Bill

Way too bitter.

@MattWalshBlog Matt, would you bring back film or music? Which is more important in defining culture?

Every decade in modern American history can be identified and defined by its own style, its own approach to music, film, fashion, its own aesthetic. That seems to have stopped right around 2010. The 2010s don't really have their own unique feel, even in retrospect. The 2020s certainly don't. We're more than halfway through the decade. What are the movies, music, style, and trends that this decade will be remembered for? It's like we fell into some kind of cultural blackhole 15 years ago.

⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear. It migrated inward. Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space. That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons. So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public. The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it. The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open. The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility. That is the trade. A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation. This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question. The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults. It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation. The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.

BREAKING: Notice has just been given to Democrats in the Tennessee House that all members of the Democrat Caucus are being removed from all standing committees and subcommittees as a result of their behavior in the statehouse during the redistricting debates last week, which included setting fires inside the Capitol and attacking law enforcement. In the state of Tennessee, political terrorism will not be tolerated. National Republicans take note that this is how you exercise power.

How about sunset it. It’s not reducing the deficit. I think that’s what it was intended to do when introduced.

This is the problem.

@TPostMillennial This statement scares the crap out of me.

Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Brian Christine: “The risk of hantavirus to the general public remains very, very low.”

@RealDonKeith Congress won’t do a thing to help the people. Dems won’t support anything Trump suggests. It’s all about ‘Resist’ to them.

🚨Wow! White House is now signaling a federal gas tax suspension to deliver immediate relief at the pump. It still needs Congress to pass it. States like Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Texas are already moving on their own. Americans are feeling the squeeze and Trump’s team is responding.

@landofthe80s Keep em away from my Coors.

What if the aliens in the UFO files look like this? 👽👾

“black voter power”

OH SHIT Democrats CRUSHED

@catturd2 Thanks, @elonmusk

LOL - yep.

@landofthe80s Mr. Sunshine himself.

The late comedian/actor Don Rickles was born today in 1926. Rickles had a career that spanned from the 50's until his passing in 2017.

Cas Walker, Ron Wright and Rev. J. Bazzel Mull.

mood.

@landofthe80s Lone Star!

If you've seen this movie - name a character.

@landofthe80s The same guy that sold bras.

Sure you remember the McDonalds McDLT...but do you remember who was pushing it on tv? Have a look 👇 youtube.com/shorts/e3ODUPX…

The Met Gala photos are crazy this year.

He should not be allowed to spend 30 years on death row. Some crimes call for immediate fulfillment of the sentence.