I went to a barber today and we were talking about election fraud. The guy is right wing, but not all that red pilled and certainly not aware of anything relating to Q. When we were talking about how the Biden Inauguration looked like it was something that would happen in Communist China he said “I don’t know what it is, but everything on the news just looks fake. The Inauguration, everything just looks like it was pre recorded or something.” People know what what they are being sold is bullshit and are waking up to the fact that there is something behind the scenes.
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I don't know what it is about Boomers that they keep watching FNC as Fox continues to stab them in the back repeatedly.
It hearkens back to a time before the internet when the News was, literally, the window to the world for everyone. A different time. Old habits.
You're not wrong, it's certainly habit. But I know Boomers who are semi-retired that on average probably watch Fox 8 hours/day and complain about it.
It's nuts.
Most of my boomer friends have switched to OAN or off-label web-sites which is pretty impressive.
Me too, fren. I unplugged that gas box during Monica Lewinsky.
I'm 70 and my wife and I quit watching Fox and all the others over 7 years ago. It's all designed to keep people brainwashed. It's not easy to be as old as we are and realize we've literally been lied to our entire lives.
What is your view on your generation in general? Is the vast majority still brainwashed or is a good portion actually awake?
Ah you meant the extreme cases. Yes, I marvel at that level of ignorance as well. I thought you were referring in general.
It is likely they have no ability, or to know how to seek other means. My stepmother is like that. Lives out in the countryside with no internet. What she gets thru the mind control box is all she knows and is quite shocked when I challenge her beliefs she's been brainwashed with...
...and yes, it is nuts.
I am an older boomer. I haven't watched fox since nov 3rd. Please don't generalize. It is rather like me thinking the younger generation is lazy and entitled. Don't go there because the evidence is on my side.
I'm around your age, and what you say is true. We've not watched Fox since election night. We do get OANN, but generally stopped watching News altogether. Not all of us are stuck in the past. Our generation has made mistakes, as all of them do. We took from our parents generation what was good, and our kids will do the same.
Not this boomer. Turned off fox when they called AZ on election night and haven't turned them on since. And please, I know more asleep people under 50 than over 50. It's not age but what each person is exposed to and their inherent belief system.
Older people are creatures of habit. They trust their news anchors and hold out much longer than most because they become such familiar faces and voices...almost like friends or family.
This is such a personal insult I am at a loss as to how to respond. Didn't boomers support Trump over biden by a huge margin while you youngsters lead the hate Trump movement? I can testify that you youngins don't have a clue who we fought for freedom or who won the civil war or even if Massachusetts is a foreign country. They can't tell you the two houses of Congress are or why the first amendment protects themselves. My generation knew this stuff and my simple farmer parents could write a complete sentence.
So true. Posted my comment before seeing yours. I too am tired of the boomer insults. It just isn't necessary to stereotyped any age group. I could dump on millennials as a group of know nothings except that my millennial daughters are quite smart and awake because I taught them stuff they needed to know. Being awake has little to do with age.
I'm a retired English/US History teacher, and I can vouch for what you say about the "ignorance" of the younger generation. I cringe when they interview the "man on the street/college kids". They are a total embarrassment.
I'm a boomer, baby. Calm down. Apologize if I insulted you. Unintended. Just call it as I see it. You are free to disagree. Peace.
Calm down Boomer. I kid.
I don't mean to insult Boomers. They're very supportive of MAGA and Trump. In many ways they're standing up for what is right more than just about any other generation.
All I'm saying is they're still begrudgingly married to Fox even after all this.
Sonny, we've lived though the cold war, LSD, Timothy Leary, Berlin Wall, Bay of Pigs, assassination of JFK & RFK, MLK, Dem convention of '68, blizzard of '78, Viet Nam, 1st Iraq war, Man on the moon, Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier, $.25 movies/double feature w/cartoons, newsreels, penny candy, 10cent sodas, gasoline wars and gasoline lines. Woodstock, Beatles, Mama and the Papas (lol), UFO's, love/sex/pot in the '60's/70's, war protests, bra burnings, music censored b/c of lyrics ( Louie-Louie) LOL , bell bottom pants, platform shoes, leisure suits and I could go on, but... Damn....a trip down memory lane! LOL
I can remember Walter Cronkite. But in those days we never knew he was actually a globalist way back then. They kept their opinions to themselves--at least during their newscasting careers. Not like today.
I remember him well. My husband and I often remenenence over newscasters like Cronkite. Miss those days.
Stop with the "generalities" about "old people". We certainly have LOTS of "generalities" that we could apply to "younger" people. I know, I've got kids and grandkids. We've lived a lot longer and have more life experience than younger gen. do at the moment. I remember being a "liberal minded" idiot back in college. I've lived since then and and "evolved" as they say. LOL
I don't think that generality applies to any boomers here. Obviously not. Myself included. However, I do think people of this generation who bring news personalities into their homes daily for the past 20 years will tend to believe what these people tell them. They just don't pay much attention, unless someone they trust opens their eyes. Maybe it's the same for the younger crowd too, but when I was young. I was too much of a rebel to believe much of what anybody told me. I seemed to have to learn all my life's lessons the hard way. Obviously I stepped on some toes unintentionally.
Shoe fits any foot. The problem is media addiction & susceptibility to subliminal conditioning.
im a boomer and quit fox news totally right after the election. Was looong term viewer up until then.