number of Republican figures, including Donald Trump MAGA loyalists, have called on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to resign amid concerns about his health.
(Less cancerous link: https://archive.ph/QMkMM)
And for anyone thinking this is a partisan issue, it’s not.
EXACTLY. Diane Feinstein is in the same damn boat. Both her and Mitch could have fucked off into the sunset with plenty of retirement money YEARS ago, so it seems pretty clear to me the only reason they’re clinging on is power, and maybe hubris.
Need to get these old ghouls out of office and set maximum age limits for all positions of government
I think it’s clear that people can be disconnected from reality no matter how old they are, and that older people are not excluded from being insightful and valuable to the political process (think Bernie Sanders and Robert Reich).
It’s easy to feel like elminating older people from politics is a solution, but it’s not. Voting for good people who actually represent your interests and the interests of your community is a better solution, but that’s harder to think about.
Logically, if you’re a candidate from any party, that knows they won’t be around in a decade’s time, what incentive, responsibility, or obligation do you REALLY have to do what’s best for ALL citizens— Including those who’ll be around for a few more decades. Especially regarding decisions with society-changing implications that’ll impact generations of change. It’s such a staggering conflict of interest that it’s not reasonable to expect any politician to set it aside.
That is even setting aside the obvious statistical likelihood that people over the age of 65 are significantly more likely to contract ailments that will impair their judgement and therefore their ability to do their job like Alzheimers (the exact same parroted reason for the minimum age requirement, that young people’s brains are not fully developed, and therefore are not able to perform the job adequately). If we’re going to arbitrarily set a minimum, we should be obligated to set a maximum.
Maximum Age at election = median life expectancy
If you want to serve longer, make people’s lives better.
Before anyone gets too excited: while Kentucky does have a Democratic governor, under (recently amended) state law, if McConnell’s seat goes vacant, the governor doesn’t get to pick his replacement but only gets to choose from a list of 3 candidates submitted by the state GOP.
The US is truly the bastion of democracy
Boooooooo!
After telling a friend of mine about the Mitch McConnell incident yesterday, and he replied, “Him and (Diane) Feinstein gonna get a little cabin together and just see out their years on the porch?
This gave me an idea. I had my other buddy who frequents Midjourney prompt it with “Mitch McConnell and Dianne Feinstein sitting on a cabin porch on a couple of rocking chairs staring out into the sunset”
The result? Perfection.
That’s too nice of an ending for that toxic turtle asshole.
He’s made the lives of many people fucking miserable and doesn’t deserve a sunset ending.
Of course the MAGAts are calling for him to resign, they’re nearly as mad at him as the Democrats! I’m not sure what it’s going to take for voters to wake up and stop re-electing these geriatric politicians but it needs to happen. We can’t move forward as a nation with all of these oldsters clinging to power and applying yesterdays thoughts and solutions to today’s problems.
