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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
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In reply to the discussion: Joe Biden is not a Boomer. Just so you know. [View all]braddy
(3,585 posts)5. The entire list of 1960s figures was almost empty of boomers, (I know Biden isn't one of those).
The people we know from the 1960s were almost all silent generation people. People like, Bob Seger, Jane Fonda, John Denver, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Paul & Mary, Grace Slick, Neil Young , Beatles, Van Morrison, Joan Baez, Jerry Garcia, Pete Townsend, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Jimmy Page, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Williams Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn, Chicago Seven, Rod Stewart, Abbie Hoffman, Hunter S. Thompson, Malcom X, Charles Manson, Brian Wilson, The Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, the Jefferson Airplane, and the Mamas and the Papas, Jimmy Page, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, just about everyone that people assume are boomers from that time.
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How old were you when you "heard this myth"? Also, the "greatest generation" wasn't...
Hekate
Nov 2019
#52
I don't think the Boomers were supposed to be better than their parents. They were
napi21
Nov 2019
#77
Weren't you the one talking about...ok boomer? BTW i'm nearly 70 and still attend...
brush
Nov 2019
#107
you spent all that time trashing Joe but you didn't bother to read the question he was answering
CreekDog
Nov 2019
#97
Maybe age and health ought to be considered when electing a president, with no idea what
Jewls2
Nov 2019
#8
It does not matter a whit if he's a boomer or not. He's honourable and a Democrat, a good person. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2019
#2
The entire list of 1960s figures was almost empty of boomers, (I know Biden isn't one of those).
braddy
Nov 2019
#5
It always amazes me that people attribute 1960s/1970s entertainment, foreign affairs, government,
braddy
Nov 2019
#29
I find that "ok boomer" expression extremely obnoxious. I was born in 1948, you in 1945....
George II
Nov 2019
#6
I thought it was funny. No biggie. I thought it funny when Booker said Joe must have been high.
Jewls2
Nov 2019
#9
What bothers me about it is that some younger people use it as a derogatory term.
George II
Nov 2019
#11
Ya, whatever. I know thru many conversation with youth, there are times when I tell them
Jewls2
Nov 2019
#14
I thought Booker's quip was rude, immature, and most unpresidential--more in a Trumpian vein than
emmaverybo
Nov 2019
#18
Mmm, and I thought it funny, good nature and nothing like vindictive, crude, vulgar, vile Trump.
Jewls2
Nov 2019
#24
Rude and unpresidential, so yes in that way. Manner is important as are a modicum of manners.
emmaverybo
Nov 2019
#47
Never heard Biden make a cheap joke at another's expense, one that jabs at an Achilles heel. Castro
emmaverybo
Nov 2019
#53
Instead of rebutting, you took a shot at me. Exactly what I see Booker as having done, though
emmaverybo
Nov 2019
#57
I did not take a shot at you. You stated Biden doesn't go after the Democratic candidates.
Jewls2
Nov 2019
#59
Calling her an elitist is not a cheap joke or a personally demeaning jab, though it is a
emmaverybo
Nov 2019
#61
I don't give a shit if it was a joke. I chuckled at first and then I groaned with how terrible it
GemDigger
Nov 2019
#72
I wouldn't have thought it funny if he asked Joe if he were drunk. Pot is not the point. He got a
emmaverybo
Nov 2019
#49
I suggest boomers come right back at the caller with "Dude! You're so AWESOME!" . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2019
#12
my boomer brother and i find the whole thing hilarious. so when we make mistakes on the never
Kurt V.
Nov 2019
#33
Movements that drew their widest participation and came into the main stream because of boomers:
emmaverybo
Nov 2019
#79
If a person is being belittled and categorized because of their age, it would be offensive.
Chemisse
Nov 2019
#55
I find it rude & condescending at a minimum and depending on the context, offensive.
MichMan
Nov 2019
#85