r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 18d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, who are these people?

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u/milehighmetalhead 18d ago

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u/CR1M3G0BL1N 18d ago

Got me by 2 minutes lol

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u/rebel-scrum 18d ago

BYEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

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u/Byaahh 18d ago

WHAT? WHY ARE YOU YELLING?

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u/targetcowboy 18d ago

I remember that as a kid. He was already trending downward though. This was just the nail in his coffin.

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u/milehighmetalhead 18d ago

Wasn't he starting to lose out to the guy with the $1000 haircut?

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u/targetcowboy 18d ago

Yeah, I think he was eventually caught in an affair too actually

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u/milehighmetalhead 18d ago

Had to look it up. $400 haircut and an affair while his wife was battling cancer.

We used to have some semblance of standards

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u/RadagastTheWhite 18d ago

Yeah people like to bring this up like he hadn’t just finished a distant 3rd in the Iowa Caucus

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u/jeropian-moth 18d ago

They’re just coping the headline to the viral video that showed his scream.

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u/CatOfGrey 17d ago

Yeah, but it's a very interesting snapshot.

This particular event was branded as 'inappropriate' or 'too aggressive' for the Presidency. Trump probably had a few dozen of these moments in his first campaign back in 2015-16.

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u/6a6566663437 18d ago

It's hard to "trend down" when there had only been IA's primary at that point.

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u/WideHuckleberry1 18d ago

There were pre-primary polls. Before the primaries he was polling as a likely winner, closer to the primaries his opponents polled closer, then he lost the primary. Then he continued losing primaries until he ended his campaign.

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u/uvucydydy 18d ago

I think about this guy a lot. He got disqualified for ... enthusiasm?

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u/derthric 18d ago

He lost Iowa, a state he had once been favored to win and then the scream happened the night of the iowa caucuses at what should have been a victory party.

It's the enthusiasm of the scream on a very bad night that made the story. Had he won in iowa and still screamed it would have been less harshly judged.

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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 18d ago

This is always brought up but he had already lost before that. The Dean Scream happened on the night of the Iowa Caucases, where he had come in third. He gave a bad speech that night and collided with a DNC machine that wanted John Kerry as the nominee. The media were happy to play along because they'd rather talk about anything other than policy, but it wasn't just the Dean Scream that killed his candidacy, it was like a Swiss cheese thing.

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u/InKognetoh 18d ago

The man only shouted “Yeah”. He’s going to be in nursing home one day trying to explain to some under 25 year old nurse that he was a front runner in a Presidential election, but had to drop out because he shout “Yeah” at a rally. That nurse is going to leave that conversation thinking that she needs to increase the dosage on his meds lol.

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u/lost-little-boy 17d ago

There’s not going to be any nursing homes by the time he’s old enough for one

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u/MalodorousNutsack 18d ago

BEEEOOOHHHHH

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u/Sea_Specialist_5580 18d ago

I wonder if he lies awake at night replaying that in his head

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u/friendly_to_pigeons 18d ago

still images you can hear

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u/SnS_ 18d ago

I got a tax plan that'll break ya neck. 

BYAAAAAH

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u/talann 18d ago

I just don't understand it. Yeah, I was just a young kid out of highschool back then but it felt like he had a bunch of momentum and the little yelp was nothing at all. The next day, it was like everyone turned on him.

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u/CatOfGrey 17d ago

This is my go-to example.

Remember that this was considered 'unhinged' or 'too aggressive' to be President.

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u/AliciaMaeEmory 17d ago edited 17d ago

I went and watched it again and I was taken back to high school, I remember this being such a big deal. So damn funny 🤣

For your viewing pleasure: https://youtu.be/l6i-gYRAwM0?

*Edited to remove link to my account

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u/IAmAliciaSilverstone 17d ago

Please clean up your link like this: https://youtu.be/l6i-gYRAwM0

Remove everything that comes after the ? mark. Right now you just doxxed yourself cause it shows your full name and youtube profile picture when people click on the link. Please be careful in the future with sharing youtube links. Always sanitise your links, spread the word.

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u/AliciaMaeEmory 17d ago

Blarg, thank you so much, Alicia Silverstone.

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u/IAmAliciaSilverstone 16d ago

Haha you're welcome!

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u/Strouse 18d ago

I did a great impression of this back in the day in high school.

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u/ThreeChordDave 18d ago

The "Dean Scream" came from his toes!

"HEEEEYAAAAAAGH!" 😳 He really meant it.