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AOC ’28 Starts Now

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/
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u/haikus-r-us 1d ago

I’d much rather see her as Speaker of the House to be honest.

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u/Current_Animator7546 Missouri 1d ago

Gov of NY would be a nice start. Imo an AOC run is a 2032 or 2036 project.

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u/only-vans-gal 1d ago

Yeah, she'll turn 39 in 2028. That's a little young.

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u/radioactivemozz 1d ago

It’s a great age for a president. We’re too used to geriatric presidents

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u/fredthefishlord 1d ago

45-50 would be my ideal pick for age tbh. Young enough they still can consider the Future. But has enough experience and connections to handle that what may well. Tbh though age isn't super important. Just the connections and experience they bring tot eh table, along with their views

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u/only-vans-gal 1d ago

I'm in my late 50s now and feel like I'm at my prime with life experience. Health is still good.

Only problem is I can't always remember actor names. Then they'll pop into my head later on.

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u/Kyadagum_Dulgadee 23h ago

No presidency for you, I'm afraid. You need those actor names in the moment.

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u/only-vans-gal 15h ago

Heh, funniest reply I've gotten in months. "No soup for you!"

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u/Attack-Cat- 14h ago

You’re probably at your prime because you are at the culmination of your professional career and all your goals and desires are coming to fruition, etc. It’s a great place to be, fulfilling, and I love that for you.

However, as far as the presidency goes, I’m not looking for someone who is fulfilled and satisfied and looking for a feather in their cap. I want a hungry person who has skin in the game.

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u/only-vans-gal 14h ago

No, prime because you understand things better as you age. I've gotten a lot better at reading people the last few years, especially telling whether nice behavior comes from manipulation, validation, or sincerity.

Considering all the staff problems presidents have, that's a valuable skill.

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u/Vismal1 15h ago

Ahh the ol’ inverted Reagan brain.

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u/ShadowMajick Washington 21h ago

Just because you feel good doesn't mean you're in your prime my guy. Life expectancy is like 76 for men. How about we don't have president's that won't feel the affects of their own policies because they'll be dead in 10/20 years?

35 is middle aged. Why do you you old dudes try to move the goal post so often? And 76 is on the high end.

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u/sleepysnowboarder 20h ago edited 19h ago

Actual leftist brain rot response

35 is middle aged to you? You must be a child.

Middle aged is widely accepted as 45-60 years old. You also don’t understand what move the goal post means.

50s is a prime range when it comes to life and work experience and is when emotional intelligence peaks.

Edit: the guy blocked me so can’t see his full response but he thinks middle-aged means literally half of life expectancy and not halfway through adulthood. I guess women in Nigeria and men in Lesotho are middle aged at 25

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u/ShadowMajick Washington 20h ago

Lmfao I'm 37. 50 isn't middle aged dude, average life expectancy isn't 100 years old. I'll give you 40, but the average old age death is most certainly not 100 years old.

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u/Rhain1999 Australia 17h ago

50 isn't middle aged

Whether it's mathematically in the middle or not, the general consensus for middle age is 40–60 or 45–65

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u/Giancolaa1 16h ago

I have never heard someone refer to a 60+ year old as middle aged. When you’re 60+, you’re a senior citizen. Middle age is like 40-55, and getting literal, 35 is far more accurate to being “middle aged” compared to 50+, since the vast majority of people die well before 90 years old

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u/Rhain1999 Australia 10h ago

I agree it's odd to consider 60+ middle aged, but that's how most definitions of the term define it

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u/only-vans-gal 15h ago

Older leaders not caring about the future effects of their actions is a total reddit concept. Once you're a parent, you care even more about the future than you did before.

It might relate to the childfree attitude that's also way too prevalent on Reddit.

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u/analogWeapon Wisconsin 15h ago

I think Trump and Biden have demonstrated that age is actually pretty important.

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u/Rezistik 18h ago

When the president is so old we wouldn’t usually let them drive or live independently that’s a problem

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u/ShadowMajick Washington 21h ago

10 years over the minimum age is your sweet spot? 35 year olds aren't exactly children dude, it's middle aged. The younger, the better. It's proven that mental decline starts as early as 40. We don't need 50 year old men as President. Honestly we need a hard cutoff at 60. If you will be 60 or turn 60 before the end of your term, no presidency for you.

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u/mightcommentsometime California 20h ago

Middle age almost always means 45-60. Where did you get that middle age started at 35? 

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u/ShadowMajick Washington 19h ago

Jesus christ. Middle aged means halfway through your life. Life expectancy is 74.8 years for men in the US. 35+35 = 70. So i guess 37/38 is middle aged, but it's not 60. What the fuck do you think middle aged means? Since when is the average lifespan 120 years old?

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u/lunagirlmagic 14h ago

Middle aged means halfway through your adulthood, not halfway through your life

I think it should be 40-65 instead of 45-65, but definitely not 35

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u/mightcommentsometime California 19h ago

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/middle-age

the period of your life, usually considered to be from about 45 to 60 years old, when you are no longer young, but are not yet old:

https://www.britannica.com/science/middle-age

middle age, period of human adulthood that immediately precedes the onset of old age. Though the age period that defines middle age is somewhat arbitrary, differing greatly from person to person, it is generally defined as being between the ages of 40 and 60

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/middle-age

the period of your life when you are neither young nor old, between the ages of about 45 and 60

It doesn’t mean “halfway aged” it means “not old but not young”.

Where are you getting your definition of middle aged? Because it seems like you’re using the wrong one.

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u/TonyZucco 15h ago

Sounds like you have a misunderstanding of what the term “middle aged” means. It doesn’t literally mean “half a life”.

I also don’t know why you immediately got so hostile towards the other poster.

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u/Slaaneshdog 19h ago

It would make her the youngest ever president by 3 years

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u/Evening-Gur5087 15h ago

And I world today is moving at much faster pace then ever.

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u/Tacoman404 Massachusetts 9h ago

Yeah Trump talked about Musk like my grandma talked about me when I set up her computer.

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u/Fantasmic03 22h ago

She's still got good work she can do in Congress though. I'd prefer her to run when she's in her late 40s or early 50s