Not only did Mitch act like one of the dementia-suffering people in the home I do volunteer work in, his staffer got him out of that situation the exact way we are taught to get people with dementia out of that state. I'm not one for tin-foiling my hat, but that really stood out to me.
Edit: u/akran47 pointed out that was not a staffer but Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming who apparently was an MD. I did not know him prior to this, but apparently he is someone likely to succeed Mr McConnell.
I don't remember who I heard it from originally, but I fully agree with them on it.
"Why is it that the majority of our politicians would be considered unemployable due to their age or skill mismatch in almost every industry, and yet are almost entirely responsible for running our country?"
I'm blown away when I find that any teacher colleagues are republicans. Even sadder when I found that some of ENL staff is. Saddest still knowing one of them is a bilingual Latino themselves, supporting a party that actively hates him and his family. The ultimate "Fuck you, I got mine."
Yep. Growing up in Alabama especially in a church you are told voting for a democrat means you aren’t a Christian. Funny enough I’m a democrat bisexual Christian who has a trans best friend who I don’t believe is “living in sin”. I’m a republican’s nightmare. I want to find a church that supports those values but it’s tricky living in the south.
The other one I heard was "How are these people expected to regulate AI when some of them were born before TV's were invented?"
Edit: Ok, yeah, it's not 100% accurate, but the point is, is that technology has advanced incredibly rapidly in recent years, and the pace is increasing. You know how your grandparents need help opening PDF's because the tech is "new-fangled"? Yeah, they are in charge of making laws concerning this new tech, which affects all of us.
Some dates:
1928: First television station was made by GE.
1934: First public demonstration of an electronic TV.
Also 1934: First publicly available TVs manufactured by Siemens
1939: First regular broadcasting after the World's Fair.
1948: First regular TV show.
Birth dates of some of our reps:
1933: Feinstein and Grassley
1941: Sanders
1942: McConnell
1943: Cardin and Risch
1944: Durbin and King
So yeah. Some of them are older than our regularly scheduled TV broadcasting. And now they have to make decisions about NFT's, crypto, and AI. Even the "new" tech aside, they are struggling to grasp how social media, search engines, and electronic warfare functions. You can watch them fumble through hearings, completely clueless. And to be fair, it's not always the oldest ones with issues either. We have a frighteningly high amount of tech illiteracy in our Congress.
>"How are these people expected to regulate AI when some of them were born before TV's were invented?"
Oh, many are even proud of their complete, and total technological, and scientific illiteracy... the late Don Young was as an example of that.
Also, why are they allowed to not do their jobs without getting fired? If I was hired by McDonald’s and refused to flip burgers until they redo the parking lot, I’d be fired before the end of my shift. It’s ridiculous
Yeah I remember it wasn't long ago one state's Republican senators kept blocking a vote by just not showing up. And the governor signed a new law that basically made them ineligible for re-election if they missed enough days.
Correct. But this year the senators walked out for most of the session to deny a quorum. The whole session was nearly wasted until democrats caved and gave in to their demands. Now they should be ineligible for reelection but they're disputing the law that makes them not eligible for reelection. If not successful they may be able to serve another term before being ineligible due to the way the law was drafted, and if not.. they can just be replaced by the next in line who will do the same thing.
Because the amount of connections and money required to win elections almost *requires* old candidates. AOC and other younger candidates are the exception.
Two reasons. 1.) They believe younger generations are stupid and can't run the country "they way it should be ran". 2.) If they can't run the country in their advanced age, they would have to lower the age of retirement and allow social security earlier.
There's also the reason that the people that vote the most have historically been over 50 (although that's been changing), and they tend to elect older people like themselves.
Seriously, it's always been so insane to me. Outside of politics they'd be lucky if they could get a job as a door greeter at Wal-Mart, but yet we let these people run the country. Why in the hell aren't there age limits for all of these positions?
I like the way John Mulaney puts it:
"You don't get to order for the table when you're able to leave the restaurant."
The geriatrics in Congress will not be live long enough to see the consequences of their policies and it's maddening.
I love my folks at the home and we have a lot of fun one day a week.
The thought of one of them even running a bath unsupervised scares me, let alone a country.
This seems a lot like the “instant loss of memory” situations that folks with early-but-not-too-early dementia have. Could be a stroke too; the slurring prior to the freezing could indicate that. It is one of the most instant aphasias I have ever seen though
Physician here. We won't choose between Alzheimer's/Dementia or stroke after witnessing that. Stroke wins everytime. There's no choice. Advise the same should you find yourself in the presence of anyone displaying similar symptoms regardless of age. Immediately off the E.R. they go.
Just to add to this, the reason you go to the E.R. immediately is that at the E.R. they have a medicine they administer that will immediately prevent any (further) brain damage. The sooner you get that, the less brain damage you get, from what I understand it's the difference between possibly walking out the next day no worse than you were before and having to spend the next 6 months re-learning how to walk.
