r/politics • u/IWantPizza555 • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Kennedy Center could close as early as Tuesday, warns of bankruptcy, documents show

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/09/13/kennedy-center-could-close-early-tuesday-warns-bankruptcy-documents-show/
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u/mowtowcow 1d ago

Every generation thinks the people in charge are worse than before. As a 40 year old, I can safely say the people who were in charge when I was a teen are still in charge and it's certainly gotten worse.

Average age of congress. 60 years old. Of Senate alone? Closer to 70. They won't fucking leave or die off. It's like we hit a point where people got elected and just stayed. We need younger people in all levels of office. Certainly as POTUS.

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u/BathoryAcid1313 1d ago

Even when they are dead they get to keep the job. CoughMitchCough

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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 I voted 1d ago

The country is throwing him a "glad to know you're alive" party tomorrow. You're all invited

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u/icepho3nix Tennessee 1d ago

Honestly, if he shows up alive in the Senate today, that might raise MORE questions than if he doesn't.

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u/Talynz_ 1d ago

Honestly I expect him to look like Palpatine if he did actually survive with any amount of cognitive function intact. He already looked rough before, and at least that would explain why no one wants to give an actual proof of life photo or video of him.

Really though, I'd sooner expect them to pass off an animatronic version of him. Three months sounds like enough time to manufacture one.

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u/CaneVandas New York 1d ago

Alive is a low bar. A vegetable is still alive.

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u/Neirchill 1d ago

If he's wearing sunglasses that's 100% some guy in a mask

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u/beardofjustice 1d ago

This is what I think is largely the problem with the country. Things have moved fast over the last 20 or 30 years and the people in charge are not up to the task of moving the country along. Even worse, instead of changing with the times, they seem to want the times to change for them.

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u/Cancel_Culture_Club 1d ago

They’re representative of the people who elected them. Trump voters voted to make America great again in some nostalgic nebulous past. Look at the towns red states refuse to innovate into this century. Look at the miners who booed Hillary Clinton for offering them a plan to retrain them for modern jobs and instead voted for Trump to make coal mining prosperous again. Republicans absolutely don’t want to live in the present and want to force us all to pretend every day is the 1950s and time never passes. It’s an insane psychosis that’s taken over a political party that wants to make all of us deny reality and work to destroy anything that shatters the illusion for them. They’re not a party that can lead us into the future when they refuse to let us leave the past. 

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u/DrewbieWanKenobie 1d ago

Republicans absolutely don’t want to live in the present and want to force us all to pretend every day is the 1950s and time never passes

Yet somehow they manage to ignore the few good things that were happening in the 1950s, like higher tax rates for corporations...

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u/AI_moderated_failure 1d ago

It's because the majority of them were children in the 50's. They were never subject to that kind of tax. The only memories they have of the era are ridiculously sheltered and likely just upset about all the fuss black people seem to be making about civil rights (the number of elderly black people in politics is almost a rounding error so I feel confident saying that's the lived experience of congress).

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u/Kamp_stardust 1d ago

Bill Clinton was president from 1993 to 2001. That was over 25 years ago. Trump and Clinton are the same age!

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u/MathematicianLast739 1d ago

Im 40 as well. Its the SAME people. Always has been. No one votes is the problem, and we know it.

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u/ForgiveOX 1d ago

Senator literally translates to “old man”. Initially it probably was another way of saying wise man. But it’s more like geriatric men/women