Biden added: “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”
God damn, so politically stupid to not realize that these political attacks works since he’s still defending himself from these same political attacks.
Or we can you know put a cap on the president’s age. 35-65 should be a big enough window to become president.
Nah, that’s stupid and ridiculous.
Age is just a number and with advances in science, is likely to become even more arbitrary.
That’s ageism! Also, my great grand dad cant be president then, and I’d like him to be so…
There’s already ageist restrictions.
It’s the simplest and cleanest way to do it at the moment.
I’m ok with ageism because age related problems are very real and science tells us they get bad at about 60 or so. This is not about a bias, its about a fact of our existence. But lots of people want to conflate ageism with other forms of bias like sexism or racism. They arent the same at all.
Let me ask you, do you think 110 year olds should be allowed to operate semi trucks or fly planes? Of course you dont. Why not?
I’m in my mid 50s and I and everyone I know will acknowledge that mid 50s individuals dont have the depth of stamina to draw on that we used to have. Sure we can still occasionally run circles around the better resourced youngins with some finesse and tricks, but only to a point-- we aren’t likely to win as many large energy expenditure activities on average, physically or mentally. Thats just life. And what I am talking about here accelerates right about at 60. Its been well studied.