Time is growing short for the status quo. The existing social order will be swept away. The Establishment will be discredited. The guilty will be found and punished. There will be blood. The revolution will not be led by Boomers. They are the status quo. They are calling the shots today. They are fearful and are lashing out at the younger generations. The Millenials are rising. Every day more enter young adulthood, while more Boomers die. The scale is tipping. The moment of truth is approaching. It may not be today or tomorrow, but it’s coming. Fourth Turnings NEVER reverse course. Winter is here.
As a bloody skirmish between police and opposition activists in central Moscow was drawing to a close on Sunday a small boy on a tiny bicycle pedaled through the crowd and approached a line of hulking riot police.
He sat there for a moment, balancing on his training wheels, staring at the menacing troops who were decked out in blue camouflage uniforms and full riot gear, nightsticks at the ready.
A group of protesters who had been heckling the cops began jeering, “Here’s the guy that will storm the Kremlin. Be ready boys! Here he comes!”
Julia Ioffe, the Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker and Foreign Policy magazine, happened to be standing right behind him. She whipped out her iPhone and snapped a picture which she tweeted out to her over 6,000 followers with the caption “Russia’s Tianamen (sic) image.”
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My 14 year old nephew said this to me just two weeks ago: “We are going to have to clean up your (boomers) mess aren’t we?”
I then said: “Hey, we did some good things. All this technology your using was mostly due to us, but yeh we made some mistakes. Too much weed in the 70s, too much alchohol in the 80s and too much speculation with easy money for 30 years.”
“So yeh, its up to you guys. Us boomers are too burned out to do anything more than just talk about things.”
Certainly a good deal of truth here, but be careful about fanning the flames between generations – they are not monoliths. And what’s going on is more about class than age, and experience shows us that anyone can be co-opted. Part of the problem is correctly identifying it. Four or five decades ago, many from my peer group were saying the same things to the “Greatest Generation”. After a little bit of traction, the whole project jumped the rails, and now here we are again, only under much dire circumstances. Not all of us gray-hairs are on the other side.
Good luck.
Generational War is coming. The Boomers control the levers of power. That’s how it rolls in Fourth Turnings. If you don’t like it – TOUGH SHIT.
Great picture! The pictures are looking more like this every day now:
But you know that kid is post-Millennial . . . Hope he makes it.
If they can get off the coach and away from playing video games. They well need to borrow some money and your car and go out in the sunlight.
I bet they can spell couch.
Wasnt William Strauss a boomer if he was born in 1947?
And Neil Howe was born in 1951 also making him a boomer?
Oo the Iromy.
Yep, it’s coming for the Boomers. For some it will finally dawn on them when they are in a nursing home getting their diapers changed by a non English speaking illegal immigrant minimum-wage worker who sexually assaults them for fun.
Boomer douchebags say what?
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Correct me if I am wrong but it looks to me like the boomers will hold the reins of power for at least another 10 plus years, long after the crash. The boomers will be in charge of the FEMA camps.
AARP has also partnered with over a dozen companies who are advocates
in helping older Americans stay in the work force.
http://www.bummedoutboomer.com/Should%20Baby%20Boomers%20Delay%20Retirement%20and%20Work%20Longer.pdf
Boomers gonna work till they drop.
Fuck it. My biggest worry is a nightmarish, super slick downhill 4-ft putt that will end up being a 10-footer coming back up the hill if it misses. With a $3 dollar bet on the line, the pressure is incredible.
SSS relaxing on the golf course after losing $3.
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WPES
Sample work force, eighty year olds’ in a hard hats and Eagles music blasting in the background. Perfect absolutely perfect.
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Your pic of that giant hole on the putting green is one of my fondest dreams. Some days my entire game is so bad that, if I tried to jump in a hole that big, I’d miss. Yesterday was such a day. I started out with a birdie on the first hole. Triple bogeys followed on the next two holes. Then it got worse.
BBES
Admin,
What would you call Mr. Potato Head if he were an athletic director?
Coach Potato
Pale Rider,
how was the book store?
Jeez, I miss Stucky. He’d of had a blowout on this thread.
MA
Who’s going to keep feeding the fat fuck boomers? Who’s going to pay for all their scooters? Who’s going to keep the fattest generation in the history of the world fat? They’ll be great target practice pretty soon.
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Boomers legacy to the younger generations: Obesity and debt!
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Boomers have made excuses and rationalizations an art form.
Once you lose your health, you lose everything. Boomers are bankrupt in every sense of the word: Morally bankrupt, ethically bankrupt, physically and health bankruptcy, financially and spiritually bankrupt.
