• BuckFigotstheThird@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No! Don’t think about The Turtle! Look everybody! The libs are old and senile too! LOOK! [please don’t look at the turtle. Nothing to see here. Nope The Turtle is fine. Look! It’s a sleepy old person who is a democrat!!!]

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          To be fair, that’s about how long the typical android takes to reboot. Nothing unexceptional.

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        1 year ago

        I’d be very supportive of disallowing senior citizens from holding any public office.

        Very, very supportive.

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          65 is generally considered the retirement age, so my proposal that I responded to another comment with is that if you’re gonna turn 65 during your hypothetical term, you’re not eligible to run. It’s time to sail off into the sunset or sit on your porch to yell at the kids to stay off your lawn or whatever the hell. You’re no longer representative of the general population and are in no position to be crafting policy for years after your death. You did your service, now step aside and let the next generation have their turn.

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            65 is also, coincidentally, the age after which the majority of strokes occur in the US. Not to say we don’t have people who aren’t awesome senior citizens (far from it!) but the stakes are so damn high for people who are in government positions, especially when you have 6-year terms or lifetime appointments and your party really, REALLY wants to hold that seat.

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        It’s true, but in Mitch’s case it might be that staying literally kills him. He’s the minority leader in the Senate, which has got to be stressful, and if the fugue state he entered was caused by a mini-stroke, he needs to be resting and avoiding stress like a literal plague.

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        She’s already said she won’t run at the next election.

        But if she steps down now, the republicans can refuse to let a new democrat sit on the judiciary committee (that she’s on), then the Republicans can just deadlock the vote to appoint any new federal judges (exactly like they did when she was on sick leave).

        The US political system is broken, but Feinstein is doing the best thing she can for her party and the people who voted for her.

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      1 year ago

      Turtle bro didn’t have a stroke, my aunt is a doctor and I’m sure he is perfectly fine. /s