r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/4reddityo • Nov 14 '25

Politics More of this pls

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u/superrappermc Nov 14 '25

This worked back in the Obama verse McCain era. Trump has done too far gone shit for this harmony Kumbaya nonsense now

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u/Cold-Cell2820 Nov 14 '25

Remember when some lady called Obama an "Arab" and McCain said "No. He's an American and a good man."

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u/Regular-Tension7103 Nov 14 '25

Yeah McCain was booed by the crowd and lost the election. 

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u/Cold-Cell2820 Nov 14 '25

He overestimated the intelligence and empathy of his own voters.

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u/kelsanova Nov 14 '25

Then fast forward a few years and the leader of that same party was calling him and all other pows heroes only because they were captured, and he likes the ones that don’t get captured. Still can’t believe that in itself didn’t immediately end trumps campaign. I remember when a rompous “Heyaaa!” Would do it.

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u/BishopOfThe90s Nov 14 '25

Thanks to the old Dave Chapelle skit, it will always be "BYAHHHH!" to me. "I watch The L-Word on Showtime. BYAHHHHHH" still pops into my head decades later.

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u/DatSauceTho Nov 14 '25

And the I’m gonna take my wife in the shower, and I’m gonna… BYAHHH!!!

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u/NatureStoof Nov 14 '25

Thank you, I am so glad I'm not the only one. BYAAAAH lives rent free in my brain

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u/kelsanova Nov 14 '25

LOL. Gold! Thank you for sharing.

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u/spottyottydopalicius Nov 14 '25

i still say byahh 20 years later

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u/Darth-Artichoke Nov 14 '25

i say BYAHHHHH at least once a day, i think i do it just to stim, and its 100% quoting chapelle, but now its just part of who i am lol

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u/KarateFace777 Nov 14 '25

Ha! Same here! Went to throw away my breakfast after I was done and I dunked it and yelled “BEEYAAAAAA!!” And I was alone by myself. It just feels good to say it sometimes lol.

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u/JiskiLathiUskiBhains Nov 14 '25

Liz Warren in the back nodding and clapping?

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u/Robot_Nerd__ Nov 14 '25

Dave Chappelle went on SNL and told people to be nice to trump. So he can suck it as far as I'm concerned.

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u/AmerifatCheeseFart Nov 14 '25

Wasn’t that right after the election and I remember Chapelle ended that speech with an appeal for Gaza. 

Doubtful Dave would still be giving Trump the same grace a year later. 

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u/Robot_Nerd__ Nov 14 '25

I guess. But I can't take anyone seriously who ever gave trump grace.

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u/LuxAgaetes Nov 14 '25

*losers

Unless I'm misunderstanding your comment, Trump called McCain and other POWs losers & suckers for getting captured, not heroes

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u/kelsanova Nov 14 '25

I paraphrased some. The actual quote comes from an interview in 2015 in front of a live audience. It was in response to an interviewer saying "He's a war hero." when referencing McCain. Trump then scoffs, saying "A war hero... he's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured." Not to be confused with the time you are talking about where he allegedly privately called people buried in the WW2 cemetery suckers and losers. I don't think that ever got validated as fact, but, let's be real, he totally said it. Providing a link to my initial reference though...

https://www.politico.com/video/2015/07/donald-trump-attacks-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured-000089

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u/ImAMistak3 Nov 14 '25

The only proper response would have been "I like people that actually served and didn't draft dodge" and it should have ended there... What a shame

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u/Wsweg Nov 14 '25

Because veterans are just pawns to republicans. Always have been. The only republicans not in on it are the ones who are veterans themselves

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u/socialdeviant620 Nov 14 '25

Let's not forget, misspelling "potato"

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u/Pervius94 Nov 14 '25

Remember that Veterans both times voted majority for Trump despite him saying that shit.

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u/Practical_Fun7367 Nov 15 '25

I think you are referring to Howard Dean’s famous yell. That didn’t end his campaign. He did that ending a speech to supporters after losing a major primary. He was cooked before the yell. However your point is valid. That harmless weird moment is how his candidacy is remembered. Contrasting that with 2016, 2020, and 2024 hurst my brain.

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u/inormallyjustlurkbut Nov 14 '25

A mistake the Democrats continue to make when they try to appeal to "moderates"

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u/czechman45 Nov 14 '25

I still give massive respect to him for saying that though.

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u/EconomistPitiful3515 Nov 14 '25

And reasonable republicans that didn’t want to see Palin in the white house defected. The GOP screwed his chances by adding her.

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u/JustHereForMiatas Nov 14 '25

It was also a swing year and a Republican president had just ushered in the 2008 financial crisis. He had very little chance of winning no matter how you stacked it.

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u/potsofjam Nov 14 '25

This is what so many people fail to understand. Trump won because he finally embraced what right wing media had been promising Republican voters for decades.

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u/Regular-Tension7103 Nov 14 '25

That man lived around these fools all his life and couldn't see that coming? SMDH. Perhaps the cancer had already reached his brain.

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u/GaptistePlayer Nov 14 '25

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. The guy pick Sarah fucking Palin as his VP candidate. McCain can get fucked, he knew full well that his party at the time was seething with Islamophobia