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Trump Reportedly Asked Elon Musk To Buy Up His Rinky-Dink Twitter Clone, Truth Social, But He Refused

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Donald Trump has always played the part of the smart businessman, but what if — and hear us out — he’s not? What if it’s all an act and he’s not all that great with money or with creating products that people want? His record of failed products would certainly suggest the latter. Truth Social, the former president’s rinky-dink Twitter clone, has stuck around for about 2 ½ years, but it’s never blown up, its future has repeatedly been in doubt, and the big guy has reportedly made nada off of it. It’s such a burden to him that, according to a new report, he once tried to dump it on someone far wealthier than he is.

A new report by The Washington Post claims that last summer Trump was looking to find a buyer for his MAGA social media service, which has long been the exclusive home to his deranged posting. Among those he approached was Musk. Musk said no, possibly in part because he was a little busy creating endless fires at the much bigger social media service he’d purchased late the previous year.

Still, the report shows Trump and Musk have communicated more than people have previously known, with advisers to the former alleging that they’ve pow-wowed a number of times about “politics and business,” which might help explain that rightward turn he’s made in the last few years. As it happens, last week a report emerged that Trump had visited Musk and some other figures wealthier than him, begging them for some much-needed scratch.

The Post reached out for comment and received this from a Trump Media spokesperson: “We heard Trump and Musk were actually discussing buying the Washington Post but they decided it had no value.” Unlike Truth Social, of course.

(Via The Post)

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American Football Announce US Shows To Extend Their Tour In Celebration Of Their ‘LP1’ Debut Album

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American Football is celebrating a huge milestone this year. This fall marks the 25th anniversary of their eponymous debut album, which is often referred to as LP1 on by fans. Beginning this spring, American Football will embark on an international tour, performing for fans across various territories.

In addition to their European shows, today (March 12), American Football has announced additional U.S. shows.

Presale for the American Football anniversary shows will begin this Wednesday (March 13) at 10 a.m. EST. A Spotify presale will begin two hours later at noon EST. On Thursday (March 14), local venues will have their own presales beginning at 10 a.m. local time. General onsale begins Friday (March 15) at 10 a.m. EST. Fans can register for the presale here.

You can see the full list of dates below.

05/30 — Milan, Italy @ Alcatraz
06/01 — Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound
06/02 — Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound in the City
06/04 — Madrid, Spain @ Copérnico [SOLD OUT]
06/06 — Porto, Portugal @ Primavera Porto
06/30 — Manchester, UK @ Outbreak Festival
09/11 — Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
09/12 — Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland Ballroom
09/14 — London, UK @ Roundhouse
09/27 — Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
09/28 — Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
10/11 — Las Vegas, NV @ Best Friends Forever Festival
10/12 — Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey
10/13 — Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey
10/25 — Washington, DC @ Howard Theater
10/26 — New York, NY @ Warsaw
10/27 — New York, NY @ Warsaw

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Woman hits relatable comedy gold in video attempting to psyche herself up for her period

Periods have been giving people a run for their money since the beginning of time. It’s a pretty safe bet that nobody likes them. If there was a way to replace them with a text message, email or post card that simply read, “not pregnant this month,” people would happily sign up for that instead. There are so many better ways to deliver the message than debilitating cramps, irritability, headaches and the need for menstrual products.

Emily Vondy took to social media to show her attempt to psyche herself up for her period, and it’s got people laughing. The woman appears to be standing in a mirror filming herself do a pep talk to prepare herself for her upcoming menstrual cycle. But it was honestly probably doing the opposite, though the song is clearly a bop.

“The average woman has about 450 periods in her lifetime, which adds up to ten years. Ten years of our lives will be spent menstruating and I don’t want all those years to suck, so this is my attempt to gaslight myself into thinking my period is super cool,” Vondy says to open the video.


