Get Off My Lawn! - The Mad Ramblings of a Gen X-er
"This is the true story of a Gen X-er picked to do a podcast and give his personal views on Pop Culture, Politics, Sports, News and more, So find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real. - ‘Get Of My Lawn’ As we grow into an ever changing world and new Generations are born, only one stays the same with their distain for all others - ‘Gen X’. We survived riding bikes without helmets, No cell phones, understanding you go home when the street lights go on. We lived through Hair Metal and watched the birth of Grunge. We witnessed ‘Two’ Bush’s become President (That’s what she said.) and the First African American take office. We watched in horror as the Towers fell and rejoiced at the Socialize Digital Age. (‘The Internet’ - Sorry Al you didn’t invent it.)But all in all, We lived our lives with the understanding that playing it safe is not the way to go through your existence. As the world is facing more turmoil than we have every seen before and as we witness a clear division of our Society a voice of ‘reason’ and ‘sanity’ needs to be heard. To bad that ain’t me … Hear me ramble daily about everything from Pop Culture, Politics, Sports, News and more and get the clear as ‘Mud’ perspective of this Rambling Gen X-er. Enjoy!
Get Off My Lawn! - The Mad Ramblings of a Gen X-er
Sesame Street Meets Inflation—And the Left Still Doesn’t Get It
Economic double standards have reached absurd heights. The latest inflation numbers came in at precisely 2.7% - exactly where analysts projected - yet headlines scream catastrophe over this modest 0.3% increase. Remember when 9-11% inflation was downplayed during the previous administration? The selective outrage is deafening.
Looking beyond the shallow headlines reveals a much more nuanced economic picture. Used vehicles saw substantial price declines in June. The energy sector reversed previous trends with a full 1% decrease from the prior month. Meanwhile, substantial positive developments receive minimal coverage - like the multi-decade agreement just signed between a major European energy company and Virginia-headquartered Venture Global, securing American natural gas exports for years to come. These international trade wins directly counter narratives that tariffs are damaging global commerce.
Quality of life improvements are emerging too, with Coca-Cola finally agreeing to use real sugar cane in US drinks instead of high fructose corn syrup - something consumers in Mexico and the UK have enjoyed for years. The political hypocrisy extends beyond economics, with the same voices that previously defended redistricting now crying foul when similar measures might be implemented in Texas. Through all this noise, one thing remains clear - objective analysis has been sacrificed at the altar of partisan narratives. When you look at the complete picture rather than emotion-driven headlines, the truth becomes evident: the economy is strengthening, international trade deals are advancing, and consumer benefits are expanding despite the doomsaying.
What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to. It is now dumber for having listened to it. You don't know what that ought to is, mr Trash. I'd show you, but I'm too old, I'm too tired, I'm too fucking blind. If I were the man I was five years ago, I'd take a flamethrower to this place.
Speaker 2:Do you understand the words that are coming out of?
Speaker 1:my mouth. You want answers. I think I'm entitled. You want answers. I want the truth.
Speaker 3:You can't handle the truth. We've said it once, we've said it before, we've said it a gazillion times the truth shall always set you free this attempt to get off my lawn the mad ramblings of a Gen Xer. Want to talk about inflation? Oh no, the sky is falling. What was trending on X yesterday was 2.7%, and that is the consumer price index at 2.7% in June, which is up from the previous month of 2.4%. So people are talking about this uptick in inflation. Now, mind you, it went from 2.4% to 2.7%, so it went up 0.3%. They're saying that the possible signs that Trump's tariffs are starting to sting. Oh no, oh, dearest me. But if you actually go through the chart and you actually think about this logically, a lot of people don't want to think about this logically.
Speaker 3:Last year we were under our last month. I should rephrase that we were under analyst predictions. Analyst month. I should rephrase that we were under analyst predictions. Analyst predictions last night were supposed to be last year was supposed to be last month. Excuse me, it was supposed to be 2.7. We came in at 2.4. Analyst predictions for June was supposed to be 2.7. So, literally, it came in right at where it was supposed to be, but the sky is falling. So inflation came in exactly where it was supposed to be. So, if you go back to January, the US inflation rate was three, and then February 2.8, March 2.4, April 2.3, May 2.4, and now June 2.7. So it literally has come in where analysts predicted that it was going to come in. And then I love it because if you take a look at some prices, the index shows that used cars, trucks and new vehicles saw some of the most substantial declines in June in reference to rate of inflation.
