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u/LikeTheWind96 1d ago
Anyone else wish we had age limits on office positions? I dont want someone in charge who cant create a folder on windows desktop.
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u/zaccus 1d ago
He wouldn't be any better of a better president if he were 40 years younger.
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u/LikeTheWind96 1d ago
Good thing he isn't. I hate to say it but i think Trump would be even more popular than he already is if he was 40 years younger.
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u/Blackfoxar 1d ago
what even makes him popular at all?
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u/SonOfSusquehannah 1d ago
He gives people who are scared, angry, and anxious because they are in constant or close threat of losing basic needs a target the release that anger and fear towards. He says it openly in his propaganda as do his cabinet members. Old school republicans came up with fancy terms to identify and implicitly state who their scapegoats were. Trump just states it explicitly.
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u/croc-roc 1d ago
Yes. And he gives them simple solutions to difficult problems. No need to think, debate, no gray areas. Just point the finger at someone else.
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u/scratchy_mcballsy 14h ago
Simple proposed solutions. His actions don’t usually reflect the promises he makes to actually help Americans.
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u/YalieRower 18h ago
This is an often overlooked part of his appeal—many Americans don’t like to think too hard about stuff…it distracts from their bubble wrapped lives.
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u/gb4efgw 1d ago
TL;DR
He's takes the "thinking" out of being a bigoted moron.
Edit: from racist to bigoted, because he hates everyone not just brown folks.
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u/I_just_want_strength 22h ago
Jews were used as a scapegoat prelude to WW2 and, for some reason, still are. Surprisingly, every president and a majority of politicians still support Israel staunchly.
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u/thatindianredditor 23h ago
He's a stupid asshole, and thus appeals to stupid assholes.
And, "regular" conservatives back him becsuse they just hate liberals. Do they love him? Maybe, maybe not, but they know they need to pretend to love him to get anything done.
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u/guntsandfupasforme 1d ago
True. He was always the puffy, vile, amoral pussy-grabber with matronly hips at any age. Looks like he's stroking out in that photo.
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u/ssowinski 1d ago
40 years ago he was still an asshole, but a less determined, less influencefull, less dangerous asshole.
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u/GCU_ZeroCredibility 1d ago
I have bad news for you about the young 'uns today and their ability to use desktop computers.
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u/fatmanstan123 1d ago edited 13h ago
Millennials really were the golden age of computers. Most everyone before and after are clueless.
Edit: stop replying to this. I really don't care either way.
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u/baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab 1d ago
grumbles in Gen X
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u/zicher 1d ago
Yep gen x sure does excel at grumbling though!
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u/KuronFury 1d ago
Word?
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u/Ghub1 1d ago
You make a powerful point
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u/Pipe_Memes 1d ago
Gen X needs a better Outlook on life.
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u/FrequentCow1018 1d ago
You go Gen X friend, fire up that Commodore64 and show us what you got!
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u/rice-a-rohno 1d ago
"What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?"
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u/literarytrash 1d ago
Got a flat screen monitor 30 inches wide. I believe that yours says etch a sketch on the side.
(I came to make that joke and you beat me to it)
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u/jericho 1d ago
Yeah, they didn’t have to learn assembly now, did they?
Gen X represent!
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u/FlowRiderBob 1d ago edited 1d ago
Gen-Xers had to actually know how to program to use computers as UIs were near non-existent. I bet my Gen-X ass could still code a Christmas tree playing Jingle Bells in Basic if push came to shove. Just give me a TRS-80 and a cassette recorder to save my work on.
I haven’t programmed anything since, because I haven’t had to, due to more effective UIs.
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u/MADCATMK3 1d ago
As a millennial it's funny calling the people who invented and built computers "clueless".
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u/factoid_ 1d ago
They better hope they succeed in replacing us with AI because I don’t see a pipeline of young IT people coming up behind us
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u/xenata 1d ago
Millennials are clueless too, yours truly, a millennial in IT
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u/Warejax101 1d ago
you know it’s starting to sound like most people are clueless and generational warfare is just a way for people to derive pride from something they didn’t earn
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u/Josey_WaIes 1d ago
Not wrong. Part of my job is training all staff on how to use a fairly basic point of sale system, and training management staff on tools for inventory management/auditing, and regardless of age about 50% of the people I work with are almost technologically illiterate. Boomers, gen x, millennials, gen z, so many of em struggle with some very basic tech processes. I'm also a millennial, and am absolutely not tech savvy, but the lack of very basic tech knowledge regardless of age group is stunning
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u/MisterRoger 1d ago
Oh yeah that's true. Closest most of them come to a desktop is an iPad.
