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submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

It was not immediately clear why the sedan smashed into an SUV that was part of the motorcade. The driver was surrounded by agents who had their guns drawn.

A sedan smacked into a Secret Service vehicle that was part of President Joe Biden's motorcade in Delaware on Sunday night.

Following the crash, U.S. Secret Service agents whisked Biden into a vehicle.

Agents quickly surrounded the sedan with guns drawn and aimed at its driver, who had his hands up. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear.

Special Agent Steve Kopek, a Secret Service spokesperson, said the vehicle that struck was securing Biden's motorcade route.

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[-] aluminium@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago

Shoutout ma man biden still rockin that iPhone X or XS. You don't always have to have the latest and greatest.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 103 points 2 years ago

You don’t always have to have the latest and greatest.

That's why we have Biden

[-] arin@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago
[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

AOC legally becomes old enough in October of '24. You have to be 35.

[-] arin@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago

Very odd rule. I just passed 35 recently and i feel like I'm slowly dying already. Feels like a struggle to learn new things

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

I think this is exactly the metric our geriatric Congress was going for.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

35 in 1787 is way different from 35 in 2023. :)

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

Around the same age here, and I feel I would have made a much better president in my mid 20s than I would now, for sure.

[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I think it was to prevent family legacies making the office more like royalty.

[-] poppy@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Can one run for president “early” if one will be old enough during election/potential presidency?

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

In theory, you just have to be 35 to be President.

If she ran, she would turn 35 a month before election day and would be 35+3 months when sworn in.

The youngest elected US President to date was JFK, who was 43.

Theodore Roosevelt was 42 when he assumed office after McKinley was assassinated.

[-] poppy@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Interesting, thank you!

[-] ExLisper@linux.community 2 points 2 years ago

If you're republican you can run when you're 20 yo Canadian and just claim funding furthers didn't really mean it like that.

[-] assplode@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Damn, I can't wait til she's legal!

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Remind me 9 months, 1 week. ;)

[-] pythonoob@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't the latest president be Washington?

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 4 points 2 years ago

No. Washington is the Earliest, he was verifiably the first POTUS.

"Late" means chronologically after everything else. Biden is the one who came last, he is the latest.

[-] pythonoob@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago
[-] shasta@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago
[-] pythonoob@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago
[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 1 points 2 years ago

You're correct, I don't get how not understanding an English word is a joke.

[-] pythonoob@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

It's a play on how late can mean dead.

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 1 points 2 years ago

That's fair, thank you for explaining it, but I've never once heard late as in departed used in the form "late, later, latest"

[-] pythonoob@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

It's not really ever used like that.

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

On the other end, I remember when Obama came into office and there were no smartphones certified for meeting the security regulations, the USSS & NSA had to work with RIM to build a custom hardened blackberry because he wouldn't give it up.

He was stuck with that blackberry until his last year or two in office and complained publicly that iPhones weren't allowed yet lol

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago

Then there's Trump, who was probs rolling an FSB build of iOS with a passcode of 1111.

[-] whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

He used an unauthorized, insecure Samsung Galaxy S3 or something like that, actually.

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

The presidential burner phone, available today at walmart

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

"Comes preinstalled with Pegasus, for your security"

[-] fetchezvache@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Passcode had to be "80085"

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