Hey gen x

Leave it to Gen X to whine and complain about Boomers all the while propping them up for 40 years or more

I recall the field of Democratic presidential candidates was quite large in 2020 and President Biden was way at the bottom of the ticket until the primary in South Carolina.

Black Democratic party members who stood in line for hours, voted for President Biden overwhelmingly and more voted for Vice President Harris.

Why do you think the blacks chose an old white dude over a middle aged black woman as the nominee?

and more voted for President BIDEN than Vice- President Harris.

R2 maybe black Gen X is as stupid as their white counterparts?

I've believed that Gen X was Trumpier than Boomers for years. I'm a Boomer and think we've gotten a bad rap. This year will be telling as most Boomers are now over 65. The polls for the most part will give us a better picture of how Boomers vote because "Over 65" is generally a level set.

I hate it here.

r5 It's especially galling considering how cool Gen X thinks they still are, nevermind that they're generation Capitol Insurrection

Gen X, age 52, and not a Trumper (as many aren't) I'm not sure we could have foreshadowed this. But, is it that surprising? From being latch key kids to being the last generation to live their youth/early adulthood entirely or substantively without the internet, social media, smart phones, and all that entails - and experiencing that huge shift. Plus, Gen X is simply older now and at least some of it has to be nothing more than a subset getting more conservative as they get older - which happens in every generation. I'm sure plenty has been written about it.

r8 your generation has always tilted conservatard. You were the young Reagan Alex Keaton Republicans and broke for Bush 2000 over Gore when you all were still young.

Looks like the generation troll has returned. He’s always trying to foment some imaginary war between millennials and…well, everyone else.

Meanwhile, no one gives a shit.

OH look it's a gen x who can't handle any criticism at all R10. Isn't your whole schtick that you're so whatever and above it all? I guess not huh?

Hilarious, too, because unless the troll chokes on their own bile (likely, given the level of anger?) one day they too will be old.

And still as irrelevant as they are now.

R12 are you denying that your generation is so MAGA?

That's a good point, R9. There was definitely that crowd, but I didn't know how big it was. I'd assume every generation has their young conservative subset. So, if Gen X's was substantially bigger, why? Was it simply who our parents were - a lot of Reaganite Boomer parents among Gen X - which can cause kids to follow or rebel against that when they're young. I'm sure it's multiple factors.

R9, you understand that Alex Keaton was a TV character, right? Almost none of my GenX peers was conservative. We fucking HATED Reagan and Bush (both Bushes).

We need hard statistics here. I'm going to find some. Let's both find some and meet back here later today.

I just put in my vote for Harris about an hour ago, BTW.

I'm 1980. So I choose being a Millennial on this one.

r15 yes, let's meet later with hard stats. I think it's high time for Gen X to stop hiding behind the baby boomers and take ownership of how shitty you are in your own right.

You're being a smart ass. You can't answer the question. Why did the blacks vote for an old white guy over Kamala Harris in 2020?

Linked stats do not point to a big Rethug affiliation among GenXers. Certainly more than I would like to see, but not a huge swath.

Yep. It’s him. Same unhinged phrasing and insane anger.

I think it’s some type of performance art. It can’t be real. They’d institutionalize anyone this mentally ill.

Maybe it’s another Teacake alias.

r20 why did so many of you fat old whores storm the Capitol?

R21

Comma after hey and capital letters for gen and x.

R22 the face of your generation

The irony of this lunatic is that he’s yelling at people on a gay message board and accusing them of being MAGA and storming the capitol while 99 percent of the people here are Democrats and liberals.

Insanity, alas, makes no sense.

R25 somebody is touchy

From a year ago

It was fear.

We saw economies disappear over night

We saw white flight. Even if we stayed, we saw the tension and heard the hatred.

We were promised trickle-down economics.

At a time when half my teachers were threatening us with McDonald’s jobs if we did not graduate college, the other half suggested that not everyone is cut out for a complete education and some might be better off working at age fourteen.

