I was out playing golf yesterday with my soon-to-be 91yo father. So, I came to Glibs too late to participate in the latest Boomer bashing thread. I did see that RC Dean had pointed out the programs of contention were put in place before the Boomers took the reins of politics. But no one followed up on that thought.
Since there seems to be a general lack of understanding of the history and politics of the US for the last 90-100 years, here are my inputs.
The Social Security Act was signed into law in August 1935, a few months before my father was born. So, Social Security is the product of my grandfather’s and great-grandfather’s generations (the Greatest Generation and the Lost Generation respectively). By the time my father was old enough to vote (Eisenhower ’56), a full generation of people had been collecting retirement benefits.
The system was and is self-protecting and self-propagating. It is the original Borg — you will be assimilated. And I am certain that it was designed that way on purpose — as most liberal programs are. It cannot be killed since retirees are the most reliable block of voters in the country, because 1) they have the time and 2) they are motivated (their lives literally depend on continued government payouts). The system was fully entrenched before my father ever had a chance to vote.
Medicare and Medicaid were added in 1965 before the boomers would get a chance to vote (the first boomers from ’46 would be eligible to vote in ’67 and would be voting in ’68). So, Medicare and Medicaid are the product of my father’s and grandfather’s generations (the Silent Generation and the Greatest Generation respectively). The horror that FDR created, LBJ amplified (don’t all serial killers go by their initials?).
You could argue that the Boomers (my generation) were at fault for the expansion of the welfare state during the 70s, but in reality most young people don’t vote. The retirees (the Greatest Generation) and working-class stiffs (of the Silent Generation) drove the liberal policy bandwagon for most of that time. {kinnath voted for the first time as a 19yo in ’76. I voted libertarian that election and every election after that until 2024 when I voted straight ticket Republican. Fuck the Democrats.} Boomers did not achieve real political power until closer to middle age.
Brave AI says:
Baby boomers began dominating U.S. politics in the late 1970s, and their political ascendancy accelerated significantly in the 1990s, as they assumed leadership roles in government.
Congressional Majority: Boomers became a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives following the 1998 midterm elections and attained a majority in the U.S. Senate in 2008.
Boomers’ grip on committee leadership tracked their rise to chamber majorities, since committee chairs are selected by seniority within the majority party:
By the early 2000s they held most House committee chairmanships, and by the 114th Congress (2015ā2017) they made up 63% of the House.
Senate committees: Boomers first became the Senate majority in the 111th Congress (2009ā2011), and from that
point onward they dominated Senate committee chairs. Their peak was the 114th Congress, when they held 62% of Senate seats.
Their dominance has been eroding: in the 118th Congress (2023), boomers fell below a combined majority of Congress, and in the current 119th Congress (2025ā2026) they are no longer the largest generation in the House (Gen X now holds 41.7%), though they still hold a Senate majority at 60.6%.
Several key Senate committee chairs are now Gen Xers (e.g., Ted Cruz on Commerce, Mike Lee on Energy, Tom Cotton on Intelligence), while boomers like Susan Collins (Appropriations) and Mike Crapo (Finance) still hold others.
There is no doubt that Boomers propagated and expanded all the horrors of the liberal agenda. And now that half the Boomer cohort is retired and the other half is soon-to-be retired, you can bet they will follow along the traditional path and crush anyone that fucks with Social Security and Medicare. But it doesn’t actually matter, because it all collapses in the early 2030’s. That’s not the product of conspiracy. It’s pure fucking demographics. This particular Borg has a timebomb built into the core of it, and it cannot be disarmed. The only question is when the Borg self-destructs at this point.
I started paying FICA taxes in summer of ’73 when got my first job at McD’s. So, I have been paying for this shit for 53 years. And I am still working and still paying because I know what happens in 8 years or less.