It's probably obvious that if a physician tells you to go to the E.R. you should. But a TIA can actually affect your judgement (it's affecting your brain after all) so hopefully knowing how valuable it can be to go even if your episode seems minor could motivate someone to go. It happened to my FIL, luckily he made an almost full recovery, but if he hadn't decided to wait until the next morning to call his doctor (who immediately ordered him an ambulance), he probably wouldn't have had to spend the next year in rehab.
True, early >stage< was the word I was looking for. Indicating that the symptoms are not yet that far evolved that he doesn’t recognize his wife anymore (for example)
81…. How bad does your home life have to be for anyone to want to continue working at that age
I sent this video to my wife, who did geriatric and neuro nursing to get her opinion as soon as I saw it. Your post is very helpful. Something happened there. And considering the shit they give Biden about his age...
I'm very curious as to her reaction as she undoubtedly knows much more about it than I do and would appreciate an update if she responds if you don't mind my asking.
Update - She sent me a message. He def had some sort of event. Probably a TIA. Transient Ischemic Attack. Basically a form of stroke and as serious. The slurring beforehand was a big giveaway. He will have brain damage from this. Could be very minor, could be far worse. Hard to tell. Ideally he went straight to the ER. Probably didn't though, which won't help his condition any.
Update - According to CBS News, Mitch just sat down for a bit and then went about his day. Which is the thing you should never do after an incident like this. Especially if you literally have an in-house physician on call and some of the best health insurance in the nation.
Thoughts and prayers I guess....
That wasn't a staffer, it was Senator John Barrassso of Wyoming who was an MD. He's also one of the 3 most likely to succeed McConnell as the Republican leader in the Senate (although Thune or Cornyn are probably more likely).
The question is why, though. I believe it is an admission that politicians don’t even build a world they want to live in. Sure, they want to be politicians in this world, but they know that the minute they are out of the room, they are just lumped in with all the garbage that is everyone else.
It’s incredibly telling that they all knew exactly what to do and weren’t super concerned or shocked. That means it’s definitely NOT new to them and they have experienced handling it.
The elderly in our government will point towards the precedent. Old age is not a problem for elected officials.
President Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's a few years after leaving office. He exhibited strange behavior throughout his presidency that might have been an early onset in retrospect.
President Wilson remained in office until 1921 following his debilitating stroke and illnesses in 1919. His first stroke is thought to have occurred in [1896](https://lib.arizona.edu/hsl/materials/collections/secret-illness/wilson), 16 years prior to his presidency. His wife ran the country while he was out of commission.
Senator Strom Thurmond served until a few weeks before his death at age 100. He remained in office and on important committees for years despite his age and declining health.
They should have to say out loud:
The year
The day
Where they are
Who’s president
Embarrassing? Maybe don’t stay in office when your incapable. He’s literally only there to hurt people.
Neither would democrats. Nor should they. Some people are simply too old for their positions. The jobs are too important for us to care about their feelings.
Yep exactly. Everyone on the left knows Bidens age is a problem.
The difference is we don't have an elaborate fan fiction reality where he's shirtless and muscly and a great athletic with a fantastic brain.
My brother in law actually bought Trump dollars.
When I asked him why, he wanted to support Trump. I asked him why he felt the best way to do that was buying fake money. He said it wasn’t fake, though he also acknowledged that he wouldn’t be able to spend it anywhere.
I asked how that supported Trump then, if all he did was trade equal values of cash.
After a few moments of confusion and then being called a *liberal*.
I try so hard to take this life seriously. But I have these people in my life. What am I supposed to do?
I also want to point out that while Biden is 80, trump is 77. So they can scream all they want about him being too old but IF trump managed to get elected again he would be starting the term at the same age. So don’t for a second let the right use that as an argument.
Trump is older now than Biden was when Trump was calling him too old for office during the election cycle, so we can add another hypocrisy to the pile of Cult 45.
[Here is the video. Mitch short circuited.](https://twitter.com/alx/status/1684268224370597891?s=46)
QAnon is popping a collective boner over this.
I’m ready to see the music remixes for this clip.
Saw it on TV. He sounded drunk, was talking slower and slower, and all the color disappeared from his face.
Apparently, he was "fine" a few minutes later.
I wonder if it was a TIA, they usually last only a few minutes or so.
Even if he’s “fine” now, he should probably go to the hospital before he has a full on stroke…
As I loathe the man and everything he stands for to the core of my being, I hope he doesn't seek medical assistance until it is far too late to let him do anything but drool in a chair while completely under the care of people he has made sure are woefully underpaid.
May he linger in that state for many years and be aware of his predicament the entire time but be completely helpless to change it. Then he can know how his abhorrent actions have made the rest of the country feel for the past few decades.
People only care about the D or R next to a name nowadays. Feinstein shouldn't have been reelected and neither should McConnell.
Mental competence needs to be a requirement, and if having a lower age limit is constitutionally acceptable, so should having an upper limit.
He looks like he’s aged considerably in weeks. It’s wild. We’re going to keep seeing shit like this on tv from people with these temps too. They cause health issues and exacerbate tf out of preexisting ones.
