2020 Election

You cannot attack what you cannot comprehend, which is why AI is the future, because there never was any intelligent life around here. Those who know, don't talk about it, those who talk about it, don't know, while those who never stop talking, talking themselves into corners. The US is proof that the insane have always run the asylum.

 

I'll never understand why we have to prove we pick up litter and do local volunteer work in order to discuss politics on hipforums

 

I remember the days when every single genuine Hippy disagreed with Reagan and his Republicans. During the sixties and seventies the Republican Rednecks used to attack and beat Hippies. Sometimes they would drive them after the beating … to a Selective Service Recruiting Center. Sometimes they would cut their hair, after kicking their teeth out. Today, I am totally mystified by the ones who claim to be Hippy and at the same time support that orange piece of work.

 

Currently feeling no sympathy for Lisa Paige. Enjoy your taxpayer paid pension. This is the real divide: The pensioned deep state vs the real workers of America who will rely on social security.

Quit your cushy job if you don't personally like who is president. or stay off electronic communication with your conspiracy theories

Shame what happened to Roger Stone.

Since when are hippies in bed with the security state?

 

Well said, and I agree 100%.
This brings up a question for the kids of today. If you don't like trump, and his policies, why aren't you out there protesting?

 

Why is that guy with the hat rocking?

 

Most Hippies rely on Social Security benefits, because Republican Corporate America has ripped them off their entire life. When the company files for bankruptcy like Trump has so many times, people lose their retirement, and be unemployed, and go to look for new work. It is hard to save for retirement when you get laid off. As far as your Deep State remark, Piney; I say there is no such thing as the Deep State. The term is an invention of Jerome Corsi who was a Trump operative. Stone, Corsi, Alex Jones, and that foolish fake movie producer O'Keefe were doing the same thing as the Russians. They were spreading false information to deceive voters and make Trump look good.

 

Libertarians have rigged our elections and shredded the constitution, with the result that Bloomberg got a mere slap on the wrist for arresting 26 reporters in one day, while Fox News is legally entertainment, and 80 million people now insist our glorious leader should be above the law altogether. Who do you suggest they protest to? Neither the mass media, democratic, nor republican party represent anyone they know. You can't have a democracy in which 80 million people don't want a democracy. Believe it or not, democracy is about people agreeing to the rule of law.

Their own parents have put them 20 trillion dollars in debt, taken away their votes, built the largest prison system in the history of the planet, and deny global warming is real. Doesn't exactly encourage faith in the system. Vietnam and the civil rights movement got a lot of them off their asses, so I guess we'll have to wait for WWIII or the ecology to collapse.

 

what the hell are you talking about?
Do you have a Nixon tattoo on your back also?

 

Meagain said something like this the other day.
Where have you guys been? There have been multiple, sizeable Trump protests since he was elected. And there have been sizeable youth centric protests against his policies in general. Environmental protests, gun control protests.

 

This okay boomer narrative that the youth dont protest is just..a big wtf. It isnt grounded in reality at all

 

I saw there was outcry among the Republicans because Joe Biden nibbled on his wife's finger in public. The Republicans who saw nothing wrong with Trump having sex outside of marriage , AND paying the women for it. The Republicans also saw nothing wrong with Trump's public praise of Jefferey Epstein's choice in women … on the younger side. Now they comment about old Joe, who loves his wife. God help a Democrat who displays open affection for his own wife instead of a porn star.

 

I dont really want to get into a pissing contest, I didnt realize it was a competition. I was just pointing out protests still occur, rather large ones at that. Some of them nationwide and worldwide.
I'm glad we arent seeing waves of bombings or people setting themselves on fire with napalm. We also haven't seen a war on the scale of the Vietnam War since the Vietnam War that would inspire anything that extreme, thankfully.
In terms of Civil Rights protests, I would compare anti cop protests that occurred in Ferguson and elsewhere. There have been multiple ones. But thankfully there isnt as much of a need for Civil Rights protests. If there were still the same need, the protestors of the 50s and 60s would be disappointed with the lack of progress

 

Plus I dont really think protesting is going to accomplish the changes this country needs to see. Basically we just have to wait 10 - 15 more years until younger people with more progressive ideals outnumber older people in the voting boot.
The irony here being it is boomers who are preventing progress.

 

Did any of those protests accomplish anything?

 

If things continue as they are, you'll never see the young outnumbering the old. The last 3 generations stopped having lots of children.

 

Back in the sixties we were boycotting classes. I haven't heard of that happening. The only protests I've heard about are when the millenials complain about you tube, or instagram are down.
Btw, I have no problem being called a boomer. It is what it is.
I take it your parents are boomers.