The move would extend her 36-year House career and continue to freeze her would-be California successors in a long-standing holding pattern.
The move would extend her 36-year House career and continue to freeze her would-be California successors in a long-standing holding pattern.
She is too old to run again. Like Biden, Trump, many others passed retirement age. Let go of power and enjoy your retirement.
Always nice when all my reps are backwards boomer jackasses that don’t make any attempt to represent me or my generation. I wish all congresspersons be forced to retire and prevented from reelection when they reach a certain age.
Nancy Peloso is older than a Boomer. She’s from the generation before that, the Silent Generation.
Silent indeed. If fucking only.
Imagine all the people,
Living for today.
Imagine your representatives,
Voting for term limits to cut off their own money faucets.
Yeah she’s 83 years old and could be worth $170 million. I think a normal person at some point would just want to take it easy a live their life for a bit. IMO it’s kind of ghoulish to have all these 70+ year olds still power-tripping just for the sake of it.
Like Strom Thurmond, who left the Senate in 2003 at 100 years old, and then pretty much died immediately afterwards.
Pretty sure most of these people would die immediately after retiring. Their thirst for power keeps their body working or something. That’s the only reasonable explanation of why in the flying fuck an 80 year old multimillionaire would choose to continue working.
Oh, I thought their longevity was due to the adrenochrome. /s
I have employees who are way past retirement age and could have retired financially ages ago, but they really like what they do and they worry they’d just get bored sitting at home.
I’m nearing retirement, and I’m going to actually do it, but part of that is that I committed to my wife that I would and we’d go off and do stuff. Still, I honestly understand why some people don’t. I could easily live another 25 years, and my job really keeps my juices going. Some days I don’t want to get up and go to work, but the thought of never going in again is daunting.
Imagine being so rich you can go do whatever you want for the rest of your days, and choosing more work. Wtf?! What is wrong with these people? I’d be kicking it on a beach if I had their money and was retirement age
McConnell.
That’s the thing. People in power never let go voluntarily.
You know what’s funny, George Washington, the OG, did. Wish they could follow his example since we’re all taught to masturbate our rock-hard patriotism to the founding fathers in school.
With someone like Feinstein, I think the argument against them is that their age has reduced their ability to do their job effectively. Pelosi still seems pretty effective to me for what she tries to do. My issue with her is that she’s not very progressive. You could make an argument that that’s a function of age, but Bernie Sanders, who also seems effective but is for sure progressive, is 82.
I’ve never had a problem with someone doing any job at any age as long as they are effective. I manage a software engineering team, and my best, sharpest developer - the one most everyone goes to for help - is around 80. He loves what he does and my whole team is better with him on it. I’ve known other people who declined at a much earlier age.
So I hate setting an artificial age limit, but I wish we had some kind of test out performance measure that would force people out who can’t do the job.