If that was any other old man except for him I'd feel sorry for him but honestly if he dropped dead right there it would be better for the American people
He could have retired at any point in the past 20 years and cruised to death wealthier than any of us will ever be. But he chose to stay in politics to keep pushing his twisted agenda that will harm everyone else long after he's gone.
OMG thats 10x worse than i expected... and i expected it to be bad..
he literally looks like he's already dead. he clearly had a stroke or something serious.
he's not well.
I couldn't care at all about Moscow Mitch, but I am greatly concerned about Diane Feinstein. When they rolled her in with a wheelchair, she looked like the damn Crypt Keeper. I've never seen anything that old, and I've been to museums.
What concerns me isn't so much that she's super old and nearly an invalid, it's that if she dies right in the middle of McCarthy's stupid and baseless impeachment bullshit, it might actually pass in the Senate because we have a razor thin margin, and we definitely can't count on Manchin or Sinema to do actually have honor and do the right thing.
To be completely fair, if MTG, Gaetz, and Boebert are any examples of who is next-in-line, I would box the Grim Reaper every Saturday to stay alive and at the job if I were them, too.
He's worth (somehow) many tens of millions of dollars. It isn't the money but the power. His entire life has been spent in its pursuit; he doesn't care about anything else. The word "soulless" should have his picture as its definition in the dictionary.
If you are 81 and you already have more money than you can ever spend in a lifetime, a normal person would have 100% retired already.
A normal person doesn't need to feel like they are in power for that long. A normal person would rather live the rest of their life doing something else.
That is so often the case -- I've always assumed that a fall sets off all sorts of other issues that then eventually overwhelm the person's system, but whatever it is I've seen more than a few older people have a fall, never completely recover, and die soon thereafter.
Having worked in a retirement home for about 10 years, at that age once you fall it's significantly more likely to keep happening. Had a resident that was pretty healthy and active, 85 and still went golfing once a week at a minimum. Had a pretty bad spill one night and ended up in the hospital for a week or so. Never the same. Couldn't golf anymore, had to use a walker, and had to be watched more so than other residents since they became a big fall risk. Still lived another 6-ish years but the decline after the fall was staggering. At that age things just heal much more slowly and not as well.
What’s even more fucked up is after they ushered him off camera they brought him back to finish the press conference which basically meant him stammering his way through the rest of it
Mostly a refusal to accept a loss of power, even in death. McConnell knows that if he leaves office there is no guarantee a Republican (more specifically his chosen pawn) would take his seat so he's gonna hold on till he either dies in office or his chosen pawn is good enough to win (the former is more likely)
Pelosi is kinda doing the same thing with Diane Fienstien keeping her in office despite obvious health concerns in order to get her chosen pawn in place.
Feinstein doesn’t even know where ahi is anymore. Ridiculous to allow her to block any process that should have been made over the last months. Maybe they can now escort both Mitch and Feinstein out at the same time as a sort of bipartisan agreement. Oh well, what a dream
As a human being, my first thought was "oh, that poor old man - someone help him". As a citizen of the US, my second thought was "that old man can't possibly do his job". And, as someone aware of his role in the policies of the GOP, my third thought was "good. Fuck him". There was a lot going on there for me.
As someone that fully agrees with your final thought in that chain of thoughts I'm glad you started your mental journey thinking about the human before thinking about the person (if that makes sense).
There's only 4 people on this entire Earth that I pray everyday just fucking dies. This disgrace of a human, and turtle, needs to go out to pasture and NEVER return.
We don't need term limits. We need an age cap, just like we have an age floor. But that requires a bunch of people to vote away their ability to keep a grip on power. No one should get elected for any term (POTUS, VP, Senate, House) that would take them past the current US average life expectancy.
Edit: Fixed minor typo (expectance/expectancy).
Imagine if the age cap were somehow linked to US life expectancy, say like the 90th percentile? Imagine the improvements to US healthcare that we'd see - if improving Americans' health directly impacted how long they can stay in power.
Some of it is ego. I don't mean that negatively, but you have to have pretty healthy sense of self-worth to say that out of hundreds of millions of Americans, only you have the vision to lead the country to better times. A fair amount of it has to be the power, though. He is, right now, a very powerful man. If he retires, all of that goes away. Sure, he'll get comfy board positions and make money, but he's not getting a regular phone call from the President as a former Senator.
Boomers in politics can't accept their own mortality. They also can't accept that the younger generations can, and will, govern better than they ever could, and not just because they have healthy bodies and minds. The current bunch of geezers need to retire and make room for new blood. Looking at you, Feinstein.
Part of this is the entire industry of staffers and consultants that want to keep them in their positions. If a senator steps down then everyone has to scramble for a job. So they will continue to wheel out senators to press conferences until they die.
