A five-year survival rate for esophageal cancer is around 20%, but it can range from 5% to 47%. Survival rates decrease for: Older age, male sex! Oops!
The ageism in the comments is disgusting to be honest. Fauci was 74 leading us thru Covid and I would take him any day over some 24yr old. People need to be evaluated on their own merits.
If he/she was any age with a terminal disease IMO he/she should retire and make the best out of his/her life.
The idea that you need dinosaurs to still work past retirement is deranged. Allow someone with more longevity to serve, as the role is vital and not an advisory one for seniors.
My husband is 73 and underwent chemo last year. This is him lifting logs from trees that fell in Hurricane Helene. Chemo isn’t what it used to be. He taught classes all through treatment for lymphoma.
People react to chemo differently. Especially depending on the cancer. Nobody will know until they're on it. It can cripple people in their twenties as easily as an octogenarian. Not to mention it makes one more vulnerable to illness and injury. Not to mention it makes one likely to get it again.
Also, the older you are when you get cancer the sooner you are probably going to get it. Somebody who is 25 is much less likely to get cancer again in the following five years as someone who is 75.
Also, this all belies the point that this is also just bad, corrupt politics.
Uhhhhh, pretty sure AOC isn't 24, also she has proven the ability to set an agenda. I Believe Gerry has made comments about "grandstanding" and being negative about public speaking. It's not 1996,with 3 networks and 5major newspapers.That generation has foisted trump on us twice. Get out of the way.
I am in Gaza at a time when I could die. I no longer think about the future. I think about whether I will wake up tomorrow morning or not. I think about a way to get my food and medicine, and if I die, will they find me or not? Your support saves us at a time when we need it.
The hubris is breathtaking. All these dinosaurs will die of natural causes at any moment with no embarrassment about hoarding power and stifling the next generation.
74 strike against him.
Throat cancer strike against him.
Treatment most likely radiation, possibly knock out his voice box strike against him.
Old guard strike against him.
Deserves position as he waited his turn strike against Democratic Party.
My grandpa accidentally dragged my grandma through a parking lot because her jacket got stuck in the car door when he was dropping her off at Old Country Buffet. That’s basically the energy I think the Dems have.
I so wish Nancy would step down, pass the torch. Even if she wanted to protect her center corporate ideology, certainly she could have found someone in that vast democratic group that was intelligent, younger and healthier. The party elders should be there to wisely advise, not control!
OMG - I’ve already mentioned that to my husband two X this week. Brian Baird, former US Congressman from WA quit over that specific congressional corruption!
The old guard is fighting tooth & nail to hold on to power. Nancy will be dead within 18 months. Most elderly people who break their hip don't last long.
I respect a lot of your views, but your reporting on the age of politicians is tinged with ageism. Someone who's no longer competent shouldn't be in office, but it's an individualized determination. Even if you don't like Pelosi, so far she's certainly been sharp and competent. ...
Agreed! Nancy Pelosi has been so sharp and competent at personal enrichment that she’s enriched herself to amass a net worth of over $100 million! Inspiring! 🌊🌊🌊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙💙
The purest expression of ageism is an assumption that age prevents people from understanding present day issues. Living through the emergence of modern technology and seeing first hand how those technologies have changed society would make people more knowledgeable than less.
Or the obvious truth can be obvious, that these people are entirely out of touch with their changing constituency and only care about keeping their own individual power, which is why the Democrats have collapsed as a party in the last 15 years, losing seats nationwide and to Trump twice.
Sounds like a nice defense of gerontocracy, one could use it to advocate to raise voting age to 60, but just doesn't work like that much of the time. Living through technological change is different from understanding its effects and being able to project future effects of now emerging tech.
Not even just tech - the Boomers and the millennials grew up in America with entirely different economic experiences, and the Boomers who run the party keep telling the young people to shut up and quit complaining and either vote for them anyway or just fuck off.
There is nothing unique about modern technical change that is beyond the understanding of older people. Many of us are experiencing it just like everyone else, looking at our phones all the time. If I can remember what it's like not to be addicted to all this stuff, I know more than you.
Just because someone remembers how it was to ride on a horse-driven cart doesn't mean they are fully capable of deciding should DARPA and Nasa's orbital nuclear thermal propulsion test keep its funding.
