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Age Limit for Prez

What is the cut-off for a President?

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JRTurner

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Okay, we're all saying they're both too old. So I'm curious, what age do you think would be a good cap, if for some fantastical reason we were able to get Congress to add an age cap alongside the age requirement of 30.

What do you all think?
 
JRTurner said:
Okay, we're all saying they're both too old. So I'm curious, what age do you think would be a good cap, if for some fantastical reason we were able to get Congress to add an age cap alongside the age requirement of 30.

What do you all think?
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Let the voters decide on a per-candidate basis.
 
I put no limit because Biden at 80 and SNOWFLAKE at 70 still has bigger balls, more integrity, more sagacity, and a greater sense of self worth than that whiny, small-minded, insignificant jackass Trump at any age.
 
I picked 75--because I think that puts you right around 84 or so if you go two terms. r

Really, the anxiety about folks at that age having a medical issue that could debilitate them within 4 years is avoidable--so more like national security concerns

People in their 80s should retire and enjoy the fruits of their labors. I applaud those with the passion and stamina to keep going, but let's not put them in charge of the entire country again.

Biden is proving himself capable (even if you despise him) of maintaining the office at his age, and Trump is hoping for the chance to do the same. Won't he be the same age Biden is now by the end of his term if he wins in November? I think that would be about right.

Anyway, I think it would be better if someone with that type of experience was more like a VP or working in an advisory position.

I mean think about it--amazing quarterbacks have played in the NFL for decades--would you want the oldest one out there playing on your team? Or being coach? The risk of injury is very high. That's how I feel about the presidency
 
JRTurner said:
Okay, we're all saying they're both too old. So I'm curious, what age do you think would be a good cap, if for some fantastical reason we were able to get Congress to add an age cap alongside the age requirement of 30.

What do you all think?
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That's a moving target, dependent on the development of techniques and methods that improve human lifespans and capability in the later parts of that lifespan.

It should not be a hard age number cutoff.
If there must be a limit, it should be based on an automatically adjusting metric, because waiting for Congress to update a law is not something I want to rely on.

Edit: I'd rather not be the partial cause of some future generation complaining about the bullshit law that prevents people from running for President when they're barely past middle age (at 90).
Which is perhaps optimistic, but f it.
 
JRTurner said:
Okay, we're all saying they're both too old. So I'm curious, what age do you think would be a good cap, if for some fantastical reason we were able to get Congress to add an age cap alongside the age requirement of 30.

What do you all think?
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President must be 35. Adding an upper age limit is as simple as passing a law.
Imo, it's unnecessary. It's not as if the President is trying to do everything himself. I'd rather have an experienced old President than a 35 year old President.
 
Wow, this is surprising! Like truly.

Between the Republicans going on and on about Biden's age and so many Democrats agreeing with him, it's interesting to see that so far, I'm the only one that thinks there should be a limit.

That's wild! I'm curious to see if more chime in

Edit: I see one more vote up there now! Yay!
 
Age is just a number. More meaningful metrics: Indictment limits. Sexual assualt limits. Inability to follow a train of thought limits. Invading teen pageant dressing room limits. Wife beating limits. Theft from a cancer charity limits. Tax dodging limits. Foreign influence limits. Justice obstruction limits.
 
Pippi Longstock said:
They should have mandatory cognitive testing before running for office and yearly after a certain age.
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The issue is that one party is satisfied with the person in question correctly identifying the giraffe and the time on a clock. If that's the standard then I'm not sure we take the office seriously enough to warrant a cognitive test at all.
 
Pippi Longstock said:
The upper age limit problem goes away if they take mandatory cognitive tests past a certain age.
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I'd be okay with that but it would require a Constitutional Amendment.
 
Lycanthrope said:
Plenty of people under the age of 35 have more intelligence and wisdom than those three idiots put together.
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For sure, but if we get to stigmatize the elderly because of Donald Trump then we can stigmatize the young because of Martha Greene and Matt Goetz.
 
Crovax said:
It’s certainly true that you can be dumb at any age
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Which is really my point. The problem we have with the elderly stems more from the fact that they don't look, speak and act like young people. It's not that they're actually in mental decline.
 
75, with the note that the limit would apply for the entire term to be served, so essentially the electoral cutoff would be reaching age 71 prior to the first day of the term to be served, so that the individual does not reach 75 prior to the last day of the term.
 
I would support 70 years. But what happens with consecutive terms?
 
Cardinal said:
Which is really my point. The problem we have with the elderly stems more from the fact that they don't look, speak and act like young people. It's not that they're actually in mental decline.
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No it’s science that your mental faculties start to decline when you get 70.
 
Crovax said:
No it’s science that your mental faculties start to decline when you get 70.
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I am a co-author on several peer-reviewed papers related to mild cognitive impairment, Dementia and Alzheimer's. Science is a process for determining fact. Fact differs among individual cases. Individual cases are known as anecdotes. Anecdotes should not be used to generalize about populations. Some people begin to decline WAY before 70. There is no support for your statement in any literature.
 
Crovax said:
No it’s science that your mental faculties start to decline when you get 70.
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I'm sure it shows that mental faculties are declining at 70, but that's only because they begin to decline at 25-35. But I'm guessing that when it comes to these ages, you're more inclined to take it on a case-by-case basis.
 
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