We Need a Maximum Age Requirement for President
Call it the Biden Rule
WARNING: The following blog post or newsletter or whatever is extremely ageist. It discriminates against people who are too old to be considered boomers. People who were born before microwave ovens or credit cards or transistors. They’re sometimes called “the silent generation,” which is silly because they never shut up. If you’re part of that generation, what you’re about to read may hurt your feelings. That’s unfortunate, but it doesn’t change the truth, and by now you should be mature enough to handle it. Apologies in advance, and thanks for understanding.
Oh, Joe Biden is doing just fine. Why do you ask?
There are a lot of things wrong with this, as there always are when Biden speaks off the cuff, but what disturbs me the most is his sudden burst of anger at the 0:44 mark: “The state legislative bodies continue to change the law, not as to who can vote, but who gets to count the vote. Count the vote. COUNT THE VOTE!!!” In the blink of an eye, he goes from zero to insane.
Clear signs of dementia, anyone?
It’s as if the bigger the lie Biden tells, the angrier he gets that he’s telling it. A younger man would be able to lie with more ease, but Joe’s ancient brain keeps malfunctioning. Maybe it’s his conscience, if he even has one. Maybe he’s just too damn old for the job.
No offense to my older readers, but we need to amend the age requirement to run for president of the United States. It’s fine to keep the minimum age at 35, but we need a maximum age as well. I’d propose Joe Biden’s current age minus, oh, let’s say four years just to be on the safe side. So that would cap eligibility at 75 years young.
A natural-born American citizen gets 40 years to make it into the White House. If you can’t get it done by your 75th birthday, too bad. You had your chance. That seems fair, right? Four decades is more than enough time, isn’t it?
Because the alternative is… this.
It’s not a coincidence that Biden is even less popular than the last guy. It’s not mere happenstance that he has failed at every single thing he’s tried since he was inaugurated a year ago next week. A nearly 80-year-old man is the leader of the Democratic Party, and he’s dragging them down with him. I’m no fan of the Democrats, but I’d rather they didn’t destroy the rest of the country too.
Joe Biden should step down before he falls down.
Oh wait, I forgot. He can’t. The alternative is even worse.
“It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day. Every day it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down.”
Well, when you put it like that.
This Erick Erickson headline sums it up: “Democrats Deploy Filibuster to Stop Cruz While Plotting to Kill the Filibuster.” And they did it to help… Russia!
The Dems keep screaming that the filibuster is a tool of white supremacy, ignoring the fact that the Dems have used the filibuster hundreds of times in the last few years. And then they used it again yesterday. They don’t care about the blatant hypocrisy — doing the very thing they claim is evil and should be banned, right in front of everybody — because they know their voters don’t care.
Happy Anniversary.
Say, whatever happened with that?
What is Alec Baldwin doing, and why is he doing it?
Why are the Baldwins on social media at all? Isn’t that a really bad idea right now? Nothing they publish can help his case, and it can only hurt him. It’s incredibly stupid. Just turn off your phones, you morons!
Well, if this man’s arrogance ends up being his downfall, so be it. Remember when the worst thing Alec Baldwin ever did was his Trump impression?
Okay, I gotta ask: Who is the audience for this?
The original Scream came out in 1996, when half the cast of this new one were babies or not even born yet. The original was all about cataloguing the “rules” of horror movies and then getting scares out of them anyway. The three sequels did the same thing, to diminishing effect. I know I saw the previous one back in 2011, but I honestly don’t remember any of it. Presumably a lot of people were murdered and Sidney Prescott survived, but other than that, it’s all a blur.
And now there’s another one? What’s Sidney gonna do now, ward off Ghostface with her Life Alert button?
Disney ruined Luke Skywalker and made lots of money anyway, so now every other studio with exploitable IP is trying to do the same thing. Halloween Kills, Ghostbusters: Whatever, The Matrix Regurgitations, Scream 17, etc. I wish Hollywood would just leave my memories alone. They keep cashing in on the nostalgia of a generation that used to scoff at nostalgia, and I guess I can’t blame them. It keeps working. We keep falling for it.
On the other hand, HBO just dug up a forgotten superhero from the ‘60s and made him totally awesome:
Yes, that’s really John Cena. The guy has no ego, it’s amazing.
James Gunn’s movies have made literally billions of dollars, and HBO is letting him do whatever he wants. This show is extremely my $#!+. But if it’s not yours, that’s fine too.
TGIF, and thanks for reading.
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You know, Jimmy Carter is a pillar of competency in comparison to what is happening in the White House today. I guess one could say that his only achievement was rehabilitating Carter and sparing him from the moniker of "Worst Post-War President".
I have trouble watching John Cena after his apology to the CCP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI2IkPNteO4