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Jimmy Carter might want to jump in on that. It’s the only legacy he’d ever have.
Tic-toc Jimmy.
Maybe Jeb doesn’t like his brother that much? None of the three were sitting presidents.
What a bullet we dodged with THAT statistics-challenged twit of a checked-pant, country-club “Republican”.
https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/
The chance coincidence of 3/45 presidents dying on the same day … is much lower than this University of Texas, Latin-American Studies graduate seems to understand. Add to that the assisted suicide of a well-placed pillow over the head of a dying ex-President … and the odds get REALLY low.
No wonder the RINO’s keep SPENDING America into perpetual indebtedness
The Birthday Paradox doesn’t apply here, as we’re talking about individuals dying on a SPECIFIC day, and not just two or more in a group sharing an event on the same (but unspecified) day (which is the Birthday Paradox).
Take a group of 40 odd people. Check their birth dates. Odds are favourable that at least two will share the same birthdate. But of course it could be any day of the year.
Now look to see what happened in history on that date.
Wait until that date. Publish the birthday result, and watch the fun. It must be devine intervention. If you chose death dates then we have devine intervention, or evidence of a conspiracy! 🙂
The birthday paradox and selective choice of the statistic still apply.
Can someone tell me what happened?
I fell asleep before I finished.
I am extremely skeptical that Jeb meant this as a threat. He just didn’t think it through.
In short, never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
One of the few times where a “headline” with a question mark should be answered with “Yes”. Adams, Jefferson, and Monroe were all **old** when they died.
“The oddness of the events wasn’t lost on the New York Evening Post in 1831, when the newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton called it a “coincidence that has no parallel”: “Three of the four presidents who have left the scene of their usefulness and glory expired on the anniversary of the national birthday, a day which of all others, had it been permitted them to choose [they] would probably had selected for the termination of their careers,” the Post reported on July 5, 1831.”
In a sense, they may have chosen the day, which would be very significant for all of them, more so than anyone alive today. There are lots of documented cases of people with serious illness expiring after a personally significant event. One of the theories is that they find the will to hang on long enough to see something important to them (like a grandchilds wedding for example), then after they achieve that milestone, they have no other realistic goals to hang on so they give up.
How many people in the line of succession would have to die for Jeb to become president?
Considering I don’t think Jeb is in any job in a governmental capacity at the moment, I think there’d have to be an almost extinction level event before enough people died.
I believe Jefferson at least did hold on long enough to make sure he reached the 4th. One of the last things he said was, “Is it the fourth?” It might even have been the last thing he said, I don’t recall now.
I’m not so sure about Adams or Monroe. But again, it seems probable that a date held in such esteem for those men might inspire them to hang on just that little bit longer.
Adams of course famously uttered, “Jefferson still lives,” as his last words, unaware that Jefferson had passed just hours earlier.
Jeb Bush is alive?
He’s pining for the Presidency 🙂
I’d still like to know , what was it that absolutely freaked Jeb out, at George Herberts funeral?
Jeb practically filled his pants at that moment.
Declass should tell us ….
Justin and Alexandre Trudeau were both born on Dec 25. Amazing!! Coincidence? They must be the anointed ones! 🙁
Since December 25 is the birthday of Sir Isaac Newton’s, it is only fitting that Canada’s national expert on quantum computing was born on that day. His inclination towards acting must have come from the fact that Humphrey Bogart and Sissy Spacek also have Christmas birthdays.
In general, more people die during the holidays.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20805014
https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/23/health/christmas-death-rate/index.html
I have heard it explained that, people so want to see one more Christmas (or Independence Day, as the case may be), that they will themselves to live until they do.
Regardless of how faux Jeb’s pas, this is not surprising at all.