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Bill's avatar

These people are ancient and shouldn’t be in power anymore. Period. Thats the whole argument. People who have consistently poor decisions for decades do not deserve to make decisions that will impact the next 2-3 generations, especially when some of them can be found living in long-term disability care and have brains that aren’t capable of functioning properly anymore. Funny how you never talk about staffers basically committing elder abuse, by keeping these people in demanding public jobs so they can keep their nice gig on capital hill

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Willard's avatar

Amazing how many pretzels you have to tie yourself into to make this argument that “it’s actually a good thing that chiefs of staff are using senile congresspeople as puppets.”

It’s incredibly disingenuous to suggest that Representative Connolly (you might want to correct your piece which calls him a senator) might survive this. If he’s starting chemotherapy then it’s metastasized already. Metastatic esophageal cancer is basically a death sentence and has a 6% 5 year survival rate.

Overall a very poorly researched article.

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