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“60 billion dollars is a lot of money,” reads the caption above a hip-popping Swift gif. “You can’t just shake it off.”

No but we can Eat The Rich.

Okay, anybody care to explain “bae” to 40 year old geezers like me? Because when I saw the headline pic of a politician saying “THX BAE!” in a tweet, I assumed it was referring to BAe, i.e. British Aerospace, the defense contractor.

It’s short for baby.

Nevermind, found it on Urban Dictionary: “A word used by degenerate Spawns of Ghetto drug addicts to describe their significant other. Since their simple mutant brains cannot comprehend proper grammar they spit this vile shit out of their disgusting meth ravaged mouths. This is why drug addicts should be executed or they should be fixed so they do not create mutant spawn.”

I’m a twentysomething and I had to look it up. Apparently, according to Urban Dictionary, some people use it online to mean “baby” or “sweetie,” but at least going by the Urban Dictionary comments it looks like it is already undergoing an internet backdraft.

“60 billion dollars is a lot of money,” reads the caption above a hip-popping Swift gif. “You can’t just shake it off.”

Well, Mr. Boner, $160 billion in oil subsidies over that same 10 year period is a lot of money too…
I guess it’s better to send that money to Exxon/Mobil than to spend it educating our kids! Fuck You Boner!

If we educate the next generation’s workers during those 2 years of community college the 60 Billion will be a very useful investment and will return many times 60 Billion over the next decades.

Anyway, we spent more than 60 Billion a year for our adventure in Iraq and we didn’t get any return on that boondoggle.

By the way Josh, this is a good article. Well done.

I knew “bae” because of the Pharrell song, “Come Get It Bae” (good song). But I hadn’t realized it was supposed to be such a mark of hipness. I can’t help thinking that novelty isn’t what it used to be (sure sign of getting older). I mean, “babe” has been around for ever. You just take out the second “b” and all of a sudden you’re talking the language of the Millenials?

I can’t help thinking that this article is related in some way to the post about Howie Kurtz dissing Obama for appearing on Youtube.

There’s actually a subreddit for this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/FellowKids/

It’s not just politicians. Companies do it in their marketing as well.

The title is taken from a line from 30 Rock. Steve Buscemi goes undercover in a high school, pretending to be a student, and says, “How do you do, fellow kids?”

Well, at least if you believe corporate America.

So, probably not.

That’s a Republican translation. To everybody else, it’s baby.

TPM:

Tweeting Like a Teen Won’t Win You Millennial Votes

You can lead a Millenial to twitter, but you can’t make’em click.

I clicked on that and saw Buscemi’s aging face, wearing a “Music Band” t-shirt. “How do you do, fellow kids?” That’s really funny.

Engaging in ‘cool’ behavior such as playing a saxophone yourself is in no way the same as trying to cloak yourself in someone else’s ‘cool’… which always comes off as lame.

The article borders on being unreadable.

Oh man, the Grassley tweets crack my ass up every single time.

The picture at the top of the article is of my retired rep the honorable John D. Dingell. He’s a great man and I find the picture offensive. Am I too sensitive? Well, I just feel that not all politicians are bad and to lump them altogether just hurts our country more. It plays into the repub goal of when folks don’t vote we win. Haven’t the last 30+ years of repub propaganda and brainwashing by pushing the “government is bad” mantra hurt us enough? Yes. Folks really don’t realize that if we vote we do win.