That’s an awkward framing, if we’re being honest, considering many progressive ideas have been proposed for decades but never implemented.
Such a perfect answer
Biden needs to stop being defensive about his age and go on the offense. Say things like “I may be a whole 3% older than my opponent, but at least I know my wife’s name and how to fold an umbrella.”
Anyone over Trump is better.
That’s what Bill Clinton would say about Bob Dole in 1996. He never really went after his age but would say that Dole’s ideas were old.
It really does have less to do with his health and more to do with the way Americans openly resent experience. They think experience makes you one of the elites looking down on them. Remember, one of Trump’s bigger appeals to the American people in 2016 was that he *didn’t* have any.
Is that why weed is still federally illegal?
Why are the Republicans so ageist? Why are they discriminating against the elderly? Is that why they’re ending Social Security?
Biden’s ideas may not be as fresh as I’d like, but certainly more so than Conjob’s, who I’m pretty sure hasn’t been interested in a new idea since before Akhenaten.
That’s actually a pretty damn good line.
There’s a dozen “pithy” and eyeroll-inducing answers to this question, but this is probably the best I’ve heard.
If your primary issue with a candidate is how old they are then you don’t know enough about the candidate, politics, or representitive democracy for your opinion to be taken seriously.
This is the right answer and fence sitters need to get on board. Biden is old but his ideas are modern and getting results. Trump and the republicans want to bring us back to the 50s where women and minorities were second class citizens.
*As he gently guided us to an idea of corporate utopia conceived almost 100 years ago*
Good line. The gop has old people views
Horrible answer as his views on race, drugs, Israel, healthcare are all from the 50’s.
Can someone remind me how old the “America First” idea is and who used it previously?
And his ideas are as old as he is!
…. His ideas are pretty old too. Atleast by civilized democracy standards.
He might have casually jumped over the bar here, but when the bar was buried to begin with, that’s not saying much
I’ve got an idea: stop funding a genocide
Sagacious line for sure. Remember to vote guys, it’s “What really matters is how old your ideas are” vs well…..Old ideas. Sure both frontrunners may be ancient but taking the gerontocratic goggles off and looking at the content and character of the two candidates is a very easy test to pass.
Seriously the best answer. As a European, I’m glad Biden is president and I really, really hope you choose this man again. He is old and stumbles, but seriously, he’s one of the best presidents you’ve ever had, in my opinion.
The right wing media hell of hate just won’t let that fact come through, but it still *is true.*
Trump, who is an old fuck in his own right, would have never given such a good answer. He would’ve mumbled and ranted and raved about somebody else. Something else. The media, the opponent, the fucking water pressure. Joe is no spring chicken but he has it together infinitely more than Trump.
Yeah, his ideals are old. He’s using politically charged aid for the American people and dropping it before his re-election.
That’s as old as this shit gets, it’s also the thing that never changes in our politics.
When millennials take over from the turn of century this country is going to be very different.
If it was up to me no one would be in politics over the age of 60 and everyone would be on term limits.
I do not believe people in their 60s, 70s, and 80s love in the same reality we do. The economy they participated in when they were younger isn’t the same as the economy we’re in now. I do not believe someone that age will ever have people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s into account.
You’re not living in the economy you make the rules for. Biden also has wealth in a bracket that you and I will *never* have access to.
No one worth that much money will ever know what struggling off low class wage is like.
Go volunteer at a soup kitchen and you’ll see the true problems in our country. Legalizing weed is a joke in comparison to hunger and homelessness we have in our cities.
You should see these soup kitchens on the south side of Chicago.
Where the fuck are these politicians at? Yeah, they’re not out here helping.
Weird to me that so many of you polish these purple democrats as good people when some of them are upper 1%…
A public servant was never supposed to make more money than the average American and when a senators wage is $175,000 on average but our median income is $40,000-$50,000?
These people represent you? lol.
Let’s keep trump out of office I guess and get some legal weed to smoke away how bad this country actually is. Real winning in this country for sure while little kids are going hungry, first time home owners are paying $4500 a month for starter home at 8% apr? I can build a house with 20% down and assume a 30 year builder loan at 4.99% and my mortgage on a $400,000 home would be almost $4,000. This is the best case scenario right now with 20% down and pre approval….
This countries priorities are straight in its ass.
Look, I hate trump as much as the next guy but I have to admit this interview doesn’t fill me with confidence. Age is a genuine criticism when it comes to our world leaders and right now Biden’s age may be excusable but he will be 86 by the end of his second term. That’s absolutely ridiculous, we need younger people to vote for because Biden’s age could very easily be the deciding factor in this race.
