As an unabashed liberal and Dem party voter: enough is enough. Let the future get started already.
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
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She is too old to run again. Like Biden, Trump, many others passed retirement age. Let go of power and enjoy your retirement.
Always nice when all my reps are backwards boomer jackasses that don't make any attempt to represent me or my generation. I wish all congresspersons be forced to retire and prevented from reelection when they reach a certain age.
Hell, Gen X barely have any representatives. Boomers still run the place.
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Always nice when all my reps are backwards boomer jackasses
Nancy Peloso is older than a Boomer. She's from the generation before that, the Silent Generation.
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Yeah she's 83 years old and could be worth $170 million. I think a normal person at some point would just want to take it easy a live their life for a bit. IMO it's kind of ghoulish to have all these 70+ year olds still power-tripping just for the sake of it.
Like Strom Thurmond, who left the Senate in 2003 at 100 years old, and then pretty much died immediately afterwards.
Pretty sure most of these people would die immediately after retiring. Their thirst for power keeps their body working or something. That's the only reasonable explanation of why in the flying fuck an 80 year old multimillionaire would choose to continue working.
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How else would she get all those hot stock tips?
How much is enough for these people? I have always told myself if I won the lottery, I could live comfortably on 10 million no problem for the rest of my days with my wife and kids. What causes these people to just want more and more instead of just chilling out and enjoying what they have already? Why would you want to run again at her age? Go enjoy retirement!
When some old lady is found with a house full of junk from floor to ceiling we call that a mental disorder. When rich folk do the same with money it's just capitalism at work.
Narcissism, mainly.
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I live in her district. I will attend campaign speeches yelling, “Let younger generations have a turn!”
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Will these stubborn old fucks just retire and disappear into wine country or something? You are creating a world you won't have to deal with the consequences of and the longer you hold onto power the less experience the next generation of leaders can attain and will ultimately weaken your party and has already weakened the country. Go. The. Fuck. Away. You. Old. Cunts.
It's time for nationwide term limits. You get to serve your term and do what you'd like, then give the reins over to the next person. Sick of all these fucking old ghouls who cling onto their positions of power like it's a fucking philosophers stone for them.
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Someone needs to AOC her. They have primaries, right? It shouldn't be a given that she will be the nominee.
She has too much name recognition and not enough unfavorables for this approach to work. She shouldn't run and if she wins she'll be a lucky to be as coherent as McConnell by the end, but I don't think a primary challenge will work against her. Hope I'm wrong.
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Could not agree more, and I'm going to start calling someone getting primary'd from the left as getting AOC'd.
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VOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Such a small amount of people decide who ends up on the ballot. And an overwhelming majority of incumbents get reelected due to primaries.
Please please please vote! Even if you like the person in the lead, consider voting for someone who might not win but will send a message to the party that their policies need to be folded into the party platform, etc.
Voting can’t fix this, it’s systemic. The Democratic Party will not allow challengers source to their flow of money. A mass movement is required to clip their wings.
What you just said though contradicts itself. At the end of the day voting en masse for reform is "a mass movement". Things won't change when these politicians feel comfortable. Voting against them and being vocal about this as an issue will scare them. Voting absolutely works and all this rhetoric around "voting can't fix this" is exactly how we end up with this bullshit. Boomers learned decades ago how effective voting can be at changing everything and they have consistently turned out and shaped society around their needs as a result. If young people could get this through their heads then shit would actually change. Especially since millennials and gen z now make up the majority of the voting age population in the US.
People who say “just don’t vote” or advocate abstaining from elections as a method to end the Democrats are entitled and come from a place of privilege.
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She did not oppose her ability to trade in the stock market despite enacting laws that helped enrich her estate.
I am a very liberal person. She did a lot of good, but I absolutely would not want to see her keep her position.
That and I'd rather see someone ~36 years old fill the seat than someone whose had it for 36 years.
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Just retire already. Her seat is in no danger of going to a Republican and I’m tired of seeing these walking corpses making decisions for us.
They have learned nothing from what happened with RBG. Or they don’t care (probably more likely)
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Don't be like Feinstein where people have to question your health and be ignobly forced out. Leave on a high note.
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Why do these people want to continue in these leadership roles? It must be power and the attention seeking lifestyle., right? She is way too old. She would never be hired for a critical role outside of government. Move on and set age limits on our Country’s leadership roles.
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Gross
These power hungry assholes need to be removed. Why can't voters just do the appropriate thing here? This isn't a party thing, it's a 'bitch is gonna die on the house floor' thing.
Same for Mitch even though he stole his election and Feinstein. They're all fucking awful.
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It's wild to me that when she lost/left Speaker of the House she said (paraphrasing) that is was time to let the younger generation lead yet here she is again....
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Jfc. It's literally impossible for these geriatric people to give up power.
We're really going to have to wait for these people to die in office to get rid of them, aren't we? From both parties
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I am so fucking sick of this gerontocracy. All these demented drooling old fucks need to clear out and leave guiding the future to people who still have one.
She needs to retire already and they really need age limits for congresspeople. She has been involved in politics since JFK was President, time to move on.
Such a dry sponge
FFs really? Just move on and start on OF already.
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