Lowering the voting age to 16

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This is priceless - from Grabien:

YOUNG AMERICANS HILARIOUSLY EXPLAIN WHY LOWERING THE VOTING AGE TO 16 IS A TERRIBLE IDEA
On Thursday I posted a clip of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsing an effort from her colleague, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), to lower the voting age to 16.

“I myself personally — I’m not speaking for my caucus, I myself have always been for lowering the voter — the voting age to 16,” Pelosi said during her weekly press conference. “I think it’s really important to capture kids when they’re in high school, when they’re interested in all of this, when they’re learning about government to be able to vote. … But my view is that I would welcome that. But I had been in that position for a long time.”

Since then, young Americans have begun sharing stories of what they were doing as 16-year-olds, and why this doesn’t bode well for this demographic shaping the course of foreign and domestic policy.

Below, please enjoy some of the most hilarious explanations of why Pelosi’s push to again lower the voting age might not be such a hot idea.

What follows is a wonderful collection of tweets - here are a few quotes:

    • when i was 16, my friends and i bought a live lobster, put it on a leash, and walked it around the neighborhood at 2am
    • When I was 16, I sucked a drinking glass to my face for 10 minutes and gave my lower face a giant hickey that took 3 weeks to heal
    • When I was 16 I wore parachute pants
    • When I was 16 I would have given anything to be able to have a tattoo of Axl Rose’s face on my butt cheek
    • I'm 22 and I'm not smart enough to vote.
    • When I was 16 I pierced my own belly button with a thumbtack and was genuinely surprised when it got infected

Much more at the site - Pelosi's idea is that few adults are stupid enough to vote Democrat so they have to dig up votes from the uninformed and impressionable. Instead of coming up with ideas that people will support, they come up with ways to rig the system.

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