• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Something like 120 in congress are over 70 years old, so over 20%.

    bOtH pArTiEs are unwilling to fix this, that 20% are of course much more powerful than newer members. Maxine Waters, Mitch McConnell, and others are over 80; McConnell is visibly, horribly, embarrassingly impaired, and still in office. Maxine is 87 and is the modern incarnation of Smaug, sitting upon her immense treasure hoard.

    Yet another humiliation for Americans… and they have the best healthcare insurance on Earth, while the lifespan of their own constituents falls.

    Go ahead and vote, but I don’t think we can vote our way out of this and that change must be forced upon them by others.

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      4 months ago

      John Roberts was 67 when his geriatric lapse rendered the 2024 election illegitimate and fraudulent.

      79% of Americans want age caps.

      Pilots are retired at 65 years old.

      The unfolding geriatric catastrophe of the White House is enabled by Democratic Party failure to press the issue of age. Geriatrics with a stranglehold on party politics damned us to continued geriatric incompetence.

      It follows that the only path to restoring the constitutional order is the immediate removal of all geriatric politicians at every level. Federal, State, Judiciary, Legislative, Executive. 100% gone.

      It’s not difficult: “respect for elders” shouldn’t be a suicide pact.