I'm glad the left has settled on immortality as a non-negotiable requirement for seeking public office. Makes it very clear that they are always going to find reasons to hate.
I'm glad the left has settled on immortality as a non-negotiable requirement for seeking public office. Makes it very clear that they are always going to find reasons to hate.
They really think Sanders is going to live forever, if that isn't a cult I don't know what is?
People like you and Jeff just make shit up to defend a party that is collaborating with Nazis
I like Sanders and if someone younger ran in Vermont and pointed out that he stands a not insignificant risk of dying in office I think that would be a perfectly fair argument in their favor.
Bernie needs to retire too.
damn bestie sounds like you made this up
El Tío Bernie should retire and spend his time writing op eds dunking on dip shit Libs.
1) Bernie should retire. 2) He is currently platforming & elevating younger members of the party instead of stifling them. Please be fucking for real.
look at all the leftists responding to you saying he should retire. you don't say the same about your favorite geriatrics which means it's YOU in the cult. wake up!
If this is the bullshit you have to manufacture in your mind-palace in order to convince yourself that you're a good person then i would probably go back to the drawing board
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..."immortality"? how about just not putting elderly congressmembers with known terminal or debilitating diagnoses in key committee/leadership positions or encouraging them to stay in office/run again when they're so sick they can't even show up to vote? does that really sound outrageous to you?
You have bad opinions and you're egg-shaped
Jeff Feckin Sucks
Yeah that's totally what we're asking for. We're definitely not asking for elderly officials to step aside so that younger officials can take their place and ensure that those in power stay relevant to the current world. Definitely not that /sarcasm
Jeff Fucke
Gianmarco Soresi has a really funny bit on this topic. But the punchline is a lesson this guy needs to learn.
Gianmarco “If Jeff Goldblum was a theater kid” Soresi is so awesome!
What on earth are you talking about? Honestly
Hahaha, that's a lot of straw.
Jeff's making hay today, baby!
this guy again
Jeff Fuck
"I would like to be represented by someone under 75" "i would like my congressman to be immortal" Yes these are definitely the same
Jeff Fucke
fecke off
Hey Jeff, remember how for the last decade you called women like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib racist and sexist? And how you got everything you wanted, the Democratic Party you wanted? And now that party is collaborating with a Nazi takeover and dying in office? Does that make you rethink anything?
if there's a joke here you didn't manage it
…. Trump STILL talks about Biden’s mental decline almost a year after Biden dropped out and Trump went on to win. But sure the left is the problem.
Jeff Fucke loves and respects adults of all ages he’s just disgusted by the thought of having sex with them
Pretty weird
Ah yes, the classic topic of vile people
As a Proud Democrat who values Inclusivity, I think we should elect some candidates who are already dead!
Holy shit you're fucking stupid
Not sure if you're aware of a concept called "retirement" but you should look into it, really fascinating stuff
is 'people should retire before they die in office' the same as 'elected officials must be immortal'
jeff do you think public office in america is a lifetime appointment like the british peerage
jeff do you know what retirement is
Jeff Feckless
I'm glad neolibs have settled on being intentionally obtuse at all times. Yeah let's keep doing exactly what we're doing and not change our strategy at all, it's really been working out for everybody you disingenuous moron.
My guy you have a pretty terrible track record when it comes to making posts about people’s age so I might think about sitting this one out.
Jeff Fucke
Oh yeah dude, you've cracked it.
Did you jump on here thinking this was a well thought out position to take?
Yeah bud, asking for representatives during a fascist takeover of the government to not be 75-80 years old with one foot actively in the grave is exactly like making immortality a prerequisite for office. You’re very smart
This is dumb and you know it. There are three vacant seats because these people are dying in office. Those are votes we need. Suck shit loser.
now HERE'S a guy who understands the criticism being levied and isn't being intentionally obtuse in order to make a bad faith rebuttal
What a dumb thing to say
Your brain must look like Swiss cheese.
Because RBG riding it out until she died in office turned out so well for us, right? Your "touch stove" policies would rather them all authoritarianly hold onto power until they die in office so things can get worse faster rather than admit things could get better. Stupid.
Who’s got the pig shit balls picture
The folks in your comments should take these apart and tell everyone what the optimal distribution would be since age is apparently the most important thing.