The first three generations — the Lost, the Greatest, and the Silent — all got more out of the system than they put into it. The Boomers are the first generation to get less out of Social Security and Medicare than we put in. This has been known for as long as I have been working (all 53 fucking years). Nothing can be done. It is known as the 3rd Rail of Politics for a good reason. Anyone that does anything to reduce the benefits of retirees gets fried in the next election.
And so the time bomb keeps ticking.
I’ve been getting letters from the SSA for the last decade letting me know that my retirement benefits get cut by roughly one third in 2034 if Congress does nothing — they will do nothing. So, the Boomers are getting completely screwed by the system. If anyone thinks that a majority of the Boomers are going to decide to take an even smaller slice of the pie to somehow preserve the system that they paid into their entire lives, then they are idiots. It’s not going to happen.
As bad as it is for my generation, it is worse for my kids and grandkids. And I hate that and all the people that let it happen. The system blows up in the next decade. The political fallout will be devastating. The result will either be something very much like a socialist take over of the economy or a complete collapse of the welfare state. I think the odds favor the socialists.
So, the long term question is whether or not that leads to a shooting war.
Go ahead. Tell my how this is all my fault. I look forward to your comments.
I thought this was going to be a post about food….
Or at least about debates over food.
I will second (third?) this.
Thank you for writing this, maybe a different title would have drawn more eyes?
I found the thread on Saturday just before the evening links posted.
This was my immediate thought:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp9JR6uVy9E
No. Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, Jeff Dahmer, Jessica Fletcher, they are full names, not initials.
Last night my daughter pushed the call button on her Minnie Mouse play phone and my some and answered it.
He instructed the pretend caller on how Micky Mouse was to be assinated, with instructions to double tap him after the initial strangling. He then told the ācallerā āwho am I? Iām MKBā using his initials.
About three or four months after we named him my wife and I had a conversation that his initials were quite serial killer coded.
Apparently mob boss level. Iām glad he is shooting for upper management.
UnCiv fulfills his mandatory obligation to “well axually” the joke.
Thank you for participating.
I’m trying to think of one who is known by their initials (that are actually their initials rather than just three letters)
‘ Jessica Fletcher’
*actual guffaw*
I hoped somebody would catch that.
I guess I should have read the comments first.
Though, does mention of Jeffrey Dahmer count as a food mention for those thinking this would be a post about food?
Taco Thursday: Trump cancels the livestream of Hasan’s execution because “many good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die”. Hey dipshit, it wasn’t mandatory.
Thatās bullshit but sadly I figured it was going to get yanked.
Damn you Lucy.
I don’t care if he’s in a wheel chair, they need to uniform him to 670-1, clean shaven and haircut. Then cashier him before execution. Rip the rank, insignia, buttons, etc off, break his sword. He should be hanged but I’ll accept a firing squad. Either way, executed in uniform and not in a jumpsuit or private clothing. And no Muslim burial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashiering
Should have been the afternoon after his sentencing, but at least he’s not living out to old age on taxpayer dime.
If he hadn’t been shot immediately (and not just by eventually arriving police), but military installations are essentially gun free zones. I heard that the SRP site afterwards went to pat downs and prohibited pocket knives, as the logical answer to that shooting by a single jihadi nutjob.
Meh, it was simply unnecessary. What I don’t understand is why it took so long to kill this freak. Should have been hanged day-of, or within the week if they felt he may have intel.
As long as the audience continues to clap, Tinkerbell will soar.
Well, it’s certainly not *my* fault.
It is all Kinnath’s doing.
I misread that as “Kinnath’s dong”.
NTTIATWWT.
Hey dipshit, it wasnāt mandatory.
Everything not mandatory is prohibited.
Every President from Eisenhower to George HW served in WWII.*
*Carter was a middie.
Also fuck Brokaw for his “Greatest” bullshit.
Truman was a WW1 vet
Much appreciated – I didn’t pile on to that fight cuz I knew the shit show started earlier than the Boomers.
But Boomers are gonna feel the heat because they’re still here to kick around, I guess.
