Has Anyone Heard The Term "Boomer Remover"?

[ChoppinBroccoli]

I heard on the radio a few days ago that a lot of people within the Trump campaign are referring to the Coronavirus as the "Boomer Remover." I've wondered for a long time why Trump doesn't seem interested in stopping the virus at all, and even seems intent on spreading it. I may have gotten my answer. It's calculated.

According to the report I heard, people within the Trump campaign (most likely Stephen Miller) have looked at the numbers, seen that the Coronavirus is disproportionately killing blacks and Hispanics 2-3 times more than whites, and have made a tactical decision to allow the virus to kill off people who likely won't vote for Trump. As an added bonus, they look at it as a way to keep old folks from bleeding Social Security dry, hence the term, "the Boomer Remover." So when you, like me, wonder why he doesn't seem to have any interest in stopping the spread of this virus, now you'll know that it's a tactic to try to help him win the election. It's all about getting himself re-elected, as is literally everything he does. Lives of "the little people" be damned.

There is nothing about this administration that is NOT pure evil.

[Me.]

1. Perhaps They Haven't Heard That 31% Of The Children In Florida Have Tested Positive

[genxlib]

14. I think that is stated incorrectly

31% of the children who have gotten tested have been positive. But they are only tested if they are ill or have direct exposure. So the actual percentage of children who are positive is far lower

[Mariana]

21. That is false.

Perhaps They Haven't Heard That 31% Of The Children In Florida Have Tested Positive

There are about 4.25 million children in Florida. 31% of the children in Florida is more than a million children. You're claiming that more than a million children in Florida have tested positive. That is not true.

[House of Roberts]

2. If the whole country gets the virus,

and the survivors are all health-compromised, who is going to be left to fight their resource wars?

[Phoenix61]

3. I don't think it's that calculated.

I think it’s his normal incompetence and refusal to listen to those who aren’t. He’s never once experienced the negative consequences of his bad decisions. He has always been bailed out. We see people needlessly dying as a bad thing. He wonders how that impacts him and honestly, it doesn’t. Dead people don’t vote. The idea that someone might hold him responsible and be angry never crosses his mind. He doesn’t have the ability to understand that losing someone is painful. It’s never happened to him and it won’t hurt when it does. Now, publicly embarrassed he gets because it’s all about him.

[stopdiggin]

13. it's not.

and the OP wasn't all that well considered. but we gotta' have something to talk about tonight.
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[Phoenix61]

17. Yes we do! nt

[tanyev]

4. They know the virus won't pass over Trump voters, right?

[Backseat Driver]

29. I guess it would be inappropriate to mention that I joked with DH about

the need to get some lamb's blood to paint over the front door lintel. Hey, it worked on the last plague of Egypt, right? And we are both first-born. OK, don't report on this confession of a non-PC quip because the other night I also meditated w/folks on-line calling for ancient but advanced star-people from the limits of the universe to reveal themselves to kind, peace-loving humans on planet Earth in need of higher education...LOL. It was reported the next day that 77% of those humans so meditating made contact??? I know if I were the Pres, that's the first classified folder I'd want to see (Rozwell Incident) and Area 51. One might need to be nuts to stay the course of the 4 years after that revelation. I'd hand off the football to the VP within the hour! Alas, no star-people made contact with me, but the deep breathing and reps of Om-s and/or Yu's sure did relieve stress. I'm into what works - see? Unashamedly, I'm really open about getting Joe in the Oval! LET'S DO THIS!

[tanyev]

35. Maybe they'll use GOYA Sofrito instead of lamb's blood.

[not_the_one]

5. There are a lot of senior citizen supporters of the turd.

But they don't take killing them off, lightly.

He is LOSING their votes. I accept their recent conversion.

[Mariana]

22. Trump has to get the majority of the seniors' votes again

to have any chance of winning. He needs them.

[Susan Calvin]

6. I haven't, but I find it disgusting.

I'm okay with okay Boomer. I'm not okay with wishing people dead. Although that may be rather hypocritical of me, because I wouldn't care if every person who still claims the Republican mantle in this country dropped dead. They should know enough to get the hell out of Dodge.

[not_the_one]

8. I take Boomer as a complement.

It is ironic how the young people are the preferred markets.

They buy clothes and music. (Most of the time it is dad and mom buying those items for them.) Maybe small ticket cars, homes.

Boomers have had time to accumulate some wealth, and buy higher ticket cars, houses, and a few of us are lucky enough to be able to invest. And I think there are still more of us than them.

Yet we are the forgotten market, except by the drug companies.

We are still a very large demographic. We should USE that to our advantage, ESPECIALLY in politics.

Once we are gone, WHO are they going to blame everything on?

