Holy Crap! It's only taken a 78 YO, low-energy, drowsy, flatulent

[maxrandb]

sleepy, shambling asspickle a week to get the "Press" to begin reporting on "his" age, stamina, alertness, gait and cognizance.

Damn, it's as if President Biden isn't that much older than his opponent after all.

I'll be damned! Who knew?

[MontanaMama]

1. You had me at asspickle.

[calimary]

14. DEFINITELY.

That made me sit up and make a note. OUTSTANDING run of adjectives, maxrandb!

"Holy Crap! It's only taken a 78 YO, low-energy, drowsy, flatulent, sleepy, shambling asspickle a week to get the 'Press' to begin reporting on 'his' age, stamina, alertness, gate and cognizance."

That-there is a tour-de-force assessment - and even better and more powerful because that whole statement happens to be true.

[dchill]

2. Generally, I like pickles, but...

😲

[riversedge]

3. which or who was talking about Trumps advanced age?

[Traurigkeit]

4. The lowly MSM

[liberalhistorian]

32. I wonder if the NYT

is going to run the same 83, 962 articles as they did on Biden's age!!

[maxrandb]

6. Everyone

they report that he's falling asleep, looks thinner, "shambles" down the hall...

There was even some Faux guy that was complaining how he was used to playing golf, and how he needs to get sunshine, and how it's "hard for a 78YO to just sit in a courtroom.

His age, mental fitness, stamina, etc., has NOT been a secret for years, but every media discussion about "age" and "fitness" has centered 98% on President Biden.

It's taken the Press a LONG time to start examining the guy that's a whole 3 years younger, and a million Big Mac's ahead of Joe Biden.

It's about time, and might be a good sign that he is no longer in charge of the media's script.

[COL Mustard]

20. "Hard for a 78YO to just sit in a courtroom".

I dunno, maybe don't crime then, Donnie?

[bdamomma]

25. His niece Mary Trump was on

Lawrence O'Donnell last night, she mentioned he is not doing well mentally in this sort of situation.

[louis-t]

26. I like how 'shambles' is now a verb

as well as an adjective. Both describe tsf.

[raising2moredems]

28. He's not thinner...

Just wearing even less well fitting suits. Part of the game but whoever is in charge of his orangeness needs to up his/her game.

[IronLionZion]

5. The Fox News idiots are complaining it's elder abuse to make him sit in court all day

at his criminal trial.

Ah yes, too old to pay for his crimes. From the law and order party.

[4lbs]

8. Yet *crickets* from them and maybe even a bit of laughing when mentioned

that Joe Biden sat through hours of grilling by a "special counsel" (Robert Hur) regarding his mental fitness and his son's laptop.

Yeah, that's OK I guess.

But hey, Dumpy the Clown having to sit still in a courtroom for one day, well.... that's just plain wrong.

[patphil]

7. As I close in on 78 years old, I can tell you that President Joe has more energy than most people 5-6 years younger.

He'll be 82 when the American voters return him to the White House, and I'm not at all concerned about his age.
I expect he'll continue to do the great job he is currently doing for the next 4 years and 9 months.
What I'd like the folks here to remember is that he's only one person. Even as President, he needs a lot of other people in the government to work together to get things done.
And, as his record has shown, he's really good at that.

But, we need to help him out. Let's give the Democrats in Congress a bit of breathing room in both the Senate and the House.
Imagine how much more we can do with majorities in both Houses of Congress.

Now imagine what kind of unholy hell would be inflicted on, not just the nation, but the whole world if the Republicans, under Trump, took full control.
Pretty scary, isn't it.

[4lbs]

9. At 81, he has more energy than many people in their 30s I know.

No exercise, overweight, sedentary, and lethargic.


All that fast-food and fried crap they shoveled for more than a decade, sometimes two decades, seems to have caught up to them.

[Sky Jewels]

10. I'm always very saddened

when I go out in public and see overweight people in their teens, 20s and 30s shuffling along slowly, sometimes walking with a limp. I fear for their futures. What will their health be like in a couple decades? A lot of them won't make it to 50 or 60. Yes, some of them have mobility issues due to accidents and injuries, but I think the vast majority are having trouble because they're sedentary (lots of video games) and, like you said, their diets are crap.

I'm in my late 50s, and if there is one thing I have learned, it's that you have to take health seriously. Eat your veggies and move your body every day, to the best of your ability.

[SCantiGOP]

12. Not only that

But their bodies have been accumulating animal antibiotics and hormones, pesticides, and plastics and PFAs for their whole life. They better hope medical science can advance enough to compensate for that by the time they reach 60-70 or they will be in big trouble.

