Re: OT: "A Deliberate Act of Sabotage"

On 29/10/2024 9:40 am, john larkin wrote:

On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:07:19 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
 

On 10/27/2024 6:14 PM, john larkin wrote:

On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:46:22 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 10/27/2024 2:02 PM, john larkin wrote:

On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:49:40 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 10/27/2024 8:03 AM, Cursitor Doom wrote:

This could just be the last election.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx3ixwA2UVY

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The US fruit-picking and meat-packing industry will just replace their
illegal immigrant labor with 12 year olds it's OK. Former illegal
immigrant Musk has never had a problem with child labor in his EV supply
chain so far

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Or replace the labor with Ivy League liberal arts graduates. People
need to eat so the market aways adjusts.
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How many Ivy League liberal arts graduates at this point in history do
you figure really need to work for a living in the first place? Or Ivy
League graduates, period?
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Remember Jean Harlow in "Suzy": "Don't you worry about me; blondes never
go broke. Being a brunette, you wouldn't understand that."
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Nobody goes to an Ivy to go broke. Not even the basket-weaving majors
from the few destitute families that manage to make it there. Networking is the biggest advantage of schools like that and like Ivy graduate DJT
must know well enough you're your own "too big to fail" brand once you
have an Ivy degree in hand, probably why he likes bringing it up so much.

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You sound like the New York Times. All Trump, all the time.
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He's certainly a unique character.
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At age 80 that should probably be something of a matter of concern for
the Republican party, much less the NYT's bottom line.

 There is a minimum age requirement for a President. There should be a
max too. Either party!

Brain development follows a fairly predictable path. Minimum age limits make sense. Brain degeneration is old age is a lot less predictable, if it happens at all, and an arbitrary maximum age limit wouldn't make a lot of sense. Some sort of intellectual competence test might make sense, but politicians aren't likely to set up a good one.

Senate and House, ditto. And term limits.
 A min age for any political position would help elect people who had a
real job once in their lives.

But then you have to define what you mean by a "real job". You seem to have a particular admiration for builder, plumbers and motor mechanics none of which offer a particularly good preparation for a political career. Trump had a real job as a real estate developer, and was responsible for a string of bankruptcies, which should have marked him as dangerously irresponsible from then on. Banks certainly stopped lending him money at that point.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney