Washington is run by very old people - CNNPolitics

Looking forward to being in office at 95.

Sen. Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican, [is] 88. He jogs in a new video announcing he'll run for an eighth 6-year Senate term and posted to his Twitter feed. [...] He was elected to his second Senate term in 1986, the year before the youngest current senator, Democrat Jon Ossoff of Georgia, was born. [...] Grassley would be 95 in 2029 when the term ends.

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    • Mizokon [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Fun fact, Brezhnev was younger when he died than when Biden became president.

        • RobotnikFeminism [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          After three General Secretaries dying in a five year span, half the reason the CCCP picked Gorbachev was because he was young and thus unlikely to croak in five years.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Joe is older now than any Soviet General Secretary was when they died, save Gorby. Proof that Satan is real and hates communism.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah but at least they had the excuse that practically the entire generation that should have been passed the torch to was killed during WWII.