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2y ago

Feinstein Briefly Hospitalized After a Fall at Home in San Francisco

www.nytimes.com Feinstein Briefly Hospitalized After a Fall at Home in San Francisco

Dianne Feinstein, 90, has struggled to navigate the Senate this year after suffering a severe case of shingles in February.

Feinstein Briefly Hospitalized After a Fall at Home in San Francisco

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Can we just get all these oldies out no matter what party that are in? We should have a law where you have to retire at whatever the youngest public retirement age is.
- Or they should just do a cognitive and physical test every half a year once they are past the retirement age. Bernie Sanders is 81 and still has a sharp mind and his mindset isn’t stuck in the 50’s.
  
  They’ll all pay a doctor to lie, so we need harder limits
  
  To be fair he’s had the same mindset since the 50’s as well, it was just a progressive mindset that we still haven’t caught up to as a society
  
  His mindset is stuck in the 60s, but whether or not that’s a good thing is a different debate.
- I think I'd like to see mandatory retirement age be whatever the average life expectancy is. If they want to have a shot at staying in office longer, they'll have to make the health care system better.
  
  You say that like they have to use the same healthcare as the peasants. Spoiler alert: they don't.

So if a politician goes legally insane what happens? If they decide to go down meth alley and are completely unhinged, what happens? We all just sit and let dementia patients run the country till they die? Merica
- Nixon was wandering around the White House while black out drunk talking to himself and ordering nuclear strikes.
  So there are legitimately no safety rails.
  
  Apparently there are some safety rails if no nukes were launched.
  But point taken, fuck these old folks, and Nixon.
- History has shown that mayors can smoke crack and keep being mayors and presidents can be high on stimulants daily and keep their jobs.
- we're gonna watch our leaders die live on C-SPAN of old age. we're already almost there, we just need them to actually die when they BSOD while speaking

Does Hallmark sell a "Get well and retire soon" card?
- It's in the sympathy section.
- Who wants her to get well?
  
  Democrats, because while she is not able to vote the Judiciary Committee is split evenly, and nothing will pass unless there is at least one Republican vote. Republicans have been clear they will not support Democrats replacing Feinstein temporarily while she is out sick. It looks like if they want to replace her, it would have to be permanent -- and there's no guarantee Republicans would support that, either.
  
  Her friends, her family, people who aren't callous enough too wish death on people?
  I just want her to f'ing retire and let someone not suffering from massively declining mental facilities legislature shit that affects my life. I mean hell, I absolutely hate McConnell and his lack of any morals and I'll gladly piss on his grave, I wouldn't care if he died, but I don't actively wish for his death.
  
  I think she should have retired ages ago, but you should spend some time thinking about how, or even if, you value human life.

Oh. She dead already.

I look forward to seeing peoples reactions when she inevitably shits herself on the senate floor.

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