Bill Maher Gave Pete Buttigieg "The Talk" About Millennials Last Night

[Initech]

And by "the talk", I mean that he spouted that usual bullshit about how millennials are snowflakes who need trigger warnings and safe spaces.

Well, Bill, you know who really needs trigger warnings and safe spaces? Conservatives! They are the most thin skinned people on the planet.

They need their own news networks and talk shows because they need their talking points explained to them.

They won't shop at stores who don't greet customers with "Merry Christmas".

If a company does something that they don't like politically, they retaliate by destroying their products.

They threw an absolute shit fit at the City of San Antonio for banning Chik-Fil-A from the terminal food court.

They won't go see Hollywood movies, and anyone they don't agree with gets blasted as being "elitist". There's no more elitist attitude than that, is there?

They're now coming for universities because they need a safe space to spout white nationalist talking points unchallenged and without protest.

So who really needs safe spaces? Millennials or conservatives? I think I know the answer to that question.

[sfwriter]

1. Pete had a great reply

Millennials have provided the bulk of troops for our wars. They’ve earned a place at the table.

[RandySF]

2. Maher was out of bounds

but I am also sick and tired of "the talk" we Gen X-ers get from millennials and other self-loathing Gen X-ers.

[Docreed2003]

3. I'm just thrilled whenever anyone mentions Gen X

I'm on the tail end of Gen X and it seems that we're often forgotten in the conversation about generations. However, it seems that there's an emerging push to redefine the years around my birth as something separate and different from Gen X and millennials because we don't quite fit into either category

[Jspur]

8. As a millennial I

want to know what are you referring to when you say "the talk".

[DangerousRhythm]

10. Gen-Xer here who also would like to know what "the talk" is.

I really have no clue what this refers to.

[The Genealogist]

4. Totally agree about conservatives

Some of them, the only time they ever stop screeching about overblown and non-existent offenses against them is to mock "librul triggered snowflakes."

[Initech]

6. They are the ones who are the triggered ones.

I think it's time we start throwing that point back in their faces.

[patricia92243]

5. Maher has been turning into an old coot for years. He has finally arrived. n/t

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. Fuck Bill Maher.

[MuseRider]

9. I do not watch Maher anymore for a variety of reasons.

This is so out of line. So "get off my lawn"!

As a boomer I am so excited to see the backbone that is being produced right now by the younger generations.

Go get 'em Pete. It sounds like he had a response without breaking a sweat. I am really interested, he is pretty awesome.

[flotsam]

11. I'm a late stage boomer

and I have to say this-we were the last generation that could expect to get ahead.I mean that now is past ridiculous with a gig economy and multiple jobs just to survive but in between all other generations faced less and less chance to bloom or prosper. You wanna talk safe spaces-try a union job in the 60's or 70's. Boomers didn't need trigger warnings simply because they had opportunities. We all expected to buy a house and take vacations and have retirement accounts and security simply because it was easily achievable. Perhaps when no dreams seem achievable bitching is all that is left. But I don't blame them-I pity them for what we have let our country become.

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. Early boomers were the last

Late boomers, "Generation Jones", are fucked. Another week goes by and another friend in their late 50s or early 60s is out of work and unhireable. We are taking SS at 62, not because we want to, but because we have no choice. Most of us don't have pensions. If we're lucky enough to have a 401K it was decimated in 2008-9. Many of us lost homes or we still have mortgages that are underwater and WE ARE TOO OLD TO EVER CATCH UP. At least Gen X can still get a job and has probably paid off any student loans they had.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. Maher's a douchebag with little self awareness who gets all snowflakey whenever

a joke doesn't land.