You have very frightened successful gen X people who really don’t want things to change.

Gen X can dish it out but they can't take actual criticism based off of hard, cold facts.

[quote] You have very frightened successful gen X people who really don’t want things to change.

Which is why you should NEVER be president. Look what happened as soon as you idiots came into the Supreme Court.

His mother must have given him the WiFi password again after he behaved for a week.

Back to the lithium for him. 💉

Lithium. How aged you are R31

[Quote] Leave it to Gen X to whine and complain about Boomers

I’m Gen X and don’t whine and complain about boomers. I also acknowledge that my Gen is the trumpiest unfortunately. It’s because many of us were young during the Reagan years and you weren’t cool unless you were a reaganite.

But guess what? The democrats’ candidates are, by some definitions, Gen X (Strauss and Howe, the people who actually came up with the American generational theory, count 1961-81 as Gen x. It’s not what the U.S. govt uses, but S&H’s years actually make more sense).

Serious question, OP/deranged generational troll: do you ever get laid? Seriously.

Because this type of unhinged anger and lashing out at imaginary enemies that are to blame for all your failures sounds exactly like an incel.

Maybe start working out and improving your personality might make you more attractive to people. It’s not healthy to live devoid of companionship.

At your age, being a virgin is voluntary. You have the power to make the change.

We’re all rooting for you 👊.

I’m GenX and I’ve never voted for a Republican. In fact, I’ve gotten more liberal as I’ve aged. But sure, let’s generalize.

Me too r35

R34 even the baby boomers are less defensive than you are. Is it the leaded childhood that made you so? Is your dildo in the shape of a latch key?

Yep, he’s definitely a virgin.

Maybe he’s Nate Silver? He’s a gay incel.

[quote] Is it the leaded childhood

Oh, dear.

R38 Nate Silver is a gen x dumbass, dumbass.

YOU ALRIGHT! We learnt it from watching you…..

Jeff Bezos? Elon Musk? Ted Cruz? You all are just the worst right now.

To pejoratively generalize people based on the randomness of when they were born is lazy, childish, prejudiced and unserious.

And yet R43, Datalounge does it all the time when it comes to young people. But heaven forbid somebody actually calls out the stupid ass Boomers or Gen X, same shit btw, for their actual generational stupidity.

we had a discussion about this not he DL a while ago. the kids in the 80s who listened to hair metal bands all became trumpers. the Rest of us who listened to david byrne, tears for fears, even cyndi lauper, all chose the left. I had friends in college who disrupted the meeting of regents at their college by lying on the table and making out (this when gays kissing was entirely forbidden), I had friends who protested Herbert Walker Bush and his war (also interestingly Anthony fauci) and I worked for habitat for humanity while in college and met Jimmy carter, a lovely man.

and yes, the division still exists. the hair metalheads from my 80s high school years are super conservative suburbanites. But no one I know personally is that sort.

This is definitely a Teacake alias. Every one is a “character” defined by wild and offensive stereotypes.

Nice try, Teacake. Another alias exposed.

I beez blatino! Chimichanga, mafuckers!!!!!! 🌯 🫏 🌮

you sound sweet R45. It's too bad so many of your peers ended up being bullies like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ted Cruz. Their millennial bashing is coming back to haunt you now

Gen X will NEVER be president.

Give it up, Teacake. Bring back KatyBuscemi. She was at least entertaining.

Poor Gen X. Once their baby boomer shield is gone, they'll be left elderly and by themselves and holding a time bomb with three angry younger generations behind them.

As an Xer, one thing I've always appreciated about my generation is our lack of preoccupation with 'our generation' and the whole notion of some imaginary categorization and labelling of a group of millions of people who have nothing more in common than being born within the same twenty year period. Ultimately, it means nothing and serves no purpose other than for those people who lack a strong sense of identity on their own behalf.