There isn’t enough money in America to keep SS propped up let alone all the other entitlements that are sucking the nation dry. I think it’s all going to come down crashing at once and “socialism” isn’t going to save it.
Let it crash and burn, and then pick up the pieces while taking credit for it. 90 years later, and Roosevelt saved us with the New Deal.
And when the Boomers are gone, they’ll turn on Generation X next. We’re already seeing some of that on the socials.
It’s all so transparently stupid and self-serving. “Wah, wah, you didn’t make life perfect for me Daddy!”
yep, re: blaming Gen-X – “you didn’t stop them!”.
well… why didn’t you? š
slumbrew:
But we’re hoping to stop YOU!
And when the Boomers are gone, theyāll turn on Generation X next. Weāre already seeing some of that on the socials.
On a discord I’m on, I predicted that a long time ago. People thought I was wrong.
Once I learned how evil FDR was I knew it wasent the boomers fault but their parents and grandparents.
Bunch of commie fucks.
In 8 years, there will be a lot less baby boomers alive. The dead won’t be screwed. Gen X will get hosed and the younger generations will be gleeful. Champagne socialists will rejoice. Late state capitalism failed again, suck it!
Yeah. The boomers will get all the ill gotten gains their parents and grandparents set up.
The fourth generation will be screwed.
A lot like how so many family farms go bankrupt before making it to the fourth generation. Keep adding debt and get yours while youāre alive.
Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in 4 generations?
I don’t mind getting hosed, I’ve been expecting that ever since I popped out.
I just wish I didn’t have to listen to the constant entitled whining. From the Boomers, or from the Millienials and Posties.
Maybe I’m prejudiced towards my own cohort (I’m on the younger fringe of GenX), but it seems like the Xers are the only generation that has mostly avoided being a bunch of little bitches.
Head down, keep pulling the plow. Whatever.
‘Xers are the only generation that has mostly avoided being a bunch of little bitches.’
And they’ll never let us forget it. š
“There will be no Social Security by the time you retire” has been drilled into me since I was a teen.
My plans anticipate $0/mo.
āThere will be no Social Security by the time you retireā has been drilled into me since I was a teen.
#metoo
By Greatest Generation relatives and a few Boomer relatives and teachers.
Some Boomers I knew thought it would be fixed. Heh.
itās all going to come down crashing at once and
āsocialismāgood intentions isnāt going to save it.The “parent reads from library book at school board meeting” thing is kinda passe, but this one is a trip.
You have to listen through the school board chair trying to shut him down, but Damn!!! That is some foul stuff.
And to think, we used to giggle when we looked up dirty words in the huge unabridged dictionary in the library.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2110473970491494840
It shouldn’t be. This is disgusting hypocrisy of the highest order coming from the degenerates who claim to be educating your children.
Tell my how this is all my fault.
It’s all your fault.
Also- apropos of nothing…
When did we, as a “culture” come to not only irrationally and pathologically fear death but devote vast sums of money to prolonging its inevitable arrival?
Probably about around the time when we stopped believing in the afterlife, transcendence, and eternal salvation. I personally would argue that WWI was likely the catalyst, and the effects really started to take hold in the culture over the next thirty years or so.
‘when we stopped believing in the afterlife, transcendence, and eternal salvation.’
^this.
Though I know many people who want to go relatively peacefully. Whatever that means.
100% ES.
Iāve also seen that timeframe as when women took over the operations of the churches. When the churches became feminized.
You’ve been visiting Old Folks’ Homes again.
@Brooks There is a movement called Transhumanism that started in the 1990’s. This is when tech companies started seeing aging and disease as software bugs that could be fixed. A lot of those same people are pushing AI to become “sentient” so it can benevolently rule over us all.
As with most of the New Deal, SS was a bad deal, in the long run.
It really is a long term “temporary solution” .
We’re now putting the interest on the debt on a credit card. Never worked before.
According to Keynes In the long run we are all dead. This has worked for the first 3-4 generations.
Sadly it is about to come crashing down…. one day.