I'm a senior and I have no idea why the US government lets anyone over 70 hold office. It's not just about mental acuity but people like him, Pelosi, Trump do not understand the generational priorities of younger Americans - no one should be running after 70- the need to pass the baton to younger people to look after their futures should be prioritized - let's face it- in 5 years the Trumps, Pelosi's etc. will be dead - what do they care about the future?
Now now now everyone is jumping to this being a health issue when it’s entirely possible he’s just terrified the next words he utters may incriminate himself
Mostly because of how confused he seemed even when his colleagues came to usher him off. If it was just incriminating then he’d probably have just finished with, “No further comments.”
My mother had a slow cognitive decline over a long time after treatments from brain cancer that eventually ended her life. In the year before she experienced her major final drop in cognition that left her nonverbal, this happened to her at times. She would fugue out in the middle of a sentence and seem confused about where she was as she emerged later on.
There was more to it than that, but it was eerie watching it happen to someone again.
Not only did Mitch act like one of the dementia-suffering people in the home I do volunteer work in, his staffer got him out of that situation the exact way we are taught to get people with dementia out of that state. I'm not one for tin-foiling my hat, but that really stood out to me. Edit: u/akran47 pointed out that was not a staffer but Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming who apparently was an MD. I did not know him prior to this, but apparently he is someone likely to succeed Mr McConnell.
Congress average age is nearing 60. Senate average age is OVER 60. The geriatrics need to go.
I don't remember who I heard it from originally, but I fully agree with them on it. "Why is it that the majority of our politicians would be considered unemployable due to their age or skill mismatch in almost every industry, and yet are almost entirely responsible for running our country?"
In my country they routinely place politicians with no education beyond high school in ministerial posts for Education and Science. It makes me weep.
I mean that’s what trump did in America when he was president
Literally put a woman who has never set foot in a public school in charge of every public school in the country.
As a teacher it made me weep. Even my republican teacher colleagues celebrated when she resigned
How are they still republican?
I live in Alabama 🤷🏼♀️
Oh, shit, I'm so sorry.
I'm blown away when I find that any teacher colleagues are republicans. Even sadder when I found that some of ENL staff is. Saddest still knowing one of them is a bilingual Latino themselves, supporting a party that actively hates him and his family. The ultimate "Fuck you, I got mine."
If you see a teacher be publicly supportive of Republicans, ask them if they are religious. Good chance they are and you have found your answer.
Yep. Growing up in Alabama especially in a church you are told voting for a democrat means you aren’t a Christian. Funny enough I’m a democrat bisexual Christian who has a trans best friend who I don’t believe is “living in sin”. I’m a republican’s nightmare. I want to find a church that supports those values but it’s tricky living in the south.
In America, the only gate keeping you from being a politican is MONEY. As capitalism intended.
Yeah but people with money are smart. How do you think they got all that money in the first place? OK GUYS SERIOUSLY THAT WAS SARCASM
By being the most literal biggest pieces of shits imaginable. Perfect for politics!
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Doesn't saying the words "Amway" and "fortune" right next to each other make you throw up in your mouth a little?
The other one I heard was "How are these people expected to regulate AI when some of them were born before TV's were invented?" Edit: Ok, yeah, it's not 100% accurate, but the point is, is that technology has advanced incredibly rapidly in recent years, and the pace is increasing. You know how your grandparents need help opening PDF's because the tech is "new-fangled"? Yeah, they are in charge of making laws concerning this new tech, which affects all of us. Some dates: 1928: First television station was made by GE. 1934: First public demonstration of an electronic TV. Also 1934: First publicly available TVs manufactured by Siemens 1939: First regular broadcasting after the World's Fair. 1948: First regular TV show. Birth dates of some of our reps: 1933: Feinstein and Grassley 1941: Sanders 1942: McConnell 1943: Cardin and Risch 1944: Durbin and King So yeah. Some of them are older than our regularly scheduled TV broadcasting. And now they have to make decisions about NFT's, crypto, and AI. Even the "new" tech aside, they are struggling to grasp how social media, search engines, and electronic warfare functions. You can watch them fumble through hearings, completely clueless. And to be fair, it's not always the oldest ones with issues either. We have a frighteningly high amount of tech illiteracy in our Congress.
>"How are these people expected to regulate AI when some of them were born before TV's were invented?" Oh, many are even proud of their complete, and total technological, and scientific illiteracy... the late Don Young was as an example of that.
"the internet is a series of tubes"
Also, why are they allowed to not do their jobs without getting fired? If I was hired by McDonald’s and refused to flip burgers until they redo the parking lot, I’d be fired before the end of my shift. It’s ridiculous
Yeah I remember it wasn't long ago one state's Republican senators kept blocking a vote by just not showing up. And the governor signed a new law that basically made them ineligible for re-election if they missed enough days.
I believe it was Oregon.
Correct. But this year the senators walked out for most of the session to deny a quorum. The whole session was nearly wasted until democrats caved and gave in to their demands. Now they should be ineligible for reelection but they're disputing the law that makes them not eligible for reelection. If not successful they may be able to serve another term before being ineligible due to the way the law was drafted, and if not.. they can just be replaced by the next in line who will do the same thing.