Smugly posting a graphic showing members of the SILENT GENERATION making up a non trivial portion of Congress is a great bit honestly. Good shit
It’s 4% in the house. You’re losing your minds on a daily basis over 4%.
Yes it's extremely unreasonable to expect your elected representative to meet the extremely high bar of "being alive". Sorry for demanding too much from the most powerful people in the country
You’re moving targets because you’re a dumb reactionary.
Explain what target you think has moved. I don't want geriatrics working in Congress. It would be better for everyone if they stopped selfishly clinging to power and went home to their families. The only one twisting themselves in knots here is you
Sure, whatever.
If you stick your head a little further into that sand maybe the pressure will reset your brain so you can think properly
no, we just hate you because you're an admitted pedophile
Holy shit this is a stupid take
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A 75 YEAR OLD WHO KNEW HE HAD TERMINAL CANCER JESUS CHRIST I AM GOING TO LOSE IT
How dare you attack the status quo!
IT WAS HIS TURN
That's the Fecke guarantee
Why did you take your atrocious self published YA novel out of your bio and why does the about the author page start with “he is divorced”
Jeff Fuck
absolute dip shit take man, congrats
Jeff Feckless
i will only vote for an immortal
Just now finding out you are a pedophile. Before now, I couldn't stand you for your idiotic takes. Now, I hate you on multiple levels
Jeff Fucke
You are pretending to be a total moron🤡 in the service of what?
?????????!!!!!!!!!
To all the people replying “Jeff fuck” to this guy, I just want to say that Jeff does not fuck and I believe Jeff has never fucked
This is deeply stupid
Either lead or get out of the way. We no longer have the luxury of pacifying elected reps unable to actively serve our interests. I don’t care whether it is due to aging or any other reason.
jeff fucke
egg shaped head
What is your solution to the surprisingly common problem of prominent, influential Democrats dying in office?
You look almost as shitty as your opinions.
“Be fit enough to do the job” feels pretty normal! You should be able to have meetings after 2PM! And of course, perhaps if your health worsens mid-term you can choose that opportunity to consider passing to baton to the many other capable people able to handle your position.
Jeff fuck
Be gone blue check
I want you to tell me real quick what you think the word “retirement” means
Jeff, You're being disingenuous. Try debating in good faith like a rational, mature adult. You may find it fulfilling.
yeah its pretty hard to govern when you're a fucking corpse
I’m just saying, way fewer forty year olds wake up dead one day
look at these stupid-ass leftists, preferring their representatives to be alive and not dead. just another thing i'm right about. - jeff fucke
What did it smell like when your brain cells cooked
I didn’t know Bluesky still did the egg pfp like twitter used to
man shut the fuck up
“The left” is arguing for sensible term limits and for our respected political leaders to retire happily with the confidence that their legacy and dignity is preserved. Perhaps Dem elders continue to legislate themselves to death because they’re concerned about the party’s future (people like you)
This must be satire lmfao
Jeff Fuck
Jeff Feckless
silence ephebophile
No, retirement is the opposite of an insistence on immortality.
shut da fuk up friday came early i see
This is beyond a straw-man, for you to unironically type this out, you lack basic reasoning skills.
ELECT 👏 MORE 👏 TERMINALLY ILL 👏 CANDIDATES
That's right, forget the part where even if those reps were young and healthy, there still wasn't enough votes to stop the bill. After all, the only thing that matters is your grievances against the Democrats.
it passed with a margin of 1 three democrats have died this session sometimes math is hard
It's still a problem if our leaders aren't able to lead.
If they quit running candidates that should have their car keys taken away, maybe they'd hold enough seats that it wouldn't be an issue
So why aren't you running for office then? "Dems shouldn't run old candidates" also "I'm too busy to run myself or find someone else." In the 2022 election I actively looked for someone younger to run for my seat. Everyone was apparently too busy to take a few hours a month out of their time.
The fact that Pelosi and the DNC chose to replace AOC with Connolly, and that in general they actively undermine younger progressive leaders like David Hogg, is the previous poster's fault? This is taking the 'we didn't fail our constituents, they failed us' talking point to a wacky extreme.
Bro the gerontocracy is a Democratic Party policy. It's from the top down. When they do get young blood they black ball them out of leadership or they primary them with a 68 year old cancer survivor. Young people do run and the party as a whole has made it their policy to reject them.
