“Carr appeared yesterday on the radio show hosted by Scott Jennings, who describes himself as “the last man standing athwart the liberal mob.””
One of the biggest things that pisses me off about the current, and really long-standing conservative narrative, is how they try to market themselves as the underdogs. Oh poor me, I’m the one strong soldier against the evil hordes of liberals!! Like, bro. You’re the chair of the FCC. You’re shutting down shows with no resistance. You’re all getting everything you want, You’ve been getting everything you want all year long. That’s not an underdog type situation. It’s so deranged to be the literal people in power and yet still talk endlessly like this. Last man standing?! What about the literal majority of the country that voted for Trump?
This is the only way their base understands things. They have been told for decades the immigrants and “blacks” were stealing their jobs or MIGHT take some of their jobs.
BAM instantly racist and hate immigrants because they were told to do. It’s always been this stupid game with conservatives.
They need to always be losing to “Democrats and liberals” to keep up the charade. It’s sad and they are all crybabies.
They’re also heavily hypocrites. they say the left are just little children (that they probably want to fuck, tbh), that can’t handle getting their fee fees hurt, when it is in actual fact them that can’t handle getting their feelings hurt.
One of the biggest things that pisses me off about the current, and really long-standing conservative narrative, is how they try to market themselves as the underdogs.
They get a HUGE assist from the very same “liberal media” the far right attacks all the time. For decades. That’s because the “liberal media” never really was a thing. They are the same picture, just on different points on the spectrum that’s almost all on the right.
Sure, a few outlets allowed, or did allow, a few things that acted as release valves. Like a few identity politics things, or satire that pokes fun of conservatives. But that’s mostly on the margins.
When it comes to narratives - the one that has been hilarious to me, but they’ve been pitching it since at least the 90s is that they are the true counter-culture (the 60s still really pisses off conservatives, even ones that were born long after the 60s).
Well, I sure hope so. Right now it seems younger generations might be even more captured, but I guess we’ll see.
I had a lot of hopes for my generation (Gen X) since many of us saw the hippie-to-yuppie thing and thought many boomers were selling out and cashing in as they entered the workforce, but that our generation had punk and zines, and a real DIY ethos and we’d carry the torch forward with a lot of that hippie sensibility, but with a different shape - different clothes and music and designer drugs, even if LSD/cannabis were still prevalent - and armed with the 'net, which was just being opened up to the public (for commerce and that was the fly in the ointment) and maybe more McKenna than Leary, more Coupland instead of Kerouac, etc…
And, well…you can see the results for yourself. I don’t see that spark in Gen Y or Z or alpha, either, if I’m honest. I sure hope I’m wrong, though.
It seems to be quite the opposite, despite the propaganda they want you to believe. For all the tacos man they completely ignore women, who have completely and utterly abandoned conservative politics, something no other generation woman has done on your own scale. Even among the men they still turn out for Progressive policy just not for captured controled opposition fake left parties. A lot of the support pillars that hold up the rights are crumbling and that’s not turning around. We also can’t economically sell out because it’s not being offered. We’re not being offered concessions and Investments to keep us in the system like homeownership, instead they’re taking away every reason to care about preserving that things as they are
Like I said…I guess we’ll see. Gen X was accused of being the slacker generation, and by implication it seemed to be expected that we’d all just completely disrupt the corporate plans and the conservative movement would be essentially DOA when it came to our generation.
We anticipated getting royally fucked over as many of us were entering the workforce just as a recession hit and we saw all the downsizing/rightsizing/offshoring/outsourcing taking place and screwing boomers. Turns out, our generation was working much harder than the boomer media gave us credit for, and I don’t think we were nearly as politically astute as the boomers were. At least some of us watched boomer-made content and instead of realizing it was skewering such attitudes, they thought it was aspirational (Wall Street, Scarface).
I think we’ll have a real good first indication of where Gen Y and Gen Z are going as the largest wealth transfer in history really starts getting traction. (We’ll also see what having Larry Ellison run a platform like TikTok will do, as well). Will Gen Y/Z/alpha finally fund and build something to counter the radical right wing noise machine, for example? Or will they mostly fall prey to working on amassing even more wealth than prior generations using that historically epic wealth transfer as seed money?
Knowing human nature and having heard similar sentiments about my own generation…I know where I’d place my bets.
“Carr appeared yesterday on the radio show hosted by Scott Jennings, who describes himself as “the last man standing athwart the liberal mob.””