I'm Gen X and I've voted for the Democrat in every election since Clinton '92. I was fighting for our rights by having gay sex in college, when it was illegal. I didn't order Domino's because they supported Operation Rescue. Gen X is the "mind your own business" generation. It's my Boomer parents, aunts and uncles who are the Trumpy Republicans.

[quote] Gen X is the "mind your own business" generation.

Yeah Fucking Right! Your generation is the one always getting caught as Karens and acting out in public and stirring the pot online all the time. There is nothing MYOB about you.

Could there be anything Trumpier than creating a group of scapegoats and attacking them?

Gen Xers should be happy. Arent they always complaining about being forgotten and overlooked? And now here they are, front and center, getting all the attention that they crave.

🎵 you took a long hard look at my ass and played golf for awhile

Is this a joke or are you drunk op?

This is Teacake’s latest persona. But Gen X Hater has no motivation, complexity, wit or humor like any decent fictional character has. It’s just nonstop insults against a demographic that doesn’t even have that much interest in itself, which is why it falls flat. There’s nothing driving it.

“Teacake” is also a horrible, prejudiced character, which is why he’s constantly trying to retrofit his history, ethnicity, backstory, age, etc.

KatyBuscemi was a mafia princess from Indianapolis who was supposedly raped and impregnated by a “prominent Democratic family,” forced into an abortion, married a mob snitch and drank herself into a stupor. Now that’s a character.

Unfortunately, Gen X Hater was never fleshed out , is totally one-dimensional, boring, charmless and suffers as a result.

Back to the drawing board.

2.5/10.

It’s because they didn’t live through this:

Where is the lie, R59?

I'm a Gen X-er, and I get the disillusionment.

I DO NOT get how on earth people think Trump will make things better.

[quote] against a demographic that doesn’t even have that much interest in itself,

Are you nuts? FaceBook is nothing but Gen X patting themselves on the back for how tremendous they think they are. And for what? Because you walked home with a latchkey tied around your neck in the 80s? And you wanna talk shit? And you don't expect to get any pushback? Go have a seat.

Agree or disagree with OP, he/she and others do have a point about Gen Xers on this thread insisting that it's stupid to identify people by generations and ascribing negatives to all the people in a generation, while Millennials, Gen Z, even Boomers are commonly shit on collectively on DL - including by many Gen Xers.

R64 fuck Gen X. It's time these smug turds get called out this decade for all of their bullshit.

[quote] Go have a seat.

Total Teacake phrasing.

What a joke.

They're the parents of Gen Z so they screwed up somewhere.

They did not live through or are not old enough to remember the daily horror of children being ripped from the teet of their mothers, immigrants being demonized and civic institutions being brought to their knees, a worldwide pandemic, upticks in hate crimes and school shootings, being laughed at by the world. Trope drove us trillions and trillions into debt while sending his despot dictator pals personal covid supplies. He sold us out. He sold out the US on live TV. The Kurds. Afghanistan.

They don’t remember.

FUCK YOU, OP!

Fuck you for lumping an entire generation into one homogenous bloc - LAZY!

Fuck you for being a prissy, impotent bitch - BITTER CUNT, MARY, PEARL CLUTCHING SAD SACK!

Me and my vast circle of Gen X friends from high school, college and current, are all hardcore democrats, AND HAVE BEEN THIS ENTIRE TIME! Everyone I know has voted blue since we were 18 (I'm 51 now).

It's my asshole Boomer parents who voted for Trump, and I don't speak to either of them anymore because of it! It's my Boomer asshole parents who are checked out and self-absorbed and judgmental.

Me and my Gen X friends were the punks, skinheads, mods, goths, theater kids, stoners, acid heads, gay, lesbian, liberal, awake, aware, active. And now we are cool, creative, progressive adults.

You have no life, and you never have, clearly! Or you'd know that Gen X is way more liberal than conservative, and we are not an homogenic blob, we are DIVERSE.

