OH geez, if he wants to take us back to medieval times, these rich guys should all be trying to kill him and each other while adding to the arts!
…wait…never mind…that really didn’t turn out well, did it? But we got some GREAT art out of it!
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I feel like this needs to be discussed more.
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Uff. It does need to be discussed more, but that article didn’t do it.
The journalist managed to list out nearly all the things which are not actually age related. She even points out herself:
(Mike Pence, on the other hand, was rocking gray in his 30s.)
Me, I got my first grey hairs when I was 13. My grandparents on my mum’s side were totally grey by the time they were in their late 20s.
So while most people have gone grey by their 60s, it starts much earlier for some people and is not a good indicator of health. It can be perceived as “worn out”, but Pence, Bernie, and others are proof that’s not necessarily so.
The cosmetic surgery --that’s life in the TV lane. “Everybody” does it. Whatever.
The senility is kind of like the grey hair – it’s not really age-related when it can onset as early as one’s 40s and 50s, even though it’s more likely to happen later in life. The point is, it’s a health problem, one which has already been successfully covered up for an entire presidential term or more in Reagan’s case. What it meant was someone or several someones – probably George Bush Sr. – was really running the country in secret, while handlers used Reagan’s skills from years of memorising scripts to get him through speeches.
Jimmy Carter is, from all accounts, still sharp, and he’s older than all the candidates.
Carter has the best quote in the article. It’s not about age, but about health and stamina. Warren’s stamina I believe, if only because I know similarly energetic people in her age range.
The rest, not so much.
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He looks like he got in trouble for humping the flag too hard in public… again.
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Just the idea of Bloomberg in the race is odious to me. And support for his candidacy incenses me. Anyone who would support Bloomberg is complicit in his terror campaign against those young black and Hispanic men — and dismissive of their pain.
If you support Bloomberg, I want nothing to do with you. Nothing!
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And also, he had the rules changed so he could serve a third term.
He did this because he didn’t think there was anyone else as qualified as he was to be mayor. Even Giuliani didn’t do that.
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That’s nothing. I just looked up one of my home towns.
Republican Mark Lauretti has served as mayor since taking office in 1991.
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Pressure from who? Trump?
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Oh gods, the next year is going to be so painful.
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My mom is getting excited over Bloomberg. It is scary that she wants any billionaire to represent us.
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So many people get dazzled by money, or at least the appearance of it, and by people acting like tyrants.
I remember seeing it with Rob Ford, when a friend of mine voted for him and supported him passionately… only to find out during his time in office that he was pretty much the opposite of how she’d thought of him. Not a businessman or good with money, and not a good leader.
Not sure how to break through it, to show these signs of success are not necessarily what you want in a political leader.
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Please, I’m eating breakfast.
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My mom, honestly, was kinda scaring the pants off me that night. She almost sent money to some rando person on the internet because she thought it was coming from her brother’s email…and, sure, that’s how he’d go about asking, Mom, in all caps and asking you to purchase a card from Walmart. I really get concerned about how to handle these “slips” because she seems lucid but is … scary.
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Someone could be totally lucid and still slip up, or else phishing scams wouldn’t work.
I have “scam training” to look forward to because I clicked on a fake phish our security department at work sent while I was chatting with a co-worker and I missed the from address wasn’t right.
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You’re not almost 80 - Mom’s not a digital native. She just uses the computer differently, like email is super important to her. I do get why she thought it was plausible, but also…she honestly thought her somewhat estranged brother wanted her to send a $200 gift card to his niece?
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Re: Buttiegieg. Could we get some ranked-choice polling so the Warren-Sanders bloc becomes obvious enough that the media stops humping the latest choice of billionaires?
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Okay, FIRST:
If Pence is taken down or resigns, Madam Speaker becomes POTUS. She gets to choose her own VPOTUS.
If that happens:
What if she decides she no longer wishes to be SotH and decides to run, a la Gerald Ford? Or - and this is probably more likely - what if she steps down and hands the reins over to her VP? Might we want to them to stay POTUS, depending who they could be?
So many variables, I can’t believe we’re talking about the election at the present time. POTUS elections are getting to be like major holidays - preparation for them is WAY too fuckin’ soon.
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Oh let’s play this game!
Madam Speaker becomes President Pelosi.
And as her VP, she has…
Elizabeth Warren
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Kamala Harris
Secretary Clinton
…you get my drift. If Trump hands us the first lady P and VP, I am so down for this impeachment.
Also, I am so down for this impeachment even if it means wet laundry becomes our new leader.
But Lady Power would just be THE BEST.
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