Yikes! Ten years seems a bit excessive, mother nature, but that’s the point of the tune Vondy starts rapping. Pointing out the reason people have periods and how cool our bodies are may make the cramps of a period not seem so bad. Again, not sure it will have the desired effect but commenters really felt her jam was on point.

“Are my kids of homeschooling age yet? No. Do I have a daughter? No. Will this song be apart of our homeschool science curriculum? Yes. Yes it will,” one woman writes.

“Ohhhhhh my gosh!! No lie THIS…. This song should be reproduced and used in Health classes all around. It’s VERY on point of what to expect or should expect and gives the needed encouragement. I’m going to save it for my now 4yr old daughter. It’s fun,” another says.

“Straight to the point NOT PERPENDICULAR this was the most valiant effort I can imagine for period hype. Go team,” someone encourages.

There were puns made in the comments as well and a little confusion on her math with people wondering how periods only lasted 10 years of life. Vondy explained that she meant if you added up all the minutes a person was actively on their period then it adds up to 10 years. Either way, everyone seemed to agree the song was a banger and should be used in curriculum and available on iTunes.

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Ari Aster’s Next Movie Has Quite The Cast, Including A Recent Oscar-Winner And The Return Of One Of His Alums

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Ari Aster is still a few years from 40, yet he’s already a major auteur. He has two sui generis horror hits on his CV; a semi-pricey underperformer that has future cult item written all over it; and a superfan in no less than Martin Scorsese. He can do whatever he wants, with whatever cast he wants. So it’s not surprise that his next film, which beings production this week, is a) part of a semi-uncool genre, and b) has quite the cast.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Aster’s next film is called Eddington, and it’s described as a “contemporary Western” concerning, per THR, a “small-town New Mexico sheriff with lofty aspirations.” Who’s in it? None other than Joaquin Phoenix, who was very game as the ever-harried titular lead in Aster’s mind-melting epic Beau is Afraid.

As for the rest of the cast, Phoenix will reunite with his Irrational Man costar Emma Stone, who’s hot off a pretty exciting Sunday. The happily ubiquitous Pedro Pascal will be in it, too, as will Austin Butler, recently seen duking it out bald — if sadly sans Sting codpiece — in Dune: Part Two. The cast (or at least that made public thus far) is rounded out by Luke Grimes, Deidre O’Connell, Michael Ward, and Clifton Collins Jr.

Who’s footing the bill for another star-studded Ari Aster mindf*ck? A24, of course, who have always happily given him carte blanche to make whatever he wants, even if it’s a three-hour Jewish mother joke that was never going to turn into another Hereditary or Midsommar (but which definitely bewitches those on its madcap wavelength).

In their Instagram post announcing the title, cast, and genre, A24 claimed Eddington was “coming soon,” but it’s probably not. Let the man work.

(Via THR)

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Kacey Musgraves Will Host An Intimate Listening Event For Her New Album ‘Deeper Well’ At Webster Hall In New York City

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We are just days away from Kacey Musgraves‘ fifth studio album, Deeper Well. And ahead of the album, the “Too Good To Be True” hitmaker is offering a group of fans the ultimate listening experience. On Thursday (March 14), New York City’s famed Webster Hall will host A Conversation with Kacey Musgraves: A Look into Deeper Well, which arrives by way of a partnership between American Express and Kacey Musgraves.

Over the course of the event, Musgraves will play the album in its entirely, just hours before its wide release. She will also do a live Q&A about the making of the album and the creative process that went into it. Additionally, she’ll also share a new video for AmEx’s “Story Of My Song” series, as she breaks down the making and meaning behind the Deeper Well track, “Dinner With Friends.”

Tickets will be available exclusively for American Express cardholders to purchase beginning Wednesday (March 13) at 10 a.m. via AXS. Each ticket will cost $20, and fans are allotted two tickets per customer.

Doors for A Conversation with Kacey Musgraves: A Look into Deeper Well open at 7 p.m, and the show begins at 8 p.m.