[Susan Calvin]

11. I really don't care that I'm not part of the biggest generation anymore.

It's the only majority I've ever been a part of. But wishing people dead isn't funny. Unless they are people who still choose to be Republicans.

[Hekate]

7. Ages ago, from my brother. He said his hackles raised when he first heard it, ...

...and virtually dared anyone to say that to his face.

It’s a pretty damn nasty excuse for a joke.

[Mariana]

24. Is your brother a Boomer?

The only times I've ever heard or read it is when Boomers complain about young people saying it. I've never heard or seen an actual young person use the term.

[Hekate]

27. All my mother's children were/are Boomers, from 1947 (me) to him (1957)...

I got the impression he heard it where he works, but it sure pissed him off in a way that “Okay, Boomer” would not have. It’s hard to laugh off someone’s callous death-wish when you have a heart stent and 3 kids at home needing to go to college — in the middle of a global pandemic.

ETA: All of Mom’s children are Democrats, too, and probably as sick as I am of being told our age-cohort “all” voted for Trump.

[torius]

9. I have heard it

I think the virus is killing off the greatest generation more than boomers. The oldest boomers are 75 and the youngest are 55. Trump won a majority of older voters I think over 65, they were the only group he won in the majority. So he is killing off his own voters. The virus disproportionately affects POC, but in sheer numbers, the majority of people getting it are white, according to charts I’ve seen. And he forges ahead with his spreader events infecting his own people, including staff, there is no logic to it. I think he enjoys betraying those who admire him. So he tells them they’ll be fine and he likes that they die for him.

[Mariana]

26. Trump got the majority of voters 45-64 years old in 2016

as well as those over 65 and older. So, yeah, he got most of the Boomers' votes.

[Demonaut]

10. months ago, when everyone thought it was a joke, except a few

remember the " My Corona" video, I hated it

[Hoyt]

12. Don't really think so. Older folks tend to be trumpster for some damn reason.

[CousinIT]

15. Yes. 'Rona the Boomer Remover' n/t

[RockRaven]

16. I saw an infographic which would bolster the idea that Repuke govs are killing their own

citizens through neglect on purpose.... I can't find it at the moment, but it was a graph displaying the following 4 line graphs of covid-19 cases over time:
1) red counties in red states
2) blue counties in red states
3) red counties in blue states
4) blue counties in blue states

Even though both are rocketing upwards, #2 is outpacing #1.... And if they only care about electoral outcomes, and damn the consequences, then this explains Repuke governors' intransigence. Voter disenfranchisement by mass killing....

[Mariana]

18. Only from Boomers. nt.

[greenjar_01]

19. This idea is silly

Even worse case scenario numbers wouldn't make a dent in either the election or Social Security.

[smirkymonkey]

20. Interesting, since most of Trump's closest allies in congress are Boomers, as is Trump.

It's almost as if they think they are all immune. Or are they?

[Tipperary]

23. Lol. No.

[fishwax]

25. I believe the majority of boomer voters voted for trump, so I don't think he wants them gone

at least, not before the election.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the administration's tone shifted pretty significantly back in April as it started to become clear that the virus was disproportionately hitting communities of color, though.

[Midnight Writer]

28. Trump and the GOP would love to see Social Security bleed dry. They hate it.

[FakeNoose]

33. Bleeding dry ... as in ...

... stealing the money that we paid in for the last 40+ years. Chump's main reason for becoming pResident is to misdirect funds from the US Treasury into his own bank account.

[Amishman]

30. Yes, occasionally for months

And I wouldn't think of it as a Republican phrase, but a pissed off youth's phrase. Those I've heard use it I would not consider remotely conservative, just hot headed and young

[Blue_Adept]

31. This was used by gen z kids way back in March

Making it all about the Trump admin is almost comical at this point.

[forthemiddle]

32. I never heard it from the Trump campaign

But earlier in the pandemic it was popular among kids, and college students.

My son, who works at a college, was the first one to tell me about it.

Newsweek wrote an article about it back in March.

https://www.newsweek.com/boomer-remover-meme-trends-virus-coronavirus-social-media-covid-19-baby-boomers-1492190

[D_Master81]

34. Yes

Back when this started I heard it floating around

[lunasun]

36. Also boomer doomer virus + senior deleter

[Bucky]

37. Even in worst case scenarios, the number killed won't be enough the swing the election

I think their calculation isn't just kill off voters, but to depress and demoralize African American communities, so they don't turn out. Not a smart plan.

First off, people are going to start responding by preventing the worst case scenario coming about. Secondly, the blatant racism of their willful neglect black and brown communities is going to backfire and turn out massive numbers of minority voters.

No I have no doubt that the governors of Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and Texas are doing a lackadaisical job protecting the large cities because they don't think black and brown lives matter; when those four clowns took their oaths to protect the citizens of their state, they obviously didn't think of black and brown citizens as people