Previous incarnations of Cleveland/P&C/D&D have had an image thread, to handle political cartoons and other image-based stuff that doesn't belong in the general post-a-picture threads.
If any of them spawn an extended discussion, please spawn it off into its own thread. Replies to non-picture replies should take the form of a link pointing to a post on a different discussion thread.
And I shouldn't have to say it, but the images still need to abide by the rules.
Unconfirmed at the moment, but I'm seeing it floating around that the officer here is the husband of Eva Mirales. The one who contacted her husband after she was shot and was dying.
A rhetorical question is happening
We have known for years that our health care spending has not produced better outcomes.
It hasn’t been meant to. It’s meant to generate profit…
I notice that the sudden sharp divergence from the rest of the western world happened immediately after Reagan was elected. I'm sure this is just a meaningless coincidence.
So it begins
oops, you’re right. I forgot that the existence of junior representatives under the age of fifty negates the fact that all the people in charge can’t go to museums anymore because the docents keep trying to return them to the mummy exhibit. 
Lmao. The fact that there are still members of Congress who are from The Silent Generation.
17% of the House and 26% of the Senate are over 70-years old.
I guess that somehow still means 70 to 80 year-olds are "exclusively running the country" to the literal 20-something crypto/NTF bro who Tweeted it.
That’s who literally runs the party, though.
That’s who literally runs the party, though.
And the House. And the Senate. And the White House. The youngest is McCarthy, who is late fifties. Everyone else is 70+. Over half of the SC is over 60, and most of the rest are within a couple years of 60. The leadership positions are all people old enough to have watched Biden build Stonehenge.
There are nearly 8,200 Congressional staffers.
That means each Representative or Senator has, on average, 15 people on their staff that propose, create, and push policy, draft bills, and really run Congress. Their average age is 32.
Biden's cabinet runs a bit on the older side, though that has a lot to do with the fact he's pulled heavily from people who were in the Obama administration. Yet somehow it seems all that experience should be viewed as a bad thing.
Lobbyists draft bills, and the elected officials vote on them.
I think the age thing is a bit of a red herring. If a old white progressive dude from Vermont couldn't inspire enough people to vote him to the top of the ticket, who can?
all I’m saying is that anyone over the age of 50 should be ground into a fine past so that those of us who are merely middle age may benefit from whatever nutrients can be extracted. As someone rapidly approaching 50 myself, I think it’s a fairly reasonable suggestion.
There's always Carousel.
There's always Carousel.
Bless you for going there first.
"Ascend, ascend!"
I'd have gone with Soylent Green, but it's Thursday and everyone knows that Tuesdays are Soylent Green day.
all I’m saying is that anyone over the age of 50 should be ground into a fine past so that those of us who are merely middle age may benefit from whatever nutrients can be extracted. As someone rapidly approaching 50 myself, I think it’s a fairly reasonable suggestion.
2 questions: how long a line of you-goo will I have to snort, and how much of a buff to CON will it add?
OG_slinger wrote:There's always Carousel.
Bless you for going there first.
"Ascend, ascend!"
Or, you know, retirement.
What's "retirement"? Is that the thing where upper class people can eventually stop working without facing starvation and homelessness?
It's the thing that happens when Capitalists think you're too old to exploit and want to slowly kill you by, for example, denying you life-extending medication.
What's "retirement"? Is that the thing where upper class people can eventually stop working without facing starvation and homelessness?
That’s the irony. These people can actually retire and don’t.
This is very true, and props to them for it, but keep in mind that we know now Manchin was evidently never going to vote for the BBB no matter what, so if they hadn't decoupled it then both bills would be dead.
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