[4lbs]

16. Some of these people are also anti-vaxxers.

Meanwhile, I've been vaccinated up the wazoo (have had both Pfizer and Moderna shots, several boosters, the Novavax vaccine, and the flu vaccine, as well as TDAP) over the last 4 years.

I look at them spouting anti-Pfizer nonsense, and respond "Hey, I see you have a Pfizer asthma inhaler, and a Pfizer brand EpiPen too. I guess you'll be getting rid of those too then since they are made by the same company you were just complaining about." They often get wrapped up in their own pretzel logic, start hemming-and-hawing, and then go off on tangential rants. I just stand there, look at them, and grin.

I'm also in my 50s and exercise regularly, every day. I walk about 4 or 5 miles per day. I mean WALK. Not leisurely stroll. Walk with a purpose. Walk to where my heart rate reaches over 120bpm and sustains it for at least a minute or more, and I develop a nice sweat after 15 to 20 minutes. Aerobic exercise walking.

I still eat fried/fast foods, but because of my active work and exercise, I pretty much burn through all that.

People have asked me how I'm not over 300lbs eating all that fast food and drinking all that sugary soda/tea, especially at my age. I tell them "because I almost always burn it off. I also exercise every day before work." Like a pro bike rider [for example Tour de France] consumes upward of 10,000 calories per day eating a lot of carbs and starches, they burn it off through hours of bike riding. Thus, fats, sugars, and those processed chemicals and preservatives, stay in my body for maybe two hours at most. I burn through them, or they exit quickly after entering my body.

[Sky Jewels]

19. I walk like that too, almost every day.

I shoot for five miles, 5 or 6 times a week. It helps my mental health as well as my cardiovascular health and muscle tone and stamina. I eat a lot of veggies, fruits, legumes, nuts and seeds (not a meat eater). I mostly gave up dairy a few years ago (although sometimes I cheat and eat a couple slices of cheese pizza or whatever). I definitely have a sweet tooth, so I still battle that. But compared to the standard American diet (the well-named "SAD" ), my diet is vastly better. And my health is great.

I agree about the vaxx stuff, too. There are many gulllible, brainwashed people out there. It's pathetic.

[raising2moredems]

29. You can eat cheeseburgers and fries every day...

as long as you MOVE. A lot of longevity in both sides of my family (for those who minimized their vices) - red meat, whole milk, pork long before it became the other white meat. ALL were active.

[Sky Jewels]

30. You can't outrun your fork, though.

Most people can't, anyway. Maintaining weight is generally about 80 percent or more about diet. You have to exercise very strenuously for hours to burn an extra thousand calories or whatever. And it's so easy to snarf down hundreds of extra calories, as I know too well.

[LiberalFighter]

15. Just as a corporate CEO a President does not run govt all by himself.

A president has to manage a lot more than any CEO. And gets paid much less.

[Hekate]

21. What you said

[MyOwnPeace]

23. Worth noting the Cabinet that Biden appointed......

Compared to the criminals and incompetent cronies that IQ45 appointed (“Only the best!) - Joe has indeed done that very thing!

[TexasBushwhacker]

24. And Biden's choices for his cabinet members and staff

aren't a bunch of ass kissing toadies. Biden also doesn't fire his cabinet members and staff on a regular basis, nor do they resign very often. Stability matters!

[Warpy]

11. Biden is younger

His internal clock is at least 10 years younger than TFG's. Never mind what the calendar says, look at the person.

That's one of the first lessons I learned as a nurse.

[GenThePerservering]

13. Biden is aging backwards

rather than looking older with the presidency, he seems to be looking and acting younger.

Because he's quiet spoken with a friendly, low-key manner instead of a bloviating loudmouth like Dump, that's somehow 'frail' - well, we're seeing the truth now.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Let's compare and contrast physical fitness of President Biden vs. TFG

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[EndlessWire]

18. He likes people.

Especially children. He kind of glows when he's talking to people face to face. You can't fake that. It's called the "It" factor, and he has it.

I just don't understand why anyone at all would vote for a wannabe, fake dictator, who will glower at them while he is destroying our country, when we can have Biden/Harris, who have proven they can positively impact our country without histrionics, name calling, or threats.

The pool of people who will enjoy power and luxury with Trump as pResident is incredibly small. The rest of us will be designated as enemies, and treated accordingly.

WE WILL WIN.

[chouchou]

22. Dear God! Joe Biden is WAY older than Donnie Trump.

Like 119 MILLION seconds!! or like FOUR percent!!

[Aussie105]

27. Both are old.

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One draws on a lifetime of good moral judgements and political experience.
And is nice to dogs, kids and likes ice cream.

The other is an old infant, cares only about himself and throws temper tantrums.
And wants to destroy democracy, the USA and the world.

Other than that, they aren't any different.

[malaise]

31. Great OP

Rec