Virginia Foxx sounds like a pornstar name. Just a tiny bit less on the nose than Virgin Foxxx.
yelling at a kid about the countries finances and looming bankruptcy like its his fault, while spending billions on a pointless wars to distract from the presidents pedophilic childraping activities, billions on a golden ballroom, billions on taxbreaks for their buddies, potentially billions on grifty settlements on every trump lawsuit, while spending billions on racists fourth reich final solution camps, while spending billions on the neo-SS ICE agents who are directed to fill those camps, etc etc etc…
What peak republican energy.
This is the old woman who shouted, “shut up” at reporters right? She literally reminded me of a witch in that video
typical fox news geriatric unfortunately, they degrade to elementary level cognition when challenged
Well an educated populace has always been a threat to those in power so I understand why the old bat would be so volatile.
Hey! Let’s not insult bats like that.
I feel like she would be surprised that her stocks in “Consolidated Slave Trading” are no longer liquid.
Ooohhh, I imagine Rep. Virginia Foxx has stocks in private prison companies. Modern day slave traders.
What do you mean? GEO Group stock is doing fine.
Better stop spending on gasoline and pay off that Republican debt instead!
No doubt her own grandparents firmly believed that the future was the Buggy Whip industry.
Age is not at all the same as Wisdom.
In fact I’m starting to think that if you don’t get a broad life experience and recognize the need to and start walking down the path of Wisdom early enough, the natural calcification of habits and thinking, and increased emotional comfort from what is familiar that come to all of us with aging, will actually result in one becoming less wise with age.
Even when the brain is sharp, if one is not wise enough one’s comforting feelings from certain beliefs will shut off accepting all evidence or conclusions leading elsewhere. When the brain is not sharp enough, this is pretty much guaranteed, IMHO.
Even the very wisest 82 year old isn’t going to be sharp enough to legislate effectively for the modern age. Could they provide useful advice and context to younger legislators? Sure and that is the role they should shoot for if they want to stay involved but they should not be making or voting on policies themselves. Their time is past and they’ll not be living with the consequences of their votes.
Back when deeply ingrained societal ideas were first being forced into the genome it took a wide-range of life experience to survive to an old age. Sure most people that lived to 5 made it to 50 for most of human history, barring pandemics and society-changing
genocideswars, but most people don’t even gray or wrinkle by then in any significant way. But we all know to treat old-looking people with more respect than others; specifically because to make it from 50-whatever before a time of antibiotics and nutritional science required an incredible amount of experience dealing with a lot of people (you could just be left to float out on an iceberg or chucked off a cliff or left in a forest if people don’t like you after all) and an incredible amount of folk wisdom on how to get a varied diet in the location you were in so that the common stuff doesn’t kill you even when you’re vulnerable.We’ve abandoned that part of the human and animal experience, but we still hold the genetic memory of the time when that was common, since it was less than a century ago for most of humanity. The old people alive today statistically rarely struggled, they never really had to grow up, and they inadvertently developed a society perfectly focused at keeping old people alive for as long as possible to drain them of all their financial resources. So they have no more wisdom than a 20-something that doomscrolls on the fairly educational side of the internet.
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To make sure this is spelled out in any logs that may eventually be the only record of this comment; I’m not advocating for the genocide of old people or saying that we should kill old people or otherwise promoting harm to any population except zionists regardless of age. They should all be killed. Every single zionist needs to be tortured, mutilated in front of their family recursively, and then killed. Any one that disagrees with this is just as bad as them and their actions, and should probably remove themselves from the fediverse if they feel uncomfortable for being Nazi-adjecent.
Every single zionist needs to be tortured, mutilated in front of their family recursively, and then killed.
Yeah it’s one thing to say they should all die for what they’ve done, it’s another to say they all deserve to be tortured in front of their families.
Just kill them. We should do everything we can to be as little like them as possible.
