Aging American Leaders: What's Too Old?

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Aging American Leaders: What's Too Old?​

they should be able to ride a bike....?
 
searcher said:
www.pewresearch.org

Most Americans favor maximum age limits for federal elected officials, Supreme Court justices

79% of Americans favor maximum age limits for elected officials in Washington, D.C. And 74% support such limits for Supreme Court justices.
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Age limits don't solve the problem. 'Respect your elders' comes to mind?

What's 'cool' about the elderly in leadership positions is that they know the history of the nation and are able to guide policy because of it. The 'youts of America' fall for every stupid craze that comes along. "My prounouns" for example??

It's always worked in the past until recently when the D party was usurped - and we all know who did the (intelligence) usurping!

Who 'controls' these agencies is the real problem and they're the ones pushing for CO2 regulation and climate change. They're also the ones behind the WHO/WEF et al.

So, until all those meddling perps are eliminated in some way or the other nothing will change.

 
Joe King said:
If their guy were leading in the polls they wouldn't be doing it.

What the msm SHOULD be asking, but they aren't, is who the hell has been actually running things? As it is clearly not him.
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I agree. I think the MSM knows very well who is running the show. Their job has been to cover that up. Now, they are throwing the pedophile under the bus and they will all line up and kiss the feet of the next puppet that will be installed.
 
An overwhelming majority of Americans think President Joe Biden is too old to serve another term, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll.

According to the poll, conducted using Ipsos' Knowledge Panel, 86% of Americans think Biden, 81, is too old to serve another term as president. That figure includes 59% of Americans who think both he and former President Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, are too old and 27% who think only Biden is too old.

Sixty-two percent of Americans think Trump, who is 77, is too old to serve as president. There is a large difference in how partisans view their respective nominees -- 73% of Democrats think Biden is too old to serve but only 35% of Republicans think Trump is too old to serve. Ninety-one percent of independents think Biden is too old to serve, and 71% say the same about Trump.
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Opinion: Age is one thing, when it comes to leadership — sanity is another​

A special counsel’s comment about Joe Biden’s age has triggered an energetic debate about the president’s mental acuity compared to that of GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump. Veteran columnist Walter Shapiro (who doesn’t reveal his own age) says Biden’s decision to run for reelection “may prove to be the most self-indulgent act by a Democrat president in modern history.”

So far in this campaign year, Biden’s age is getting much more attention than his record as one of America’s most effective presidents — so effective that Trump often tries to take credit for Biden’s accomplishments. “THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET,” Trump trumpeted recently on his social media site as the stock market reached unprecedented heights.

Biden has presided over recovery from the pandemic (all the jobs lost from COVID were regained by 2022) with an economy stronger than any other country’s. America’s infrastructure is finally being repaired, and the nation is making unprecedented investments in clean energy and resilience to climate change. The wealth of Black and Hispanic families grew 61 and 47 percent, respectively, between 2019 and 2022, and 31 percent among white families.

The worst thing we can say about Biden’s performance is that he doesn’t brag about it enough.

More:

 
searcher said:
“THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET,” Trump trumpeted recently on his social media site as the stock market reached unprecedented heights.
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Lefties struggle with the idea that the markets look forward and discounts what they believe to be the future. This is one reason that truly unforeseen surprises can be so devastating. You get instant reappraisals. Today's stock price is more to do with a mixture of the expectations for the next year than anything else. These days, chief among those expectations is liquidity conditions. This has little to do with either candidate or even the real economy. The market is increasingly disconnected from main street, which can happen, to a point.

I checked Truth, albeit not exhaustively, and while I can find accounts claiming this Trumps account doesn't come up in my search.

searcher said:
The wealth of Black and Hispanic families grew 61 and 47 percent, respectively, between 2019 and 2022, and 31 percent among white families.
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Pure unadulterated headline BULLSHIT. Honestly, you have to be a complete gibbering idiot to swallow this. Taking headline numbers that have been driven by massive inflation is bogus, just as bogus as claiming that sales were up. While true, in dollar terms, the fact is less product shifted. Counting transfer payments and inflation as an increase in wealth is to treat the voting public as dribbling idiots. Oh wait, we are talking about the Democratic cult and their 'leader', so I suppose anything goes.
 
searcher said:

Opinion: Age is one thing, when it comes to leadership — sanity is another​

A special counsel’s comment about Joe Biden’s age has triggered an energetic debate about the president’s mental acuity compared to that of GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump. Veteran columnist Walter Shapiro (who doesn’t reveal his own age) says Biden’s decision to run for reelection “may prove to be the most self-indulgent act by a Democrat president in modern history.”

