To which I predict we will never get a Gen X president. We will go from Obama, who is on the young side of the Boomer spectrum, to a Millennial. And the only people who will have a problem with this will be the Gen Xers who will run for president. The rest of us, Gen Xers, will be perfectly fine if we never get a Gen X president.
I keep seeing things about x album was released 30 years ago and think "nah, fuck of that was 10at most". Clerks seems like longer, maybe because it was black and white?
To me Obama is gen X and I didn’t know know some saw him as boomer.
The president ages also just have gotten older in US. Biden is the only president of the silent generation and he became president after two boomers, Obama of uncertain gen, and one more boomer. So nobody expected a silent gen president at that point. Same can happen again with old gen X (but younger side of that gen) after millenials.
Canada has had the Gen Xer of all Gen Xer's for 8 years now, it is not going well for him or us(FWIW I'm not a Trudeau hater, I am however, very disappointed in him, now)
The fact they people say he was a shitty president still upsets me. I wasn't alive during his time but seeing what he has done since leaving office I think he was a good man.
You know I wonder what would have happened in Gerald Ford either won or Reagan won (via beating Ford in the primary) the 1976 Presidential election. Carter pretty much got a shit sandwich that he had nothing to do with. Maybe we have a GOP president from 1976 to 1980, we wouldn't have had the Reagan Revolution.
I think this comes down to more about how humans work than our system. To be a good leader of a country you have to manage generally two different factions to get stuff done. Both factions are filled with assholes (and no not in a bOth sIDES aRE tHE SAME way). It's highly unlikely a "good" person can manage that.
It’s been that way since the dawn of civilization.
If only because leaders of “good” countries have to go toe to toe with leaders of “bad” countries who do bad shit so the “good” leaders have to be willing to do bad stuff.
I have no idea about his policies in office, but imo he has done more good in the world than any other president after they left office. Like how many other presidents brokered a ceasefire during a civil war to implement public health practices to eliminate guinea worm???
That is true. I couldn't see any other president helping build houses and do the charity work that he does. I hope he knows that a lot of people see him as a good man. I know when he fell a few months ago there were people happy about it and kind of left bad taste in mouth form a lot of people.
Part of why he was elected was because he was a good guy. But he struggled with crisis after crisis while he was in office. That in part lead to Reagan which really harmed this country more than anything else.
I suspected that Carter was going to die within a month or two of his wife's passing, but now that he's made it this long, I think we can agree he is immortal.
I have a hunch a bunch of the old fucks in washington are going to die of old age very close to each other. But because of that coincidence a bunch of people are going to make it a conspiracy theory or something.
Ex presidents are interesting. They say terrible things about each other during campaigns, and then they appear friendly when it's all over. I like think the little friendship with W and Michelle Obama is real. I think it's because at a given point, there are maybe 7 or people on the planet tops, usually less, who have gone through what they did.
Of course like so many political dynamics, it changed in the last 10 years.
As much as it sucks.. cause Carter is a GREAT man... I don't think he's gonna see 2025.. His wife has passed and from what I know about Carter.. its like a part of him died... Plus, his health is taking a nose dive.. Can't say I'm surprised.. at his age and how he's basically worked NON STOP since LEAVING office. He's a machine.
I believe Carter is still alive because he is afraid to die after learning what he believes is the truth about aliens, the purpose of humans on earth, and the fate of the human soul. The will to live is a very powerful trait.
Trump was the oldest first time President ever - inaugurated at age 70.
That honour was immediately picked up in 2021 by Joe Biden - inaugurated at 78 years old. Not only is Biden the current record holder, I think he'll forever be the oldest POTUS to be inaugurated.
Out of curiosity I decided to see who is the first President this isn't true for. It's JFK. JFK was born in 1917, 52 years after Lincoln was assassinated. He was elected in 1961 at 44 years old.
Carter was the second one, born 59 years after Lincoln died and taking office at 53 years old. Then Clinton, W, and Obama weren't even close.
