i've read this 5 times and have no idea what you're saying.
diane feinstein is no longer in power. she died over 2 years ago. do try to keep up
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i've read this 5 times and have no idea what you're saying.
diane feinstein is no longer in power. she died over 2 years ago. do try to keep up
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LucidSDreamr
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the very same people?
i mean... i WISH the green party would embrace nuclear, how can they call themselves green if they don't? not that they'd win either way, js
??? that's some fringe shit man, open antisemitic shit from the left? you say it as though it's common or something.
at some point? where have you been the last (looks at watch) 3,000 years?
but since reagan (and largely thanks to his neoliberal efforts) the elites have been RAPIDLY AND CONSISTENTLY tightening their grip. we live in an oligarchy.
To be totally fair the other choice was a lady that is bribed into being a centi millionaire by billionaires and would likely end up a billionaire herself eventually so it wasn’t like we had any choice to begin with.
“Political power comes from the barrel of a gun” -Mao
Not voting for preselected corrupt and bought politicians
LucidSDreamr
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I’m quite surprised that didn’t keep them from dragging her decaying corpse around Congress until it started to smell worse than the stench of all the full diapers in there
LucidSDreamr
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I have no idea how these two keep winning. I live in the coastal liberal CA and everyone hates their fucking guts. And I’m not in some blue collar echo chamber either. Meet ppl from all walks of life and everyone hates them. Especially Nancy. I’m inclined to beleieve democrats totally rig their elections; because we already know they do that during presidential primaries
being old is only an issue if you're a democrat?
alasdair
alasdair
more seriously, maybe there should be an upper age limit for representatives? 70?
but if constituents want to elect a 90 year old, should they be prevented from doing so?
i read today that the average age of the house is dropping and the senate is rising.
alasdair
but if constituents want to elect a 90 year old, should they be prevented from doing so?
i read today that the average age of the house is dropping and the senate is rising.
alasdair
LucidSDreamr
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Democrats are the only people that do not seem to be angry about their party doing it. They seem to have way worse cases of it or having it happen more often.being old is only an issue if you're a democrat?
alasdair
This is just my anecdotal perception but it also seems like democrats are way more egregious about parading around demented corpses and pretending they are lucid.
Correct me if I’m wrong.
I hate republicans more than democrats so I’m not picking on democrats, I just see democrats as more accepting to have a completely demented 90 year old in office.
For gods sake man, can you beleieve they were gonna run Biden again? “We beat Medicare!”
That debate was too much even for democrats to keep the charade up. The fact that they knew how demented Biden was and were seriously forcing him on us again was an insult to their base.
Dianne Feinstein? That was the most egregious example I’ve ever witness of dragging a dead corpse around Congress. Can you point to any equally egregious Republican examples? Glitch mcConnell is the worst one I can think of. Amd not just age, but the dementia has to be there. For example Bernie is super old. It still sharp as a tack so I don’t count him as an offense.
There was something about her husband and every news site said it was bs. But there must be something going on.
California is overall or was the most beautiful state and considering the diversity of death valley and deserts to beaches to skiing to the Muir Woods( which I had to walk over those little chain fences that were about a foot high too see those magnificent Redwoods.
I went there on day with 3 feet of visibility but they were magnificent. and seeing the Pacific and Then visiting Napa and Sonoma and the beauty of wine country. San francisco was not like today. It was nicer, and yeah The 4 Star Hotel Nikko was not far from well, I am from the Detroit area so it wasn't that bad, but on the edge of some of the run down areas. The Tenderloin? Across from a Hilton about one to two miles from Chinatown. Forgot to see that winding Street.
It is sad to see such a great state, the most beautiful overall. I never got to see the dessert or LA or Big Sur. But those winding highways and I even went horseback riding on a stretch of Beach.
I picked the slowest stupidest horse, but still the scenery was beautiful.
The climate, except for picking the day with so much fog; it was like a movie spoofing all the fog in London, like I said I literally had to go over that chain link fence to really see and just touch those magnificent redwoods.
I just wish Northern California was like it was in 20 some years ago. And the rest of California.
they were going to run biden but then he stepped down. he would have been 82 years old.
the president elect will be 78 when he's sworn in.
i don't think age is a left/right, democrat/republican issue.
donald trump. a lot was made of biden's acuity and, thence, his fitness for office while republicans just glossed over trump's clear decline.
charles grassley is 90 and acts like every year of it.
harold rogers, 85.
mitch mcconnell is 'only' 81 and is clearly struggling.
alasdair
the president elect will be 78 when he's sworn in.
i don't think age is a left/right, democrat/republican issue.
donald trump. a lot was made of biden's acuity and, thence, his fitness for office while republicans just glossed over trump's clear decline.
charles grassley is 90 and acts like every year of it.
harold rogers, 85.
mitch mcconnell is 'only' 81 and is clearly struggling.
alasdair
LucidSDreamr
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I know of Mitch for sure but I’ll check out the others you mentioned.
