A failed presidential nominee and fellow octogenarian took affront at critical comments of President Joe Biden’s advanced years as a “sort of ageism.”
(Video: CNN)
The skeletal stranglehold with which long-serving swamp creatures have maintained their grip on power, in Washington, D.C. and beyond, remained a touchy subject for the White House’s special presidential envoy for climate, John Kerry.
Mere weeks removed from celebrating his own 80th birthday, the so-called climate czar, or “Federal Weather Warlock” as Grabien founder Tom Elliot referred to him, joined CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Saturday where he commented on creeping past the average life expectancy for an American citizen.
“When you say to me, you know, I’m 80 years old. I don’t think about age. Honestly, I don’t,” he told the host. “The other day, I said to my friends when we were gathered, I said, you know, at 80, I can do everything I used to do when I was 50, but I don’t remember what it is.”
While both laughed, Kerry clarified, “It’s funny…it’s not true, by the way.”
Probing for further commentary on prevailing concerns about the current de facto American gerontocracy, Amanpour suggested, “So it must really tick you off all this stuff about Biden and his age?”
“It does. I think that’s sort of an ageism,” contended the climate czar before ramping up his sycophancy. “He’s done a brilliant job, I think, as president. He’s strengthened NATO. He’s been able to galvanize people around critical values that are at stake in Ukraine — critical values.”
“I don’t know what has happened to a lot of people who back away from that now because, the cost of not persevering would be just extraordinary for the world,” he said. “And I think he knows how the Congress works, he knows America, he also knows how the world works. That’s what you need today.”
The flattery was not without self-interest as Kerry had expressed during an interview with Politico Europe earlier in December how he hoped to maintain a role in the current administration.
Having gone from Massachusetts lieutenant governor to senator and then secretary of state with a pitstop along the way to lose the 2004 presidential election to then-President George W. Bush, the perpetual politician was ill-prepared to see himself as merely an observer.
“I intend to be a citizen until my last breath. And by that, I mean there are obligations of citizenship, obligations of responsibility, and of speaking out and fighting for values,” he said. “So, I think one should never turn one’s back on that public obligation.”
Of course, public sentiment cared little for the number when compared to glaring signs of mental decline and the risks posed to national security as a result. Similarly, even if the president were firing on all cylinders, the promoted policies and their negative impact on average Americans would remain disastrous.
It’s not his age, it’s his reasoning and mental decline.
— John B. (@JohnBre24994062) December 23, 2023
Anyone watching this president sees that he looks acts and talks like a guy in his 90’s not 80’s
— James Stephen (@JamesSt08322135) December 23, 2023
Kerry I mean Frankenstein has obviously forgotten that age is just a number- but dementia is a real thing
— tom sunog (@8v6hg6dp6mTom) December 23, 2023
It’s perfectly legit to question every aspect of our representatives and what Kerry is doing is called gaslighting.
— GM (@jatamanssi) December 24, 2023
The whole Democrat Party at this point… pic.twitter.com/KvhQQJf3sy
— Poff87 (@rich_poff30468) December 23, 2023
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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