Deeper Well is out 3/15 via Interscope and MCA Nashville. Find more information here.

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How ‘Bad With Money’s’ Gabe Dunn Is Helping People Get Their Financial Act Together

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So much of the financial advice we get from social media, television, and podcasts focuses on the instant gratification of wealth. Experts promise ways to get rich fast, proposing we cut spending on everyday items – those frilly Starbucks drinks and organic avocados … and eggs – in favor of putting an extra few dollars a week into our checking accounts. Then, if we let time and the apps, the ebooks, the online courses they’re pushing do the work, those bills will accumulate, making us millionaires in one year, or three, or five.

Gabe Dunn isn’t calling bullshit on those how-tos, but they are resetting some expectations with their Bad With Money series.

“I’m never trying to make people rich,” Dunn tells UPROXX. “I’m just trying to make people not as stressed out.”

Instead, their chart-topping podcast promises to be a safe haven for the “not-billionaires of the world,” a place where the financially challenged can learn the basics about things like budgeting, investing, paying off debt, and saving for retirement from some of the most lauded, recognized names across multiple industries — without feeling embarrassed, ashamed, or defeated by their knowledge gaps. It’s a platform where guests can laugh, and cry, and laugh while crying about money – the necessity of it, the unfairness, the ability it has to change lives and ruin them, the sense of accomplishment that comes with learning to manage it, but most of all, the relatability of it all.

Most of us, at one point, have struggled with money, and it’s that thread that Dunn tugs on in their talks, weaving professional advice from the likes of Senator Elizabeth Warren with their own heartfelt, personal experiences as a Queer and trans-best-selling author, comedian, and TV writer just trying, like us, to figure this all out.

Here’s what they’ve learned so far.

1. We Need To Talk About Money More

According to Dunn, who used to pay for everything in cash, avoided credit cards like the plague, and thought one needed a map to “get to the stock market,” what makes money so terrifying for most people is the fact that we don’t talk about it enough. That’s true in the workplace when it comes to discussing salaries with fellow employees. It’s true in our schools, where money management is rarely taught in the classroom. And it’s true in our personal lives – in conversations with friends and family – where topics like debt, savings, and building credit still, weirdly, feel taboo.

“I thought [money] was terrifying,” Dunn admits. “I didn’t know anything. I didn’t know that there were different types of savings accounts. I didn’t know how people retired. I saw money as sort of a day-to-day struggle. My parents were like that. There was no, ‘We have retirement plans.’ I mean, friends of mine whose fathers opened their bank accounts when they were 15? There was nothing like that.”

Once Dunn started their podcast though they realized just how many financial sectors benefit from our lack of knowledge. It’s basically a form of passive gatekeeping and it’s doing a hell of a job keeping us in the dark.

“The biggest mistake would be thinking that you just don’t know enough,” they explain. “A lot of this stuff is just in jargon, but it’s actually not that difficult. I think sometimes obviously stuff is presented a certain way because they want you to hire someone. They want you to hire a financial advisor or whatever. There’s a whole industry. Why would they let you know how to do it yourself?”

2. Start Asking Questions

It might be a bit tedious at first, but Dunn recommends doing the research yourself. Pick a topic you’re curious about and just start typing in a search bar. If you work for a company and you’re wondering about the health of your retirement plan, send an email to your HR department. If you’re looking for ways to invest in the stock market, ask a friend who’s already doing the same thing.

“I just had to research and learn,” Dunn says. “I think a big thing for me was asking and calling. I think sometimes people hide that stuff [but] there are people around that are just sort of waiting for you to ask. HR is just sitting there waiting to do things. So if you go over and you say, ‘Hey, I want to learn about my 401k,’ they’re not going to be like, ‘That’s weird.’ They’re going to be like, ‘Oh, okay, great. That’s my job.’ I had an IRA for years before I realized I could call [the company] and there would be an advisor there. I was like, ‘Hey, I’ve had this IRA for a year.’ And he’s like, ‘Yeah, you were kind of supposed to call in the beginning to talk to me about it.’”

