• the_q@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Are you serious? People are awful. He’s the perfect person to represent them.

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        10 months ago

        It feels like our only hope at this point is for his heart to finally give out from all that blubber and fast food.

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    10 months ago

    I dont think he makes it through the primaries, but because they’re actually having them, they’ll have a candidate. He’s gone from ‘kinda’ incoherent, to like, ‘wow’ incoherent in 6 weeks.

    Not sure Biden makes it through either, but Democrats arent’ really having a primary. Not sure what happens if he, you know, 🪣 🛴

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      10 months ago

      There is no chance he loses the primary anywhere he is on the ballot. The only way I can imagine he isn’t the Republican candidate is if enough R party officials choose country over party.

      So, it’s been nice chatting with everyone on here.

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      10 months ago

      Modern medicine the way it is, I don’t think either will bucket scooter off to death. And Trump probably can run from jail. That said, I do wonder what the contingency plan would be if either of both died before the general election. Has that ever historically happened?

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        10 months ago

        Modern medicine the way it is, I don’t think either will bucket scooter off to death. And Trump probably can run from jail. That said, I do wonder what the contingency plan would be if either of both died before the general election. Has that ever historically happened?

        I mean having a primary where you have meaningful debates and multiple candidates would be the contingency plan.

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          10 months ago

          Even if the general were like, a week after they both died in a freakish accident? I guess they can always post pone the general though. I’m not sure who would have to make the call or if there are rules in place for DNC or GOP

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            10 months ago

            I mean, these fuckers are old.

            Like way fucking old.

            There is a significant non-zero probability that any given week of theirs, is there last week.

            I mean how many years do we think either of these two has left?

            2? 3? and it doesn’t have to be 🛴🪣 , just total mental or physical degradation.

            So what they’ve got maybe 100, 200 weeks ahead of them max? Assuming a uniform probability distribution, that’s a charitable 0.25% per week (and I do not believe its a uniform distribution), 40 weeks till the election, call it a %0.25 for either of them individually to kick the bucket: I get 18.14% probability that either one of the two 🛴🪣 in the next 40 weeks. Like its not crazy, they are old af.

            I’m sure a student of geriatrics could get us some more informed priors, but I bet thats in the ball park.