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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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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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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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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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98 points

How was your 48-hour nap?

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Hold my beer.

Jajajajaja “laughs in Argentina Cristina Ladrona de Kirschner”

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Other than after 9/11 when we were lied to about the war, Republicans haven’t won the popular vote in my lifetime.

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They’ve also never won with anyone who isn’t Trump in 20 years.

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Any other incumbent president had lost the election?

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Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, off the top of my head.

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Poor Jimmy, great guy

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He could have been a great guy, but instead chose violence and oppression while in office. Repeatedly.

How much must one repent to balance out spreading terror across the globe? No matter how committed he is to changing his legacy, he will never be able to take back the suffering he helped cause.

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After Nixon resigned in disgrace, America voted in a Democrat…and then booted him out and went back to Republicans for 12 years.

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Most recently, other than Trump, George HW Bush lost the election while incumbent. Prior to that it was Jimmy Carter.

The next most recent person to win the election but lose the popular vote was George W Bush, prior to that is was Harrison back in 1888.

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

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

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I’m don, not Dementia Don.

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