Chuck Grassley is living proof that only the good die young.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
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Durbin should have grabbed Grassley's gavel and played keep away with it, making the old guy jump to grab it until he croaked from an infarction.
So congress is wasting tax payer money by hosting a meeting to bully an old cancer patient and private citizen.
Our government is as respectable as a your average conspiracy podcaster.
It's kind of double hypocrisy when you consider the fact that Reagan was well known to be completely mentally shut down by the end of his second term.
More like the start of his second term - and it was Alzheimer's.
Nancy Reagan was basically the president for most of his second term.
And her astrologer.
Pretty sure thats some sort of zombie. Are we sure this isn't weekend at the Bernies thing or some sort of fascist necromancer?
They already did it with Feinstein. Puppeting corpses is a time honored tradition in the US government.
I thought this had to be old, because why the fuck would they be holding a hearing on this now when he’s not president? But no, that’s what they’re doing. Fucking Republicans.
Not president, and dying of cancer
It's surely being done to appease the orange toddler as he wants Biden dragged through the courts as he was. Small problem is that either Bidens a much smarter criminal than Trump and didn't leave any evidence, or he just wasn't criminal enough to warrant charging.
We live in a gerontocracy, of course our leaders are going to be suffering from cognitive decline.
The world would be so much better off if you just couldn't be elected after a certain age.
They should index it to when you can draw social security.
Hypocrisy is the conservative way, though. The Canadian conservative party leader (but not actually an MP) got into politics saying if he were Prime Minister, he would enact a two-term limit (8 years) for all MPs.
He was an MP for 25 years until he lost his seat this spring. Ironically, one of his campaign slogans was 'vote for change'. Upon the electorate voting for the change of their representative and him losing his seat, he then went to Alberta to steal another conservative MP's seat, while also continuing to reside in the mansion for the official Leader of the Opposition in Parliament.
Good old Mr. Verb the Noun
55 lol
45!
... no, wait, fuck 45! 46!
Well I guess I got one, maybe 2 elections to get a small time gov job lol. But I feel like voting should be cut off at 70 as well. There's just too many things to go wrong with that, meaning "ok grandma it's all filled out, just sign here" or old folks homes and stuff. We would have to enshrine SSA, and Medicare/Medicaid to protect them from attacks on benefits, but people that close to death shouldn't be forcing their ancient views on society moving forward. It really doesn't matter here though. We're not getting another election, not without a fight.
Would be nice if we could mandate highly invasive and frequent cognition tests for our leaders past retirement age. Like, "surprise exam ya haggard bitch, pass this or you're out with no pension or benefits!" Ideally conducted by some 3 agency's door kicker team at 3AM on a Saturday, every Saturday.
I think we can all agree that it should be steeper, going forward. Precipitously so, frankly.
Durbin is 80 years old. Donald Trump is the youngest person named... Fml
Go reboot McConnell, Chuck.
Maybe this time, he'll do him a kindness and take his teeth out first.
So, considering the average age of said room, would those clips be considered a hearing aid?