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Isn’t biden older though?

Edit: holy damn. wasnt criticizing or trying to point out ANYONE’s age, I really dgaf whos older or by how much in terms of election. I was just asking a simple question

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How was your 48-hour nap?

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this one does require a “small” amount of “critical thinking”

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Yes but he backed out and it says oldest candidate.

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Ever

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Right, and for this election cycle Biden won’t be a candidate but Trump will. Trump is now an older candidate than Biden was when he was a candidate.

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He’s not a candidate in this election, and Trump is older now than Biden was during the last election.

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For those who struggle with math, that means that Biden is less than 4 years older than trump. The people criticizing Biden’s age and not trump’s as well never actually gave a shit about Biden’s age. Look forward to those same people making up bullshit reasons that Harris is less capable than trump. They know they’re full of shit, but it’s not about making sense, it’s about trying to obfuscate what’s pretty clear so that independents and undecideds give up, get frustrated, get confused, and/or get demotivated so that they either stay home or vote 3rd party. There are only two viable parties in this bullshit first past the post system; one of them wants Project 2025 and one of them doesn’t. Look at bullet points for what that is and then get your ass to the polls. It’s that simple. The only people trying to convince you that it’s not that simple are the ones who don’t want you to look at those bullet points because it’s pretty obvious whether most people are for or against that playbook. It’s damning.

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First of all vote.

Second of all, I’m sick of this fall in line and do what we say bullshit.

Fuck you!

I will do what I want and if it happens to fall in line with what you tell me to then you’re lucky I’m even still going to do it.

Fucking authoritarian bullshit is supposed to be on their side

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The people criticizing Biden’s age and not trump’s as well never actually gave a shit about Biden’s age.

You’re right about a lot of us, just not in the way you’re implying: I and a lot of others objected to his diminished capacity rather than his age itself.

Berne’s a little under a year older than Biden and sharper than people two decades younger.

Nancy Pelosi is a year or two older still, and not showing anywhere near as stark signs of decline as Biden is.

Come to think of it, the media harped on and on about Bernie’s age in both the 2016 and 2020 primaries without ever mentioning the health of Hillary or Biden. Did you come to Bernie’s defense in 2020 since he’s in better health than both, heart stent and all, and less than a year older than Biden?

Look forward to those same people making up bullshit reasons that Harris is less capable than trump

Nobody ever said less capable than Trump. There’s several orders of magnitude between “not fit” and “as unfit as Trump”. That Biden was behind in spite of being a much less awful candidate and president was down to Trump’s religious cult as well as media gaslighting.

Personally, I’m no fan of Kamala but I believe that, unlike Biden, she’ll beat Trump if nominated, so you won’t hear me calling for her ouster like I did for the one who was literally incapable of doing the job.

Btw, notice how my comment is much more easily readable than your wall of text in spite of being of similar or greater length?

Breaking up your points into paragraphs takes literally a few seconds and improves the legibility of any long comment immensity.

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Still says ever, although op points out that he wasn’t officially nominated, but hell I’m a candidate for president if I say so because I have said i was and I meet the minimum requirements

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I don’t think you meet minimum requirements for a lot of things.

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Biden stepped down before getting the official nomination. Trump was nominated by his party last week. That makes Trump officially the oldest candidate nominated by a political party.

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You are confusing the term candidate and nominee.

Both Biden and Trump were candidates. Trump is now the Republican nominee, Biden was the presumptive Democrat nominee.

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Jesus, I just realized there’s only 4 years between them. They should both be retired, not running for second terms as president.

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I just don’t get this. Does the fact that Biden pulled off 4 months before election mean he was never a candidate? 🤔 With that logic, if Trump quits now he is again forgiven as the oldest one? So, whole this news would be bullshit?

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Does the fact that Biden pulled off 4 months before election mean he was never a candidate?

Correct. If I won Beauty Queen last year and stated my intention to run again this year, but then withdrew before I officially entered, you can’t say I won. You also can’t say I lost, I never actually entered.

The difference is the RNC already had their convention. Trump is their official Nominee, no matter what else happens…

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Nope, Trump is his parties verified candidate which happens at the convention. Dems have not had their convention yet so Biden was not officially the candidate. Semantics, yes but technically true.

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Thanks 4 the info, now I get it 😆 American poliitics r beautiful 🤯

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Plus I can’t recall if I’ve ever seen one of these parties entertain competition against an incumbent (or former president). In such cases, the party nomination is kinda/sorta a formality. This is why we have heard of zero alternative candidates from either the RNC or DNC.

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Former presidents don’t normally run because they learn their lesson the first time they lose.

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That’s why reporters would say " presumptive nominee"

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The best kind of true.

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Trump was officially nominated by the RNC as their candidate. Biden hadn’t been nominated by the DNC yet, that was supposed to happen at the conference in a couple weeks. But now that he has pulled out, he will not be nominated and thus not be the official candidate.

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You can add a second term to his list of wins.

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I’m sure this probably not the only premature problem you have

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Oooooh edgy, very normal and not cult like!

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“Cult like” would be thinking Americans are going to elect a Black woman as their next president.

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I’m not sure if I understand the points you are trying to make. Could you please elaborate? A) this meme is about records broken, not “wins.” A president winning a second term would not break any records. B) why wouldn’t Americans vote for a black woman? C) why would the thought of Americans electing a black women be “cult like?”

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6 points

I’m don, not Dementia Don.

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Hold my beer.

Jajajajaja “laughs in Argentina Cristina Ladrona de Kirschner”

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pretty sure other people have been convicted of crimes before. he is fantastically old though. maybe he got sent to juvie back in his childhood hometown of Bedrock and was the first convicted criminal!

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They shoulda specified felonies.

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pretty sure my uncle got put away for felonies ages ago.

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Is your uncle a former President of the United States who works at Nintendo?

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pretty sure other people have been convicted of crimes before.

name one.

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Al Capone

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Technically, President Grant got pulled over, and taken into custody, in 1872 for “speeding on a horse within the city limits of Washington DC.” It was the third such ticket he was given in his life, the first two being in the early part of the 1860s when he was just a General. The cop tried to let him go, and Grant cited section 1983 of the federal code that had been passed a few months previously in 1871 that stated unequivocally that no one is above the law, not even a sitting president.

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Hmm out of curiosity, what’s the current status of that law?

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you didn’t need to but you did choose to preface this with “technically” which should have tipped you off that this really isn’t in the same arena.

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There was a socialist candidate for president Eugene V. Debs, running from a prison cell in 1920

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