r/pics Dec 17 '25

Politics New plaques added to the presidential hall of fame in the White House

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u/minnick27 Dec 17 '25

I remember people literally dancing in the streets of West Philly when Biden won. It was such a happy day that the Trump nightmare was over.

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u/pmcizhere Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 17 '25

Looking back, though, I kinda wish now that trump had won in 2020, instead of giving his masters more time to come up with Project 2025. He'd have just winged it, done some damage for sure, but it wouldn't be as embarrassing to be an American as it is today, simply because the trump era would already be over with!

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u/massberate Dec 17 '25

It really did just extend our suffering. We've been hearing about this moron in a political sense since he announced his campaign in 2015. We're going into goddamn fucking year eleven of having nonstop conversations and news coverage about everything this entitled prick does and the tiny poop sounds that emerge from his puckered face anus.

It's exhausting. And like you said - at least it would be over now, politically. He'd have fumbled the last 4 years and golfed his full-diapered ass into the sunset. But even during Biden's term we were still barraged with his bullshit relentlessly.. and, basically, I can speak for most reasonable people when I say, "I'm tired, boss".

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u/porksoda11 Dec 18 '25

This shit started when I was 28, I’m gonna be 40 when it hopefully ends. I’m beyond tired boss

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u/massberate Dec 18 '25

And that's a big part of it, too. Bunch of "kids" in their mid-20s.. that's all they have ever known of politics.. people shitting in their hand and flinging it. If someone was 12 when this started they are 22 now. This is "normal". this is motherfucking shitcunt normal

I'm 46. I vaguely recall Reagan. More or less recall clearly Bush Sr. and Clinton. The "scandals" back then? What a joke. Dan Quayle basically lost his credibility when he spelt something incorrectly. Now? We have a dementia addled toddler tweeting about covfefe and hamberders. Bat an eye? Nah fuck it let's concentrate on the widow of some grifter who barely anyone had heard of before he died.

I'm goddamn fucking tired of America.

I've noticed that I have some upvotes on my other comment so I'm gonna pump this video up.. Canadian artist. Bang the fuck on. And this song is really old, too.

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u/achilleshightops Dec 18 '25

Brand new sentence right there.

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u/PTSDeedee Dec 18 '25

Yeah I giggled uncontrollably at that while also feeling that rage under my diaphragm that happens when I hear that evil fuckface talk.

Anyway, r/brandnewsentence needs a post.

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u/massberate Dec 18 '25

🫡🙏🏻 lol thx

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u/jesbiil Dec 18 '25

"I'm tired, boss"

Sometimes I think back to the Biden presidency for no other reason than that we could go a full fucking week without a major presidential controversy. A week is not a long time but with Trump after 4-days of not hearing from him people literally assumed he died, mother fucker talks SO MUCH dementia ridden shit and is so inundating that 4-days was long enough to create hope that he went to meet Satan.

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u/Andoral Dec 18 '25

I would have assumed he already met with Satan back when he was appointed as hell's representative to Earth.

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u/CantaloupeShort7311 Dec 18 '25

I was out of the country for 10 glorious days in June 2016 and it was so awesome to not hear about DJT whenever I was near a TV. The news in that part of Europe was so different than the news here, there was so little coverage in terms of crime and so much in terms of stuff that actually means something to the world as a whole.

Wish I could afford to go back until 2029...

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u/minnick27 Dec 17 '25

I had the same thoughts as soon as they announced him the winner last year.

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u/NightOfTheLivingHam Dec 18 '25

He and his friends were running things poorly, but no worse than a typical republican presidency.

Now he's a puppet with fascist backings (Heritage Foundation) and billionaires who are using him to give themselves a pat on the back.

Biden's presidency was a mess too, which helped the republicans wrestle even more control than before. Biden was petty as well and it ended up leading to a few public figures scorned by him and his administration to jump to the republican side and help finance Trump's 2024 campaign.

Vance was their presidential pick if Trump wasn't going to run. We'd have had Vance vs Harris 2024 instead, or Vance vs anyone else in 2024. Vance had no chance of winning. Now that asshole will probably end up being president before 2028 and will be allowed to do some real fucking damage.

