want to see that gold shit thrown out of the oval office and bonfired, live on television, on that god-forsaken helipad to mark the sunset on Jan. 20, 2029.
Dang, Steve, you always have had a way with words. Stinky Don fears death at a level you and I will probably never feel. Because in his poorly wired brain, only Stinky Don exists; everything and everyone is a plaything to him. He moves the parts; he controls the actors, and when an obstacle appears (You can't have your 1.776 billion reparations fraud money, or the Save America Act), they don't die. He keeps the door open, hoping Mitch will rise from the dead to shepherd his deity's commands. GOD COMPLEX! see: https://lyndance1.substack.com/p/these-are-the-stakes-lbj-1964?r=6emu46&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
I am ready for Trump to be in the rearview mirror. He is an abhorrent creature that should never have been. The thing I cannot fathom is his total hold on the GOP. I just do not get it. Plus there are many in the electorate who still worship. I just don’t get it. I am ready for the restoration of the White House, national mall, monuments, and everything else he has destroyed. But mostly, I would like the why answered. Why did the GOP have total acquiescence to him? I kept hearing “on the anonymity’ or “quietly they stated’ or “in the cloakroom of congress’, but not out loud. What does Trump have on these spineless wonders? Great article, Steve! Keep shining the light.
Everyone has secrets. Trump and power brokers (through threats of: exposing their secrets, to their families, themselves, bribes of power and $, fear of losing their cushy jobs and basically their beliefs of self-importance) control their very existence. I can’t speak of the voters who are losing jobs, $ and their rights yet still support this administration.
Steve, how dare you saddle my entire generation, the children of those men and women who fought and sacrificed and ultimately rebuilt lives in the wake of WWII, as responsible for losing America to Trump? Trump is as anomalous to me as you are. You want to blame Bill Clinton and George W. Bush -- who were the presidents our age cohort elevated to the presidency when we reached our 50s -- for everything that has come since? What about people you revere like John McCain, whose contributions to this nation were blended into those of my age cohort even though they happened to be born before rather than after the end of WWII? I've had all I can take of your self-indulgent rewriting of history to suit your purposes. The labeling of generations by media-friendly characteristics is hardly a solid basis for measuring for contributions to or detractions from government, culture, business and industry, science, medicine, and society as a whole. I agree wholeheartedly that Trump is everything you say he is and worse. He has ruined everything he touches, and it all must be removed, but people his age are not generationally responsible for his self-serving, aberrant ruination of America's monuments, his grifting and his crimes, or his ruination of the world order. We did not generationally elevate him to power, and as a generation, we have contributed far more to the well-being of this nation than the demeaning cutesie label "Baby Boomers" you insist on using would suggest. I can only hope that you eventually get past your own ego enough to stop being such a self-indulgent writer and poorly self-educated know-it-all. Count me out.
The only thing that’s hopeful: rebuild; restore; stripped away; removed; changed back; repaired; reclaimed; renewed. Heal. Not soon enough, but…. Thank you for your convictions.
I remember his gold shitholes in Atlantic City and wanted to forget them back then. Bankrupt is not a word that applies only to finances.
Trump hit the daily double a long time ago: FINANCIAL BANKRUPTCY and MORAL BANKRUPTCY. while financial bankruptcy may be expunged after seven years, moral bankruptcy is a stain that generally lasts forever. Trump is possibly the most morally bankrupt person this side of Hitler in modern world history. Eradicating the stains he has left on America and the world will likely take a long, long time.
I agree with your belief in our future, or at least I share your hope. There is one difference I have with your view. I would like to leave the White House as it is today, with the East Wing nothing but a disproportionate, ugly construction site. I want this to stand as a monument to what happens when people don't show up to vote, when people are brainwashed into thinking that both sides are the same. I want a permanently ruined White House to remain as a monument to people who withheld their votes as protests ("but Gaza!!!"), who were too lazy, who were brainwashed by Fox, who lied to themselves about both parties being the same. I want every eighth grade class on their trip to the capital to see that pit in the ground as a testament of not caring enough to vote. I want Congress to pass a law making every Election Day a national holiday, and a special USPS bureau to protect the vote.
The French should have left the Bastille in place .