I have a real issue online of commie tards responding to me with snark and then deleting their shit so it can’t be responded to.
This is the enemy.
I want Social Security to end, but I agree there is a “promise” to those who paid-in and there are no other examples of other pension funds being denied or reduced (aside from minor COLA reductions). However, there are a large number of people who frankly didn’t qualify for social security – including spouses who were given “half benefits” of the actual earner, outrageous COLA’s, and of course the mac-daddy of all errors re-indexing wages in the early 70’s.
A key differentiator of SS versus other programs is the payroll tax is a pay-for with stipulations that when it no longer covers there is an automatic benefit reduction. IMO, the fairest way forward is to let the benefit reductions go into effect and also begin opt-outs for younger workers (cue the actuaries to figure out the math).
SSA for “disability”.
There is no such promise and there never was. The original notifications from the SSA back in the 1930’s explicitly stated that you are not guaranteed to get anything out, and this was confirmed by a United States Supreme Court decision in 1960 (can’t remember the case, but it was around then.)
This would be a reasonable way to wind it down, but welfare recipients tend to scream loudly when their welfare payments are reduced.
Maybe that’s the solution. An ad campaign with Herbert Boomerton lecturing some little kids about how, “You owe me,” then cut to Shawnequa McWelfare chimping out in a gas station because her EBT card just got declined…
Instead of having to make each cut manually, set up an automatic stepped reduction of benefits with several poison pills on repeal that make hemming and hawing and doing nothing a viable strategy for future congresses. Force them to adapt to the disappearances and their tantrums will fade.
Also, covertly execute the commie fucks who would undo it.
United States Supreme Court decision in 1960
Flemming v. Nestor.
People normally understand that two wrongs don’t make a right.
The idea that the older generations are entitled to rob others to make up for their having been robbed is ridiculous.
As a millennial I’ve paid in for 20+ years, would be happy to give up 100% of what I might get in the future (to be fair, probably not much!) if we just ended SS+Medicare right now.
I’ve been “paying in” even longer and I’d take that deal.
Yup, I’ve probably got another 20-years to go (if I’m very lucky) so I’m by far not on the most ‘invested’ end of things. The money paid to the government is a tax (theft), it doesn’t mean I have rights to others labor too.
I’m in the same boat. I’ve paid in for shy of two decades now. I never really viewed it as something I’d get back. It was just another bullshit tax to me. Money was taken and gone.
I realize I’m not at the retirement stage and it’s probably more personal for those who are, but the complaining about it is the very reason nothing gets done and there’s not even a chance for progress.
Self-sacrifice as a concept – even for one’s children and grandchildren – is pretty much dead. Not just with the boomers, but across the entire culture. It’s the same sentiment you here from the women who destroy their families because it looked cool on TikTok (and it really is the mindset of some of these women) and then say they’d rather their kids see THEM happy. Even though many end up miserable and regretting the choice.
Like if people won’t give something up for their offspring, the very idea of honor and sacrifice is gone.
IMO, the fairest way forward is to let the benefit reductions go into effect and also begin opt-outs for younger workers
That was the Ron Paul plan, which of course went nowhere.
Go ahead. Tell my how this is all my fault.
Well you see…er… circumstances being what they are… I got nothin.
This was good. As usual people tend to form opinions without a look at the facts. It’s also incredibly easy to debunk “If we just tax billionaires enough everything would be fine” with a few Google searches.
Ahem…
“It’s your fault for not running for congress, sweeping the elections, eliminating the ponzi schemes and defecit spending and ushering in a new golden age of fiscal responsibility”
I mean, you can blame anybody for anything, this one wasn’t even a stretch.
Reversion to reality?
The new rules also eliminate the selling and trading of credits automakers use to compensate for producing fuel-thirsty vehicles. The NHTSA has in the past allowed automakers at risk of exceeding their fuel economy average to buy credits from others that make low- or zero-emission vehicles.
Historically, state and federal credits have been revenue sources for electric vehicle producers such as Tesla
and Rivian
.