I certainly don't like Mitch McConnell, but up until his recent bout with freezing (whatever that is) he's been pretty masterful as a senatorial leader.
Has she been competent? She spent years helping cover up the fact the president was not fit for office which led to the 2024 election loss and now she picked a 74-year old man with UNTREATED cancer to head an incresingly important committee over a young, healthy rising star of the party.
Yeah…Connelly will be around for exactly zero high profile hearings. He doesn’t appear to have the energy to hold power accountable. BTW, lately, whenever Pelosi is questioned about supporting issues that help working people, she becomes transparently incrementalist. Expose these bribed Dems.
dnc agents talking about this old bag as if he is of the ethereal winter elves of Elindraeth, scion of the Moon Clan, 74 short years of intensive education and training in the graces of the lower realm...
this androgynous beauty unmatched by time itself, finally ready to lead the lesser peoples
Sounds like my grandfather. He said he was feeling “young and hip as ever” after a hip replacement, stents in the heart, strokes, and put on blood thinners (to name a few).
AOC has underreacted to this whole situation. The dems need her more than she needs the dems. And Connolly was old before he even ran for the house. Pelosi had some good will built up with the rumors she orchestrated Biden dropping out and Kamala stepping in. But Grandma needs to go.
I've met and interviewed Connolly a couple of times and he's good at what he does. But he's not going to bring the energy that is needed for the Democratic Party going forward.
I did say he's good at what he does, didn't I? He may think that corporate connection is still viable because it's benefitted him. However, that won't fly anymore.
Nobody is talking about that. Forget about the Alzheimers (sorry, bad joke), how did she get away with not showing up to her job to vote for an entire half year?
It's really quite a thing. Chair of Ways and Means, but also a ghost. I can't imagine any other job where that could be possible, and still can't understand how it's possible in Congress either.
Perhaps an attendance as a regular press release is in order. At the very least it might shine a light on the gerontocracy that has overtaken the Capital.
Connolly’s esophageal cancer diagnosis is alarming. Unless the odds of survival have improved markedly over 20 years, he may not be able to hold the position very long. I would have liked to see AOC head the committee. She’s good at her job, is very media savvy, & has a large social media following.
Government watchdog? I have seen two photos of House Speaker Mike Johnson socializing with Trump. The legislative branch won't be doing any watchdogging of the executive branch.
It's weird that AOC's congressional bio doesn't mention her membership, but Wikipedia describes Raskin's Jan 2024(?) appointment of her as Vice Ranking Member of the United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. Maybe Gerry will continue that?
Yep, it rankles like a champ. If one were to get rid of these elderly statespeople, the party might stand a chance but, as it is, they are mere Trump enablers.
I believe this attitude is partially why the Democratic party hasn't moved forward. As much as I respect Nancy Pelosi, it's time for the younger people to be moved into positions of power just like Hakeem Jeffries.
There is no such thing as a young 74 year old. Some people hold up better than others but 74 is not young. Their experience is outdated. They are like dial up internet while the world is on 24/7 wireless.
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AOC is clearly more qualified than some old dinosaur with cancer.
The idea that you need dinosaurs to still work past retirement is deranged. Allow someone with more longevity to serve, as the role is vital and not an advisory one for seniors.
They have robbed their generations and the following generations enough. Let them experience the system they exploited before they die.
Also, this all belies the point that this is also just bad, corrupt politics.
Do everything she can to assist until he calls in sick, and he will. Then she takes over.
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Throat cancer strike against him.
Treatment most likely radiation, possibly knock out his voice box strike against him.
Old guard strike against him.
Deserves position as he waited his turn strike against Democratic Party.
So you just replied to the word weird.
I don't even understand what you tried to do with your reply.
Their education, their ideas of politics, are from an antediluvian world compared to tech in 2024.
These people should legislate about such things as AIs and social media when all were middle-aged when personal computers became a thing.
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Party hierarchy over effective government.
this androgynous beauty unmatched by time itself, finally ready to lead the lesser peoples
Like cancer.
Won't be a telephone pep call only, right?
Now what can she oppromise/withhold for candidates? How does that work?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Oversight_and_Accountability
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/27/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-could-become-number-two-democrat-on-oversight-panel-00079938