Memo to millennials

[Nević Nenad]

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3942278/PIERS-MORGAN-Memo-millennials-awful-feeling-ve-got-called-losing-happens-want-know-win-stop-whinging-bit-learn-lessons-Trump.html

Memo to millennials, that awful feeling you've got is called losing. It happens. If you want to know how to win, stop whinging for a bit and learn some lessons from Trump

Cheer up, American millennials!

I mean, seriously, CHEER THE **** UP!

Oh, I know you’ve had a rough week ever since Donald Trump won the election.

But it’s time to get a grip.

STOP crying.

STOP taking personal days off work to ‘process’ what happened.

STOP huddling with your equally distraught buddies in Starbucks over your Venti Iced White Chocolate Mocha.

STOP howling away on social media about how unfair life is and how it’s the end of the planet as we know it.

STOP updating the exact number Hillary won the popular vote by, because it doesn’t bloody matter.

STOP marching around screaming your fury at the result when many of you couldn’t even bothered to vote.

STOP retweeting all your favourite celebrities’ own outbursts of pique, rage and anguish.

STOP demanding the Electoral College reverse the decision in December.

In short, STOP being such a faux-tormented bunch of absolutely deluded cretins.

Want to know why Trump is going to be your next president?

It’s because he is what’s called a ‘winner’.

I know it’s not ‘cool’ to be a winner these days.

It’s become an ugly, dirty word in your PC-crazed universe.

Far better, the social media millennial mob cries, to be a gallant loser who tries their best but comes up short - like Bernie, or now Hillary.

To which I say: bulls**t.

Winning is what life’s really about - whether in sport, politics, or simply producing the best decorated pumpkin in your town’s Thanksgiving parade.

If you don’t strive to be the very best at whatever you do, however big or small, then what’s the point in doing it, or frankly even being alive?

Why wallow in self-induced mediocrity?

Yet that is precisely where so many of America’s 80 million millennials enjoy wallowing, and as a result they have become the most pampered, privileged and selfish members of the human race in history.

Where’s my evidence for such a shocking assertion?

Try the National Institutes of Health, which reported that 40% of millennials believe they should be promoted every two years regardless of performance, and are so fame obsessed that three times as many middle school girls now want to grow up to be the PA to a talentless celebrity like Kim Kardashian as want to be a senator.

(Hardly surprising therefore that 77% of millennials can’t even name a senator from their home state…)

Oh, and 80% of millennials say they’ll be richer than their parents, yet more of them live with their parents than with a spouse, still take cash off their parents, and work half as hard.

The tragic truth is that America’s millennials are a bunch of phone-addicted, selfie-obsessed, hashtagging, snapchatting, kale-munching, twerking, lazy, whining, ill-informed, politically correct, cossetted narcissists who find absolutely everything mortally offensive and believe there are 165 ways to sexually identify.

They don’t understand the concept of ‘losing’ because they’ve never had to experience it.

At school, to avoid any ‘low self-esteem issues’, they were all given endless ‘Participation Prizes’.

It’s hard to think of a more ridiculous, insidious ‘honour’.

What possible pleasure can there be in ‘winning’ a prize for just turning up? What incentive is there to compete in anything if you’re going to ‘win’ anyway?

Participation prizes converted a whole new generation into people with no understanding of what genuine competition actually means.

This, coupled with the advent of social media technology that allowed them to post relentless ‘filtered’ images of themselves, led to staggeringly self-absorbed figments of their own perfection.

The combined effect of these two things has been to create a deep-rooted sense of entitlement that manifested itself in a breakdown of biblical proportions when Trump triumphed last Wednesday.

Well, welcome to the real world, my delicate little Instagrammed snowflakes.

This is how democracy works…

You all have a chance to vote…

Someone wins, someone loses…

To the winner of a US presidential election goes all the spoils of being the most powerful person on earth...

To the loser, no gold stars for effort.

Winners like Trump don’t believe in ‘participation prizes.’ They believe you either win or lose.

