The Visionless GOP

[Guntsu]

What makes you think they are?

[WuWei]

@Guntsu

What makes you think they are?

They are fighting it

[GWH]

@JayJay

It’s not an insult.

Mmmm…ok. I’ll believe your track record.

@JayJay

Obsession with keeping taxes as low as possible has long term costs, so you saying “mature people” will come to the realization their ideas are dumb once they have to pay taxes and will therefore convert to conservativism is wrongheaded and shortsighted.

Obsession?! Well if being tired of government taking more and more from me and you while spending it on a bunch of ■■■■ they shouldn’t even have a hand in is an obsession, then I’ll gladly be obsessed, I guess. Disagree? There’s a box on your tax form that allows you to pay more. Check it. But please stop checking mine.

@JayJay

Calling Gen Z’s spoiled, dumb and immature because they see this and you don’t is your problem, not theirs.

They are all of those things. They’re 25. Everyone is at that age. Then reality smacks you in the mouth, and you go to work for 30+ years wishing you had a little more to support your family, and cursing the government for every dollar they steal.

@JayJay

PS I agree we spend a lot of money on stupid ■■■■ . That should be fixed…but that requires dropping political agendas.

It requires cutting off the spigot. Then they have to prioritize. Just like the people they’re taking from.

[JayJay]

@WuWei

@JayJay

@WuWei

Until you© admit what the problem is, you can’t do better.

I didn’t say I could do better.

I said the arrogant “I suffered, so you can too, now suck it up!” argument is a stupid approach to take.

About guns? Who is making that argument?

Gen Z is not “suffering” from the RKBA.

The poster who said they suffered stress from Duck and Cover drills is making that argument.

[Guntsu]

@WuWei

They are fighting it

Wrong they are the drivers of it

[WuWei]

School shootings are neither a gun problem nor a RKBA problem. And you know that.

[WuWei]

@Guntsu

@WuWei

They are fighting it

Wrong they are the drivers of it

Ok?
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[Guntsu]

To clarify they aren’t fighting the culture war, the aging GOP base is fighting a ghost stuck on the “back in my day mentality”

[WuWei]

Well that’s partially true. And partially false

[GWH]

Democrats think governing is dreaming up new ways to spend your tax dollars on something you don’t want or need but they say is good for you. The only brakes to this cradle to the grave mentality is to elect republicans every so often. Nothings ever given back. It’s an incremental grind towards socialism that they swear isn’t their game while they continue to play it.

[Samm]

@biggestal99

@Samm

When it’s true it may be unpleasant for some to hear, but it’s not an insult

of course its an insult and there are thousands or even millions of republicans with the same idea. hence the republicans can’t reach young citizens of these united states. gen z will remain majority democratic party until that attitude changes.

There is an old saying Alan. “The truth hurts.” Just because you are insulted by the truth doesn’t mean it’s not true.

Gen Z voters constitute a small minority of the electorate. And as a group, they are generally ignorant, generally self-centered, generally idealistic, and generally want what others worked for without putting in the effort required to get it. Paying any more attention to them than they are due is pandering to the lowest denominator.

[Jezcoe]

@Samm

Gen Z voters constitute a small minority of the electorate.

Gen Z just showed up in numbers large enough to offset GOP gains.

There is only going to be more of them in 2024.

[Samm]

@JayJay

@Samm

“This argument is so ridiculous it’s not even funny.”

Yes the argument “We suffered stress when we were kids, so buck up and deal with your active shooter drills and DNA samples “ is a ridiculous argument.

It’s defeatist. It’s a “We can’t do better, so why should we even try?” argument.

If you are going to cry “woe is me” every time things get rough you are going to be disappointed all the time. Pretty much everyone has had their own trials to get where they are, trials that you know nothing about. Quit whining that you think you have it worse than they did and do what you can to improve things. Nothing that they went through or didn’t go through affects you in any way from this point forward.

[Samm]

@JayJay

@Auto129

Gen-Z gets to grow up watching all the bills come due on underinvestment in infrastructure. They know what cheap costs, and will vote accordingly.

They’re just dumb kids…what do they know?

Exactly.

[Samm]

@JayJay

It’s not an insult.

@biggestal99 thinks it is.

[Samm]

@WuWei

@DisturbedGuy

These kids are tenacious

Isn’t it interesting how each generation thinks they are the first to disagree with their elders.

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@Samm

@biggestal99

@Samm

When it’s true it may be unpleasant for some to hear, but it’s not an insult

of course its an insult and there are thousands or even millions of republicans with the same idea. hence the republicans can’t reach young citizens of these united states. gen z will remain majority democratic party until that attitude changes.

There is an old saying Alan. “The truth hurts.” Just because you are insulted by the truth doesn’t mean it’s not true.

Gen Z voters constitute a small minority of the electorate. And as a group, they are generally ignorant, generally self-centered, generally idealistic, and generally want what others worked for without putting in the effort required to get it. Paying any more attention to them than they are due is pandering to the lowest denominator.

This is awesome. I don’t know that stronger “get off my lawn” energy has ever been posted here.

[Samm]

@Jezcoe

@Samm

Gen Z voters constitute a small minority of the electorate.

Gen Z just showed up in numbers large enough to offset GOP gains.

There is only going to be more of them in 2024.

So what? They are still a small minority of the electorate even if all of them old enough to vote had showed up.

The same logic you just used to credit Gen Zers with offsetting GOP gains could be used for women, POC and the LBGTQ contingent. Basically any group that the Dems cater to could be credited as “the segment” of the electorate that fouled GOP hopes for a “red wave.”

[Samm]

@Supreme_War_Pig

@Samm

@biggestal99

@Samm

When it’s true it may be unpleasant for some to hear, but it’s not an insult

of course its an insult and there are thousands or even millions of republicans with the same idea. hence the republicans can’t reach young citizens of these united states. gen z will remain majority democratic party until that attitude changes.

There is an old saying Alan. “The truth hurts.” Just because you are insulted by the truth doesn’t mean it’s not true.

Gen Z voters constitute a small minority of the electorate. And as a group, they are generally ignorant, generally self-centered, generally idealistic, and generally want what others worked for without putting in the effort required to get it. Paying any more attention to them than they are due is pandering to the lowest denominator.

This is awesome. I don’t know that stronger “get off my lawn” energy has ever been posted here.

Thank you. I take that as a compliment … seriously.

[FreeAndClear]

@GWH

Democrats think governing is dreaming up new ways to spend your tax dollars on something you don’t want or need but they say is good for you. The only brakes to this cradle to the grave mentality is to elect republicans every so often. Nothings ever given back. It’s an incremental grind towards socialism that they swear isn’t their game while they continue to play it.

100 year old grind.

Labor laws were socialist too.