D.C. is the American Politburo....there all corrupt...and if not the deep state takes care of them
Not if the right ones croak-you know. GOP governors.
FTA: “We’re starting to look like the old Soviet Politburo.”
We are indeed.
Another plot to stop Trump?
Right. Where was this narrative in 2020 when the obviously senile Joe Biden was stealing the election?
But right. Let’s start talking about it now, just in time to stop the sharp-as-a-tack Trump from running in 2024.
DiFi looks like she won’t last until year-end.
The old Soviet Politburo were mostly in their early 70s. We have many who are well beyond that.
It’s not the age so much it’s that so many of them are old school Stalinists.
At least 15 US Senators are over 80. About half are over 70.
I remember when we were laughing at the decrepit Soviet leaders back in the 80s. Andropov was 70! Now he would be the youngest of the leaders in DC.
Another sign of our corruption. People do not leave because like Biden, Hillary, Romney, Mitchell, etc, it is the source of their bribery and graft. Also they have to hold power lest someone else come after THEIR wealth.
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.
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.
Supposedly in 1776 the vast majority of those who signed the Declaration of Independence were well in their prime of life.
Deep State delenda est.
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.
“Geriatric”
Incompetence and evil comes in all sorts of forms. I don’t think years since birth should be an automatic disqualifier.
The whole centralized government of this country ‘needs to go’.