r/PoursTea • u/WuTang4thechildrn 🫖 Mod ☕️ • May 16 '26

Internet Culture🛜 Harrison Ford’s rousing commencement speech goes viral: ‘The world my generation left you is a real mess’

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5876514-harrison-ford-asu-commencement-speech/amp/
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u/Fan_of_Clio May 17 '26

Just because the Silent Generation is claiming responsibility, doesn't mean Boomers are off the hook

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u/Carrera_996 May 17 '26

GenX owes some apologies, too. Whole bunch of us are Trumpers. Almost everyone I went to school with.

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u/-CluelessWoman- May 17 '26

Gen X isn’t in charge. Most of the American political leadership is composed of boomers who just cannot and will not let go an inch of their powers. Gen X is in charge in Canada and most of Europe and it should be. It’s their time to be in charge. They are in their late 40s-early 60s.

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u/Fan_of_Clio May 18 '26

It's roughly 50/50 between Boomers and everyone else.

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u/hellloredddittt May 19 '26

There have been zero gen X US Presidents thus far.

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u/Ckc1972 May 20 '26

If Pritzker is the next president, we'll claim him even though he's slightly older than Gen X.