Reagan’s the best example of this. In his campaign for his 2nd term Reagan was basically Reagan. Whether we like to admit it or not dude had a gift for courting a vote and he was focused and on point.

I mean as best anyone can tell Ronald Reagan was shitting his pants by the end of his 2nd term but yeah, sure this is a problem limited to liberals.

No, it’s really not. Again you’re confusing “can they do the job now” with “What’s the risk that at some point during their term they can no longer do the job”. At Bernie’s age the answer was “A lot higher than it is for younger candidates”. Even if the odds are “low” (i.e. less than 10%) given the level of…

We collectively do, as voters. Though the party could do some things. For example the party could impose a maximum age on entrants into the primary.

It’s not about whether I think he’s incapable of “leading” more broadly.  It’s that the job of the President is stressful and requires the ability to focus and make decisions that impact the lives of millions based on abstracted complex data.  Even if I thought Biden were fully capable of doing that at his age the…

And I mean, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump in 2020 for that matter. Sorry not sorry but at all of their ages the potential for rapid cognitive decline that people in their inner circle would seek to cover up is high enough that I didn’t want any of them controlling the nuclear codes.

That’s a trite, stupid answer of course but it’s not shocking considering the source.  Like one consequence could be it hands the Republicans all the ammunition they need to put someone like Desantis in, especially if, say Donald Trump goes to jail and Republicans can contrast their “respect” for the rule of the law…

Everyone thinks “I want to retire when I can still do so in a dignified manner”. Problem is the older you get and the more powerful you are the less likely you are to realize when that time has come or have people around you who are willing to tell you harsh truths.

Just a reminder that there are no employment protections for elected officials.

It’s weird to think all of these things should be related.  Like if a big business tries something and it doesn’t work you fire the people who were hired to do that thing unless you have something else interesting for them to do.

Ignoring court rulings.  The consequences of it, both electoral and social, are impossible to predict.

Look the problem here is that the cycle of federal judgeships isn’t predictable and doesn’t always follow voting patterns. Republicans had power for a short window but with RBG holding out they were able to squeeze 3 judges out of it.

Even if that were a workable short term solution it’s not a long term solution.  Democrats need to come up with ways to make things like intelligent court reform ideas important ballot issues in the primary.  

It’s gonna be funny if the whole plot of the show turns out to have been a rehash of The Ultimate Gift with Logan having been fucking with his kids the whole time to see which of them might manage to achieve some semblance of self-actualization and normalcy before designating that one the heir.

I think he gave short, caricature-like shrift to complicated characters

The thing is, it’s so densely packed in terms of interesting NPCs with unique sidequests.  

Gonna be hilarious when GRRM’s estate, looking to keep the payday rolling, ends up contracting Sanderson to deliver an ending to ASOIAF.

Well, Sanderson might be sort of unimpressive, I’m not particularly a fan though I do think he added a much needed jolt of fast paced writing to Robert Jordan’s work, but if there was a contest for biggest tool in Utah going on that day the Wired author would have won it by a fucking country mile. It’s like…

I don’t disagree.

I’m pretty sure the Federalist society is aware of Brown v. Topeka hoss.