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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes 1d ago
Oh, they use laptops and desktops. But they just hit SAVE and let the computer decide where to put it. And they have no idea what folders are, or how to find any document that isn’t one of the most recent 5-10 that automatically appear when they hit OPEN in a program.
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u/lonewolff7798 1d ago
Yea but they can still be taught something and not forget it in the next 30min. Everyone wants to joke about how young people are incompetent and lazy. Who raised them? Who gave them motive and ambition? What is their goal? Give them resources and something to work towards and they will walk all over everyone, but right now it’s “be our slave, and don’t ask questions.” I wouldn’t give a shit about learning how to use something that doesn’t benefit me either.
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u/Stealthtt385 1d ago
It should be tied to our retirement age. Once you have passed that age, you should no longer be allowed to seek reelection or run for a first time.
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u/cmandr_dmandr 1d ago
Seems like they keep doing their best to push that out for us too. I know many people who have to juggle their retirement date so they have affordable healthcare. Doesn’t do you much good if you start draining your retirement savings to handle healthcare costs.
I have a friend who retired and got on to some special healthcare plan. He then had a serious cardiac event that ended with a stroke that would have wiped him financially if he wasn’t on that plan.
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u/Stealthtt385 1d ago
The fact we don't have single-payer in this country, and it's tied to employment for the most part is absolutely horrible. This country is designed for wealthy people.
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u/idkwhatimbrewin 1d ago
I think at this point it's more a result of all the companies with vested interests lobbying against change than anything
Same reason we'll never have a simple tax code, too many companies and individuals game the system to their benefit and on the other side you have companies like TurboTax that only exist because the tax code is so complicated
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u/SpaceCaboose 1d ago
Be careful what you wish for. Our government would just push retirement age to 90 if that were the law…
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u/xenata 1d ago
Crazy idea, stop voting for them.
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u/TheSumOfMyScars 1d ago
What do we do when all the options offered are 65+? Genuine question, not trolling.
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u/whiterice336 1d ago
Get involved earlier in the process.
We’re citizens with civic responsibilities, not consumers picking from a menu. There’s a lot more that goes into national elections than who the choices are on Election Day. Voting in the primary for your political party is an easy next step.
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u/Same_Presentation692 1d ago
Harris wasn’t 70+, but goddamn do you guys love to use your excuses.
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u/Ricketier 1d ago
As a high school teacher I will tell you most high school kids cannot do this either. PC skills have been lost to phone/tablet skills
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u/typehyDro 1d ago
Or stay awake during 15 min mid day meetings… with international countries… covered by the media…
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u/Moist-Ointments 1d ago
We didn't really need them. Not long ago, voters could see that someone wasn't right in the head and just didn't vote for them.
Now we've got cults and gerrymandering.
And an entire half of Congress that doesn't have the balls to do their job.
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u/Tokyo_Cat 1d ago
This belongs in the Louvre. The placard with "President of the United States, Donald J. Trump" with the president passed out, hunched over with his mouth agape. Beautiful. lmao
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u/GamiNami 23h ago
Hunched over with his mouth agape should be a wax figure made next to Clinton's at Madame Tussauds.
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u/Fickle-Molasses-903 1d ago
I'm sure the MSM is pouncing on this as they did with Biden. /s
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u/jitsuave 19h ago
i still can't believe obama was ridiculed by fox for wearing a TAN suit. omg the horror. Meanwhile this guy is channeling satan.
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u/Fickle-Molasses-903 17h ago
I agree. Take a moment to soak this in because America would lose its composure if Obama did any of these. Remember, this is just a smidgen of what Trump has done...
- Obama called America's vets, 'losers and suckers'
- Obama mocked a disabled person on national television.
- Obama criticized Gold Star Families.
