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richwicks says

Boomer generation

The poorest stewards of the legacy they received than any other generation bar none. It was under the Boomers that CEO remuneration went from 40% time the rank and file to something like 400% today. Jeff Skilling, born in 1953, is a perfect microcosm of Boomer mentality--entitlement, narcissism run amok. He actually thought all he had to do was talk the stock up without doing anything worth while to keep Enron afloat and was astounded when everything came down. He was surrounded by like-minded people--Enron's collapse was a ten year preview of what the 21st century would produce.

NDrLoR says

The poorest stewards of the legacy they received than any other generation bar none.

Yep. My parents were from the Silent Generation and I'm from X. When my mother and her sister were visiting once, my aunt (boomer generation) decided to take a poke at me when I complained about Moffett airforce base having a private golf course, RIGHT NEXT to the Shoreline Gulf Course. She actually told me "what's wrong with that? You told me HP had a private park called Little Basin next to the public park Big Basin.

I had to explain to her the difference between having a gun put to my head to pay for one golf course, and buying a semi-decent computer because it's an adequate machine for my work and that I would have gone to Compaq or built my own if it wasn't the best value for the price. They are the first generation to literally have no conception of free market economics.

BTW I never have worked for HP, but I've hiked Little Basin. Going onto Moffett gets me arrested. Technically, Moffett belongs to me, Little Basin doesn't. Boomers drive me crazy, they really are just infuriating. An expensive house was 3 times their yearly salary, a cheap house for generation Z is 11 times their yearly salary. Oh, the Millennials are LAZY I'm told... I think they know they fucked over the other generations, and this is their bizarre self defense of it. We have a hell of a mess to clean up after those assholes finally downsize into a grave.

NDLoR, I'm a boomer and I don't know any CEOs but I know some guys who studied, worked and did OK even though the economy sucked; some got sent to VietNam to get shot at.

Greedy CEOs must include Elon Musk and Neumann who aren't boomers and aren't Americans; OK, how about that asshole female who made up that fraud Theranos as an example?

Want a phony boomer? how about Warren that liar gaming the affirmative action system to enrich herself.

clambo says

Greedy CEOs must include Elon Musk and Neumann who aren't boomers and aren't Americans; OK, how about that asshole female who made up that fraud Theranos as an example?

These are called sociopaths.

Musk drives me crazy because I'm a competent engineer, and Musk proposes ridiculous bullshit. He's a great marketer, and that's it.

Neumann was running a scam, I would bet there are plenty of people at Softbank cleaning up with kickbacks.

Elizabeth Holmes is a patsy and a sociopath. If you actually want to solve that swindle, you have to look at who profited from it.

I'm talking about people like Jamie Dimon who created the CDO fraud, or Christine Lagarde who has destroyed entire nations, bitched about Greeks not paying their taxes, when she doesn't pay taxes, or our entire fucking government that won't do basic shit like enforce the law. The government has never been this corrupt. Who runs it now? Decades ago McCarthy was asked by a reporter "have you no shame?" - well, today the answer is "Absolutely not, what, are you a Russian troll??" How could a generation that went to war in Vietnam over the KNOWN FALSE FLAG EVENT of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, make that government look honest and forthright in comparison?

The boomer generation had the most warning, but it falls upon every other generation to try to prevent the corruption, point it out, and eliminate it.

Julian Assange is X. He's going to die. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is running a 100 million dollar fraud charity and apparently is selling classified material to the highest bidder and using her fraud charity to accept payment but if you believe that, you're a Russian bot.

clambo says

some got sent to VietNam to get shot at.

I knew somebody with Gulf War syndrome. Bet he's dead by now. It appears that was caused by tainted vaccinations for an experimental anti-anthrax vaccination.

clambo says

Want a phony boomer? how about Warren that liar gaming the affirmative action system to enrich herself.

I used to respect her - I saw her grilling banking execs in the early part of this decade. I agree, total phony. Name a boomer in congress that isn't a phony. Rand Paul barely qualifies.

richwicks says

Musk drives me crazy because I'm a competent engineer, and Musk proposes ridiculous bullshit. He's a great marketer, and that's it.

Other than creating the first reusable rocket, capturing as almost as many launches as national competitors like China, and making Arianespace totally uneconomic, even with their $20-30M EU Subsidy per launch. And, if Spaceship is performs anywhere near advertised, giving ULA (MIC cost plus) a tremendous kick in the ass and making them look ridiculous.

And selling Teslas like crazy.

And being behind Paypal.

Wait - I thought Execs who made a profit AND actually accomplished things were good for the Economy? I put Musk clearly in that small group of visionaries. All these people are a bit off - Steve Jobs, Edison, etc. but they GET SHIT DONE.

