• @ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Wow, I didn’t realize that they were about the same age. I just assumed that Clinton, who was last elected president twenty-eight years ago, was way older.

    • maegul (he/they)
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      3 months ago

      Prepare yourself:

      Clinton, Trump and Bush Jr were all born in the “summer” of 1946.

      Since 1992, 32 years ago, there has been a presidential candidate from the summer of 1946 for 7 elections (trump 3 times now) or 28 years worth.

      Additionally, H Clinton was the “fall” of 1947, Romney the “spring” of 1947, Gore the “spring” of 1948.

      Obama, McCain, Kerry and Biden are the only exceptions to the core Boomer generation of a 2 year window dominating presidential elections for ~35yrs.

      With Biden and Kerry kinda being older boomers, born in ~1942/3 and Obama a young boomer at ~1960. Harris and Walz (and Vance too) mark a generational step change to X-gen and millennials

      • @idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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        453 months ago

        Can I ask why the seasons are in quotes? No shade, it’s good information (though Obama is still a core boomer, and Harris and Walz are on the cusp- 1946-64 is the range in the US), just wondering

        • maegul (he/they)
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          433 months ago

          Not everyone lives in the northern hemisphere, or call autumn “fall”, or, AFAICT, use the seasons over specific months as much as the US.

              • @kerrypacker@lemmy.world
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                23 months ago

                Our national network yes, but we don’t have the bullshit locked down devices (paired with a certain sim) you have in the land of the free, we can buy whatever we like and it magically works.

                • We can do that too, its just a thing with the phone service providers. I can go and buy a brand new unlocked phone at best buy and not even have to think about locks. Also there are programs for cracking those devices.

          • @BakerBagel@midwest.social
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            173 months ago

            I think it is fair to ascribe northern seasons to people who have held a job with the de facto requires you to be born on the northern hemisphere.

            • @idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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              3 months ago

              Just to be pedantic:

              You don’t have to be born in the US to be president, you just have to be born with US citizenship, but if one or both of your parents are citizens, you are too from birth.

              • @BakerBagel@midwest.social
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                33 months ago

                The only US presidents who weren’t officially born in the US were all born in the 13 English colonies that would eventually make up the US. It is still debated if someone born outside the US to American parents is eligible for the president. Birther scandals go all the way back to Chester Arthur, who was first purported to be born in his father’s homeland of Ireland, and then Lower Canada, where his parents first met. Those accusations never really took root and were disproven, but there has never been a Supreme Court ruling to determine what “natural born” citizen actually means.

                • Queen HawlSera
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                  23 months ago

                  Given the current supreme court, I’d wager it depends on the party affiliation of the candidate.

            • maegul (he/they)
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              183 months ago

              All good!

              If it helps, I don’t live in the Northern Hempisphere, so I had to think a bit each time.

        • maegul (he/they)
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          73 months ago

          and Harris and Walz are on the cusp- 1946-64 is the range in the US)

          Well, I think that’s missing the forest for the trees. If people at the older edge of cusp have been dominant, then shifting to the younger edge, ~15-20 years younger, is still a step change.

          Obama kinda marked the beginning of it, but is best viewed as an aberration. His opponents were silent gen (McCain) and old-boomer (Romney, 1947). And the next two elections after him were, in birth years, '46 v '47, '42 v '46. IE, over 6 candidates in 4 elections, Obama was the only one not born before 1948. Both Harris and Walz being born in '64 feels like a step change (where apart from Palin, I don’t think VPs were ever typically much younger)

      • @skibidi@lemmy.world
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        73 months ago

        Harris and Walz aren’t Millennials by any stretch. Harris is 59, Walz is 60. Spring chickens compared to Biden and Trump, but still 20 years removed from the oldest Millennial cohorts.

        • @Shanedino@lemmy.world
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          13 months ago

          I think you missed the point. Not that they are millennial but that it’s the first time millennial are seeing someone born from a different time period.

      • daisy lazarus
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        203 months ago

        One does not get more Boomer than that. 9 months after the war ended. Almost exactly.

