- 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.
Age DOESN’T MATTER!
-Republicans who are NOT in a Cult and complained about Joe Biden’s age for the last 6 months!
I mean, for those people, age doesn’t matter for a lot of things.
Too old, he’s unelectable
He was unelectable in 2016, and yet he scraped through in the electoral college. Admittedly Hillary Clinton beat him for total number of votes, so he was already a bit of a loser then. Oh - remember when he claimed his inauguration was more popular than Obama’s and then they showed the photos and his crowd was just tiny by comparison! He’s so insecure. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp-content/uploads/sites/47/2017/03/Untitled-1.jpg
While I believe the individual reasoning of most Democratic voters is flawed or inadequately nuanced, the reasoning does exist to much greater extent than the R cult.
Far more important is that the typical Democratic voter’s reasoning is now rooted in a sincere intent to choose what they believe is best for both themselves and anonymous others. The R cult correctly estimated the D cult’s propaganda: It alone couldn’t survive a change of candidate. The fact that the vast majority of Democratic voters would stay rooted in ideology never even occured to them.
Well done, average Democratic voter. If you want to stay engaged through midterms and the next cycle then know that the Green Party wet dream would be forced internal elections 2025 due to scaling. Take them over and they’ll welcome it. There’s very little national or state control over local chapters. They’ve a head start on local ballot access, legislative initiatives, communication of basic platform, logos, etc.
Winning a federal race doesn’t matter to people I’ve met there. The Green Party itself would be readily sacrificed for national RCV. But, the wet dream is definitely that enough people engage to attract a candidate of the quality of Sanders in his prime, then scale exponentially to break two-party dichotomy.
Fuck party loyalty. Use them as a tool when it makes sense to do so. Volunteer as a Democrat to work the polls. Always stay loyal to your principles, just as you’ve done now. Learn about the means of elections and seize control of them.
What are you on about
Sir, this is a Wendy’s restaurant.
I think Kamala should take Trump up on that cognitive test offer he wanted to take with Biden.
and golf match
And boxing match
This gave me celebrity deathmatch flashbacks 😂
It’s sad they never tried to reboot this, it was such good TV. I assume there’s a pretty good reason for it but I would watch the shot out of it.
PSA, you can find a few CD episodes on the MTV Vault YouTube channel. Also, fuck YouTube.
Nah, fuck a golf match. Who gives a shit about golf?
Donald does. And he would not take losing well.
Don would definitely be Shooter “I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast” McGavin in this scenario.
Are you saying he eats pieces of shit?
… … … NO!
Stay outta my way…
That’s why he will never do it.
If he’s not willing to do what it takes to be elected, he should just quit now.
Old people?
No carts
And it’s hosted in Alabama.
And not the Gulf Shores. Central Alabama. Home of 183% humidity.
Hey I’m there and I agree, right here right now would be a hilarious time to see him try to play golf
As your neighbor slightly to the north, you have my deepest sympathies. My aunt had to find temp housing up in Michigan cause it’s too hot, even with the AC on blast.
Funnily enough she’s staying with this gay couple that rented out their basement to her.
Her KKK husband must be running in his grave, cause they seem to be getting along great!
Final destination only
Bare knuckle boxing
He should drop out.
Old sleepy Don. They call him the incoherent rambler. Everyone is saying it.
Everybody’s talking about how they can’t even see the tears in his eyes cuz it looks like his eyelids are practically sewn shut
They call him the incoherent rambler. Everyone is saying it.
And everyone really is saying it, too
Hell, he’s probably saying it, too
I have the biggest cognitive decline, just tremendous, all the doctors are saying it. I make no sense at all, it’s amazing folks
Careful there. Next thing you know all his cult followers will be running around in straitjackets as a show of support.
Mr. TrumpSIR, your cognitive decline has been faster than I’ve seen in anyone else.Ha yeah true that’s much closer to the real thing. Gonna shamelessly edit that in
I’m saying it right now.
Many people have been saying it for a long time, folks
The best people.
Dementia Don is my vote.
Loaded phrase
As a nickname, yes. For POTUS, hell no.
Oh of course. I just know he does the alliteration thing for insulting others because he’s dumb and his base is too. Which unfortunately makes it effective.
So giving ole Diaper Don some alliterative handles is both too easy and fun. There are tons of options and I’m sure Dumbass Don would love to hear them all.
Target Practice Trump.
Don poorleone apparently really irks him.
I didn’t know this one, so I looked it up: https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/why-are-people-calling-donald-trump-don-poorleone-the-viral-nickname-explained
Fantastic choice. I keep forgetting that one.
Solid clarification!
I think Don-OLD Trump is simple and effective.
