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Person, woman, man, camera, TV, windmill.
Trump was the oldest person to get elected President in 2016 beating the previous office holder of that record President Ronald Reagan. Then President Biden beat Trump and became the newest oldest person to be elected to the office of President. If Trump can beat Biden in 2024 then he will be able to take the title back of being the newest oldest President ever elected.
Meanwhile.
MAGA Presidential candidate Nikki Haley doesn’t have a very high opinion of oldsters in this country being in elected positions.[1] She believes that anyone over 75 or even younger should be given cognitive tests before being allowed to serve in elected positions. Trump took one while in office. He aced it![2] President Reagan could have used some of that testing for sure.[3]
Not being very old herself, Haley may not be aware that cognitive tests are routinely given to oldsters as a part of our yearly physical.[4] She’s obviously got some learnin’ to do regarding aging in place. Like oldsters being a huge voting bloc in America.[5] AND we turn out to vote![6] There’s only around 23 million of us that are over 75.[7] There’s only around 58 million of us over the age of 65.[8] I’m just going to ballpark it here that only 40 million of 65 and older people vote.
Frankly I think it takes a lot of courage to be willing to alienate an entire class of voters.
So, points awarded for that.
Onto something.
I have to admit that Haley may be onto something in needing younger elected officials. People like Gaetz, Greene, Boebert or Santos. MAGA has a deep bench of this crowd of young and old alike. Some of them are somewhat older but still of a Haley acceptable age.
Why stop at cognition tests? How about psychiatric testing as well?! Because some of these representatives are flat fucking crazy for sure. Anybody that fails the non-partisan psychiatric testing could be shipped to mental institutions, and I’m not talking about Congress, to help make society a kinder gentler place.
Definitely do some math skills testing. I say this in recognition of Nikki Haley in regard to adding up all the votes of demented addled oldsters that she’ll need in order to be President. Especially those of us that can still check boxes and are “woke” enough to understand ageism when we hear it.
Just ask the AARP.
Nursing home bound.
Haley, aka Nimrata Nikki Randhawa, is only in her early 50s so she’s got a few good years in her yet before she ages out to an elite nursing home or Congress.[9] Speaking of old people, is former President Barak Hussein Obama II in a nursing home yet?[10] Well, he and the other retired Presidents including smelly Orange Jesus Trump have enough money to age in place at secure locations.
Now I know that there are people that object to me calling Trump smelly Orange Jesus but keep in mind that Jesus, the real one, probably smelled too since deodorant or airports hadn’t been invented yet. So, Trump is smellin’ up the place to be more like MAGA Jesus as a sacrifice to his followers. (I just threw in airports to see if you’re paying attention since Trump thought that we had them during the War for Independence.)
Smelly Trump may already be past his use-by date.
By a couple of decades.
In closing
I do have some questions. Remember pagers? Wooden phones? Bell bottom pants? The expression “right on?” Yeah, me neither.
However, I do need someone to explain those ads that don’t seem to have a point and after I’ve viewed them, I’m not sure what was even being advertised. Throw in answers as to what I’m supposed to do with Tik Tok, Snapchat, hash tags, and X. While I’m at it, is Facebook going the way of that other Google social network that went away that I can’t even remember the name of? Has it become so passé already?
Now, I do have to ’fess up to occasionally running from one room to another in a big ass rush without the slightest idea of what I went for after I get there. That does happen. And I really hate it when it was a run to the basement. It isn’t like I’m looking for the nuclear launch codes. If I was President, I’ll bet there would be some young person around that could find them really quick. After all there was some nicely dressed young person following Trump around wherever he went in case he had another of his toddler fits and wanted to nuke an ally.
In all seriousness I do have one question that I would like to get resolved before I’m too cognitively impaired to repeat the answer.
Oh shoot! I forgot what I was going to ask.
Wait! I just remembered! Does anyone know if the words that a doctor asked the Orange Jesus, aka Donald Trump, was asked are asked of everyone on their cognitive test?
Asking for a
friend.
[1] Haley comments on oldsters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GijBPSm1fM
[2] Trump tested out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UevrEsoGO7Y
[3] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ronald-reagan-alzheimers-disease/
[4] https://www.today.com/health/cognitive-test-what-it-who-needs-take-assessment-t187651
[5] https://www.statista.com/statistics/999919/share-people-registered-vote-age/
[6] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1096614/voter-turnout-65-year-olds-presidential-elections-historical/
[7] https://www.statista.com/statistics/241488/population-of-the-us-by-sex-and-age/
[8] https://www.statista.com/statistics/241488/population-of-the-us-by-sex-and-age/
[9] https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nikki-Haley
[10] https://www.britannica.com/biography/Barack-Obama