3. Budgeting Is Key And Everyone Can Do It Better

No one likes pulling up their bank account, especially if the number is going to be low, but knowing your monthly intake is key to budgeting and budgeting is key to, well, everything else.

“When I was starting, the first thing I did was go through my bank account and label everything,” Dunn says. “‘What is this? What did I spend on this?’ And I color-coded it. It took me three days and I cried the whole time, but I color-coded it. And I was like, ‘Okay, what am I spending the most on?’ This was in 2016. Now there are apps that’ll do it for you, but I was doing it by hand. I had to see what I was spending.”

One of Dunn’s most requested episodes was the chat they had with fellow podcaster Tiffany Aliche, a financial educator and host of The Budgetnista. The tips they learned during their talk are ones they implement to this day.

“I realized the people are clamoring for budget information,” Dunn says. “What’s hard is that a lot of budget information is really shaming and really doesn’t take into account people’s actual lives. They’ll be like, ‘Okay, we’ll cut cable. That’s how you save money.’ And these people are like, ‘I don’t even have a TV. What are you talking about?’ There’s such a disconnect between the people giving information and the people asking for information.”

But Aliche’s approach felt accessible, whether someone was saving for an expensive trip or just trying to put away a few dollars at the end of the month.

“She asked you to break it down into tiers of A, B, and C,” Dunn explains. “’A’ stuff is stuff you can’t cut like rent and healthcare. ‘B’ is middle stuff that does actually matter to you. And then ‘C’ is kind of take it or leave it. She would say, ‘When you start cutting things, people get really anxious and they just cut a bunch of A stuff. But you can cut one A thing, or you can cut three C things. It just helps you organize it.’ I liked her approach.

4. Look At Everything

If you’re trying to claw your way out of debt (and who isn’t these days) then the best piece of advice Dunn has is to dig up every bill that tells you what you owe. Look debt in the face, have a good cry over it, and then get to work.

“Just look at everything,” they say. “Put everything together, every credit card, every loan. Look at everything.”

Once you’ve done that, pay back smarter, not harder. That means you don’t necessarily need to tackle the biggest chunk of change first.

“For credit and for loans, look at the interest rate, that’s the simplest thing,” Dunn continues. “You can say, ‘Oh, I have a $9,000 loan and I have a $2,000 loan,’ but if the $2,000 loan has 15% interest, you got to get on that one first. People don’t look at interest rates enough.”

5. Disaster Prep – Financially At Least

Even if you’re a guru when it comes to investing or paying off loans, there’s this thing called life and it happens to everyone. It happened to Dunn recently, it happened to guests on her podcasts, and it’ll happen to you – an accident, an injury, a diagnosis, or a repair that comes unexpectedly and with a hefty price tag. Ridding yourself of debt is great, learning stock market lingo is fun, but putting away money for a rainy day you know will come is essential. It’s not necessarily sexy to talk about the way those other things are, but Dunn insists on doing it anyway.

“Tax laws change, then inflation happens, then there’s a recession, then a pandemic hits. I realized that you can know everything and think that you know enough or that you’re perfect, and then something will just slam into you. Like a medical bill, a tooth falls out, or someone hits your car. It’s just never-ending,” Dunn says. “I did an episode a while ago that I loved called ‘What If You’re Fucked?’ about a friend of my dad who was in a motorcycle accident and lost a leg, and he was obviously not expecting that. A friend of mine, her mother was [a victim of] identity theft.” Dunn adds that, “these are people who are living in the real world who’ve had something happen to them, and it’s not really their fault.”

Ultimately Dunn wants to reach those people, the ones like them who are just trying to master the basics to live more comfortably, maybe even a bit freer from financial stress. They’re still “extremely mad” at money, at knowing how much they still don’t know, and at the way capitalism and our financial systems consistently fail us. That’s where the intersectional theme of their money advice podcast comes in, setting itself apart from the rest of the get-rich crowd. But, at the end of the day, Dunn just wants to demystify finances a bit, to build a community where the most basic questions get asked (and answered) without any strings attached.