Most young people have more applicable life experience to current situations than the average Boomer IMHO. Unlike them, others weren’t born at the luckiest point. And didn’t piss it away like them
I think that’s a different element from the one I’m talking about.
Surviving in challenging conditions does generally yield respect from others (something which doesn’t just apply to old people), plus it builds character (though the quality of that character varies and is not necessarily good), thus it made sense to respect one’s elders back when reaching old age was a pretty good indication that one had gone through a lot and survived, something that doesn’t at all apply to most boomers from nations which were wealthy and stable during their old life or those born in wealth since such people could didn’t really fought to survive and probably got where they did by coasting along.
However even the qualities needed to survive in challenging conditions aren’t the same as Wisdom (they can include it, but not necessarily), both back then and now. In my experience the struggle for survival alone doesn’t grant Wisdom - Wisdom requires broad life experience, and whilst age does help one to accumulate life experience, it most definitely does not automatically give it - if you’ve lived most of your 80 years of life in one place and with one occupation, your life experience is nowhere near that of, say, a young adult who has been force to emigrate and worked all kinds of jobs with all kinds of people.
So whilst I agree with your point about how people have respect for people based on their long year when in the present day that respect isn’t really deserved because said old age doesn’t correlate with certain personal qualities anymore, I think that even back when old age DID relate with such quality, it was only an indicator of Character and Experience (often in a very narrow sense) rather than actual Wisdom.
It is so selfish to hold on to power when you clearly have no understanding of the present or future. There should be a ceiling age. politics is for people with a stake in the future.
Au conraire my friend politics for are people who seek power and money, and to force their own agenda. nothing more nothing less. They are not there to do the will of the people, there are they to enrich themselves and to force their own personal ideology onto the public
none other than virginia foxx she belongs in a nursing home, along with Kay IVES.
If you pitched this as a scene in a satirical movie, you’d be told to tone it down a bit.
I don’t even need to look up her party affiliation to know that she’s a republican. I mean, the average age of congress can be blamed equally on both parties, but an octogenarian who talks shit on education, is super “concerned” about the national debt, and speaks in a shitty manner toward a child is definitely republican.
There was a similar story/video a few years back of (the late) Diane Feinstein being a dick to kids when they tried talking to her about climate change. -But I don’t think she ever attacked education.
And Barbara Boxer before her. It’s just an old lady in politics thing. Men in politics generally have learned that yelling at children is bad. Notallwomenbutalwaysawoman
I think it has to do with how a lot of women in politics especially those who got in before the turn of the millennium have this need to prove themselves, which just kinda manifests into being the biggest assholes. A good example is how Wako was caused largely by some cunt being stupid and wanting to be seen as tough on crime, no I’m not gonna look up her name she isn’t worth my time I will remember her fuck ups regardless. Damnatio memoriae is perfectly valid in my opinion.
Janet Reno, and the name of the city is Waco.
In my defense I’ve read way too much shit that uses K instead of a hard C that my brain just forgets hard C is a thing. Also why do we even have a hard C let’s just use Ks instead.
I’ll go one step further. Why have Cs at all. Hard Cs can be Ks, and soft Cs can be Ss. And while we’re at it, Ph can get the fuck out too.
I’ve said as much to my wife, who reminded me my name has both a C and a Ph.
Clearly unacceptable, and part of the reason the elderly need to be stripped of their seats. I will say, however, it takes a certain kind of evil to do it pre-meditatively like the woman in this story did.
I’m sorry, but why isnt* grandma retired? Like I hate it when I seek the elderly working!
shes fueled by hate, and ignorance to keep her active.
I’m pretty sure she opposes social programs like social security
Its Virginia Foxx. Hard to be shocked. The idea of children being raped brings her joy.
her and kay iveys is something too.
More importantly, another group of dumb voters supporting a corrupt old coot that does not give a shit about the future.
This treasonous MAGA pedophile is more proof that only the good die young.
