Chuck Grassley, 90-year-old Iowa senator, hospitalized with infection
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Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who is 90 years old, is being treated at a hospital in Iowa for an infection, his office announced Tuesday.
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Think about the 80 and 90 year olds in your life.
Now imagine them making laws and policy and regulations on things like tiktok, social media, artificial intelligence, student loans, minimum wage, housing or literally anything that impacts the millions of people under 40.
He's been in office longer than people under 40 have been alive. He was born in 1933. He legit remembers WWII (in his lucid moments). He could have purchased a home from a Sears catalog with his paper route money.
Being old doesn't necessarily mean you are out of touch--it could just mean you are wise and have tons of experience but add in the fact that you are an old senator who has been in office since 1981--and I can almost certainly say you are out of touch.
What do you have in common with the average Iowan at this point? Would could you possibly have in common?
In fairness, they're mostly just in position to hit the "Yes"/"No" buttons. The actual written policy is produced by think tanks and lobbyists, then passed on to the legislators to submit under their own names.
The 80 to 90 year olds in your life are for the most part not like the 80 to 90 year olds in Congress.
Study after study on aging and mental acuity proves that how you occupy your brain day to day in your younger years pretty much predicts how lucid and sharp you will be in old age.
These are my personal observations: I know a lot of old people. Aside from being a fly fisherman, a sport dominated by old guys, for many years I represented old people in legal cases against certain product manufacturers. By and large, guys who were engineers, say, are much sharper, have better memory, are less angry, and more rational. Similarly, the smartest and wisest old people I know are were career trial lawyers and judges. They had careers that demand intense focus, analysis, and memory, and they are sharper and quicker mentally than many thirty-somethings that I know.
Plenty of young people spend the day bouncing from one distraction or vice to the next, punching the clock, and basically spend their lives regressing and their brains get soft.
He's looking sharp as a tack, alright. Now shut up and color, kids. You're nowhere near as mentally up to it as these pros.
Okay now, if someone could please help the honorable gentleman from Kentucky with his diaper... thank you!
what people don't realize is that this isn't a jpg, it's a livestream of the senator. he's been frozen like this for months.
I read that as the horrible man from Kentucky I liked my version better.
Fluid intelligence declines with age beginning at 30, no amount of brain training can prevent an 80 year old from having meaningful and significant cognitive decline.
LOL you gave a whole lot of anecdotes. Yes, being active and mentally engaged CAN decrease the effects of aging and prolong life. There is no guarantee, however. You see this with people who smoke for decades and are perfectly fine while that vegan you know who does yoga every day suddenly died of cancer.
What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.
Edit: this is a quote from a scene in Billy Madison
It's definitely unpopular but it seemed pretty coherent to me.
It's a movie reference. After Adam Sandler was comparing the economy (or something) to the Poky Little Puppy.
It ends with "I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
I get it, but it doesn't really seem like it applies here.
People definitely either don't agree or don't like it, and like someone else pointed out is very anecdotal, but he's not making some nonsense speech here.