Winners like Trump don’t weep and wail when they lose. They vow to win next time.

Winners like Trump don’t take days off to ‘process’ their loss. They dust themselves down and get on with life.

Winners like Trump don’t assume they’ll win. They do what it takes to win.

Winners like Trump don’t leave anything in the field of competition. They give it 100%.

‘Winning,’ said the great NFL coach Vince Lombardi, ‘is not a sometime thing, it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.’

Lombardi further clarified: ‘Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.’

That’s Trump’s life mantra too. It’s why he’s now heading to the White House, and also why he may now surprise people and turn out to be a rather effective president.

The millennials can’t handle it because it wasn’t supposed to be this way.

Hillary Clinton was their anointed one, their heroine, their pick for first female president.

No matter that she was a dull, humourless, uninspiring candidate mired in Wall Street greed, Washington dogma, and dodgy email servers.

Trump won because he didn’t even bother trying to conform to this new world order of eggshell-hopping me-me-me millennials who infest places like New York and California.

Instead, he invested his time and effort in America’s rust belt states where such idealistic, sugar-coated nonsense is complete anathema.

The reaction to Trump’s win has been absurdly, dangerously over-the-top.

A San Diego based cyber-security firm founder and CEO millennial named Mark Harrigan resigned this week after posting the following on Facebook:

‘I’m going to kill the president elect. Getting a sniper rifle and perching myself where it counts. Find a bedroom in the whitehouse that suits you motherf***er. I'll find you. In no uncertain terms, f*** you America. Seriously. F*** off.'

Hardly the personification of ‘#LoveTrumpsHates’ is it?

Today, it emerged that 200 students from a Manhattan high school were allowed to skip lessons to join the protests outside Trump Tower.

Can you imagine the furore if Trump-supporting students had demanded the right to do that if Hillary had become President?

It’s all so pathetic.

The simple fact is that Trump won, fair and square.

The moaning millennials may not like it but refusing to accept the result is not just undemocratic, it’s un-American.

Nobody rioted when Obama won, twice – though feelings ran just as high against him from those who voted for the other side.

As Trump’s rally song by the Rolling Stones so perfectly summed it up: ‘You can’t always get what you want.’

So suck it up you squealing softies, get back to work or college, and if you want to win next time, get a candidate who’s a winner not a loser.

 

[whitecoast]

I know it's pretty easy to put down millennials for how some of them have reacted to the election... but the picture is more complicated than that I think. The crybabies referenced above make up a smaller percentage of them then you would believe. Usually they're found mostly in the humanities, or departments with the word "studies" in their names (Gender studies, African American studies, East Asian studies, etc.). It's those departments that are essentially training children to become professional activists, similar to those NGO advocacy pies the US State Department has many fingers in throughout the developing world. I think the STEM fields tend to attract the more level-headed students -- or at least those who want to walk out of university with more life skills than being able to tell others to check their privilege.

Here's some more info about the millennial voters also. Many of them were behind Trump as well, and a greater percentage of their vote went to third party candidates like Jill Stein and Gary Johnson than any other time in history. If Hilary didn't steal the nomination from Sanders, maybe they could have put in him office instead? Lord knows they didn't come out to cast votes for the wicked witch.

_http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-09/what-this-election-taught-us-about-millennial-voters

 

[duyunne]

in defence of my generation, we didn't have the luxury of obscurity. All our awkward growing pains are documented due to the internet. So it's easy to call out our flaws. I think we've become quite aloof as a result. Probably not in a good way either.

 

[bjorb]

Sweet pep-talk of Piers Morgan

There is much 'hate' for millennials.

Either justified or over-execrated. But I doubt that keep calling them cry-babies will have the desired effect.


But it's nice to see how previous generations give advice how it's done. Since theirs brought an end to the ruling pathocracy … In a nonexisting time-line far far away.

 

[ironjam628]

Trump supporters were grumbling about "rigged" elections and cocking their guns. What a subjective and generalizing post. I expect better from someone on these forums, honestly.

