📌I'm sorry but the 80-year-old Dick Durbin saying he will retire AT THE END OF NEXT YEAR has to be the most out-of-touch Democratic thing I have heard this week.
📌Chances are God will retire you first, sport. Step down NOW if you want to do something truly meaningful for the party.
-Thanks
📌Chances are God will retire you first, sport. Step down NOW if you want to do something truly meaningful for the party.
-Thanks
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ALL I KNOW IS......
IF I HAD A DICK DURBIN , I'D RETIRE TOO. SOUNDS PAINFUL.
The US system is purpose built to allow rich influencers control the binary party system.
Now they also control your media, which is unregulated…
A recipe for disaster…
Welcome to 2025.
Like, you're complaining about him being a centrist, who do you think would be appointed by the party machine?
I'm not complaining about anything.
So an election is better for shifting the party. Giving the incumbent advantage to a party flack is what you want?
Do you know how expensive an election is for the state? When they have to turn around and hold another one the following year or two.
Durbin can continue working while an actual democratic campaigns can spin up and shift the party how the people would want.
And you think a perfectly healthy, fit 80 year old is about to drop dead?
OK.
I’ve known both politically / intellectually incompetent young people and doddering old people.
A certain energy is required, which can be tougher on the more elderly.
Wisdom is required and often lacking in younger people, simply from lack of experience.
A set age? Tricky!
The American people aren’t powerless here, politicians stick around into their eighties and beyond because we tolerate it.
And was preceded by Paul Simon. Not the singer. That seat is safe
Btw, Durbin has been a fine man and senator and he doesn’t deserve your second comment. Thanks
With all due respect to the Democratic leadership for all their previous achievements, do they not believe in the concept of passing the torch? At all?
This does not sound unlike Biden's “Only the Lord Almighty” exclamation from last year.
If you don’t like it, join a political party & see how tough it is to effect change, but complaining about the age of the people you elected is just silly.
Ireland is imperfect, but we elected a youngish openly gay man who was our Taoiseach.
I've been a card-carrying member of at least one (local) party; none of that has anything to do with the “old guard” holding on by the skin of their teeth.
The world's oldest democracy is in peril. It needs leadership.
Varadkar was far from catastrophic, but he wasn't a sharp departure from the two-party “business as usual,” either.
https://candidatepathways.com/2024/10/how-to-get-on-the-ballot-a-step-by-step-guide-for-political-candidates/
He’s announced he’s out so be happy and save your outrage for the circus on the other side of the aisle.
If he got elected, its because people voted for him. If you think you’re better, stand for election.
It’s hard work to build the trust needed simply to get nominated!
Couch-commentary is cheap. It should at least be polite.
Imagine having someone who's not a shambling corpse up there this last decade
Last Session, he was a complete failure in oversight of SCOTUS ethics.
We've already had two dem congress critters die this year?
Then Fetterman's doubling down on things he opposed when campaigning (post-stroke brain changes - just asking)
Having experienced people in place is one thing. Having them incapable of serving physically/mentally is another
https://ildems.com
But sure let's keep these guys around another 18 months.
Spare me.
Screeeeeeech go the goalposts. Not like that.
Can you geniuses please make up your minds.
The body will impose its limits on us all differently.
Simple rules, as the orange turd is finding, sound good, but yield poor results in practice.
The world has changed but people haven’t, apart from living longer!!
I hope you live to 100. We’ll all deserve some R&R when the whole sad episode is behind us.
Drilling for more oil is a disgrace in a rich country. I hope the planet is still liveable!
Y'all wanna know what happens when you DON'T give a party or potential successors plenty of time to organize their primary campaigns?
Look no further than the 2024 Presidential Election.
But Biden waited until last minute to pull out, and unfortunately, Kamala's campaign was no where near as successful as it could have been.
It's because those 36% of voters either did not favor Kamala Harris, decided to protest by not voting, voted for a third party candidate, or deluded themselves by saying, "There's no way Trump can win." (Spoilers: He won.)
When everyone was singing his praises I thought someone slipped something in my coffee & not the kind of something I would like to be slipped into my coffee
The dude is 80 years old. He should've retired 15 years ago. He should leave now so we can get a fighter in office. Good golly 🤷♀️
It's selfish & greedy to stay so long. We are failing as a nation to prioritize money more than integrity & happiness.
Including some vague self-awareness that he shouldn’t attempt to run and remain in office at a US Senator until age… 88?
So instead he’ll step down in January of 2027 at age… 82. 🤔
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But NO Rahm Emanuel!