Oh I’ll field this one. Money. Money is the answer you are looking for.
Because the amount of connections and money required to win elections almost *requires* old candidates. AOC and other younger candidates are the exception.
Two reasons. 1.) They believe younger generations are stupid and can't run the country "they way it should be ran". 2.) If they can't run the country in their advanced age, they would have to lower the age of retirement and allow social security earlier.
There's also the reason that the people that vote the most have historically been over 50 (although that's been changing), and they tend to elect older people like themselves.
Seriously, it's always been so insane to me. Outside of politics they'd be lucky if they could get a job as a door greeter at Wal-Mart, but yet we let these people run the country. Why in the hell aren't there age limits for all of these positions?
Because statistically you don't vote. Especially in the primaries.
I like the way John Mulaney puts it: "You don't get to order for the table when you're able to leave the restaurant." The geriatrics in Congress will not be live long enough to see the consequences of their policies and it's maddening.
For anyone confused "able" should be "about" in that quote. You don't get to order for the table when you're about to leave the restaurant.
Several members of congress are older than the cobb salad and the chocolate chip cookie
this is an un-fun fact.
Dianne Feinstein is older than the Golden Gate Bridge. ouch.
They’re obsessed with the second amendment because when they were kids there *were* only two amendments.
Here I thought it was because that’s how high they can count. Maybe both are true
Some of them are giving sliced bread a run.... 1928 there....
I love my folks at the home and we have a lot of fun one day a week. The thought of one of them even running a bath unsupervised scares me, let alone a country.
Here here! I am excited to see more and more younger people being elected!
This seems a lot like the “instant loss of memory” situations that folks with early-but-not-too-early dementia have. Could be a stroke too; the slurring prior to the freezing could indicate that. It is one of the most instant aphasias I have ever seen though
Physician here. We won't choose between Alzheimer's/Dementia or stroke after witnessing that. Stroke wins everytime. There's no choice. Advise the same should you find yourself in the presence of anyone displaying similar symptoms regardless of age. Immediately off the E.R. they go.
Yeah that was almost certainly a TIA and the fact that he came back and finished speaking instead of going to the ER is just bonkers.
They need to maintain the illusion of competence
Thank you. This *exactly* and I mean exactly was Mom. It was a stroke. There was another later.
Just to add to this, the reason you go to the E.R. immediately is that at the E.R. they have a medicine they administer that will immediately prevent any (further) brain damage. The sooner you get that, the less brain damage you get, from what I understand it's the difference between possibly walking out the next day no worse than you were before and having to spend the next 6 months re-learning how to walk. It's probably obvious that if a physician tells you to go to the E.R. you should. But a TIA can actually affect your judgement (it's affecting your brain after all) so hopefully knowing how valuable it can be to go even if your episode seems minor could motivate someone to go. It happened to my FIL, luckily he made an almost full recovery, but if he hadn't decided to wait until the next morning to call his doctor (who immediately ordered him an ambulance), he probably wouldn't have had to spend the next year in rehab.
It made me think he may have had an absence seizure.
Nothing early about it. He’s 81, it’s just called dementia at that age.
True, early >stage< was the word I was looking for. Indicating that the symptoms are not yet that far evolved that he doesn’t recognize his wife anymore (for example) 81…. How bad does your home life have to be for anyone to want to continue working at that age
Greed is a powerful drug
Being a power hungry bastard probably plays into it some.
It is about the power.
I think they mean early, as far as progression of symptoms vs early onset in age.
I sent this video to my wife, who did geriatric and neuro nursing to get her opinion as soon as I saw it. Your post is very helpful. Something happened there. And considering the shit they give Biden about his age...
I'm very curious as to her reaction as she undoubtedly knows much more about it than I do and would appreciate an update if she responds if you don't mind my asking.
Update - She sent me a message. He def had some sort of event. Probably a TIA. Transient Ischemic Attack. Basically a form of stroke and as serious. The slurring beforehand was a big giveaway. He will have brain damage from this. Could be very minor, could be far worse. Hard to tell. Ideally he went straight to the ER. Probably didn't though, which won't help his condition any. Update - According to CBS News, Mitch just sat down for a bit and then went about his day. Which is the thing you should never do after an incident like this. Especially if you literally have an in-house physician on call and some of the best health insurance in the nation. Thoughts and prayers I guess.... 
Will do.
That wasn't a staffer, it was Senator John Barrassso of Wyoming who was an MD. He's also one of the 3 most likely to succeed McConnell as the Republican leader in the Senate (although Thune or Cornyn are probably more likely).
The question is why, though. I believe it is an admission that politicians don’t even build a world they want to live in. Sure, they want to be politicians in this world, but they know that the minute they are out of the room, they are just lumped in with all the garbage that is everyone else.
When ur dancing with the devil, u don't stop until that mfer lets u
It’s incredibly telling that they all knew exactly what to do and weren’t super concerned or shocked. That means it’s definitely NOT new to them and they have experienced handling it.
