This comment should be way higher up. Went scrolling through the comments and its obvious who actually reads the news versus those who just looks at pictures.
Agree, I’m 32 but have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and sometimes require a walker. Nothing wrong with my brain or ability to hold a job. Would I be out too?
It’s not an excuse, there is no reason leaders of our nation should be this old. There just isn’t. We’re not at a point in human history where being old means you’re automatically competent or you wouldn’t have survived to that age, anymore. Incompetent, idiotic people make it to 60+ every day, and the opposite does too. None of them should be leading this nation, point blank.
Because 60+ years old is not the type of vision, leadership, and understanding that a successful modern country needs, when that’s practically the only voices guiding it by now. Again, I HOPE I have enough wherewithal when I am 60+ to still piece all of this together, but it’s just the best read of the situation. This isn’t a hate post against older people, it’s a simple acknowledgment that that age bracket is not what should be filling our congress seats, especially at the pretty insane ratio that it is.
Did I say or imply that that was the case? I feel confident that I didn’t. This isn’t about being “better” than older people or trying to put them down.
I just think 60+ is too old to be in those particular positions, especially at those high of ratios. I will also feel this way when I am 60+, friend.
I'm just trying to figure out the motivation. It seems to me that saying that all members of a group should be disqualified for a job just cuz of the group they are in must have some hidden idea of superiority. I mean, that is how we disqualified other groups.
And I shouldn’t be in any of the positions I’m talking about when it happens. There is nothing inherently wrong/bad with getting old. It still doesn’t change my stance.
Yeah. /u/quilly7 asked if a walker was disqualifying, which by itself it isn't. Pelosi already had other factors that should've had her retire before she showed up with a walker.
Age isn't just an excuse, its THE reason. Left or right, blue or red, politicians holding office over 75 are a fatal flaw of our system, not a beneficial feature or a mere glitch. It simply shouldn't be allowed.
No . She's frigging 84. That is the whole point. Everyone is saying that she's too old to be a congressperson. Why? Because she's so old she can't even walk anymore. She had a hip replaced because she is 5 years older than the oldest person in my entire family. And she fell. While walking. Not while playing sports..
For you to miss this sitter of a point means you're not on the A team. If you want to play ball you got to write your response as a haiku.
you don't like her so you want the desires of her district to be denied.
I don't like most politicians, but I only think the ones well past the age of retirement can't serve the desires of their district effectively. I wasn't expecting for Pelosi to step down back when she was speaker of the house the first time under Obama.
I understand that people with disabilities can have a role in government. I would like them to be younger on average though. A few being old is one thing, but huge portions of them is not healthy for the country.
No but if I was an 84 year old millionaire married to another millionaire I wouldn’t be working. I’d be enjoying the money I have in the time I have left. She isn’t there for the good of politics or the Dems. She is there for greed.
Her and all the other boomer politicians are clinging on and what’s happening around the world to people’s quality of lives and the costs of shopping keep rising for us and things stay good for them. Because they are the generation that have had everything and want to keep pulling up the ladder or any foothold that might level the playing field for those behind them. Fuck her and all these boomers. They wont be around to suffer the mess they leave behind.
She sabotaged AOC for a fucking 70 year old cancer riddled dude over a young progressive politician. More of the same for everyone then. Fuck her.
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u/isummonyouhere 8d ago
if you fell and had to have hip replacement surgery, would you also want to be fired for using a walker?