How soon until we get term limits for these ancient fucks?
Term Limits are a ‘Monkey’s Paw’ wish waiting to happen; it will just shift the power from the elected representatives to unelected staffers, advisors and lobbyists.
The correct solution is to have a forced retirement age for politicians - if you’re old enough to receive a pension, you’re too old to hold elected office.
I don’t even want to imagine what kind of wild takes would an 80yo republican possess
Yeah, I bet it’s like Nancy Pelosi, her net worth is the equivalent of her working as speaker of the house for like 2,000 years or something. Glad that’s not a red flag at all? I guarantee if you bought a car for 30k the IRS would be up your butt where you got the money.
Condolences, but 80 is too fucking old.
In the last two years 8 Congressmen have died in office. 7 of them were Democrats, and only two were younger than 70, and none younger than 65.
Can you imagine loving your power so much you choose to die in power than enjoy a guaranteed retirement?
Ok?
It’s a clear indication of the massive disconnect from the reps and the constituents. I don’t feel like that was a hard road to walk down to figure that out honestly.
There’s an oddly well written scientific paper on Death in Congress. Made me laugh out loud.
Whenever an elected official has a heart attack, stroke, or cancer they should have to publicly disclose it.
Don’t worry, they’ll find some 79 year old to take his place.
They need to fix those age requirements. Even God wanted that guy to retire but he was hanging on.
Ya. He should have retired 20 years ago!
Maximum age for first term should be 59 and no more than 8 years. That puts them at 67 and they should retire.
I don’t know. As I get older I am getting opinions. A lot of them. On everything! What sauce is best with cheeseburgers. How short should my neighbours’ lawn be. Should banks be open on sundays.
By 80, if I’m still kicking, I’ll be ready to discuss any boring topic for hours before a vote. Anything.
Jesus Christ. Get the old fucks out of Congress.
I know some really spry 80 year olds but I wouldn’t trust any of them with such responsibility. They’re out of touch, forgetful, etc. Great partners for golf, gaming, and other forms of entertainment but I don’t want them in charge of anything.
My grandpa is politically shrewd and still as smart as he ever was in his 90s. He’s very atypical for that and spends most of his time sleeping and managing the general pain and discomfort of being that old. At such advanced age one really should be retiring.
all federal employees should have mandatory retirement at 70. Including congress, judges, and president.
70?? No one over the age of 63.
I believe it was Japan, but I was having a casual conversation with someone from SEA area and he told me publicly traded companies had a mandatory retirement age of like 68 for executives. I thought that was interesting.
I’d go to 75, maybe 78, but no more than 80. That’s definitely time to go.
75 is the mandatory retirement age for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Mean age in the US is 39. Lets round it to 40, make it 1.5 times that and cap it at 60.
This is the best way to do it. If I the future people are living well into their 150s and the average age increases, so too does the maximum age in office.
Only if cognitive capabilities follow the same trajectory…
Age limits and Term limits please. You’re not going to be doing any high level job well enough like this where people’s futures are at stake at 80.
Something like 120 in congress are over 70 years old, so over 20%.
bOtH pArTiEs are unwilling to fix this, that 20% are of course much more powerful than newer members. Maxine Waters, Mitch McConnell, and others are over 80; McConnell is visibly, horribly, embarrassingly impaired, and still in office. Maxine is 87 and is the modern incarnation of Smaug, sitting upon her immense treasure hoard.
Yet another humiliation for Americans… and they have the best healthcare insurance on Earth, while the lifespan of their own constituents falls.
Go ahead and vote, but I don’t think we can vote our way out of this and that change must be forced upon them by others.
John Roberts was 67 when his geriatric lapse rendered the 2024 election illegitimate and fraudulent.
79% of Americans want age caps.
Pilots are retired at 65 years old.
The unfolding geriatric catastrophe of the White House is enabled by Democratic Party failure to press the issue of age. Geriatrics with a stranglehold on party politics damned us to continued geriatric incompetence.
It follows that the only path to restoring the constitutional order is the immediate removal of all geriatric politicians at every level. Federal, State, Judiciary, Legislative, Executive. 100% gone.
It’s not difficult: “respect for elders” shouldn’t be a suicide pact.
The Democratic Party, which is a private institution not beholden to the electorate, has a seniority system for high ranking positions. The Republican Party doesn’t. I’m no fan of Republicans, but this should be understood by anyone trying to understand the situation.
If they represent public affairs, they should be beholden to the electorate. Fuck this hiding behind private institution bullshit.
Once it’s understood that geriatric politicians are a disease, the only thing that matters is removing geriatric politicians, regardless of party.
You’ll find that a lot of people here don’t care how old Sanders is (older than McConnell). It’s his turn.
I’m on record saying Sanders should retire.
He fought the good fight. The best thing he can do is to endorse someone young to take his place.
We need more young people to get into politics.
Mine’s 82 and been in some sort of office since 1974, senator since ‘09. And he’s running again. I’m kinda surprised the MAGAts haven’t primaried him. He’s not anti-Trump, but also not really invested in the vision, more of a classic “good old boy” Republican.
