Jonathan Barth

Fear God, not man

@NancyMace 65+ is the wealthiest age demographic in the United States. Why should they get a special break?

Our seniors should not pay property taxes.

@BigdaddyMosy @LoveRetroBTW I had that one too. Many hours playing that game.

@LoveRetroBTW I had this one

There was just something magical about 16-bit sports games. A completely different era.

My AP US History teacher in 11th grade (2000-2001) assigned us this book; we read a couple chapters from it every few weeks. I took every thing I read in it at face value, gospel truth, as did most of the students. The way the teacher pitched it to us was that the main textbook (American Pageant, by Thomas Bailey) was the old-fashioned, even propagandized history that we needed to learn to succeed on the AP exam. But for those of us who wanted the *real* story, the *real* history, you found that in Zinn. The main takeaway from Zinn's book, inescapable for any student reading it, was that the United States, at its core, is a fraudulent project. It's an extraordinarily cynical and deeply pessimistic account, littered with errors, that has no place in high school classrooms.

Talarico in 1858: "I trust Texas slaveholders to make decisions about their own property, to shape their own destinies. I don’t believe that’s a place for government. That’s a belief I hold not despite my faith, but because of my faith. Jesus never talks about slavery. The Bible is silent on slavery."

@raven_brah Stop assuming that your critics are boomers. Most of us are Millennials; some are Gen X. Boomers are on Facebook.

It’s not just about frugality though is it? You boomers are telling younger generations of heritage Americans to live like third world peasants while you pull the rug out from under them, and their foreign replacements are stealing their jobs and living the American dream all subsidized by their tax dollars. This is why I had legions of boomers chimping in my replies yesterday. You refuse to see it and this is why younger generations hate you

@haymes_joshua Not average lib, but radical progressives, yes.

Your average lib believes that mothers should have the right to crush their skulls & rip these little babies limb from limb mere hours before this video was shot. We will end child sacrifice in these United States.

The networks have been losing huge amounts of money keeping these late night variety shows running because no executive wants to be the bean counter who killed “The Tonight Show.” But it makes no sense for this to exist in the contemporary media landscape. This format was invented in an era when there were four over-the-air television channels and nothing else to watch. If you turned on the TV at 11:30, this was what you watched because it was all that was on. Now that you have everything streaming, why on earth would you watch this? In an era of YouTube, why would you sit through an entire hour of mostly filler when there will be a 90 second clip of anything interesting that might have happened on the show? 200 people worked on this. It occupied a giant theater on top of some of the world’s most expensive Manhattan real estate. Colbert was paid a $15 million salary. And the network was losing $40 million a year keeping this lumbering behemoth going. This should be a podcast with a staff of about 10. And I am sure that is what it is about to become.

@JoelWBerry Lol

My sandwich instructions got 9.3M views

@flapprdotnet 😂

The Great Lunch Debate has revealed a generational rift between Millennials and Gen Z. The doordash apologists are imagining that its mostly Boomers on the other side of this debate, but Boomers aren't that active on X. Gen Z is getting the pushback primarily from Millennials and some Gen Xers who remember that we only rarely ate out when we were growing up. We sympathize with the plight of Gen Z entering this horrifically inflated housing/rental market and for (in many cases) getting ripped off by colleges and universities. But still, it's just common sense to watch your budget a little and, yes, refrain from burning money on overpriced (and often unhealthy) restaurant food. Gen Z ought to receive some of that wisdom and counsel from the older Millennial/GenX generation, not scorn it.

@raven_brah Nobody was eating fast food every day or even every week. Made up nonsense.

Boomers seem to forget that fast food used to be a normal, everyday expense for them because it was affordable. You could get a burger easily on minimum wage, it wasn’t some fancy treat you had once a year as a reward for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

@KingZarxes Yea the dollar has been massively devalued, and it's ripping off the younger generations. Still don't see how that means you ought to burn what you have on overpriced restaurants. That's not boomer advice; most of the people saying this on X right now are millennials.

@Professor_Barth If your money is being devalued faster than you can save it, you might as well just check out and spend on whatever mayerial goods your paycheck can afford. The marshmellow test does not work if you bring me back two marshmellows one third the size of the original.

This whole debate on X right now about eating out and the affordability of lunch has become utterly mind-numbing. It's hard to believe that some of these people are this helpless/unintelligent/entitled. Yes, pack your lunch and make meals at home. This is not some novel idea.

@yeahrightgirlhg lol

please help me budget, my family can’t afford our monthly expenses and we might have to sell our house mortgage: $2000 utilities: $300 lunch: $4500 insurance: $400 subscriptions: $200 I just don’t know what to do anymore, inflation is killing us 😞

@Soaringeagle45 They absolutely did not. Older Millennial here and we didn't have those things growing up either. Got a Sega Genesis in 1993 and we bought name-branded cereal - those were the two exceptions from that list.

10 things Gen X thought were for rich people… 1. A phone in bedroom 2. Cable w/HBO/Cinemax 3. Call waiting/Caller ID 4. A finished basement 5. Fridge with ice maker 6. Vacations that involved flying 7. A home computer 8. Going out to eat at a sit down restaurant 9. Name brand cereal 10. A Nintendo Add to list 🤣

@CyMorgComics Apparently those of us who grew up in the 1990s lived like French peasants from the 1800s and didn't even know it.

Is this how you want to live in america in 2026? On cheese bread and milk like a french peasant from the 1800s?