Keep talking about age. Yeah, that'll bring The Olds to support your position. 🙄 They bring a new strategy, new methods and new skills. Their age is irrelevant. But, by all means, focus on age.
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Age does matter. Look what you have in government. The Republicans‘ average age must be about 79. They should have retired 10 years ago.
jul 29, 2025, 2:27 pm • 1 0 • view
I submit 2 older, energetic, CURRENT office holders: Bernie Sanders and Chuck Grassley. And 2 younger, energetic, CURRENT office holders: AOC and Maxwell Frost. What they have in common is Skill. Strategy and coalition-building Experience. Those characteristics have Nothing to do with age.
jul 30, 2025, 12:40 am • 1 0 • view
Absolutely age matters. Try applying to any normal job as an 80 yr old and see how many interviews you land.
jul 29, 2025, 4:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes and how many people still work at 80 unless they can arrange their own work hours and nap on the job?
jul 29, 2025, 7:29 pm • 1 0 • view
My mother, thank you very much.
jul 30, 2025, 12:36 am • 0 0 • view
So you acknowledge ageism exists as a permissible form of discrimination.
jul 30, 2025, 12:37 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, when old oafs suffer visible onset of dementia, fall asleep at work it’s time for them to retire.
jul 30, 2025, 6:04 am • 1 0 • view
... and yet, Trump got reelected. 😠 I'm not arguing for poor performance. I'm saying age (young or old) doesn't guaranty and isn't predictive of good performance. No group can carry an election w/o allies - even older ones. How do you plan to partner with people you openly deride?
jul 30, 2025, 10:26 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah. He got elected and he's doing a real shit job because his brain is mush. I don't want people with mush brains ruling over us. Wanna keep an old man or two around the same way the oval office has a fireplace, fine. But old heads have failed us everytime they weasel their way into office.
jul 30, 2025, 12:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Would you hire a 5 year old to be a surgeon?
jul 30, 2025, 12:20 pm • 1 0 • view
She would hire an 80 year old forgetful surgeons who isn’t steadying their feet.
jul 30, 2025, 12:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Not that you're entitled to this information, but an 81 yr-old surgeon who was the head of the University department in the specialty I needed, performed, rare, life-saving surgery on me. This discourse is wearing thin.
jul 31, 2025, 1:15 am • 0 0 • view
Is it ageist to hire an old man who can't do the job over a kid who can't do the job?
jul 30, 2025, 12:39 pm • 0 0 • view
This question doesn’t need answering. There are 100s of jobs old people can’t do b/c of cognitive & physical failing but in politics they hang around well past their retirement age just v/c they can. That‘s the issue, I think. You need age limits.
jul 30, 2025, 12:44 pm • 0 0 • view
That's not ageist as much as it's dumb. And, again, it gets to my point. I don't care about age. I care about ideas, skill and strategy. But when people make age the primary dis-qualifier (or qualifier), I wonder what strategy they think will convince the disqualified to join their cause.
jul 31, 2025, 1:11 am • 0 0 • view
If a 5 year old had somehow managed to go through med school and pass their boards, do an internship at a credible institution ... Sure. Because they would have had to be a genius.
jul 31, 2025, 12:49 am • 0 0 • view