I prefer Drowsy Don but I’m all in on whatever all y’all decide as long as it has alliteration.
I like Diaper Don.
It suggests he’s a crybaby. It ties in with sleepiness because babies get sleepy too. It implies the loss of control over his body, which also suggests his mind is also probably going. It makes you wonder if he’s walking around with shit in his pants. And, it’s hard for them to refute.
Hell, he probably said it himself during that interminable incoherent ramble he called an acceptance speech. Nobody noticed because everyone’s ears had gone numb by then.
He’s already having issues with his speech and he keeps doing these weird tangential rants that don’t make any sense.
He has been doing this aince 2016 and it has only gotten worse!
Rants! Tangentia–You know, the Weirdest tangents–I gave another speech last week–not at the RNC–No I said the great Hannibal Lecter couldn’t have said it better than me! The best! Hot dogs! Away we go and nobody–you know nobody!–does cognitive like me! Just think about that for a second. Four years! Four more years! The best tangents! The most rambling! Sleepy…
As much as I hate trump. I’d rather have that narcissistic shit of a useful idiot sitting between us and Vance if that fucking fascist ever gets near that seat.
That guy is everything wrong with trump wrapped up in a more emotionally intelligent, sharper, more charismatic, more attractive, and younger package.
He’s the exact sort of motherfucker I’ve been expecting them to push after him to take advantage of the path he created, and its fucking terrifying.
There is no way anyone would be able to convince Trump to drop out. He decided in 2019 that he was entitled to a second term. He’s not going to change his mind now.
It’s all or bust for trump. White house or jail.
White House or big house
Not sure that’s the case anymore, unfortunately
It may take longer to get him in jail even when he loses but Harris may be able to help get him there after she wins, especially with some serious SCOTUS reform. People need to vote BLUE down the ballot!
I don’t think Trump has the stature of someone who’s overcome a social disability. That guy oozes neurotypical privilege.
He should drop dead.
Beat me to it. Yup - he should drop dead and then rest in piss.
Can him. Ban him. Afghanistan him. Kick him to the curb and pop the zit he is.
Not only is he the oldest, but he’s also the facist-est cadidate.
Usually I don’t care about simple errors but cadidate got me.
I mised a letter. Sew me.
I meant it made me laugh, sweetie!
Father Coughlin is probably kicking himself in hell for never running for president.
And racist-est and misogynist-est and felonious-est and corruptest and…
I’m not sure if we can call him the raciest-est, president, some of them literally owned slaves.
Presidents today are so PC. They can’t even own slaves anymore.
Dementia Donald is no match for Capable Kamala
At least his sentences are coherent /s
Gettysburg… wow
Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was, the battle at Gettysburg, what an unbelievable. I mean, has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
What’s the nearest airport and to Gettysburg?
Never fight uphill me boys!
ME BOYS
It’s fucking wild that conservatives listen to Trump and hear an intelligent and coherent person.
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.
“Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.”
It’s like an LLM is responding to a Markov chain with an LLM-generated Markov chain.
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.
This article is seven years old now, but it sticks in my memory all the same: French translator Bérengère Viennot on the difficulties of trying to represent Trump’s manner of speech in another language
I wish to point out that he was in his early 70s at the time, generally a bit early for that level of impairment.
generally a bit early for that level of impairment.
Well, assuming the impairment is age-related and not just, you know, built in
True, although if you watch him over the years, especially between 2016 and now, there’s been a huge amount of noticeable cognitive decline.
He forgot his own wife’s name. He called her Mercedes.
Yeah it’s true that while he was never exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, he does seem to have gotten a lot worse fairly quickly. Might be COVID, it’s been linked to cognitive decline and I’ve definitely seen that in my own parents who are no spring chicken
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Honestly I think it’s just that they don’t care: Trump is the Führer and everything he does is perfect
I expect that they are hearing but not listening
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.)
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?
Do you think Harris is more likely to distance her administration from Israel? (Actually asking)
This isnt a bad start, at least.
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!
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.
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.
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.
She was 13 when Star Wars came out. She’s no Boomer.
Feel free to lobby for the definition of Boomer to be adjusted.
Those generations are completely made up and there is little difference in someone born in 1964 vs 1965.
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.
Here’s the fun part, you can apply whatever label you find useful. Go bananas.
Remember back in 2001 when everyone freaked out at Cheney’s age? He was 60. Our “young” potential candidate is 59.
#2Old2Run
media be like
No, Biden was the nominee, just because he resigned doesn’t mean he never was
He actually was never nominated. He was a presumptive nominee.
Right, and he didn’t resign from anything, he dropped out of the race / he chose not to seek or accept the nomination.
Ew he should resign