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Kristen Stewart Had A Short But Blunt Response To ‘Homophobic’ Haters Of Her ‘Rolling Stone’ Cover: ‘F*ck You’

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Kristen Stewart has a new movie out: a lesbian thriller called Love Lies Bleeding. But America’s modern right-wing, which has of late rediscovered old school homophobia, hasn’t been attacking that film. Instead they’ve focused most of their attention on the provocative Rolling Stone cover Stewart did to promote it. After enduring reams of conservative backlash, the actress has a simple message for the image’s haters.

Per Entertainment Weekly, Stewart went on The Late Show, during which Colbert brought up the RS cover. He said CBS had asked him not to put it on air due to its risqué nature. He showed it anyway, allowing the nation’s viewers to see the naughty picture of Stewart, her top open, her left hand shoved into her undies. It’s an image MAGA world has deemed “miserable” and “disgusting.” Colbert didn’t agree.

“I want to say that you look better in a jockstrap than I ever did,” he quipped.

Colbert then asked Stewart to comment on the Trumpy attacks. After saying, “Let’s keep this light,” she offered a theory about why the GOP doesn’t like the cover.

“It’s a little ironic because I feel like I’ve seen a lot of male pubic hair on the cover of things,” Stewart explained. “I’ve seen, like, a lot of hands in pants and unbuttoned. I think there’s a certain overt acknowledgement of a female sexuality that has its own volition in a way that is annoying for people who are sexist and homophobic.”

Colbert agreed, saying, “I’ve certainly seen more revealing covers on Rolling Stone or Sports Illustrated, for that matter.” Stewart argued the cover isn’t “remotely explicit,” but Colbert went a step further, saying, “I think it also violates public expectations of female sexuality as opposed to how you’re presenting it here.”

“Yes, because female sexuality isn’t supposed to actually want anything but to be had,” Stewart said. “And that feels like it’s protruding in a way that might be annoying.”

She then addressed her conservative critics directly, saying, “But f*ck you.” She added, cheekily, “But I never will.”

Stewart has long been a scourge of Republicans. One of her biggest haters is Donald Trump himself, who spent years singling her out for social media abuse, partly due to her relationship woes with Robert Pattinson. Stewart was so grossed out by his creepy obsession with her that she used it as an excuse to come out publicly, which she did while hosting SNL in 2017.

“The president is not a huge fan of me,” Stewart told the crowd back then. “But that is so OK. And Donald, if you didn’t like me then, you’re probably not going to like me now, because I’m hosting SNL and I’m so gay, dude.”

Love Lies Bleeding is now in select theaters. You can watch her Late Show appearance below.

(Via EW)

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Teacher creates his own Gen Z slang, then gaslights students into thinking they’re real

Look, maybe it’s just because I’m no longer in the young crowd, but does it seem like we get new, confusing slang at an exponentially faster rate than before? Just when we finally decipher words like rizz and no cap, now there’s mewing and gyat to contend with. And this is coming from someone without children. I can only imagine how out-of-the-loop parents and teachers must feel.

That is, unless you’re Sam Salem, an eighth-grade substitute teacher who decided to take linguistic matters into his own hands by creating his own “Gen Z slang.”

Salem, who travels around the country doing comedy shows when not “facing his toughest audiences- classrooms full of Gen Z kids,” recently posted a series of videos to his TikTok sharing a truly diabolical plan to not only use made-up “Gen Z-sounding slang words,” but “gaslighting” his students into thinking they’re real.


And then whenever a student questions him, Salem simply assures them that A) a rapper uses the word all the time, B) it’s all the rage with high schoolers, or C) it’s all over Tiktok. Total evil mastermind.

