r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 25d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ We would lose our job.

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u/Special-Reaction2029 25d ago

Median age of the senate is 64. Grassley is over 90. Sanders, McConnell, Risch and King are all over 80 and have been Senators for several terms. Sanders, especially, needs to find a successor in Vermont.

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u/Pablo_petty_plastic 25d ago

Boomers are destroying our future. They’re past retirement age yet pack elected officials’ offices 

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u/Septembust 25d ago

"We won't be past retirement age if you'd let us have our way!"

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u/CombinationOwn1604 18d ago

Senators Grassley, Sanders, McConnell, and King are NOT Boomers, they're Silent Gen. For comparison- Harris, Obama, Mark Kelly, Klobuchar, and Warren are Boomers. And the median age for the House is 57, Gen X.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 25d ago

Especially with Sanders. In all these years he hasn't found anyone to mentor and guide for Vermont?

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u/TheDetailsMatterNow 25d ago

He's a grifter like all the rest. Why give up the money when all you have to do is keep proposing outlandish legislation?

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u/Inner-Medicine5696 25d ago

Grassley gently tapping the gavel to shut down someone is the funniest shit ever, upper body strength of a literal toddler.

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u/Curious-Antelope6171 25d ago

I absolutely agree. I admire some of them, but they have stayed too long.