 

[Ruth]

I know it's pretty easy to put down millennials for how some of them have reacted to the election... but the picture is more complicated than that I think. The crybabies referenced above make up a smaller percentage of them then you would believe. Usually they're found mostly in the humanities, or departments with the word "studies" in their names (Gender studies, African American studies, East Asian studies, etc.). It's those departments that are essentially training children to become professional activists, similar to those NGO advocacy pies the US State Department has many fingers in throughout the developing world. I think the STEM fields tend to attract the more level-headed students -- or at least those who want to walk out of university with more life skills than being able to tell others to check their privilege.

Here's some more info about the millennial voters also. Many of them were behind Trump as well, and a greater percentage of their vote went to third party candidates like Jill Stein and Gary Johnson than any other time in history. If Hilary didn't steal the nomination from Sanders, maybe they could have put in him office instead? Lord knows they didn't come out to cast votes for the wicked witch.

_http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-09/what-this-election-taught-us-about-millennial-voters

Yes, I think you are right. They are the minority, but alas a very noisy one. I'm not sure how they got into such a position. Hopefully it will be a wake up call for them. Hopefully. If they had got what they wanted (Hillary Clinton in office), things could have got much darker, much quicker.

 

[Keit]

I think the STEM fields tend to attract the more level-headed students -- or at least those who want to walk out of university with more life skills than being able to tell others to check their privilege.

According to my own personal experience, various European and NA millennials in the STEM fields experience the same level of ponerization and crybabyness as the others. They may appear "stronger" or tougher, but it is only because these are more competitive fields. They learn to be more assertive and pro-active. Otherwise, there are no big differences among all Western progressive millennials.

What comparison should be done is between them and non-Western millennials, who didn't have the luxury of leading very comfortable lives.

 

[Cosmos]

Who would have thought to ever hear something like the following out of the mouth of no other than Pierse Morgan?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1163864272285290496

Maybe that is really what he is thinking. If memory serves right though, there is hardly anyone as notoriously slimy and pathetic out there in public mainstream/television as Morgan, well known to defend/promote the most outrageous and bloody BS imaginable and regularly ruthlessly defaming and smearing people on his shows who tell the truth and don’t follow the Elite party line. And of course known for beating war drums regularly in the interest of the PTB. Another possibility that comes to mind, especially after having read “From Yahweh to Zion“ is “controlled opposition“?

Here is the transcript of what Pierse said:

Piers Morgan: "Populism is rising because liberals have become unbearable, Okay? And I speak as a liberal… Liberals have become utterly, pathetically illiberal and it’s a massive problem. What’s the point of calling yourself a liberal if you don’t allow anyone else to have a different view? You know, this snowflake culture we operate in, this victimhood culture that everyone, has to think in a certain way, behave a certain way. Everyone has to have a bleeding heart… You say a joke 10 years ago that offended somebody you can never host the Oscars… So what’s happening around the world? Populism is rising because people are fed up with the PC culture. They’re fed up with the snowflake culture. They’re fed up with everyone being offended by everything… They just want to tell people, not just how to lead their life but if you don’t lead it the way I tell you to, It’s a kind of version of fascism."

I mean, Pierse track record is so utterly bad that one is almost pressed to invoke a miracle for him saying and „believing“ something like this publicly all of a sudden.

This also reminds me of Sean Hannity on the american public media front, who miraculously transformed very similarly in recent months/years. A guy who also has a equally bad/ruthless/slimy backstory.

There are quite a number of other examples too recently, like Jeanine Pirro from FOX.

And it isn’t just on the media front either. In the political sphere we have Rudy Giuliani, Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham for example who all miraculously turned 180 degrees recently.

At this point I go with the “controlled opposition“ idea. If so, by whom? Maybe in some cases directly influenced/chanelled/informed (maybe even subconsciously) by Zionist/Mossad or even direct 4D STS interests?

Or maybe some have really seen the light of late? I dunno...