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2026-02-05 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Skidmark 2026-02-05 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1807 views ] Top

1 I think it's hard for a lot of people (it's hard for me for certain) to imagine that at 80 years old, there's nothing in a person's life that gives them joy other than accreting power and money. Even if you already have lots of money, and are sick and failing, and have kids and grandkids and friends to whom you could give your time.

But the sad truth is that government and the corporate world seem to attract this sort of damaged personality archetype.

Posted by no mo uro 2026-02-05 06:44|| 2026-02-05 06:44|| Front Page Top

2 Put him on the old COVID protocol

Posted by Airandee 2026-02-05 06:45|| 2026-02-05 06:45|| Front Page Top

3

Isn't about time to declare and Mandatory Term Limit, Age for elected positions.

Or at the least an annual required independently conducted Mental Health test after a certain age?

After all, too many of those, with the elected for life mentality people, are doing some really strange and immoral things.

Biden serves as a clear example .....

Posted by NN2N1 2026-02-05 07:38|| 2026-02-05 07:38|| Front Page Top

4 It's eating babies that keeps them motivated and alive. Once you get a taste for ultimate power of life and death, you always want more. Crack cocaine is like decaf coffee next to the intoxication of power.
I always thought myths of Nosferatu were dumb superstitions but damn, now I'm not sure.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2026-02-05 07:50|| 2026-02-05 07:50|| Front Page Top

5 Only the good die young.

Posted by Megabyses 2026-02-05 08:11|| 2026-02-05 08:11|| Front Page Top

6 ^1: IMO at some point they cease becoming a 'public servant' and become the leader of an influence-driven bureaucracy. At that point, like many bureaucracies, their purpose is self perpetuation and gathering whatever power that enhances that goal -- not whatever their public goals purport to be.

Posted by magpie 2026-02-05 09:15|| 2026-02-05 09:15|| Front Page Top

7 They become addicted to the power, the relatively light work load, the ability to get rich through speeches & ghost written books and being part of a very exclusive club (US Senate) or an exclusive club (the House) and all the perks that come with it.

Posted by Chantry 2026-02-05 09:59|| 2026-02-05 09:59|| Front Page Top

8 What did the flu do to deserve that?

Snark O'The Day

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-02-05 10:22|| 2026-02-05 10:22|| Front Page Top

9 I saw a short video clip of Chuck Schumer on the news last night with a side view of him walking. From a front view, he still looks OK but from the side he's hunched, bent forward and he doesn't look well. Maybe if AOC can moderate some of her positions she could take his seat. I don't know which one of them would be worse.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-02-05 12:04|| 2026-02-05 12:04|| Front Page Top

10 #8 for Snark o' the Day.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2026-02-05 12:28|| 2026-02-05 12:28|| Front Page Top

11 @9 Schumer is worse, he knows how to work the Senate laws & procedures and is owed lots of favors after all the years he spend in the Senate. Even if AOC defeats him in a primary (unlikely) she won't be minority leader, she will be at or near the bottom when it comes to seniority and there is no way the so called adults that are Democratic senators will vote for her as minority leader.

Posted by Chantry 2026-02-05 14:12|| 2026-02-05 14:12|| Front Page Top

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