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New Zealand lawmaker dismisses heckler in Parliament: 'OK, boomer'
The Hill ^ | 11 05 2019 | Justin Wise

Posted on 11/06/2019 8:33:41 AM PST by yesthatjallen

A 25-year-old New Zealand lawmaker on Tuesday offered a blunt response to a colleague who apparently heckled her during a speech she gave addressing the urgency of climate change on the floor of Parliament: “OK, boomer.”

Chlöe Swarbrick, a member of the Green Party, expressed the statement as she emphasized how the consequences of climate change will fall on people of her generation.

As she expressed support for legislation to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, Swarbrick noted how she would be around the age of the average lawmaker in Parliament by that time.

"We are in a climate crisis, if we don't get this right, nothing else matters. ... In the year 2050, I will be 56 years old, yet right now the average age of this 52nd Parliament is 49 years old," she said, prompting what appears to be an audible gasp and a heckle.

Swarbrick then raised her hand before replying "OK boomer" and moving on with her speech. It is unclear who Swarbrick was directing the remark toward.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ageism; blackbloc; culturalmarxism; globalwarmingscare; greenparty; okboomer; redyouth
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To: Tench_Coxe

“We are in a climate crisis, if we don’t get this right, nothing else matters...”

Sounds like she went to school in the US.


21 posted on 11/06/2019 9:00:35 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Tench_Coxe

They are gearing up for murdering people when they reach a certain age. Only people with sufficient “social credit” will be exempt. Everyone else will be required to report to a “end of life facility” upon reaching some arbitrary age (70).

That’s why they want the guns. They can’t have some “boomer” Vietnam Vet taking a few of the precious millennials with “social credit” with them on the way out.


22 posted on 11/06/2019 9:00:53 AM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: yesthatjallen

Another reply is, “Young, dumb and stupid is a phase we all go through. We all grow out of being young but it takes will and a conscience effort to overcome dumb and stupid”


23 posted on 11/06/2019 9:05:59 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Army Air Corps

Yes. It’s all fun and games until that hand-flower turns black. “May they grow old in the world they are making”.


24 posted on 11/06/2019 9:17:13 AM PST by NCMtnMama (Trying to keep my granddaughter out of a burqa.)
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To: yesthatjallen

My thirteen-year-old daughter had to explain this one to me. It’s the latest insult that yoots like to use to dismiss their elders. I told her that’s fine, but since I’m not a Boomer OR an Xer (born in 1966), she’d better never use it on me unless she wants to find out what life was like when I was a kid, with no technology and a paddle or a belt at the ready.

}:-)4


25 posted on 11/06/2019 9:19:02 AM PST by Moose4 (I am father to a teenager. My opinion is invalid.)
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To: CurlyDave

My child, grown daughter, treated us like crap for a few years while she was married to this guy. His family started it but she allowed it, backed off from us and more or less abandoned us to not cause problems with her hubby. My response? I changed everything to be split up between the grandkids. She gets nothing. She finally came around when she realized what a piece of crap he was and was planning on leaving him. In other words....she needed us again. I’m glad she reversed but everything is still going to the grandkids.


26 posted on 11/06/2019 9:22:57 AM PST by sheana
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To: TexasGurl24

Solvent Green


27 posted on 11/06/2019 9:25:23 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tench_Coxe
11,000 "scientists" think limiting the population of the earth is the only way to slow or stop climate change.

There are even billboards in London encouraging white people sterilize themselves to limit the population. I guess people of color don't figure into the mix.

Kill off tens of thousands more with abortions and these idiots think they can stop climate change.

I sure would like to be a fly on the wall in the future when these numbskulls realize they been "had" by the largest hoax in the history of the world, climate change.


28 posted on 11/06/2019 9:26:03 AM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Boomer?


29 posted on 11/06/2019 9:34:21 AM PST by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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To: real saxophonist
Uh, definitely prefer this version


30 posted on 11/06/2019 9:37:44 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Kid, I’ve got boots older than you.
Then there is the all time favorite response to these young whipper snappers:
Dumbass!


31 posted on 11/06/2019 9:41:08 AM PST by 9422WMR
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To: yesthatjallen
Does she sit around in a tree house with her friends bragging, “And them I said ‘OK Boomer’. Boy I showed him!”

It is quite possibly lamest gayest self-imagined “burn” ever created.

32 posted on 11/06/2019 9:42:53 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.>>>)
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To: yesthatjallen
Here's something interesting from Wikipedia (yeah, I know):

Swarbrick is in a relationship with a male presenting female. On the topic of her sexuality she has said she "likes people", refusing to give a label. She says she didn't come out of the closet because she was never in the closet...

Ya think?


33 posted on 11/06/2019 9:43:07 AM PST by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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To: Magnum44

But she’s a frackin’ Cylon!!


34 posted on 11/06/2019 9:44:24 AM PST by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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To: Army Air Corps; Tennessee Nana
The original Star Trek had a couple episodes about kids being in charge. The Twilight Zone episode with Billy Mummy.

There was a movie, "IF".

'Children of the Corn'.

35 posted on 11/06/2019 9:44:26 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: fella

No, that would be “OK Sooner”.


36 posted on 11/06/2019 9:46:01 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: yesthatjallen

I’ve used it a couple of times in fustration with people that clearly think that their old man nihilism should be something to humor. Same as I say to millennials with their arrogant know-it-all attitude.

But in a setting like that? That really isnt appropriate, I dont think.


37 posted on 11/06/2019 9:47:17 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: yesthatjallen

... and then say “I forgive you, little Pube.”


38 posted on 11/06/2019 9:59:37 AM PST by NCMtnMama (Trying to keep my granddaughter out of a burqa.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Well stated!

Undoubtedly the stupidest, most worthless generation we’ve ever seen, except for a minority that would, of course, include our young veterans.

Blame the parents and education establishment all you want, I won’t disagree.

But there’s something else at work here, and I’m quite at a loss to say exactly what it is.

Ideas welcome ...


39 posted on 11/06/2019 10:01:04 AM PST by Nothingburger
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To: real saxophonist

I can overlook that :)


40 posted on 11/06/2019 10:02:07 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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