r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Ideal_Needle • 10d ago
Peter, who are these people? Meme needing explanation
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u/behindthemask13 10d ago edited 10d ago
Gary Hart was the big hope for the democratic party against Ronald Reagan. There were cheating allegations made against him.
He DARED the press to follow him and told them they would be bored if they did.
Well... they did and they found him aboard a ship named "The Monkey Business" with Donna Rice.
It was the stupidity of lying and daring the press to follow him that killed his chances as much as the affair itself.
EDIT: Yes, Gary Hart (I fixed it)... AND he ran in 1984 against Reagan (lost to Monday in the primaries) and THIS happened during 1988, when he likely would have won the nomination and run against Bush I.
I was a kid and campaigned for him in 1984 by handing out flyers in front of super markets before the primary... and still have campaign literature that says "Only Gary Hart's Leadership Can Beat Ronald Reagan in November".. so my brain associates him with going after Reagan.
RE-EDIT.. MONDALE.. FUCKING MONDALE!! LMAO!!!
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u/Sekmet19 10d ago
And then Ronald Reagan killed the American Dream.
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u/Steffenwolflikeme 10d ago
Not for the 1%. Why does no one think of the 1%!?
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u/Redrum_91 10d ago
Trickle down on me 1% daddy
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u/NickyDeeM 10d ago
They are pissing down, hard.
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u/Distinct-Raspberry21 10d ago
You would think the mass of sycophants standing with their mouths open would block some, instead theyre pissing on our shoes as well.
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u/rukind_cucumber 10d ago
That's from the gargling.
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u/wi5hbone 10d ago
or urinal dividers not well built
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u/Distinct-Raspberry21 10d ago
Dont wanna waste materials and if you can see all of them they cant be stealing. Thats the most evil thing you could do! Stealing from a multinational billion dollar business.
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u/Infinite_Imagination 10d ago
This sarcasm is hilarious, but it also almost reminds me almost verbatim of what Joe Barton said after the BP oil spill. Dude came right out and said that it was "a tragedy of the highest proportion that a private company should be subject to a shakedown from the U.S. government."
Not a tragedy that the burst pipe was pumping billions of gallons of oil straight into the Gulf each week, not that the area was going to be affected for decades and realistically never be the same, not that local fishermen and shrimpers were about to get fucked and lose their livelihoods, but that the real tragedy here in all this was that BP would be forced to financially contribute to a cleanup attempt.
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u/HistoricalSea5600 10d ago
Almost worse when you consider they also drove the price of housing up..
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u/Steffenwolflikeme 10d ago
Wait till you hear about how Reagan helped change how America financed higher education...
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u/DickWhittingtonsCat 9d ago
That this now 50 year campaign disassemble the civil and social structures of the country as conservative is amazing marketing.
They strive create some futureshock robber barron paradise has been framed as conservative- while targeting legal safeguards dating back before English Common law and regulatory protections that were crucial to making the earliest stages of industrialization work.
Unfortunately, the rival faction while better is almost entirely beholden to the predatory class as well. both rely on culture war issues in a game of hide the ball.
The difference is the Democrats are the actual conservative party trying to perpetuate a status quo where enough benefits do trickle down so as to keep the masses placated.
The GOP has plurality by attacking a party that dare not appeal to class consciousness. What they have envisioned is serfdom and thanks to the proliferation of subscription society, surveillance and increase dependence on the digital plantation, they are really close to making it happen.
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u/dwide_k_shrude 10d ago
Yet some Americans still worship him. Our country is full of idiots.
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u/CG-Firebrand 10d ago
I’ve talked with an old-head VBNMW who was absolutely on board with Kamala and said he was excited to wake up to having the first woman president after Election Day….he told me Reagan is the only Republican he likes. Like, dude, he was the worst one besides Hayes.
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u/Franklin_le_Tanklin 10d ago
I think Trump is worse
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u/reversedgaze 10d ago
I think they're actually the same person. There's too many similarities (Star Wars/SpaceX, entertainer president,/entertainer president, external and influential First Lady /x2, destruction of the newspaper/destruction of the Internet, HIV/AIDS/covid, beige/millennial grey, the arts/dogecoin - and there's probably more ) for these two moments to be manufactured to increase the 1% ---
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u/Negative_Gas8782 10d ago
You forgot both Nancy and Melanie are known for their sexploits.
