Some Fun Thoughts

 Throwing some fun thoughts out there. 

1) I don't hate Joe Biden, not by a long shot, but I think that the Democratic Party (I am a registered democrat btw) made a mistake making the the nominee back in 2020. I get why they did it, they needed a status quo safe bet kind of person. However, I think the democrats could have run a piece of burnt toast as their candidate in 2020 and probably still won the election with how galvanized and divided the country was at the time. I predict that now Trump will run in 2024 and may very likely win. I don't think he will because the Republican Party really wants him to, but his voters are like a cult that view him as the Second Coming of Christ despite his policies fucking them harder than Obama era stuff. My biggest criticism of the democratic party is that they almost need republicans in power to function. I remember during 2018 and 2020, the strawman was that we needed to vote republicans out, flip the senate, and get Trump out of the white house. Those things happened, and it seems that since taking power the party has largely sat on its laurels and stated "business as usual." I don't blame that on the grassroots candidates who actually believe the stuff they say, I blame it on the brass running the party who are way out of touch with what their constituents actually want. 

2) The freedom of speech stuff is always the "all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" thing ala George Orwell. These people crying for freedom of speech would love to use slurs and hate speech, but also want to censor others for talking about stuff they don't like. Basically pot calling kettle black type shit. I think you should be able to say whatever the fuck you want, but if people call you out for saying shitty things, they should be allowed to do so because they enjoy the same right to freedom of speech you do. And sidenote, as discussed, it's not censorship. Twitter and Facebook and Google are private companies. The First Amendment isn't triggered unless there's state action, so, they can absolutely censor your speech if it doesn't match their policy guidelines. As it is, Twitter is still the most lax as far as I know for freedom of speech and still lets you say pretty much whatever the fuck you want. What these people really mean is that they want to be able to say their shitty, poorly worded, slur filled opinions without repercussions and punish those who dare besmirch their obviously right opinions. 

3) Holy shit does the Supreme Court need term limits. When I was in law school, I realized how ironic it is that a country that was built on the principles of rebuking tyranny would create a body that isn't elected, serves for life, can't really be reviewed, but has enormous power over people's day to day lives (that applies to the federal judiciary in general; at the State level, most judges have to run in a partisan election for retention on the bench).  Like a lot of stuff in the Constitution though, the framers didn't anticipate how weird shit would get because they assumed (at least to a degree) that people were reasonable and educated. (That and "all men"  meant all white, landowning men, but that's a different bucket of worms). More broadly, there needs to be an upper limit on how old people can be to hold office for the reasons articulated in this video. Biden is postured to be the oldest sitting president of the United States, and Nancy Pelosi is in her 80s. The easy way to dismiss the criticism is for them to say, "the young people don't understand what it takes to run the government." That's fine, but what about the democrats in their, 30s, 40s, and 50s? Are you saying they're all dumb kids too with no understanding of how government works? So many of these senators and congresspeople on both sides are way out of touch with the world. People like AOC get dismissed by the establishment, but I identify with AOC way more than I do with Pelosi or Biden because she at least is in my generation/general age group and actually has a practical understanding of the kinds of shit adults today are facing. 

I'm not even from the US but i still think the maximum age to run for any leading position should be 60 years, since in any other field you would most likely retire at 70. 

I'm not saying anything bad about Joe, he is just old. Even my parents at 60 says the wrong names of people sometimes, that's just life. Its just that we need some fresh blood living in todays century, then old men stuck in the past. But that doesn't mean they should be under 40 either.

Anyway, I submit my thoughts to the void of the internet.