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Biden died long time ago. What you witnessed in the past 4 years was just muscle twitching.

HeadSet says

Trump is term limited. Term limits are not about age,

Besides term limits they also want age limits.

Tenpoundbass says

HeadSet says

Trump is term limited. Term limits are not about age,

Besides term limits they also want age limits.

Sounds good to me.

GNL says

Tenpoundbass says

HeadSet says

Trump is term limited. Term limits are not about age,

Besides term limits they also want age limits.

Sounds good to me.

I'm not going full blown senile remotely, but I've lost a step already at 41. There's a reason your 401k age for withdrawal penalty free is 59-1/2. You shouldn't be working a meaningful job.

If you have or had kids it's a lot. I don't mind it because I don't have to work 40-60 hours a week. If I had to I'd be miserable. You can learn a lot over time no doubt, but you don't learn new things that the 20-40 crowd is doing once you hit 60. Trump is extremely unique as I've said with a wide range of young and male and female kids. Baron literally is probably giving him tips.

Whether Biden is senile or whatever, he couldn't raise Hunter well. Your kids are a reflection of yourself. I believe Bo (not the right spelling) and his choice of wife before he died is another example. Then his other son fucks her. That's on dad in my world. Jill loved the Washington scene and was MIA as a mother as well.

He fucked up his family and we expect him to run the country at 80? I want Trump, but I still think the cap should be 76 at inauguration. It about power 99% of the time if you're that old. Not about country. Trump was the anomaly and we still have to see how that works out and if he gets anything done. He is aging.

WookieMan says

There's a reason your 401k age for withdrawal penalty free is 59-1/2. You shouldn't be working a meaningful job.

No the purpose for that was to allow the young sharp minds graduating from our fabulous learning institutions a shot at a job.
But now the young minds aren't sharp, and the education camps are churning out bigger idiots, and if they do get a job, they will fuck up the order, then cry that it's your fault.

There's really two issues at play here.

1) The Youth are being dumbed down, they have shrugged pragmatic thinking and problem solving. Therefore there's a quality issue of young candidates.

2) Election integrity, those older people that are the best thing going for their district are getting elected because no suitable challengers are available.
Then there's old buzzards, who have surrounded themselves, with highly skilled Election thieves, who's only on the payroll because they deliver a win in every election for 30+ years, by any means necessary. It matters not that the official is in a serious mental and physical decline, at this point. Their staff, are in full control and see the political corpse as their meal ticket. They are more to blame than the old bastard hanging in their way past his/her prime. Their tools of the trade are electronic voting, and no questions post election procedures, is the issue.

I don't see how any of these problems will fix themselves with term limits. You'll get rid of Chuck, Nancy and McConnel. But those entrenched staffers, will just pick a young spry candidate to rig and fix the election in their district to put them over.

If media did its job, candidates would have vigorous debates and interviews. Instead of applying a stop-gap measure (age), fix the root of the problem (hiding from the voters).

In 2048 the age to run for political office was capped at 67, and the minimum age to run for President was lowered to 27.
Raphael Martinez a 27 year old anchor baby, born to Guatemalan parents, in 2021 was the first anchor baby and 27 year old to be electronically selected for President. Raphael Martinez inauguration event was an intersection take over, with 1000 drifter cars on the Mall of America. Reports of 17 deaths from cars drifting into the crowd, and 5 from gunfire from an altercation over someone kicking a car, when it plowed into spectators.

Tenpoundbass says

Chuck Grassley would be exhibit number fucking one, I would hold up to defend experienced candidates.

Grassley is very smart unlike Biden.

Just go to the Senate hearings for Clarence Thomas nomination to the US Supreme Court about 35 years ago, and Biden sounded like a mumbling moron back then.

That's what I was tying to say in this thread. He's always been a moron that is a successful grifter and race hustler. These old farts just didn't learn how to rig the system a few years ago. They've been ill-suited for their positions since day one. They manage to stay there with crooked rigged blue city elections. That has been going on for 40 years or more. Just in 2020 they took it national.

Which I think they realize it will make it harder for them to bullshit their constituents going forward. People know what to look for and a more educated about how they steal the elections now. They got away with it for so long, the same way they pulled off 2020. Because until 2020, 80% of all voters thought the elections were secure and honest. Even many republican voters believed Biden won fair and square for the first two years of Biden's presidency. Until the facts kept coming out.

Tenpoundbass says

In 2048 the age to run for political office was capped at 67, and the minimum age to run for President was lowered to 27.
Raphael Martinez a 27 year old anchor baby, born to Guatemalan parents, in 2021 was the first anchor baby and 27 year old to be electronically selected for President. Raphael Martinez inauguration event was an intersection take over, with 1000 drifter cars on the Mall of America. Reports of 17 deaths from cars drifting into the crowd, and 5 from gunfire from an altercation over someone kicking a car, when it plowed into spectators.

2048?

SunnyvaleCA says

If media did its job, candidates would have vigorous debates and interviews. Instead of applying a stop-gap measure (age), fix the root of the problem (hiding from the voters).

I think we should all know by now that there are no solutions for any ingrained problems. We only get to choose from those they put in front of us.

Re age and cognitive abilities.

It’s individual based and only that. It’s possible to maintain incredible cognitive ability into old age in our modern society but one has to remain engaged. If you give up on life, if you stop learning, that’s when you start to lose cognitive ability. I’m 52 and have no problem concentrating, I learn fast as I ever have, and constantly seek out mental challenges.

One arena where the young have taken over is poker. Actually things went crazy in the early 2000’s after release of Rounders and then to the moon after Chris Moneymaker, a youthful amateur player, won the World Series of poker. When I started playing at poker rooms in LA in the mid 90’s, there were few people under age 30 and in Las Vegas at The Horseshoe and the Mirage, I was always the youngest person in the room, and by a lot. The World Series of Poker was almost all guys 40 plus years old with the occasional kid(Stu Unger in the early 80’s, Phil Helmuth in the late 80’s). Now…every final table is filled with guys under 30. They have passed up the “experienced” crowd, and by an awful lot. With the exception of the guys capable of still learning.

Doyle Brunson was a shining example. Won back to back World Series championships in the 1970’s, wrote the book considered the poker “Bible”, played in the highest stakes poker games in the world. In his 70’s he continued to play and win in the highest stakes poker game in the world and won multiple large poker tournaments against field of very young people, including a $1.1 million dollar win on a televised World Poker Tour multi day event. He remained sharp and respected as a poker player until he retired when he was 84.

I could cite many more, some of whom were failed by their physical ability but not their mind. I’m a huge Dodger fan. Vin Scully was fantastic in the broadcasting booth and once he retired very deep into his 80’s, he was bright enough to know he was going to kick the bucket soon and sold off his memorabilia to pass the money down to his family(if I was a family member I would have personally wanted the memorabilia). Sandy Koufax is now late 80’s and still brilliant and regularly attends opening day and other big games, despite residing in Florida.

I’m not saying I want old people to hang on forever. But idiots are usually already idiots before they get old(oh hai Mazie Hirono!). And most definitely I want no one but Donald Trump as President. The man is amazing at any age, but especially at this age.

i absolutely want age limit going forward. too many hospus patients out there and lifers. we need some fucking term limits too.

every congregation becomes corrupt, forcing change fixes it.

Tenpoundbass says

They got away with it for so long, the same way they pulled off 2020

All good points, and the Republican lawyers were ready for them in November 2024.

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