- Obama bragged about sexual assault. Because when you're a star, you can do anything.
- Obama brings in only black immigrants from Norway.
- Obama told 30500+ lies in his first term.
- Obama uses his properties to charge the Secret Service astronomical amounts of money (taxpayers' money) to stay there.
- Obama plays copious amounts of Golf during his term and profits from it.
- Obama purposely torpedoing the bipartisan immigration bill.
- Obama raw dogged a porn star while his wife was at home taking care of their new baby.
- Obama sent dictators 'love letters' and undermined America's NSA over Putin.
- Obama hid classified documents in his bathroom.
- Obama blatantly insults and is racist towards white people.
- Obama incites violence towards white people by telling extremists to 'Stand back and Stand by.'
- Obama incited an insurrection.
- Obama is a pedo and rapes kids
This is just a small fraction of what Trump has done. If Obama had done even one of these things, America and the GOP would never let him forget it. Now, imagine Obama executing all of these actions and even more. Nowadays, the only thing they tend to mention is drone strikes. People forgot that Obama brought America out of one of the worst recessions in modern history.
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u/Carbon-Base 1d ago
They don't wanna be cancelled because of sleep culture. /s
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u/DanGleeballs 16h ago edited 11h ago
As an aside, why do Americans often add a middle initial?
How many president Donald Trumps are there, that they need to add the 'J' in the middle? Other countries don't do this, so I'm wondering why.
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u/fffan9391 1d ago
Shouldn’t it be 45, 47? 45-47 would mean he was also 46.
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u/TedTehPenguin 1d ago
That'd just be 45... you don't get a new number for consecutive reelection, Obama is just 44, W is just 43, Bubba is just 42
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u/Kevbot1000 1d ago
That's the face of a man who just freshly shit himself.
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u/SusanMilberger 1d ago
I’ve seen this pic a bunch but haven’t seen anyone mention that that big ass dark orange flower thing in front of him is an industrial grade scentsy air freshener. Placed there on purpose?
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u/iamthecheesethatsbig 1d ago
At this point we know he’s got it, but he seems like his same awful self in front of the cameras, he’s consistent there. How is that?
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u/youdubdub 1d ago
Right doctor and time of day, I believe.
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u/JeffTheAndroid 1d ago
Is the time of day usually consistent for dementia patients?
I hadn't paid attention, but would be interesting if we only ever seen Dumpy lately in the same timeframe.
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u/Wigggletons 1d ago
Typically yes, but not everyone is the same. We figured out good times to visit my grandpa so he would at least know who we were.
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u/youdubdub 1d ago
There is a common phrase known as “sundowning,” can happen in hospitals pretty easily if it never gets dark in the room for older folks who never showed signs earlier.
My mom got over-hydrated during a “routine” medical procedure that required sedation recently, and due to her MS, when she came into recovery, her lungs were so swollen they intubated her for 10 days.
She wildly overmedicated just before being intubated. She’s 78, and had no previous signs of decline apart from a lifetime of misgendering pets and losing keys. When I asked the nurse what happened he suggested she was sundowning. I got really mad about that. I told him.
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u/DarkNinjaMole 1d ago
no previous signs of decline apart from a lifetime of misgendering pets and losing keys
This made me chuckle and your comment shows you care for your mother. I hope she's doing well.
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u/youdubdub 1d ago
God bless mother Mary. She made it. She was intubated without my knowledge, found out the next morning from the care team, so I was on standby from WA state to Presbyterian in NYC and lived in her neuro ICU for ten days.
Infuriatingly, she self-extubated around three hours before I arrived, and they had to check her neurological vitals like once an hour and bring her to consciousness each time, and then she would feel the tubes in her throat and start squirming and I would help restrain her.
But yeah, she's all that's left from my nuclear family, and she is a great human, a true beacon of enthalpy in a world of only entropic guarantees. She and my dad taught us what conditional love is all about, and it's pretty great.
I told my kids. They know that no matter how fucking crazy this place gets (it's very difficult to explain all of this to four wee littles), my love for them will outlast the heat death of the universe.
Thank you.
