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xkcd #2875: 2024 (imgs.xkcd.com)

https://xkcd.com/2875/

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It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[-] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Okay? You're referencing a GLOBAL event and attributing it to single person. If we're going down that path, I find it a strange that the stock market went to shit the same month Trump announced he was running for president [0] - Two can play the correlation is causation game. And even though the market eventually returned to something we might consider normal, it "... was still below the annualized returns of Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama" [1].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/13/donald-trump-presidential-campaign-speech-eyewitness-memories

[1] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-performance-under-president-donald-trump-dow-jones-sp500-2021-1-1029987163?op=1

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

That he bequeathed to Trump eight years later.

Okay? You’re referencing a GLOBAL event and attributing it to single person.

:-/

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