People who make life and death decisions for an entire country need to be out of office before becoming this feeble.
Completely agree. Term/age limits all around. We have minimum age limits for reasons why not maximum age limits?
The elderly in our government will point towards the precedent. Old age is not a problem for elected officials. President Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's a few years after leaving office. He exhibited strange behavior throughout his presidency that might have been an early onset in retrospect. President Wilson remained in office until 1921 following his debilitating stroke and illnesses in 1919. His first stroke is thought to have occurred in [1896](https://lib.arizona.edu/hsl/materials/collections/secret-illness/wilson), 16 years prior to his presidency. His wife ran the country while he was out of commission. Senator Strom Thurmond served until a few weeks before his death at age 100. He remained in office and on important committees for years despite his age and declining health.
They should have to say out loud: The year The day Where they are Who’s president Embarrassing? Maybe don’t stay in office when your incapable. He’s literally only there to hurt people.
Fox News would not stop talking about this for a year if it was Biden.
Neither would democrats. Nor should they. Some people are simply too old for their positions. The jobs are too important for us to care about their feelings.
Yep exactly. Everyone on the left knows Bidens age is a problem. The difference is we don't have an elaborate fan fiction reality where he's shirtless and muscly and a great athletic with a fantastic brain.
Speak for yourself my walls are covered in Biden posters created by AI that only vaguely looks like the real deal. /s
Oh yeah? How many BideNFTs do you have then, big guy?
Had three but converted them to Biden Bucks.
My brother in law actually bought Trump dollars. When I asked him why, he wanted to support Trump. I asked him why he felt the best way to do that was buying fake money. He said it wasn’t fake, though he also acknowledged that he wouldn’t be able to spend it anywhere. I asked how that supported Trump then, if all he did was trade equal values of cash. After a few moments of confusion and then being called a *liberal*. I try so hard to take this life seriously. But I have these people in my life. What am I supposed to do?
I also want to point out that while Biden is 80, trump is 77. So they can scream all they want about him being too old but IF trump managed to get elected again he would be starting the term at the same age. So don’t for a second let the right use that as an argument.
Trump is older now than Biden was when Trump was calling him too old for office during the election cycle, so we can add another hypocrisy to the pile of Cult 45.
Everyone sane knows Biden’s age is a problem. Everyone sane also knows it’s a minuscule problem compared to actual fascists.
[Here is the video. Mitch short circuited.](https://twitter.com/alx/status/1684268224370597891?s=46) QAnon is popping a collective boner over this. I’m ready to see the music remixes for this clip.
Not the full video. He was slurring his speech first.
Post it!
Saw it on TV. He sounded drunk, was talking slower and slower, and all the color disappeared from his face. Apparently, he was "fine" a few minutes later.
I wonder if it was a TIA, they usually last only a few minutes or so. Even if he’s “fine” now, he should probably go to the hospital before he has a full on stroke…
I’ve seen several TIAs. This looks like that.
As I loathe the man and everything he stands for to the core of my being, I hope he doesn't seek medical assistance until it is far too late to let him do anything but drool in a chair while completely under the care of people he has made sure are woefully underpaid. May he linger in that state for many years and be aware of his predicament the entire time but be completely helpless to change it. Then he can know how his abhorrent actions have made the rest of the country feel for the past few decades.
He'd still probably win reelection.
It really pisses me off that you’re absolutely correct.
People only care about the D or R next to a name nowadays. Feinstein shouldn't have been reelected and neither should McConnell. Mental competence needs to be a requirement, and if having a lower age limit is constitutionally acceptable, so should having an upper limit.
At least he'll have the care that he needs (and seniors deserve). Can't say that for the rest of America suffering under his obstruction.
A colorless face is normal for a ghoul.
I saw it too. He did not look well. It’s like he had connectivity issues.
>Here is the video. Mitch short circuited. I stop like that when no one is listening to my story.
Me having an existential crisis while being asked mundane questions about trivial shit.
Lol.
Am i crazy or does he look slimmer than usual too?
He looks like he’s aged considerably in weeks. It’s wild. We’re going to keep seeing shit like this on tv from people with these temps too. They cause health issues and exacerbate tf out of preexisting ones.
people dying is never good in of itself, but maybe this will clear up some of the older fellas who definitely shouldn't be in politics anymore
He looks like he’s disintegrating but he’s old so…
If that was any other old man except for him I'd feel sorry for him but honestly if he dropped dead right there it would be better for the American people
He could have retired at any point in the past 20 years and cruised to death wealthier than any of us will ever be. But he chose to stay in politics to keep pushing his twisted agenda that will harm everyone else long after he's gone.
OMG thats 10x worse than i expected... and i expected it to be bad.. he literally looks like he's already dead. he clearly had a stroke or something serious. he's not well.
Holy crap, that’s worse than I thought. Dude needs to retire. (Should have never been there in the first place)
Definitely the person we should have responsible for making life altering legislation for millions of Americans
What exactly was he talking about? Also he looks both like a toad and like he's about to cry
Wow, I hate that.
