When asked about imposing age limits in congress, Mitch McConnell was quoted as saying: “………….” 😶
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1361920/senators-age-share-us/
A third of the Senate is over 70, and another third are between 60 and 69....
Roughly 2/3s of the Senate is past the normal retirement age
Technically retirement age is 65 (might have moved to 67). But don't worry, Republicans have proposed moving the retirement agree to 75. That'd really cut down on the senators past retirement age and they don't even have to retire!
It's got raised to 67 for OASDI already
But only if you were born after 1960, most of the boomers still get OASDI earlier.
I mean, if they can somehow move retirement to 75, they’ll absolutely use that as a justification to kill social security.
Coming soon to
theatersthe Senate:Weekend at Mitch's
I hear Dianne Feinstein plays the love interest 🍿
Back in my day, there were no people over 80. They were all dead!
hmmmm
Or were about to be whenever you discovered them
If we do an age limit it should be scientifically defined, something like the statistical average age at which mental decline due to old age has set in. Wording it like that will allow the exact age to be flexible with the times if say longevity increases or a generation is born into such harsh environmental conditions that it lowers the average cognitive ability at a younger age than expected.
Then we would work until we were demented. Great.
Mental decline due to old age presently begins to set in noticeably in the mid to late 60s.
Plus, it's better than the present system where authority and paying jobs are held onto for dear life by zombified boomers out of what can only be assumed as sheer spite for the up and coming.
this is a good point. wtf do those staffers think they're doing -- helping her? carrying out the sacred traditions?
Staffers work for the person, not the office.
If your boss retires, you're out of a job. Pretty sure Feinsteins top staffer is Pelosi's niece (maybe daughter?) And I doubt she'd have trouble finding a job, but most have a financial incentive to keep their boss in office for as long as possible.
Republicans have already made it clear that they won't agree to seat Feinstein's replacement on the judiciary committee. She can resign and be replaced by another Democrat in the Senate at large, but we will get absolutely zero new federal judges.
Don't worry, if she can't remember, someone else will tell her how to vote. It's representational representational democracy.
Too be fair, she could have been all there mentally and died from something else. My Great-grandma was very sharp, and very aware when she passed at 82.
She could have been, but she wasnt. Her cognitive decline was well known and documented.
What fucking timing, rip in piss
I swear I had no idea!
You can't vote for the first 18 years, why not do the same based on the average life expectancy? That would even add a incentive for older politicians to improve medical care for all!
This hurt.
Nancy?
I like to pretend it's McConnell in drag. More fappable.
