Speaker 1: Nikki Haley, who is running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, says that
it's not likely Joe Biden will live to the end of a second term if he gets one. Now, we actually
have information about this, interestingly enough. Let's listen to what Nikki Haley said.
Speaker 2: I think there's a few issues here. You know, he's announced his you know, that he's
running again in 2024. And I think that we can all be very clear and say, with a matter of fact, that
if you vote for Joe Biden, you really are counting on a president. Harris because the idea that he
would make it until 86 years old is not is not something that I think is likely. It's why I've
continued to say we need to have mental competency tests up until the time, you know, starting at 75,
just to make sure that these people deciding our national security, deciding our economic policy,
deciding what happens to our kids in school. Speaker 1: All right. You get she wants met. So
for two different things. If her concern is Biden won't live to 86, what does that have to do with
mental competency? It's sort of like a confused thing, but this is the most interesting part of
this. The numbers suggest Nikki Haley is wrong. There are what are called actuarial tables,
which tell you at a certain age how likely are you to die in the following year and what is
your expected remaining years of life? If we look at the Social Security actuarial tables,
which are for men and women. The left column here is for men. An 82 year old man is expected to live
almost seven years. Statistically, you know, it's sort of a throwaway to Nikki Haley. Obviously,
she has the numbers on her side while she doesn't. Statistically, if Joe Biden makes
it to 82 and gets elected, the expected outcome is he does live to 86 and finishes the term. Now,
one of the things you have to understand when you look at these tables, this is sort of it's
math that is beyond the scope of this segment, is that when you add a year of life, for example,
when you go from being 40 to being 41, you've lived a year, but you've only lost about 2.8 years
of life expectancy. And part of this is that the longer you live relatively, your life expectancy
goes up. Obviously not in absolute terms. It's not that you've lived a year and now you're expected
to survive 13 additional months. That would be what some in the longevity community call
longevity escape velocity, which is way beyond what we're talking about here. But the point
here is part of this is making it to 82 already confers some idea of health. And so you are then
expected to make it to 86 and actually it would be 88 and something. 88.7. Even if that's beyond
life expectancy at birth, this is all beyond what we're talking about here. The point is,
isn't it funny when they're clueless as well as running really stupid campaigns? Nikki Haley
making no impact whatsoever. And the best she can seem to do right now is I wouldn't expect
Biden to survive to the end of a second term. Not really a great reason to go and vote for Nikki
if she's not actually putting out some kind of policy package that makes any
sense to anybody. So Nikki Haley, as usual, making a fool out of herself.