• 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.
  • ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.world
    612·
    3 months ago

    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.

      • quicklime@lemm.ee
        16·
        3 months ago

        Right, and he didn’t resign from anything, he dropped out of the race / he chose not to seek or accept the nomination.

  • InternetUser2012@lemmy.today
    601·
    3 months ago

    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.)

    • davidagain@lemmy.world
      17·
      3 months ago

      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?

    • RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com
      8·
      3 months ago

      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!

      • Tja@programming.dev
        3·
        3 months ago

        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.

  • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    21·
    3 months ago

    My ultimate hope is that Trump decoheres to the point of never having a future chance of winning but keeps running anyways, ultimately blocking the party as a whole. Karmic punishment for raising this guy to a seat of power in the first place.

    • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
      1052·
      3 months ago

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

      • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        3 months ago

        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

      • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca
        17·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
          9·
          3 months ago

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

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        641·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • MeatPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          3 months ago

          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.

        • merc@sh.itjust.works
          5·
          3 months ago

          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.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            3·
            3 months ago

            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.

        • don@lemm.ee
          10·
          3 months ago

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

      • limelight79@lemm.ee
        12·
        3 months ago

        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.

  • EnderMB@lemmy.world
    522·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • sc2pirate@lemmy.world
      241·
      3 months ago

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

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      94·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        131·
        3 months ago

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

        • merc@sh.itjust.works
          54·
          3 months ago

          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.

          • rekorse@lemmy.world
            32·
            3 months ago

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