The move would extend her 36-year House career and continue to freeze her would-be California successors in a long-standing holding pattern.
As an unabashed liberal and Dem party voter: enough is enough. Let the future get started already.
Socialism within a democracy as opposed to say socialism within a dictatorship.
Then you will be glad to know that you can run against her in her district.
I’m not moving to California, but I do hope someone who already lives there will do that.
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.
Hell, Gen X barely have any representatives. Boomers still run the place.
Meh, we don’t bother to run. We got kneecapped as far as us being leaders is concerned, being bookended by two much larger generations.
I’m only even considering running for city council in 26 because several of my neighbors have suggested I do so independently of each other.
Always nice when all my reps are backwards boomer jackasses
Nancy Peloso is older than a Boomer. She’s from the generation before that, the Silent Generation.
Imagine all the people,
Living for today.
Imagine your representatives,
Voting for term limits to cut off their own money faucets.
Term limits just give corporations more power because you’re limiting experience. Corporate funded Special Interest Groups will be writing all the laws if you impose term limits.
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.
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.
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.
How else would she get all those hot stock tips?
How much is enough for these people? I have always told myself if I won the lottery, I could live comfortably on 10 million no problem for the rest of my days with my wife and kids. What causes these people to just want more and more instead of just chilling out and enjoying what they have already? Why would you want to run again at her age? Go enjoy retirement!
I live in her district. I will attend campaign speeches yelling, “Let younger generations have a turn!”
I also live in her district and will be voting for her again. Her incredible record of making high return investments shows good judgment that I just can’t argue with, even if she is more of a radical leftist than I’m normally comfortable with.
Her incredible record of making high return investments
Just to be sure, we’re talking about her insider trading, right?
record of making high return investments shows her good judgement
she is more of a radical leftist than I’m normally comfortable with
Lmao what the fuck dude? She’s a neoliberal, which is absolutely not aligned with “radical leftism” (a label that she absolutely, categorically does not fit). And her investment success just shows that insider trading is an effective strategy, nothing more.
I’ve seen her do some pretty radical leftist type stuff, she once did the outrageous Kaepernick kneel inside the Congress building
Why. I’m asking because blindly yelling is pretty stupid and ineffective. Almost counter productive as you look ineffective and by proxy whatever you’re yelling about would look childish
Will these stubborn old fucks just retire and disappear into wine country or something? You are creating a world you won’t have to deal with the consequences of and the longer you hold onto power the less experience the next generation of leaders can attain and will ultimately weaken your party and has already weakened the country. Go. The. Fuck. Away. You. Old. Cunts.
