I don’t even need to look up her party affiliation to know that she’s a republican. I mean, the average age of congress can be blamed equally on both parties, but an octogenarian who talks shit on education, is super “concerned” about the national debt, and speaks in a shitty manner toward a child is definitely republican.
I’m sorry, but why isnt* grandma retired? Like I hate it when I seek the elderly working!
I’m pretty sure she opposes social programs like social security
Its Virginia Foxx. Hard to be shocked. The idea of children being raped brings her joy.
More importantly, another group of dumb voters supporting a corrupt old coot that does not give a shit about the future.
This treasonous MAGA pedophile is more proof that only the good die young.
That kid should get the top grade for the project. She really proved his thesis that this is something she needs to learn about
She’s bought and paid for by the petro union.
No, she’s an elder boomer who is literally brain damaged by lead poisoning, she really believes what she’s saying.
Boomers should be excluded from positions of authority for that one fact alone.
Also she’s like a bazillion years old. Who the fuck even is she?!?
Pedo union
“YOU and your classmates will be responsible for paying down the national debt.”
Well, she is absolutely right about that. She should know, because it’s her generation’s fault.
Foxx, who voted for the spending bill that the Congressional Budget Office projected would add $3.4 trillion to the national debt, told a 10-year-old that he and his classmates would be responsible for paying it down.
How are these people in charge of anything?
How are they in charge? They get voted in because better people are not running or not getting voted for in many cases. Gerrymandering protects some of them.
There’s also more of them.
There are not more boomers anymore. Maybe a higher percentage vote.
A big reason the DNC didn’t want a primary in 2024 is because boomer votes probably can’t carry primary candidates any longer.
Don’t pretend like it’s down to voters. Money in politics ensures that good candidates can’t succeed before voters even get a chance to show up at the ballot.
I’d be a better president than most of these aging Boomers at this point, but running for president of the USA is around one billion dollars of campaign costs. Only those with already established money connections will get it and we know what that causes.
I was told the same thing 30 years ago. Nobody is paying for shit.
he and his classmates would be responsible for paying it down.
Kids these days know. That’s why the birth rate keeps dropping.
I aint bringing a kid into this bullshit of a country.
I am so ready to move on from the boomer generation.
There are still stupid millenials and Gen Z. This isn’t a problem with a lifespan.
There’s something to be said for possible lead exposure of that generation and how it’s affecting as they age. There were studies about it and apparently the newest one is showing that their exposure is increasing the risk of Alzheimer.
There we go, found it. https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.2000.48.11.1501
Gen X grew up with daily exposure to the highest levels of lead in their environment. Boomers had the second highest. Their mothers smoked and drank while pregnant. These generations are more brain damaged than any before or since.
Only the oldest Millennials can even remember leaded gasoline, and it was off the market long before they learned to drive. Zeds are obnoxious, but they aren’t wrong. The sooner they engage with politics, the better.
The only benefit to being Gen X is we were shut out by the Boomers maintaining their grip on everything for so long. Oh, don’t get me wrong. There’s plenty of Gen X idiots, too. We were the biggest trump voting group, for instance. (Seriously, my people? The anti-authoritarians whose anthems were Breakfast Club, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or even Total Recall? Hate the system, hate the Nazis, hate the rich corporate overlords?)
the only thing I’m genuinely looking forward to as I get older is watching every single boomer rot in the ground.
worst. generation. ever.
I’m ok with them just ceding power.
The lesson I am learning: the elderly should have the congressional keys taken away from them, before they can drive the nation into stupid.
They already did.
Have fun in hell you rotten old Bitch.
An 82 year old congresswoman.
Christ.
Any decision he makes will not affect him.
She, and yes.
We need age limits on politicians.
it should be tied to whatever is legally the earliest you can get social security. If the government thinks your at an age that’s reasonable to retire, maybe you should not be making our rules anymore.
And term limits
Term limits are stupid, if the person doing the job currently is neither incompetent nor corrupt then there’s no benefit to swapping them out. As long as you can vote them out if and when they stop doing a good job there’s no good reason not to let the same person keep doing the same job til they retire, and if you can’t then your system is already fucked.
The lack of limitations seems to be doing just fine with the supreme Court.
Term limits increase the power of lobbyists.
Why do you think so?
We see it in studying state legislatures who have term limits. (I studied this in graduate school before switching to a different master’s program)
Term limits doesn’t change how much power and money are available. It just changes who controls that power and money (the budget.) If the congressmen lose some of that power via term limits, that power doesn’t go away. It doesn’t go unused. It gets scooped up and used by the lobbyists to get things passed a naive congress.
