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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Smirnoff, uh, make that Tito’s Handmade) spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the other day, and at her Wednesday press conference, she shared with the world her words of courage and inspiration. “In fact,” Pelosi announced, “when I spoke to President Zelensky, I said, ‘Billie Jean King sends you her regards and wants to know how she can help in any event.’”
Billie Jean King? And so Madame Speaker gives us yet another advertisement for term limits, and maybe even an age limit for elected officials.
Kids, Billie Jean King was a professional tennis player. She won Wimbledon six times and numerous other championships. She may be most famous, however, for the 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” match with Bobby Riggs, who was 55 at the time (she was 29, and decisively defeated him). What kind of help she could offer Zelensky is unclear, as she is now 78 and not known to be a tank commander or fighter pilot.
Pelosi’s mention of Billie Jean King, however, was not a completely gratuitous product of a befogged consciousness. Also on Wednesday, Pelosi hosted a Women’s History Month event honoring King and other female athletes. At that event, Pelosi gushed that King was an “all-American icon” and “one of the greatest tennis players of all time — men or women.” Not only that, but “she has blessed our country with her devotion to activism. She has been a fearless voice for women and LGBTQ Americans. And for their many friends in Congress, a partner for progress.”
It was understandable, then, that Billie Jean King would have been on Pelosi’s mind, to use the term loosely, but it is still nothing short of bizarre to think that the best thing to tell Volodymyr Zelensky, a man who is trying to hold his country together in the face of a brutal invasion by a ruthless military power, is that a tennis player from the 1970s of whom he may well never have heard is in his corner and ready to help?
Nancy Pelosi is 81 years old, three years older than Billie Jean King and two years older than Old Joe Biden — who is dismayed that Vladimir Putin had the temerity to invade Russia. Pelosi and Biden are just two of the gerontocrats who now dominate Washington: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is 71. House Judiciary Committee chair Jerry Nadler is 74. California senator Dianne Feinstein is 88. All of them are Democrats, but Iowa senator Chuck Grassley is also 88 and is a Republican. Grassley is the chair of the Senate Aging Committee, and he is obviously well qualified for the job.
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CogitoErgoSum says
This is proof that when your brain turns to mush you have no idea that your brain has turned to mush.
raja says
CogitoErgoSum,
Agreed. When she is so much into scheming and plotting she is bound use similar routes, this time it is a “beauty of deflection”. Kamala Harris did it so well yesterday at a NATO meeting when she laughed out loud to deflect a question from a journo. Shameless wicked people.
CogitoErgoSum says
Just think of this: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi are the top three “best and brightest” that we have chosen (in the most totally free and fair election ever) to lead us. So many brains have turned to mush in this country.
Eleanor says
Yes, it’s always a worry when elderly people start dwelling on the past.
CogitoErgoSum says
It’s interest that in the photo at top the ones not wearing a mask are the two oldest people (by far) who would be most likely to have the worst outcome if they were to catch covid.
Infidel says
Just like we have a lower age limit of 35 for people wanting to become President, it’s time we put in an upper age limit as well. Say 70 (on the date of being sworn in). (Of course, that would eliminate Trump too, but we shouldn’t make laws based on the exceptions)
Implement that law in every place in government – be it executive, legislature, judiciary and bureaucracy
gravenimage says
Somehow I don’t think age is the only issue here.
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
I would recommend a MoCA cognitive test every six months – with results made public.
Alzheimer’s can strike individuals below the age of 70.
Infidel says
Yeah, that could be a better option. And if one fails it, one doesn’t get to stand even in the primary, let alone the general
somehistory says
Of course, the mozlums in ukraine would gladly throw the haggy tennis pro off a nearby roof…one not yet bombed.
pelosi plus biden, plus harris, plus an unknown number of others of their brainless ilk, all added together wouldn’t make a whole brain.
Stupid is as stupid does, and these people are evil to boot. What a mess the world is in today.
gravenimage says
Nancy Pelosi Comforts Zelensky With an Offer of Help From … Billie Jean King
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Yes, I just heard about this.
Now, I actually have a lot of respect for Billie Jean King–as a great tennis player of the last century.
Not sure what she can do for a country invaded by the fifth largest army in the world, though…
LameBear says
Billie Jean King sends her support?
WOW, How F*cking wonderful.
Pelosi needs to be put away!