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[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 3 points 36 minutes ago* (last edited 36 minutes ago)

So, now that he is turning 80, we will stop seeing references to his age in headlines and stories. The media kept emphasizing he was 79, not yet 80. Now, we'll never see mention of it again.

My grandfather at 80 was still driving to the nursing home to visit my grandma and to the local grocery store. He certainly was not capable at that age of doing anything more complicated than that.

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago

They didn’t handle Mitch’s reboots very well either.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 34 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

It’s perfectly normal for an 80 year old to have health issues

It isn’t to pretend he’s a god and lie about those issues. It isn’t normal to pretend this doesn’t affect their ability to do an important job too.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

Trump does the least amount of work of any president in history and yet has done the greatest amount of damage

[–] northernlights@fedia.io 1 points 57 minutes ago

Yep, that's past when generally anybody honest with themselves retire.

[–] hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

glitches is not the word most of us would use here.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Malfunction is the only way he's ever functioned.

[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 42 points 4 hours ago

They've never really had trouble lying before, now will be no different.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 33 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

"You don’t have to wish me a happy birthday, because I’m not happy about that birthday. It’s a number that I never thought really too much about. It’s not a number I like, but I’m here nonetheless.” - a giant orange human-shaped piece of feces

he clearly didnt expect to live this long, which explains his complete lack of planning in anything whatsoever

[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

being fair, nobody who's paying attention would've expected him to live this long either. You seen the way he eats? I've been expecting him to drop dead of a massive infarction every day for the past ten years and it still has not come to pass.

[–] northernlights@fedia.io 3 points 58 minutes ago

Dude does have 22 docs for his routine checkups. Being president has its perks.

[–] northernlights@fedia.io 1 points 58 minutes ago

I mean if he wants to stop the shit show there's a simple solution.

[–] dizzle18@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 hours ago

"Glitches"

Today I learned we could've saved my grandma from Alzheimer's if we had just factory reset her software. Good to know.

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

ARE YOU SURE ITS NOT THE EXTREME MALIGNANT NARCISSISM? ITS NOT? ITS THE EXTREME OLD AGE LIKE LAST TIME? OH

FUCKING RETARDED

RE. TARD. DED.

[–] Spooge@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

I had a comment removed for using that term yesterday.