FUUUUUUUCKKKKKK YOU, OP.

Millennials are about to put Gen X in their place and its about time.

Whatever OP. How does it feel to be a datalounger; denizen of the bitchiest place on the internet. Would you like to be held personally responsible for every post made here? No? Well suck it up buttercup and get over yourself.

It's funny how Gen X thinks they're entitled to be the next ones in charge.

They're nothing compared to millennials' numbers.

We know we’ll never be in charge R72. You know what the largest group in the workforce is right now? Millennials Do you know what the largest group will be in the workforce in 30 years? Millennials. It’s fine. Whatever

Thank you, R73. Millennials are the largest living generation. We are the ones keeping the American workforce in place. It's unfortunate that so many of your peers think differently. It must be the lead in their head.

I think the lack of parenting and hands off parenting created a bunch off assholes with Daddy Issues

R75 Millennials have finally caught on to how Gen X thinks about us and treats us while realizing how much larger we are than them.

This decade is about to get very interesting.

Hold on a second - the article only goes off one stat - that Gen X disapproves of Biden in a larger percentage. That does NOT mean they are more Trump.

It's a show of our dissatisfaction with a President - and that's typical of Gen X mindset.

For a lot of Gen X, we've been disappointed in how slow the prosecution of Trump and Jan 6th has taken. Frustratingly and questionably slow.

Also a lot of us wanted Biden to push back more - like what Buttigieg and Harris/Walz are doing now. Plus this was taken in Dec 2023 when Biden was the Presidential nominee - we all knew his age and his verbal gaffes were going to be a problem.

So no - I don't subscribe that Gen X are more Trumpy - not at all.

Kamala Harris is Irish, Jewish and South Asian. The Harris surname was changed from Solomon, she's not black. She only cosplaying as a black woman.

She is

Lol, Still trying with that one, Janet?

Every generation skews more conservative as it gets older. It happened with the Boomers in the Reagan 80s and it's happening with Gen X now. Millennials will do the same.

Shit, JD Vance and Lauren Boebert are Millennials.

[quote]You were the young Reagan Alex Keaton Republicans

a) Alex Keaton was a fictional character

b) Family Ties was created and written by Boomer writers

c) Michael J Fox is a Boomer, not Gen X

Boomers in particular come in many flavors and it's telling that the usual definition actually refers to the small set of upper middle class Boomers.

Broadly, you had one group that served in Vietnam, got married while still in their early 20s, were never hippies, settled down in blue collar jobs and are now the grandparents of adults.

You had another, smaller group, albeit the one that everyone focuses on, that were hippies and went to college in the 60s, were young singles in the 70s, yuppies in the 80s, helicopter parents in the 90s and in 2024 are the grandparents of children in elementary school.

You’ve got more than that R83.

R82 didnt Young Republicans bloom with Gen X?

Kamala is a front who is still not black.

Hey morons gen x, how did it feel to be the ones who broke for Trump the most?

It's weird to think of Michael J Fox as a boomer (born in 1961). Some split the boomer generation into two parts:

Boomers I: 1946 – 1954

Boomers II (aka Generation Jones): 1955 – 1964

The Boomer generation should extend to 1970 R88. Because that older half of gen x sure acts every bit as bad as their predecessors. actually worse. People over 65 went 50 50 Trump Harris

Maybe everyone who voted for Trump should be a Boomer then.

And also everyone who didn't vote for Harris. Fuck you Boomers

As it turns out, gen x had the opportunity to vote for someone who is as close to gen x as you can get. But they chose the Grand poobah of boomers, Trump himself.

the millennials made it to the White House before they did

If Boomers went 50/50 for Harris/Trump, why are they responsible for his election? Other generations gave him the winning margin.

That's the point, R92. Gen X has proven to be even more MAGA than baby Boomers.

THEY are responsible for this.