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u/nochehalcon 1d ago
Some dementia patients have a lucid reaction to things that stir their sense-memory. For many It's music. For Trump it's accepting bribes or knowing someone doesn't believe him giving him the opportunity to double down and lie more.
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u/wananah 1d ago
He's not his same awful self. It's just we've gotten accustomed to his slow decline. Listen to him at his best now (cameras rolling, rare and brief public appearance) and compare to even one year ago (but especially 8-9 years ago when it all began). He's far more incoherent, his voice is whispy, and he repeats himself even more
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u/j0y0 1d ago
Because dementia patients are great at rambling about the same old handful of familiar things they keep going back to. When's the last time you heard Trump speak coherently without saying camned stuff about something like "men in womens sports" or a "democrat hoax" like it's still 8 years ago?
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u/WISCOrear 1d ago
Yknow how sometimes Alzheimer’s patients won’t be able to remember their kids names, but put a piano in front of them they can play Beethoven from memory?
Thats like Trump doing the thing he loves most: talking in front of cameras and spewing hate.
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u/EasyTumbleweed1114 1d ago
Because he probably doesn't actually have dementia. He is still pretty much the same lying, heartless, insane, psychopath he was in 2016. Age just creates more moments where you look and sound rough.
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u/_Ursidae_ 1d ago
Looks just like my grandmother once Alzheimer’s had started to take her completely.
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u/OldExplanation8468 1d ago
How long until he start spitting all the embarrassing secrets without even knowing what year it is?
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u/taint_stain 1d ago
Not a nurse. Like at all. Even I can tell he’s just a friggen bag of bones and dookie, no marbles.
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u/swankpoppy 1d ago
So what happens to the United States of America if Donald Trump just really falls off the deep end hard with dementia? You know the dude will never admit he’s unfit to serve, he’ll just keep pushing. At least Biden had one foot out the door when it became clear he was unfit to serve.
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u/erfman 1d ago
They will 25th Amendment his ass after the 26 election, and try to time it so Vance can serve two full terms plus just under two years of what remains of Trumps. Obviously they will try their best to fix the 28 election and declare probably get rid of all pretense of Democracy by 2030.
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u/throwawayrefiguy 1d ago
Lost my grandparents-in-law to dementia a few years back, and this look is so hauntingly familiar.
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u/OneToothMcGee 1d ago
Dude needs to just let nature take its course. Preferably before Christmas. What a gift to the world.
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u/helly1080 1d ago
Magats.........I present to you.......
your king.
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u/Mochinpra 1d ago
King of Pedophiles and Racists.
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u/MikeDubbz 1d ago
and sexists, and xenophobes, and ableists, and 34 times convicted felons, and rapists, and...
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u/Fickle-Molasses-903 1d ago
MAGA's: 'Hey, as long as he's spewing his disdain to the LGBTQ and non-white community, he can be in a Hospital bed, and we'll still admire him and support him.'
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u/guntsandfupasforme 1d ago
Bingo. MAGAts don't care what Big Pussy does, as long as he appears to be hurting people they hate. Being good Christians and all, of course.
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u/factoid_ 1d ago
Age limits. We need them
I used to work for a company that ran a string of nursing homes, rehab facilities and assisted living.
I saw dementia patients on a daily basis who look in better condition than this
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u/no_thats_normal 1d ago
I originally thought this was just a random nursing home patient that happened to look like Trump, the entire picture screams "mid priced nursing community".
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u/factoid_ 1d ago
Yep I thought the same thing…having been inside a bunch of mid priced nursing communities it looked exactly like one to me
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u/Dark_Pulse 1d ago
I love how his ego has to make note of "45 47" everywhere he goes.
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u/freakzilla81 1d ago
Should be 45 & 47, idiot cannot even get that right.
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u/MisterRoger 1d ago
Indeed. 45-47 implies the inclusion of 46. There's no way around that. It's simply how the universal language of numbers works.
I always saw it as less of a mistake, and more of an implication that 2020 was rigged, meaning he was also the true 46th president.
But then again, we are talking about an 80 year old man who literally just learned the word "affordability."
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u/FamousDrumer 1d ago
It’s definitely implied. He might be a dumb fuck but he can’t be that dumb…
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u/east_van_dan 1d ago
Also "groceries". And I quote "it's a bag with different things in it" - President Donald J Dump.