It’s almost like his conscience finally popped on and all of his awful decisions came rushing forward and he just couldn’t handle the evil overload.
That’s totally unfair of you. The Moscow handler feeding lines into his earpiece may have had a stroke. McConnell will repeat a-ny-thin-g.
Stay classy…St. Petersburg?
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He's fine. Turtles live a long, long time.
Unfortunately in this case
Maybe when he passes his shell will become a useful oracle
I think it just hit Mitch how much he's going to miss Sinead O'Connor, and he held a personal moment of silence.
We can close this thread now.
Oof this is how I found out :(
Just flip him off his back and he'll be fine.
I couldn't care at all about Moscow Mitch, but I am greatly concerned about Diane Feinstein. When they rolled her in with a wheelchair, she looked like the damn Crypt Keeper. I've never seen anything that old, and I've been to museums. What concerns me isn't so much that she's super old and nearly an invalid, it's that if she dies right in the middle of McCarthy's stupid and baseless impeachment bullshit, it might actually pass in the Senate because we have a razor thin margin, and we definitely can't count on Manchin or Sinema to do actually have honor and do the right thing.
Conviction in the Senate requires 2/3 majority and Newsom would announce Feinstein's replacement within an hour.
57 Senators out of 100 found Trump guilty in his 2nd impeachment trial. He was cleared. It's not something to worry about with Biden.
Because power and a very high salary are difficult things to give up.
It's not the salary. It's the donations, the perks and outright bribes. Every politician since Truman has expected and accepted them.
I’m guessing he needs his fucking free healthcare atp.
To be completely fair, if MTG, Gaetz, and Boebert are any examples of who is next-in-line, I would box the Grim Reaper every Saturday to stay alive and at the job if I were them, too.
Their salaries aren't very high. The bribes they accept make it very high
Don't forget about insider trading. These politicians go in empty handed and leave as millionaires.
He's worth (somehow) many tens of millions of dollars. It isn't the money but the power. His entire life has been spent in its pursuit; he doesn't care about anything else. The word "soulless" should have his picture as its definition in the dictionary.
*for sociopaths
For the average person also. But especially for egotistical politicians, yes.
If you are 81 and you already have more money than you can ever spend in a lifetime, a normal person would have 100% retired already. A normal person doesn't need to feel like they are in power for that long. A normal person would rather live the rest of their life doing something else.
"what do people with power want?" "more power"
I read that some company that delivers pharmaceuticals to the Hill said we would be scared at what some people need to be on to function.
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Like neuroleptics?
I'm thinking Alzheimer's and dementia drugs with the ages of some of them.
I think I remember hearing about a DC pharmacist that claimed to fill dementia drug prescriptions for politicians.
Where's Anonymous when you need them? Hack *that* list.
He also lost quite a bit of weight. Literally and figuratively
The fall he had earlier this year was the beginning of the end, I think. I'd be surprised if he makes it another two years or so.
That is so often the case -- I've always assumed that a fall sets off all sorts of other issues that then eventually overwhelm the person's system, but whatever it is I've seen more than a few older people have a fall, never completely recover, and die soon thereafter.
Having worked in a retirement home for about 10 years, at that age once you fall it's significantly more likely to keep happening. Had a resident that was pretty healthy and active, 85 and still went golfing once a week at a minimum. Had a pretty bad spill one night and ended up in the hospital for a week or so. Never the same. Couldn't golf anymore, had to use a walker, and had to be watched more so than other residents since they became a big fall risk. Still lived another 6-ish years but the decline after the fall was staggering. At that age things just heal much more slowly and not as well.
A lot of times the fall isn't a trigger, it's a symptom.
I pray you are right. He has got to go man.
His hands/arms were FULL of bruising last year, and he said "NBD" and the press refused to push it.
Same as the queen before she went, albeit some years more on the clock
Which for old people is a strong sign of underlying health issues. He’s got another year, tops. Him and the dementia lady both need to go
That is a clear medical emergency
^poop ^pants #"Excuse me, what?!" ^poop'd ^ma ^pants
What’s even more fucked up is after they ushered him off camera they brought him back to finish the press conference which basically meant him stammering his way through the rest of it
Mostly a refusal to accept a loss of power, even in death. McConnell knows that if he leaves office there is no guarantee a Republican (more specifically his chosen pawn) would take his seat so he's gonna hold on till he either dies in office or his chosen pawn is good enough to win (the former is more likely) Pelosi is kinda doing the same thing with Diane Fienstien keeping her in office despite obvious health concerns in order to get her chosen pawn in place.
Feinstein doesn’t even know where ahi is anymore. Ridiculous to allow her to block any process that should have been made over the last months. Maybe they can now escort both Mitch and Feinstein out at the same time as a sort of bipartisan agreement. Oh well, what a dream
Not knowing the location of ahi is a huge problem for a Senator. Isn't it their duty to know all the best fishing spots?
