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  • 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.
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[–] [email protected] 167 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 167 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Old sleepy Don. They call him the incoherent rambler. Everyone is saying it.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

And everyone really is saying it, too

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hell, he's probably saying it, too

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

I have the biggest cognitive decline, just tremendous, all the doctors are saying it. I make no sense at all, it's amazing folks

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As a nickname, yes. For POTUS, hell no.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Don poorleone apparently really irks him.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

He has been doing this aince 2016 and it has only gotten worse!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's all or bust for trump. White house or jail.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Not sure that’s the case anymore, unfortunately

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

He should drop dead.

[–] [email protected] 109 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Nah, fuck a golf match. Who gives a shit about golf?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Donald does. And he would not take losing well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's why he will never do it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

If he’s not willing to do what it takes to be elected, he should just quit now.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Final destination only

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And it's hosted in Alabama.

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

And boxing match

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago

Too old, he's unelectable

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 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!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

At least his sentences are coherent /s

[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wish to point out that he was in his early 70s at the time, generally a bit early for that level of impairment.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

generally a bit early for that level of impairment.

Well, assuming the impairment is age-related and not just, you know, built in

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

"Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

I expect that they are hearing but not listening

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

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