It totally is.
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I don’t know about official date delineations, but Trump dodged the draft for Vietnam, which makes him culturally a baby boomer at least.
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This is the ‘debate’ most Americans have wanted to see, old men beating the shit out of each other.
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Lol they see crazier shit on tv every day.
As far as Biden not knowing his audience, well, I said that already.
Likewise for Biden. Five student deferments, followed by a medical disqualification for asthma…which seems rather unusual for someone who was a noted student athlete.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Biden-deferred-disqualified-from-Vietnam-duty-3196927.php
OTOH, in both cases, the refusal to murder Vietnamese was one of the rare moments in their lives when they did something that was ethically correct.
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It’s technically possible to be athletic and asthmatic. I operated a pedicab for a few years and my asthma is quite serious, aided by medication.
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Today, yes. In the early 1960’s?
It’s also technically possible for bone spurs to be real.
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I’m not trying to justify, only clarify.
From my own experience and information gleaned from doctors, asthma kind of runs along an x-y axis, x being bronchial spasms, y being mucus production.
I’m hardly x, but heavily y, so spasm sufferers were probably okay from '66 on, but I would have been truly fucked.
Anyway, I think it’s safe to assume that the military would accept zero risk in any case.
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Also, asthma symptoms often decrease after puberty. In some children, their breathing apparatus compensates such that they gain higher VO2 capacity as adults if their asthma abates in conjunction with increased activity levels. However, the symptoms may reoccur later in adulthood or when under stress.
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I was down with pneumonia for a week in an oxygen tent as a kid, but my asthma didn’t really develop until my early twenties…
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That would be one hell of a campaign slogan.
“Not much more weird than the other guy.”
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He’s going on about Joe Biden. Duh.
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