Those changes take the pressure off automakers that have tended to produce less-efficient vehicles ā such as SUVs, pickup trucks or high-performance sports cars. But they also allow automakers to redirect their portfolios and investments away from products made for compliance and toward ones that are more profitable, Michaeli said.
There are three pieces to the potential strategy shift, he said. First, automakers can sell more internal-combustion vehicles and fewer of what are often called ācompliance cars,ā which are slower-selling or less profitable fuel-efficient vehicles or EVs that automakers make in order to stay on the right side of fuel economy or emissions rules.
Muh accounting gimmicks!
Have they abolished the efficiency requirements?
If no, why haven’t we tortured the people who can until they do?
CAFE still exists but the fines were zeroed out. The Gas Guzzler Tax is a separate tax which is still in effect.
I should add: The CAFE fines being zeroed out was part of the Big Beautiful Bill (BBB).
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Here’s a crazy idea… if people want to spend more on fuel why the hell should I care? Since the whole “man-made climate crisis” hysteria is a hoax anyway, it has no impact on me whatsoever.
‘The result will either be something very much like a socialist take over of the economy or a complete collapse of the welfare state. I think the odds favor the socialists.’
I’m very much with you. You can probably count the number of times nanny-statism collapsed in free markets on one hand, while the number of times nanny-statism devolved into outright socialism and communism are innumerable.
An apropos time to drop this:
https://congress-gen.surge.sh/
Something I was noodling on over the weekend. It doesn’t break down by House and Senate, but I could add that.
I should add dates when the Acts were passed as annotations.
Python is here if anyone wants to poke: https://congress-gen.surge.sh/congress-gen-chart
lovely chart
The part that jumped out at me after making it is that the Silent Generation didn’t exactly tighten their belts.
That, and the debt curving going near vertical from 2018 to 2020. Yikes.
(I, of course, received zero “stimulus”. Chump.)
But it went up most under which group? š
Thanks for sharing I think it is good to also think of how much borrowing from the future via avenues besides just social programs has been done. In many ways that spending was *more* detrimental.
Its worth noting here too that boomers are still a plurality, though dropping fast the last few elections, presumably due to aging out.
āIf we just tax billionaires enough everything would be fineā
First they came for the billionaires…
The math is simple. If you confiscated every penny from the “billionaires”, it would pay the federal budget for one year. It would not touch the debt. The following year, with all the billionaires dead in a ditch somewhere, there would be no choice but to heavily tax the rest of us.
In the TX23 “debates” the Blueberry wheeled out the line about “Millionaire and Billionaire” and the obligatory “fair share” before trying to imply corruption by pointing out that in her opponant’s first financial disclosure he claimed an income of only $80k, but later filed an amendment stating a worth of several million.
I know it’s a sleight of hand some peoiple will lap up, but it struck me as “so? those do not contradict” Dude owns at least two businesses – one making/modifying guns, and one telling jokes on the internet. It is entirely believable that he has assets in the millions including transferrable machine guns, inventory, land, computers, etc while still only taking $80k as income personally. You gotta pay the vendors, the employees, the tax man, etc.
Since the screed here is a response to basically me, I’ll put up my thoughts on the subject matter yet again.
We all know full damn well why SS is politically untouchable. It’s been this way since very early on and it’s by design. Yada yada. There is no way to fix or change it without SOMEONE being left holding the bag.
Boomers are not universally wealthy, but there is no real argument if we are going to look at people as just a generation for a moment that they currently possess far more wealth than the rest of the country. They still make up a plurality of new home buyers. They still control politics. And an overwhelming majority support upping taxes on the young and working class people who are already struggling through a host of decisions made by older generations.
SS was sold on the basis that Grandma was eating cat food to survive and that’s less true now than at any point in human history. Yet still nothing can be done because the olds cling to this idea that they paid into it even though the money is gone.