Speaker 3:But we don't want to talk about that. We want to talk about that it rose, oh my God. It went up 0.3%. Food prices rose 0.3% for the month, with gains in both food and home dining out. Let's see here. Let's for the month, with gains in both food and home dining out. Let's see here. Let's see the energy sector reversed, meanwhile, and declined one full percent from the month prior, raising to 0.9% in June. The sector is still down from where it was last year. Medicaid services grew to 0.6%. Transportation services inched up to 0.2%. Airfare fell to 0.1% in June, which is one of the main reasons there was there was a, I guess, good air travel and couldn't get anywhere in and out of Newark.
Speaker 3:But if you take a look at this and you analyze it and you don't go by the stock market, you don't go by the naysayers, you don't go by the doomsters, it met what they predicted it would be. So. When Biden's inflation was 9%, 10%, 11%, that was okay when it was supposed to come in like 5% or 6%. But Trump, it ticks up 0.03% and the world is ending and all of a sudden, all that good work is starting to reverse. Oh no, this is what I don't get about this. This is literally what I don't get about this at all. You, actually, this is.
Speaker 3:And now people will point to the stock market. How much, oh, there was so much volatility in the stock market the other day. The stock market is basically and I'm not trying to pick on, I'm not going to try to put it on anyone, but it's basically like a woman can never make up its mind and sometimes it's overrational. My wife's going to kill me for that one. Oh, we got, we had, we had a double bang on that. That's what she said.
Speaker 3:But sometimes you know it's, it's irrational and it's it's based off of emotion. It's based off the emotion of the investor, the investors see something that they think may be bad news and then all of a sudden they turn around and say well, you know what, it wasn't that bad, it's not, it's not that terrible. But at the end of the day, you know, the end of the day is where we, where we just have a, a, a issue with the uh, Jerome Powell just needs to be fired. Can we just fire him now? He needs to get on board. You need to get on board the winning team. That's what they always say. But this guy, just this guy just doesn't freaking get it. I loved a couple months ago that he basically came out and said you know what? We kept rates where they are, interest rates where they're at, because we brought in too much money off the tariffs. Rates where they are interest rates where they're at because we brought in too much money off the tariffs.
Speaker 3:I thought the whole idea of this world was to make money. I thought the whole idea was to get the economy rolling, get everyone back to work, get wages back up again. I thought that was the whole idea, but evidently it's not. And now liberals are trying to freak out a little bit because Trump is pretty much his reported plans are to order to open up 401ks to private markets. Financial firms are already developing. Financial firms have already figured out how to work on 401ks or how to do 401k-esque things, but now they're going to open. He's talking about opening it up and so he's talking about that. He would basically direct the Labor Department Securities Exchange Commission to develop a regulatory guidance for employers and plan administrators about inclusive of private assets into 401k retirement plans. That sounds like a good thing to me.
Speaker 3:But of course, the sky is falling and you have Rama Dama ding dong, who's running for mayor of New York. You know that that's going to be bad for him because he only comes from a wealthy family. I love when people come from. I love when people come from a wealthy family and they're socialists, because it's easy to be a socialist when you have money. It's it's very, it's very simple and I love let's, let's see. Do I think we have? A hold on? Do I have a nice snippet from Ramadama Ding Dong? Oh, yes, I do, From when he was giving an interview the other day. Hold on, we got to talk, we got, we got to listen to the Zoham Ramadama Ding Dong.
Speaker 2:I worked until January, and then I took time away from my job, and one of the major reasons I could do so is because I knew that if I ran out of my savings, my family would be able to support me?
Speaker 3:Oh, so your family. You know what they say about socialism. Promise, socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. That was, of course, from Margaret Thatcher. So the Ramadama Ding Dong is hedong. He doesn't have to worry about money. He had a big lunch with AOC and the other Democrats, the other socialist Democrats. I love it. Winston Churchill says socialism, the philosophy of failure, of greed, of ignorance, and the gospel of inherent virtue, is the equal sharing of misery. Let that one sink in for a little bit. But don't worry, the economy is starting to roar. We're starting to move in the right direction. We're starting to move in the right direction.
