Haley: The Senate is the ‘most privileged nursing home in the country’

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Thursday called the Senate “the most privileged nursing home in the country.”

In response to a question about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) apparently freezing up on Wednesday while taking questions in Covington, Ky., Haley said on Fox News that the Kentucky senator has “done some great things, and he deserves credit,” but emphasized that “you have to know when to leave.”

““No one should feel good about seeing that any more than we should feel good about seeing Dianne Feinstein, any more than we should feel good about a lot of what’s happening or seeing Joe Biden’s decline,” Haley said. “What I will say is, right now, the Senate is the most privileged nursing home in the country.”

just_another_person,

I actually hate Nikki Haley. Her policies, ideas, and alignment are all wrong. But she is somehow self-aware enough to realize that a bunch of old people are running our country right now, and how detrimental that is.

Her miscalculation is that she believes young voters will refill the GOP coffers with people as crazy as she is. Won’t happen.

dublet,

A heartbreaking story is currently unfolding that’s sure to have devastating ramifications for years to come. Just moments ago, without any warning, the worst person you know just made a great point.

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just_another_person,

Perfect.

Potato_in_my_anus,

She’s not wrong…

ComradePorkRoll,

“Absolutely devastating, the worse person you know just made a great point.”

spider,

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

themeatbridge,

She’s terrible, but she doesn’t crack the top 100 worst American politicians. Her point is accurate, though.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

The horrible evil lady is right! Let’s not do what she says otherwise.

jwagner7813,

Of course, attacking McConnell’s health was part of the game plan. She’s not wrong though.

RememberTheApollo_,

And she wants to be head retiree.

onionbaggage,

She’s not wrong, she’s just an asshole

SnowdenHeroOfOurTime, (edited )

How so?

regalia,

In the world*

Uniquitous,

Damn if she’s not right about that.

Touching_Grass,

She is but I can’t help but think she has unstated motives for saying it.

Uniquitous,

Probably. Still, I’m damned sick of the gerontocracy.

kandoh,

Person trying to boost popularity says popular thing.

SpaceCowboy,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

Standard GOP tactic

  1. Complain about how bad the government is
  2. Get elected
  3. Make government worse
  4. Back to step 1
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Astroturfed,

Wait, are you saying that the Democrats have been carefully sidelining, discrediting and shoving the younger members into a dark closet whenever possible? Man, sounds like we should just support the geariatrics then. No way they should get the fuck out of the way and let the popular young elected members of their party actually speak.

Snekeyes,

Much like the GOP support of states deciding law, they’re welcome to set their parties own age limits.

ChunkMcHorkle,
@ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world avatar

Your strawman is well slain. Get back to me when you have familiarized yourself with how Congress works and acquired a basic understanding of committee assignments, and how laws are passed.

Schoolhouse Rock “I’m Just a Bill” is a great place to start. I’m not kidding. Anyone who can reductio ad absurdum what I just said into what you just wrote needs to start at the very beginning.

Astroturfed,

Gotcha, I’ll just vote harder for the people I don’t agree with until they magically replace themselves. You owned me so hard.

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Astroturfed,

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    Snekeyes,

    Love at the end. They tell em “he’s a bill” … He moan’s in a high pitch “oh YYYyah”

    phej,

    100%. We need age and term limits for all elected offices.

    JustZ,

    Nah.

    neptune,

    We don’t want a Senate with 60 Ted Cruz’s. I agree with the other guy. Money reform first. Then we can consider age and term limits.

    hglman,

    Abolishing the senate is the right reform for the senate.

    RedAggroBest,

    This is the Way.

    You say that out loud tho and people think you’re Hitler. There is nothing undemocratic about advocating the abolition of an undemocratic institution.

    FlyingSquid,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    Considering who is in control of the house, I can’t help but think this is a bad idea.

    hglman,

    If there is the will to abolish the Senate, then there will be a will to change how the House is elected and how many members it has.

    FlyingSquid,
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    Unless Republicans get overwhelming power in the house due to gerrymandering and then do it.

    RedAggroBest,

    You’re presenting problems to abolishing the Senate that simply won’t exist because it’s a MUCH bigger undertaking than you’re presenting.

