politics

It was insane that it was Biden vs Trump again in 2024 for a while. Both of them are older than Bill Clinton and trying to get the job that Clinton retired from ~24 years prior to that.

Why do Americans keep putting such old people into power?

Because the US decided money = speech. All the old people have all the money. Young people are subsisting on starvation wages after Regan, and we saddled them with debt slavery from student loans. So, when you have all the money, you have all the speech. So, old people get elected.

Also, corporations control politics. They view politicians like warehouse equipment. The dollies don't get replaced super often to maximize ROI. The same applies to politicians.

Why not someone young like Obama?

You think the rich would tolerate such a risk? He got elected and then started talking universal health-insurance. The rich dumped truckloads of money against that. So, we ended up with Romney care relabeled as Obamacare. You think they'd tolerate such a risk to their profit margins in light of what I explained above?

I wish you were joking but 65 is basically juvenile in our politics.

wealth/influence distribution across age cohorts. There is a fairly big percentage of the population that are quite old, and most of the wealth and influences is concentrated with in those older cohorts.

Younger candidates are ether sycophantically aligned ethos the interests of those older cohorts to gain the support of that wealth and influence, thus making them extremely unpopular with younger cohorts, or are opposed to those interests and thus have a huge amount of wealth and power arrayed against them and attempting to undermine them.

Older candidates who directly have control over wealth/influence/connections in that cohort can break that mold and actually do politics without having to fight that “radical”/sycophantic” dichotomy.

Basically, wealth inequality favors old people.

Trying to cover their asses in case the fucker stays alive.

I especially loved “wheezing verbs” and “irony clawing at the walls”

That was a great read!!

My sparkling wine is ready

I ain't religious, but 🙏

i for one can't wait for the first official TFFD-- trump's finally fucking dead day, already my favorite holiday, which i may extend to at least a week of celebration

He looks like he's already had at least one minor to moderate stroke

Did you see video of this? I'll look for it if you can give me a hint where you saw it.

I'm neurotypical and I don't remember exact dates. I don't even know how far into the month it is most of the time. Or really what day it is unless I look.

In fact, now that I think about it most of my personal history is kind of like slices of events that don't seem to make any sense or are even clustered together relative to each other, temporally speaking, nor ordered in any kind of chronological way. More like a sherbet swirl.

Meh, probably not important. Time keeping seems sort of extraneous in the big scheme of things, except when timing experiments which, of course, should be exact. Or making appointments, I suppose. Which I lean heavily on others to do and keep track of. Or sometimes I check my phone but the calendar events are often not up to date unless I put it on auto clone. But did I clone the specific date... or the day of the week...? Ugh, which means it's probably off.

Eh, that's why nobody should use these things, too many unimportant details to keep track of.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

I think the only fear here is that he dies before the elections, and the conservatives get some kind of sympathy bump instead of him being alive dragging them down....

They're gonna Mitch McConnell him for as long as they can.