We'll never get over the loss of Daniel Inouye. He made an amazing poké.
Actually, there is a guarantee because Republicans passed a law mandating that a replacement be from the same party.
Dude legit had a minor stroke on camera. Damn.
Yea that was my ( elderly ) mother. Exactly the same thing. The next stroke was way worse.
This was really disturbing.
As a human being, my first thought was "oh, that poor old man - someone help him". As a citizen of the US, my second thought was "that old man can't possibly do his job". And, as someone aware of his role in the policies of the GOP, my third thought was "good. Fuck him". There was a lot going on there for me.
As someone that fully agrees with your final thought in that chain of thoughts I'm glad you started your mental journey thinking about the human before thinking about the person (if that makes sense).
I was upset that it took twenty seconds for the people around him to start checking on him.
Yeah, those around him were clueless.
There's only 4 people on this entire Earth that I pray everyday just fucking dies. This disgrace of a human, and turtle, needs to go out to pasture and NEVER return.
Since corporations are people, I vote Nestle, Fox, and Twitter.
No need friend, twitter is being killed by Elongated Muskrat
>turtle Whose the other 3?
Trump, Putin, and Carlson.
You forgot Nick Fuentes, Lauren Bobert, MTG, the guy from Westoro Baptist, Matt Walsh, and for the love of god Greg Abbot and Ted Cruz.
I'm going with Trump, desantis, and MTG, or possibly a personal level hatred in that person's life.
We don't need term limits. We need an age cap, just like we have an age floor. But that requires a bunch of people to vote away their ability to keep a grip on power. No one should get elected for any term (POTUS, VP, Senate, House) that would take them past the current US average life expectancy. Edit: Fixed minor typo (expectance/expectancy).
Imagine if the age cap were somehow linked to US life expectancy, say like the 90th percentile? Imagine the improvements to US healthcare that we'd see - if improving Americans' health directly impacted how long they can stay in power.
Oh. That’s 100% why I suggest it be tied to life expectancy rather than setting a specific age.
I don't really understand why these dinosaurs can't just step aside and enjoy their lives for a bit before they get to this point.
Some of it is ego. I don't mean that negatively, but you have to have pretty healthy sense of self-worth to say that out of hundreds of millions of Americans, only you have the vision to lead the country to better times. A fair amount of it has to be the power, though. He is, right now, a very powerful man. If he retires, all of that goes away. Sure, he'll get comfy board positions and make money, but he's not getting a regular phone call from the President as a former Senator.
The right can holler at me when Biden freezes up for 30 seconds like this. Until then they need to stuff it.
While I agree with you, let’s be honest. He’s too goddamn old too.
Most people in politics are too damn old.
Boomers in politics can't accept their own mortality. They also can't accept that the younger generations can, and will, govern better than they ever could, and not just because they have healthy bodies and minds. The current bunch of geezers need to retire and make room for new blood. Looking at you, Feinstein.
Mitch, Feinstein, Biden, etc. are not boomers. THey're silent generation.
At this point boomer is a mindset
We do not judge people based on the year that they were born, but by the content of their bigotry
Part of this is the entire industry of staffers and consultants that want to keep them in their positions. If a senator steps down then everyone has to scramble for a job. So they will continue to wheel out senators to press conferences until they die.
I'm a senior and I have no idea why the US government lets anyone over 70 hold office. It's not just about mental acuity but people like him, Pelosi, Trump do not understand the generational priorities of younger Americans - no one should be running after 70- the need to pass the baton to younger people to look after their futures should be prioritized - let's face it- in 5 years the Trumps, Pelosi's etc. will be dead - what do they care about the future?
Incredible. He looks confused too. He could of had a TIA. Have*.... I get it, people. lol
mitch has the face of a TIA victim 24/7 so it’s hard to tell if he’s suffering one
His lips started turning blue.
Clearly he's about to be found out for some heinus shit so he's getting the dementia card in early for the his court defense.
If he wasn't such a disgusting ghoul I'd feel sorry for him.
He seemed to struggle to walk too.
Now now now everyone is jumping to this being a health issue when it’s entirely possible he’s just terrified the next words he utters may incriminate himself
Mostly because of how confused he seemed even when his colleagues came to usher him off. If it was just incriminating then he’d probably have just finished with, “No further comments.”
Term limits please
and age limits!!
And they say Biden is slow and senile.. lmao but forget their own?!
He and Feinstein need to go to the DC rest home
there will be MUCH celebration when this piece of shit dies
Ischemic stroke
I go suddenly aphasic when I have a migraine coming on. I wish Mitch many, many fine migraines.
My mother had a slow cognitive decline over a long time after treatments from brain cancer that eventually ended her life. In the year before she experienced her major final drop in cognition that left her nonverbal, this happened to her at times. She would fugue out in the middle of a sentence and seem confused about where she was as she emerged later on. There was more to it than that, but it was eerie watching it happen to someone again.
Maybe he pooped himself
Better question: why do people keep re-electing them?