You’ve got Nancy Pelosi falling, breaking her hip, and she’s back in the game. Mitch McConnell falling, he’s had head problems for quite a while. He goes into these freezes. These are 80 plus, what does it take for us to say, these are dinosaurs? It’s time for us to move on from these folks.
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Mike Papantonio: You’ve got Nancy Pelosi, Klippenstein did a great job with talking about kind of the elderly in this business to begin with. But Nancy Pelosi falling, breaking her hip, and she’s back in the game. Mitch McConnell falling, I don’t know what he broke, but he’s had head problems for quite a while. He goes into these freezes. These are 80 plus, these are politicians that are 80 plus. We’ve talked about this so much. What does it take for us to say, these are dinosaurs? It’s time for us to move on from these folks. What do you do?
Farron Cousins: Well, I think we need to get serious. Both parties really need to get more serious about primaries. You have got to challenge these people. You have got to put up other options because I know we hear about tough primary races for some members of Congress every two years, but it’s not enough. Some of these really safe people that have been there forever, they’re not facing tough primary challengers. So that is step number one. But number two, people do need to demand, right. You need to be out there with your protest signs outside of Congress, get rid of the gerontocracy. Do something, be active. Draw more attention to this, because right now these, what are we octogenarians, are literally falling apart. Right. Their bodies are failing them. We have had two lawmakers die of old age in office in the last 18 months. As Klippenstein puts it, it’s brilliant, they’re dying to stay in office.
Mike Papantonio: Yes. Okay. Klippenstein, and I love this. He says, look, the ballpoint pen wasn’t even invented when these people were born. Okay. You’ve got Nancy Pelosi in her 20th term in Congress. Everybody says, oh, that’s fine. You got McConnell who’s this bizarre, freezing episode that takes place more than once. Some of it they’re trying to hide. You can’t hide that. And we’re saying, yeah, this guy, this is who we want running things. Bill Pascrell just died 87 years old. And the voters were thinking, well, God, he must really be smart because he’s so old. No, he’s frigging senile. These people are, they’re losing their edge to even analyze. And we’re saying, well, it’s just like Biden. I mean, look how long we pumped. Not we, but the media pumped up Biden. Just sign after sign. What is it that we have an impasse there? Why aren’t we willing to go ahead and pull the trigger and say, look guys, you know what? Goodbye. We need a 40 or 50 year older in there. We need somebody who can still deal with conflict.
Farron Cousins: And I do think, not that I agree with him on policy, but Trump picking JD Vance.
Mike Papantonio: Yeah, that was smart.
Farron Cousins: He’s actually younger than me, I think, by a year or so. So you’ve got this younger blood on the ticket with you. And I think that played a big role in that as well. Possibly one that hasn’t been analyzed to the degree that it should have been. Again, I’m not trying to give JD Vance any credit, but that was a smart move in terms of I’m the oldest guy to ever run for president now.
Mike Papantonio: I got the youngest VP.
Farron Cousins: I need to have this guy here with me versus Nancy Pelosi who says, okay, well I can’t even trust my own body anymore, but I’m gonna stick around. Mitch McConnell, who doesn’t know what his body’s gonna do at any minute. Biden who doesn’t know where his brain is. These are the people running the country right now. We’re talking about the three basically most powerful people in this country. It’s horrifying.
Mike Papantonio: I think last time we did a show a couple weeks ago, and I think we got it right. It is mommy and daddy complex. Right. The Democrats, mommy Pelosi, we gotta have her. The Republican’s, daddy McConnell. It doesn’t make any difference that mommy and daddy are frigging demented and falling apart. We want mommy and daddy rather than just saying, look, it’s time for something new. Almost scares both parties. Voters for both parties. Hell no, you can’t continue down this road where you’ve got 89, almost 90 year olds, making decisions that affect our lives. They’re so disconnected from the rest of the country. And it’s very apparent with both of these two people, Pelosi and McConnell. It’s like they are, may as well be on Mars where it comes to understanding what the American public is thinking.
Farron Cousins: They’ve been in office since I was in diapers. Put it that way.
