New York Post accidentally campaigns for Zohran
New York Post accidentally campaigns for Zohran
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36 is still young? Thanks New York Post!
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I've been saying for years we need older people running the government.
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A vote for Zohran is a vote for anarchy!
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Privileged lefty radicals, huh? I thought it was poor people being lefties because they want handouts. Choose one boogeyman lol
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It's part of the fascist agenda. Your opponent is both too weak and too strong
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Ah, like Russia is supposed to be.
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Outing them as persons with empathy.
TAKES A REAL GHOUL TO CARE ABOUT THE WELLBEING OF OTHERS. - MAGA
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We've voted celebrities in government positions with NO experience. Enough said.
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Fucking trump and then Reagan was a cenile celibrity puppet
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Reagan was a 2nd rate actor who was most famous for playing 2nd banana to a literal chimpanzee.
But... Reagan was involved in politics for a long time before he became president. Even before he was governor of California he had his hands in some political roles before he gave up acting.
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In what world is mid 30s young? I’d rather have a political cabinet of people who have to live with the consequences of their decisions, than a hundred variants of Holden Bloodfeast.
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Just a bunch of young 30 year olds. You know, the age greater than most of our founding fathers.
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Hey let me think I'm young for at least a few more years!
I do think mid 30s is a great age for getting into politics though. They still have decades left to live with the consequences of their decisions, but they also have a bit more experience with how the world works than idealistic 18 year olds.
Ideally they should also exit politics in less than a century, but I guess we'll see how that plays out.
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In the world of "our median audience member is 67".
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I'd say mid 30s is perfect, enough real world experience to hopefully be a decent person, enough time left to have ambition for something.
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It’s certainly good news to me that some elderly politically-actives have been very much in favor of younger politicians. They’ve been very happy to have me around in phone banks, and wish for more candidates around my age.
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Hindenburgs.
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OMG! horrible! They're not even narcissists! How are they gonna politic and hurt the right people? /s
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People with personality disorders are usually the ones being attacked by the right. The left are the ones who stick up for neurodivergent rights.
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None of these people have Eric Adams's swag. None of them will be going to Istanbul to do body shots off an underaged war refugee. None of them are taking their salaries in Bitcoin. None of them want "New York State of Mind" playing from rescue drones paroling Coney Island.
Is this really what our beautiful, bountiful, bootilicious city wants? Are we going to elect a bunch of 30-something civics nerds?
Not on my watch!
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I see so much support for Zohran in the MSM, they keep posting his Ws.
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They could complain they're awfully white and not diverse
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Woah there I already supported the guy no need for the hard sell
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There's 36-year-olds in the tech industry having difficulty finding work because they're perceived as too old.
Meanwhile we've got a succession of Presidents who are well above retirement age and people act like that's how things should be.
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In what world is mid 30s young? I’d rather have a political cabinet of people who have to live with the consequences of their decisions, than a hundred variants of Holden Bloodfeast.
they are seen as too old because they probably have self-respect and experience. rather than being young eager sychophants that fresh college grads tend to be
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Also, young, inexperienced people are easier to mold into those sycophants they want. At 36, they're more likely to take a step back and say "wait a minute".
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Meanwhile having a 19 year old called Big Balls ransacked the data of an entire nation for personal gain and assault workers doing essential work is no biggie.
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They're trying to lean on the world Privileged, but the people they need to convince he's bad already know every other option is also privileged.
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The people accusing them of being privileged are all ivy league aristocrats.
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That too.
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God forbid the people governing are young enough to actually be affected by the long term outcomes of their policies. Almost like they have a reason to care.
Certainly wouldn't want that
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Obligatory fuck Rupert Murdoch.
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30s... Young...
So I know I'm having an existential crisis over the fact that people my age are leading parties in my country, but I personally think 30 something is an age you should be able to run for political office?
I mean, I personally don't think that the modern political landscape should be like the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
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The US founding fathers decided that the president has to be at least 35, which to me implies that those individuals have had some political experience before becoming president. IMO roughly half the Senate should be under 35, and a good chunk of the House of Representatives should be under 29 considering Senate terms are 6-years long.
Not that you should have to be a "career politician" before becoming president, but it's fairly common to want to show some experience at leadership/politics.
I'm not really a fan, but look at "Mayor" Pete Buttigeg. One of the biggest attacks against him when he ran was "being president is not the same as being a mayor" (meanwhile we'll elect CEOs like their experience means anything, but that's a whole other problem).
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I believe the age limit was, at least in part, an attempt to immitate the Cursus Honorum of Rome - where to become Consul you were supposed to go through a series of lower posts and therefore couldn't really get that high up before a certain age. But even then, it was very prestigious for a Roman to be Consul "in his year" (ie. as early as theoretically possible), rather than it being a lifetime achievement award.
