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[–] 62 points 3 years ago* (11 children)

It actually isn't "everything you need to know", because this is straight-up misleading. You've removed the two candidates to the left of Pence (Christie and Hutchinson) who did not raise their hands when asked if they would support Trump as the nominee.

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    [–] 45 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Part of what makes that whole thing weird is that in order to take part in the debate, they had to sign a statement saying that they would support the eventual GOP candidate. That's why Trump wasn't allowed to participate: he wants to option to go rogue if he doesn't get the nomination. Typically, though, I'd expect him to just lie if he wanted to go that route.

    For everyone at the debate, though, if they said that they wouldn't support Trump as the nominee, they would be going against the word of the document they just signed. Definitely a lose-lose situation for them. (Though they are the ones who created the Trump problem in the first place, so it serves them right)

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Chris Christie signed the pledge, and stated that he intends to break it if Trump wins. Back in 2016, Trump signed the pledge, then did not raise his hand when the question was asked in a debate.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    also i wouldnt blame anyone here who said no i wouldnt support trump, besides the obvious (t)reason, the fucker isnt even following the same rules as they are. hes not there raising his hand in support of the republican party and their choices if they dont involve him. he gets to say i wont show up and do the same but then they have to be like yeah i will support him if for some reason this is all for nothing and everyone is wasting their time right now. fuck that. if he somehow gets the nomination anyway i hope they all enjoy their faces being eaten.....

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Are there transcripts of these debates available? I don’t want to watch an hour of trash

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    No full transcripts I was able to find yet (only found 2020 and earlier transcripts online). Did find some summaries and take-aways:

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/08/23/republican-gop-debate-live-updates/70653558007/

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/us/politics/republican-debate-takeaways.html

    https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/23/first-republican-debate-highlights-00112617

    https://www.npr.org/2023/08/24/1195589204/up-first-briefing-gop-debate-trump-to-surrender-russia-plane-crash-mystery

    and

    https://www.npr.org/2023/08/24/1195577120/republican-debate-candidates-trump-pence-ramaswamy-haley-christie-milwaukee-2024

    Edit: Regarding the allusions from the meme I the OP:

    From the NPR article:

    Surprisingly, perhaps, almost all of the candidates stood up for former Vice President Mike Pence and said he did the right thing on Jan. 6 in his ceremonial role in counting and recording the results of the 2020 presidential election.

    Pence noted that Trump asked him to reject the votes and "asked me to put him over the Constitution, and I chose the Constitution."

    From the Politico article:

    Asked if they would support Trump as the party’s nominee even if he was convicted of a crime, 6 of 8 candidates raised their hands — with varying degrees of enthusiasm — with only Christie and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson indicating they would not support the former president again.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Did this seriously fucking happen?

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    This picture does cut off the two candidates on the left who didn't raise their hands, and I'm not 100% Pence raised his hand in supporting Trump but don't remember. Otherwise more or less accurate.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    This picture does cut off the two candidates on the left who didn’t raise their hands, and I’m not 100% Pence raised his hand in supporting Trump but don’t remember. Otherwise more or less accurate.

    jfc. 12 solid years of trying to follow this fucking shitshow of a country and I just can't handle it these days.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I think it's one of the reasons I've been following Ukraine so closely. It's a sad conflict, but it gives me a sense of hope seeing united people who genuinely give a fuck about their country and what they can achieve.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    Interesting.....

    I think I'm doing the same thing without realizing it until you mentioned it. If that's the case, it is really fucked up train of thought and speaks volumes about the state of the world right now.... .

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (11 children)

    No but kinda. These questions were never asked. Its paraphrased. I mean these are literally both the exact same photo.

    The exact question that was asked is:

    "If former President Trump is convicted in a court of law, would you still support him as your party's choice?"

    They cut out one guy who didn't raise his hand on the far left and also Chris Christie on the left who half-raised his hand with one finger.

    Also no one raised their hands immediately. There was a short pause and then they all went up from right to left. As if they weren't sure it was safe to say so unless their co-conspiratora did.

    So yeah, all of these people said they would support a convicted criminal for President. Including the guy that the criminal nearly had killed.

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  • [+] 21 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] 19 points 3 years ago

    "Who here is campaigning to be VP?"

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Who thinks climate change is caused by human activity? - Desantis immediately derailed this question, I think only about half actually ended up answering

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    [–] 14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Was this a debate or an advertisment for trump?

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    It boiled down to there being no real policy to improve the country, just rhetoric and culture war bullshit and pandering about God and men in sports.

    The two candidates who said out loud that they don't support Trump, Hutchinson and Christi, got booed by the crowd.

    It's hilarious to me that not supporting Trump will kill a Republican's campaign, but supporting him means you think he deserves the nomination and so therefore killing your campaign. They created this Trump problem, now they need to eat shit as it destroys them.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago*
    1. you need to make a better effort at seperating the two pictures, i was not sure where the first ended and the second ended
    2. otherwise good Meme. like it a lot. upvoted.
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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    The rules don't matter, power is all they care about. Acting all astonished every time conservatives ignore laws is naive

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    [+] 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Thanks! I think most people get that. I was just thinking if memes should come with explanations and disclaimers now days? lol

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    ITT: People who get their news from memes apparently.

    You did nothing wrong. If people want to base their votes on what they see in memes then... Oh wait there's already a political party for that. They just had a debate the other night.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    So they would also violate their oaths once elected? Did that question get asked?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Traitors, the lot of them.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Five candidates. All fucking pieces of shit.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    So even if you jail him or bar him from re-election, Trumps just going to have puppet run for him on the outside?

    That'd almost be worse because he won't be bound to any of the rules of a president, he'd be able to pardon himself by proxy, and not have any accountability for the puppets actions.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Wait, they did a GOP debate without trump? Was he busy or something?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    He announced he won't take part in the debates

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    There's zero benefit to Trump in participating in the debates. He's way, way out in front of the other Republicans, it could only serve to hurt him. Instead he did a taped Tucker Carlson interview that I think they aired at the same time (I didn't watch either one).

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Is that real? I'm 99.999% sure it is, but I'd like confirmation.

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    I think a lot of people are taking this very literally and some are claiming I'm misleading people. For context, the top portion of the picture did not happen exactly like that. They each individually said that Pence did the right thing by essentially choosing the constitution and his oath of office over Trumps request that he violate it. There was no hand raising for that question. The second half of the image was when they were asked if they would raise their hands to indicate if they would support Trump if he were the nominee. I cropped out Asa Hutchison and Chris Christie who did not raise their hands. I'm getting some flack for that but whatever... It's a meme. I'm not a reputable news source or a reporter. I just made this because I thought it was ridiculous.

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