We already have age limits at the lower end. Why are people so against age limits at the upper end?
Looks like Turtle stroked out. Fortunately he gets the best medical care available paid for by the taxpayer, whereas he is adamantly opposed to Medicare for All to provide this benefit to all Americans.
That’s so weird that he came back. God that looked like a stroke.
If it were any other situation he’d be going to the hospital immediately. That’s definitely either a stroke or a seizure and he needs a CT or MRI ASAP.
However, the optics of him freezing like that and then getting rushed to the hospital are bad, even worse than him looking like a wax sculpture and freezing, so he came back to say he’s okay. Then he goes to the hospital, but they drive him around the block a few times before arriving to throw off the press.
To answer your question, most people aren’t against age limits. But the elderly are the single strongest voting population and the people already in power won’t do anything against their own interest without significant voter follow through.
Everyone is for age limits until they would be affected.
I hope I have the wherewithal to maintain my convictions at that age. Perhaps that’s naivete, but I never became conservative, either.
I’m still ardently pro-youth and against exclusion even at almost 40; I would like to believe I’ll still be for age caps when I’m old. Like actual old. I know I’m already fuckin’ old. You know what I mean.
We should move to a system where votes are weighted based on age. Up to, say, 40 years of age your vote has a weight of 1.0. Above 40 the weight should reduce linearly each year until it reaches 0.1 at the age that equals the current life expectancy. Basically: the closer you are to death the shorter you are affected by the consequences of your votes, so you should have less influence. Older people are probe to short term thinking as they won’t live to see the long term effects anyway.
McConnell is a liar and has done a lot of harm to the US. He and many others like him should have retired many years ago.
I"m old too. I will retire from my job at retirement age. Other people could use the job opening I’d leave.
And I think Trump is a criminal/liar and too old to run for president. And Biden is just too old to run. Looks like I’ll be forced to vote for Biden because he doesn’t know when to bow out gracfully.
<This post was all over the place> McConnell is too old and needs to retire. Back on topic!
Must have lost radio contact to C&C.
The Music Factory? I guess this really is one of those Things That Make You Go Hmmm…
The worst part is having to send a technician all the way to Washington to reset the system. Do they still have anyone posted on the detail who is closer than Moscow or Beijing?
(quick edit - I’m making light because it’s political, but I legitimately sucked in a breath when I saw it happen, as both my father and FIL are in their 80s and I’m not ready to lose either of them yet.)
Somehow I really don’t fucking care. He’s just another psychopath in a suit. If karma bites him, so be it.
Retire right now!
Because old people made the rules. It’s a lot easier to take from people who are excluded from voting than it is to get the guys who made the rules to give up their power.
