Senator Dianne Feinstein's career was filled with firsts, including first woman mayor of San Francisco and one of two of the first women elected to the U.S. Senate from California.
I don’t know how you don’t get it… this is the pinnacle of their careers, the height of their power, and their main source of identity, plus people keep voting them in and their entire staff depends on them for financial stability. They want to stay and everyone they talk to wants them to stay.
It’s shocking to me that anyone in a safe district retires.
It shocks you? My father was a woodworker at the height of his skill with 14 workers under him. He retired at 61, because he could and because he had worked his whole life. How is that shocking to anyone?
Same but it also makes complete sense. The rest of us talk about how we would’ve retired a long time ago because for us that means finally relaxing and not working anymore. People like her and Moscow Mitch have already retired decades ago, they’re just still getting paid for walking around and talking. That’s why they don’t leave.
That’s the difference, she wasn’t actually doing anything that counts as work by this point. Why would you retire when you can just keep collecting that paycheque for next to no effort?
I don’t know how you don’t get it… this is the pinnacle of their careers, the height of their power, and their main source of identity, plus people keep voting them in and their entire staff depends on them for financial stability. They want to stay and everyone they talk to wants them to stay.
It’s shocking to me that anyone in a safe district retires.
It shocks you? My father was a woodworker at the height of his skill with 14 workers under him. He retired at 61, because he could and because he had worked his whole life. How is that shocking to anyone?
It’s easier to give up a life of hard labour VS a life of hard power.
that’s one of the wisest things, I’ve heard for a very long time.
Same but it also makes complete sense. The rest of us talk about how we would’ve retired a long time ago because for us that means finally relaxing and not working anymore. People like her and Moscow Mitch have already retired decades ago, they’re just still getting paid for walking around and talking. That’s why they don’t leave.
That’s the difference, she wasn’t actually doing anything that counts as work by this point. Why would you retire when you can just keep collecting that paycheque for next to no effort?
The paycheck was chump change for her, under 175k a year. Her net worth was close to 90 million. It was 100% refusal to let go of power.
The point is still the same – she wasn’t “working” so there wasn’t a benefit to retiring.