So far in this campaign year, Biden’s age is getting much more attention than his record as one of America’s most effective presidents — so effective that Trump often tries to take credit for Biden’s accomplishments. “THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET,” Trump trumpeted recently on his social media site as the stock market reached unprecedented heights.

Biden has presided over recovery from the pandemic (all the jobs lost from COVID were regained by 2022) with an economy stronger than any other country’s. America’s infrastructure is finally being repaired, and the nation is making unprecedented investments in clean energy and resilience to climate change. The wealth of Black and Hispanic families grew 61 and 47 percent, respectively, between 2019 and 2022, and 31 percent among white families.

The worst thing we can say about Biden’s performance is that he doesn’t brag about it enough.

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Related:

Inside the mind of Donald Trump: his niece Mary Trump speaks to Andrew Marr​

Feb 19, 2024

Mary L Trump, niece of the former President Donald Trump, joined Andrew Marr on LBC to discuss her uncle's hopes at the next election and what that means for international stability.

Mary Lea Trump is an American psychologist and writer. A niece of former US president Donald Trump, she has been critical of him as well as the rest of the Trump family. Her 2020 book about him and the family, Too Much and Never Enough, sold nearly one million copies on the day of its release.


12:07
 
We all trust psychologists, don't we? Talk to Jordan about his profession, holycrap!!! I've been out with a few as a younger man, fucked up trouble, every one of them. They become psychologists to work their crap out! If there is a soft science that is more fucked up than economics, it's psychology!

They envy the wealth, these LITTLE souls, I'm sure you relate to that. LMFAO!

She's just ANOTHER bitter little asshole...

 

Opinion | Why Republicans Are Making a Big Mistake on Biden’s Age​

I’m a Republican strategist — and I think my party is making a big mistake.

02/22/2024

Alex Conant is a Republican strategist and partner at Firehouse Strategies, a public affairs firm based in Washington, D.C.

Many Republicans seem to think zeroing in on President Joe Biden’s age is the easy path to victory in November. House GOP lawmakers quickly announced a hearing with Special Counsel Robert Hur, where they are sure to highlight his report characterizing the president as an “elderly man with a poor memory.” But Republicans are making a big mistake if they think voters will not reelect a geriatric politician.

As a Republican strategist who has bluntly tried to make the case for generational change against an opposing presidential candidate, I can tell you it doesn’t really work.

Democrats are concerned about fallout from the Hur report, but as I learned the hard way, there is very little evidence that voters actually care about political leaders’ ages. The record is clear, albeit depressing: One is hard pressed to identify a single president, governor or senator who lost reelection because voters thought they were too old. And that’s despite many younger challengers leveling that attack.

In the last midterm elections, voters on both sides of the aisle put little stake in mental acuity: An 89-year-old Republican senator was reelected in Iowa, while a Democratic Senate candidate with serious cognitive health concerns was elected in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, both our current and previous presidents set age records after beating younger opponents in the primary and general elections.

More:

www.politico.com

Opinion | Why Republicans Are Making a Big Mistake on Biden’s Age

I’m a Republican strategist — and I think my party is making a big mistake.
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Memory Expert on Biden, Trump, and the Stereotypes of Aging | Amanpour and Company​

Mar 8, 2024

President Biden's self-assured delivery of the State of the Union address challenged doubts about his age. Since the start of his presidential campaign, Biden’s every slip-up has been under the microscope, from momentary forgetfulness to misspoken words. Neuroscientist Charan Ranganath believes that we have been oversimplifying the way we think about age and memory. In his new book "Why We Remember,” the author shares years of his research. He discusses with Hari Sreenivasan.


17:53
 
Heck, thinking about this it's clear to me that if Democrats can elect a candidate using dead people, then why can't we vote for a dead candidate?
 
Goldhedge said:
Heck, thinking about this it's clear to me that if Democrats can elect a candidate using dead people, then why can't we vote for a dead candidate?
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It's happened.

