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Congresswoman missing for 6 months found living at nursing home with dementia

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I thought this was an onion article at first... and how have I not heard about a congress member missing for 6 months? That is honestly kinda scary. Where you at media??

Are we ready as a country to address the age issue in our government?


Texas Republican Congresswoman Kay Granger, aged 81, has been absent from her duties in Washington, D.C., for the past six months while residing in a nursing home costing $4,000 per month.

According to the Daily Mail, despite being the longest-serving Republican lawmaker, Granger has not voted or visited her Capitol Hill office since July. Her nearly 30-year legislative career was scheduled to end in January.


It wasn’t until a constituent reached out to the Dallas Express, suggesting that Granger was living in an assisted living facility, that the investigation took a new turn. According to the Daily Mail, reports stated that Granger had been placed in the facility after being found wandering and confused in her district.

Kay Granger announced her retirement in November 2023, stating that she will not fight for re-election in 2024. In the statement, she reminisced on her accomplishments, which included becoming the first female mayor of Fort Worth, the first Republican Congresswoman from Texas, and the first female Republican Appropriations Chair.

She thanked her family, staff, friends, and supporters for helping her reach these milestones. She ended with:

"Although I am not running for re-election, I plan to serve out the remainder of my term and work with our new Speaker and my colleagues to advance our conservative agenda and finish the job I was elected to do.”


Why are local officials concerned about Kay Granger's absence?​

Local officials are concerned about Congresswoman Kay Granger's absence because her district, which encompasses 2 million people, is left without representation in Congress during crucial votes.


With the margin in Congress being very slim, her absence is seen as disenfranchising her constituents. There is also concern that Granger continues to receive her taxpayer-funded salary while not fulfilling her duties. Tarrant County Republican Party Chair Bo French in a statement to The Dallas Express said:

"The lack of representation for CD-12 is troubling to say the least. At a time when extraordinarily important votes are happening, including debt ceiling, disaster relief, farm bills and border issues, Kay Granger is nowhere to be found.The margin in Congress is razor thin and the lack of a Republican vote representing CD-12 disenfranchises 2 million people. We deserve better."
Rolando Garcia, a congressman at the Republican Party of Texas also expressed his views by saying in an X post:

"The fact that Kay Granger is unable to leave her nursing home to participate in the most important congressional vote of the year suggests she was already in visible decline when she ran for re-election in 2022,"
Garcia continued to remark:


"Sad that nobody cared enough to “take away the keys” before she reached this moment and a sad commentary on the congressional gerontocracy."
Kay Granger has been the U.S. Congresswoman for the 12th district of Texas, which is located in north Texas and also includes parts of Tarrant County and most of Parker County.
 
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Fuck term limits. We need age limits. And, I'm an old fuck (Not an old fart yet, thank you. An old fuck)

Look at both Biden and Trump. Both were reasonably cogent and likely able to do what they had to do. Then, in the space of four years, both deteriorated dramatically to the point of being unfit.
 
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We are gonna re elect Nancy Pelosi the criminal at 84.

We are gonn re elect Mitch McConnell that freezes up and falls onto the floor on a regular basis

We just elected a 78 year old president that was recently filmed shitting his diaper in France at the reopening of note dame and other ppl seated next to him laughing at him and gagging at the stench as he sat in his own waste.

We were this close to running a full blown dementia patient that can’t even understand a conversation until it became undeniable after the debate that the Biden was fully ridden with dementia.

We dragged demented corpse Dianne Feinstein around Congress in a wheelchair singing papers as she was hallucinating. Without even knowing where she was or why she was there. This was literally days before her death

Katie porter that was going to propose legislation to have term limits was sabatoged by her own party in CA. She also had a lot of good pro working class anti corruption polices besides that.

On the other side their young elected officials comprise child rapists that still have total support (Gaetz) and people too stupid to pass a GED exam after 4 failed attempts that then go give hand jobs and pull her tits out to get felt up by a guy who isn’t her husband (who is a convicted child sex offender) in a public theatre at a kids show. - she was re elected

America is an absolute joke. Intelligence and education are now looked at as negative things and being uneducated is a virtue. Much of the country has decided that ignorance and lack of education is a good thing.

This country is going to fucking garbage and maybe it’s deserved because more than half of the people in this country seem to like the garbage.

Ppl say vote them out. How do you vote them out when the DNC and RNC both rig the elections so that there is no other option besides these corrupt dinosaurs.

The time for voting and democracy and being nice is passed. We are continually getting buried economically, losing freedoms, and being run by corporations that control these decrepit dinosaurs that are cognitively disabled.

It’s time for extreme forms of civil disobedience. I don’t know how it would be coordinated but the ppl of America need to decide to come together and say “enough is enough” in a way that cannot be ignored. Because our votes are ignored, our cries for help are ignored, we continue to be exploited as a slave class and have the American dream disintegrate before our eyes as corporate lobbyists control 90 year olds to run America.
 
