He’s 64
everyone who says politicians are too old need to remember how many shitty right wing 30 year olds there are.
I would gladly embrace shitty young ones over old ones. At least the younger ones are thinking about the future.
yeah thinking about a white future that genocides marginalised ppl
Really? You’d rather have, say, Steven Miller than Trump?
It’s not like Trump is some mastermind coming up with all these ideas on his own, and Miller isn’t likable enough to get elected.
But Trump gives me Steven Miller. Whereas on the other hand I don’t think Steven Miller comes with Trump attached. Nor is he capable of actually winning anything.
Or, and hear me out: a non-shitty one.
no, if we don’t vote for a lizard the wrong type of lizard might get in
On the one hand I disagree & think that there are tangible differences between major parties (granted not as big as we would like).
On the other hand - Douglas Adams.
What a weird take
Yeah like both Trump and Biden won in big competitive primaries with a lot of candidates younger than them. I think part of the reason we have so many old politicians is that young candidates feel more like positively asserting the future of their party, and nobody really likes the futures they’re asserting. Without that vision, the status quo wins out by default.
But dont the 30 year old shitters pale in comparison to their 30 year old left wing opposition?
And his time in office ended about 9 years ago, so 55 at the time.
And then came along who would become the oldest, worst president in history
Worst president is a stretch
We’ve had some really bad presidents
Who would you say was worse and why?
James Buchanan. He intervened in the Dredd Scott decision (on the side of slavers) and stood idly by as states secceeded, allowing the south to gather strength for the civil war.
That’s like 4 people.
Five.
Six if Jimmy Carter is somehow still alive. I know he was 4 years ago.
He died in 2024.
I honestly think seeing Trump win killed him. His wife dying probably played a larger role, but I don’t think seeing the country go down the toilet did nothing to him, and the election was the killing blow. The cancer was irrelevant, he already survived that like three times.
I still hate how most of the country capitulated the orange menace and raised the flags for his inauguration.
that is how you ordinarily behave when you lose an election. in the face of fascism i’d expect different behavior but should they have been able to put everything together the way we did? i want to answer yes but i don’t know what things looked like from inside their heads. for example if i have four or five more days at the stress level i’m carrying right now, i am going to need one hell of a salsa bar to work through some things before i can even think again.
He also wasn’t a spring chicken
People don’t live forever
lucky stiff
So?
Friend, it’s a shower thought. Not a deep philosophical discussion.
Shower is the perfect place to think about deep philosophical topics
