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I'll take a president, graciously telling the other leaders he's going to call it a night, over some dingleberry and his vapid daughter attempting to foist another golf motel on the dignitaries present.

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Biden is 80.

Trump is 77.

Is this some kind of generational difference they're trying to hype?

And Biden is very fit, while Teump is an overweight lazy slob.

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Ayup. All of this.

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But it's bad! I've heard when he gets up in the morning, he puts on a dressing gown.

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JFYI I am not yet senile but I would never want to be president. I only had enough patience to deal with high school kids ... not with adults who are set in their ways, and ever scheming. Not a details person, not interested in glad handing people and getting along with them.

Joe Biden can do it all.

The slightly younger previous guy is not a bit suitable for the job and not just because he had issues on a ramp. His total lack of concern for the problems of anyone other than himself, childish "Ill make you all pay" reactions, total lack of morality, inability to take responsibility for his crimes, inability to feel regret ... this is what scares and infuriates me. He's a creep who slightly younger age does not overcome all of this. He sounds and acts like every serial killer or cult leader I've ever read about.

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I was born at St Mary's hospital in South Scranton (same hospital as Pres Biden) 13 months after Biden was. I wish the only accommodation I had to make was to wear sneakers. He at least stays fit whereas I should actually do the exercises I was told to to so I could go up and down stairs gracefully and did not feel the need to use a cane to avoid falling.

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Some journalists just don't feel satisfied unless they're dumping on everybody. They just don't feel like their job is important unless they're pretending to hold everyone's feet to the fire. The problem is, one side is made up of normal, well-intentioned public servants while the other is a bunch of conspiracy nutcases, grifters, and outright fascists.

On Biden's worst days, he's still more intelligible than Trump on his best. Why do so many people feel like they need to flog his age?

The whole thing is full of echoes of 2016. In that election, the entire journalism establishment punched Clinton for nonsense reasons in order to feel like they very very serious journalists who held both sides accountable. Sure, there was a ton of negative coverage about Trump...but he deserved every drop of it and more. Meanwhile the press flogged Clinton *endlessly* for some call sheet e-mails on her private server and for the Clinton family's successful charity work. What the hell?

More and more, I think people don't have any real sense of what's right and wrong, they just go off of social cues. It's one of the reasons Trump was able to lie and break the law so often...people thought he couldn't have broken the law because he didn't exhibit any shame! I really just can't even sometimes with this country.

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Jul 25, 2023·edited Jul 25, 2023

"I’ll take a clumsy Biden over a spry Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley. These Democrats having second thoughts about the obviously mortal Joe Biden, who was 77 during the 2020 campaign, could’ve just as easily nominated Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Steve Bullock, Cory Booker, Tim Ryan, Jay Inslee, Beto O’Rourke, Julian Castro, etc. … We had a very long, transparent primary. Biden wasn’t our Mystery Date nominee."

I'll be straightly honest. This is absolutely, 100% true. We knew what we were getting into with Biden.

And still got pretty pleasantly surprised, tbh.

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JC on a stick, it's not like he needs to network and get his name about he's the fucking POTUS.

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I’m guessing the cumulative age of the three NBC reporters is around 80. They can have a younger president once we’ve smashed fascism here, which they’re not helping, so, there’s that…

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Am I the only one who remembers that PAB is only 3 years younger than Biden? An age difference like that is only a big deal in folks under 20.

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These RWNJ's are nuts! Biden rides a bike at 80 years old. tRump needs help walking down a slightly angled incline. Also, tRump is a fascist.

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Our “News” media have gone full Russian State Television

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Trump:

Paid off two women he had extramaritals with, hosted spies at Mar A Lago, charged the Secret Service to stay at his properties, sided with Putin over the FBI, and stared into an eclipse while president. Biden’s old. News flash! Biden was old when he got elected! Make Better Choices, Mainstream!

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Plus, Trump is old too!

I'll take the old guy who isn't a fascist criminal over the old guy who is any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

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Well, if you want to talk klutzy…yesterday, Rotten Ron’s campaign mgr told errybody to ‘buckle up!’

Yesterday, as well, Molly Jung Fast wrote in Vanity Fair that, okay, we’ll do just that, while his futile quest attempts to right its course so they ‘don’t crash’. This morning, they did just that - crash - en route to a Chattanooga campaign event. A 4-car pileup. All four were his taxpayer-funded government vehicles.

IMHO, that’s way worse than toppling over when you brake your bike.

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Biden is 80 and that’s super-old, so let’s elect the 77-year fat guy who eats nothing but fast food.

Fuck these people.

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And let's use 76-year-old Andrea Mitchell to explain how old people can't work, think or walk. I can't imagine how they would have abused FDR. Talk about accommodations.

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"If you were alive and watching Senate confirmation hearings in 1987, you’re probably not one to talk about the ravages of time on Joe Biden. ". I resemble that remark 😱

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