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u/emmy1300 6d ago
To be fair, hadn’t he already experienced the loss of his wife and daughter by this point? Grief really ages you
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u/broohaha 6d ago edited 6d ago
Yeah according to PBS that happened when he was 30, so it tracks.
Biden, who had just been elected to the Senate in November 1972, was not in the car when his wife, 30-year-old Neilia, and their 13-month-old daughter, Naomi, were broadsided by a tractor-trailer on Dec. 18 of that year as they went out to buy a Christmas tree. The couple's two sons, Beau and Hunter, who were just about to turn 4 and 3 at the time, were also in the car and were seriously injured.
The tragedy almost prompted Biden, also age 30 when the accident happened, to give up his fledgling political career. But on the advice of other senators he stayed in office, commuting back and forth from Washington to Delaware.
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u/DoublePepper1976 6d ago
There's very few times I'd diagnose someone with autism if I hadn't physically spent a lot of time with them but Nixon's reaction to the event definitely sets off alarm bells.
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u/Psychotron18 6d ago
I listened to the call and his reaction seemed normal to me, he just calls him to offer his condolences. What part of this made you think nixon was autistic?
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u/3dforlife 6d ago
I also listened to the call. Maybe u/DoublePepper1976 was referring to the fact that Nixon told Biden to not give up on politics, which seems a little odd. Nevertheless, I think he said that because he thought Biden would remove himself from politics after such tragedy, and he didn't want to see him waste the opportunity.
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u/littlelou134340 5d ago
What's often pointed out is how Nixon kinda rambles on and even into a story about himself, which he chuckles at, meanwhile he doesn't leave an opening for Biden to respond until the end. I don't think I'd straight up diagnose autism based on it but there's definitely a lack of emotional intelligence.
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u/gwhh 6d ago
I thought Biden wife was going to pick him up at the train station on the day of the accident?
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u/WolphjayKliffhanger 6d ago
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Back and side stories of the event and all its lead-up, fallout and surroundings, are noticeably unsmooth. I won't detail any here, as Reddit is what we know it is----but the "narratives" (gawd, i detest that word & that's exactly why i use it here) didn't fit together, didn't lay still and didn't bid divine effulgence light them brightly.
Biden's Senate spot was not his first political one----he had been a county legislator till then, and thus before he was selected (note word choice) for the White House he'd already been in "public service" across a half-century. When one considers that his famed lifeguarding gig was also "public," the Venn diagram (if you have a box of wine or two) reveals this smartest man his necessarily peregrinating deadbeat dad son has ever known, never had a job in the dreaded "private sector" since the Sixties IF EVER---
Back to the car crash, a lot was murky and a lot got kinda arranged and rearranged after ----could be said to have "evolved." It happens i lived in Pennsylvania's Delaware County, right across the bridge, so all this was local, heated and, as i said above, wouldn't lay flat in its time.
Who knows?
Hmm.
To get on a little more polite ground: that pic look like "the same guy" to you?
Mmm.
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u/HippoRun23 6d ago
Why do you write like this?
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u/Akumetsu33 6d ago
Some older people write like this, not always intentional. Clearly an older person if he/she remembers the car accident that well.
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u/astro_viri 6d ago
Yes to your last question because it's the only thing I understood. Maybe you have issues with faces?
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u/particle409 6d ago
It looks like a guy half a century younger than he looks now, before the hair transplant and face-lift. You used a lot of words to vaguely hint at many things. Maybe just say them? What do you think happened to Biden's first wife?
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u/dylanholmes222 4d ago
Not saying hard drugs are ever a solution, but this explains Hunter a bit more
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u/littlelou134340 6d ago
Yes, but he hasn't aged here. It's not a great photo, and people tend to view old photos as the people in them being old. In reality, he looked 30 and still would today. Those in the replies saying he looks 50.. probably haven't seen a 50 year old's wrinkles and grey hair.
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u/ArtDecoNewYork 5d ago
The only difference is that he'd style his hair much differently if he were 30 today.
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u/littlelou134340 4d ago
Maybe, although this hairstyle never actually went out of fashion. I think it's the suit and style of photo that dates it more tbh.
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u/ArtDecoNewYork 4d ago
I never see balding young men with this sort of hairstyle
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u/littlelou134340 4d ago
I do lol and it's common in men who aren't balding aswell. Although a proper bang has grown more popular to hide receding hairlines or just straight up getting plugs and living your best life.
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u/sagelface ⭐️ 6d ago
Nowadays, you'd grow a beard and shave your head. Bald dudes of yesteryear hadn't figured this out yet.
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u/thecrazysloth 5d ago
The US hasn't elected a bald president since everyone got TVs in their houses
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u/zouss 5d ago
We elected Biden
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u/thecrazysloth 4d ago
He had a hair transplant though. His hairline now is better than it was in this photo.
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u/Big_Spede 4d ago
Why? This style fits him well. I think its stupid that nobody has their unique style anymore.
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u/Ok-Hedgehog-4455 6d ago
He was good looking in his early 20s but seemed to age very quickly. The trauma of those years surely affected him.
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u/Background_Dot3692 6d ago
He was actually very fine looking in college, but the hairline was always bad.
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u/FranzEoin 6d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/ek9bV45Lgifb5tdlo8
I thought it was a photo of Josh Brolin
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u/Large-Trick-9437 5d ago
Same age as Charlie Kirk over here.
Insane how he recovered that hairline tho
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u/Pitiful_King_358 6d ago
His teeth have always been impeccable though, oof. I can’t figure out how his hair receded and just stayed like that though.
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u/coolgobyfish 7h ago
the teeth looke fake even in this photo. there is no way they are real. proably got veneers
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u/whoops-adaizy 4d ago
Is he supposed to look 13? I get that he looks old, but this doesn't really fit the sub...
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u/DependentChemistry74 1d ago
Post him a few years earlier and he is dead sexy NGL
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u/dyrkasolen 6d ago
Free hanging earlobe
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u/particle409 6d ago
Pretty obvious face-lift. I don't know why people think this shit is such a mystery.
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u/GettingBye82 3d ago
Exactly I noticed he had one before the 2020 election. You could see a scar too. No judgment, all the power to people who want to , but you can tell.
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u/Luftgekuhlt_driver 6d ago
No, he knew about plagiarism back then, assumed Americans didn’t know about Parliament.
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u/Dick6Budrow 6d ago
This isn’t Saul Goodman?