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I feel like talking about Biden makes it seem like it's a uniquely Biden problem. It really isn't. It's something his entire generation has utterly refused to do, which is accept their mortality and step aside.

RBG died in office despite everyone knowing that she should have stepped down long before. Pelosi and Schumer have held their gavels so long that an entire political generation went into the private sector during the Obama years. But the most obvious to me was the Dianne Feinstein stuff.

For those unaware, she was basically brain dead for a long time, unable to do her job, unable to vote or get around on her own, and instead of stepping down and having a replacement put in place, questions about her age and health were treated as scandalous. All the while, she was moved around like it was weekend at bernies.

It was really gross! But it's also par for the course for the boomer generation of politicians. They utterly refuse to accept their age and mortality, and their handlers keep them around far too long.

But Biden trying to go out 'one more time' and 'set the record straight' is the same thing that Trump does, and it's like a punch drunk boxer who thinks he still has it and going out there and losing over and over.

It's sad. it's pathetic. Politics aside, his time is over, and he refuses to let anyone else have the last word, even though other people will always have the last word after he dies. Someone else always gets the last word.

Maybe it wouldn't have mattered, maybe that's true. But it's also irrelevant. The contest is over. He has no business in politics, and we shouldn't act like his words have any relevance. I felt the same about Hillary Clinton after she lost in 2016. Whatever the merits, it's over. Move on. We never need to hear from you again, because you are no longer relevant to the conversation moving forward.

And of all the things that the boomer generation of politicians hates to accept, it's that they are no longer relevant culturally or politically. Voters might hold sway, yes. But the politicians need to accept that they're in the twilight of their lives, and government is not a jobs program for old people.

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Jake's avatar

That’s our boy!

Seriously, we are big fans in Chicago.

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