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I thought this was an onion article at first... and how have I not heard about a congress member missing for 6 months? That is honestly kinda scary. Where you at media??

Are we ready as a country to address the age issue in our government?


Texas Republican Congresswoman Kay Granger, aged 81, has been absent from her duties in Washington, D.C., for the past six months while residing in a nursing home costing $4,000 per month.

According to the Daily Mail, despite being the longest-serving Republican lawmaker, Granger has not voted or visited her Capitol Hill office since July. Her nearly 30-year legislative career was scheduled to end in January.


It wasn’t until a constituent reached out to the Dallas Express, suggesting that Granger was living in an assisted living facility, that the investigation took a new turn. According to the Daily Mail, reports stated that Granger had been placed in the facility after being found wandering and confused in her district.

Kay Granger announced her retirement in November 2023, stating that she will not fight for re-election in 2024. In the statement, she reminisced on her accomplishments, which included becoming the first female mayor of Fort Worth, the first Republican Congresswoman from Texas, and the first female Republican Appropriations Chair.

She thanked her family, staff, friends, and supporters for helping her reach these milestones. She ended with:




Why are local officials concerned about Kay Granger's absence?​

Local officials are concerned about Congresswoman Kay Granger's absence because her district, which encompasses 2 million people, is left without representation in Congress during crucial votes.


With the margin in Congress being very slim, her absence is seen as disenfranchising her constituents. There is also concern that Granger continues to receive her taxpayer-funded salary while not fulfilling her duties. Tarrant County Republican Party Chair Bo French in a statement to The Dallas Express said:


Rolando Garcia, a congressman at the Republican Party of Texas also expressed his views by saying in an X post:


Garcia continued to remark:



Kay Granger has been the U.S. Congresswoman for the 12th district of Texas, which is located in north Texas and also includes parts of Tarrant County and most of Parker County.
Yes, her low 6 figure salary is a big part of this countries, financial woes.🤣🤣
 
Intelligence and education are now looked at as negative things and being uneducated is a virtue. Much of the country has decided that ignorance and lack of education is a good thing.
I've been watching this trend over the past two or three decades, and it's gotten even worse recently. Society seems to embrace willful ignorance. I don't get it.
 
I've been watching this trend over the past two or three decades, and it's gotten even worse recently. Society seems to embrace willful ignorance. I don't get it.
Dumbasses, don't ask intelligent questions. This is all part of the globalists plan. Laugh all you want, but look, no real anti war activists, people who use to protest nuclear power, now are embracing it, open Anti Semitic rhetoric from the left. Because the rich elites are going too at some point try a huge power grab aka World Government.
 
Because the rich elites are going too at some point try a huge power grab aka World Government.
The rich elites have all the power anyway. That's always been true; the only difference now is that the very wealthy are even more extremely wealthy.

That being the case, I'd be OK with World Government. At least war would end.

Obviously, that will never happen. Humans are far too fond of tribalism. The threat of total annihilation in WWIII will always be with us.
 
I've been watching this trend over the past two or three decades, and it's gotten even worse recently. Society seems to embrace willful ignorance. I don't get it.
I think it’s a coping mechanism.

People that were too stupid to meet basic thresholds of literacy and mathematic proficiency hate themselves and have low self esteem because of it.

They grew up in a society that told them that if they don’t do decent in school, they are worthless, their opinion doesn’t matter, they are less than those who are proficient at literacy and/or STEM.

They lived with deep seated shame and hatred of themselves. However, in the past 20 years the right wing has ramped up its war on the education; especially higher education. Institutions responsible for the biggest advancement humans have made (research universities and the scientists they produce) have been labeled an enemy. There is no nuance; an engineer discovering how to make hydrocarbon fuels from waste plastic is put into the same bucket as “lesbian trans dance theory impact on the southeastern Amazonian tribes” thesis writers. And all of academia is thus labeled “woke” and all of it and everyone involved with education is the enemy.

Furthermore higher education teaches critical thinking and this is responsible for the declining rates of Christianity in America. Parents send their child to college a Christian and they come out an atheist with a PhD in biochemistry. This is bad for them.

Conservatives have always had the freedom the build conservative universities. They exist, many of them. They are all a joke, have low rankings, and do not produce anything in the way of scientific or societal advancement. They failed to understand that it isn’t that “woke secular liberals have taken over the universities” rather than “places that pursue truth through knowledge happen to always land @ secular or ‘left wing’ views.” It’s that secular ideology results from knowledge. It isn’t that secular ideology has hijacked institutions of knowledge” like these ppl want to believe.