We will be putting the country in the hands of an almost 90 year old geriatric that deserved to retire 30 years ago. Still better then trump I guess but the bar is on the floor
It’s a great talking point.
Trump wants to roll back womens rights, reproductive rights, immigrants rights. He wants to roll back environmental rules, roll back necessary corporate regulations, roll back pollution protections, roll back workers rights.
He wants to go back to a LOT of old ways of doing things.
Biden may be old, but he wants to move us forward in the present and the future, not drag us back to the past.
Old like FDR’s “second bill of rights” or Old like Code of Hammurabi?
And in trumps case, how bad your ideas are.
Not a bad answer
I like the last bit about conspiracy with Taylor Swift. “It’s classified”. While some conspiracy theorists will go nuts with “OMG he admitted it” it’s nice to see one guy who actually has a sense of humour.
He’s right.
Wouldn’t be surprised if all these comments are bots since it’s election year. Bunch of spam.
As someone said, “It’s better to have 81 years behind you, than 91 indictments in front of you”.
Genocide is a very old idea and both candidates support the Palestinian Genocide.
If you were blinded each president’s age and could only judge them on their accomplishments, Biden arguably be the most successful first-term D president in many of our lifetimes.
Why would I ever throw that away just because he’s old? It’s especially pointless to obsess over this when the election is in 9 months and there is no one with the funding, popularity, or campaign infrastructure to step into his place.
The other thing to remember is that, even though Brandon may be elderly, the people in his administration are younger and more diverse than just about any admin we’ve seen.
He is not carrying the entire weight of the government solely on his arthritic back.
I watched him on Seth Myers and compared to trump, he is fantastic. He is old, but not demented, trump though, wow, his mind seems shot.
Dark Brandon really needs to sit sown with Jon Stewart.
That is a fantastic answer
“I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.”
~ Ronald Reagan
Here’s the deal. We are not voting for our favorite candidate because we like everything about them. We are voting for survival. We are voting for democracy’s survival. If you don’t care about that then vote for people surviving. Because if Trump takes office, I fear more people will be killed because of his policies. If you are not a rich, white, straight, Christian man, then your rights and lives are in danger.
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Which president has been more progressive though?
That’s an awkward framing, if we’re being honest, considering many progressive ideas have been proposed for decades but never implemented.
Such a perfect answer
Biden needs to stop being defensive about his age and go on the offense. Say things like “I may be a whole 3% older than my opponent, but at least I know my wife’s name and how to fold an umbrella.”
Anyone over Trump is better.
That’s what Bill Clinton would say about Bob Dole in 1996. He never really went after his age but would say that Dole’s ideas were old.
It really does have less to do with his health and more to do with the way Americans openly resent experience. They think experience makes you one of the elites looking down on them. Remember, one of Trump’s bigger appeals to the American people in 2016 was that he *didn’t* have any.
Is that why weed is still federally illegal?
Why are the Republicans so ageist? Why are they discriminating against the elderly? Is that why they’re ending Social Security?
Biden’s ideas may not be as fresh as I’d like, but certainly more so than Conjob’s, who I’m pretty sure hasn’t been interested in a new idea since before Akhenaten.
That’s actually a pretty damn good line.
There’s a dozen “pithy” and eyeroll-inducing answers to this question, but this is probably the best I’ve heard.
If your primary issue with a candidate is how old they are then you don’t know enough about the candidate, politics, or representitive democracy for your opinion to be taken seriously.
This is the right answer and fence sitters need to get on board. Biden is old but his ideas are modern and getting results. Trump and the republicans want to bring us back to the 50s where women and minorities were second class citizens.
*As he gently guided us to an idea of corporate utopia conceived almost 100 years ago*
Good line. The gop has old people views
Horrible answer as his views on race, drugs, Israel, healthcare are all from the 50’s.
Can someone remind me how old the “America First” idea is and who used it previously?
And his ideas are as old as he is!
…. His ideas are pretty old too. Atleast by civilized democracy standards.
He might have casually jumped over the bar here, but when the bar was buried to begin with, that’s not saying much
I’ve got an idea: stop funding a genocide
Sagacious line for sure. Remember to vote guys, it’s “What really matters is how old your ideas are” vs well…..Old ideas. Sure both frontrunners may be ancient but taking the gerontocratic goggles off and looking at the content and character of the two candidates is a very easy test to pass.
