• With Joe Biden out of the race, Donald Trump has become the oldest presidential nominee ever.
  • Trump’s now facing off against Kamala Harris, 59, a woman decades younger.
  • On Monday, Trump called himself a “fine and brilliant young man” while criticizing Harris.
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    She raised more money in a single day than Trump, the convicted felon and traitorous, treasonous, lying coward pedophile rapist.

    It was her FIRST day, ever, as Presidential candidate.

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      I’d offer up a “Black don’t crack” but I think all the time about what 8 years in office did to Obama. They must have a hyperbaric time chamber attached to the Oval office.

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      Yeah, my husband and I both guessed early 40s before looking it up. I’m sure some of that is down to money and excellent healthcare access, but damn.

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        You might want to check that again. She’ll be 60 in October.

        Edit: Yup. That one sailed so far over head, I didn’t even hear the woosh as it went past.

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    Young? Harris was born in 1964. The same year that Cadet Bone-spurs turned 18 and got his first deferment to avoid the draft.

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      He identified as a man and his chosen pronouns are he/him. The right love it when we clarify this.

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        Yeah but gender/sex aside, the term “be a man” or “man up” can also mean to not be a coward or a weakling. He has yet to not be a cowardly weakling- so by that definition, not a man.

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      Convicted Criminal and Sex Offender Treason Trump is always the exact opposite of what he calls himself.

      “very stable genius”? Nope. Deranged idiot.

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    Leave it to Trump to try and suggest that 79 is “young”, rather than play up the wisdom and experience angle. I’m not sure how anyone can support a leader who consistantly denies objective reality in the name of fluffing his ego. But there are a lot of reasons to deny Trump the presidency long before something as relatively small as his hubris. Well, small relative to being a known rapist and convicted felon, anyway.

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      Let me guess, they plan to push retirement age to 90 or later? Full retirement age for Social Security starts at 67 (since 1960).

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      Trump playing ‘the wisdom and experience angle’ seems like a great strategy. I wish he goes for it!

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    Being his campaign managers/operatives must be tricky.

    They have to feed his ego. Coming out and acknowledging his age is just not an option, and they can’t straight up tell him “you cannot get on a stage with Harris because you will inevitably say something bad that hurts your campaign.”

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    fine and brilliant young man

    Are you sure he was referencing himself? None of those words describe Trump.

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      If this young man expresses himself in terms too fine for me, why what a singularly fine young man this fine young man must be!

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    Good god, he’s THAT old?

    Also, Harris is 59?

    Why are all the candidates at or way beyond retirement age?

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      In what paradise do you live where you can retire at 59? Even if Harris serves two terms she would only be 67, which is exactly at retirement age.

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        You can withdraw from 401k penalty free at 59 and 1/2 years old. That’s what this is probably referring to. Regardless there’s still a massive age difference between her and Biden/Trump.

      • Jourei@lemm.ee
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        Nice, could we leave the strawman arguments to reddit, please?

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          You argued shes too old and I argued that she is not that old. Look at all the prior experience she has, and 59 to 67 is far from an age where you can talk about cogintive or physical decline.

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    Awe, Alzheimers kicking in. He’s remembering his younger years. though, he was never fine or brillant, so clearly the memory is going bad also. But hey, you’ve got to love the doddering old fool…

    Oh right, fuck you don. I am now sure you will see some prison time after you lose this election. You deserve nothing less.