At its core is an inability to self reflect, a lack of humility. “I must be right there is no way I can be wrong” they beleieve when the entire scientific community has proven them wrong over and over. Instead of having the humility to admit that they confused; they defiantly double down and blame institutions of knowledge and truth for spreading misinformation rather than disclosing the results of scientific research that happens to not reinforce certain ppls agendas.

A home is created for these people that hate themselves and have been told and have felt stupid their entire lives. Rather than excercising “personal responsibility” they are now told that they are smarter than all of the scientists and academics because they see through some alleged grand conspiracy.

It is a coping mechanism for them so that they don’t feel lesser than anymore.

It may sound like this is an attack on the right and it mostly is because they are the ones that hate the education system the most. However you can apply this same scenario to people on the far ideological left side of the culture war; people that are trying to say that men can have babies (trans men can have babies; not regular men). So they bastardize reality and science because they either don’t understand it or don’t like its conclusion.

Eventually, it’s all so murky that a young mind viewing all of this doesn’t even know which way to go in pursuit of truth and knowledge. 20 years ago it wasn’t like this.

Half of our country or more believes that a 700 year old man built a cruise ship alone and collected animals from every corner of the globe onto said boat. And that after the flood the first rainbow ever happened. Yes, before that flood water molecules did not refract light into a rainbow. But after the flood the physical properties of water molecules changed such that water did refract light. The fact that such a large percentage of people believe in things like this while actively hating the scientists that have created life saving medicines and medical procedures that have saved these people’s lives is profoundly sad.
 
The rich elites have all the power anyway. That's always been true; the only difference now is that the very wealthy are even more extremely wealthy.

That being the case, I'd be OK with World Government. At least war would end.

Obviously, that will never happen. Humans are far too fond of tribalism. The threat of total annihilation in WWIII will always be with us.
Bullshit: The Chinese, Russians, North Koreans, And The Iranians. All have Nukes, and no way they will go for it and Neither would the people who respect the The American Constitution, things could get real interesting.

The Chinese have hyper Sonic Stealth missles( mach 10 speed) with possible 4 megaton nuclear warheads. (2× as powerful as the biggest we have which are 2 megaton gravity bombs in America's limited arsenal which many are small and fit on sub launched ballistic missles. The Russians have advanced hypersonic missles and of course nuclear warheads and North Koreans are becoming their allies. The Iranians hate the Arab Gulf Countries and The feeling is mutual. The Chinese and Russians could easily work out their differences. The Russians and Iranians have a close relationship and the North Koreans sell missle and nuclear technology to the Iranians and their you have it.

Also, the Chinese claim to be able to field an army of 200,000,000

The Russians have mach 10, ballistic missles with 6 independent conventional or nuclear payloads.

Also, The Russians and the other three have more fire power, in terms of Nukes.
No one controls them but their dictators.

There is saying and of course I will get it slightly wrong: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Don't forget: Saudi Arabia many decades ago gave Billions to the broke, Pakistani's for their nuclear weapons program because China and India hate each other. So the Chinese helped the Pakistani's get nukes. The Saudi's did not give the Pakistani's billions of dollars many decades ago out of the kindness of their hearts.
They do have a delivery system, it is called F-15 with upto 3 external fuel tanks. And atomic bombs, which I imagine the Pakistani's (also a friend and fellow Sunni Muslim country) owes them.

The Iranians and the Gulf Arab Countries hate each other. That is the main part of the Houthi proxy war. The Iranians support them. The Shiite controlled Iranians also, have power over the shiite majority in Iraq. A whole Lotta Oil.

I could go into great detail but I have movies to watch.

But this all is going to lead to a nuclear war at some point. You can't tell the Chinese what to do and the Russians have the largest number and biggest nukes. The Chinese are building their military, while the NATO countries keep pissing off the Russians and keep cutting their military budgets.

You can't do shit to The Iranians or The North Korean 's unless, you actually want Trump when he becomes President to blow both those countries off the face of The Earth. Didn't think so. So their nuclear capabilities grow and no one will stop them.

Also without America, NATO is weak, and both parties here have pissed off so many countries around the world.

World peace, haha, try WW3, this one will be nuclear and continue to escalate. Opps.

Kim Jung Un, President Putin, The current Ayatollah, Ali Khamneni, President Xi Jinping. Will all use their growing nuclear arsenals before they give up any power to the West.

There really is something hauntingly beautiful about Mushroom Clouds. Hopefully we will not see them.

However, America and NATO have
Operation: Ostrich, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
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I don't care what party or age, but how do people in Washington DC; not notice a member of Congress has been missing for half a year?

Didn't anybody on her staff; ask the question " has anybody seen a senile octagenarian Congresswoman that we seem to have misplaced"?
 
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The rich elites have all the power anyway. That's always been true; the only difference now is that the very wealthy are even more extremely wealthy.

That being the case, I'd be OK with World Government. At least war would end.