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I’m not really a fan, but look at “Mayor” Pete Buttigeg. One of the biggest attacks against him when he ran was “being president is not the same as being a mayor” (meanwhile we’ll elect CEOs like their experience means anything, but that’s a whole other problem).
Y'all also elect representatives and senators as presidents, but that's the legislative branch so that actually has less in common with presidency than mayors or CEOs, both of which are more executive branch roles
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Honestly, maybe having served as a congressman, senator, mayor or other form of public office, for at least 4 years; would be a rather sensible requirement for becoming president.
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I mean surely if the lower limit to becoming president is 35, then surely the campaign team to become Mayor (not president) of a city can have an average age of 30?
Also, I don't give a shit what the Founding Fathers said, not just because I'm not American, but because I don't think that because a group of revered men said something means it's right. That's something I'd expect from religion rather than politics, which is apt because there are two (maybe three if you count Rushmore) Congress funded pieces of art that depict George Washington as a God.
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Experience in politics is a detraction nowadays. They are all sold out to greater and lesser degrees with a few exceptions like my man bernie but even he backs off some issues.
Jon Stewart 2028!
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The US founding fathers decided that the president has to be at least 35, which to me implies that those individuals have had some political experience before becoming president.
It's also worth noting that, when the Constitution became a thing, vaccines had yet to make their big change on stage. So, the typical life expectancy was to about 35-ish at the time.
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Why is US politics so elitist? In the Nordics, our democracy is intended to allow for anyone to run for a political position. Government for the people, by the people?
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Oligarchy
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How can you possibly enshrine the rights of unbridled capitalism and ensure endless extortion if you let the poors and minorities participate? Think about the profits damn it! How will the share holders survive?!?!!! For the people by the people? Don’t make me anxious. For the markets by the rich white land owning men. * sighs in American relief and comfort *
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Because US politics was created to serve wealthy slave owners, and not much has changed since.
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The people holding the seats are doing everything in their power to keep them. On both sides.
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Money.
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what does "radicals" even mean in this context
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That they're not republicans in disguise.
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It has no substance, just your standard divisive News Corp speak.
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It means they care about people.
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That they believe people have rights
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Not fascist.
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They want something to change in the benefit of the people.
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Appreciation for basic human dignity.
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that they want taxpayer money to go to improving the lives of the taxpayers, not wasted in the military
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Dsa members
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"Look at these young 30 year old babies" says the skeleton clinging to his senate desk for a second millennia
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I was gonna say, I'm near the top end of these ages. Glad I'm considered young again...
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🤟🏻yolo
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Well the federal government is full of reality and fake news stars with no government experience. How bad could it be at the local level of it "works" on the federal level.
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I'm already decided, NYT, you don't have to sell it to me.
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But the 17 year olds with billionaire daddies running doge are fine.
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Political outsiders! Isn’t that what the right wanted? Drain the swamp!
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Zero dollars received from AIPAC? These youngsters have no idea how politics work!
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Drain the swamp!
They meant minorities.
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They were so caught up in finding outsiders, they forgot to check for swamp dwellers.
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privileged
Then posts photos of non-billionaires trying to enter government
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Sweet, according to the New York Post, I'm still young.
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Don't you know? 36 is the new 18!
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That's actually tragically hilarious. Except for the lefty part the description exactly meets the current administration. And didn't Mr. Doge have a couple of actual teenagers on staff? LOL.
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Best campaign ad I've seen on a while. Dudes got my vote! Look at those young faces. So much hope. Please please please don't get tainted by the money and power. Either our next group of leaders fix this shit hole, or we're 100% dead as a nation.
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“Little government experience” was seen as a plus for Trump. Why not for Zohran?
Let’s shake up the system. Drain the swamp!
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No no, but Trump has business experience, so he's obviously qualified.
He did what? To how many businesses?
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They are all almost twice the age of Elon's DOGE lackeys.
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Lemmy seems to think this election is already in the bag based entirely off of echo chambers saying he has overwhelming support. It's like you people have learned nothing from the 2024 election. I would love if Mamdani would win, but my money is on him losing pretty badly. Things don't get better anymore.
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What has lead you to think he is likely to lose?
Are you more plugged into lib media, and they're doing "actually potential democrat voters love Republicans, so mandami is unelectable"?
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Long, long, LONG history of Americans rejecting socialism of any type, even in heavily liberal areas. And, from what I've seen, while he is leading in the polls, the majority of his support is from 18-29 year olds, which is a demographic that you can dependably rely on to not show up to vote. It's been the same story the last 1500 times these kinds of things have played out. Why the hell would it be any different this time?
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What (I hope) we learned from the 2024 election is that the actual candidate matters, and that Democrats can't win by running to the center and playing it "safe".
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Lemmy seems to think this election is already in the bag
Zohran's up by double digits and he's only gaining ground day by day.
Things don’t get better anymore.