Below are Salem’s handcrafted Gen Z words. So just know, if you hear a youngster using one of these, you have him to thank.

“Clipped”: when something is really good, alá highlight clips of a sports game.

“Mute”: a replacement for lowkey. So when you want something down in a non-overt way, do it “on mute.”

“Feta”: a negative thing. Think how feta cheese crumbles. When something is feta, it is a good thing that falls apart easily.

“Parked”: just like a parked car doesn’t move, something that’s parked is boring and not going anywhere.

“Pebbles”: while a mountain or a boulder presents a huge obstacle, pebbles are “smooth sailing.” So when something is pebbles, it’s easy to overcome.

“Terk” : inspired by Salem’s favorite Disney movie, “Tarzan,” a Terk is your loyal-to-the-end bestie. Just like the character Terk was to Tarzan.

@samuelsleeves give me more fake slang words to use on my students #teaching #teachersoftiktok #highschool #middleschool #education ♬ original sound – Sam Salem

“Sparse”: the opposite of “ate.” As in, “ate and left no crumbs.” So basically, as a way to say that whatever thing a person is doing is very not cool. So not cool that it’s sparse. Get it?

“Getty”: inspired by the famous Getty museum of Los Angeles, this word suggests that something is “a work of art.”

“Oozing”: kind of a polite way to tell someone they’re talking too much, since the words are “oozing” out of them, or if they’re doing something that’s embarrassing. Nobody wants to be oozing.

“Swirled”: someone who is wishy-washy—a friend one minute and ignoring you the next, for example—might be someone who is swirled.

“Nabs”: an acronym that’s the opposite of BAE (Before Anyone Else). Which is this case would be Not AnyBody’s Somebody. Could be a good thing, like when someone is single, or a bad thing, when there aren’t any romantic prospects.

“Remy”: Another Disney reference, Remy is inspired by “Ratatouille.” Just like a rat shouldn’t go together with food “because it’s gross,” when something is remy that means two things which shouldn’t go together surprisingly do.

@samuelsleeves Replying to @*LisaG* don’t be swirled otherwise you’ll end up nabs #teaching #teachersoftiktok #genz #millennial #ratatouille ♬ original sound – Sam Salem

Over in the comments section, people were applauding Salem’s fake slang , and not in a muted way.

“You ARE the trendsetter now,” one person wrote.

“You’re ironically creating new slang,” seconded another.

In essence, Salem actually did make fetch happen. Kudos.

Seems like Salem is not gonna stop creating new words anytime soon. To keep up with the trends, follow him on TikTok here.

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Cruel meme about time has Gen X feeling ‘dazed and confused’

The “forgotten generation” has hit peak mid-life crisis time, as Gen Xers find themselves careening through their 40s and 50s. And like presumably every generation before them, they’re reeling a bit, asking, “How did I get here already?” as they pluck gray hairs out of weird places, send kids off to college and obsessively check their retirement accounts.

And now a meme that hits right at the heart of that crisis has Gen Xers feeling even more dazed. One might even say…confused.

In cruel bit of calculation, X user @AZNotoriousJPG shared a screenshot image from the cult classic “Dazed and Confused” with this caption:


“Dazed and Confused came out in 1993 and was based in 1976. A comparable movie today would be based in 2007.”

Wait, what? No. NO. That can’t be right. That math isn’t mathing. Where’s the calculator?

[Frantically calculates this very basic subtraction problem four times because there’s no way.]

It’s right. How? How is this possible? The ’70s felt like they were ages from the 90s, while 2007 was only like three years ago. Right?

First of all, I’m wrong. 2007 was 17 years ago—that’s basically an entire generation ago. (I know, I have to let that one sit for a minute.) But secondly, it seems like there was much more of a cultural difference between the 1970s and the 1990s than there was between the 2020s and the 2000s.

