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 A sitting politician that dies of old age will not be getting a very kind eulogy from me. 
 @53de482a also applies to Supreme Court justices 
 If you think this is ageism, I have some thing you can suck 💖 
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No shade on the capable senior, but where's the succession planning? I don't know of ANY alternative candidate at this point. 
 @53de482a   Unless their life’s body of work enabled many Americans, no? 
 @53de482a Depends on their role in politics. Why shouldn't people dying of old age have representation in our representative democracy? But just like we expect people to retire from an active role in society, they probably should do the same in politics.