Democrats Say the Darndest Things!

Not sure. People seemed to be laughing at the fact they posted a video of them getting trolled.

Ah, I see he is an OAN troll, I’m sure it’s easy to find idiots on both sides of the political spectrum to troll.

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ā€œTrump’s a scab, Trump’s a scabā€ (chant by the DNC delegates)

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Tim Walz has family that actually enjoy his company. (Yes, my kids like making bunny ears for pictures too)

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Joe is much closer to SOTU Joe than debate Joe

It’s always reassuring to see politicians with kids who don’t try to avoid them.

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Bill Clinton:

I’m still younger than Donald Trump.

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Heh, barely.

Donald Trump: June 14, 1946
George W Bush: July 6, 1946
Bill Clinton: August 19, 1946

DJT is 22 days older than W. W is 44 days older than WJC.

It’s kind of crazy how close they are… and that given their closeness in age, that they did NOT serve consecutively!

And sort of funny that they served in reverse order of their ages.

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Pretty sure it was just to get under the Donold’s skin. I think eveyone forgets how young Clinton was when he was President and just assumes he’s really friggin’ old, so if he’s younger than Trump…

And 1946 seems to be a good year for Presidential births. I wonder what year produced the most? Seems like 1946 might be a good guess.

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1946 seems to be the answer

Every other Presidential birth year is unique.

The 1940’s are also tied as the leading President-producing decade.

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I have a theory about that.

It’s the first year of the baby boom. A lot of new schools opened and in a lot of cases they started with whatever grade the class of 1964 was in that year.

So those kids spent a disproportionate amount of time being the oldest kids in the school, and thus were naturally put in a lot more leadership roles than they otherwise would have been.

On top of that, being in the leading edge of baby boomers to hit the job market surely paid dividends down the road. When you need one more manager are you going to pick the guy born in 1946 with 5 years at the company or the guy born in 1948 with only 3 years?

Next year when you need one more supervisor are you going with the 1946 guy with 6 years of experience or the 1948 guy with 4 years of experience?

So naturally we should expect that birth cohort to be disproportionately represented in leadership roles everywhere… including POTUS.

It’s just a theory… I haven’t spent the time to back it up with data, and possibly it would fall apart if I did and the POTUS thing is a fluke.

But it seems plausible, at least.

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I’ll buy the theory at least. Lots on NHL players are born in January because they were always the oldest and strongest in their age groups, and Canada was fairly strict about separation by year of birth in the kids leagues.

One of the reasons you are better off holding back your kids in school if their birthday falls near a cutoff and you have the choice.

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Next question, do we have anyone sharing a birthday (not necessarily year) yet? Seems like we should be close to that point…

Would be interesting to see what would happen if they broke kids up by weight like they are/are talking about doing for youth rugby.

I’m not sure, but 3 have died on the 4th of July.

Adams and Jefferson both died on the exact same day: July 4, 1826

James Monroe died July 4, 1831.

Calvin Coolidge was born July 4, 1872.

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Got a shared deathday.

Dammit! Ninja’d!!

Bush Senior and Trump have the closest birthdays to mine. :frowning_face:

James Polk (#11) and Warren Harding (#29) were both born on 2 November.

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If she wins, Kamala Harris, otherwise Barack Obama. That will be true for anyone born on or after March 13, 1963.

It will be Barack Obama (irrespective of whether Harris wins or not) for anyone born between February 10, 1954 and March 12, 1963.

My birthday was about 45 days after a cutoff age for school. So I was generally the oldest in my cohort.

The immaturity of my classmates bothered me to no end in junior high. Probably didn’t help matters when I was the one that often ā€œblew the curveā€ on tests.