I find it hilarious that their "young guns" were already greying, our politics is fucked
this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2023
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Meh, I'm 35 and graying.
I had gray hair coming in at 18.
Well that's the Republican's fault, not yours.
Republicans! I knew it was them. Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them. 
That's from microplastics
I thought it was all the Teflon scraping.
Well, pappy did work at the DuPont plant.
PTFE is a kind of plastic, yes. (Specifically a fluoropolymer.)
All with the same douchey haircut too. Fuckers look like Mormons.
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The one you don't recognize is Eric Cantor.
What a coincidence that they managed to get a photo with three different people all named Eric Cantor.
Left one is Paul Ryan iirc
Other two are definitely Eric Cantors.
Is that the best photo they could take or the best smiles they could muster?
Past middle age, NOT young.
Gotta love it when one of your "Young Guns" has a head of grey hair.
Look at Steve Martin; he was fully gray before he turned 30. But yes, fu&k these guys.
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?
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.
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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I haven't seen Paul Ryan in a while, not complaining tho, is he out of politics?
He is. He joined the board of Fox Corporation in 2019.
"I see you are off the front lines! How would you like to help out the CIA wing of the party, comrade?"
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.
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.
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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Deregulators mount up
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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