If SS was the ONLY thing you could point to with the boomers to say they’re kind of greedy pricks (which obviously doesn’t apply to every single person), you may not have the backlash you are currently seeing. But it sure as shit isn’t.
The boomers were ascending and in the boardrooms when they shipped countless jobs overseas to save a schekel or two. They stripped the country of its manufacturing base. They are – as mentioned – a plurality of new home buyers. They play a huge role in blocking new construction to maintain the price of their current assets further fucking over the youngs.
I struggle to think of a single positive political development that coincided with the rise of the boomers. Not one. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction.
So we have this retirement system. It’s going to go under without major changes. The last generation is desperately going to push that off for as long as they can, and in this one instance the Glibertariat is going to sit here and say well they deserve those government bennies – I deserve my government bennies – even though they’re clearly gone. Your money isn’t there. It was spent as it came in.
More of your generation than any other has the means to survive without it. There are a shit ton of reforms at minimum that could be done to phase this shit out. Simple means testing could be implemented, but the boomer couple with a main house and a vacation home in Florida needs to get theirs?
No. Get the fuck out of here.
SS is and always has been a welfare program. It isn’t a pension fund at the end of the day. And the cold hard reality is that many, many boomers DO NOT need the god damn handout.
SS is and always has been a welfare program.
This is true.
But what it is and what was sold the public are two dramatically different things.
Means testing is probably the closest we will get to any sort of real-world solution. I think means testing will be difficult to get right, since so many people will hide their wealth or find other workarounds.
I think there will be a combination of cuts (by raising the age to qualify, means testing), increases of taxes (removing exemption of wages above the SS limit) and our favorite, borrowing, to keep things running relatively smoothly.
Three basic paths forward:
1) Reduce benefits across the board. This has actually been happening for some time now. FedGov has been fucking with the definition of inflation to lower COLA for a while. The net result is an overall loss of purchasing power across all beneficiaries.
2) Increase taxes on those working. Two flavors of this are increasing the tax rate and killing the ceiling (as you mention), but not increasing the benefit cap.
3) Means testing of benefits.
I expect all three to happen. And I expect to be fucked by all three of these since I am still working and making more than the limit.
Thank you for the lengthy response.
Considering all political innovations since the 18th C. have been dystopian this seems to be a fully-generalizable complaint. Heck, even the enshittification of the US started before any boomers parents were born.
Wilson was out of office by 1921.
“Simple means testing could be implemented,”
Not likely to fly with the older voters, but if it does, then the test should be made based on lifetime earnings, not what the retiree has now. Why should frugal John and Jane, who now have a nice nest egg, be penalized while Chad and Buffy who spent all their earnings on fine wine, vacations to exotic locales, and high end automobiles benefit because now they have little in the way of assets?
‘the test should be made based on lifetime earnings’
I always felt that way too. Time to start rewarding frugality, you get more of what you reward, afterall.
NH has means testing for its property tax exemptions for the elderly. Going from memory: They look at both income and assets. A primary residence can be exempted from the assets under certain conditions (owned more than five years and a few others if I remember correctly). Both income and assets have to be below a certain level in order to the property tax exemptions. I think the level goes up as you get older.
What you’re going to run into with this is that the people who are broke are going to claim they were always counting on social security in retirement, bad plan or not. So they shouldn’t be punished for spending/being irresponsible because Uncle Sugar made a promise.
And round and round we go at the end of the day.
Means testing in any form is horrific and borderline communist given the alleged pay-for via payroll tax. For those who “need” because spent more than 60 years of their lives without any plan for retirement other than SS and have no means – they can go on welfare.
Unfortunately, we already have means-testing for Medicare so the same losers mentioned above actually get theirs free and clear while those who worked, saved are penalized with higher rates.
“Tough Shit. You fucked up – you trusted us.”
You can call it what you want. It’s really the only possible way I can foresee coming close to ending the program as a whole. You aren’t going to dismantle it all at once.
Kill it wholesale and the media will flood the landscape with sob stories about Grandma’s eating catfood to survive.