        • @rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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          53 months ago

          I think it’s nothing. They are a frustrated disoriented group. They’d take anyone.

          Maybe so are Dem voters who are excited about Harris, while a few years ago she was rather unpopular.

          I’ve never set foot in the new world, but maybe people should be excited about perspectives of a new major party coming to existence, since GOP is broken. While Harris is just better than Trump, no less and no more.

          • @abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world
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            13 months ago

            If the GOP continue on the path they’re on eventually (hopefully) the Dems can win in a landslide and open up for another party to beat them. Right now we are still stuck with the two because potentially splitting the Dems is too much of a risk

  • @zgasma
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    513 months ago

    If he really works on it, I bet he can stay younger than Trump for the rest of his life.

    • @madcaesar@lemmy.world
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      213 months ago

      Remember the OUTRAGE the right exhibited?? I always knew they were full of shit and hitching their waggon to Trump proved it without the shadow of a doubt.

      • @pyre@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        it’s still sexual harassment if not assault and what happened to Lewinsky at the time is a national disgrace. the republicans were faking outrage but on the other side there was none, and that’s shameful too.

        • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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          03 months ago

          Oh I think there was plenty of outrage from Hillary. He’d have felt that behind closed doors.

          • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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            53 months ago

            If she’d opened that door, she might not have lost in 2016. Hard to respect the judgement of someone who was still married him after all that. Her loss was a perfect storm of a lot of factors, but I believe that was one of them.

            • @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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              43 months ago

              The other thing they could have done is just be honest about their relationship . Their marriage is political and economic, and they may very well have great affection for each other - I don’t know. But they clearly don’t expect fidelity in their relationship, and if that’s what works for them that’s fine. Just be honest about it.

              I have a lot more of a problem with Bill taking sexual advantage of a 22yo intern while he was President of the United States. That power imbalance makes consent nearly impossible, and I’m still mad at my fellow Dems for defending that.

              He should have been impeached for that, not the trumped-up perjury bullshit.

              We also would’ve had an incumbent President Gore going into 2000, which might have been nice.

    • @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      133 months ago

      Trump is way worse, and the “perjury trap” used with separate definitions of “sex” in the 2 investigations (Lewinsky and Jones) so Clinton couldn’t answer the question without committing perjury was bullshit.

      But in the post “me-too” era can my fellow Dems admit that the President of the United States getting a 22yo White House intern to give him a blowjob is beyond unacceptable. There’s such a massive imbalance of power in that relationship that consent is really tricky.

      • @Reptorian@lemmy.zip
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        73 months ago

        As a Dem, I’m going to say that I don’t support what Bill Clinton did given their power level difference. But, I do acknowledge what Trump did was way worse, and I will always compare him negatively to whatever you come up with.

  • @idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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    463 months ago

    He looks so much younger/healthier than last time. I wonder if he had covid last dnc, because I remember him looking like SpongeBob with the suds.

  • katy ✨
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    73 months ago

    big dog still has it 💚

    bill clinton was my first “vote” in the channel one national mock election when i was in sixth grade and he was president when i visited the white house a year later. i still have my socks the cat comic book i got from the gift shop :)

    • Billiam
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      723 months ago

      Oh and possibly committed more fraud between you and your wife between Whitewater, Travelgate, and Filegate than Donny too…

      Trump: convicted on 34 counts of tax fraud.

      Clintons: convicted of 0 anythings.

      Man, it must really chap Republican ass that their god is finally being held accountable for his crimes, and yet the Clintons, who they’ve been investigating and smearing for fucking decades haven’t been charged with one single crime. Guess that means either

      a) the GOP is laughably incompetent,
      b) the Clintons haven’t committed any of the crimes the GOP likes to accuse them of, or
      c) all the above.

      (Hint: the answer is C)

      • @collapse_already@lemmy.ml
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        93 months ago

        Yeah, remind me who was was illegally using campaign funds to pay Stormy not to rat him out about her near rape experience while his wife was pregnant. The hypocrisy is just astounding. You’d think that they would want to avoid conversations about adultery.