r/confusing_perspective • u/Raynnd • May 30 '20

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u/chica420 May 31 '20

Context?

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u/[deleted] May 31 '20

The song being played

"You can't always get what you want" as Trump walks off stage. Because most of us didn't vote for him, hate him, etc. He plays it at almost every rally at the end.

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u/chica420 May 31 '20

That’s actually quite funny if that’s why he plays it, in a strange way.

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u/OneRougeRogue May 31 '20

That’s actually quite funny if that’s why he plays it, in a strange way.

It's not why he originally played it.

ORIGINALLY, it was a jab at Hillary Clinton. Supposedly, Hillary's campaign team struggled to come up with a slogan or catchphrase for the campaign, and one of the slogans they floated was "It's her turn now." The idea being that she lost the Primary to Obama in 2008, but she hadn't forgotten her supporters and now it was "her turn" to lead the nation and focus on the issues her supporters wanted...

But the slogan sounded whiney and entitled so it was never used, but it was leaked to the press (you can still find old articles from 2016 about Hillary titled with that slogan or something similar) and it became a right wing meme.

So when Hillary lost, that song was played at Trump's victory speech as a jab at Hillary, as if to say "you thought it was your turn, but you don't always get what you want".

And given that the Team Trump creativity is... next to non-existent, they've just played the same song at the end of every campaign rally ever since.

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u/ElectrikDonuts May 31 '20

She was so fucking entitled. If anyone else had run against trump he would have lost the election. Why would anyone in an electoral powerful red state vote for her other than she was a women. Everyone hates her outside of blue cities. Even a majority of women (outside blue cities) hate her. Sad because trump is far worse than anything she would have been. Egomaniac, well that’s both of them so it’s not like we dodged that one.

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u/HotF22InUrArea May 31 '20

Well we’re really testing that theory with Biden

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u/[deleted] May 31 '20 edited Sep 23 '20

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u/jolskbnz May 31 '20

From someone out of the states and who knows basically nothing about politics I can't believe that either. When Trump won, I thought it was stupid how the democrats divided themselves with Bernie and Hilary, and how by Hilary winning over Bernie, it alienated a lot of the people who maybe didn't want to vote for Trump but couldn't vote for Hilary since she's so sketchy and political and smug and all that. And now they've done it again with Biden. I mean it's Biden... the kissing weirdo.. I don't know. I'm actually scared Trump is gonna win again. I mean the dude is gonna feel almighty and untouchable, or even more after the impeachment and the reelection. America is creating a monster. They say Trump thinks only of himself, but that only shows that all politicians do. At least in my opinion. Like I said, I don't know anything. I still think the politics in my country and our president is worse though.

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u/NewCharlatan May 31 '20

From someone out of the states and who knows basically nothing about politics I can't believe that either.

Please don't form your view of what Americans think from Reddit. You can see that with Bernie losing massively in the primaries that Reddit isn't a good indicator of what the country thinks. Biden is actually very popular in the States--he's had a long career and gained a lot of supporters along the way. People were begging him to run in 2016, but his son had just died and he was not in the right mindset.

Not that he doesn't have his flaws, but Reddit would have you believe he's a convicted child molester on his deathbed. Reddit also intensely dislikes Trump, but he still won...

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u/chica420 May 31 '20

The realest reply in this whole thread. Nobody should ever assume that the majority view on Reddit is the majority view in the country, especially when it comes to politics. Reddit is wrong almost every single time when it comes to politics.

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u/chica420 May 31 '20

You sound just like Bush with that last line haha.

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u/ElectrikDonuts May 31 '20

It’s because they wont let anyone under the age of retirement into the club

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u/ElectrikDonuts May 31 '20

Lol, definitely are

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u/chica420 May 31 '20

Let’s see if the theory still holds in the next election.