We need a maximum age for politicians. At all levels. And term limits. At all levels.
this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2024
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And a god damn attendance record.
My kid's school told me flat out that if a kid misses too many school days, they will be left behind.
So these "politicians" get paid and don't even have to show up?
Weirder still the ones that do show up tend to cast votes of absentees with sticks they proudly carry around for just that age or somehow both accepted and legal.
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To be fair, dementia is not much of a hindrance for making GOP policies.
Quite the opposite, it's almost a requisite at this point
It's not cognitive dissonance if you can't remember what your values were to begin with.
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Who's been doing her job since then? There is no way that can be legal. I'd bet the farm the same thing is happening to Mitch McConnell. No way that old bag of dust and bones is competent enough to do his job.
Kind of crazy how I get fired if I miss one day of work but senators can just not show up for weeks
The interns have been accepting all the bribes and spending it on beer.
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Granger never let a little thing like legality stop her. Why start now?
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Let me guess, Granger continued to collect her paycheck while "missing."
Shouldn't something like that be reported when it happens? She's an elected official. Her seat has effectively been empty for at least six months now.
It's a small shit in the toilet-tub that is the current political state, but come on.
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How the fuck does a Senator go missing for SIXTH FUCKING MONTHS and no one bothers looking for them.
Her aids were probably running the show for years. What happens with these congress critters is that they create a support network around themselves to do the real work while they campaign for the next election. It gets to the point that the congress member themselves becomes superfluous. If it goes on long enough, they fall into dementia, but the aids don't want to start over again with someone new, so they just tote their boss around from time to time like Weekend at Burnie's. It happened with Dianne Feinstein. It's probably happening with Mitch McConnell.
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People from her office absolutely knew where she was, they just didn't bother telling anybody else.
She is in Congress, not the Senate - so there’s a couple hundred more of them in general, and not all of them turn up to work every day.. so it’s not hard to lose one for 6 months and not notice.
Especially when they’re Republicans, since they do sweet fuck all most days anyway.
She apparently did make at least one appearance during the ~~sixth~~ six months for whatever that's worth (sourced from her Wikipedia page)
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Hmm I see. Her generation continues to be an utter fucking embarrassment when it comes to politics.
Imagine not showing up to your job for 6 months and people just going, "hmmm, I wonder where they are."
I'm pretty sure the most important among them have known but were colluding in hiding it from the public.
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This seems like a pretty important job to not just shuffle the person doing it into an old folks home! Like come on!
Literally a limited number per state. Even an midmanager would get called for running out of PTO way before then.
My question is "How did they tell she was demented?"
GOP Congresswoman
Yeah, it's a tautology
Let's talk about that woman later. Wtf is going on in Texas?? "An amendment to reduce the salary of Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticide Programs to $1" what did that person do that they put that on the agenda? Why is it possible to set a salary that low?
From what I see his name was Jake Li and he was attempting to safeguard endangered species against pesticides. So... His position is now vacant. Guessing Texas couldn't stand for it
He/they released this, so maybe I would have to more digging to gain further understanding.
https://texasfarmbureau.org/epa-releases-final-endangered-species-herbicide-strategy/
Edit: it appears he was "brought in" to that position when Biden entered office, and he is moving to the Department of Interior's fish and wildlife division. I suspect that they knew the upcoming and current cuts to the EPA would thin them out and the Fish and Wildlife department is less likely to be gone after, as that's who you get your hunting/fishing etc licenses from. I imagine the establishment that gives out licenses to shoot animals for fun, isn't likely to be targeted by Republicans
I can see your angle on not hurting the licensing agency, but I could also see it as a tactic to make it all so inoperable that licenses effectively become unnecessary. A temporary order to not enforce licenses starts making it normal. It's a stretch.
Unlicensed hunting leads to culling to much of a species in an area and ultimately it dying out. For the most part, even the dumb hunters understand if you kill to many this year hunting, there won't be anything to hunt moving forward. So they wouldn't want to chance not having the ability to hunt anything anymore I imagine. Same thing goes for the fishing and such. Though invasive species such as lionfish should be open season year round. But that is commonly done with diving gear, nets and spears usually because they have poisonous spines on them. (They do taste delicious though). They started an annual lionfish contest at a place I lived at about 7 years ago, so they had enough to feed everyone who came.
I'd be more concerned with sadistic tourist trophy hunters. Stuff like the multi-millionaires doing illegal African game hunts, but the local multi-hundred-thousandaires instead. But yeah, let's hope there's enough sensible hunters to help maintain any deregulation issues. And all this is IF it's even at risk.
But who fuckin knows. You'd think clean air would be a safe bet to maintain as a positive, but big oil is getting their way both with the government and the propaganda to convince society it's a masculine right to stroke the gas pump cock.
Realize that's she's a US house member, not a state legislature member. They were trying to defund the EPA in general by reducing salaries for individuals to $1 and it wasn't just Texas.
Which is funny, because both Texas and Oklahoma ignore the EPA anyway. The Oklahoma turnpike authority is trying to pollute Norman’s drinking water, and build a turnpike through land that endangered toads live on. They aren’t conducting any sort of environmental impact assessment, because Oklahoma gave them permission not to. Texas has probably hundreds, if not thousands, of improperly shut down oil wells which spew all kinds of pollution.
Is this what they mean by Reaganism?
Why not have a cut off age?
That would put everyone voting for it out of a job.
Asking people with power to give up that power willingly almost never works, unfortunately.
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As I recall, she had a lot of mounting legal troubles over the Ft. Worth billion-dollar flood control project, which apparently funneled taxpayer cash to her son. And then there was that whole trip to Russia to meet with Putin on July 4th thing.
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this is why health reporting requirements should be made publicly available prior to election, imo
at least they didn't reelect her for 2025-26
I’ve encountered 90 year olds that can walk, maybe even run circles around 50-60 year olds, mentally and physically.
That said, this is something we keep seeing. Feinstein was painful to see, and a clear example of what should never be allowed to happen. We need an age cap.
A policy like that is also ethically sound in that, and I’ve heard this floated before in multiple places, in that the politician will then have to sit back as an outsider and look at the impact of what they did.
As is, our politicians are free from that in being able to die in office or retire to dementia care instead of FEELING the impact of what they’ve done, or pointedly not done, while in office.
Age cap: 70. Done. You can run if you’re going to turn 70 in office, let’s be generous, but once you’re over 70 you can no longer run for an office.
Enforced retirement of judges for the same reason. Hit 70, you finish or transfer the cases you’re working on and when that’s done you’re done. Who knows how much inertia is fueling a waxing/waning cusp of Dementia judge when there’s no real focus on this across the many courtrooms of the country.
But I’ll probably be accused of ageism here. It’s a nice way to solve ethics problems, infirmity problems, and add in a soft cap term limitation.
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sounds like she's clearly just getting in touch with the local population
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