politics

complicate attacks on Biden's age

No they really don't. They'll talk about Biden's "obvious mental decline" and they'll just not talk at all about Mitch's very public 30 second Journeys Beyond the Stars. They'll absolutely say Biden is too old but that Trump, who is only 3 years younger, isn't. The right is absolutely capable of that level of doublethink. Stop assuming anything matters to them other than getting power they can use to hurt people. They don't care about policy. They don't care about seeming like hypocrites. They've been whipped into a paranoid frenzy and they'll do anything they need to do in order to hurt the people they're afraid of. Start looking at their behavior through that lens and see if it doesn't start to make a lot of sense to you.

I do have to admit, after getting concussed I also appeared to freeze but I was thinking hard of what the right word is to say next.

That said, probably anyone in concussion recovery should be on leave from legislating. The brain will heal more slowly, and your work will be of poor quality.

That's all before getting into the actual politics of having a gerentocracy.

I know a lot of people have talked a out adding an age limit, but it seems to me most of the ancient ones are skating by on incumbent effect. If we had term limits it would resolve that. Alternatively something like the Virginia Gubernatorial rules where you cannot hold the position successively.

Literally just yesterday Fox had some other attack piece on Biden and the picture they used of Biden he looked totally zonked-out.

McConnell's walking-dead impersonation changes nothing for Republicans. Hypocrisy means nothing to those people.

This would be devastating if conservatives cared at all about hypocrisy or logical consistency.

No one over 70, period. Go home. Retire. Make way.

No they don't.

Imagine what a cakewalk it would be if the Democrats could scrape up a viable candidate under 65

Wait. Trump, three years younger than Biden, is attacking Biden on his age?

There's a 4 year age gap between Trump and Biden. Funny how 4 years ago Trump was saying Biden was too old for the job...

Why do Democrats keep entertaining the notion that rank hypocrisy will ever be a dealbreaker for Republicans? They have decades of evidence to the contrary.

These are people that have mastered doublethink, there is absolutely no such complication for people inside the GOP bubble. For everyone else, yeah, it's one more minor bit of hypocrisy, but it's not even a thing for the bleach-koolaid drinkers.

No it doesn't, because the same people complaining about Biden are usually masters of doublethink anyway.

Well it's not like they both arent too old or anything...

Yeah bruh, I’ll take Brandon over any traitor republican.

You have to have a sense of irony for that to be true, and conservatives tend to lack a sense of irony.

Trumps age complicate republican attacks on bidens age...

Why do we get Biden? Is there NO other democrat that can beat Trump, etc? None whatsoever?

The Dems need to stop fighting one election at a time. They're fighting on their back foot!

More than anything I just hope this could get the US term limits. If an older person gets elected so be it, but let's get rid of people serving in Congress for 20+ years. Two terms Senate, two House gets you twenty years, that is long enough and follows the existing model with the Presidency.