I can’t support age limits, because I think people should be able to choose their representatives in government, but the incumbency bias is so strong. Fuck if I know how to fix it.
Your sentiment is appropriate but until we address the lobby industry it’s a fool Hardy decision I just don’t want to redo this debate is all friendo
Sure. I was just saying the way to get around it, IMO, is what I’d mentioned. Wasn’t really wanting/intending to start another discussion, just that I think that’s the way.
So we watched Trump skull fuck the judiciary with young sociopathic conservatives for 4 years and now we're going to handcuff ourselves bc one geriatric asshole in California. Amazing as always, Dems
Feel like her staff and family are more at fault for this, highly doubt she knows where she’s at on a daily basis. Everyone close to her sucks
I honestly don’t think that woman knows what’s going on man. This is fucked up, the people around her are disgusting humans
Yup, I almost feel bad her people are doing this to her. Then I realized this has been going on roughly 20 years.
If you’re older than any American state, you have to retire. Sorry Joe, Liz and Bernie, but we need new blood.
if only there was a recent example of a selfish old woman clinging to power for too long and irrevocably damaging the judicial balance to know if this is a good idea or not from her alas no such case exists
She's such a piece of shit and seemingly on the wrong side of everything. I'd rather her bite the big one than Feinstein in all honesty. Fuck her
Fuck Hold Please Off The political agenda is one person is grinding a very important process to a halt. God I despise her.
Now that Pelosi is out of leadership, she's insignificant. However she's been a much more impactful legislator for the good than Feinstein. Low bar, but still...
Reality check: Swapping Feinstein out for a colleague can't simply be done unilaterally, aides and experts familiar with the process tell Axios. Schumer will need to propose amending the Senate's organizing resolution, which will require consent from all 100 senators. If any senator blocked unanimous consent, the measure would require 60 votes to break a filibuster, meaning at least 10 Republicans would have to support it. https://www.axios.com/2023/04/13/dems-substitute-feinstein-judiciary-committee :\
Hope that ultimately becomes the case and it forces her hand at retirement. It doesn't have to be an ageism issue. She was elected to represent her constituents and she's unable to do it. At some point everyone has to realize that and move on.
If you work from the perspective of her truly believing that everything she does is just a job and that she doesn't actually give a shit about the people she represents, Nancy Pelosi makes a ton of sense in her constant dumb fuck statements. She's just a terrible person who's completely out of touch with the plight of the common man. If you asked the bitch what the average rent cost is for the typical person she wouldn't have any idea nor would she know that the cost of housing is a problem... Because she doesn't give a fuck
Meaning we're boned and the only way out is for Feinstein to resign which she won't. This is absurd, she should've never been put on a committee in the first place. Chuck Shcumer is such a dogshit senate leader
After causing multiple economic collapses, raping the environment, causing enormous wealth growth delays in the millenial and likely Gen-z population groups, abolishing socialized medicine and being stuck culturally 70 years in the past - the boomers' final kiss of death to this planet is encapsulated in your post. Their refusal to die. Their refusal to move-on. All the wealth they've accumulated in their precious IRA accounts will go towards paying for their healthcare to live to 90+. It will put an enormous strain on the already fragile millenial and Gen-Z groups. We won't be able to support them. The younger generations will have to quit their jobs to take care of them on a daily basis because assisted living is incredibly expensive. While all of this is happening guess what the boomers who are still physically capable of working will do? Continue working. Continue in their positions of power like Feinstein. They will pass legislation that helps them. They'll tell us we owe them this kind of care and assistance because we must respect our elders. It will devastate us economically. Feinstein is a perfect example of what is to come in the next 10-15 years.
Has anyone seen a good recent breakdown of the debt ceiling showdown? Most of the articles out there seem to be from January. When is the drop dead date, when do negotiations really heat up, etc...some people have said as early as June
Difi yelling at those climate activist children for caring about the earth being on fire after she’s long gone was a real aha moment.
I'm pissing in the wind here regurgitating 2020 midterm stuff, but so many fucking god awful Pete and Kamala stands actually defended her over that because evidently the Sunrise Movement didn't support the centrist candidates.
Based on Biden's actions so far with federal land they were absolutely right not to https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/biden-administration-oil-gas-drilling-approvals-outpace-trumps-2023-01-24/#:~:text=WASHINGTON— Federal data show the,in its first two years. WASHINGTON— Federal data show the Biden administration approved 6,430 permits for oil and gas drilling on public lands in its first two years, outpacing the Trump administration's 6,172 drilling-permit approvals in its first two years.