Worst, you create perverse incentives where congressmen are locked out of running for re-election, so they take their expertise and contacts gained in office and work for the lobbyists that used to lobby them.
No, as good as term limits sound, it’s much, much better to leave it up to the voters to decide who their rep will be. If they want a 40 year veteran or a rookie every two years, that’s their choice to make.
Nah. Term limits help prevent the creation and perpetuation of “good old boy” clubs. Quite honestly, it is better to have an inexperienced but well meaning rando, than an expert who makes a habit of lining their pockets with their experience.
Term limits don’t prevent anything, they just make the club slightly larger. The US is proof of this, we have term limits on the vast majority of elected positions, still organizedly corrupt in favor of the ruling class on all fronts.
Term limits are not the solution, they are part of a solution. Term limits alone wouldn’t work without other parts of the political process being reformed. For example, First Past the Post voting makes it much harder for independent candidates to get a fair shot.
The United States needs huge reforms across the board, because much of our processes were built 250 years ago.
Term limits are at best a neutral impact, a rotating cast isn’t any more likely to be competent or less likely to be corrupt. If an official is bad at their job then vote them out, if they aren’t then forcing them out just for the sake of change is directly counterproductive. It’s really just that simple.
No, the problem with keeping people in office, is that they get to establish strong networks of interests. By disrupting this and adding social uncertainty from unfamiliar people, we make it harder for corruption to become baked into society. Corruption is very much a social behavior that relies upon trust - the trust that the other guy won’t snitch on you, if the horsetrading is profitable.
We make it harder to establish that trust among thieves, by swapping people often.
Age isn’t a safe metric, some people’s brains go to shit at 50, some are still fully functional at 90. Just test them.
And minimal education requirements
i would settle for televized cognitive assessments, fail and your forciboy retired
No prizes for guessing this congresswoman’s party affiliation.
Not that “Yahoo Entertainment” (news is dead, i know) even bothered to put it in the entire article, much less the headline.
The congresswoman started by thanking Christian for writing. She said they agreed about the importance of innovation in the automobile industry.
That was the last kind thing in the letter.
Foxx told the 10-year-old that his request meant taking money out of the pockets of hardworking taxpayers who might not be able to afford an electric vehicle themselves. She told him the country was heading toward bankruptcy and economic failure. She wrote that 2038 is only 12 years away, and that “YOU and your classmates will be responsible for paying down the national debt.”
She capitalized “YOU.” She was writing to a fourth grader.
Then she linked him to six articles from Fox News, National Review, The Washington Times, and the Wall Street Journal editorial board — articles about the failures of climate change policy.
And then she turned on his teacher.
What a fuckwit piece of shit.
Good observation. They almost gave her party affiliation, but they stopped short.
Foxx now chairs the House Rules Committee and is running for re-election in 2026 with Trump’s endorsement.
It’s not exactly ambiguous, but it’s also not explicit. That’s a weird choice.
She will be high on Luigi 2.0’s list
This innocent-until-proven-guilty guy is never going to get a fair trial. His biggest supporters are constantly like, “yeah, he totally shot that guy.”
Cute, the National Debt that HER and HER generation allowed to run rampant so that SHE could make off with mad bank? Not to mention the debt that HER party has incurred the last few years alone?
She wrote that 2038 is only 12 years away, and that “YOU and your classmates will be responsible for paying down the national debt.”
Nevermind that Trump and the rest of the congressional Republicans increased the national debt by 3 trillion dollars already, fuck you kid for wanting something good for everyone instead of only wanting good stuff for the Epstein class.
Fun fact:
(Add 2 trillion to this pie… wait 3 trillion? No wait… almost 4, Now? Well, add 4 trillion to this chart for the ole pedophile just for good measure…)
That chart is pre-ballroom and Iran war, too.
His base: “we need a president to run this country like a business!”
Their guy: bankrupts every business he runs… including 6 casinos. (CASINOS! Fucking literal money printers…)
And he just shoe horned in his new fed chair who will implement rate cuts and push us closer to needing a wheelbarrow to buy bread.
Mere drops in the trillion dollars buckets
The war is starting to be more than a drop in the bucket. It’s only one order of magnitude less than what is shown on the graph.
“10 year projection as of 2025”
Huh? I doubt he will survive that long, let alone run for the fourth term
The party of ‘law and order’ and his super smart and loyal supporters will definitely support and vote for him the fourth time as well because they support ‘law and order’.
