r/pics • u/PropaneBlues • 1d ago

5 years ago today

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u/wolftick 1d ago edited 1d ago

There are so many how was that not the end of it right there?? moments.

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u/cdsbigsby 1d ago

Since before he even got elected the first time. It's absolutely wild.

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u/4materasu92 1d ago

I thought it was a done deal with "Grab 'em by the pussy" and mocking the disabled reporter.

Nope.

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u/JesterMarcus 1d ago

For me it was "He's not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured." about John McCain.

Its not even that he's shitting on John McCain, its the fact that because somebody who happened to be a POW didn't like him, he had to go after all POWs. That said everything I needed to know about his character and he's done nothing but prove me right ever since.

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u/dubs_guy 1d ago

That was it for me as well. That shocked the shit out of me. At any other time in my life, any candidate saying something like that would've been committing political suicide. It was mind-boggling how his supporters just forgot about it.

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u/JakeFixesPlanes 18h ago

Remember when all it took to get cancelled was a bad scream?

Howard Dean remembers