And how would you call a scenario where Bernie finally wins the Democratic Party primaries and is elected..?
Well, Biden is not much older than Trump, is he ? Now, for people in their 70s, I agree that years are twofold.
100% agree. That's how Dubya, after being narrowly elected in 2000 and despite his blatant lies re the WMDs in Iraq, finally got easily re-elected in 2004, in the midst of the “war against terrorism”.
Since our friend from
Québec, Fish Sauce, is no longer around, may be you should explain what poutine is (some people may wonder what Vladimir Vladimirovitch has to do in the discussion) and what “tabernak” means...
No, that's just because we are very nice and open-minded people.
Bernie
could win the Democratic Primary if millennial voters remain democratic socialists when they become the majority of the electorate 30 years from now. Of course, Bernie would then be 108 years old. That's not the black swan scenario, it's the “hens have teeth” or “hell froze over” scenario.
True, Biden is only 5 years older. People age differently, though. Take Sophia Loren, for instance; she was still kinda hot in '95, and she was 60 by then. Very few women can say that. More to the point, my own Great Grandfather was still plowing his fields when he was 90, while other people in my family were nearly bedridden by that age. I'm not calling Biden senile, merely pointing out that he isn't
perceived as being as strong a leader as Trump.
Re: Dubya-- That, and the fact that his opponent in '04, despite being a legit war hero, had all the personality of a wet dishrag and was perceived as being wishy-washy (
sans consistance), I voted for the war before I voted against it). Then there was that whole throwing away his medals fiasco, which I think has been discussed before here on Cervens.
Poutine is a
Québécois dish made from French fries/chips/
pommes frites, brown gravy, cheese curds, and sometimes meat. It's not bad.
"Tabernak" is a
Québécois swear word. Comes from the French
tabernacle. In fact, many of their swear words come from religious terms (
calice = "chalice
" , the holy grail;
ostie "Host", as in the communion host, the little crackers & grape juice you get at church). The
Canadiens are the only people in the francosphere who do that, too; down here, our curse words are all very much the same as in France (although
putain and
bordel aren't used quite as much, and we've adapted some bits and bobs from Choctaw and other native languages.
Caouane, for instance, is either "turtle", or slang for vagina depending on which parish you're in).
As for the last bit;
tous sauf pour les Parisiens, je suis d'accord. Open-minded, sure, but nice the Parisians ain't, unless you get in good with them. But then, I've met some
Vendéennes who were relentlessly polite--- any little thing you did for them, they said thank you. Almost to the point where one wondered if they were locked in a damned convent all their lives prior to coming here on an exchange program.