Musk is driven to get us off planet - and everything he does is toward that objective: Paypal, to make cash to start SpaceX. Then, SpaceX to Get to MArs. Tesla is a vehicle to make money to fund his space efforts. Starlink will make Musk a Shedload of Money - to fund his goal toward a Mars Community. He's laser focused. I wish I could invest directly in SpaceX right now, but it's only for the super-rich types. Sad.

rocketjoe79 says

wish I could invest directly in SpaceX right now, but it's only for the super-rich types. Sad.

A publically traded space corporation would be problematic since the investment and payoff might be years or even a decade apart. Also stock prices and boards change, sometimes overnight, and at the whims of public perception and confidence. All a space company needs is a PR disaster followed by a boycott and a public demand to shut it down while it’s got 100 astronauts on their way to mine a near Earth asteroid. Instead of mission control, astronauts would soon be talking to government regulators demanding they turn around, come home, and help repay billions in “stolen” revenue to shareholders. Nevermind that all of that is impossible.
That’s why they’re keeping this private.

richwicks says

yes, anybody that ever criticizes the Great USSA, is Russian Troll.

Anyone telling that Russia is not really corrupt, or that Russian military with its reliance on 1980's Soviet developments is stronger than US military, is a Russian troll.
Russians who live in USA and glorify Russia from distance are, as a minimum, hypocrites and perhaps should not have been given citizenship of the country they loathe.

Yah but what richwicks is saying is that the Left calls everyone a Russian troll who dares to express a non-Leftoid position. Most of the time these opinions have nothing at all to do with Russia, yet the idiots on forums just call them Ivan and inquire how many rubles per word they make. It’s ridiculous, but it’s the shape of Leftist reaction to conservative free speech.

Quigley says

Left calls everyone a Russian troll

That is similar to Ms Cankles calling everyone she dislikes a Russian asset, at which point no one is a Russian asset other than Ms Cankles.

However, I have seen plenty Russians here in US glorifying Mother Russia and its leader Putler the Great and blabbering how bad US is, while preferring to live in the decadent, spoiled, and corrupt US of A. That is highly annoying - don't like here, go back to fucking Russia. Suitcase, Airport, Russia!

6rdB says

Anyone telling that Russia is not really corrupt, or that Russian military with its reliance on 1980's Soviet developments is stronger than US military, is a Russian troll.

Yeah, who did that in this thread? Quote them...

Strawmen are easy to create and destroy, aren't they?

richwicks says

In a head to head fight with Russia, the US is going to lose. Russia is probably the most powerful military on the planet, because they don't F around, they aren't terribly corrupt (I know how crazy that sounds!), and they fight wars to win, not to soak the taxpayer. This is a result of them actually having a not totally corrupt system.

Trump gets done in 3 1/2 months what the government could not do in 6 years.

Onvacation says
@Onvacation: You want this link:


original link

I don't understand why when you post bitchute videos, it ALWAYS omits the "original link".

richwicks says

original link

Is that Jeffrey Epstein?

Trump stops wars because he understands Peace Through Strength and Proportionality and the Fallacy of the Excluded Middle.

He won't occupy Iraq with hundreds of thousands of US Troops in the name of International Law.

But he also won't give Ayatollahs $6B of the Persian People's money as a bribe, knowing they will fund more mischief with it.

MisdemeanorRebel says

richwicks says
Musk drives me crazy because I'm a competent engineer, and Musk proposes ridiculous bullshit. He's a great marketer, and that's it.

Thanks Elon, for massively improving free speech on Twitter, standing up against Woke, the Wide Open Border, and Munchausen's Child Mutilation by Proxy.

There fixed it(assuming he's elected)..
FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

Trump stopped wars

Biden: (Helps Israel commit genocide)

Trump: You know what’s wrong with Biden? He's not pro-Israel enough

“He’s totally abandoned Israel... He is not supporting Israel... Any Jewish person that votes for a Democrat or votes for Biden should have their head examined.” pic.twitter.com/VARZzj2h5o— Decensored News (@decensorednews) April 10, 2024

Bd6r says

However, I have seen plenty Russians here in US glorifying Mother Russia and its leader Putler the Great and blabbering how bad US is, while preferring to live in the decadent, spoiled, and corrupt US of A. That is highly annoying - don't like here, go back to fucking Russia. Suitcase, Airport, Russia!

The Saker is the most obvious example of this.

Although I heard he's not really Russian in terms of growing up or living there, he had one parent was Russian but he spent almost all his early life in Switzerland and the West where he and his parents worked for NGOs and Saker himself for the International Red Cross . He has only spent a few years in Russia his whole life, including childhood, and he's a Middle Aged man that's been living in Tampa for a decade. He also has a temper and an condescending attitude towards Serbians, that they should shut up and listen and obey their Russian master, which is why the whistleblower came out.

But he puts himself forth as an expert in everything Russia, domestic or international.

There's also a little Russian ultranat ring of Pepe Escobar, "Israel Shamir", South Front, and a few other 'independent journalists&apos and websites; whose back history and funding is shrouded in mystery. One contact I had says that Israel Shamir was never a member of Israeli Intelligence and in fact never was so much as a draftee in the IDF due to his age/health problems.