"I picked a helluva week to quick smoking crack cocaine."
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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That's just boomers realizing how they fucked it up for every generation to come.
"New public management"? "Job creators"?! "TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS?!" Old man, you'd better smoke two.
Nah it's just boomers realizing their children are going to fuck shit up even more than they did.
Naw, this been a long time coming. It's what we call slow moving economic and political development.
Raegen and Thatcher were wrong, new public management was a mistake and "liberalization" really just means "let the finance industry run things - surely what will go wrong?"
So we're fucking up by not changing precedent set, what, 60-70 years ago?
We could compromise and say materialism rots everybody's brains.
"Trickle Down" was a rebrand. It used to be called Horse and Sparrow Economics.
If Boomers hadn't been so collectively ignorant and narcissistic, they would have maybe realized how fucking stupid their voting choices were. They had the opportunity to get higher educations for the cost of a reasonably priced car, but instead chose to stew in their lack of understanding for 50 years, while gas-lighting everyone within earshot with made up nonsense.
Boomers are precisely why America is in the position it's in now.
The think tanks working for the robber barons didn't hit the mark at first, but my god if it didn't take after a white lol
That typo is perfect
Who is that man and what were the news?
A serious answer. That's Peter Jennings, he was the new anchor for ABC world news in the 90's and early 2000's. The picture in question if from 9/11. I remember because it was weird to me as a teenager to see someone smoking on live TV. Later, he died from lung cancer, and he gave a statement about it when he was diagnosed talking about how he smoked for many years and that he had quit for a long time but, in his words, was "weak" on 9/11 and smoked a few cigarettes. I don't know how old you are, but if there was ever a time to be like "Whelp, might as well burn one." it was 9/11.
Thanks for the explanation.
Yep... 9/11 especially for people in the USA was hard to live.
"Smoking causes cancer"
He did announce it while smoking??
I had a dream 15+ years ago where I walked onto a school bus holding a 5ft long tube of fudge striped cookies over my shoulder and Peter Jennings looked up and said "Nice strip of cookies." I was so confused, I woke up and laughed.
This is may be the best thing I've ever read on Lemmy.
I'm glad you got a kick out of it. My wife still says the line to me a few times a year.
Was jennings the driver or a kid on the bus?
Hah, he was just a passenger!
And he rode and rode!