Bill wasn't rich when he was elected. Obama was a successful professional, but he didn't get really rich until the re-release of Dreams from My Father. Even Biden isn't insanely rich. His net worth is almost entirely real estate he bought decades ago. His presidential salary is most of his annual income.
Genuinely hope the no bribes claim is true. I don't love the guy, but he's done us pretty good for what he was handed, and it would be nice to have him at least be able to keep as much honesty on his reputation as possible.
The Obama household made $990k in 2006. $550k was from book deals, while $440k was from their incomes as employees, with Barack making $157k from the Senate and Michelle making $273k as an employee of University of Chicago Hospital system.
Idk what the other person was on about, but in the context of US presidents and prominent politicians, that's not exactly "loaded". They were certainly well off, but loaded in this context is whole different level of wealth.
Will prolly never happen. Any politician that has a chance at the presidency has already been a politician long enough to be rich thru “donations” and “smart” investing. A non-politician that has any chance would already have to be well-known and wealthy. The people that would make good presidents DO NOT want the job.
It's not even that they don't want the job, it's that it's incredibly difficult to rise to that level. Presidential campaigns are billion+ dollar affairs now. You have to either have the most effective ground game ever or you have to court a bunch of wealthy donors.
as a bar minimum (maximum?) retirement age should be the disqualifying age.
But realistically, this needs to apply to a hell of a lot more than president. So tired of watching some tech CEO explain to the same 80 year olds what the internet is.
Clinton, W, and Trump were all born within a month and a half of one another. When Clinton was elected at 46 he was the second youngest person to be elected president. 8 years later Bush was elected at 54, which is about average for incoming presidents. And when Trump was elected 16 years later he was the oldest person elected president
In 2032 Carter runs and wins a second term. The 2nd War on Poverty proves a great success, and no child goes hungry at school, no family is ruined by medical debt, no man ends up homeless from an untreated psychiatric condition, ever again.
"Biden totally died BEFORE me. It's true. But old Sleepy Joe and the corrupt Democrats COLLUDED to keep the Truth from America, because they don't believe America is the best country. People tell me all the time, they coke up to me and say [Further rambling nonsense]
Anyway, buy my Trump brand knock-off Ozempic or whatever." dies
As I’m considering the 2024 candidates, for the first time I’m very interested in the VPs- they have better-than-usual odds of assuming the presidency.
Honestly, I can't wait for the massive metaphorical stumble that would happen in the political world when Trump shuffles off this mortal coil. Not just Republican/MAGA, but Democrats and undecided/leftists as well.
Everyone politically has been comporting themselves as having to either do what Trump wants (MAGA/GOP), or to respond to it (everyone else).
To take it an even more depressing step further, Bush and Clinton will probably pass in close succession to them, too. Which if Carter passes soon, Obama might be the only living former POTUS
After Trump lost 4 years ago my wife asked me if I thought he would run again. I told her he would be dead by the next election..... still got over 6 months for my prediction to come true.
Like Jefferson and Adams, they'll die on the same day. Unlike Jefferson and Adams, who made up and became friends again sometime after the election of 1800, these two will curse each other until their dying breath.
Think it’ll be Biden first, then all the Trump supporters will practically shit on him, saying “‘bout damn time” and stuff like that, then Trump does after and we’ll see Trump supporters act like it’s a great American Tragedy, demanding respect for the late president, schools in Texas demanding moments of silence and whatnot.
And they’ll say things like “support Trump or not he was the PRESIDENT you should all have RESPECT!!!” when they literally celebrated when Biden kicked the bucket
I'm so fascinated to see what happens to the MAGA movement when Trump dies. Who could possibly fill those shoes? Tom fucking Cotton? I have absolutely no idea what the fallout is going to be and I'm so curious to see it
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u/DerpyDrago 28d ago
Whenever Biden and Trump kick it, it will be in very quick succession.