The generation associated with all kinds of revolution is now smashing the rebels and protecting the rulers.
Within minutes of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk being assassinated at an event in Utah on Wednesday, authorities had arrested at least one suspect – a Boomer – before releasing him and confirming that the perp remains at large. One can hardly call that profiling surprising these days.
Way back in the day, Boomers championed democracy and freedom and were the biggest critics of the system. Now, they’re its main protectors. If they have to literally kneecap an anti-establishment rebel in order to maintain the busted status quo, they will.
It was just another typically chill day earlier this month in the utopic EU garden when the frontrunner in next month’s Czech parliamentary election got a high five. From an old guy. To the head. With a cane. While he was out campaigning. So he decided to take some time on the bench to catch his breath before heading back out on the campaign trail and risking another Boomer beatdown.
Three guesses as to what the politics of this politician, Andrej Babiš, are or who his ANO party is allied with at the European Parliament, to so easily trigger some folks.
“After Slovakia, violence has seeped into Czech politics as well. No wonder. His political adversaries have demonized @AndrejBabis for years. This is the result. But they will not stop him. He will go on and win the elections! Get well soon, my friend!” wrote anti-establishment Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Like Orban, it turns out that Babiš and his right-leaning populist party tick all the boxes for inducing Boomer derangement syndrome. Opposed to defense spending “for Ukraine” and NATO’s demand to blow 5% GDP on weapons while a cost-of-living crisis rages at home? Check. Fed up with the EU’s green authoritarianism and lax migration policies? Check. Against Ukraine being brought into the EU? Check.
Basically, Babiš is singing the same tune that’s increasingly resonating with a growing number of citizens all across the EU and driving up polling for parties like his that oppose the establishment status quo. So it’s not surprising that his party is attributing the attack to vibes created by that same establishment.
“The hatred spread by the ruling parties on billboards and social media has today resulted in an attack on Andrej Babiš,” wrote party deputy Alena Schillerová. “This is a direct consequence of their campaign based on fear and division. The ANO movement will continue to run a positive campaign, without labeling or scaremongering, and we call on all parties and movements in the Czech Republic to do the same.”
If this all sounds familiar, it should. It’s not the first time that a candidate opposing the EU establishment’s position on Ukraine has suffered a beatdown from an ardent Boomer fan of “Ukrainian values.” Last year, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico took some bullets to the abdomen in an assassination attempt. It came out in court that the perp, yet another peace-and-love Boomer, this time a 71-year-old “poet,” was all worked up over Fico’s Ukraine policy.
“I forgive him and let him sort out what he did and why he did it in his own head. In the end, it is evident that he was only a messenger of evil and political hatred, which the politically unsuccessful and frustrated opposition developed in Slovakia to unmanageable proportions,” Fico said in his post-recovery return to public life. That opposition, in Fico’s case, would be the Boomer-whispering establishment.
Alright, so are there any other politicians supporting the end of war in Ukraine for Boomers to whack? Lots, apparently. It’s like the EU garden is hosting one big state fair and hosting a giant game of Whack-a-Mole, with Boomers smashing populist peace advocates like they’re gunning for a high score.
Last year in Germany, the press recorded 48 attacks on populist right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) politicians over six months – doubling violence in five years. That figure includes, for example, a city council official stabbed with a box cutter. All this had happened as the party tops the polls.
Anyway, you have to wonder why every time a politician questions the establishment’s Ukraine policy, some crazed Boomer volunteers to ‘fact-check’ them with physical violence. In the tranquil EU garden, opposing Ukraine policy apparently means that you’re the weed getting whacked.
But the phenomenon doesn’t end in Europe. Ryan Wesley Routh, a Boom-adjacent 59-year-old, is accused of trying to pick off US President Donald Trump at his golf course in Florida back in 2022. Before that, he was allegedly helping to make drones in Kiev and recruiting for the frontlines to compensate for personally being deemed unsuitable as cannon fodder.
Whatever happened to fighting the system? Nowadays, Boomers seem the most radicalized by it and have become willing pawns in protecting the establishment. Perhaps because, as an age class, they’re the biggest beneficiaries of its entitlements, and somehow think that it can only get worse.
How else to explain the ridiculous violent imagery in the last Canadian federal election? A veritable Boomer tsunami inundated the campaign with “Elbows Up” t-shirts and imagery, ripped straight from hockey jargon, pretending to sharpen those joints to battle Trump. How? By making sure the Gen X right-wing anti-establishment candidate lost to Boomer career central banker and globalist darling Mark Carney. They’d have been better off investing in some knee pads, given the lack of tangible improvement to their lives since Carney’s election.