Seriously the best answer. As a European, I’m glad Biden is president and I really, really hope you choose this man again. He is old and stumbles, but seriously, he’s one of the best presidents you’ve ever had, in my opinion.
The right wing media hell of hate just won’t let that fact come through, but it still *is true.*
Trump, who is an old fuck in his own right, would have never given such a good answer. He would’ve mumbled and ranted and raved about somebody else. Something else. The media, the opponent, the fucking water pressure. Joe is no spring chicken but he has it together infinitely more than Trump.
Yeah, his ideals are old. He’s using politically charged aid for the American people and dropping it before his re-election.
That’s as old as this shit gets, it’s also the thing that never changes in our politics.
When millennials take over from the turn of century this country is going to be very different.
If it was up to me no one would be in politics over the age of 60 and everyone would be on term limits.
I do not believe people in their 60s, 70s, and 80s love in the same reality we do. The economy they participated in when they were younger isn’t the same as the economy we’re in now. I do not believe someone that age will ever have people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s into account.
You’re not living in the economy you make the rules for. Biden also has wealth in a bracket that you and I will *never* have access to.
No one worth that much money will ever know what struggling off low class wage is like.
Go volunteer at a soup kitchen and you’ll see the true problems in our country. Legalizing weed is a joke in comparison to hunger and homelessness we have in our cities.
You should see these soup kitchens on the south side of Chicago.
Where the fuck are these politicians at? Yeah, they’re not out here helping.
Weird to me that so many of you polish these purple democrats as good people when some of them are upper 1%…
A public servant was never supposed to make more money than the average American and when a senators wage is $175,000 on average but our median income is $40,000-$50,000?
These people represent you? lol.
Let’s keep trump out of office I guess and get some legal weed to smoke away how bad this country actually is. Real winning in this country for sure while little kids are going hungry, first time home owners are paying $4500 a month for starter home at 8% apr? I can build a house with 20% down and assume a 30 year builder loan at 4.99% and my mortgage on a $400,000 home would be almost $4,000. This is the best case scenario right now with 20% down and pre approval….
This countries priorities are straight in its ass.
Look, I hate trump as much as the next guy but I have to admit this interview doesn’t fill me with confidence. Age is a genuine criticism when it comes to our world leaders and right now Biden’s age may be excusable but he will be 86 by the end of his second term. That’s absolutely ridiculous, we need younger people to vote for because Biden’s age could very easily be the deciding factor in this race.
We will be putting the country in the hands of an almost 90 year old geriatric that deserved to retire 30 years ago. Still better then trump I guess but the bar is on the floor
It’s a great talking point.
Trump wants to roll back womens rights, reproductive rights, immigrants rights. He wants to roll back environmental rules, roll back necessary corporate regulations, roll back pollution protections, roll back workers rights.
He wants to go back to a LOT of old ways of doing things.
Biden may be old, but he wants to move us forward in the present and the future, not drag us back to the past.
Old like FDR’s “second bill of rights” or Old like Code of Hammurabi?
And in trumps case, how bad your ideas are.
Not a bad answer
I like the last bit about conspiracy with Taylor Swift. “It’s classified”. While some conspiracy theorists will go nuts with “OMG he admitted it” it’s nice to see one guy who actually has a sense of humour.
He’s right.
Wouldn’t be surprised if all these comments are bots since it’s election year. Bunch of spam.
As someone said, “It’s better to have 81 years behind you, than 91 indictments in front of you”.
Genocide is a very old idea and both candidates support the Palestinian Genocide.
If you were blinded each president’s age and could only judge them on their accomplishments, Biden arguably be the most successful first-term D president in many of our lifetimes.
Why would I ever throw that away just because he’s old? It’s especially pointless to obsess over this when the election is in 9 months and there is no one with the funding, popularity, or campaign infrastructure to step into his place.
The other thing to remember is that, even though Brandon may be elderly, the people in his administration are younger and more diverse than just about any admin we’ve seen.
He is not carrying the entire weight of the government solely on his arthritic back.
I watched him on Seth Myers and compared to trump, he is fantastic. He is old, but not demented, trump though, wow, his mind seems shot.
Dark Brandon really needs to sit sown with Jon Stewart.
That is a fantastic answer
“I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.”
~ Ronald Reagan
Here’s the deal. We are not voting for our favorite candidate because we like everything about them. We are voting for survival. We are voting for democracy’s survival. If you don’t care about that then vote for people surviving. Because if Trump takes office, I fear more people will be killed because of his policies. If you are not a rich, white, straight, Christian man, then your rights and lives are in danger.
that was a super good line.