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And two Republicans "just left" and one voted present. They had the votes, they strategically released three because they could.
Your proposed strategy of giving Republicans big margins instead of forcing them to uncertain, razor-thin ones might appeal to a leadership riddled with hearing loss and dementia, so I can see the target audience. But I don't think it sounds sensible to normal people.
God forbid we make it hard for them, we might accidentally get something from it.
the bigger the margin, the *more* important it is that we do everything we can to have more votes, especially the things that would be trivially easy, like having representatives who aren't incredibly likely to die soon
IT PASSED BY ONE VOTE YOU WITLESS GOOBER
If the Democrats had one more living representative the bill wouldn't have passed and if they had three more (the number of democrats who have died in office since Trump's inauguration) the abstaining Republicans wouldn't be enough to pass it either.
stop lying
If dems don't respond to the grievances that people rightfully have, they will never win another major election. The dems win by making life better and responding to voters. They need to do more of that.
Did you forget that it was the GOP who passed this bill? Or are you going to keep pretending that they don't have agency and responsibility?
My comment isn't about this particular bill, but a trend within the democratic party to ignore leftward movement while pandering to right wing actors. They need to respond to the left or they will continue to lose.
If we're talking about trends, then I'm talking about the trend to blame the Democrats for the Republicans, like if the Republicans don't have free will. Even with falsehoods, like claiming the Dems are pandering to the right even though they voted against this.
if you're watching a football game and your team is eating shit do people yell at the other team to do worse, or their team to fight harder?
Problem with your analogy is that we're not passive watchers. We participate in it. And the game is over. There isn't another in the schedule until late next year. And when the team was getting made, too many people chose not to help choose the players and are mad over who they got.
if you keep that attitude, all you're going to be able to do is be pissed for the rest of your life
Right, but you're acting like the DEMS don't have free will. It's not the republicans' fault that Kamala Harris invited CBP agents and (R) senators to speak at the DNC. It's not their fault that the dems capitulated to RW framing on issues like the border and crime. The dems have moved right.
Going right back to the Democrats again. And adding a good measure of "if she listened to me she would have won because I'm awesome and the Democrats aren't " In case you forgot, the Democrats voted against this bill. They're not at fault. The Republicans are. Blame them.
"After all, the only thing that matters is your grievances against the Democrats." This is correct. Me going on for the millionth time about how trump is a rapist felon doesn't move the needle one iota for a trumper. I'm not arguing with trumpers. I'm arguing with dems.
And how's that working out?
You are truly the dumbest egghead
Go back to Twitter.
Delete your account
Shove this post up your ass you daft bald bitch
Jeff fuck
How were we supposed to know that the dying guy was about to die?
jeff fucke off
Society has certainly moved past the need for “Jeff Fecke”
I feel like there are conditions between "immortal" and "actively dying" but I'm not a doctor
I dont think "is this person likely to be able to serve their term fully and functionally" is a big ask We refer to the bare minimum candidate for a position as a "warm body" for a reason
Libs can’t handle sane people don’t mindlessly worship fascism enabling corpses like they do. That’s what they have to cry about how “unreasonable” requests for things like healthy candidates/politicians to actually oppose fascism are
remember when republicans tarred counseling for dying patients as "death panels"? nearly 20 years later, americans remain so comically incapable of acknowledging their own mortality that elected leaders contort their fear of death into shit like "a young 74, cancer notwithstanding"
I only vote for the Highlander, they have not been chosen yet
six elected dems have died in the last year and now their constituents don't have representation you dumb motherfucker
Look man I just don’t want the Cryptkeeper in office any more
Immortality isn't possible, but it is possible to act and think like a petulant child for your entire life.
Yes my representative should be living???
There is always dickheads like yourself proven wrong time and time again by reality but having to act smug and right in the face of it all. Fuck off.
Fuck off
Asking 70+ year Olds with cancer to not run for office isn't that much of an ask
Thanks for your efforts to give Republicans a little breathing room in their slim Congressional majority. It's exactly the kind of bipartisanship that helps the Trump administration reach its goals with little to no resistance, which is exactly what Democrats voted for.
