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Gerontacracy Alert: Ron Johnson Says That Mitch McConnell Is "Completely Out of Step" with Republicans; Morning Joe Shills Admit that Every Democrat Privately Admits That Biden Is Too Old to be President (or Even " " " President " " ")Senator Tommy Tuberville is objecting to unanimous consent to approve military promotions, to protest the Pentagon's very illegal use of taxpayer money for abortions for servicemembers. He think that if the Pentagon acts contrary to the law, and decides to make its own abortion policy in strict defiance of Congress, someone should protest that. Note that this doesn't actually block military promotions -- just their approval en masse by unanimous consent. ("En masse" is French for "fat as morbidly obese Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.") The Democrats could vote on each promotion individually and speed-vote through them. But they don't want to -- they want to make political hay on the abortion issue. And Mitch McConnell is right where he always is, repeating Democrat talking points to browbeat senators who are actually conservative and vote like conervatives. The only thing that matters to Captain Aphasia is keeping the trains running on time, like a good little statist and crypto-Stasiist. Wednesday, during an appearance on FNC's "The Ingraham Angle," Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) defended his colleague Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-AL) stance against the Department of Defense's post-Dobbs decision abortion policy. It's time for Senator Lost Time to retire. Actually it was that time the last time he stood, shakily, for re-election. Now the time to retire is after Kentucky elects a Republican governor. Meanwhile, the Morning Joe Morning Zoo admits that, in private, all Democrats -- "everyone we talk to" -- say that Joe Biden is simply too old to continue pretending to be president. Democrats concede off-air that they believe President Joe Biden is too old to seek another term in the White House, according to MSNBC host Joe Scarborough. Video below the fold. 75% of the public wants age limits for politicians. Why it matters: The poll comes as attention toward the age of politicians has been in the spotlight after several incidents, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) freezing in front of reporters and ongoing concerns about President Biden's age. By the numbers: 77% of those surveyed said there should be "maximum age limits for elected officials," meaning "after they reach a certain age, they are not permitted to hold office any longer." The concern proved to be bipartisan, with 76% of Democrats and 79% of Republicans calling for maximum age limits for elected officials. 45% of respondents said the maximum age limit for elected officials should be 70. A combined 30% of respondents said either 50 or 60 should be the maximum age. What? Only 18% said 80 should be the maximum age limit for elected officials. We cannot impose age limits without a constitutional amendment. The Constitution imposes age requirements already -- I think a Congressman must be 25, and a president must be at least 35 -- which means the Founders already addressed the issue of age and we cannot change this except by altering the Constitution through amendment. So I don't imagine anything will be done on this issue as a legal matter. Searches for the term "gerontocracy" spiked after Mitch McConnell's second public brain freeze episode.
The specific threat, the "study" finds, comes from people with declining mental acuity handling classified materials.
This study isn't very impressive, from what I can see. There's little rigor to it. The author admits that the subject is not well-studied which means that all of his conclusions are really just speculations derived from assumptions. All of these speculations and assumptions seem fair and likely to be valid, but this "study" doesn't seem to be much more than the author observing that people with dementia lose executive control and are often absent-minded and hey, that might lead to an inadvertent release of classified information, right? But we need some pressure to push some of these alte kachers out of office, and the "study" adds to that. As we can't/won't amend the Constitution, we at least need some social and political pressure for the dead-enders to finally give up their grasp on power.
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