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[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 129 points 7 months ago

I find it hilarious that their "young guns" were already greying, our politics is fucked

[-] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 44 points 7 months ago
[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 18 points 7 months ago

I had gray hair coming in at 18.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Well that's the Republican's fault, not yours.

[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 17 points 7 months ago

Republicans! I knew it was them. Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 8 points 7 months ago
[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago

I thought it was all the Teflon scraping.

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Well, pappy did work at the DuPont plant.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

PTFE is a kind of plastic, yes. (Specifically a fluoropolymer.)

[-] Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee 25 points 7 months ago

All with the same douchey haircut too. Fuckers look like Mormons.

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[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 78 points 7 months ago

The one you don't recognize is Eric Cantor.

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago

What a coincidence that they managed to get a photo with three different people all named Eric Cantor.

[-] Shapillon@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Left one is Paul Ryan iirc

Other two are definitely Eric Cantors.

[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago

Is that the best photo they could take or the best smiles they could muster?

[-] badbytes@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

Past middle age, NOT young.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

Gotta love it when one of your "Young Guns" has a head of grey hair.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

Look at Steve Martin; he was fully gray before he turned 30. But yes, fu&k these guys.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Sure, but Steve Martin never advertised himself as a 'Young Gun.' If you're going to sell yourself as young, maybe get some hair dye?

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Young compared to the embalmed geriatrics that run the country.

Senate comes from Latin "senex", which literally means "old man". Go figure, walking corpses have run the world since antiquity.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

It used to make sense. Not a lot of technology shifts between 2,000 BC and 1,000 AD. You wanted the folks who actually remembered what to do in case of an earthquake or tidal wave. It's different today; I recently looked up an article about Obama written in 2008. He was considered a big innovator because he owned a Blackberry.

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[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago
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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

I haven't seen Paul Ryan in a while, not complaining tho, is he out of politics?

[-] MajesticSloth@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

He is. He joined the board of Fox Corporation in 2019.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

"I see you are off the front lines! How would you like to help out the CIA wing of the party, comrade?"

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 12 points 7 months ago

I just see three #fascist sympathizers.

[-] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

For context, this is the cover of a 2010 book. These were going to be the guys. Surely one of this bunch will be president some day.

Eric Cantor was the House Majority Leader. That's a pretty big deal. He got primaried by a tea partier in 2014. It seems quaint now, but it was a big fucking deal at the time. Never has there been someone so high ranking that the party's electorate kicked out. Cantor was in good standing, but their public was becoming a monster.

The other two were more recently chewed up, but I'll let someone else tell those stories.

[-] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago

They have thoroughly nuked their bench. If we are still a democracy in the future they will have no one to take of the mantle but for clowns and hucksters.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Seems to win them elections with some fair regularity, why would they change anything?

They're evil clowns pandering to other evil clowns, it's evil clowns the whole way.

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[-] IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

This could've been a good politic topic, but instead people are in here acting offended by a word and calling everyone "ageist". Holy shit, people....look at this fucking thread ans ask yourself why anyone would trust your political choices.

[-] crypticthree@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Deregulators mount up

[-] profdc9@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Just because you have chaps, a holster, tall boots, a 10 gallon hat, and a revolver, doesn't make you a cowboy.

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