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.
Another reason to kick those people out of congress.
Foxx told the 10-year-old that his request meant taking money out of the pockets of hardworking taxpayers who might not be able to afford an electric vehicle themselves. She told him the country was heading toward bankruptcy and economic failure. She wrote that 2038 is only 12 years away, and that “YOU and your classmates will be responsible for paying down the national debt.”
Virginia Foxx sounds like a pornstar name. Just a tiny bit less on the nose than Virgin Foxxx.
Tick tock, bitch.
An 82 year old congresswoman.
Christ.
Any decision he makes will not affect him.
She, and yes.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the US government.
Cue sad applause
We need age limits on politicians.
Age isn’t a safe metric, some people’s brains go to shit at 50, some are still fully functional at 90. Just test them.
And minimal education requirements
And term limits
Term limits are stupid, if the person doing the job currently is neither incompetent nor corrupt then there’s no benefit to swapping them out. As long as you can vote them out if and when they stop doing a good job there’s no good reason not to let the same person keep doing the same job til they retire, and if you can’t then your system is already fucked.
Term limits increase the power of lobbyists.
Why do you think so?
We see it in studying state legislatures who have term limits. (I studied this in graduate school before switching to a different master’s program)
Term limits doesn’t change how much power and money are available. It just changes who controls that power and money (the budget.) If the congressmen lose some of that power via term limits, that power doesn’t go away. It doesn’t go unused. It gets scooped up and used by the lobbyists to get things passed a naive congress.
Worst, you create perverse incentives where congressmen are locked out of running for re-election, so they take their expertise and contacts gained in office and work for the lobbyists that used to lobby them.
No, as good as term limits sound, it’s much, much better to leave it up to the voters to decide who their rep will be. If they want a 40 year veteran or a rookie every two years, that’s their choice to make.
Nah. Term limits help prevent the creation and perpetuation of “good old boy” clubs. Quite honestly, it is better to have an inexperienced but well meaning rando, than an expert who makes a habit of lining their pockets with their experience.
Term limits don’t prevent anything, they just make the club slightly larger. The US is proof of this, we have term limits on the vast majority of elected positions, still organizedly corrupt in favor of the ruling class on all fronts.
Term limits are not the solution, they are part of a solution. Term limits alone wouldn’t work without other parts of the political process being reformed. For example, First Past the Post voting makes it much harder for independent candidates to get a fair shot.
The United States needs huge reforms across the board, because much of our processes were built 250 years ago.
Term limits are at best a neutral impact, a rotating cast isn’t any more likely to be competent or less likely to be corrupt. If an official is bad at their job then vote them out, if they aren’t then forcing them out just for the sake of change is directly counterproductive. It’s really just that simple.
No, the problem with keeping people in office, is that they get to establish strong networks of interests. By disrupting this and adding social uncertainty from unfamiliar people, we make it harder for corruption to become baked into society. Corruption is very much a social behavior that relies upon trust - the trust that the other guy won’t snitch on you, if the horsetrading is profitable.
We make it harder to establish that trust among thieves, by swapping people often.
The lack of limitations seems to be doing just fine with the supreme Court.
Plenty of elected positions in the US have term limits and none of them are any less corrupt, term limits don’t do shit
i would settle for televized cognitive assessments, fail and your forciboy retired
it should be tied to whatever is legally the earliest you can get social security. If the government thinks your at an age that’s reasonable to retire, maybe you should not be making our rules anymore.
No prizes for guessing this congresswoman’s party affiliation.
Not that “Yahoo Entertainment” (news is dead, i know) even bothered to put it in the entire article, much less the headline.
The congresswoman started by thanking Christian for writing. She said they agreed about the importance of innovation in the automobile industry.
That was the last kind thing in the letter.
Foxx told the 10-year-old that his request meant taking money out of the pockets of hardworking taxpayers who might not be able to afford an electric vehicle themselves. She told him the country was heading toward bankruptcy and economic failure. She wrote that 2038 is only 12 years away, and that “YOU and your classmates will be responsible for paying down the national debt.”
She capitalized “YOU.” She was writing to a fourth grader.
Then she linked him to six articles from Fox News, National Review, The Washington Times, and the Wall Street Journal editorial board — articles about the failures of climate change policy.
And then she turned on his teacher.
What a fuckwit piece of shit.
She will be high on Luigi 2.0’s list
This innocent-until-proven-guilty guy is never going to get a fair trial. His biggest supporters are constantly like, “yeah, he totally shot that guy.”
Well, even the lawyer is saying “judge, just look out the window and see all those supporters saying that what he did was right.”
Good observation. They almost gave her party affiliation, but they stopped short.
Foxx now chairs the House Rules Committee and is running for re-election in 2026 with Trump’s endorsement.
It’s not exactly ambiguous, but it’s also not explicit. That’s a weird choice.
Cute, the National Debt that HER and HER generation allowed to run rampant so that SHE could make off with mad bank?
lol a repube concerned with the US national debt??
They’re always concerned with it when they’re not in office. But these days no one cares what’s real.
More importantly, another group of dumb voters supporting a corrupt old coot that does not give a shit about the future.
It IS propaganda! Electric cars still cause overproduction. All Cars Are Bad!
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no mate
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This treasonous MAGA pedophile is more proof that only the good die young.
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.
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.
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.
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
If you pitched this as a scene in a satirical movie, you’d be told to tone it down a bit.
