Senator John Kennedy froze and then properly zoned out—forcing Fox to cut the interview short.
“I know better than Jesus and truth is a popularity contest.”
He literally froze up when he got caught in the Christan Nationalist logical trap.
Literally got stuck in the loop when his lips said, “I’m sure Jesus loves them, but everybody else…”
The topic they were discussing was Trump’s crackdown on sanctuary cities.
And then these decrepit assholes wonder why we want mandatory retirement ages.
JOE BIDEN is OLD! THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
I hate this guy so fucking much
He was probably thinking of Hunters massive dong.
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Wash some feet probably
remain in office for far longer than they should, usually out of pride and denial.
These cunts keep getting elected.
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I’m curious to know how you feel the democrats have done this? Please be specific, and please have something more recent than Jim Crow.
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Kennedy is a Senator. Gerrymandering doesn’t apply to state-wide elections. Only congressional seats.
Not directly, but it does lower participation, especially for those against the House seats incumbent
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Are you assuming democrats have drawn new lines to prevent people from voting? Or, are they just trying to draw it back? Do you have any examples? Because you’re really sounding like you have very little evidence to support the claim that both sides are equally fucking over the voters. You’re sounding very MAGA right now.
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I didn’t say you are, I said you sounded like one. But I can see that you don’t have any examples and you don’t know what you’re talking about. The vast majority of the shitty politicians are Republicans. You can try to both sides this all you want, you will continue to come up short just like you have
He’s the only name the voters recognize, probably.
Anyone who would oppose him doesn’t have the funding to force their name into everyone’s mouths.
You’re probably right, but I’m not sure this guy even knows his name at this point
I knew it wasn’t Bitch McConnell because he’s like 143 years old.
Kennedy: I’m sure Jesus loves him, but …
Jesus: STFU *hits mute*
Keep my name out your mouth. - Jesus
That’s insane to me that the Fox News host tried to pretend it was an issue with the mic. It’s so clear the mic was working fine, what the fuck. This is the kind of obvious propaganda that I’d expect from North Korea
Fox News is way better and more sophisticated as a propaganda machine than whatever NK has.
It’s one thing to brain wash people that have no access to education or outside sources it’s a completely different level to do it in a western country.
Not really. Is there much difference between no education and an American education?
It doesn’t really count if you just make up all the facts and history.
I often think about how many people I went to school with felt that high school was difficult. High school in America is a fucking joke. I understand that high school is difficult if you have a disability of some sort, and I even buy the cultural bias argument for standardized testing, but I went to high school in a lilly white suburb with lots of supposedly normative kids and some of them barely made it through graduation.
The American populace is chock full of idiots. Most of the people that even graduated high school here (which is not everyone) went on to never pick up another book again.
College too. I used to study in the business school beacuse it was new and the chairs were excellent. I’d frequently run into students doing the whole “Math is hard!” thing.
So I’d offer to help, super basic high school algebra type stuff.
I’d explain it and they’d go “Wow! You’re smart! What classes are you taking here?”
“Oh, I’m an English major, I’m just here because the chairs don’t suck.”
I mean… you were at the business college. You think maybe your sample is poisoned?
That’s what I was thinking… “These are the MBA students?” Followed by “Man, I picked the wrong major…”
At least when I was in school, Business Majors were for the kids who couldn’t hack it in a STEM degree.
We call that “pulling a Mitch”
“mitching off”
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I’d be for a cognitive exam. Ideally screening out various personality disorders, too.
But this thread is riddled with the usual ageist tropes and stuff about term limits. None of which will fix anything about our broken system.
Having some hard-coded age put into our legal system is bound to end badly. First of all, what is considered the typical years of health span I expect to change, most especially for the higher class (even if America’s health advances stall out thanks to the Republicans, other countries will continue forward and the upper echelons will definitely have access to such care). Secondly, even if it doesn’t, the typical years of health span vary wildly person to person. Telling someone at 73 they are too old to do the job, apropos of nothing else but the number of times they have been around the sun? That’s just plain stupid and it should be up to the voters to decide that.
Well there’s age limits v. term limits.
I think term limits are definitely reasonable, regardless of age. We don’t need one person in a specific government role indefinitely.
Age limits, I’m kind of inclined to agree that would be hard to pin down. Frankly 73 is a bit young in my experience to be as far gone as John Kennedy seemed to be. Certainly it drops off and drops off suddenly at some point for people, but you do have people into their 90s with their cognition intact. Bernie Sanders is in his 80s and he seems mentally still there.
I’ve just never seen a very compelling case for term limits. I don’t think they’ll fix anything and in my anecdotal experience, the most prominent supporters tend to be rightwing cranks, so it makes me all the more suspect of the idea.
It’s one of those things that might sound really good to say, especially when someone has just had it up to here with the outcomes of legalized bribery and a corrupt government in the hands of incompetents and radicalized right wingers.
And yeah, when it comes to things like healthspan, I am not a fan at all of trying to apply some upper bound on age, especially when we may be poised on a revolution in things related to aging. Our government is already famously slow in catching up to other developments, this would be yet another where we are ushering people out of job long before it makes sense…
The problem is that as people age cognitive decline can be rapid. You elect somebody at 70 with no symptoms for a 6 year term. By 73 you get this type of issue.
A cognitive test would only work if it was administered yearly. If they show signs of cognitive decline they are immediately relieved of duties. You’d have to set up an independent body of physicians to administer the test and have the physician chosen at random to prevent shenanigans. The rich and powerful would still find a way to rig the system.
Or you can just set rules to prevent the issue.
64 is the oldest anyone can run for office and 70 is mandatory retirement age for all positions in government service. Yes some people still have a lot of life left in them at that age They can do something else.
As we’ve seen over and over again one dement old person in a position of power can cause pain and suffering or even the loss of life to millions.
I have a friend who retired from government service at 58 after 35 years. He then started his own business now at 79 it’s large and prosperous. Just because he “retired” doesn’t mean he stopped being of value to society. Hell his business has more impact now that he ever did in his government job.
Unfortunately old age is starting to catch up with him. He had a mild stroke last year and his brain isn’t what it used to be.
Every one of those aholes that want to run for office should take a basic science exam.
When there are legislators getting all het up about chem trails I know we’re going down the drain.
I’d get behind this 100%. Maybe throw in some screening for things like the dark triad and a basic test on critical thinking as well.
Fuck no… Just because the rich killed a bunch of people and hoarded all of the medicine for themselves does not mean because they live longer they should be in charge.
I don’t think anyone would necessarily be hoarding anything; I’m just pointing out that health spans are likely to change as things advance. Maybe the average American might lag a bit behind the top 10% or so, but I very much doubt that these people will be aging the same way that people age now or ten years ago.
Setting some hard-coded thing now will be hard to change later to adapt with the times.
That’s God smiting him for using Jesus’ name in the service of the evil he and MAGA released on the earth.
God is angry at the MAGA antichrist.
huhuh.
If that’s true then why hasn’t god smited trump? whose objectively awful, but acting in his name? or any of thousands of preachers who are pedophiles? Why are they still allowed to be preachers and pedophiles raping kids?
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Hahahahaha Jesus made a direct editorial on that comment of his. “That’s about enough of that from you.” Sizzle “Bwhah? Who’s making toast?”