Horace Greeley got a few Electoral votes, even though he was very dead.
 
This is someone's opinion, take if fwiw and dyodd.

Dementia doctor explains what is happening to Trump

May 9, 2024 #davidpakmanshow #trump #biden

-- Dr. Elizabeth Landsverk, dementia and Alzheimer's disease expert, joins David to discuss cognitive concerns about former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden with regard to their age and brain function.


12:43
 
Psychological Projection.

It's what psychopathic liars DO.

THEIR hero, who's using their favorite tool, the money-press, to destroy their least-favorite society, the ray-cyst Untied Skates...THEIR hero is suffering dementia. Late stages.

So they project onto opponents. Trump is demented. Kennedy has brain-worms.

THIS assertion, is some clown in the pouring rain, telling us how its sunny and warm.
 
A little food for thought.

Is It Time To Consider Age Limits For Politicians?​

Jun 13, 2024

More inclined to term limits here.


4:24
 
X is filled with recent video of Biden walking around completely lost during press meetings with dignitaries and such. It's clear that he struggles to remain lucid frequently these days. So who is actually making decisions these days while he is checked out?





It's comedic fodder overseas:

 
searcher said:
Is It Time To Consider Age Limits For Politicians?
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Sure...now that P-Doe Joe is being led out. He's done no matter what happens, lets CHANGE THE RULES. A very-sharp late-70s former President can then be ruled out...or the (false) question raised.

Depends Joe wasn't fit for the office in his FORTIES. It's just that he's losing the ability to even fake it. The reality is, he was always stupid, always sexually twisted; always corrupt, and since his aneurism in his forties, brain-damaged.

Now he's senile, too. Early-onset (relatively) dementia could be the result of various long-term drugs ingested, some probably to aid or mask brain-injury symptoms.

None of these have to do with CHRONOLOGICAL AGE.

Once again, the Party of Unlimited Power, is playing a game - this time to get one of their young World Leaders from the Davos Supper Club, installed. Money's on Gruesome Newsom; but there's Gretch the Wretch in the wings. Either can pave the way for that Puerto Rican wonder, the one who went to college to become a barmaid.
 
Casey Jones said:
Either can pave the way for that Puerto Rican wonder, the one who went to college to become a barmaid.
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In a different life I used to hang out in a joint that would have guest bartender night. I think it would be neat a hell to have her as a guest bartender. Could see her serve them whisky and wine.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez returns home to the Bronx with Desus and Mero to get her bacon egg and cheese fix, walk the neighborhood, and show off her bartending skills with a Henny-Temple.

 
She was a bar MAID - I'd bet a month's income on it.

Bartending requires brains, or at least a heavy dose of street smarts. As well as a good memory - not only for complicated drinks, but for faces and past conversations. Customers aren't there for the drinks - they can get them at home. They're there for the congenial company and atmosphere.

Now, the barmaids...would take refills to tables, or food orders. Dives would have them with low-cut tops, mammaries hanging out. Fake upper-crust places would put them in cocktail mini-dresses, with black or pink knickers sticking out under. Remind the drunken lechers of thrills they used to get when they were eleven years old.

Brains are not required. Some resourcefulness is helpful - such as, how to turn unwanted attention into an extra $300 with an hour's work, after clocking out.

THAT is, in my read, what Aye-Ochk was good at.
 
Casey Jones said:
Bartending requires brains, or at least a heavy dose of street smarts. As well as a good memory - not only for complicated drinks, but for faces and past conversations. Customers aren't there for the drinks - they can get them at home. They're there for the congenial company and atmosphere.
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(y) For some it's a respite.

Casey Jones said:
Brains are not required. Some resourcefulness is helpful
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Depending on the bar (atmosphere) and location (customers) some bartenders can make bank. I know one who owned a house in Seaside (NJ) and had a rental in Ocean City. She sold the house in Seaside to a NYer, bought a place in SC and banked the difference. She also did house and office cleaning on the side. Smart chic.

 
Let's not confuse a bartender - a barkeep, literally the guy in charge of the show, or part of the team that is - with a barmaid or cocktail waitress. She's there to...look...attractive. And, as I alluded, to leverage that lust, if she so chooses.