The White House should be restored. Though I concur with election day being a national holiday, In addition, I suggest making voting a mandatory exercise of citizenship. With civics being a mandatory course of study for the every eighth grade class in the country. If a student wants to advance, they must pass civics with a grade no less than an A.
I think you’re dead wrong about this being the fault of the baby boom generation and it’s dangerous to pit generations of us against each other.
The fact is the uber wealthy, tech & news media have purchased our democracy & they have been enabled by a congress of whom less than 1/2 are baby boomers. And most in trumps cabinet are not baby boomers.
There were 76 million babies born into 2 very different decades between 1946 to 1964. Boomers drove civil rights, women’s rights & protests against the Vietnam war & the military draft. They have been instrumental in making significant improvements in technology. But there is a massive difference between the lived experience between those born before 1954 & those born after 1954. And plenty of us do not support this Republican administration.
"I think you’re dead wrong about this being the fault of the baby boom generation and it’s dangerous to pit generations of us against each other."
CJ, I totally agree. Steve has a difficult time dealing with the fact that he was a Republican operative for most of his life and he is blame-shifting. Blame for the disgraceful state of our country falls squarely on the shoulders of "conservative" Republicans and their allies in the Christian Nationalist movent and the weirdo Qanon conspiracy theorists. The rot and corruption was made possible by Republican appointees to SCOTUS.
To blame an entire generation is counter-productive, dead wrong, and very dangerous.
More like the gilded age on steroids. This is not a generational issue. It’s predatory capitalism & the same old story of the business owners & uber wealthy believing only they should make the choices of who ‘deserves’ to benefit from the country’s riches. Supported by the white Christian nationalists who’ve used this wedge to advance their own un American views.
And it’s doubtful we get out of this mess without the support of many baby boomers. We saw many of those boomers out on the protest lines against ICE in Minnesota.
Indeed. And Democratic embrace of, and concomitant dependence on, neoliberal economics has rendered that party ineffectual.
Agree Anthony. I have never voted Republican or at any time for Trump, and I am a baby boomer. Most ? ( many) of the protesters now against Trump are baby boomers. It is naive of Steve to portray us all as of one mind.
Totally agree! He is just dealing with his own guilt of being the cause of this horror…a REPUBLICAN.
Thank you for pointing this out and I would like to add that the current, public protesters of this administration are overwhelmingly baby boomers. See any No Kings demonstration, for example. I would also bet that many of Sam's and The Warning's subscribers are baby boomers. I wish people would stop painting us with such a broad brush.
Thanks a million, Steve. This hit the spot with my morning coffee. I'm really sick of all this shit every day, day in and day out. I'm just gob smacked that the republican senators just sit and watch him destroy our country and bleed it dry. The party of the fiscal conservative my ass. We are going over the cliff, and they all just sit on their hands. My senator, Jon Ossoff, is right. ENOUGH is ENOUGH!
Lucky you for having Ossoff as your senator 😘. I would add onto your statement about the Republican Party’s responsibility in this. Also every single one of the voters who made this happen share that. It was a perfect storm. Now not only do we not want any of them in power, it is a monumental battle to get them out. This must never happen again.
It can’t come soon enough!! The thought of him disgusts me beyond belief 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Dry up and blow away, Trump.
He is about as durable as a mayfly.
As a boomer, I can admit feeling shame for the Me Generation. Unlike too many aging Americans, I never voted for Trump. However, I do see the worst characteristics of my generation reflected in Trump.
Trump's excesses and atrocities were reflected in 1930's Germany, in Antebellum America, in ancient Rome and throughout every age and generation that has existed. His revulsions are not a baby boom phenomenon. They are a human trait that happen to be expressing during the baby boom era. Trump is not who we are. And, I might add that tons of young people voted for this guy and worship at his foul feet.
I love your posts...They give me hope. I am a baby boomer. I am proud of what my generation accomplished and very ashamed of what we are respomsible for. No way would I go to Wahington DC until he is out and his name is ripped down. I can't go now it would be too upsetting. The whole thing is beyond despicable.
Do not blame trumpism on the Baby Boom generation of which I am a member of just because Trump was born in that generation. Many of us have opposed him from before he ever claimed entrance into politics and have been stalwart in it. That generalization is as misguided as a racist’s logic.
