contributing writer @wearemel, @ringer, & @splicetoday. seen in @theatlantic, @parisreview, &c. repped by @inkwellmgmt. co-host of @whatisleftpod 
You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more
And this is fine, people are living longer, etc. But imagine that. Rule of a giant economic power by people whose odds of surviving another year are worse than the Lakers' odds of winning another NBA title, back when that was a thing. Sanders had a heart attack. Biden is frail
Can you imagine your retired parents, even if they were good and smart and fit at 70-plus, circling the conestoga wagons and finding a solution to all this, when they're also in the crosshairs of the reaper's scythe (if this were a FPS, that scythe would have crosshairs)?
You can provide FDR and Woody Wilson as counterexamples, but those men basically dropped dead at the end of their national emergencies and one of them wasn't even all there for the last few years of his. And they were younger than this crop of leaders!
Say what you will about the powdered-wig generation of American founders, but at least some of them were young enough to be out front with the grunts rather than in the rear evading taxes by smuggling the gear. And Trump, aged and either overweight or obese, flaunts his mortality
it's absurd to me that we aren't "supposed" to discuss the health of our political leaders when that is very obviously a major factor. my mom is younger than the Dems' entire leadership and she's not in good health; I can't imagine asking her to work as Speaker of the House
Pelosi looked like a mannequin in a death mask when explaining her bipartisan bill. I admire the effort, but the optics of all this, in a time when seniors are in the crosshairs, is just hog wild. Meanwhile aged Trump blithely remarks about how it's hard to stop shaking hands
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
