I see the name around but TIL the US has an 84 year-old senator. There’s terrorists, assassins, international bad agents, etc. but then there’s a simple fall that’s by far the highest risk of being life-threatening for a critical role.
There’s “unfit for the job”, but the technical term is invalidity, where a person’s medical or health status disqualify them from performing the duties of the position. Usually things like being alive and able are considered minimum requirements of political positions. Things like a high risk of not being able to perform basic duties due to a woopsie do not fulfill the minimum requirements of political positions.
While I assume the US has some form of medical regulation for political positions and this guy got cleared, the same regulation should now be invalidating his clearance for obvious reasons.
There are limited if any medical regulations for politics. With the exception of the executive branch where one person is supposed to be in control, in legislative branches no single senator or rep is required for it to function. A dead senator doesnt stop government function and it is up to the voters and state laws for placement or replacement. The US is a gerontocracy for many reasons, a big one is that seniority matters for political power, e.g. committee appointments, name recognition, etc. Multiple important politicians are in their 70s-90s in part from inertia and in part because of the power of the baby boomer voting bloc.
I see the name around but TIL the US has an 84 year-old senator. There’s terrorists, assassins, international bad agents, etc. but then there’s a simple fall that’s by far the highest risk of being life-threatening for a critical role.
The biggest problem is Americans keep electing him. While there should be term limits obviously, America is 100% at fault for voting for his old ass over and over.
Blame Kentucky, those fucks are the ones who kept that shit again office for a century or two.
Not disagreeing that we need term limits, but McConnell is not the fault of Americans. I have my own congressmorons to be ashamed of, but I’m at least not required to be ashamed of him directly, since I have no hand in that assholes constant reelection.
While I assume the US has some form of medical regulation for political positions
I’m not American, but I’ve never heard of such a thing. Why would it be a thing? It’s an elected position, so the people he represents decided that this ancient humanoid was a better representative of their interest than anyone else.
Being laid off or fired is usually for positions you were hired for, not voted into.
I see the name around but TIL the US has an 84 year-old senator. There’s terrorists, assassins, international bad agents, etc. but then there’s a simple fall that’s by far the highest risk of being life-threatening for a critical role.
There’s “unfit for the job”, but the technical term is invalidity, where a person’s medical or health status disqualify them from performing the duties of the position. Usually things like being alive and able are considered minimum requirements of political positions. Things like a high risk of not being able to perform basic duties due to a woopsie do not fulfill the minimum requirements of political positions.
While I assume the US has some form of medical regulation for political positions and this guy got cleared, the same regulation should now be invalidating his clearance for obvious reasons.
There are limited if any medical regulations for politics. With the exception of the executive branch where one person is supposed to be in control, in legislative branches no single senator or rep is required for it to function. A dead senator doesnt stop government function and it is up to the voters and state laws for placement or replacement. The US is a gerontocracy for many reasons, a big one is that seniority matters for political power, e.g. committee appointments, name recognition, etc. Multiple important politicians are in their 70s-90s in part from inertia and in part because of the power of the baby boomer voting bloc.
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The biggest problem is Americans keep electing him. While there should be term limits obviously, America is 100% at fault for voting for his old ass over and over.
Blame Kentucky, those fucks are the ones who kept that shit again office for a century or two.
Not disagreeing that we need term limits, but McConnell is not the fault of Americans. I have my own congressmorons to be ashamed of, but I’m at least not required to be ashamed of him directly, since I have no hand in that assholes constant reelection.
We also have a 92 year old senator. I’ve heard he’s considering seeking reelection in 2 years.
I’m not American, but I’ve never heard of such a thing. Why would it be a thing? It’s an elected position, so the people he represents decided that this ancient humanoid was a better representative of their interest than anyone else.
Being laid off or fired is usually for positions you were hired for, not voted into.