He's half-right; fighting for the working class is the right strategy, but scapegoating immigrants isn't.
Harris-Walz / Dems
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I'm far more okay with the idea of term limits than I am with the idea of an arbitrary age limit that paints all people of a given age with the same brush.
So am I. But what is more likely at this point?
Honestly... I think that I prefer age limits over term limits.
If someone gets into office young, they can end up term limited before they get ancient, without actual stopping a gerontocracy from forming.
Age limits, on the other limb... Frankly, we really should be minimizing the chance of people dying in office, so discouraging people from running after they hit retirement age shouldn't be something we fight. Yeah, being old doesn't mean decrepit or that they're inactive, but working until you die really shouldn't be normalized, either.
And, not to beat around the bush, but older people do have options to influence public opinion without actually being in office.
If someone gets into office young, they can end up term limited before they get ancient, without actual stopping a gerontocracy from forming.
Age limits, on the other limb... Frankly, we really should be minimizing the chance of people dying in office, so discouraging people from running after they hit retirement age shouldn't be something we fight. Yeah, being old doesn't mean decrepit or that they're inactive, but working until you die really shouldn't be normalized, either.
And, not to beat around the bush, but older people do have options to influence public opinion without actually being in office.
Come to think of it, aren't there some hyper-progressive countries that actually make it mandatory for everyone to retire when they reach the legal retirement age? I assume that includes elected officials.
There may be, I'm not sure, but I've also seen studies that indicate people who work late into life tend to be happier than those who retire to a life of leisure. Granted 'work' in this case isn't the mandatory 'work to live' type situation most of us end up in. People, even elderly people, like to feel useful and to explore areas they are passionate about. Watching TV and golfing every day generally don't fill that itch.
Maybe in countries that pay people enough to actually live, they can enjoy retirement. Here in the US, on the other hand......
Yeah. I've been at many jobs (including my current one) where geriatrics are forced to work because they just cannot survive. Hard work, hours on their feet because their social security just doesn't pay the bills.
Interesting take on why the left keeps losing:
jasonpargin.substack.com
To Save the World, Save Yourself
Or, why DO men's self-improvement influencers tend to be right-wing?
jasonpargin.substack.com
Because "Eat steak, hit the gym, everyone but you sucks, pain is weakness leaving the body" is an easier sell than "sit down, shut up, learn to listen, you aren't special".
Newsome once again proves that bending over to appease the fascists gains you NOTHING.
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Trump is celebrating AB's win by misgendering and bullying her (a 16 year old child) and insulting Gov. Newsom, because Newsom's halfway "centrist" shtick has pissed off everyone and gained him zero allies. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Young Dem Clinches Landslide Election Win in Lindsey Graham’s Backyard
Keishan Scott became the youngest member of the South Carolina House on Tuesday.
I'm hopeful that this is a sign of things to come. Or I would be, if I still had the capacity for hope.
Gavin Newsom dares Trump’s border tsar: arrest me
California governor plans to sue Trump administration over deployment of 2,000 national guard troops to LA which he called ‘an illegal act’
www.telegraph.co.uk
Hogg is out. The DNC has voted to redo their Vice Chair elections. Hogg could run for the job again, but he has taken the hint and withdrawn.
Senator Alex Padilla forcibly removed from Kristi Noem’s LA press conference
Video shows Padilla being restrained and ejected as he tries to question homeland security secretary at press event
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and Schumers' only response is "WE NEED AN INVESTIGATION."
this was LIVE. people SAW what happened and if they really don't know WHY it happened now then they're idiots who get what they ******* deserve.
Yup, there is time for political discourse, but this is NOT it. SPOTLIGHT the garbage this admin is doing, they are doing it broad daylight...... Take advantage of that fact you blithering idiots!!!!Senator Alex Padilla forcibly removed from Kristi Noem’s LA press conference
Video shows Padilla being restrained and ejected as he tries to question homeland security secretary at press event
and Schumers' only response is "WE NEED AN INVESTIGATION."
this was LIVE. people SAW what happened and if they really don't know WHY it happened now then they're idiots who get what they ******* deserve.
You surprised? January 6 was broadcast on live TV in front of the whole country and instead of just cuffing Trump the second he stepped out of the White House and marching him straight into the courthouse, we spent four years "investigating" what happened.
At what point do we stop denying the painfully obvious and admit that this is happening on purpose?
At what point do we stop denying the painfully obvious and admit that this is happening on purpose?