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He’s not confusing shit…
His people lied to him because it’s the only way he’d take it.
They did it his first term too, and we now know Biden’s team was doing similar shit.
12 years in a row America will have had presidents incapable of doing the job and random unelected employees using the president like a puppet.
We can’t keep pretending this is normal, or people only caring when it’s “the other team” doing it.
It is beyond reason that we have agreed as a society that there is an age at which folks start getting the social security checks we all agreed to pay into our whole lives, but yet somehow that age does not disqualify us from public office.
It makes 0 sense to allow people to be in or run for public office who are also capable of collecting social security. The two ideas are diametrically opposed.
There is something to be said for age and experience. I think a large part of the reason why executives in the corporate world, and in politics, is it usually takes a lifetime to get yourself into a position to take on the role in the first place.
In principle, I have no issue with someone in their 60’s being the POTUS. A 65 year old in good physical health should also have more than adequate cognitive function to do the job.
If I have any issues with someone that age in that role, it’s that they’ve likely lost touch with the needs of the people who elected them.
From personal experience, I can tell you that being over 40 when you have a kid is a huge benefit. More patience, more money, more acceptance. Young parents tend to be emotionally unprepared for the challenges.
I’m over 60. My wife and I have a great trusting relationship with our teen son. He comes to us with concerns and problems. We encourage him to have all the room he wants to have his independent life. He is involved in all major decisions.
Maturity certainly has strong benefits. It is unfortunate that it also comes as the body begins to decay.
My grandmother died of Alzheimer’s - her mind failed long before her body. We are caring for a relative with Parkinson’s - her body has failed long before her mind.
It is best to take the individual into account. It would also be great if the lying of politicians was a prosecutable offense.
You’re describing exactly what I’m talking about. Definitely case by case.
Correct.
Again we have the founders never thinking that an 80yo would WANT to be in elected office; rather than at home walking the dogs.
In a rational world we’d be looking at someone in their 60s and thinking; are you really going to want to do THIS job? — in the private sector; we have effing age discrimination laws to protect those over 50?
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When you use those statistics you should be careful to consider what the averages mean. Most people didn’t die around age 35 back in the 1700s, it’s just that childhood mortality was so high that it skews the average. ‘If’ you lived past 5 years old, you were likely to have at least a comparable lifespan to today, even if it wasn’t necessarily 70-80s.
Its almost like the billionaires running the show just want a puppet they can controll. No wonder they are so afraid to lose New York to a free thinker.
Losing the mayor in NYC is a public bloody nose for them.
Losing the DNC last January was a terminal cancer diagnosis…
Do you have any opinions that don’t involve “bOTh SIdeSN!1!!”?
I know, grandpa.
he’s right. for him it was a very hard test
That pairs nicely with the “idiots can’t pardon people” memo they just released.
Strangely enough, I think Donald Trump might be the only person for which suffering Alzheimer’s Disease might be a blessing. If I were Trump, I wouldn’t want to remember who I was or those around me.
That is sad in both directions. You’d think coming to and realizing you are a pathetic piece of shit should be some kind of punishment, but then you realize he would probably still get his sadistic pleasure out of remembering all the bodies he stepped on to get to where he is now.
Really that’s the whole story, in that the world he lives in genuinely rewards greed and disgusting behavior, it’s just that most people have some sense or realization of the shame it involves to get there, and he’s just not equipped with the self reflection it takes for that shame to do anything.
That’s nice dear, we’ll put it up on the fridge next to all your other tests, just move one of the syphilis positives to the garage.
Y’all just wish you could do as good as he did on this test. Perfect scores. And a perfect mri. Y’all are just jealous of his super big brain and perfect hunk of a beautiful, in a totally manly way, 6’3” 224 lb with 5% body fat body.
Y’all are just jealous of his
super big brain and perfect hunk of a beautiful, in a totally manly way, 6’3” 224 lb with 5% bodyfat body.FTFY, and also nah lol.
Just muscle. Slathered in diaper rash cream. Slight ting of Cheeto dust and a hamburger on his fingers. Makes Greek gods look pathetic.
"They have Jasmine Crockett, a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. You give her an IQ test, have her pass, like, the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed,’ " the president said. “I took– Those are very hard– They’re really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way, but they’re cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump.”
. . . “It’s like you’ll go: Person, woman, man, camera, TV," he said at the time. "So they say, ‘Could you repeat that?’ So I said, ‘Yeah. So it’s person, woman, man, camera, TV.’ ‘Okay, that’s very good. If you get it in order, you get extra points.’ "
He added, “They say nobody gets it in order, it’s actually not that easy. But for me it was easy. And that’s not an easy question.”
🤡🇺🇸🔥
He should be Amendment 25’ed for this alone.
