• @[email protected]
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    311 year ago

    She was 87. Yeah, she was sharp as a tack, no doubt. But 87 isn’t dying early. It sure isn’t dying early when you account for the fact that she was diagnosed with colon cancer back in 99, pancreatic cancer in 09, and had surgery in 2014 because of the cancer.

    This has nothing to do with empathy or painting old people with any brush. This has to do with the health of the nation. She could have retired during the Obama years when she was already well past the average age of death and her body was failing to enjoy a few years of retirement.

    I didn’t say everyone over 65 needs to be pushed out to sea on an ice floe. If you’re feeling like any of my words are an attack on old people maybe examine why. Because it’s showing more about you than about me.

    • @chiliedogg
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      91 year ago

      She should have retired between November 2014 and January 2015 after the GOP won the Senate elections but the Dems still had a few more weeks of control.

      But they were afraid of the optics. Unlike the GOP, the Dems have a sense of shame.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        You sure? I just pulled it from Wikipedia. They could be wrong and I make no secret of the fact that I’m wrong pretty often.

              • @1847953620
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                51 year ago

                It’s almost as if conversations morph into sub-topics, or something.

                Someone should really do something about that, like put indentations on reply comments or something.

                • modifier
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                  11 year ago

                  What are you talking about? We’re trying to discuss Dianne Feinstein here and you chime in with these random thoughts about sub-tropics. It’s very distracting.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    11 year ago

                    You have a brain injury and you think thats a good time to try and correct other people about politics?

                    Hey, bud? Maybe you should be nursing that brain injury instead of getting involved in serious conversations if your brain injury is preventing you from following serious conversations.