The Daily Populous Wednesday December 17th, 2025 morning edition
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PowderPills on December 16th, 2025 at 17:34 UTC »

Imagine politicians, let alone a presidential candidate, doing something like that in 2025. These old geriatrics would disqualify themselves just walking.

Spartan2470 on December 16th, 2025 at 17:39 UTC »

Here this is in the original black and white. It looks like the photographer is Hank Walker. He took this picture a few seconds later.

> American politician and Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963) speaks with members of an unidentified family as he campaigns for President in rural Omar, West Virginia, April 1960.

Pusfilledonut on December 16th, 2025 at 20:14 UTC »

JFK had never seen American poverty in person before that campaign, growing up in a hyper privileged environment. The tar paper coal shacks, the red clay dirt farmers of Tennessee, the devastation of the Kentucky railroad counties like Pike and Harlan. The first executive order he gave upon entering office, day one, was to mobilize the Federal government to stop people from starving to death in the richest country in the history of the world.