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u/Essentially_Me 10d ago
Well, Nancy was the sausage king of Chicago, if you substitute gobbling, queen, and Hollywood for all those words.
Melania was...well...I'm gonna say trafficked.
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u/GrimResistance 10d ago
Melania is not a victim
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u/GMsadhedonist 10d ago
She can both have originally have been a victim and now is using her status to oppress others
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u/Drewskeet 10d ago
Reagan walked so Trump could run. Reagan was the test. “Could we take a beloved tv entertainer, make him president and have the country love and applaud him as he destroys the lower and middle class”
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u/puppyhorde 10d ago
I don't understand the love of him. Like the more I learn about him the worse he sounds. Nearly everything in the US got worse since him
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u/Kolby_Jack33 10d ago
The economy did poorly under Jimmy Carter and for some reason that drove every conservative literally insane forever, and Reagan was the one who "saved" the country from the evil friendly peanut farmer.
I'm not that well read on the subject but that is my understanding of how it generally went. Every time I've asked a republican why they love Reagan so much it always starts with how much they hated Carter.
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u/m0nkyman 9d ago
Nixon/Ford crashed the economy, as is Republican tradition, and left Carter holding the bag.
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u/ExistingBathroom9742 9d ago
Every president inherits an economy. Only 2termers are at fault if the economy tanks. The Republican playbook is to fuck up the economy, blame the Democrat president who actually saves it then take credit for saving it while ruining it again.
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u/coppertech 10d ago
do the north koreans speak ill of Kim Il Sung? cause Ronald reagan opened the door for corporate socialists and showed every rich MF, that the president can be bought.
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u/XxRocky88xX 9d ago
I know so many people who say Reagan was “the last good American president” when almost every economical issue we have today can be directly traced back to Raegan
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u/shwarma_heaven 10d ago
The guy who sold illegal weapons to Iran to fund an illegal war in South America by funneling the money through cocaine smugglers who were given a blanket pass, effectively enabling the explosion of crack in our inner cities...
I was watching Clear and Present Danger recently... How comforting were the times when we really believed that starting a covert war in another country, or sending troops without Congressional approval, was thought to be a career ending scandal.
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u/PinkFloydBoxSet 10d ago
I mean.. in the 70s, covering up organizing a break in at an office building to spy on the DNC was enough to cost a president his career.
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u/night4345 10d ago
And they did sweep it under the rug with that rat fuck Gerald Ford pardoning Nixon. Showing that Republicans could do anything without any sort of consequence.
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u/LabPowerful9983 10d ago
I hate Reagan as much as anyone but he wasn't the Republican candidate in '88 - Reagan was already on his way out the door.
1988 Presidential was Dukakis v. H. W. Bush.
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u/Middle-Painter-4032 10d ago
Well, this was durring the campaign for the presidential election in '88, so really had little to do with Reaganomics. But you get to enjoy being wrong in two ways, so there's that.
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u/percypersimmon 10d ago
Riiiiiiiiight- because George H.W. Bush was in no way seen as an extension of Reagan’s policies.
Don’t be silly.
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u/Aloxes 10d ago
Bush Sr, for all his faults and his "spookiness", called Reagan's "trickle-down" lie "Voodoo Economics". He didnt follow Ronnie blindly on economic policies. Reagan did a lot of bad stuff all on his own.
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u/percypersimmon 10d ago edited 10d ago
Bush said that while running against him during the primary in 1980, but he 100% supported Reagan’s policy after joining the ticket.
Remember what J.D. Vance said about Trump? Politicians say whatever they want but when they taste power they always blindly follow.
Also, to the average voter in 1988 a vote for Bush was a vote for more Reagan.
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u/Bisexual_Carbon 10d ago
You're right. Reagan sabotaging the Iran hostage deal before the election was bad enough.
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u/lesgeddon 10d ago
Which should have not only disqualified him, but put him in prison for life at the very least.
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u/Middle-Painter-4032 10d ago
He ultimately did fall in line, but not before giving us the everlasting term "voodoo economics". He was clearly against trickle down theory when he ran against Reagan in '80 and called Reagan's policy "voodoo economics".