I agree, Alyce! While I am immensely proud of my parent's Greatest Generation and their sacrifices and accomplishments . I am also proud of the generation they raised: Mine! I'm proud that we started the first Earth Day and brought the protection of the environment to top of mind. I'm proud that we marched to end the Vietnam War and that we demanded women's rights and Civil rights. Look at the ever expanding No Kings marches and the country wide bridge brigades. Who is out there? We are! Still marching. I refuse to feel responsible for the fact that the Republican's 40 year war on the "educated elite" finally resulted in the dumbing down of America to the point that half this nation can't read beyond the 5th grade level. And as they drool over the stooges on Fox, can't have a single thought that can't fit on a bumper sticker and are so ill-informed they thought a profoundly stupid man playing a "business man" on a fake reality TV show was real, the rest of us are left to do what we've done after EVERY Republican administration since Eisenhower: clean up their mess!
Right on, Constance!
The Oval Office … classic neo-bordello .
From your pen to god’s ears, as they say. I really want to see that gold shit thrown out of the oval office and bonfired, live on television, on that god-forsaken helipad to mark the sunset on Jan. 20, 2029.
Steve - please be right about all of it! As proud as I am of my parents' generation is how ashamed I am of mine.
Dang, Steve, you always have had a way with words. Stinky Don fears death at a level you and I will probably never feel. Because in his poorly wired brain, only Stinky Don exists; everything and everyone is a plaything to him. He moves the parts; he controls the actors, and when an obstacle appears (You can't have your 1.776 billion reparations fraud money, or the Save America Act), they don't die. He keeps the door open, hoping Mitch will rise from the dead to shepherd his deity's commands. GOD COMPLEX! see: https://lyndance1.substack.com/p/these-are-the-stakes-lbj-1964?r=6emu46&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
I am ready for Trump to be in the rearview mirror. He is an abhorrent creature that should never have been. The thing I cannot fathom is his total hold on the GOP. I just do not get it. Plus there are many in the electorate who still worship. I just don’t get it. I am ready for the restoration of the White House, national mall, monuments, and everything else he has destroyed. But mostly, I would like the why answered. Why did the GOP have total acquiescence to him? I kept hearing “on the anonymity’ or “quietly they stated’ or “in the cloakroom of congress’, but not out loud. What does Trump have on these spineless wonders? Great article, Steve! Keep shining the light.
Everyone has secrets. Trump and power brokers (through threats of: exposing their secrets, to their families, themselves, bribes of power and $, fear of losing their cushy jobs and basically their beliefs of self-importance) control their very existence. I can’t speak of the voters who are losing jobs, $ and their rights yet still support this administration.
Steve, how dare you saddle my entire generation, the children of those men and women who fought and sacrificed and ultimately rebuilt lives in the wake of WWII, as responsible for losing America to Trump? Trump is as anomalous to me as you are. You want to blame Bill Clinton and George W. Bush -- who were the presidents our age cohort elevated to the presidency when we reached our 50s -- for everything that has come since? What about people you revere like John McCain, whose contributions to this nation were blended into those of my age cohort even though they happened to be born before rather than after the end of WWII? I've had all I can take of your self-indulgent rewriting of history to suit your purposes. The labeling of generations by media-friendly characteristics is hardly a solid basis for measuring for contributions to or detractions from government, culture, business and industry, science, medicine, and society as a whole. I agree wholeheartedly that Trump is everything you say he is and worse. He has ruined everything he touches, and it all must be removed, but people his age are not generationally responsible for his self-serving, aberrant ruination of America's monuments, his grifting and his crimes, or his ruination of the world order. We did not generationally elevate him to power, and as a generation, we have contributed far more to the well-being of this nation than the demeaning cutesie label "Baby Boomers" you insist on using would suggest. I can only hope that you eventually get past your own ego enough to stop being such a self-indulgent writer and poorly self-educated know-it-all. Count me out.
The only thing that’s hopeful: rebuild; restore; stripped away; removed; changed back; repaired; reclaimed; renewed. Heal. Not soon enough, but…. Thank you for your convictions.