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Sera's avatar

The average age of US Presidents since 1992, at their initial inauguration, is 58 years old.

Are you sure this isn’t more a matter of perception from a “young ass”?

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Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's avatar

Still too old. And I'm not young.

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Sera's avatar

Well Alicia, perhaps I can recommend the one and only Tutankhamun, Pharaoh of Egypt from 1332 until 1323 BC. He was nineteen…when he died.

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Nancy Hendon's avatar

I’m 76. I agree it’s time for the boomers to move out of the way and let a new vision forge forward. But remember back in the day of Hamilton, Washington, etc. 33 was considered middle aged , 46 was in the senior range. If the younger generation hasn’t stepped forward, whose fault is that?

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John Schwarzkopf's avatar

You're correct on all of this and I'm 64. But I sure as fuck don't confuse AI with steak sauce. Although I think that is more a result of Linda McMahon having a room temperature IQ than her age.

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Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's avatar

Hahaha she really is NOT smart, is she?

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John Schwarzkopf's avatar

Dumber than a bag of paint.

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Bonnie Weidner's avatar

I'm over 60 & I had to look up control + z. Very good, very good🙌

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Priscilla Poupore's avatar

Me too

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Free Tree's avatar

I don't think the president actually makes the decisions, the last one had dementia, and this one is clearly incapable of anything even the evil policies he purports to make. I don't actually think age has anything to do with it , remember George W Bush ? He wasn't old .

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Eva Camacho Guzman's avatar

Not guilty! But I know most people my age (63) are guilty. Looking back; I usually vote for the younger one. I’m with David Hogg trying to get younger Democratic Party people to Primary the old sitting congress people. Especially if they haven’t used every tool in their toolbox to fight the trump regime. Federal, State or Local!

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YourBonusMom's avatar

OMG TRUTH 😂😂😂 I’m not young either Alisa, and the only person over 60 I’ll ever vote for is Bernie Sanders (he was my Senator when I lived in VT). He’s wise enough to know and be doing the right thing…NOT running for president and supporting younger leaders instead.

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Priscilla Poupore's avatar

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!! Out with the old and in with the new

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Jstn Green's avatar

I tried putting AI sauce on my steak, but no luck so far. Thanks for fixing the link. Really enjoyed this piece this morning and wanted to share on Spoutible.

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Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's avatar

Bwahaha

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

A1 isn't even steak sauce. More like insecticide, but you're from Texas, so you already knew that.

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Henry Bachofer's avatar

Simply brilliant. Made me think about myself when I was less than half my ag. A lot of what I was doing was performing adulthood. A lot of what these not-gray-eminences did was just that: performing the role of the adult, the revolutionary, the deep thinker. But they took that performance both seriously and literally.

The exception was the original social media entrepreneur: Ben Franklin who was the real adult in the room—and he was busy with his French mistresses being the real father of his country.

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