Where disabled people are definitely the agents are fascism. And not the people against disabled people…
Literally what are you talking about? We’re not looking for immortality we’re looking for 75 year old men with esophageal cancer to not jeopardize the House by seeking re-election. We are asking these men to step aside and make room for up and coming representatives to take h the next step up
Shut the Fecke up
The Left hates losing to the Republicans. The centrists lap it up.
Jeff Fucke
There are ways to openly admit you can't read that don't make you look THIS illiterate. I was gonna add "and stupid" but that would be redundant to say about you.
Reps dying is office is good actually sez Jeff
No dumbass, you just have to quit eventually
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I don't want to know how someone becomes this dishonest/stupid what do you gain for making excuses for them? the real hate comes from people justifying pulling this man from his family, whom he should have spent his last years with, over struggling to do his elected duty while battling cancer
hey somebody seems to have taken over your account and they’re posting idiotic horseshit
Man fuck you
saying incredibly dumb shit in order to get mean comments in the replies that you can then point to as an example of how unruly and ill-behaved the leftists are heres another one for you. enjoy
Sure, that's what happened, not an octogenarian cynically rigging the vote for the Oversight Committee during a run-up to open fascism, putting an end-stage cancer patient in the seat so that someone who might actually take the job seriously wouldn't get it. 🙄 This party needs to burn. Useless. 🔥
This hyperbole makes you look like the idiot, instead of the people you’re trying to criticize.
Hey Jeff don’t you have kids to be attracted to?
Yeah man it's either 74 with cancer or immortal, it's not like the specific ask was made time and time again over the past years that maybe Democrats step down to allow someone *younger* to take their place
do you know that your soul is rotten or are your saving that for a fun surprise at your last
Neuroscientists studying cognitive decline now only listen to Jeff. Decades of research upended in a single post.
Running for office at 75 when you already have a positive cancer diagnosis is a choice, Jeff. Keeping people in office until they die means that they eventually do, and sometimes you need those votes on important votes with narrow margins.
He was appointed while rapidly dying of cancer, man. Are you a child?
I don't hate you, man, I just wish you didn't think it was unreasonable for people to want a responsive representative party that's not on the right. You're acting like asking for that is some sort of vile discriminatory act. It's actually normal. Which your post is not.
"Don't be so old that you literally die" is not a big ask, Jeffrey.
Have a thought not in reaction to someone else’s thought
The liberals in post-commune Paris spoke like this to justify mass murder and repression of communards....decades after the barricades had been torn down.
42 likes, great work Jeff
yeah man i also have a degree in missing the point
No we want people between the ages of 25-70. After that, just pass the torch
Brother get your hand off the fucking stove.
Yeff Feckless
You Might be happier if you didn’t fire off indefensible nonsense and then spend hours trying to argue about it with an infinite number of reasonably confused people
As a leftist I wish the entire American Senate would get on with mortality actually
Yeah, we shouldn't expect politicians to be healthy enough to survive 4 years without turning into dust.
I’m glad you’ve settled on being intentionally stupid about this. Makes it very clear you don’t have any expectations of this do nothing party
Is there any infirmity that you think disqualifies a person from holding higher office?
good take dr eggman
more like jeff feckless
Bro people worldwide retire from far less critical jobs before 70
By the way, this you?
Jeff Feckless
How is this a real dude!?
This is a reference to a reddit meme about crows and ravens, I don't think he was saying that he was a pedophile here. knowyourmeme.com/memes/people...
This is helpful for context of the meme he was referencing although it was, at a minimum, a bad choice for him to change "As someone who is a scientist" to "As someone who is a Ephebophile".
Neat!
Oh cool the racist pedo has another shit opinion to share with everyone
This doesn’t make any fucking sense you fat sack of shit
Lmao
do you think this sort of disingenuity actually does anything beyond making you look very silly, jeff?
Stfu you pedo creep
You're a fuckin moron.
Jeff Fucke
jeff feckeless
jeff fuck
jeff wtf
Jeff Fucke
You're a fucking clown, dude.
It’s honestly impressive that you can hear “maybe retire before you’re statistically likely to die in office in your 70s or 80s” and interpret it as “you have to live forever”
Stupid leftists don't understand "maybe retire at 75 with cancer" is absurd! By that standard no one could ever be in congress! There exist zero people under the age of 70! I'm sure of this!
Jeff Fucke