Never trust a grumpy old man!

[Soph0571]

@SporadicWit

It has been ever thus. You would think looking at a millennia of the patriarchy fucking it up on behalf of the rest of us would teach us a lesson... but no... it is exhausting.

[Goonch]

1. ;-{)🖖‍

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Don't trust the Grumpy Old People party. . . . nt

[getagrip_already]

3. Hitler wasn't old, Pol pot wasn't old, Stalin wasn't old when he rose to power

Biden is old. Churchill and Roosevelt were old.

Old is not a requirement for evil. Old doesn't become evil.

Evil is evil does.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. This!

Many grumpy old men that I've met are either:
(1) Irritable from chronic pain;
(2) Gullibly gas-lit by something in the media (often Fox News).

[brush]

6. Those you listed though, had no intention to serve though. Decisions...

on starting wars should involve those who are eligible to serve themselves...young women and men who have skin in the game, along with older, wise an experienced heads of course.

[brush]

5. Grumpy old men like Putin start wars. They know they won't have to go and fight.

That age-old formula needs to change. Our system of Congress having to declare war theoretically would seem to solved that problem...especially now that women and young men serve in Congress.

But that dictum is rarely followed, perhaps because of the time it takes to convene Congress and have the situation studied. Decisions have to be made much quicker as attacks against the nation can be launched in a matter of minutes instead in earlier centuries when it would take weeks and months to gather an army to attack another country. It's ICBMs now versus muzzle-loading muskets and sailing ships.

We still do need women and younger men, all military service eligible, involved in making quick decisions to go to war.