When it comes to age on the ballot, Texas didn’t wait until 2024 to weigh in.
Asked to let judges stay on the bench until they’re 79 years old — a year younger than President Joe Biden — Texas voters soundly rejected the proposal in Tuesday’s elections, a defeat that drew new attention to issues of age and fitness for office in the U.S.
“Age is front of mind for American voters in a way that it has not traditionally been and they are nervous about it,” said Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University.
Others cautioned against broader takeaways. At least four other states have rejected similar proposals over the last decade, according to the National Center for State Courts. And states that have passed the measures have mostly done so in close votes.
It’s long past time to get the generation of lead-induced dementia patients out of office. Slow Biden, Glitch McConnell, and all of their geriatric ilk need to go.
An age limit on elderly judges is critical where they get appointed for life.
At least these other geriatric ilk have to get re-elected periodically. In previous years I would have said to trust the voters to eventually come to the right conclusion, but elections are really crazy these days
Judicial elections are barely even elections. Independent voting guides never mention them and news media rarely profile or interview them (or if they do it’s not prominently compared to other local races). Plus at least in my experience incumbent judges usually run unopposed. I also think they have very strong restrictions on what they can/can’t say while campaigning so voters can’t even do their own research properly (especially for new judges, who don’t have much of a track record). Basically it’s near impossible to be an educated voter when it comes to judges, so maybe they’re better off being appointed.
Judgeships are also rarely contested, making the elections a useless formality.
Lead-induced?
Yes. Lead used to be everywhere. In the paint on your house walls. In the paint on your children’s toys, that they would inevitably put in their mouth. In makeup. In water pipes (still in use in many places, see Flint, MI). In gasoline, leading to lead-tainted air pollution.
I’ve had/have lead poisoning. It’s not fun. I had to take some horse sized pills that were virtually impossible to keep down… it was like there was a little trampoline in my stomach that just made them want to pop straight back up.
My stomach still lurches a little thinking about them.
Better check my bong!
Actually yes. Lead and cadmium in glass and pigment products is a real problem.
Yeah, lead fucked a lot of people up.
And it still is affecting our children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead–crime_hypothesis
I mean I know lead is bad for you but the body does process it over time and leaded gas has been banned since the 70s. You can’t just disqualify everyone who was alive in the 70s because there was potential for lead exposure.
One would hope that such a bold and specific claim as “the President and Senate Minority Leader have lead-induced dementia” would have…a single shred of specific evidence.
Lead poisoning causes permanent irreversible brain damage that manifests in the form of learning disability and behavioral disorders.
Ok so the claim is that the president and Senate minority leader got permanent irreversible brain damage in the 70s?
More than likely, they got it as children.
You think it is more than likely that both of these people had permanent brain damage their whole lives and proceded to get elected to higher and higher office continuously getting votes amongst the scrutiny of the national press for decades? Despite having zero evidence.
If true, it must be brain damage so slight that it’s meaningless. If false, you’re just making something up because you don’t like some political leaders.
It sounds like you haven’t read about chronic lead poisoning. You should do so sometime.
Don’t forget leaded paint. It was also banned in those decades but any house/building from before then is potentially contaminated with lead paint. While interior paint has gotten a lot of attention, “encapsulating” it is not perfect nor permanent and the building is still surrounded by contaminated soil from exterior paint.
And prop planes … leaded fuel not banned yet