Donald Trump is clearly incredibly stupid and sociopathic. He doesn’t know the things he’s supposed to, he doesn’t read; he’s just winging it. I don’t think his age has anything to do with that; he would be the same 20 years younger.
Also you’re conflating his ignorance with impaired cognitive function I think. He doesn’t not understand what he was just asked or forget what he is talking about in the middle of a sentence like Biden does. Sure what he says is totally stupid, a lie and absurd; but I think it’s different than what was going on with Biden which was clearly cognitive impairment. Trump is just stupid and barley literate with some sort of learning g disability and he’s always been that way; it’s not cognitive decline due to age imo.
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i disagree. i think he's ignorant and is also suffering from decline in cognitive function.
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Don't mistake political disagreement for stupidity, he says what he thinks many of his supporters want to hear, and fuck everyone else. I am the same in that regard but I tell the truth or what I really
think and believe, he is narcissistic.
He is manipulative and has the mind of a ruthless business man, just like all those liberals on Wallstreet, who are just greedy and narcissistiç. He helped Jesse Jackson on two campaigns.
He, is who many voted for because the vice president is a well a lying condescending dimwit who sucked her way to get into a position to fuck over Americans who are not rich. Maybe the price of food means shit too you, but not too most of the country.
When biden was elected; wars but first huge jumps in prices, and catering to special interest groups. He cares more about transsexuals than average American families. The Taliban is now legitimate, sort of, and Then Ukraine, Trump, if pushed comes to shove would wipe out North Korea or Iran. Putin doesn't hate him like Obama or Biden.
The Chinese even stopped shipping fentanyl over here directly.
They now allow the precursor drugs to flow to Mexico. The Siniloa cartel stopped Fentanyl production and shipping, because it was messing up other businesses because of too many customers dying.
I am straight, ruined my chances of marriage and a family, live alone and eat little. Fucked up my pancreas also, not just my liver. However the prices of food and everything just about, jumped 25% to well over 100% and the debt has been deliberately gone sky high to crash the American economy because of the globalists see America as an impediment to a one world government.
The war in Ukraine was deliberately caused by NATO to weaken and ruin Putin. Fuck Ukraine was what the filthiest richest people like Bill Gates net Worth 150-200 billion. Warren buffet, Gates buddy 150-200 billion. George Soros pumps a fortune into his open society and plans for a ONE WORLD TOTALITARIAN ELITIST REGIME.
They are trying to destroy the threats, but 200,000,000 potential Chinese troops and they are Building technology and nukes better than America and what maybe 300 each for both France and England; in terms of nukes. Most are weak; what take out a few square miles? So what.
The Russians and Chinese have ballistic missle that will hit mach 10.( depending on elevation determines what mach speed is so just under 740mph plus or minus depending on elevation so add a zero, we can't match that and possibly those hypersonic missles China and Russia has especially for China could be stealth and rumors of a 4 megaton war head. The Largest America has is a 2megaton gravity bomb.( dropped from a bomber jet) most are 100-200 kilotons because they are sub or MRV's on ICBM's. Those precision nukes are weak compared to what the Russians have nukewise.
They spend their money on nukes as evidenced by their much weaker than expected convential weapons. Also they have a lot more and Iran and North Korea especially could care less about international laws and arms control.
But what is scary is so is China and Russia are no different. NATO is comparably weak once the Chinese military builds up it's supply.
Those countries don't give a shit about their own deathtolls. But what happens when the very evil, very patient Putin decided to nuke the NATO countries and if I know about the various faults and the supervolcano underneath underneath Yellowstone, than they do too. It could wipe out a third of America through various means and more possibly.
Also San Andreas Fault and many other could be triggered. Not to mention a huge danger off the coast of B.C. and Seattle in the Pacific ocean where two plates are stuck and could be triggered to wipe out A good part of The Pacific North west. Nukes can cause seismic damage and bye bye a third or so of pacific Northwest, throw in various faults triggered and that super volcano that would make the eruption in 1816 of Mount Tambora, that caused a year with no summer and killed countless people from starvation; look weak.
They could set off worse, a lot worse.
Desperate times by an old dictator aka Putin. What does he care he would sooner kill hundreds of millions than lose or really be in jeopardy of death from within his own circle of evil.
China doesn't value human life, not even their own they could loose a billion people and still over 400,000,000+ people.
The Iranians believe God is on their side.
North Korea, the ruling family aka Kim Jung Un, only cares about himself.
NATO, and America better arm itself better as a deturant against it's enemies. Thanks to every American President, this century a huge part of the world hates us, even more
jasperkent
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70 is the new 60.
Seriously, 70 might be a little low.
For Senate, House, and President, I think 75 would be a reasonable upper age limit for running and/or beginning one's term.
There's a lower age limit for prez (35), so why not an upper limit? I'll bet most Americans would agree with that.
LucidSDreamr
Bluelighter
I’m not. You don’t see me calling JD Vance stupid for example.
It’s well established from his former cabinet that he doesn’t read; he never read any of his intelligence briefings. They had to have someone read them and summarize what they deemed to be important to Trump and tell him.