Obviously, that will never happen. Humans are far too fond of tribalism. The threat of total annihilation in WWIII will always be with us.

Why not call the problem by it's actual name? That name is capitalism. Those global elites are capitalists and they do indeed exist
 
Yeah and everyone but the dictator and his cronies was enslaved and everyone was poor and had no freedom.

Communism was a disaster forced on people just like nobility and serfdom/slavery.

Communism= slavery to the state and state run oppression and the totalitarian regime that no one but the dictator and his evil cronies had any freedom.

Communism = slavery, oppression, repression and starvation. That always ends up a dictatorship.
 
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Humans are far too fond of tribalism. The threat of total annihilation in WWIII will always be with us.
Bullshit: The Chinese, Russians, North Koreans, And The Iranians. All have Nukes, and no way they will go for it and Neither would the people who respect the The American Constitution, things could get real interesting....
....World peace, haha, try WW3, this one will be nuclear and continue to escalate. Opps....
🤔
 
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Yeah and everyone but the dictator and his cronies was enslaved and everyone was poor and had no freedom.

Communism was a disaster forced on people just like nobility and serfdom/slavery.

Communism= slavery to the state and state run oppression and the totalitarian regime that no one but the dictator and his evil cronies had any freedom.

Communism = slavery, oppression, repression and starvation. That always ends up a dictatorship.

No freedom? Sounds like a capitalist problem to me. We do indeed have the freedom to starve i guess
 
people who use to protest nuclear power, now are embracing it,
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

open Anti Semitic rhetoric from the left.
??? that's some fringe shit man, open antisemitic shit from the left? you say it as though it's common or something.

Because the rich elites are going too at some point try a huge power grab aka World Government.
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.


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That is is why Mao has the record, deaths attributed to him. Got Hitler and Stalin beat.
Starvation due to his policies, the Chinese starved and now that they have a capitalist authoritarian government they prosper.
The truth ain't always what you imagine it would be. No universal Healthcare in remaining communist countries, China, North Korea, Cuba has a shitty system. Not sure if it even functions really? These countries do have their show hospitals, but North Korea's is still a joke. Besides the Juchè ideology is nationalistic and proped up by two economies and the official one stays alive because of capitalism. Then again both the regular and hidden economies are guerilla capitalistic( illegal) in nature and in reality.
 
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There is no 🤔 with the men and countries I've listed. They are all nationalists at heart and there will be no peace only war, as NATO and the Western Whiteboys try to impose their globalist desires on proud, arrogant, nuclear powers, besides they see the writing on the wall.

Build nukes and prepare for global, hostilities just as I am prepared for domestic ones.
 
that doesn’t narrow it down very much unfortunately
I said congresswoman that narrows it, oh I forgot you are in California and 4 women, 2 retiring, who are older than 80. Not Pelosi but she is also over 80 and at 84 she still seems to want to hold onto power as long as she lives., but Yeah your right their are a few that are around, somewhere. lol California Senator Diane Feinstein was 90 when she died in office.

But seriously who didn't notice, I thought they had a staff, to change their diapers and tell them when it was nap time. But seriously how do you misplace your geezers who have a staff? This is a bi-partisan thing, except for the women. They tend to be all Democrats and cling to power.

The Congresswoman who was MIA for 6 monthes was the only female republican over 80.🤣🤣
She didn't seek reelection, she forgot?

I guess their staff, gave about as much a shit about them as I do, leaving a seat open?
 
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I guess having a senile old president till Trump who is just old, but not senile, really lowered the bar and somehow nobody even her, didn't notice she wasn't around. LMAO.

This is really taking the old clichè, out of touch with the voters to another, but more hilarious 😂 level. I wonder did she even know the last time she ran for reelection?🤣🤣

This is just one, well it is funny but sad and a good reason for term limits. What happened to the days when being in your 30's and is Congress was young and 70 was old.

Maxine Waters 86, California,
Nancy Pelosi, 84, California
Grace Napalitano, is 88 and oldest, California, no reelection, fortunately
Frederica Wilson, 82, Florida
Anna Eshoo 82, California not running again after term is over
Elanor Norton Holmes. 87 Washington DC

6 women older, fortunately 2 aren't running again, 4 from California over 80, 2 fortunately not running again.

6 women older than the MIA female geezer and she was the only Republican woman in her 80's currently serving, whether she knows she is a member of Congress is another matter. Considering her being MIA, she will not be seeking another term.

Still 4 who don't seem to want to leave.
All democrats.

There are over dozen total over 80 years old, who are in Congress in both houses and what are the chances of these career politicians voting themselves out of a great job.

They still can get legally rich by lawful insider trading. Knowing things that the rest of America doesn't and investing on that knowledge.
What would get regular American's put in prison is legal and quite profitable.

Also, they like to exempt themselves from Laws they pass, and Americans must follow.
 
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