Posted on 02/15/2023 1:24:48 PM PST by Baladas
Nikki Haley,
NIKKI HALEY Here’s who is running for president in 2024 Haley calls for US to move on from ‘faded names of the past’ Trump attacks Haley on Medicare, Social Security cuts MORE(NIKKI HALEY) the newly minted Republican presidential candidate, called on Wednesday for mandatory “mental competency tests” for politicians older than 75, an implied dig at President Biden and her onetime boss, former President Trump.
Speaking at a rally in Charleston, S.C., kicking off her 2024 White House bid, Haley ran through a litany of political promises, including enacting term limits for members of Congress and cracking down on illegal immigration.
But it was a vow to impose mandatory cognitive tests on older officeholders that underscored the central message of her campaign: that the United States needs a younger leader after previously electing two of the oldest men to ever occupy the White House.
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“There are plenty of people mentally competent that are over 75 and plenty under 75 that are not.’
Thank you. Litmus tests are a very slippery slope.
It would be interesting to see the over/under
on those age listings.
Mental competency tests for all elected offices.
>It's like a goat throwing a sheep to a tiger hoping to deflect the tiger only to discover that he is now facing a bigger badder better fed and better conditioned tiger looking for his next meal.
You win the Internet for today!
How about a citizenship check?
What a bunch of BS. They should get an annual physical which includes mental competency every year after 65. Just like every other medicare recipient, results reported immediately.
Haley needs to push for the states to require people wanting to run for state or federal public office to pass a basic constitutional law test before being allowed to run for office, the test emphasizing the federal government's constitutionally limited powers.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, passing such a test would help to get federal lawmakers who help to pass laws based on stolen state powers out of office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment for open rebellion against the fed's constitutionally limited powers.
"14th Amendment, Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof [emphases added]. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
It’s in the right direction, but I’d say 21 not 75.
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I would pay good money to watch it. Possibly tap my retirement 😂
Maybe there should also be a ban on ditzy MILFs.
How about make them retire at 65? You know, “Social Security” age.
How about mental competency tests for anyone UNDER 75, while you’re at it.
And a background investigation before they are allowed to run for office.
And a piss test to check for drugs, legal or otherwise. How about a list of all the “prescription” tranquilizers and mood elevators and all the other wacky stuff they are on.
Ditch the age requirement and we can get rid of a good portion of the DemocRAT congresscritters (both houses of ill-repute), and almost half of the (used to be) Supreme Court.
Here’s the test.
Stop spending trillions of dollars we don’t have.
Maybe they can't steal and lie enough to become multi-millionaires then.
I call for cultural competency test for candidates who are anchor babies. I want to know that they are semi literate in American culture and history.
it sounds as if haley picked 75 out of her @$$. ok, if one can play, then two can play. how about emotional stability testing for all women politicians over 35?
If you are taking the Montreal test…remember, it’s a dromedary not a camel. You will impress the mental health professionals.
Bet Trump would score higher on a competency test than Haley.
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