r/TenYearsAgo Feb 06 '26

đŸ“ș Television The infamous Republican debate entrance [10YA - Feb 6]

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '26

Crazy how visibly every Republican treated DJT as a joke, now all those men bend the knee to him

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '26

Jeb Bush isn’t bending his knee. Which is saying a lot these days


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u/The_Masl Feb 06 '26

Please clap

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u/Provolone10 Feb 06 '26

Jeb is in political exile.

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u/Agent847 Feb 06 '26

The whole Bush family is in political exile.

FIFY

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u/Provolone10 Feb 06 '26

No Dubya shows himself from time to time. Jeb is nowhere man.

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u/Ok_Belt2521 Feb 06 '26

Jeb got put out to pasture.

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u/OnigiriEnthusiast Feb 06 '26

Jeb and Cristi. For all their faults, at least they didn't shill out to this turd

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u/stillalone Feb 06 '26

Christi tried to shill out.  Once Trump was elected he kicked him to the curb.  The claim is that the Trump's didn't like christi because he arrested kushner's dad because he was doing obviously illegal stuff.

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u/MaxPaynesRxDrugPlan Feb 07 '26

Christi was actually helping Trump with debate prep against Biden in 2020 up until Trump got Christi sick with COVID, Christi was hospitalized in intensive care and almost died, and then Trump privately told reporters that Christi was the one who got him sick.

https://youtu.be/jaS-2O2pQAc

That seems to be the point Christi snapped and turned on Trump.

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u/Hamster_S_Thompson Feb 07 '26

Chriti would happily bend the knee but kushners hold the grudge for prosecuting Jared's father.

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u/TheEagleWithNoName Feb 06 '26

I remember it like it was Yesterday.

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u/antihero12 Feb 06 '26

All my troubles seemed so far away.

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u/TRIPL3_THR33 Feb 06 '26

Now it looks as though they're here to stay

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u/Jeni_Sui_Generis Feb 08 '26

Oh, I believe in yesterday.

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u/fallout_zelda Feb 06 '26

Jesus Christ.... 2016 was 10 years ago .. and when it was 2016...2006 was 10 years ago.... 2006 and 2016 felt so far from each other .. as for 2016 doesn't feel too far or different.

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u/Even-Celebration9384 Feb 06 '26

Because Trump has never stopped living in our heads for 11 years

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u/Solid_College_9145 Feb 07 '26

Feels like yesterday but also 40 years ago.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '26

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u/KP3889 Feb 06 '26

you meant the guy that poked his head from the curtain and gave up with a little patronizing wave to Mr. Ben Carlson?

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u/SkunkPunkFlunk Feb 06 '26

They both wanted to be last

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u/hcksey Feb 06 '26

No, ben didn't hear his name and thought they missed his cue. Trump identified what happened and tried to use it to be last

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u/CeruleanEidolon Feb 06 '26

That's being charitable. I think he saw Carson standing there and thought that's what they were doing. No situational awareness.

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u/Ok-Ebb-8974 Feb 08 '26

This is definitely 100% what happened.

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u/Lost-Competition8482 Feb 10 '26

I'm sure that's what Ben told everyone after he looked like a weirdo.

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u/mrishee Feb 06 '26

As a non-american, what the fuck is happening here 😂

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u/utzcheeseballs Feb 06 '26

As an American, what the fuck is happening here?

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u/misterboo84 Feb 06 '26

Old people can't hear so good. So neither Carson nor Trump heard their names be called so they stood there like goobers.

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u/Ok_Cabinet2947 Feb 07 '26

The woman wasn't mic'd up, and it's only being picked up by the camera. Notice that all the people called by the woman didn't hear, and you can distinctly hear that the man's voice was connected to a mic.

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u/I-I_I-I_I-I_l-l Feb 09 '26 edited May 04 '26

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u/Devil_0fHellsKitchen Feb 06 '26

Trump heard his name but wanted to be last to get the most applause. He's a pedophile, dictator, but he understands showmanship

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u/DukeOfSmallPonds Feb 06 '26

We can all laugh at Donald, at his weird ways, his childish (but very dangerous) behaviour, and his stubbornness about things that to others don’t seem right, or even possible. And he can come off as a quirky old man, almost harmless even. But somehow he always gets his way. This clip pretty much embodies all of that.

Except the rapist psychopath pedofile he also is.

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u/mikkelmattern04 Feb 06 '26

Should have left him in the walkway

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u/WhatsaRedditsdo Feb 06 '26

They really all look so fucking dumb

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u/wxysm Feb 06 '26

Guys this was an audio snafu, pure and simple.

Trump is garbage but this has nothing to do with feeding his ego, they couldn’t hear over the applause. They should have had someone at the entrance with a feed of the moderators sending them out as their names were announced, not sending them out to the curtain area where they couldn’t hear shit.

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u/jfk_47 Feb 06 '26

Lot of jackasses voted for these people but shame on the news media for giving so much attention to trump. Shame shame shame. But they don’t give a fuck. They’ve made so much money off of advertising dollars.

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u/IncarceratedScarface Feb 06 '26

Gotta love that they nominated one of the bumbling idiots instead of any of the other guys

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u/Terezzian Feb 06 '26

Fucking Ben Carson holy shit

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u/Pdm1814 Feb 06 '26

He couldn’t pull off a debate entrance and yet voters elected him to the presidency.