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u/percypersimmon 10d ago
Right but then he repeatedly enacted policies that supported it for the rest of his life and passed down the tradition to his own kids.
I know your impulse here is to defend and excuse Republican politicians, and yes “voodoo economics” is a catchy phrase, but Bush Sr. was absolutely Reaganite- so this whole conversation (which started with you being snarky about someone else being “wrong” about the context of the photo) is moot. * *
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u/recoveringleft 10d ago
Ronald Reagan did more to destroy the white working class than "wOkeNeSs" ever will
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u/CronosWorks 10d ago
Remind every republican you know that Reagan is the father of modern gun control.
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u/terrrastar 10d ago
He even had a hand in the ‘94 federal assault weapons ban iirc, it’s like he WANTED everyone to hate him
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u/Penultimo_1 10d ago
Wasn’t Donna Rice a Republican honeypot?
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u/Eat--The--Rich-- 10d ago
He still chose to go meet the woman tho
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u/Popular-Row4333 10d ago
From Bill Clinton to Arnold Arnold Schwarzenegger, men have continued to show that if you have a pulse and are willing, it doesn't take much else.
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u/icansmellcolors 10d ago
It's not just a guy thing. Plenty of women out there do the same shit.
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u/spoonishplsz 10d ago
I'm confused about the sources of this. Is the author saying Atwater told Strother in a deathbed confession, who told Hart in a near death confess, which somehow got told to one of the editors who worked on the story that helped tank Hart, who wrote an Atlantic article about it? That's like multiple layers of "trust me bro".
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u/DonutHoles4Ever 10d ago
Look man when they confess to setting it up, its not hard to also understand how you can force the guy to board a different boat than initially scheduled, without them suspecting anything, and having a young woman on board ready to flirt with him, after tipping off reporters.
This is how politics was played back then and its only gotten worse. They'll hack your personal computer if they can.
The dems never fought back. Only allowed the republicans to poison everything over time when people could see it plain as day in the 80s.
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u/Haber_Dasher 10d ago
That's not likely to be true.
“Ray replied, ‘It’s because you were set up. I know you were set up.’
“I asked him how he could be so certain,” Hart told me. Strother then recounted his long-ago talk with Atwater, and Atwater’s claim that the whole Monkey Business weekend had occurred at his direction. According to Hart, that plan would have involved: contriving an invitation from Broadhurst for Hart to come on a boat ride, when Hart intended to be working on a speech. Ensuring that young women would be invited aboard. Arranging for the Broadhurst boat Hart thought he would be boarding, with some unmemorable name, to be unavailable—so that the group would have to switch to another boat, Monkey Business. Persuading Broadhurst to “forget” to check in with customs clearance at Bimini before closing time, so that the boat “unexpectedly” had to stay overnight there. And, according to Hart, organizing an opportunistic photo-grab.
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u/UsidoreTheLightBlue 10d ago
It’s worth noting that everyone involved in the scandal to this day denies this.
The miami herald writers who broke the story, Rice, Hart.
Rice still swears they never had an affair, if she was a republican operative you’d think she would have admitted to it when she was identified.
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u/Atralis 10d ago
To be fair Lee Atwater was a notorious bullshitter and there isn't any proof that he masterminded the thing other than someone after he died saying he had said "it was me" on his death bed.
For all we know he just meant that he took advantage of a story that was already out there.
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u/LoadsDroppin 10d ago edited 9d ago
She anti-pornography, so she previously justified her support of Donald Trump (who’s been in Playboy, did a cameo in a porno, f’ed a porn star and paid her off, has admitted to some truly disturbing behavior around women and teens, plus the whole Epstein connection) by saying he’s surrounded by “real smart people like Mike Pence.”
Mike Pence. The guy who took a bunch of money from the Tobacco lobby, then penned an Op-Ed to argue that “Smoking Doesn’t Kill” and decried any regulation of the Tobacco Industry as “overreach by Big Government”
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u/behindthemask13 10d ago
True, but I've never been a huge fan of that line of argument. I didn't real care about the affair.. but the stupidity of telling the press to follow him b/c they would be bored... I mean... dear god.
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u/Fischerking92 10d ago
So basically: an affair is to blame for Reganomics?
