• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Being in the White House drastically ages the president, VP, and senior staff due to the insane amounts of stress and long hours that come with the job.

    It’s not easy.

    Biden has been in the WH for 12 years.

    trump for four, but he’s too fucking stupid to be worried. So the stress never got to him. If he saw something he didn’t like, he ripped up the paper, tried to eat it, then flushed it. And trump would have 100% forgotten about it immediately.

    Which is why they can be essentially the same age (18 months is nothing in your 80s) but Biden seems so much worse. Biden is used to thinking about what to say, trump just opens his mouth and rambles like he always has.

    But with all that being said:

    We need higher standards to get Dem voters onboard. A bad candidate that’s better than trump is still a bad candidate. We don’t need someone who tries to think of what to say but can’t say it, we need someone that can think of a competent response and then communicate that effectively.