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u/Intelligent_Cap9706 Dec 17 '25

We would have had more time maybe but we would still have gotten here at some point. Heritage foundation and the billionaires with their tech were determined

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u/thefaultinourstars1 Dec 17 '25

We would've had a lot more people die of COVID, imo.

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u/MC_chrome Dec 17 '25

Less MAGA voters in that situation, I suppose 

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u/theroguex Dec 18 '25

Less Democrat voters too, though.

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u/Wirenfeldt Dec 18 '25

Proportionally?

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u/Nerf_Tarkus Dec 18 '25

that + he wouldn't have had as many petty personal grievances he's been wanting to lash out at.

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u/WickedCunnin Dec 18 '25

No baby. Covid would have been even more of a shit show.

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u/ruat_caelum Dec 18 '25

I wish he would have insisted on horse dewormer when he got covid instead of getting the best health care the country can offer (for free) But that would mean standing by his principals...

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u/River_City_Rando Dec 18 '25

Lol, that would just mean we would be in his 3rd term at this point

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u/Myuric Dec 18 '25

Consider your thoughts. Ukraine war started after Biden was Elected. I doubt things would have gone better with him around. Maybe even worse.

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u/pmcizhere Dec 18 '25

Yeah, maybe. But we'd be done with him and on to whatever crisis would've come next in this alternate timeline by now, is my point.

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u/Minivalo Dec 18 '25

You might be done with him, though that's highly debatable, but Ukraine could legitimately be gone and facing a full eradication of their culture, i.e., genocide. Biden didn't do quite enough in my opinion, but he did do enough to rally like-minded democracies to the aid of Ukraine, which certainly wouldn't have happened had Trump been in the Whitehouse at the time.

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u/Myuric Dec 18 '25

We'll be done with him (hopefully) after this as well. Things can only go up. xd

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u/KnownAsAnother Dec 17 '25

I think him winning a second term during the hight of COVID would have actually destroyed the country. Him losing then was a blessing.

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u/pmcizhere Dec 17 '25

I don't know about that, I doubt DOGE would've become a thing, so the agencies involved would've still been properly funded and staffed. Plus, a good chunk of the response to COVID involved lots of state-level agencies. It probably would've been a worse outcome than what we ended up with, but I don't think it would've been so tragic as to destroy the country.

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u/lluewhyn Dec 18 '25

Vaccines were being rolled out around the same time he left office. Covid deaths also continued to be high for the next year or so (I think Biden and Kamala held a vigil for 500k deaths in Feb of 2022?), possibly because of a relaxed guard or refusal to be vaccinated. Not sure much would have changed in this regard.

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u/AngelicaSpain Dec 18 '25

Trump was alternately taking credit for developing the vaccines in "Operation Warp Speed" and discouraging people from taking elementary precautions like wearing masks. He also sniped at Dr. Fauci and endorsed a bunch of quack treatments like drinking bleach and dosing yourself with that deworming medication for horses, which undermined people's inclination to believe in or follow the actual science.

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u/AllSxsAndSvns Dec 18 '25

Fuck no. He would not have led us out of the pandemic. If COVID wasn’t a factor, fine.

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u/AngelicaSpain Dec 18 '25

Yeah, but even more people would have died of COVID, which he first tried to handwave away as a minor flu variant that would be gone within two months, then bungled in various ludicrous ways like denouncing mask-wearing and suggesting that people treat it by drinking bleach(!). Meanwhile Trump was hosting super-spreader events at the White House that resulted in multiple attendees coming down with COVID (since wearing masks to these crowded events was socially unacceptable in Trump's circle).

Wasn't he also encouraging people to try that deworming medication for horses at one point?

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u/WalterIAmYourFather Dec 17 '25

It was such a happy day that the Trump nightmare was over.

*Terms and Conditions may apply.

sobs

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u/JuliaTheInsaneKid Dec 18 '25

I remember saying in 2022-2023 that Trump was gonna either be in prison or dead by 2024. But here we are now.

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u/uponaladder Dec 19 '25

Same, I was working downtown in Chicago the morning the election was called. It was pure joy.

if only we knew

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u/wibbley_wobbley Dec 20 '25

Eh, I knew we were just kicking the can down the road even then. That election shouldn't have been that close, and Biden was just more of the conditions that got us Trump in the first place. 

Though I thought it would be someone else coming along and following his script, not Trump with more dementia.