Summary
French President Emmanuel Macron urged Europe to “wake up” and strengthen its defense in response to Donald Trump’s second-term inauguration.
Highlighting potential U.S. policy shifts, including reduced support for Ukraine and a military pivot to the Pacific, Macron emphasized Europe’s need to reduce reliance on U.S. security.
He called for increased European military spending, robust aid to Ukraine, and guarantees for its security post-war.
Macron’s remarks underscore concerns about U.S. disengagement and aim to prompt Europe to play a larger role in global security.
Don’t think it’s the boomers. Gen x and millennials.
Boomers are the core, but they’ve gotten some reinforcements from Gen X and Millenials. The good news if there is any is that not enough of Gen X and Millenials are MAGAts to carry an election without the Boomers, so in another couple decades if a bunch of Gen Alpha doesn’t turn real stupid we might have a chance.
That’s been the rhetoric for as long as I’ve been alive. “Maybe if we wait for the next generation…”
Maybe if people fucking showed up at all, we’d have this fucking licked. Turnout has been historically high the last few elections… and it’s still atrocious.
This isn’t on the people who show up, it’s on the people who don’t. I don’t care how much you don’t like the options available, deciding to abstain in this is saying you want someone else to think for you cause you don’t feel like it.
Unless, of course, the Boomers benefit from advances in medical care and are rich enough to prolong their lifespans. Then they could continue ruining the world for half a century!
RFK Jr. is going to be in charge of US health policy. They won’t survive long.
Only a very small minority will be rich enough to benefit from advanced medical care. The overwhelming majority will actually have shorter lifespans due to the gutting and subsequent collapse of the healthcare system in the US. The hospitals are going to be overrun with communicable diseases due to the influx of unvaccinated children and those who aren’t receiving preventative care due to skyrocketing medical costs. That combined with the gutting of social security and Medicaid/Medicare will insure that most Boomers if they don’t die in the next couple years will be bankrupt and struggling to afford basic necessities.
Thank you. This isn’t a generation problem. There’s plenty of young Republicans out there too.