Zero Hedge
Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times,
Entrepreneur Elon Musk suggested there should be cognitive tests for elected officials following news of a congresswoman spending six months in an assisted living facility.
“Maybe we should have some basic cognitive test for elected officials? This is getting crazy,” posted Musk on X, on Dec. 21.
Musk was responding to a report that Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) had been absent from Congress for six months as she was in a senior living center in Fort Worth, Texas, as she has been “having some dementia issues late in the year,” her son told The Dallas Morning News. more here
Yeah, but the younger members of Congress, like AOC, might have troubles proving they are “cognitive”.
AOC is only a congress critter because her constituents are dumber than she is and tend to vote for dumbasses.
Cognitive testing for voters.
I already know which elected officials need to be replaced.
Cut government power at ALL LEVELS by 95% and nobody would have to worry about who got elected ever again. THAT is what our founding fathers tried to create. Oh well.
In addition to the Cog testing they should be background checked and drug tested just like any private organization has to do. My feeling is the latter two will be the dead-giveaways!
Musk’s fan club at The View will call it election interference.
…this is one of those things that sounds great in theory, but would be abused in practice.
First, who is going to administer these tests? The same “doctors” who tried to Jab us to death? The same doctors who say its OK to mutilate and poison toddler boys if they put a foot in Mom’s shoes? That cut healthy breasts off young girls who the Internet convinced were boys? The same doctors who murder babies with the claim its for the mental health of the mother? The same doctors who want to ban asthma inhalers because, climate change?
THOSE doctors?
…also, do not forget that Communist countries say not liking Communism is a mental disorder, and institutionalize anyone who complains. Do not forget that “doctors” have publically said President Trump is deranged without ever actually examining him. Do not forget that the same people he wants deciding who can remain in office cowered in fear away from patients behind double masks and face shields because the government told them to, and that many of those same doctors give reasons from vaxxx status to Republicanism for why they would let a heart patient die.
Cognitive test would devolve into political tools to keep Democrats in power. Democrats weaponize EVERYTHING.
And ask yourself if you have ever been forgetful, mispronounced a word, forgot a name, or had a false memory. Now extrapolate that to everyone over 40. Do we want AOC’s dream of a Youthocracy where only the young and Internet popular can hold office and the only people who can vote are 20somethings?
…be careful what you wish for, Elon and all who like this idea.
You may just GET it.
Good and hard.
@ SNS FRIDAY, 27 DECEMBER 2024, 12:21 AT 12:21 PM
My thoughts exactly.
From dumbing down physical fitness requirements in the military and first responder fields to every last thing in the school system it’s a goddamn farce.
https://revolver.news/2024/12/san-frans-10-year-experiment-to-prove-blacks-are-brilliant-at-math-fails-miserably/
I’d hate to speculate on how many would fail an intelligence test, much less a cognitive exam.
I’d hate to speculate on how many would actually try to study for the Drug test!
I feel like a cognitive test for voters would go a long way toward clearing up the cognitive issues in Congress.
What happens when half of every black democrat in office everywhere tests out as mentally retarded?
Should they administer a cognitive test for elected officials results would show a deficit.
I.Q. tests should be mandatory. And I’ve been typing that here since day 1. If you can’t get passed that well then——
Harry, how do you study for a drug test? That’s an oxymoron if I ever heard one.
Maybe you study for a drug test by going to either Taco Hell or Jack In The Box by cramming when you get the munchies the night before.
I suggests that Musk should have a cognitive test for firing up this cheap, foreign labour controversy just weeks before the inauguration. I suspect that he and that other idiot are democrat plants. Has Trump condemned their comments about American workers? …I’m waiting….
Of course, we need cognitive tests for these people, and we don’t need pointy-headed academicians to interpret the findings.
I found this test on youtube, it is for kids entering kindergarten;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVaxTqp7QbE&ab_channel=ExandusLLC
Even something as standard as putting the different shaped objects into the same shaped holes, the tests they use for chimpanzees, that would work as well.
Anyone over 70 must take this test every year if he wants to stay in office. The test will be videotaped and available for viewing by anyone in their district.
“Cognitive testing for voters.”
Start by raising the voting age back to 21. Make it a felony to vote in any election more than once or if you are NOT a citizen. Then, for good measure, only allow those citizens who actually pay taxes in the system to vote, “No skin in the game, no votey for you”.
@Rich Taylor:
Minimum voting ages should be the same as the minimum ages for the candidates. You’d have to be 35 to vote for President, 30 to vote for a Senate candidate, and 25 for House.
^^^ I would prefer the voting age to be 25, using the prefrontal cortex maturity argument, and at that age, you have (allegedly) entered the workforce, paid taxes, and have already had your first aneurysm when viewing the amount taken out of your paycheck. This gives you some perspective on the value of a dollar, and the effort expended to obtain that dollar.
i advocate the following test question: what is this (displaying cylindrical can of shoe polish) – if the testee answers “shinola” they pass.
Do they flunk the cognitive test if they don’t know shit from Shinola?
How about testing them on the Constitution and if they pass an oath to uphold it. (with some actual consequences if they break it)
Geoff – Harry, how do you study for a drug test? That’s an oxymoron if I ever heard one.
It was just a joke to illustrate their stupidity.