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Bernie Sanders to run for fourth term in US Senate
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Listen. I really, really like Bernie, but, man... You are 82 years old. What the fuck are you doing?
He’s only one year older than Biden. If Sanders acts like he’s too old to serve another term, it’ll make Biden seem too old as well.
The average age of the people in the US political system never ceases to amaze me.
Man, I hate that that's a pretty good point. I think he could certainly retire without it being for age reasons, but gerontocracy gotta support each other.
Ok but the other side of this argument is that folks like Chuck Grasley and Mitch McConnell won’t leave either.
I’m really just over the idea of 80 year olds being our leaders, and I’m not the only one who feels that way.
And Trump is only three years younger than Biden. But for some reason, Trump is just some young buck to Republicans when they talk about age.
I've avoided saying anything about Biden's age because of how singularly vicious centrists have been about Sanders' age for most of a decade.
I figured Biden's age is why centrists decided to cool it on the ageism about Trump.
Guess they're only ageist against politicians to their left.