UNPRECEDENTED: Aging boomer retires to free up job for someone younger
UNPRECEDENTED: Aging boomer retires to free up job for someone younger
WASHINGTON DC — In a move that has shocked employees around the world, Joe Biden announced today that he would be stepping out of the presidential race, making it the first time in recorded history that an ageing boomer has ever retired in order to let a younger person take their job. “Folks, I’ve h...
Kamala Harris was born October 20th, 1964.
Gen X starts at 1965 and Baby boomers end in 1964.
You were this close Gen X....
Joe Biden is too old to be a Boomer, technically. He's part of the Silent Generation. So really he's just doing the traditional Silent Generation part of bowing out so a Boomer can take over.
Mark my word... Boomers will be way more savage.
They hate the poors and they hate young people outright. Policy will reflect this bias.
Younger ones feel like they didn't get their fair share since clowns like buffet etc are still running the regime. So once they finally get that power, get read for the fuckening
Not once have I, or any Gen Xer I know, said "Boy, I hope the next president is from my generation."
As far as my Xer family, friends, and coworkers go, we couldn't care less on which generation is elected as long as they aren't fucking things up even more.
Whatever.
That's the Gen X spirit! We need more of that these days.
My dad was born in the same year, falls under that category; but by all accounts he is far more like a gen X than a boomer since he early adopted computers, liked younger music, skateboarded, etc.. Things get blurry along the line.
That said, I doubt Kamala is cool like that... but probably not because she's a boomer, lol.
UNPRECEDENTED
unpresidented
No no, they're actually creative they don't need stupid puns
This straight up should be on not the onion at this point LMAOOOOO
The onion has been reality for so long that I basically come here for undiluted straightforward news now.
Biden isn't a boomer, he's from the generation before, the silent generation.
When informed that he predated the Boomer generation by four years, Biden explained that taking a title away from a younger generation “is actually the most Boomer thing one could do, so it still counts!”
You should always read the article, even if it's satire.
And he made place for an actual Boomer.
When informed that he predated the Boomer generation by four years, Biden explained that taking a title away from a younger generation “is actually the most Boomer thing one could do, so it still counts!”
Kamala Harris was quick to assure ageing employees across America that she, while younger, was also technically a boomer.
Kamala, OTOH, is a boomer. She was born in 1964, and generally the Boomer generation is defined as 1946-1964.
The generations of the presidents are interesting. Kennedy (1917), Johnson (1908), Nixon (1913), Ford (1913), Carter (1924), Reagan (1911) and Bush Sr. (1924) were all "greatest" generation presidents. Clinton (1946), Bush Jr. (1946), Obama (1961) and Trump (1946) were all Boomers. Biden was the first (and presumably last) silent generation president (1925-1945).
There's also a weird clustering of ages. Nixon and Ford were both 1913. Carter and Bush Senior were both 1924. Clinton, Bush Jr. and Trump were all 1946.
There has never been a Gen X president, and until Biden, never a silent generation president. If Kamala wins, it makes me wonder if Gen X is going to be skipped over the way Silent was. If she wins and serves 2 terms, she'll be out of office at 68 in 2032. The youngest possible Gen X candidate at that point will be 53, and maybe people will start skipping right to Millennials.
I wish Trump was from the silent generation.
This is how I find out. Wow.
Well, we certainly live in interesting times. Fucking hell.
That someone younger is 59 years old
Correct. Kamala Harris is 22 years younger than Joe Biden and 19 years younger than Donald Trump.
She’s relatively young compared to Trump and Biden, but still in the older generation.
And Elon Musk is 53. So?
Edit: This wasn't meant to be about Musk, it's supposed to point out that 59 isn't old and that age cutoffs are largely arbitrary.
He is a nepo baby... That factor supercedes age..
He is in the same camp as trump, pelosi and jayden Smith.
I don’t really care about this nonsense boomer vs millennial talk. There are some terrible zillenials and awesome boomers, it’s very rigid thinking to say they are all bad.
Unproductive way of looking at things
Lord David Willetts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXzvjBYW8A
Lmao fantastic one
Hero!
Haha, thank gunness this was written.
Top post on Lemmy… oh, it’s theonion. Sigh
the ageist bullshit from the media is tiresome.
Biden has an eight-figure fortune.
He'll be fine.
You won't, because you're not part of that club.
I wonder why the down votes... Do we really have this many corpo democrats to be hurt by this obviously true statement?
My guess is it's the tone/phrasing of the comment. They could've just said he has about 10 million bucks. Which imo is not an exorbitant amount of wealth to have accumulated for a (very...) senior citizen who has worked for >50 years in upper echelon functions.
The blanket statement about readers 'not being fine' because they don't have that kind of money also doesn't help.
Politically, most of the folks on Lemmy are pro-establishment, even if it means voting for someone who is in obvious cognitive decline. (Which until yesterday was both candidates.)