• At 78 years old, former President Donald Trump is now the oldest nominee running for president.
  • Joe Biden, 81, dropped out of the race on Sunday and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, 59.
  • If she becomes the Democratic nominee, Harris’ age could be an advantage against Trump.
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    Age DOESN’T MATTER!

    -Republicans who are NOT in a Cult and complained about Joe Biden’s age for the last 6 months!

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    And that’s before all the laws he broke… And trying to undermine the American constitution… And the changing the system so he could be immune.

    Let’s not forget those things too.

    On TOP! Of him being far too old.

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    I want a president that doesn’t have dementia, isn’t a racist, is not a rapist, and doesn’t have 34 felonies. One that didn’t bang a porn star for an obscene amount of campaign fund money while their wife was home pregnant. Bonus points for not shitting their pants and having to wear diapers. (not the look I want representing our great country, some fat smelling like shit orange buffoon.)

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      Would you like one that respects the democratic result of an election and hands over power to their successor peacefully? One that didn’t promise to be dictator from day one this time? Would you like senators that don’t write “finish them” on Israeli bombs?

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      Would it help if he gathered some more felonies? Is it the number you’re against or that he has any? He could easily horde some more!

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        Not that easy with the Supreme Court running defense for him, friendly judges straight dismissing cases, and the Georgia prosecutors unable to keeping it in their pants.

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    What I find most mad is that Kamala Harris is nearing retirement age for many industries - yet compared to many in her line of work she seems like she’s in her thirties and has a whole new career ahead of her.

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      Remember back in 2001 when everyone freaked out at Cheney’s age? He was 60. Our “young” potential candidate is 59.

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      We came within 1 year of having the first ever Gen X major party nominee (and immediately after the first ever Silent Generation president). But, she’s a yet another boomer by 1 year.

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        Those generations are completely made up and there is little difference in someone born in 1964 vs 1965.

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          Sure, but as long as those labels exist, it would still have been nice to be able to apply a new label to the President, instead of using that same old one again.

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            Here’s the fun part, you can apply whatever label you find useful. Go bananas.

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    Oh no, it seems you didn’t get the memo! Commenting on a candidates physical year count and mental decrepitude is now ageist and forbidden. Please be better in the future. - CNN

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      It’s fucking wild that conservatives listen to Trump and hear an intelligent and coherent person.

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        He said this in 2016:

        Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.

        He was still elected.

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          I love these transcripts, they always sound like a conversation some rambling old man is having with his hospice nurse.

          Ok Mr. Trump, very good. Now take your medications.

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          It’s like an LLM is responding to a Markov chain with an LLM-generated Markov chain.

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          IMO the more amazing thing is that he’s since referenced his uncle multiple times as proof that he himself is smart.

          Like, aside from all the crazy rambling, he buys into eugenics to such an extent that he thinks his uncle being smart necessarily means that he is also smart. And, he assumes his audience will also believe that intelligence is a hereditary trait like that.

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            Apparently they do believe it. Either that or they just accept that he does and don’t care. But I’d say believing in eugenics is more likely.

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        No, it’s that they hear someone they understand. “He says it like it is,” is white people speak for “his words aren’t confusing me.” Bc really all Don ever does is tell a story like a trailer park kid. It speaks to their biases and emotions and that’s all they care about

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        I doubt most of them listen to him at all. They listen to Fox or Newsmax or whatever social media, who only cherrypick the fragments that sound vaguely coherent, and conversely only played the pieces of Biden’s speeches that were incoherent. They either don’t realize or don’t care that they’re not looking at the whole picture.

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          Honestly I think it’s just that they don’t care: Trump is the Führer and everything he does is perfect

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        I actually laughed the first time I heard a Trump fan claim Biden was incoherent. I honestly thought they were kidding.

        Nope, dead serious. “Have you ever heard Trump talk?” Silence.

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    I just walked my dog past a big red pickup truck with stickers that had a picture of Biden with “I just shit my pants” and “BLM: Biden Loves Minors” (so classy) and it really struck me how extremely Biden focused the Republican memes have been.

    Like we used to have “Pelosi is secretly running things” or like even Mitt Romney was running against Obama but his attacks were about Democrats as a whole, they were tax and spend liberals building the nanny state.

    The flip side to Trump’s immature style is that it IS extremely specific, and like you can’t just go “actually it’s Meatball Nikki Haley.” Obviously you can invent different immature nicknames and memes but it is hard to telegraph them with the convention out of the way.

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      I just saw a headline that Trump appears to be upset because he’s spent so much time and money fighting Biden, and none fighting Harris or other potential candidates.

      I laughed.

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      I think he’s aged beyond coming up with his own nicknames.

      The Trump writing team is probably working around the clock to come up with names that are racist enough for the cult to enjoy, without being racist enough to censor on TV.

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      It boggles my mind. If you tallied up all the cars that have Biden’s name or picture on them, I bet they’d be overwhelmingly owned by MAGA folks. Why???

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        I honestly can’t think of anytime I’ve ever seen a car with a pro-Biden bumper sticker on it. I’ve even seen a few for Clinton when she ran but never Biden.

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    PASS THE TORCH He’s done it many times, at the KKK rallies in the woods that he’s probably attended.