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Your second sentence is a non sequitur as well as being ageist and possibly mocking of people with Alzheimer's disease. That's quite a lot for one sentence.

paulmd 8y ago
Please don't shame the differently abled. Alzheimer's disease doesn't really hold you back these days. We've elected presidents with Alzheimer's three times in the last 4 decades. I mean, how much higher can you go than that? What better proof of their competence do you want? They managed to pass through our electoral system, right? How dare you judge their mental abilities? How dare you, sir? Let's see you get elected president, buster. What are you, some kind of doctor? Not that there's any trend as to which party keeps electing the "differently abled" to the highest office in the country, no sir... I mean, my heart and my best intentions say that is true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. /s After all, we all know that decorum is what's really important, in fact more important than saying what needs to be said. Which is that Republicans keep electing actual dementia patients to be President, and keeping them in office even when that becomes obvious. And, that the US political system is founded on broad assumptions of good faith and isn't built to handle intense partisanship to the extent that a Congress would refuse to deal with an obviously senile president. But hey, it probably worked reasonably well in an era when your average elite lived to be like 50 or something. We're no longer in that era, and it's time to put a maximum age limit on the Presidency as well as a minimum, and start enforcing the 25th.
ambicapter 8y ago
The quote he's spoofing is from Reagan, and there is a not small group of Americans who think the original quote was unduly harmful to politics and by extension social and cultural mores in the US.

paulmd 8y ago

Please don't shame the differently abled. Alzheimer's disease doesn't really hold you back these days. We've elected presidents with Alzheimer's three times in the last 4 decades. I mean, how much higher can you go than that? What better proof of their competence do you want? They managed to pass through our electoral system, right? How dare you judge their mental abilities? How dare you, sir? Let's see you get elected president, buster. What are you, some kind of doctor? Not that there's any trend as to which party keeps electing the "differently abled" to the highest office in the country, no sir... I mean, my heart and my best intentions say that is true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. /s After all, we all know that decorum is what's really important, in fact more important than saying what needs to be said. Which is that Republicans keep electing actual dementia patients to be President, and keeping them in office even when that becomes obvious. And, that the US political system is founded on broad assumptions of good faith and isn't built to handle intense partisanship to the extent that a Congress would refuse to deal with an obviously senile president. But hey, it probably worked reasonably well in an era when your average elite lived to be like 50 or something. We're no longer in that era, and it's time to put a maximum age limit on the Presidency as well as a minimum, and start enforcing the 25th.

ambicapter 8y ago

The quote he's spoofing is from Reagan, and there is a not small group of Americans who think the original quote was unduly harmful to politics and by extension social and cultural mores in the US.