But why? In some ways, the 2000s feel like they’ve all been one long decade, at least in terms of “feel.” The 1960s, ‘70s, ’80s and ‘90s each felt like they had a distinct feel in terms of style and culture. We can pinpoint fashions, slang, musical genres and what was popular during those decades. Can the same be said for the 2000s and the 2010s?

Maybe it can. Facebook came out in 2004 and the iPhone came out in 2007, so I’m sure that changed things significantly. Social media and smartphones? That’s huge. Is it just because we’re (gulp) so old now that Gen Xers can’t differentiate between recent decades? Are we just so out of touch with young fashions and hip culture that we don’t even see it?

Honestly? Yeah, probably. I’ve heard my teens say something along the lines of, “That’s giving, like, early 2000s” when referring to a song or a fashion choice. I guess I should be happy that I’m “with it” enough to know what “giving” means, but I’d never be able to tell you how something from the early 2000s is any different than something from two years ago.

Gen Xers have not taken kindly to having this timeline change thrown in their faces:

“Oh!! This hurts!!”

“Lies.”

“I was having a good day. We were all having a good day.”

“I get, we’re old!!! Quit reminding us!”

“All I see from this is that I am old AF.”

“That doesn’t make any sense. 2007 was last week. I have medicine in the closet which expired earlier than that. Not possible.”

“Nope, that’s not okay.

“You didn’t have to choose violence, yet here we are.”

You can tell the Gen Xers from the millennials and Gen Zers in the comments because the younger folks just keep commenting with “Superbad,” a coming-of-age comedy that came out in 2007. What they don’t understand is it’s not the number of years that hits hard with this meme, it’s the vast difference between how 17 years felt between the 70s and 90s and how they feel in the 2000s.

You have to have lived it to get it, I suppose, but “Dazed and Confused” in 1993 felt more like a movie made now based in the ’80s would feel. Think “Stranger Things.” That’s what the time difference felt like for us.

Time is weird, man. But even 30 years later (wait, what?) “Dazed and Confused” is still a fabulous film, and Gen X is still the coolest generation.

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Report: Aaron Rodgers, Who Said The Jets Need To Get Rid Of Things That Have ‘Nothing To Do With Winning,’ Has ‘Welcomed’ VP Talks With RFK Jr

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Aaron Rodgers made a very big deal earlier this offseason about how the New York Jets need to get rid of “the bullsh*t that has nothing to do with winning” in the aftermath of a tumultuous, 7-10 campaign that saw them miss the playoffs. It is unclear how a bid to become the Vice President of the United States on a third-party ticket lines up with that mandate, but if there is one person who we know is very anti-mandates, it is Aaron Rodgers.

According to a new piece by Rebecca Davis O’Brien of the New York Times, Rodgers has been approached (along with former professional wrestler and governor of Minnesota Jesse “The Body” Ventura) by Robert Kennedy Jr. about joining him in his longshot bid for the White House this November. Kennedy apparently confirmed that Rodgers and Ventura are “at the top of his list,” while the Times reports that there have been frequent conversations between Kennedy and the Jets quarterback.

Mr. Kennedy said that he had been speaking with Mr. Rodgers “pretty continuously” for the past month, and that he had been in touch with Mr. Ventura since the former governor introduced him at a campaign event last month in Arizona.

If anything could be interpreted as a hint of where Mr. Kennedy might lean, the domain name kennedyrodgers.com was registered last week using a GoDaddy host.

Rodgers expressed his desire to play 2-4 more years after rupturing his achilles four snaps into his first year with the Jets, and it goes without saying, but it is very hard to see how someone can be on a presidential ballot and be the starting quarterback for an NFL team at the same time — if he were to leave the team to pursue a political career, it stands to reason that New York would turn to either Zach Wilson or the recently-signed Tyrod Taylor. According to the latest RealClearPolitics average of polls, Kennedy would be projected to get 12.9 percent of the nationwide popular vote if the election was held today, putting him well behind both Donald Trump and Joe Biden.