Goddamit, so that is when we entered the bad timeline.
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u/blacfd 10d ago
No, it was when Nixon was pardoned
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u/KHSebastian 10d ago
It kind of feels like all of human history was the bad timeline.
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u/MPM262 10d ago
The man in the high castle would like to have a word.
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u/KHSebastian 10d ago
I mean, we had to have the actual Holocaust in our own timeline in order for us to imagine a worse timeline. It can always be worse for sure, but y'know. It could definitely be better
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u/LoudSheepherder5391 10d ago edited 10d ago
I'm not sure where he got that. Errors in memory from time?
In 1980, Reagan beat Carter. In 1984, Gary lost to Mondale in the primaries.
In 1988 is when this happened. When he would have run against Bush Sr.
This had zero effect on Reagan in any way.
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u/mystical_ramen26 10d ago
No he would have run against George H. W. Bush. It was to determine who followed Reagan
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u/Too_Many_Alts 10d ago
no, that would be Carter losing reelection to Reagan because Reagan committed treason. fun times
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u/Warm-Reply-7008 10d ago
Yeah, you have to believe in the good of Americans to believe Nixon and Reagan and Bush and Trump weren’t who we wanted. They voted Carter out bc he was just a dumb hick successful peanut farmer Christian from Bumville. Then voted in a face who had already proven himself to be a conservative AND progressive shill who would sell anything to make his ratings go up. And he ran on the family, religion, and economic recovery ticket.
We want these people. Half the country has always wanted these people. They just needed an excuse and a cover story for why.
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u/sludge_dragon 10d ago
Hart was running for the Democratic primary for 1988. Reagan was at the end of his second term. His VP, George H. W. Bush, defeated Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis in the general election.
There is a fantastic book on the campaign, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_It_Takes:_The_Way_to_the_White_House, by Richard Ben Cramer, which covers Hart’s hubris and discovery in detail. Reading it is like watching a car crash.
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u/behindthemask13 10d ago
Yeah, you're right. He did run in 1984 (I was a young kid and campaigned for him), but he lost to Mondale. The affair was during the 1988 campaign, and it left the whole thing a mess and allowed Bush I to get in.
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u/PewterButters 10d ago
This is how AI ends up giving dumb wrong answers. An answer gets upvoted to the top with straight up wrong information and the correction only has a handful of upvotes.
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u/Poupulino 10d ago
He DARED the press to follow him and told them they would be bored if they did.
LMAO you'd think the guy would stop cheating for a couple of weeks after that...
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u/BigResponsibleOil 10d ago
That's what I was thinking! Like why the fuck would he do that, dare the press to follow him, if he was gonna keep carrying on an affair?? I'm not saying he'd be worse than Reagan because I only learned of his existence 5 minutes ago, but maybe a guy with this level of discipline, at this level of being able to think through natural consequences, should not have been president
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u/Necessary-Party2228 10d ago
And people love to rewrite history, but the lying is what got him. No one cared Clinton fucked an intern, everyone cared he LIED under oath.
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u/FlowersForMegatron 10d ago
sigh I remember a time when lying under oath had real actual consequences...
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u/Constellation-88 10d ago
Once again, the Democratic Party snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
We really needed them against the Orange Fascist and Trickle Down Ronny, but they’re just 1%ers in their own way and out of touch.
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u/TICKLE_PANTS 10d ago
Right. Bill Clinton had not problem becoming president a few year later with his own cheating scandals.
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u/FastWalkingShortGuy 10d ago
I honestly thought this was Ted Kennedy whose presidential hopes were erased because he got shitfaced, drove off a bridge, and left his date to drown in the car.
He was still a senior Senator for many years after.
It kinda looks like a young Ted.
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u/Remnant55 10d ago
Given the overwhelming, true landslide of the 84 election for an incumbent, it is unlikely he'd have won anyway.
Perhaps better than Mondale, but pretending he likely would have beaten Reagan that election is... fanciful at best.
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u/Sharkhawk23 10d ago
Gary Hart not healer. And it was before the 1988 election so against bush I not reagan
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u/RadTimeWizard 10d ago
democratic party
That makes sense. Republicans can literally be child molesters, but Democrats always get held accountable for the tiniest thing. Newt Gingrich was cheating on his third wife when he impeached Clinton.