One of the biggest things that pisses me off about the current, and really long-standing conservative narrative, is how they try to market themselves as the underdogs. Oh poor me, I’m the one strong soldier against the evil hordes of liberals!! Like, bro. You’re the chair of the FCC. You’re shutting down shows with no resistance. You’re all getting everything you want, You’ve been getting everything you want all year long. That’s not an underdog type situation. It’s so deranged to be the literal people in power and yet still talk endlessly like this. Last man standing?! What about the literal majority of the country that voted for Trump?
This is the only way their base understands things. They have been told for decades the immigrants and “blacks” were stealing their jobs or MIGHT take some of their jobs.
BAM instantly racist and hate immigrants because they were told to do. It’s always been this stupid game with conservatives.
They need to always be losing to “Democrats and liberals” to keep up the charade. It’s sad and they are all crybabies.
They’re literally narcissists playing the victim.
They’re also heavily hypocrites. they say the left are just little children (that they probably want to fuck, tbh), that can’t handle getting their fee fees hurt, when it is in actual fact them that can’t handle getting their feelings hurt.
They get a HUGE assist from the very same “liberal media” the far right attacks all the time. For decades. That’s because the “liberal media” never really was a thing. They are the same picture, just on different points on the spectrum that’s almost all on the right.
Sure, a few outlets allowed, or did allow, a few things that acted as release valves. Like a few identity politics things, or satire that pokes fun of conservatives. But that’s mostly on the margins.
When it comes to narratives - the one that has been hilarious to me, but they’ve been pitching it since at least the 90s is that they are the true counter-culture (the 60s still really pisses off conservatives, even ones that were born long after the 60s).
If they hated the 60’s counterculture they don’t wanna see what counterculture we’re gonna make
Well, I sure hope so. Right now it seems younger generations might be even more captured, but I guess we’ll see.
I had a lot of hopes for my generation (Gen X) since many of us saw the hippie-to-yuppie thing and thought many boomers were selling out and cashing in as they entered the workforce, but that our generation had punk and zines, and a real DIY ethos and we’d carry the torch forward with a lot of that hippie sensibility, but with a different shape - different clothes and music and designer drugs, even if LSD/cannabis were still prevalent - and armed with the 'net, which was just being opened up to the public (for commerce and that was the fly in the ointment) and maybe more McKenna than Leary, more Coupland instead of Kerouac, etc…
And, well…you can see the results for yourself. I don’t see that spark in Gen Y or Z or alpha, either, if I’m honest. I sure hope I’m wrong, though.
It seems to be quite the opposite, despite the propaganda they want you to believe. For all the tacos man they completely ignore women, who have completely and utterly abandoned conservative politics, something no other generation woman has done on your own scale. Even among the men they still turn out for Progressive policy just not for captured controled opposition fake left parties. A lot of the support pillars that hold up the rights are crumbling and that’s not turning around. We also can’t economically sell out because it’s not being offered. We’re not being offered concessions and Investments to keep us in the system like homeownership, instead they’re taking away every reason to care about preserving that things as they are
Like I said…I guess we’ll see. Gen X was accused of being the slacker generation, and by implication it seemed to be expected that we’d all just completely disrupt the corporate plans and the conservative movement would be essentially DOA when it came to our generation.
We anticipated getting royally fucked over as many of us were entering the workforce just as a recession hit and we saw all the downsizing/rightsizing/offshoring/outsourcing taking place and screwing boomers. Turns out, our generation was working much harder than the boomer media gave us credit for, and I don’t think we were nearly as politically astute as the boomers were. At least some of us watched boomer-made content and instead of realizing it was skewering such attitudes, they thought it was aspirational (Wall Street, Scarface).
I think we’ll have a real good first indication of where Gen Y and Gen Z are going as the largest wealth transfer in history really starts getting traction. (We’ll also see what having Larry Ellison run a platform like TikTok will do, as well). Will Gen Y/Z/alpha finally fund and build something to counter the radical right wing noise machine, for example? Or will they mostly fall prey to working on amassing even more wealth than prior generations using that historically epic wealth transfer as seed money?
Knowing human nature and having heard similar sentiments about my own generation…I know where I’d place my bets.
We aren’t.getting a wealth transfer. It’s all getting sucked away by reverse mortgages and PE owned nursing homes
It’s projected to be the largest in history.
https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/great-wealth-transfer-124-trillion-bigger-than-ever-millennials-gen-x/
They’re assuming we’re gonna get it and the healthcare industry won’t get first, which in many cases they will
We need to stop giving them the privilege of setting the narritive
Ah, but someone was mean to him once. Therefore he is the victim of all victims.
you know i am aware of this great place you can go and no one ever gets their feelings hurt. maybe they would like to visit
also sometimes you’re not the underdog, sometimes you’re the extremely unpopular minority.