Just recently a “study” was released which revealed the depth and breadth of the secret millionaire class. People who own businesses which, to the champagne socialist class, represent a vast hoard of wealth unfairly pulled from the pocket of The Worker. This wealth can be put to much better and wiser use by society (as represented by the Democratic Socialists of America).
Punish success. Reward failure. This is how civil society builds justice.
You don’t even need to own a business to accrue a few million. I know school teachers who lived below their means and invested wisely and retired with a nice fat nestegg.
they currently possess far more wealth than the rest of the country.
HOARDERS
donāt all serial killers go by their initials
I think Ted Bundy didn’t.
you can bet they will follow along the traditional path and crush anyone that fucks with Social Security and Medicare.
That’s easy. We have no Ronald Reagan.
Yes, we should remember that no boomers ever voted for Goldwater (who suggested rather mild s.s. reforms) or LBJ (who launched the spending of the Great Society) in 1964. But, fairly, boomers kept voting for s.s. and expanding the benefits and, through AARP, fight tooth and nail to thwart any reforms. Once the boomer cohort dies off, then the Millenials will fight tooth and nail for s.s.
fight for money we’ve always known we’d never get?
Does not compute.
Took the day off today and went to the range when it is mostly empty.
New purchase worked perfectly! Fired 115 and 124 FMJ. Checked for function 124+P and 135 and 135+P Critical Duty. It seemed to like the 135+P the least. However, Iām so rusty it very well could have been me and not the gun.
I need at least one more range trip before I attempt to qualify for my CCW. Iām not surprised. New gun and Iām rusty. Also first time shooting red dot.
But do you like the pew pew?
It is my first 9mm. Iāve only shot friendsā full size 9mm a few times so I donāt have a big frame of reference.
Itās the Shadow 2 Carry so short barrel. Still muzzle flip is way less than my full size 45s. Recoil is very manageable.
Only shot 200 rounds. Got tired and didnāt want to double down on bad habits. No other big ergonomic issues and I liked the LOK grips, but never fired it with the stock ones.
Thank you for all the thank yous.
Thanks for the write-up kinnath.
No thank you!
My wife soon to collect, but Iāve got a few years. I also expect a reduced or means tested benefit.
You are appreciated!
The Boomers are acting out of self-interest, I can’t fault them for that. And to kinnath’s point, the so-called “Greatest Generation” is actually to blame here as most of these programs were created by people *they* elected. However, blaming whole cohorts of people is pretty stupid and gay if you ask me. We’re all basically the same and would likely do the same things in their place given full context and not knowledge of the future.
It’s like blaming the Boomers for the sexual revolution. While we’re all starting to recognize the negative downstream effects of the sexual revolution, they weren’t unambiguously negative. And further, any cohort of people would likely have done the same thing in their place (“you mean science invented a magic pill that means I can fuck anyone I want with no consequences? where do I sign up!”).
TL;DR – generational generalizations and blaming are stupid.
Next on the docket, let’s discuss where and when the sexual revolution turned into a disaster.
After that we can move on to religion.
That covers the big three no-no dinner conversation topics. {not that anyone in the younger generations would understand what that means} š
And by the way: who the fuck are we kidding? SS isn’t going to change. It’s only going away through catastrophic collapse, which is inevitable. That would be true regardless of which generational cohort is at the wheel.
For G-d’s sake, we can’t even fucking fix our stupid fucking clocks (“mUh DsT!!!!11!!”); and people think we can fix a hornet’s nest like SS? Get the fuck outta here.
Doin’ right ain’t got no end
Democratic lawmakers introduced a new bill Thursday that would force investigations into banks that worked with Jeffrey Epstein and could lead to executives who enabled him facing penalties or criminal chargesābut itās only likely to pass if Democrats regain control of Congress in the midterm elections.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., introduced the Epstein Wall Street Records Act, which would force financial regulators to open investigations into financial institutions and specific executives that did business with Epstein.
The witches are real, and they will be hunted down and burned.