    Republicans won’t be doing anything in that scenario because the fascists would literally revolt (while bankrolled by the rich) before they allow the Senate to be abolished.

    hglman,

    Clearly would remove districts from the system. Proportional elections are the only viable way to produce a legislature.

    if_you_can_keep_it,

    I guess the question is: what problem are you trying to solve by instituting age limits and term limits?

    If the issue is the advantage of incumbency and having entrenched politicians with large campaign funding operations behind them, then maybe a better way of solving this would be campaign finance reform that prevents private dollar donations from non-individuals and heavy restrictions on how much an individual can contribute.

    All that term limits and age limits in Congress would achieve is setting an artificial barrier for those who do the job well while setting up a new group of people to benefit from the legislature’s dysfunction.

    Bonskreeskreeskree,

    Power corrupts. The end. The longer you are in positions of power, the more exposure you have to influence from money. It needs to be a revolving door for every elected official. Get in. Do good things. Lead by example. Move on up or gtfo.

    DadVolante,
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    Just look at Bernie.

    assassin_aragorn,

    Places that have instituted term limits have found them to backfire. They have less effective legislators who are more corrupt.

    It makes sense when you think about who would be able to run constantly – rich, retired people.

    MonkRome, (edited )

    I feel like that misses a lot about how politics work. Someone just getting into office is often far too ineffective for us to allow our system to be run by first and second term legislators. First term legislators are often fairly useless because they are still learning the job. I’m not saying there is no solution to that, but it would have to be coupled with massive reform around the support mechanisms for our legislatures. You think the federal government is slow moving now, just wait until everyone in office has no idea how to do their job.

    Edit: Also as others have pointed out, you’d also be terming very competent legislators along with the corrupt ones. I think people overestimate the amount of corruption in the legislative branch, due to the media creating a confirmation bias. For every evil corrupt piece of shit, there are 5-10 people you’ve never heard of just doing what they think is right (even if you don’t agree with them).

    Edit2: maybe a better solution is a dementia/Alzheimer’s in person test given to all legislators past 65 every year, evaluated by a 3 doctor panel. If you fail the test, you’re legally prevented from running and forced to resign if in office. If removed the political party impacted gets to appoint the replacement, otherwise if there is no political party (true independent) the executive branch of that state gets to appoint replacement.

    Touching_Grass,

    Wouldn’t it be easier to “get your guy” in if they pushed rotate people through the Senate. Its not like either situation is good. But I don’t trust Nikki for shit. I still think she’s a stooge

    eran_morad,

    She’s a fucking traitor.

    misterundercoat,

    Politician reads the room and adopts the most lukewarm, obvious, low-hanging-fruit take in an effort to score free publicity. Damn, really raising the bar here.

    Hazdaz,

    Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

    Fuck Haley, but she is right about the nursing home part. But there is a fix that Americans don’t want to admit - their voting - or LACK OF voting - is what is keeping these elderly Senators in office. Of course she is an opportunist twat that is only saying this to try to hit at Biden indirectly by bringing up the age issue.

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    blazera,
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    Who cares what this monster says? Yall want federal abortion bans, lgbt bans, more environmental damage and worse access to medicare?

    Designate6361,
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    Nikki actually doesn’t want federal abortion bans. She has advocated for a state’s only approach.

    blazera,
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    https://apnews.com/article/nikki-haley-abortion-president-republican-2024-cc067f58fd652c7e377e3f67c7b1d8dd

    Designate6361,
    @Designate6361@lemmy.ml avatar

    Whelp in the first debate she said she would not sign a federal abortion ban and leave it to the states

    robbotlove,

    she’s a scum bag.

    sin_free_for_00_days,

    Haley said on Fox News that the Kentucky senator has “done some great things, and he deserves credit,”

    Examples?

    knotthatone,

    For one, he destroyed the legitimacy of the federal judiciary & supreme court. Which is terrible, but great. Like Voldemort.

    Nastybutler,

    Or Galadriel with the One Ring

    watson387,
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    Republicans consider damage to the country a great thing.

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