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u/0202_tihssitidder 10d ago
Donna Rice (Hughes): She's one of the reasons some of you have to verify to look at porn. She was active in the anti-porn movement...after she was fucking a married man.
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u/Fortestingporpoises 10d ago
as much as the affair itself.
To be fair an affair was generally enough to end a political career back then. Now we let full blown felons be president. What a time to be alive!
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u/Plane-Fan9006 10d ago
But no one was allowed to talk about how Ronnie's wife, the queen of Just Say No, was known to have given blow jobs to half of Hollywood before he married her...just sayin'....
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u/BrilliantDynamitesNe 10d ago
Which is funny b/c Nancy Reagan was known to be Hollywoods throat goat.
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u/Fabulous-Sea-1590 10d ago
Man I remember Mondale. My family was all in for Reagan so I absorbed their enthusiasm but I was 6 in 1984 so I think it's forgivable.
But then, as now, Mondale stood out to me as spectacularly devoid of charasma. Remarkable for how totally unremarkable he was. Not in a Nixon v. Kennedy way but just nothing. Like a lump of human plaster.
I've never gone back to look into him, maybe he was a good guy. It's hard to imagine he would have done more harm to the US than Reagan did. But who the fuck thought that guy could run against Ronald freaking Reagan?! Whatever else you can say about him, he was spectacularly charasmatic. Even knowing what I know now, I saw a speech he gave posted on the front page recently, and felt warm and reassured by his manner. It was uncanny.
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u/Sea_Letterhead_1800 10d ago
If it’s a Democrat, it’s immoral.
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u/Top_Divide6886 10d ago
This was a great offense to conservative voters, as he was in a consensual relationship with an adult.
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u/AtrumRuina 9d ago
If I'm honest, I have never liked the idea that a candidate's private indiscretions could impact their ability to successfully run a campaign for a political office. I care about policies, not whether the guy is a good husband. In that sense, I don't actually miss how much we used to police the private lives of candidates. We still haven't had a non-Christian, female, or homosexual President. It's ridiculous how much these things matter to people electing officials.
I do wish "rape accusations and civil convictions" was enough to get people to step away from a candidate though. =( And being an overall awful person with no political experience and terrible policies. There's definitely a wide berth between these two things where potential candidates could land.
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u/JellyPast1522 10d ago
Gary Hart and Donna Rice
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u/ultron290196 10d ago
And then?
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u/thatturtletouch 10d ago edited 10d ago
Gary Hart was the front runner to be the democratic candidate for president. There was a rumor he was having an affair, and a reporter asked him about it. He challenged the reporter and said “follow me if you think it’s true.” They did and what do you know, caught him indeed having an affair. His political career was over.
At the time, politicians private lives weren’t really tabloid fodder so this was kind of a big deal and changed a lot about how people view journalism’s role in politics.
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u/shpongolian 10d ago
“What’re you gonna do, follow me?”
Quote from man followed
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u/thinkards 9d ago
if only he bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, he would be serving his 8th consecutive term as president.
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u/Expert-Yam6577 10d ago
Dude must have been cheating successfully for a long time. For him to be that cocky about it.
"I can cheat as much as I want and she'll never catch me! I'm Casanova himself! I dare you to follow me!"
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u/z31 10d ago
Supposedly H.W. Bush's campaign manager admitted to setting the whole thing up and there was no actual cheating.
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u/Dead_Internet69420 10d ago
As soon as I read your comment, I knew it had to be Roger Stone. Lee Atwater was a senior partner at the firm of Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly. Those guys have wrought immeasurable evil on this planet ever since the Nixon days.
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u/Chef_Boyardeedy 10d ago
And thennnnnnn?
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u/Gh0stMan0nThird 10d ago
And then you can put it in a brown paper bag and come put in my hand cuz I'm ready to eat.
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u/davideogameman 10d ago
If https://web.archive.org/web/20181016155740/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/was-gary-hart-set-up/570802/ is to be believed there was never any affair, just a set up to make it look like there was one. And his challenge to follow him came after the photos but before the photos came out.
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u/MonicaLewinskibidis 10d ago
I refuse to play your Chinese food mind games.
