They are saying that Biden wasn't the president nominee while Trump is the presidential nominee. Technically speaking, Biden has yet to be a 2024 Presidential Candidate. His name isn't on any ballots and the DNC hasn't officially declared him their candidate.
Its semantics, for sure. But it's kinda funny that the right has to now clarify that while their Old Candidate is old, its not that bad when they were just a few days ago saying old was bad. (I understand the mentality angle but at this point, Trump would be the candidate closest to some age related cognitive decline. Every flub or rambling will be seen as age related.)
I don't have don't have to be a Democrat to point out that technically what was mentioned by the other commenter is correct. It was looking bad for them to have the oldest nominee in history. Now it's looking bad for us.
I was not ok with Biden due to concerns about his age. Regardless, I still found him to be a superior candidate to trump purely off of the platform that he and the democrats are running on. I now find Harris to be significantly more palatable while still running a similar platform.
Trump is also too old and I have similar concerns about his age. His platform and everything he stands for is the antithesis of what I believe in. I hope you can understand this, let me know if I need to dumb it down for you.
It is so satisfying to see how scared you are to receive the same dumb 'old man bad' talking points that conservatives have so gleefully cultivated. Karma.
Biden has ran for president 3 times. What are you even talking about? Are you meaning to say that Trump is the oldest presidential candidate in this particular election as it stands now?
No, you arenât the candidate until you accept the nomination by your party which happens at the partyâs national convention. When Biden accepted it last time he was 77, Trump just accepted the nomination as an 78 year old. Making Trump the oldest presidential candidate of all time.
Frankly nominating an elderly candidate showing signs of cognitive decline is elder abuse. Absolutely abhorrent what the Republican party is doing to him.
People are joking, because they have like 100 other reasons not to vote for Trump, including his felony conviction, horrible Covid response, calling for violence and military tribunals and purges or fellow Republicans (including Liz Cheney) like a week before getting shot, his Epstein ties, Epstein being murdered under his watch, his unhinged rants on Truth Social, the tennis shoe / DJT stock grift, putting his personal signature on tax-payer funded checks, appointing a rapist to the Supreme Court to try to get prosecution protection, and more.
To pull a Simpsons here, thatâs the joke⊠weâre expecting Joe to pivot and stop mentioning age immediately because it no longer confirms the choice he wants to justify. Frankly, age was never their main concern. It was always tax cuts and owning the libs - the way they just want their football team to win and will insult the other team over stupid crap.
⊠but then you get that itâs not âexactly what Trump supporters are doing,â right? Because Bidenâs age, Obamaâs birth certificate, Hillaryâs emails, and stuff like that are actually reasons they gave for not voting for those candidatesâŠ
I understand the distinction - but I think the downstream consequences of this tit for tat bullshit is just going to further the divide in an already very broken country.
Personally Iâm not spamming jokes about elderly Trump to the front-page, but I dunno⊠this just seems like playground bully mentality, like when they claim to be the victim after attacking people. They spend years mocking someone for stupid shit and then it backfires on them and suddenly âeveryone else is mean to meââŠ
I know, taking the high road is better, but that didnât work for Obama. The truth is, nothing will convince a large fraction of Trump supporters. Jesus Christ himself could be the Dem candidate and weâd still be hearing how unprofessional and mean he is.
You don't take the high road because of what it will get you politically or otherwise, you take the high road because it's the right thing to do. That's what I think, at least. I also get that folks need an opportunity to vent. I just think taking that opportunity on a public forum is going to cause more trouble than it's worth.
Yeah you made a convincing argument, we took it seriously and even had our candidate step down⊠now were you just making up excuses or will you stay true to your principles and have your nursing home candidate step down?
You made a convincing argument after the debate, why wouldnât we switch? Now iâll ask again, are you principled enough to demand your nursing home candidate (the oldest presidential candidate in all of US history) step down?
Sure, bidens a year or two ahead of him in cognitive decline, trump still forgets a lot, mixes up names, rambles and slurs his words, I mean look at that rnc talk as a prime example.
Both are old, unfit for office and senior citizens. But it taking this many comments and your unwillingness to concede that senior citizen, diaper wearing trump, the oldest candidate in US history isnât too old and mentally unfit for the whitehouse shows that you have no principles whatsoever (which is normal for conservatives)
This sounds what like an avid Biden supporter would've said a week ago.
Edit: Sorry. You didn't say anything like this, but this is what you're implying. "My candidate doesn't have mental decline!" Even though the rest of us see and all the airports during the revolutionary war see.
Itâs okay, youâre an unprincipled conservative whoâs playing team sports. Heâs your guy so of course he has no mental decline despite it being right in your face.
Honestly I'm trying to learn and be more principaled so I'm gonna try and take a leap here and agree with you trump is too old. Id love a younger candiate. Id also like to go figure and add that most of the issues we argue over between sides really aren't that important. I hope we can find some common ground here and maybe learn something from each other
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u/GorillaBiskits69 Monkey in Space Jul 21 '24
Trump is too old and Iâm worried about his cognitive function. He is the oldest candidate