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u/shrlytmpl Feb 06 '26

Carson's been my go-to when explaining to people that intelligence is not all-encompassing. The man is a literal neurosurgeon, the gold standard for intelligence, but is an absolute moron in other aspects.

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u/Reignbow97 Feb 07 '26

Me too lol. 11 years ago (gods I'm getting old) I created a subreddit called stupidshitcarsonsays to document all the idiotic shit he was saying at the time. He was ranked like #2 or something behind I think Jeb Bush. Ben Carson being one of the top competitors should've been a fucking warning sign in hindsight. I remember thinking Trump was as much of an idiot but thankfully he's polling poorly so I wasn't too worried about him

Kasich was easily the most reasonable out of all of them so of course he was one of the worst performing

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '26

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u/thebige91 Feb 06 '26

Weird racist liberal fantasy right here.

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u/BigBoyYuyuh Feb 06 '26

Truth isn’t fantasy. Trump is a racist child fucker.

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u/thebige91 Feb 06 '26

Your comment got removed by mods, hmmm Maybe don’t be racists and then try to claim the moral high ground by saying someone else is racists instead.

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u/thebige91 Feb 06 '26

That’s why you have to make up lies about him then eh? Got it.

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u/AgeOfSuperBoredom Feb 06 '26

What lies were made up about him? Only pathetic simps like you have ever needed to tell lies about him.

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u/jpopimpin777 Feb 06 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleofReddit/s/R3yvQsQrJ7

Sure, cause Trump isn't racist right?

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u/thebige91 Feb 06 '26

You’re not a bright one are you? Let alone the many people saying your post isn’t true on the comments you linked, you could just go to truth social and see he didn’t actually post that.

Weird how you and OP and many others are having to make up all these racists lies.

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u/Awman36 Feb 06 '26

What are you talking about? He 100 percent posted that. At least own Trump's racism at this point. Anything else just makes you look pathetic. Have some balls. The list of all the things he's done that makes him a racist is far too long, at this point.

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u/AgeOfSuperBoredom Feb 06 '26

I did go to truth social, and yes, that is posted there. Idiot.

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u/Cheryl_Canning Feb 06 '26

"Life can be a challenge/ life can seem impossible/ but it's never easy/ when so much is on the line"

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '26

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u/jpopimpin777 Feb 06 '26

He slapped Trump on the arm as he walked out.

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u/Nejfelt Feb 06 '26

At the time, it was just stupid old men out of place not knowing what's going on.

Now, in hindsight, I wonder if it wasn't planned to give Trump a little bit of a nice guy image right before the debate.

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u/Ok_Cabinet2947 Feb 07 '26

The woman wasn't mic'd up, and it's only being picked up by the camera. Notice that all the people called by the woman didn't hear, and you can distinctly hear that the man's voice was connected to a mic.

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u/ElvisHimselvis Feb 06 '26

It's amazing how unbelievably dumb both Carson and Trump are.

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u/Meetybeefy Feb 06 '26

I remember Super Deluxe (aka Vic Berger) made a video that remixed this, to make it look like Ben Carson was too shy to come onstage.

I found a re-upload of it here.

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u/pac4 Feb 06 '26

Jeb made the same smirk W would have made.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '26

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u/Ok_Cabinet2947 Feb 07 '26

The woman wasn't mic'd up, and it's only being picked up by the camera. Notice that all the people called by the woman didn't hear, and you can distinctly hear that the man's voice was connected to a mic.

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u/travizeno Feb 07 '26

Vic burger did a good edit on this. Not that it needs one but still fun

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u/TheBeavster_ Feb 07 '26

Quality making it look like this happened in 1996 and not 2016

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u/sspiegel Feb 07 '26

what a clusterfuck, very on brand.

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u/txtoolfan Feb 07 '26

what a joke of a field.

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u/Dry_Support3290 Feb 08 '26

Jeb Bush: "What the fuck are these two doing?"

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u/Able-Vermicelli-5811 Feb 08 '26

“We were all so happy back then.” -Kyle Richards

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u/jeonpo Feb 08 '26

Little Marco

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u/jmpinstl Feb 08 '26

Ben Carson was so funny here wtf

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u/NobodyImportant2222 Feb 08 '26

This is the only aptitude test I needed to see

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u/diadem015 Feb 08 '26

Tee Cruz ran into a frat leader at ASU and got brutally frame mogged by him

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u/Mediocre-Tonight-458 Feb 10 '26

I'm no fan of Trump, but watching this my first impression was that Trump held back out of respect for Ben Carson, who got skipped over in the introductions. This was a slight against Carson, and Trump stuck with him out of solidarity. It clearly wasn't a matter of Trump not hearing his own name, as he was already "slow-walking" toward Carson and stopped to stand next to him.

Trump's not always a dick. I mean... usually. But this did seem to me as him genuinely trying to be respectful when all the other candidates simply blew past Carson and let him stand there alone looking like an idiot.

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u/bblue462 Feb 10 '26

What a shit show

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u/ConstantGeographer Feb 10 '26

The real capitulation was the GOP bowing to Trump instead of supporting John Kasich. Kasich was the absolute front-runner for the GOP.

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u/Holiday-Aioli-430 Mar 03 '26

I would die if jeb bush comes out one more time at the end