• 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.
      • dactylotheca
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        885 months ago

        They call him the incoherent rambler. Everyone is saying it.

        And everyone really is saying it, too

        • @Plopp
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          385 months ago

          I’m saying it right now.

          • dactylotheca
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            I have the biggest cognitive decline, just tremendous, all the doctors are saying it, they’re saying “sir, your cognitive decline has been faster than I’ve seen in anyone else.” I make no sense at all, it’s amazing folks

            • @rayyy
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              85 months ago

              Careful there. Next thing you know all his cult followers will be running around in straitjackets as a show of support.

              • dactylotheca
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                25 months ago

                Ha yeah true that’s much closer to the real thing. Gonna shamelessly edit that in

      • @cheese_greater
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        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

      • @[email protected]
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        75 months ago

        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.

      • ditty
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        85 months ago

        Beat me to it. Yup - he should drop dead and then rest in piss.

    • Kalkaline
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      395 months ago

      He’s already having issues with his speech and he keeps doing these weird tangential rants that don’t make any sense.

        • @[email protected]
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          45 months ago

          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…

    • @[email protected]
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      275 months ago

      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.

      • Flying Squid
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        365 months ago

        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.

          • @zigmus64
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            85 months ago

            Not sure that’s the case anymore, unfortunately

            • @[email protected]
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              55 months ago

              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!

      • @[email protected]
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        25 months ago

        I don’t think Trump has the stature of someone who’s overcome a social disability. That guy oozes neurotypical privilege.

  • Flying Squid
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    1705 months ago

    I think Kamala should take Trump up on that cognitive test offer he wanted to take with Biden.

    • @Zachariah
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      and golf match

      (edit: see below for better suggestions)

        • @[email protected]
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          85 months ago

          And it’s hosted in Alabama.

          And not the Gulf Shores. Central Alabama. Home of 183% humidity.

          • @BetaBlake
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            45 months ago

            Hey I’m there and I agree, right here right now would be a hilarious time to see him try to play golf

            • @[email protected]
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              25 months ago

              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!

            • Flying Squid
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              It doesn’t get that unpleasant in Indiana very often, but I live near a golf course and I’ve seen golfers out in recent weeks both when it was in the 90s but felt like over 110 with the humidity and not a cloud in the sky and also when it was thunderstorming.

              Apparently there are some very dedicated, but stupid, golfers out there.

  • @NineMileTower
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    1185 months ago

    Not only is he the oldest, but he’s also the facist-est cadidate.

    • Diplomjodler
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      185 months ago

      And racist-est and misogynist-est and felonious-est and corruptest and…

      • @[email protected]
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        125 months ago

        I’m not sure if we can call him the raciest-est, president, some of them literally owned slaves.

        • @NineMileTower
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          65 months ago

          Presidents today are so PC. They can’t even own slaves anymore.

          • @I_Fart_Glitter
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            15 months ago

            Presidents today have never made any gestures toward amending that bit in the 13 amendment that still allows for slavery with extra steps. Even the ones that won a Nobel peace prize.

    • worldwidewave
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      75 months ago

      Father Coughlin is probably kicking himself in hell for never running for president.

    • flicker
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      Usually I don’t care about simple errors but cadidate got me.

        • flicker
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          35 months ago

          I meant it made me laugh, sweetie!

  • @[email protected]
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    815 months ago

    Age DOESN’T MATTER!

    -Republicans who are NOT in a Cult and complained about Joe Biden’s age for the last 6 months!

    • @superminerJG
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      25 months ago

      I mean, for those people, age doesn’t matter for a lot of things.

  • @[email protected]
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    595 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
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      175 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?

    • @[email protected]
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      85 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!

      • @[email protected]
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        35 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.

  • @ImpressiveEssay
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    595 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.

  • @blazera
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    565 months ago

    Too old, he’s unelectable

  • @EnderMB
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    505 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
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      235 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      55 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
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        125 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          15 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
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            Here’s the fun part, you can apply whatever label you find useful. Go bananas.

      • Flying Squid
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        35 months ago

        She was 13 when Star Wars came out. She’s no Boomer.

  • @[email protected]
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    455 months ago

    Oh no, it seems you didn’t get the memo! Commenting on a candidates physical year count and mental decrepitude is now ageist and forbidden. Please be better in the future. - CNN

  • @cosmicrookie
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    335 months ago

    At least his sentences are coherent /s

    • dactylotheca
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      1035 months ago

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

      • Flying Squid
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        635 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
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          325 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.

          • Flying Squid
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            135 months ago

            “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.”

        • don
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          105 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          55 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
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            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.

      • DreamButt
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        195 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

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        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
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          95 months ago

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

      • @cosmicrookie
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        I expect that they are hearing but not listening

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        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.

    • @NOT_RICK
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      Gettysburg… wow

  • @[email protected]
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    I just walked my dog past a big red pickup truck with stickers that had a picture of Biden with “I just shit my pants” and “BLM: Biden Loves Minors” (so classy) and it really struck me how extremely Biden focused the Republican memes have been.

    Like we used to have “Pelosi is secretly running things” or like even Mitt Romney was running against Obama but his attacks were about Democrats as a whole, they were tax and spend liberals building the nanny state.

    The flip side to Trump’s immature style is that it IS extremely specific, and like you can’t just go “actually it’s Meatball Nikki Haley.” Obviously you can invent different immature nicknames and memes but it is hard to telegraph them with the convention out of the way.

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      I just saw a headline that Trump appears to be upset because he’s spent so much time and money fighting Biden, and none fighting Harris or other potential candidates.

      I laughed.

      • @Nastybutler
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        Yeah he actually “Truthed” (lol) that he thinks the Dems owe him compensation for Joe dropping out due to all the money his campaign has spent attacking Joe. What a cunt

    • Sabata
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      I think he’s aged beyond coming up with his own nicknames.

      The Trump writing team is probably working around the clock to come up with names that are racist enough for the cult to enjoy, without being racist enough to censor on TV.

    • @[email protected]
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      75 months ago

      It boggles my mind. If you tallied up all the cars that have Biden’s name or picture on them, I bet they’d be overwhelmingly owned by MAGA folks. Why???

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        I honestly can’t think of anytime I’ve ever seen a car with a pro-Biden bumper sticker on it. I’ve even seen a few for Clinton when she ran but never Biden.

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    PASS THE TORCH He’s done it many times, at the KKK rallies in the woods that he’s probably attended.