At a time of national emergency, let it sink in that the many in the most vulnerable population (seniors) are younger than the highly-placed political leaders & two candidates contending to replace one of them. It's bizarre. I want mom to stay home and Nancy Pelosi working...?
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Pelosi, for example, is nine years older than my mom. Clarence Thomas and RBG on the SCOTUS are in frail health. The kingmaker in the Dem race, Jim Clyburn, is ancient. Our very front lines are comprised of the old and frail, a true gerontocracy
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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
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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)?
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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
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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
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