When I see 85 I assume it's an obituary, not a retirement. Pelosi is retiring from Congress at 85 years old. This is obscenity. We need an age limit for government positions, and it's going to have to come from the ground up because they will never do it themselves.
Anyway, bye Nancy. You did suck.
Members of the House of Representatives serve a fixed term of 2 years. Nancy is in her 20th term. That means she had people vote for her for roughly 40 years.
This suggests that US drinking water systems still contain a significant amount of lead.
It's indicative of our primary system and how the major parties operate. Mitch McConnell is another good example of this. Same with Feinstein, and even RBG. Bernie Sanders is still in his seat. He's too old even if people like him. Pass the torch or watch it fall.
I hate that these motherfuckers only work like four months out of the whole year and spend the rest of it insider trading legally.
Mike Johnson: "Hold my beer."
I'm really concerned that the bar is so low now that voters are going to hold their noses for the midterm primaries and go for candidates somewhere in between Pelosi and Johnson "so they have a chance."
Really it should be like every other job out there, you get retired after 65.
Fuck pelosi, but also fuck NY Post and murdoch even more, please don't click the article and give them views. OP can you link to a different site that isn't run by an arch capitalist hobgoblin.
Yeah, nothing says Progressive Politics like submitting from a rag like the Post.
This article is 7 months old.
The US FAA requires commercial pilots to retire at 65. This is done because after that age, a gradual worsening of cognitive functions could lead to tragedy given the detail-oriented nature of the work.
The decisions our representatives make can and often are just as damning. Sure, the time scales are longer, so it isn't as clear when a poor decision was made as, say, crashing a commercial airliner. But the danger is there, and it exists for far more people than any single pilot could affect.
It is absolutely asinine that there are no limits to how long these representatives can pretend to "represent". I think the AARP tends to have enough representation in the US already.
As for Pelosi herself, she made her own legacy and I won't dwell on it here. But I think many would agree that we'd have been better off if she had been forced to retire at 65.
She was awful, but she was also corrupt.
She had an amazing run as a day trader, a shame she got distracted by her sidegig in Congress.
Well, you won't be missed.
Tell us what stocks to buy Nancy.
Bye, Felicia.
She was the worst… her legacy is a shit stain
100% agreed. And yet a tiny part of me roots for her because an even more vile creature currently soiling the White House hates her guts.
I know, but... The opportunity cost of her occupying that position! Imagine if we'd had someone actually willing to exercise power to rein in Trump, instead of someone making tut tut noises while conducting massive insider trading. She deserves all the dragging we can muster.
Good riddance
Surely she did good things earlier in her career?
Oh absolutely, she did amazing on the stock market.
Greedy and power hungry hag finally has her fill after decades long rampage. Wasn't an outright fascist and that's where the bar is now. Good riddance you corrupt narcissist.
Bye Felicia
Love the picture down right. It looks like; "Yeah I did it! I managed to fix nothing for 40 years!" wow... She really did suck hard.
Was she really worse than the current piece of shit? I mean, it's possible, but hard to imagine. I feel like I wouldn't have to ask this though if it was true
Good riddance. She's so slimy you can't even see her face anymore.
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