Just seen a video of the police very busily arresting a lot of highly irritating #octogenarians with "Palestine Action" emblazoned on their placards.

Meanwhile a young black dude is wandering amongst all the chaos, totally ignored, with a placard declaring "I support Jeffrey #Epstein"! 😂

Helen Mirren, now a kick-ass 80 year old, is one of my heroes.

“If my husband and I are holding hands, someone might say: ‘Oh, look. How sweet.’ It’s like, excuse my language: ‘Fuck off.’ There’s something very condescending about some people’s attitudes and I think they think they are being kind and generous. But they’re not. They’re being insulting.”

Cult of Youth, take that!

#HelenMirren #octogenarians #ageism #CultOfYouth

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/aug/23/helen-mirren-decries-condescending-attitudes-towards-couples-in-their-80s?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Helen Mirren decries condescending attitudes towards couples in their 80s

Actor says she finds the condescension she faces when holding hands with her husband in public insulting

The Guardian

"Looking at the incoming Trump administration, his Republican governing trifecta, and the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, Rabin-Havt says: ”The truth is, we are condemned to the future we are going to be forced to live in because two octogenarians had egos too big to know when they had to quit: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Joe Biden.” "

Boom. Roasted.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/kamala-harris-what-went-wrong-1235183829/

#Biden #RBG #Politics #Octogenarians

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Rolling Stone
Beyond the questions of capacity, endurance, #memory, and #cognition, beyond the #policies, beyond the words and the ability of a nominee to articulate them is the #message the person himself sends. To paraphrase Marshall McLuan, "The man is the message." What message does it send about a #vision of the #future when leading #political #parties put forward #nominees who are #octogenarians?

I'm not exaggerating when I tell you my life is like maybe #TreesLounge #SteveBuschemi some sad film.

I'm on the phone w/ the #Agency
Since I left the apartment 25 mins ago, right? #onHold of course. Yep yep. So, finally, just as I'm completing a separate financial transaction where i'm required to count change; put a card away, the lady answers. She hung up on me.

Then there's a guy standing very near the busiest intersection in #StateCollege . Shoutin through a #megaphone . I'm pretty sure I heard something about sinners. Man I nearly got into an accident.

It's just not safe to go around anymore. Oh yeah.
And it's the #IndependenceDay
The #octogenarians are out today!

Get on out-there, people! It's 90° and your AC is going to break while you're at the stoplight. Just so you know.

Can't say I disagree with #NikkiHaley at least on this wk's tagline, who has wisely seized upon the #campaignslogan pitching herself as the best hope against #TheTrumpBidenNightmare

The ex SC gov pointing out with the #majority of #Americans are not thrilled about having #octogenarians battling for a #duopoly #gerontocracy #PresidentialElection

On several occasions I have answered toots unilaterally blaming #Israel in their war against #hamas. I have in so many words pointed out that failure to blame #hamas too, is at best one-eyed and wrong.
Three of my replies have earned me a warning from the @hachyderm overseers “for being a dick.”
Included in the warning was a response to @politico where I was sarcastic over that fact that the two main presidential contenders are #octogenarians. 1/2

This is way past the point of no return 😬

"According to figures released by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the proportion of #Japan’s elderly, defined as age 65 and above, is also at a record high, comprising 29.1% of the population – the highest rate in the world." #AgingPopulations

Japan says one in 10 residents are now #octogenarians as nation turns gray | CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/18/asia/japan-elderly-population-workforce-intl-hnk/index.html