For a generation synonymous with all kinds of revolutions – sexual, musical, cultural, anti-wat, civil rights, women’s liberty – they sure seem intent on clinging to whatever The Man tells them to think through official channels and corporate media.
Gallup and other polling outlets reporting in 2024–2025 found sympathy and approval for Israel’s actions concentrated more among the over-55 age groups. Last year, Pew Research reported that only 16% of adults under 30 favored the US providing military aid to Israel, compared with 56% of those 65 and older. As The Guardian reported earlier this year, “a net total of 49% of over-70s supported military service” for Ukraine among Europeans actually eligible to be deployed – unlike them.
Is this seriously the same generation that saw right through all the nonsense peddled about fighting to the last American in Vietnam? Now some of them are literally taking up arms against those they feel are standing in the way of the military-industrial complex.
Guess the revolution has come full circle. Boomers are smashing the rebels with one hand while polishing their rulers’ trophies with the other. Hey Boomers, save all that fire and fury for the real villains – not the ones your TV told you to hate this week.
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Utter crap story. But very” fashionable” to accuse boomer of all kinds of ” troubles” at the moment.
Troubled people in all ages ms Marsden !
Agree with your utter crap descriptor….. Who are these droves of 70 yo boomer women advocating violence and “smashing the rebels”?
As a ‘Boomer’ born in the mid 1950’s I knew something was wrong in such that my Generation was (unknown to me at the time…) being MJ-12 and MK-Ultrra programmed. I just didn’t know who or what was influencing my peers in becoming so hateful in their ‘societal thinking’…always arguing, fighting, and demanding socialist-styled acts and thinking under the ’cause & effect’ rule.
Even the teachers who had these radicalised views were beginning to show-up in the classrooms and schools pre-1964 Civil Rights Act.
This was in 1962 when I was in Elementary School, and the left-wing Democrat parents of those children TRAINED their kids to attack the children of Conservative parents.
It became a mess, and got worse in 1965 when forced intergration arrived, with black students being 2+ years behind in their ‘studies’ that dragged the entire school system down and back 2 years. IF you spoke out about it, you would get sent down for a paddling at the Principals Office, and / or suspended for 3 days.
Prior to 1964, the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 reaffirmed to my family not to take any crap from these Zionist Democrat Party Left Wing Socialist, as the political event that led to the same in Cuba was a very real threat of wiping out humanity.
How the government handled ot was pathetic as seen below-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60
Duck, Cover & kiss tyour asses good-by, as you become atomised!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fx-TP5KBZE
& now, it’s Cold War ll, as orchestrated by the 1% psychopathinc Elite, most of who are J3wi$h, as we re-visit a 1982 movie ckip that change nuclear policies globally – policies that have now been ditched!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n28NoLNarNs
The ‘Boomers’ have been blamed for many things- some justified, others not so.
Today it’s Chem-Trails, Vaccines, War, Sabotage, Espionage and Treason on a Global Scale.
Noteworthy is that the FBI kept files on entire families in the day, despite a family being either left wing or right wing, catching the attention of the Alphabet Agencies if words and actions didn’t fit the Zionist narratives even back then.
Some families were VERY paranoid to discuss the economy, politics, and their views of theworld, lest they too be targeted, blacklisted bankrupted, and possibly imprisoned for any number of orchestrated ‘crimes’…!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
Today, Russia is NOT a Communist nation- it is a Federation that removed the Zionist Banksters from Russia in 1991, and the recent attempts to INVADE RUSSIA were stopped by Russian President Putin by invading the areas of ukraine that had built up weapons for such an invasion.
So, no matter where you go,…THERE YOU ARE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7nG9Zdv74A
thank you, colleague
“Whatever happened to fighting the system?”
Look at the de-mock-cracy system and you know why. The system doesn’t want to be ‘de-system-ed’. It has too many parasites to afford change. They all gang together under different colours, blue or red, same shit show. And thej get bloody angry and nasty with the people trying to even protest.
Rachel, where were you during the covid protests, especially Feb/March 2022?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_protests_in_New_Zealand
Sweeping generalisation about so called “boomers”. Expected a bit more balanced reporting in Daily Telegraph to be honest
That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard.
Ran outta others to blame so point to the boomers.