Sen. Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze momentarily at an event in Covington, Ky. McConnell also froze in July at a news conference on Capitol Hill, going silent before being escorted away.
He is too old and should retire…like a lot of people running the government.
I think Trump (a liar and criminal) and Biden are too old to run for president too. But it looks like I will be voting for Biden again.
Although cognitive decline is associated with aging, it is not 100%. I’ve personally known 90 year olds with more mental ability than some 60 year olds. McConnel’s decline was evident over a decade ago, as was Feinstein’s. Neither should have been reelected. I see much more mental decline in Trump than in Biden. Try listening to tapes from them 20-30 years ago. Trump now speaks with the simplistic speech patterns of a child, whereas he used to discuss complex issues with competency. I think a Trump presidency 30 years ago would have been even more dangerous than the one we had. Biden still talks in complex sentences which make sense, and he appears to know what he’s talking about.
Nonetheless we absolutely need to get younger people into higher office more and more, prepping them for the presidency.
I don’t even think we should care about the decline. the important thing is fitness for the role. if he started out smarter than needed he should have been allowed to conitnue as long as his mental capacity is above a treshold.
he should have been allowed to conitnue
Who is “he” that should have been “allowed”? No one has been disallowed, that I know of. Someone was voted out of office a few years ago, which is a proper procedure in a democracy.
the law. the law should not allow it. it should be regulated. hopefully that clarifies it.
you should also think about the possibility of someone going from smart to plant within the period they are serving an elected position.
But what do you do when his constituents actually vote for the plant? I mean I agree as much as anyone that he is unfit for office and should not be there, but if the numbskulls in Kentucky keep saying this is the most qualified person they can come up with to represent them, who are we to deny them their political voice? We can correctly say that they must be dumber than a vegetable to elect him, but don’t they have that right?
Are you saying that there should be a law against a standing office holder losing an election? I hope I’m misunderstanding you. If the voters decide that someone who is serving in an office should not be returned to that office, whether it’s president, senator, governor or whatever, then that’s what the election is for. Have you never voted against someone who was currently in office?
Both McConnel and Feinstein should have been voted out of office a cycle or two ago, purely on the basis of competency rather than politics.
No. I am only speaking in the most vague and general sense. I did not draft a proposal that handles any of the issues you mentioned. I certainly agree that it’s not as simple as I described it but at the same time there is a large space of solutions that will make sense to some people (and not others) testing elected officials for mental capacity doesn’t mean the testing needs to depend on election cycles. why should it?
No, we should care about the decline, because they will continue to get worse. A lot can change in 2 or 4 or 6 years.
whatever system is used to measure capacity can and should be used periodically. you can even test them more frequently if they are near another treshold in capacity
For some reason the way she said “Please speak up” as if it’s that reporters fault really got to me. Fuck off, that volume was perfectly fine. How about get a senator that can hear sounds below 100dB? How about get a senator whose mind isn’t withering away to dust? How about he literally has to forfeit his position due to being too senile to adequately perform in the interest of American citizens?
When Windows 98 keeps bluescreening but you keep pushing “enter” to return to windows in hopes that it will last long enough to finish that game level.
I can only make so many jokes about a man “stroking his turtlehead”. Would he die already?
Death to traitors!