Speaker 3:The tariffs have not hurt like people were going to say. You see a small increase and then you see some good coming out of the tariffs. You say, Tim, what good good coming out of the tariffs? You say, Tim, what, what good is coming out of the tariff? Us and an EU firm has struck a major deal, or gas deal. As trade talks are going into overtime, We'll say one of Europe's largest energy companies signed a multi-decade let's say that again a multi-decade agreement to buy American natural gas. That's a good thing. Virginia headquartered Venture Global confirmed that it's penned a 20-year deal to ship 2 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas per year. This announcement marks the first long-term contract signed between the ENI or CD and Jack and I remember ENI and a gas producer. Why it's going to help them get away from purchasing gas from like natural gas from I don't know other countries they shouldn't be, but this is. This is another portion of the of the trade tariffs that we're not talking about the trade deals, that we're not talking about the deals from behind the deals that are happening.
Speaker 3:I did see something that pissed me off a little bit. Actually, it didn't piss me off a little bit. Trump has announced that Coca-Cola has agreed to use real sugar cane in US drinks. I have to admit, with Trump it is better. Pepsi, for years now, has had a real sugar cane drink One of their sodas and I love it. I love it. Evidently it's better for you. Evidently it's not using that processed stuff and they're going to use that real cane sugar in Coke and they agreed to do so.
Speaker 3:Currently, Coke right now uses a high toast, what is a high fructose corn syrup, and use products in contrast to cane sugar and uses other countries like Mexico and United Kingdom. So you're going to get a better quality product. You're going to get some of the this, these, these additives and preservatives out of your way. Why did it take so long for us to do something like this? Lord only knows. I literally couldn't even tell you, but you know what we're moving. You got JFK Jr moving in the right direction and then you still have the morons, the moron brigade. We wouldn't be remiss if we didn't have an AOC clip or a jasmine crockett clip.
Speaker 2:This is about sesame street in iraq when you start to talk about whether or not um, sesame street or anything else that's on npr or pbs ends up in other places. This is so that there is not this warped this is how stupid she is.
Speaker 3:I mean literally, I mean you. You look at her and say you could not theoretically be any dumber thought process about the western world or about the united states.
Speaker 2:we're talking about making sure that we don't end up allowing people to be radicalized against us because they have a terrible vision of us, because they may be in a government that actually puts out bad, terrible propaganda about us.
Speaker 3:When you start, when you gave the money. When we give the money to these countries, we do not control the programming. The programming is controlled by the country that it's in. It's not like they're just taking Bert Burton, ernie and dropping them into Baghdad. No, no, no, no, no, honey, it's a whole different show. But your mental capacity, just, just just, I mean I don't get it. I mean I don't get it. How dumb can you be? I mean seriously. And if it's such a big deal, jasmine, why don't you just, you know, why don't you just turn around, raise the money yourself and send it over there? It's the little things that the Democrats do that you kind of just shake your head and just wonder sometimes what side are they truly on? And then what also just kind of cracks me up is there is no election interference. Oh, all that MAGA did is just talk about election interference. Oh, they're rigging the elections.
Speaker 4:Those choices should be made by the voters in texas alone, not donald trump, mike johnson, governor abbott or manga extremists who want to manipulate the election, which will have an adverse impact on the quality of life of the people of texas. We are unified now. That now of life Of the people of Texas. We are unified.
Speaker 3:Now of course he's unified, but of course. But this is about the Texas redistricting. When Biden redistricted, he did the redistricting for the voting, everything was fine, it was alright. It's not rigging elections. But when you go and you take a look at it and you want to redistrict Texas, it's all of a sudden it's the MAGA extremists.
Speaker 4:I'm thankful for the leadership Of the members of the Texas delegation, who are fighting On behalf of their constituents and every single resident In the great state of Texas. All of us should be focused on Rescue, relief and rebuilding, not egregious redistricting of the Texas congressional map as part of an effort.
Speaker 3:Now, remember when the Democrats did it in certain states to give them an advantage. It was okay, but now you're going to do the congressional map and redistrict. The world is ending. Oh, I don't. I literally don't know what else to tell you. There's so much more we could talk about, but I'm actually fighting a call today, so I'm going to I'm going to cut this one short, so make sure you stay tuned for the new episodes for next week and, as always, the truth that shall always set you free. This is Tim. This is Kevin from MyLawAndTheMadRamblings of a Gen Xer, and I'm out of here.