76 year old congressman John Larson suffered a freezing incident during a press conference today. This was his second incident after freezing during a speech on the floor of Congress in February.
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It’s insane we live in a country governed by people so old we legit watch their brain stop working. One of multiple people in power who this is happening to
Frozen Brain Eyes are scary af!
I enjoyed the desperation of the
flapping hand gesture to
signify “talking” though.
It might mean
“brain isn’t totally frozen”
in sign language.
Two (!!!) democratic representatives have died in the first 3 months of the 119th congress, widening the GOP’s previously razor thin majority. Its just awful politics at this point
He was sitting right next to Rep Al Green at the Congressional address, who was jeered at like a football game, and died that night. Tex Gov Abbott is not planning anything to fill his seat which would most likely go Democrat as it’s in Houston, TX.
The funny thing is the New York Post was bitching about New York considering passing a law to do the same thing when Elise Stefanik would resign. But they backed down and she was unnominated anyway. The hypocrisy is wild
Tennis World champion, Roger Federer retired at 36, Point is there’s no shame in knowing your mental and physical limits. A minimum age of 30 required to run for Congress. It’s a stressful, grueling job. Congress needs to be responsible and set a maximum member of terms and or age for retirement.
We need younger people in Congress. A 76 year old person is perfectly competent, until they aren't. We can't have our electeds "freezing" all the time.
Bernie isn’t having brain freezes while giving speeches. He’s out on the road energetically speaking to thousands at rallies. However, if there was a required retirement age, which I favor, he would not be exempt.
He needs to get the hospital immediately. The next question should have been, “Sir, please go to the hospital right now, you just had a TIA and there’s medicine for that.”
the boomers controlled their grandparents, parents, genx, millenial, genz, and now genA entire political economy....over 70 years of a demographic controlling it all....now they are sunsetting and fearing losing grasp...so they have been squeezing everyone to stay in control.
I think what we need is a “congressional advisory committee”, open to former members of congress (over the age of 65?). Maybe give it the power to launch investigations or to recommend bills to the respective houses, but most operate it as a way to get people to leave while saving face.
And maybe they’ll do useful shit, like launching investigations into things they know about but were too afraid to look into before, or, more-likely, they’ll just stop showing up (which is fine, becuase they just get paid per-diem, or something.)
Eight of the oldest twelve members of Congress are Democrats. Two have recently died who weren’t even among the oldest, and the ranking member of the oversight committee is 75 and has cancer.
That's now okay in America isn't it. Your President has set a precedent in public speaking. At least John Larson speaks intelligently, eloquently, and has a vocabulary that includes words of more than two syllables.
Not being hyperbolic, this is legitimately how my dad started speaking a few months before he declined into Alzheimer’s. Down to the little hand movement.
Hey thanks. More good days than bad for now. Just really sad. This disease is awful, gave me an extra hatred for this administration since they’ve revoked all alz funding. There already very little support.
I truly don't understand what it is with these people that makes them want to die in office. Being dedicated to public service is one thing, this is insane.
I'm in the wrong district & can only hope my neighbors encourage him to resign or vote him out. This ain't the time for old, broken people to be in office.
I don't know the man but he seems ambulatory, aware, and intent on speaking about a substantive matter. I'm sure he had more vigor in youth, but he seems to be applying himself to his job. That's something I can not say about a single GOP representative right now.
The man is old, and he obviously just had a neurological episode while talking to press on camera. Instead of a hint of human compassion, the comments are full of ageist slurs. Perhaps if young people had actually voted in the last election this guy could safely retire. He's doing his job.
Harris won by 23, and he won by 29 in his district. What the hell are you talking about that that he can't "safely retire?"
I can certainly empathize with the idea that people aren't commenting with the best grace, but this is lunacy to suggest that this man can't retire when he clearly needs to.
This is a neurological condition for which he is clearly taking medication. My guess is probably dementia… there comes a point when it becomes more difficult to communicate and yes, there will be long pauses as they struggle to find ways to express a thought
We need like a concussion protocol for politicians. You can return to the game after you've been cleared by the doctors. Party can play an interim substitution.
the simulation has gotten too large. Way too many glitches to count. Politicians like Mcconnell, Biden, Larson, etc is a small glitch among the NPCs. Elon Musk is running up his score for bragging rights as the game is coming to an end. The next iteration should be more realistic.
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I enjoyed the desperation of the
flapping hand gesture to
signify “talking” though.
It might mean
“brain isn’t totally frozen”
in sign language.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/06/opinion/ny-democrats-reach-for-new-low-in-plot-to-stall-house-special-election/
Them: why do you love Trump so much?!?!?
They've long forgotten what they were sent to DC to do or even how to do it.
Lobbyists just need a warm body in the seat. They build their staff with connected interns & write the bills their corporate owners ask for.
Everything else is a rubber stamp.
I mean, it's telling a lot about how an oligarchic gerontocracy in the USA is looking similar to an African or Asian authoritarian regime.
but yeah it's fucking time to go
they need mandatory third party competency tests that are public record
just like pilots and surgeons
this is old people not being questioned in power
u r right to hammer this issue
this guy is awesome
he just needs more statins
is it possible to test cortisol levels in the sewer water?
can it be FOIA'd?
they track viral infections through sewer water is there a way to chart stress in a population?
I can certainly empathize with the idea that people aren't commenting with the best grace, but this is lunacy to suggest that this man can't retire when he clearly needs to.
More direct evidence? Here are areas where 70+ is often the career peak:
Novelists
Poets
Artists
Composers
Musicians
You must be joking and I'm not getting it.
Liszt – 74
Chopin – 39
Rachmaninoff – 69
Horowitz – 86
Heifetz – 86
Rubinstein – 95
Casals – 96
Segovia – 94
Menuhin – 82
Oistrakh – 66
Perlman – (still living)
Argerich – (still living)
Cliburn – 78
Gould – 50
Kreisler – 86
Milstein 88
Jacqueline du Pré – 42
Dante 56
Chaucer 60
Shakespeare 52
Milton 65
Blake 69
Wordsworth 80
Coleridge 61
Byron – 36
Shelley – 29
Keats – 25
Whitman –72
Dickinson 55
Tennyson 83
Browning 77
Poe – 40
Longfellow 75
Yeats – 73
Frost 88
Eliot – 76
Plath – 30
Ginsberg 70
Angelou – 86
Rich – 82
Austen – 41
Dickens – 58
Tolstoy – 82
Dostoevsky – 59
Hugo – 83
Melville – 72
Twain – 74
Flaubert – 58
Bronte (Charlotte) – 38
Bronte (Emily) – 30
Eliot (George) – 61
Joyce – 58
Kafka – 40
Hemingway – 61
Fitzgerald – 44
Orwell – 46
Camus – 46
Steinbeck – 66
Michelangelo – 88
Raphael – 37
Caravaggio – 38
Rembrandt – 63
Vermeer – 43
Goya – 82
Turner – 76
Manet – 51
Monet – 86
van Gogh – 37
Cézanne – 67
Matisse – 84
Picasso – 91
Kahlo – 47
Pollock – 44
Warhol – 58
Basquiat – 27
Haring – 31
Music Composers? Bach died at 65. Beethoven 56. Chopin died at 39. Mozart 35….70 huh? Ok.