Aye-Ockh couldn't leverage a winning lotto ticket. She couldn't figure out what an in-sink garbage disposal was.

She couldn't even see the problem of a filthy two-day-old face diaper half-hanging around her nose and mouth! That...person...is RETARDED!
 
Not interested in the fawning hagiography above, #103.

She's a compleat moron - and a reprobate slut. Do I need to spend several hours, searching for an old candid picture of her in "college" - spreading her legs in her bra and underpants, for about six drunken frat boys, with the beer keg behind them?

Because I have the photo, somewhere. Figured it would come in handy. Also figured web censorship would get amped up.

She's loose, stupid, over-endowed with high self-esteem...and clueless about economics, something that EVERY purported leader needs to be conversant in.
 
pmbug said:
X is filled with recent video of Biden walking around completely lost during press meetings with dignitaries and such. It's clear that he struggles to remain lucid frequently these days. So who is actually making decisions these days while he is checked out?
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The nations security apparatus, or what some call the "deep state". They've been calling the shots since the '60's.
 
Biden looked terrible in tonight's debate. His cognitive issues were very obvious.
 
pmbug said:
Biden looked terrible in tonight's debate. His cognitive issues were very obvious.
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They've been very obvious for years now, at least to anyone paying even half-hearted attention to the matter and not suffering from a terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Even during the previous election, it was obvious he was having issues, mentally.

What we all should be asking is, who has actually been calling the shots? At whose desk does the Buck stop?

I wouldn't be at at all surprised if it were being done "committee style". Because that might explain the terrible decisions that "his" administration has made.

Because I think we've all had enough experience to know that committe decisions are, at best, mediocre and at worst absolutely terrible.


@searcher , what did you think of the debate? Do you honestly think Joe is truly fit for the position? Is he what America needs right now? Or ever?
 
Best line of the debate.

"There was no inflation when I took over."
- Sleepy Joe Biden

No shit, Sherlock! That's wtf we been sayin'. Lol

Edited to add: that line will be pure gold in Trump ads this Summer and Fall.
 
Joe King said:
@searcher , what did you think of the debate? Do you honestly think Joe is truly fit for the position? Is he what America needs right now? Or ever?
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www.pmbug.com

Elections

A plant, probably. I can't parse it, because I didn't watch. I have better things to do with my time and my brain, rather than fill it with government propaganda.
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I loved the end where Jill tells him he did great. He answered all the questions.
I didn't bother watching and only caught a few clips on the inter webs.

I really think our founding fathers got it right when they only allowed property owners to vote. There is no way this guy should have ever been elected and probably wasn't.
Why hasn't the 25th been invoked yet? Not that our dingbat VP would be much better.
 
Cigarlover said:
I loved the end where Jill tells him he did great. He answered all the questions.
I didn't bother watching and only caught a few clips on the inter webs.

I really think our founding fathers got it right when they only allowed property owners to vote. There is no way this guy should have ever been elected and probably wasn't.
Why hasn't the 25th been invoked yet? Not that our dingbat VP would be much better.
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I knew it would be a waste of time and a stress creator.

I also knew that the Trump people would be out to post the lowlights. What I didn't expect was that the mediuh operatives would turn on their boy.

I guess this is another form of Limited Hangout, as well as a way to stage a brokered convention.

Comes down to, who is their potentate-princeling? Or, more-likely, their princess? The Wicked Witch of Chappaqua, Cankles the Corrupt? Or, Big Mike? Wretched Whitless, Davos' gift to Michigan?

Or Gavin the Gruesome, who can honestly promise to do for (to) America what he's done with Californistan?

It would be fascinating to watch, except that I kinda have a stake in this. No input, but a vital stake.
 
Cigarlover said:
Not that our dingbat VP would be much better.
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chieftain said:
Free BJ's for all!!!
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You can have mine. She is a complete turn off, to me.

I'd go so far as to say any normal guy thinking she's alright, needs to have their head examined.
She wouldn't even make a good two bit whore for guys who are deaf dumb and blind.


The dems and their msm cheerleaders have, for years and until today, insisted that Joe is sharp as a tack. So they should be forced to keep him.

In fact, playing musical chairs with candidates in an attempt to find a winner, should be illegal. They knew how he was all along and they should keep their potato on the ballot..
 
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