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by pseudohadamard 33 days ago
And it already is a gerontocracy, from the two dementia patients who fought for the presidency through to the geriatrics in charge of congress.

In the 1970s and 1980s we used to make fun of the geriatric Kremlin leaders, most notably satirised in Whoops Apocalypse where they wheeled a new one out several times in a scene. Now the US is the same...

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Well, "Senate" literally means "assembly of elders" (same latin root as "senior", or "senile").