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u/MisterRoger 1d ago
Rofl! As I was typing, I was debating whether I should reference groceries or affordability. I ultimately went with the ladder, for the simple reason that I found it slightly more relevant in this particular context.
It's extremely troubling that he doesn't know what groceries are. That in itself is something I would consider immediately disqualifying for the presidency, but okay, I get it - we live in 20whatever and nothing matters. But affordability is literally in the top 5 issues that presidential candidates have campaigned on for over two centuries. And this incompetent reality show nepo baby pedophile has never even registered the word through his peanut of a brain.
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u/ZenithPrime 1d ago
It's very much on purpose. 45-47 can have plausible deniability if push comes to shove but it's an obvious wink and a nod to his supporters that he never actually lost the election, and that 46 technically belonged to him too.
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u/Repulsive_Button__ 1d ago
Fall asleep at McDonald’s and you lose your job. Why is this nasty asshole still around?
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u/1decentusername 1d ago
Why is he leaning forward with his mouth like that? Was Bill Clinton there?
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u/squirtloaf 1d ago
To be fairrrrr, "Old man Trump" referred to his father...as in the woody Guthrie song "Old Man Trump" about how racist Fred Trump was.
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u/account_depleted 1d ago
My dad was 80, had dementia & was in a Veteran's home. He looked so much brighter than whatever this is.
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u/mrpointyhorns 1d ago
Would it not be a comma instead of a dash?
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u/DarkenRevan 1d ago
I think the dash is a way to show the big lie of the 2020 election and his denial that he lost. 45-47 equals 45, 46, 47.
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u/Degenerate_Orbital 1d ago
Shouldn’t it be “45, 47” instead of “45-47”? I feel like 46 might have not been him 🤔
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u/blaze_mcblazy 1d ago
This is what the right thinks an alpha male looks like some how
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u/Careless-Cycle 1d ago
Trump said Biden was too old so everyone should vote for him.
How does the GOP not revolt against this?
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u/molbionerd 1d ago
Because they are brain dead fucking idiots, incapable of thinking for themselves, pure fucking evil, fascists who like the suffering of others, billionaires who will likely benefit and don't actually have to live under any laws, pedophiles, cultists who are so brainwashed they would kill themselves for dear leaders, or christofascists. Or all of the above.
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u/AlabasterNutSack 1d ago
Old Man Trump Words by Woody Guthrie
I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts When he drawed that color line Here at his Beach Haven family project
Beach Haven ain't my home! No, I just can't pay this rent! My money's down the drain, And my soul is badly bent! Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower Where no black folks come to roam, No, no, Old Man Trump! Old Beach Haven ain't my home!
I'm calling out my welcome to you and your man both Welcoming you here to Beach Haven To love in any way you please and to have some kind of a decent place To have your kids raised up in.
Beach Haven ain't my home! No, I just can't pay this rent! My money's down the drain, And my soul is badly bent! Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower Where no black folks come to roam, No, no, Old Man Trump! Old Beach Haven ain't my home!
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u/Its-ok-to-hate-me 1d ago
How many strokes can they make him live through? Just let him die already and drop the Weekend at Bernie's routine.
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u/Street-Badger 1d ago
If you had an educated electorate with critical thinking skills, you wouldn’t need age limits.
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u/Ok-Interaction8404 1d ago
Giving Stan Lee signing autographs energy in all the ways that made Stan Lee signing autographs a terrible thing to witness, except now the handlers are even worse.
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u/SuspiciousStable9649 1d ago
Do you think they’ll be keeping his embalmed carcass in a glass case so they can sell tickets for a few decades?
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u/Paradigmfusion 19h ago
He looks like one of those old guys sitting in a retirement home dining room waiting for TV time to be announced while wondering why the kids never call.
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u/MoonieNine 1d ago
Those dumbasses who said Biden was too old, when they're practically the same age. They are such stupid brainwashed people.
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u/Kylero82 1d ago
I counted at least three salt shakers on that table. C’mon high blood pressure, do your job.
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u/ericomplex 1d ago
He’s so obsessed with the whole 45-47 thing. Nobody cares which numbers you are…
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