Trump still has plenty of time to send tanks into Lower Manhattan and declare Gracie Mansion a Whites Only Zone. But from an election perspective? Dude's got this.
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He'll start campaigning with the Cheney's and everything will work out.
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He's way ahead of Cuomo in the polls...
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Well thats just straight up pessimism without anything backing it other than depression.
Its ok to be worried that the worst can happen but just accepting it is not helpful. Things happen and change all the time. Better and worse.
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He should hire big balls.
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I think he's got enough
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It's so typical that they wouldn't even be able to read what their own front page says, lol
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punk rock
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Ok.
A felon rapist traitor pedophile has been hiring teenagers to run federal departments.
So hiring people in their mid 20s to mid 30s is well above the bar.
Our founding father age when the declaration of Independence was signed. And yes, Andrew Jackson was 9 years old. Also, the average age was 39 years old.
Andrew Jackson, 9 (Major) Thomas Young, 12 Deborah Sampson, 15 James Armistead, 15 Joseph Plumb Martin, 15 Peter Salem, 16** Peggy Shippen, 16 Marquis de Lafayette, 18 James Monroe, 18 Henry Lee III, 20 Gilbert Stuart, 20 John Trumbull, 20 Aaron Burr, 20 John Marshall, 20 Nathan Hale, 21 Banastre Tarleton, 21 Alexander Hamilton, 21** Benjamin Tallmadge, 22 Robert Townsend, 22 George Rodgers Clark, 23 David Humphreys, 23 Gouveneur Morris, 24 Betsy Ross, 24 William Washington, 24 James Madison, 25 Henry Knox, 25 John Andre, 26 Thomas Lynch, Jr., 26* Edward Rutledge, 26* Abraham Woodhull, 26 Isaiah Thomas, 27 George Walton, 27* ** John Paul Jones, 28 Bernardo de Galvez, 29 Thomas Heyward, Jr., 29* Robert R. Livingston, 29 John Jay, 30 Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 30 Benjamin Rush, 30* Abigail Adams, 31 John Barry, 31 Elbridge Gerry, 31* Casimir Pulaski, 31 Anthony Wayne, 31 Joseph Brant, 33 Nathanael Greene, 33 Thomas Jefferson, 33* Thomas Stone, 33* ** William Hooper, 34* Arthur Middleton, 34* James Wilson, 34* ** Benedict Arnold, 35 Samuel Chase, 35* Thomas Knowlton, 35 William Paca, 35* John Penn, 35* Hercules Mulligan, 36 Andrew Pickens, 36 Haym Solomon, 36 John Sullivan, 36 George Clymer, 37* Charles Cornwallis, 37 Thomas Nelson, Jr., 37* Ethan Allen, 38 Charles Carroll, 38* King George III, 38 Francis Hopkinson, 38* Carter Braxton, 39* George Clinton, 39 John Hancock, 39* Daniel Morgan, 39 Thomas Paine, 39 Patrick Henry, 40 Enoch Poor, 40 John Adams, 40* Daniel Boone, 41 William Floyd, 41^ Button Gwinnett, 41* ** John Lamb, 41** Francis Lightfoot Lee, 41* Paul Revere, 41 Thomas Sumter, 41 Robert Morris, 42* Thomas McKean, 42* George Read, 42* John Dickinson, 43 John Glover, 43 Benjamin Edes, 43 Samuel Huntington, 44* Richard Henry Lee, 44* Charles Lee, 44 Francis Marion, 44 Lord North, 44 George Washington, 44 Joseph Galloway, 45 Robert Treat Paine, 45* Friedrich von Steuben, 45 Richard Stockton, 45* Martha Washington, 45 William Williams, 45* (Dr.) Thomas Young, 45 Josiah Bartlett, 46* Henry Clinton, 46 Joseph Hewes, 46* William Howe, 46 George Ross, 46* William Whipple, 46* Caesar Rodney, 47* John Stark, 47 Mercy Otis Warren, 47 William Ellery, 48* Horatio Gates, 48 Artemas Ward, 48 Oliver Wolcott, 49* Abraham Clark, 50* Benjamin Harrison, 50* Lewis Morris, 50* Lord Stirling, 50 George Wythe, 50* ** Guy Carleton, 51 John Morton, 51* ** Comte de Rochambeau, 51 Lyman Hall, 52* James Rivington, 52** Samuel Adams, 53* Comte de Grasse, 53 John Witherspoon, 53* John Burgoyne, 54 Johann de Kalb, 55 Roger Sherman, 55* Thomas Gage, 56 James Smith, 56* Israel Putnam, 58 Comte de Vergennes, 58 Lewis Nicola, 59** George Germain, 60 Philip Livingston, 60* George Taylor, 60* ** Matthew Thornton, 62* Francis Lewis, 63* John Hart, 65* ** Stephen Hopkins, 69* Benjamin Franklin, 70* Samuel Whittemore, 81Kind George III was a founding father? What is this list?