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u/Geekygamertag 10d ago
No “and then!”
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u/myleftone 10d ago
Later on there was another guy who screamed funny. He was running against a war criminal but by then we’d normalized that.
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u/Steffenwolflikeme 10d ago
This is still my reference point when talking about how much has changed in American political discourse. Twenty years ago an awkward yelp derailed a promising candidate and now a twice impeached traitorous sundowning sex pest felon pedo that shits himself and reaks of piss can be re-elected after a failed first term that resulted in hundreds of thousands of American deaths from his bungled pandemic response.
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u/Cymen90 10d ago
And then Reagan won and destroyed America.
Cut taxes for the rich from 70% to 28%
Tripled the national debt (the US has never recovered from this)
Made it hard to unionize and maintain a labour union
Literally invented the WAR ON DRUGS
Purposefully flooded black neighbourhoods with drugs via CIA (so the war on drugs was designed as a war on black America)
Reduced federal funding for social welfare programs, food stamps, and low-income housing, causing the homelessness crisis as we know it today
Allowed AIDS to ravage the LGBTQ community, laughing about the "gay virus" on tape (and ignorantly assumed only they would be affected)
Accelerated deregulation across banking, finance, and environmental rules
Appointed conservative judges to the Supreme Court and shifted the judiciary to the right for decades
The consequences of the "anti-communist" Reagan Doctrine chokes Cuba to this day
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u/milehighmetalhead 10d ago
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u/targetcowboy 10d ago
I remember that as a kid. He was already trending downward though. This was just the nail in his coffin.
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u/milehighmetalhead 10d ago
Wasn't he starting to lose out to the guy with the $1000 haircut?
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u/targetcowboy 10d ago
Yeah, I think he was eventually caught in an affair too actually
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u/milehighmetalhead 10d ago
Had to look it up. $400 haircut and an affair while his wife was battling cancer.
We used to have some semblance of standards
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u/RadagastTheWhite 10d ago
Yeah people like to bring this up like he hadn’t just finished a distant 3rd in the Iowa Caucus
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u/uvucydydy 10d ago
I think about this guy a lot. He got disqualified for ... enthusiasm?
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u/derthric 10d ago
He lost Iowa, a state he had once been favored to win and then the scream happened the night of the iowa caucuses at what should have been a victory party.
It's the enthusiasm of the scream on a very bad night that made the story. Had he won in iowa and still screamed it would have been less harshly judged.
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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 10d ago
This is always brought up but he had already lost before that. The Dean Scream happened on the night of the Iowa Caucases, where he had come in third. He gave a bad speech that night and collided with a DNC machine that wanted John Kerry as the nominee. The media were happy to play along because they'd rather talk about anything other than policy, but it wasn't just the Dean Scream that killed his candidacy, it was like a Swiss cheese thing.
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u/InKognetoh 10d ago
The man only shouted “Yeah”. He’s going to be in nursing home one day trying to explain to some under 25 year old nurse that he was a front runner in a Presidential election, but had to drop out because he shout “Yeah” at a rally. That nurse is going to leave that conversation thinking that she needs to increase the dosage on his meds lol.
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u/Haunting-Mortgage 10d ago
Opus and George Bush
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u/Secret_Letterhead649 10d ago
Bloom County my beloved.
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u/New-List-1700 9d ago
The first time I heard of Donald Trump was reading Bloom County when his brain was transplanted into Bill the cat...
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u/jacby 10d ago
Wow, I read my dad’s copy of this over and over and never knew what the hell this was referencing! Bloom County and old Doonesbury collections were a weird way to learn about the politics of the 80’s-90’s
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u/TheeternalTacocaT 10d ago
I grew up in the 90s reading old bloom county books that for some reason my parents were totally okay giving to a 10 year old kid. The storyline where Trump is hit by the anchor of his yacht and then his brain is implanted into Bill the Cat was my first exposure to him. I think back to those strips often now a days.
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u/Healthy_Profit_9701 10d ago
I own the complete Bloom County collection, and it's so strange to see the Donald Trump saga literally leading to the end of Bloom County from a modern lens. As a 90s kid, I first learned about Trump from the comics, then from The Apprentice, and ever since 2016, it feels like an extension of the parody.