Enjoy your scooters…
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That’s me modeling the shirt.
I bet you didn’t know I was a black man.
Admin ‘graduated’ from living in W. Philly through hard work, perseverance, saving, and fortitude.
AWD
I only lived in West Philly as a student at Drexel.
Admin: Are you a white black man or just a plain ole black black man?
I’m a white hispanic black asian man
I’d like to try that 19 hole golf course!
-TPC
SSS:
This might sound odd, but I love sporty girls with really strong thighs.
-ThePessimisticChemist
The 19th hole is fab…So fucking funny…
Those three fine looking gents were actually Admin, Colma and AWD. You can’t fool us!
ThePessimisticChemist said, “This might sound odd, but I love sporty girls with really strong thighs.” No, it doesn’t sound odd, but I’m not going there lest this thread turns into an X-rated dialogue about Creamer’s creamy-smooth, strong thighs which (oh, hell…..you fill in the rest).
From Millenials to Paula Creamer’s thighs in just over 30 comments. The laser-like focus of TBP members is truly a thing of beauty.
Did someone say strong thighs?
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SSS, I kick ass at Wii golf.
I think SSS has a crush.
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Mmmmmm legs. My wife has legs like that, but a bigger rack.
I am happily married.
Chemist says: I am happily married.
Hey me too, three times.
Hey SSS, now that you’re over Salma, can I get her number?
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
Voltaire
Admin and Colma
I don’t have a crush on Paula, nor do I have her phone number.
She’s a touring pro from whom I’d to take a few lessons, starting with “Let me show you how to hold your club.”
SSS watching Paula line up a putt.
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“Paula, I’m looking at you. You wore pink so you could hide. I don’t blame you, you’re a tramp. Oh, that was a good one. Ooh, that was right where you wanted it. Oh, Paula, you’re a little monkey woman. You know that? You’re a little monkey woman. You’re lean, and you’re mean and you’re not too far between either, I bet, are ya. Would you like to wrap your spikes around my hat?”
SSS doesn’t really have a Paula Creamer calender hidden under his mattress.
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And it’s a complete falsehood that April, May and June are stuck together for some reason. Must be a defective Chinese made Calender.
Golf is a sport for pussies.
@ taxSlave, who said, “Golf is a sport for pussies.”
Ever gone to a PGA Tour event?. Those guys are in incredible shape. The days of a chubby (well, there are still a very few chubbies on tour) guy like Lee Trevino showing up for a tournament and knocking back a 6-pack after playing are long gone.
Try walking a 5-6 mile 18 hole hilly course in the middle of July when it’s in the 90s with high humidity, and you’ll know what I mean about being in good physical condition.
SSS: If this marriage doesn’t work out, then I’m not remarrying. I’ll make a lot of money and impress college chicks to get laid.
sensetti
The explosion shot is one of my favorites. Why, I’ve spent many a pleasurable moment in a bunker with really soft sand where you really don’t care if you get out on the first try and instead keep swinging with your feet firmly planted and………………..
What the hell is going on here? Are we still talking about golf?
GES
SSS – horse hockey. Golfers are athletes much like pro bowlers. Sure, some are in good shape. But lots are not. Take a look at Angel Cabrera, or Mickelson. And they don’t even carry their own clubs.
Llpoh:
I agree.
Like calling Nascar drivers athletes.
They’re drivers.
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SSS – for fuck sake, these are “athletes”? Bwahahahahaha! Hahahahahahaha!
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Sorry – that was me, not Colma, taunting and ridiculing SSS. Damn wordpress.
llpoh
What is it about my statement, “well, there are still a very few chubbies on tour,” that you don’t understand? You posted photos of damn near all of them that fit that description, and even Mikelson has shed quite a few pounds. Angel Cabrera is a hoot. He really does have a pot belly and smoke (cigars) like a chimney.
I stand by my observation that most pro tour golfers today, male and female, are in outstanding physical condition and have a workout and practice regimen that would leave you gasping for breath. I’ve seen them and watched them and followed them around the course. Up close and personal. I know what I’m talking about.
So a post about millenials and the nascent police state generates a debate about golf. Admin must think he’s herding cats.
SSS – I have follwed them too. They hit the holy shit out of the ball. Hey – I am sure I missed a few of the fatsos. But Miguel Angel and Angel are to be commended. They are throw-backs to an earlier time. Here’s a couple I missed (pun intended):
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Thorpe was also a hoot, but can’t find one of him with a cigar:
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BTW – I choose to not understand when it suits me.