• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    7 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)@lemmy.ml
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      7 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

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        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)@lemmy.ml
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          7 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.

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            7 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.

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              7 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.

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                7 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.

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    7 months ago

    And I love Clinton but I hear Monica has gotten better with her oral skills. LOL. Better than paying hookers to pee in a mattress. Better than trying to sexually abuse a master class expert in our favorite spit roast DP gangbangs. Okay, my favorite.

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    7 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.

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      7 months ago

      He looked like death last time I saw a contemporary pic. He looks like a really healthy 78yo in that pic.