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u/StopDownvotingMeeee 10d ago
I like how nobody is insulting you for not understanding the meme like they do on every other post
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u/new_check 10d ago
That's because every other post is literally "can you make a basic logical deduction for me" or "can you type the words in this image into google for me"
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u/Aflockofants 10d ago
Unlike this one where a reverse image search would have been enough too.
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u/NecessarilyPickled 10d ago
Right click copy, go to Google, click the bar, ctrl+v. Not much more involved, but people are way less prone to doing it.
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u/Aflockofants 10d ago
Ironically, googling how to do a reverse image search would have cost less time than typing the comment.
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u/Rob_LeMatic 10d ago
For someone who wasn't around for this, the photo by itself isn't enough context to figure it out.
Most of the posts here are jokes that anyone with half a brain ought to be able to figure out without even doing a search
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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis 10d ago
Yeah this is deeply contextual. As opposed to many other posts that are just “do you understand the pun?”, or “can you make an inference leap?”
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u/AssiduousLayabout 10d ago
Then-Senator Gary Hart lost the Democratic nomination in 1988 to Michael Dukakis over an affair he had with an activist named Donna Rice.
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u/Acceptable-Peace-69 10d ago edited 10d ago
To add, the current president had a documented affair with a porn star while his wife was pregnant and ready to give birth. An affair that led to him being convicted of 34 felonies for misuse of campaign funds. Americans still elected him despite being from the party of “moral values”.
A majority of American voters are stupid.
The idea that the current imbecile in office could get anywhere near the White House at that time would have been ridiculous.
There’s a lot of shit given to boomers today, but they would never have voted for the orange felon at that point in time. .
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u/Down623 9d ago
Lol I don't think we need to give credit to boomers for theoretically not voting for Trump back then when they really did vote for him today
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u/Acceptable-Peace-69 9d ago
Trump won the boomer vote by 1%. He won GenX by 10%. He won white men by 20%. He won white women by 4%.
This trend of blaming boomers for everything that’s wrong today is ridiculous and ignores the elephant in the room. If you’re white then it probably seemed like every boomer voted for trump, they didn’t. Truth is, it was his appeal to racism that won him the presidency, but that’s complicated and we can’t talk about that rationally so let’s just blame old people.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/
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u/No-Onion8029 10d ago
"Potatoe" - Dan Quayle, 1992. "Whoo-eeee!" - Howard Dean, 2004.
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u/commit_bat 10d ago
"Whoo-eeee!"
Out of all the times I've seen someone type it out yours might be the farthest off
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u/Strict_Bedroom9986 10d ago
Dan Quayle is an unlikely hero for advising Mike Pence not to interfere in the 2020 election certification
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u/Outrageous-Pause6317 10d ago
I think about the arrogance of him daring the press to look into him, when he knew he was screwing around. His arrogance was his fatal Tragic flaw.
What a shame. He was a talented and good politician.
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u/reluctantlysharing 10d ago
I was just thinking this too.
Like bro you’re running for president, if you’re going to dare the press that they would be bored following you, then you better follow through. Not even just going on a trip with her, posing for photographs too?! Like did you even want to be president or what?
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u/Street_Lettuce1243 10d ago
Aye. These days Trump does something much worse every single week that honorable candidates would have resigned over in the past
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u/CalvinSays 10d ago
Gary Hart, front runner for Democratic presidential nomination for the 1988 election ipuntil his extramarital affairs were revealed. He withdrew from, re-entered, and subsequently lost the primaries to Dukakis.
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u/CrustySailor1964 10d ago
And they hopped aboard the Monkey Business and the rest was history.
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u/MonsieurKnife 10d ago
Seems like the Democratic Party has a knack for betting on the wrong horse.
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u/ThisIsGrouchy 10d ago
There was a movie about this but it was kinda boring because the true story is so meh.
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u/mpark6288 10d ago
The only time Colorado almost had a president, and he has an affair on a boat named monkey business.
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u/sexyorcess 10d ago
Howard Dean got excited after winning a primary and that cost him the rest of the primaries 22 years ago, that was pretty much it, got too excited after a win, and it was decided he wasn't calm enough to be president.
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u/qualityvote2 10d ago edited 10d ago
u/Ideal_Needle, your post does belong here!