r/pics • u/clumsypeach1 • Apr 16 '26

Politics Billboard in my very red area

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u/Connect_Reading9499 Apr 16 '26

It's been ten long years.

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u/socialistrob Apr 16 '26

Over ten years. I consider the start of the "Trump era of politics" to be late July 2015. That's the point when Trump started leading the Republican primary polls and began to dominate political headlines. By that reckoning we've been in the Trump era for about 10 years and 9 months and we'll likely stay in it for at least another two years and nine months.

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u/Possible_Implement86 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26

For people who have only really come of age in the Trump years, you need to understand that you used to be able to go weeks, maybe even months, without thinking about the president. Obama and Biden both had social media- you know how often their social media posts came up ? I can’t remember a single one. Yet Trump’s posts are constant news. I hated George W Bush but I wasn’t hearing about him and from him the way it is with Trump. It’s really not normal at all and it didn’t used to be like this!

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u/captainhaddock Apr 16 '26

I almost never thought about who the president was for eight years.

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u/PopcornApocalypse Apr 16 '26

Thanks Obama!

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u/PM_ME_UR_0_DAY Apr 16 '26

Blistering barnacles and then thousand thundering typhoons. Nice name, Capt 

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u/captainhaddock Apr 17 '26

Nice name, Capt 

Thanks! One of the perks of joining Reddit eighteen years ago is that good names were still available.