- Joined
- Jan 31, 2014
I've said this before but probably in the TDS thread so it's worth repeating here.
The difference between Trump and essentially anyone else his age in politics is that Trump actually worked for a living. Building a multi-billion dollar business empire is not easy, and maintaining it for decades is even less easy. If you look at the top 1% of earners today and look at who the top 1% was back in 2010, you'll see completely different crop of faces for the most part because most of them aren't able to hold onto it. It requires you to work very long days, every single day, and Trump did that for decades right up until he entered politics. It kept him youthful and vigorous.
On the other hand someone like Biden who spends 50 years as a bureaucrat essentially does nothing but languish in his office or his mcmansion and over time that drains you and kills you. People who retire early, die early. Sedentary lifestyles kill people, sitting around doing nothing all day literally takes years off of your life just the way smoking, drinking, and poor diet do. (That's another thing too, Trump's vices are food and women. He never smoked and he never drank because he watched alcoholism kill his brother.) They don't exert themselves, they don't challenge themselves, they don't engage themselves, and so they wither before their times.
The fact they spend their time in office doing evil corrupt shit doesn't help either. That shit truly drains your soul and causes you to rot away. I have a pet theory that Presidents don't age because of stress but because of the burden of all the terrible shit they do. I think Trump might be proving me right on that. He's still looking pretty good, Obama looked like a moldy slim jim at this point.
And of course you just can't stop good genes.