He can read off of a teleprompter but this is different from having to read hundreds of pages of information and digest it.
It’s totally apparent from his podcast tour this election cycle that he doesn’t know anything at all. He’s not informed; his answers are all empty and devoid of any substance or actual “answer” to the questions.
It’s very obvious to anyone that has ever become an expert at anything that involves research and reading that Trump knows nothing at all about anything. He didn’t even know that fentanyl was a opioid recently yet one of his top 3 talking points is Mexicans carrying drugs over the border.
He educational background is limited and lower than that of most US presidents and senators (ie no graduste level degree). He bribed and cheated his way to a bachelors degree and one of his former professors called him one of the stupidest students he’s ever had. Even with all that money and bribes/donations he could not get into a top school like Harvard or Stanford. He must have been pretty stupid to have been that rich and not been able to get into an elite school like most nepo babies of average intelligence are able to.
It has nothing to do with disagreeing with policy because there isn’t much to disagree with ; his answers are so empty and devoid of substance. Anyone with a reasonable level of “book smarts” can see he is inept this regard.
He does have a decently high level of “street smarts” and debate / argument ability (social intelligence) so I think this carries him and makes him seem of reasonable intelligence. To be fair it is a type of intelligence, but not the type we’re talking about here.
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that wouldn't be fair to those who are old, but still mentally and physically fit.
what the world needs is responsible humans who are honest enough to know when it's time for them or someone who they work for to step down. and people in key positions, not only politics, should be evaluated. at any age.
because you can get mentally unfit at any age, for different reasons.
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You make some good points, but I still think an upper limit of 75 would be reasonable. For one thing, the risk of a sudden decline increases in that age range.
Like I said, a President must be 35. That's not fair to younger people who are intelligent, educated, and unusually mature/wise for their age. I know of such people.
But maturity, wisdom, and mental decline are all quite subjective. Setting lower (& upper) limits would preclude the inevitable arguments over the person's capabilities.
Sadly, Americans will always elect some people who are stupid and/or ignorant...also dishonest, delusional, etc... Not much we can do about that except try to educate the public (good luck!). Age limits at least provide some kind of guardrails.
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this doesn't go only for americans!
Ah, they always seems to work there way up and there aren't any first term senators even close to 75. These people are career politicians and just like that senile 90 year old Diane finestine was in a wheel chair and completely demented and the media hid it at the time. Term limits age isn't a factor, I have seen people in their 80's who were sharp hell, The Queen Mom of England was 103 and not senile, she was proud she kept her marbles and people in their early 50's with early onset dementia. As Aliyah wrote age ain't nothing but a number. Then again she(15) illegally married R Kelly, pervert.70 is the new 60.
Seriously, 70 might be a little low.
For Senate, House, and President, I think 75 would be a reasonable upper age limit for running and/or beginning one's term.
There's a lower age limit for prez (35), so why not an upper limit? I'll bet most Americans would agree with that.
Rot in prison, that scumbag.
No, nothing worse than an arrogant young guy given the keys to the CURRENT most powerful military. I want someone around 50's or 60's
No kids, Look at all the potential troubles Kennedy's dick could have brought him and I don't mean syphilis or gonorrhea.
Communist sympathetic spies, blackmail, J Edgar Hoover having dirt.
No kids, someone( a man) with a good looking wife who is younger and got all his wild oats sown and doesn't drink or drink much and no addicts. Also some belief in God. Someone who has a conscious and will not be a loud mouth, yeah but better than what's her name Harris. Sad we vote for who we hate least.
You said you would go for global government and that is totally against the constitution and I don't want foreigners in charge of my country.
I take our own homegrown dip shits.
It is the way a ceo operates and wants briefs and delegates power. He goes by his own 'instincts' and in he is too busy with other stuff, like popping some viagra and spending quality minutes with the hottest first lady ever.
Besides he does what he wants and that is why so many Republicans hated him.
He is own team, call it arrogance but he has one thing going for him, a good relationship with the Saudi crown prince, who is essentially an absolute ruler and had business deals with the leader of U.A.E., that guy who like Trump builds expensive skyscrapers, only Trumps are not as tall or the the sheer quantity. And that Island, built up from the sea. Also he meet Kim Jung Phatass, probably against what people told him.
It is more hubris and not much regard for bureaucrats or the CIA( hard to blame him)I doubt he trusts them very much. People are going to talk shit about Trump because he cares little about others opinions.
He went against alot of things and does not trust people.( It is Washington and people always have their own ideas). He can't be told what to do and even recognized Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel and still maintained good relations with the important Arab countries.
Biden pissed off Israel over a gas pipeline deal that brought Russia money and exposed Israeli intelligence secrets, and tried to make up for it with money for the Gaza war.
He also pissed off the Saudi's on not selling them fighter jets, that normally wouldn't have been a problem but he got bad advice and managed to piss off our only ally ,Israel in that region and pissed off the Saudi's by not selling them arms as we have done for countless decades.
This during a time when they were fighting a proxy war in Yemen with the Iranian backed Houthi's.