Colleagues worry Dianne Feinstein is now mentally unfit to serve, citing recent interactions (passed away 9/28/23)

[Pressure]

At some point you have to take some responsibility. Unless her money is making you fill in the bubble next to her name, you have a choice. Just like people chose trump, people chose to keep her in office into her 90s.

Voters have the ability to recognize she's going to be in her 90s when they pull the lever.

No amount of resources can hide that. Folks just don't take voting seriously and this is further proof positive of that point.

 

[mastermind]

I blame Cali voters for this

You shouldn’t

The Democratic Party keeps her in office and crushes her competition within the party.

 

[NZA]

there's enough blame to go around. it is a clusterfukk of things that have gone wrong. ultimately, she, much like the notorious RBG, could have just done the right thing, but no...

 

[wire28]

This is like saying fans are to blame entirely for who they vote for on all star ballots. When you don’t know much about someone, you will go with name recognition. That’s why people often ignore challengers because their name won’t get heard unless you make them a thing.

Don’t Vote then or research

last cycle I was looking up random people running for judge, sheriff, school board, etc

I know it’s a headache finding info on them but if you care you’ll do what it takes. If you don’t, you’ll settle for a 90 year and whatever comes with her

Edit: and I’m not absolving the machine. I’m just saying like a lot of things, the etiology often is multifactorial

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

there's enough blame to go around. it is a clusterfukk of things that have gone wrong. ultimately, she, much like the notorious RBG, could have just done the right thing, but no...

yep, there's such a power hungry selfish bunch of 70+ year olds in washington right now,

 

[No1]

Don’t Vote then or research

last cycle I was looking up random people running for judge, sheriff, school board, etc

I know it’s a headache finding info on them but if you care you’ll do what it takes. If you don’t, you’ll settle for a 90 year and whatever comes with her

Edit: and I’m not absolving the machine. I’m just saying like a lot of things, the etiology often is multifactorial

Right but you’re a specific sort of person. Whenever I’m speaking on politics or any topic, I’m thinking about the “casual” or average person. Most people engage in politics half-heartedly, and seasonally. I wish people were like you and what you described. But that would take a societal overhaul. It’s much easier to reform campaign finance and get a consensus on that then in how Americans engage with civics.

 

[Consigliere]

This has been known.

All these old fukks should be pressed to step down/stop running for office for the good of the country.

No one presses them because old people vote and old people finance everything.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

They will never walk away. It’s like that in every profession. Why would you want to work at that age?

No it isn’t. Just ones where people get to wield power over others.

 

[No1]

No it isn’t. Just ones where people get to wield power.

Name me one profession in America where baby boomers have walked away.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Name me one profession in American where baby boomers have walked away.

Bruh what kind of bubble do you live in? The overwhelming majority of people are trying to retire early.

 

[Black Hans]

Good riddance

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

I initially entered this thread ready to go in on Diane but after reading about the letters, interviews and her husband death I’m more sympathetic towards her. While it’s clear regardless of what senator Tim kaine is saying, she is clearly deteriorating and needs to step down.

I just assume they will let her play it out until 2024

People lose their husbands everyday. fukk her. She just doesn’t want to give up power.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

"now"?


This been known for a couple years already.



Old dems who refuse to give up power to the next generation have been a stain upon the party.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

their addicted to the power

They're addicted to the money

They are a whole machine that generates money for their family and preferred associates

They don't give an actual fukk about wielding power or determining which direction the country goes

It's about having the access to information and capital that lines their pockets.

If they could generate that wealth without being in power I assure you they would prefer to do so

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Bruh what kind of bubble do you live in? The overwhelming majority of people are trying to retire early.

young people are trying to FIRE, and that's mainly driven by us knowing aint shyt waiting for us, we gotta stack now - Boomers are happily enjoying their exec roles and blocking people from moving up.

Aging Americans think they'll retire about 7 years later than planned, but life will be great once they do