Because old rich establishment cocksuckers are apparently the ones who have our best interests at heart.....lol yeah right.

Haven't you heard about Millennials? They're spoiled. They can't do anything. Let's leave the future of our society in the hands of geezers. They know what's best.

It's not about that. We don't typically have anyone under 30 be president. So the question is, where is Gen X? Oh that's right, they're still being held underwater screaming like they've been the last 20 yrs. By the George Soroses, the Obamas, The Clintons, the Bushes, both neoliberals and neocons alike. Turns out, this neo- fucker wasn't our friend

But yeah, held underwater screaming about captures the socioeconomic and political empowerment of GenX

We don't typically have anyone under 30 be president.

35.

Lol JFK was the youngest President in history. He was like...42 or 44 or something. Based on basic Wikipedia math my guesstimate is 44.

I know; you just can't be younger than 35.

Truth! Pardon my interruption, stranger.

Look what happened to him.

We never have anyone under 35 as president. It's part of the criteria for the office.

Because it takes that long to weed out, corrupt or kill all the good people.

I'm beginning to think the boomers are seagull managers of doom. They swooped in, ate up everything, shat everywhere, and then flew away to retire in beautiful places while the rest of the world is a burning tire fire on top of a diseased robot factory.

If we made military nanites that targetted formaldehyde and then chemtrailed the planet we could basically win this generational war /dark

Well, I'm a Boomer. Tail-end, last of the last, by a matter of days, but a Boomer all the same. Took me a long time to shake off decades of brainwashing, though.

Don't be too harsh on that generation -- they were mentally assaulted like no other peoples in history, via drugs, technology, visual/aural programming. Tough to get past it. I literally became physically ill for about three weeks when I forced myself to accept the facts I could no longer dismiss, mock or rationalize.

What were some things that really hit you as being false / programmed?

Every buster I ever met hated the boomers for the reasons you describe.

(Baby Busters vs. Baby Boomers, jic)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_candidates,_2016

Bernie is 74 and Clinton is 68.

A good portion of the Republican nominees were 60 and younger.

A few of them were up there till the very end.

I agree, it's weird seeing two old people fighting to run this country, but it's not like ALL the candidates are these decrepit old people.

Considering that teenagers are the ones that know everything, they should be in charge... right?

There should be a "physical challenge" aspect to the presidential debates. Answer a question or take a physical challenge.

Nice clickbait title.

70 is not "old" it is seasoned.

The notion that a 70 year old is out of touch or worse, is sophomoric.

When you reach the age of 45 - you'll understand just how young that truly is.

When you see your 55th birthday you'll begin to see the world as a complete process of manufactured (controllable) events, rather than a compartmentalized association of circumstance and happen-chance that randomly occurred.

At 60 you're free again - you are your own person. You've passed all the BS to reclaim your mind and position on this earth. Even if you're "playing the game" you are seriously engaged as a mature adult - not a questioning petulant overgrown adolescent.

At or around the 70 year mark you have a far better sense of self-control and steadfast patience for your fellow man. It is at this point that wisdom leads your decision making; you respond rather than react. Knee-jerk reactions have long vanished. You employ a deliberate approach to everything you do; it is calming and effective. You wish to provide comfort and peace and joy not hardship, war and fear.

Or, we could just elect a dude/gal fresh from the beer pong table - your call.

not a questioning petulant overgrown adolescent.

This being looked down upon is why the world is in the state is is right now. Questioning is beaten out of people from a young age for a reason. It's harder to control people who ask the question "Why?".

Not the asking of questions, but the lack of asking the correct questions. This is what I'm talking about.

Rather than, "Why do we let people who are almost 70 fucking years old run for president?"

This is what I am referring to. Critical thinking is absolutely promoted, but this ageism and racism and genderism and otherism is promoting nonthinking people to ask the selfish questions first.

I guess but plenty of leaders throughout time have been super young and created huge legacies for themselves

When critical-thinking was a requirement. Today it seems to be a nuisance. Thus the world we live in vs the legacies they left behind.

Why do we let people who are almost 70 fucking years old run for president?

What's your fucking point?

What's YOUR fucking point? It's a self.conspiracy, not u/William_DuBane's question session.

What's YOUR fucking point?

That's not how this works.

It's a self.conspiracy

Words have meanings. You don't just get to shitpost anything you want without rhyme or reason.

If you don't like it, downvote it. Asking OP "wtf" isn't gonna make him/her take it down.

If you don't like it, downvote it.

Or, you know, ask about it.

make him/her take it down.

Who the fuck said anything about that?

You said you don't get to shitpost anything without rhyme or reason. Okay, OP didn't shit post. He asked a question, didn't even make a point about it. Then you hit em with "what's your fucking point?" there is no point. OP asked a question. Now you're arguing you don't want him to take it down, but also that OP can't "shitpost anything without rhyme or reason"? Oh, so you don't want OP to take it down, but they can't just come on r/conspiracy and ask a question!

Come on, stranger. Leave OP alone. Go troll somewhere else.

He asked a question, didn't even make a point about it.

Yep.

Then you hit em with "what's your fucking point?"

Almost as though I wanted to know what the point was.

there is no point.

Then don't fucking post. That's shitposting.

OP asked a question.

And to answer it, you need to know the point.

Now you're arguing you don't want him to take it down, but also that OP can't "shitpost anything without rhyme or reason"?

Yep. And if you don't comprehend how the statements are not mutually exclusive, you're not intelligent enough to be having this conversation.

Oh, so you don't want OP to take it down, but they can't just come on /r/conspiracy and ask a question!

Nope.

Go troll somewhere else.

How about you answer my question or just fuck off.

Lolololol the only question you asked was of OP. What question would you like me to answer for you, stranger?

What's your fucking point?

To find an answer to OP's question points.

Now, what's YOUR fucking point?

There was no question. Fuck off with your shitposting.

I didn't shitpost, in fact the closest person here to shitposting is you. You, stranger, have no point.

Says the guy with a 4 day old account who wishes violence upon me in PM's.

You're a problem.

I'm a solution. You're nothing. Fuck off.

Definately a problem.

I know; you just can't be younger than 35.

Look what happened to him.