Posted on 04/15/2022 8:28:06 AM PDT by Hojczyk
After Biden finished his speech, he turned around and tried to shake hands with thin air and then wandered around looking confused
Joe Biden had been, for decades, a corrupt and incompetent pol. Today, he is either an extreme left-winger or an empty vessel through which the extreme left is exerting control over America
But Biden isn’t the only one. Nancy Pelosi is gaga, a fact that she can’t hide with multiple plastic surgeries.
A member of the U.S. Senate recently said–privately–that one-third of senators belong in nursing homes. In the New York Post, Maureen Callahan argues for age limits on federal office holders:
Dianne Feinstein is notoriously incapable of carrying out the duties of her office:
Callahan concludes with poll data that I have not seen before:
A YouGov poll from January shows that 58% of Americans want an age limit for elected officials — forcible retirement at age 70. If something like that passed now, 71% of U.S. Senators would be out of a job.
We’re starting to look like the old Soviet Politburo.
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Politics is about who, not what.
I do want competent people in power who hate me and are working 24/7 to harm me.
What complete & utter clap trap. I’m sorry that is your experience but people are well able to run companies, plan parties etc regardless of age. A slowed down Trump can out perform any number of younger men. Wilbur Ross was certainly sharp as a tack in his 80’s. I’d rather trust his analysis that than of any other person in his field.
Your premise is dangerous as it eliminates individual freedom & opportunity, ignores individual differences & promotes tyranny.
The Fed government has been a disaster the entire 21st century, and the old farts just remain there until they die. Get rid of them.
Term limits for the House and Senate would take care of some of the gerontocracy problem. If a person cannot serve more than 18 years in the Senate and 10 years in the House, unless someone got elected at a late age, they should be out of Congress by their 70s. Someone who got elected at age 50 and managed to max out all terms in the House and Senate would be done by age 78 unless they skipped or lost one more more election cycles and got elected again later.
Perhaps you want to clarify?
I think you are saying that it matters who is in power and if they are working for the good of America & the American people. I agree with that wholeheartedly.
It is a separate issue from making sure that people have not become unable to act competently.
Similarly another is actively policing corruption & treason rather than using a pretense of policing corruption to hamper the lawmakers from the opposing party.
Agreed! And look at all the younger ones that are trouble—AOC and her squad, Adam Kinsinger, etc. And it seems like the generation after them may be even more radical!
“I think you are saying that it matters who is in power and if they are working for the good of America & the American people.”
Correct.
Corruption and evil exists in all age groups.
If we have evil politicians like we do now it is probably better that they are incompetent.
My concern is the way this is being handled by the press.
1. First, they ignore the issue.
2. Then, they ease into it by acknowledging the problem in a peripheral case - Feinstein.
3. They will unleash a PR campaign about dementia and senility before they will publicly utter concerns that the rest of us have had with Biden since before 2020.
4. This will be an effort to soften the landing, so to speak, of this issue as applied to Biden.
5. They foisted him upon us and I do not think they should be allowed to escape responsibility. Their coverage of the way he conducted his 2020 campaign ignored the obvious signs present then - the way they isolated him, the way he was “tele-prompted” through the campaign, etc.
6. They will attempt to use a sympathy campaign regarding dementia/Alzheimer’s and other age-related declines as a way of protecting the Democrats - and they cannot be allowed to get away with it. Republicans will be inclined, as always, to tread lightly on this - but they need to use both barrels. If we hadn’t installed an incompetent President - would Putin have dared to invade Ukraine? These choices have consequences and the Democrats conspired to install an incompetent person with clear indicators of decline in the most critical, most stressful position in the world. They need to pay for that.
7. The January 6th Committee is setting precedent for Congressional investigations. Not a good precedent, but a precedent nonetheless. So, when control of the House shifts in January 2023, the Republican majority needs to reinstate the January 6th Investigation (I’m sure the Democrats will shut it down in the lame duck session) and use the same broad sweep of subpoenas to get Nancy Pelosi’s text messages for the 2 weeks before 1/6/2021 and 2 weeks after, as well as the phone records and text message content for her husband, her children and her children’s spouse’s and significant others. Likewise, Sen. Schumer, his staff, and their families should be subjected to the same treatment that Lara Trump and others in the President’s family were given.
Of course - Biden, his staff (in transition at the time) and his family should be similarly scrutinized.
8. After Biden resigns, he should be impeached. Watch how fast Lawrence Tribe comes out of the woodwork to announce that it is unconstitutional to impeach a former President, when he had no problem seeing it done to DJT.
Agree!
Though my preference is two consecutive terms in the Senate then sit out one full term before once can return. The House 5 or 6 terms then have to sit out 2 House terms before one can return.
There is always an attraction to the quick and easy non-solution. Anarchist operate on that principle. It doesn’t accomplish anything but the intrigue & the bombs are fun.
If you want to get rid of incompetents expose them and encourage competent replacements to run. You ignore that it is graft & complacency as well as the incompetent & compliant press that keeps the corrupt government in power. There are crooks & scoundrels of all ages. Veritas and Truth the Vote are working on that. Why not help them instead of pie in the sky puffery.
True. I have often taken solace along those line.
Even her Chinese driver is old.
It’s neither. Kt’s the amount of power and control over our lives we have allowed the federal government to amass. Get back to the small central government/power resides in the hands of the states and the people government the founders envisioned, and this is not a problem. We have not become the Politburo we have become bureaucratic France.
Supposedly in 1776 the vast majority of those who signed the Declaration of Independence were well in their prime of life.
LOL, nice lecture. Thanks Dad!
I think free speech, competitive media and honest elections would sort it out - let the voters decide who is qualified.
We don’t need another commission of “experts” to set aptitude standards and limit our options of who we can vote for. Any such commission would just be targeted for corruption by the Left.
If there were fair debates, no media censorship, and honest elections - there is no way Joe Biden would ever have gotten anywhere close to the White House.
The corruption, the senility, the arrogance, the elitism…. it would have been right there for all to see.
But they hid it - they used their media monopoly to deceive the people - then when even that wasn’t enough - they outright stole the election just to make sure.
Deep State delenda est.
There is nothing so sad as a wasted mind.
I would add background checks, deep background checks and monthly or weekly drug testing. You fail and you are out!
There is a point, though. Feinstein, Pelosi, and Biden are truly mentally incompetent and shouldn't be trusted to drive much less "lead" an over-indulgent public. The problem is that their staffs like the power and would happily send their principals to a taxidermist rather than give it up. In time that becomes, or rather has become, one of Deep State's more noxious manifestations. And they're going to be difficult to tame.
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