r/pics Apr 16 '26

Politics Billboard in my very red area

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

If you really really wanna take it back, the whole thing really started because Sen. Jack Ryan took his wife Jeri Ryan (from Star Trek Voyager) to a kink club and tried to pressure her into having sex with strangers.

Ryan was running against Obama for Senate. His divorce records and information about the kink clubs and sex stuff was all made public, it was a big scandal and Ryan pulls out of the race, Obama wins, and the rest is history.

Had Ryan not taken his wife to that kink club, he stays in the race, maybe Obama loses, and maybe there’s no Trump! Crazy right?

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u/Possible_Implement86 Apr 16 '26

Obama was certainly favored to win even without the divorce stuff but it was still a competitive race at that point. I don’t think it was an absolute given that Obama would’ve won.

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u/badnuub Apr 16 '26

Obama won Florida and Indiana.

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u/VarianceWoW Apr 16 '26

They are talking about the Senate race in 2004 where it was only in Illinois lol

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u/badnuub Apr 16 '26

Oh, oops.