# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=104 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 105 --- ## [Trump supporters who need the ACA are in for a rude surprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-supporters-who-need-the-aca-are-in-for-a-rude-surprise/775301)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 170\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2017, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-supporters-who-need-the-aca-are-in-for-a-rude-surprise/775301 "2017-01-18T13:54:31Z")
A very bad surprise. This is bitter irony. I spent the last 12 years working for an agency with a medical clinic whose target population was exactly these people. Trump voters didn’t take him literally on Obamacare. Oop… --- ## [Jeff Session.. bigot.. racist..and now Anti-securlarist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeff-session-bigot-racist-and-now-anti-securlarist/777031)
**Author:** [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Replies:** 155\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeff-session-bigot-racist-and-now-anti-securlarist/777031 "2017-01-17T19:05:01Z")
So Sessions gets an ‘award’ from Craphead/Islamhater David Horowitz…then says… Secularist are unfit for government…because they don’t believe in an “absolute truth”. Ugh…as If I needed more reasons to despise this pointy… --- ## [God help you America....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-help-you-america/776862)
**Author:** [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Replies:** 136\ **Last updated:** [January 16, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-help-you-america/776862 "2017-01-16T23:11:45Z")
And this coming from an Australian atheist no less! Fucken hell…I hope you guys can survive the next four years, and come out the other end not totally broken. :frowning: --- ## [Dylann Roof found guilty - rot in hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylann-roof-found-guilty-rot-in-hell/774814)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 128\ **Last updated:** [January 16, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylann-roof-found-guilty-rot-in-hell/774814 "2017-01-16T03:35:13Z")
Miserable excuse for a human being has been convicted of 32 counts. The jury will now have to decide whether he rots in what will surely be solitary confinement for the rest of his life, or whether he gets the death pena… --- ## [Please photoshop this, Circus Peanut with Trump hair](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-photoshop-this-circus-peanut-with-trump-hair/776935)
**Author:** [@jonpluc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonpluc)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-photoshop-this-circus-peanut-with-trump-hair/776935 "2017-01-13T17:27:50Z")
Im an old man with zero photoshopping skills, so i beg of someone to please make a pic of one of those orange foam circus peanut candies with trump hair on it. I did cursory search of internet and dont see one so it may … --- ## [Do people really not care about their leaders' comportment?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-really-not-care-about-their-leaders-comportment/776793)
**Author:** [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2017, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-really-not-care-about-their-leaders-comportment/776793 "2017-01-13T13:17:53Z")
Not that we need another Trump thread, and not that I really want to start another shit slinging competition but I’m sure it would end up here anyway so I’ll just start it off here. Policy aside, what do those of you wh… --- ## [US Healthcare rant.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-healthcare-rant/776630)
**Author:** [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Replies:** 112\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2017, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-healthcare-rant/776630 "2017-01-13T09:10:48Z")
(These remarks don’t seem to fit into any of the other of the healthcare threads, so I’m gonna just put them here!) This makes me very angry! As a person living in a country with universal healthcare, I have to say it’… --- ## [(thank goodness, not Sandy) koufax](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-goodness-not-sandy-koufax/776861)
**Author:** [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-goodness-not-sandy-koufax/776861 "2017-01-12T21:57:07Z")
Not sure how kosher it is for someone who hasn’t been here for a year to take to task someone who’s been here just a wee bit longer. This is the first thread I’ve come across with him in it… http://boards.straightdope.… --- ## [I don't know why I or anyone else debates economics with WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-i-or-anyone-else-debates-economics-with-willfarnaby/776709)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-i-or-anyone-else-debates-economics-with-willfarnaby/776709 "2017-01-12T21:28:52Z")
I am also rather shocked that this is only the second thread explicitly calling him out, and the first where he is the primary target of ire. WillFarnaby, you made a statement earlier today which I couldn’t really respo… --- ## [Trump links vaccines to autism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-links-vaccines-to-autism/776819)
**Author:** [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-links-vaccines-to-autism/776819 "2017-01-11T21:26:42Z")
Here’s the direct link and here’s what he wrote It is becoming increasingly clear that the sole reason this creature has been placed on Earth is to create a constantly swirling shit-storm, and there is no controversy, … --- ## [good bye 2016 ...you piece of shit ...... (open invite rant thread)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-2016-you-piece-of-shit-open-invite-rant-thread/776006)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-2016-you-piece-of-shit-open-invite-rant-thread/776006 "2017-01-09T13:26:26Z")
Ok last year ended pretty good for me and I was optimistically thinking this year was going to be good also By march I realized it was going down hill socially and personally … Between things going to hell in the outsi… --- ## [Martin Shkreli's twitter account closed.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-twitter-account-closed/776688)
**Author:** [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2017, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-twitter-account-closed/776688 "2017-01-09T07:45:52Z")
Not the most earth-shattering news, so I was going to post this in the mundane section, but I’m just too pissed with this inverted eel. wow what a creepy fucking doodus: hey - classy! Hopefully facebook and any oth… --- ## [Make America Great Again! I just realized that Trump CAN do it!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-america-great-again-i-just-realized-that-trump-can-do-it/776574)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-america-great-again-i-just-realized-that-trump-can-do-it/776574 "2017-01-08T18:35:32Z")
When Trump first came out with the slogan “Make America Great Again” I mostly ignored it. I thought it was catchy, better than what Hillary chose (does anybody remember her catch phrase?), had the typical fear-based yet… --- ## [Fake News of the Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-of-the-day/776639)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-of-the-day/776639 "2017-01-08T18:10:38Z")
I don’t know if this board can support a fake news of the day thread, but I thought it was worth a try. Looking around the internet, there definitely seems to be enough of it… So to kick off the thread in a pit worthy … --- ## [Fuck Shodan for spying on sleeping kids in their bedrooms.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-shodan-for-spying-on-sleeping-kids-in-their-bedrooms/776047)
**Author:** [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-shodan-for-spying-on-sleeping-kids-in-their-bedrooms/776047 "2017-01-07T23:50:42Z")
Prowling backyards of the internet, looking for an open bedroom window to peek into, Shodan is busily searching for open connections to your personal web cams. The voyeur of cyber space doesn’t care if it invades your … --- ## [Wife comatose? Fuck her when you visit again and again.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wife-comatose-fuck-her-when-you-visit-again-and-again/463276)
**Author:** [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Replies:** 294\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wife-comatose-fuck-her-when-you-visit-again-and-again/463276 "2017-01-07T18:10:07Z")
This guy’s wife was comatose after a stroke. He visited on multiple occasions and fucked her. I can most certainly see why the nursing home staff reported their suspicions to the cops. The cops filmed him, but the film i… --- ## [Help me plan Trump's Inauguration](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-plan-trumps-inauguration/775491)
**Author:** [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2017, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-plan-trumps-inauguration/775491 "2017-01-07T07:35:39Z")
Allegedly, Trump’s team is having trouble finding acts for his Inauguration. I figure we can come up with a suitable party plan. So, what would you like to see at Trump’s Inauguration? My picks; Jeff (fuhfuh) Dunham … --- ## [Anti-Trump protesters stream torture of mentally disabled person on Facebook Live](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-trump-protesters-stream-torture-of-mentally-disabled-person-on-facebook-live/776384)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 152\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-trump-protesters-stream-torture-of-mentally-disabled-person-on-facebook-live/776384 "2017-01-07T03:14:08Z")
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/05/4-in-custody-after-group-beats-disabled-man-on-facebook-live-while-shouting-anti-trump-profanities-chicago-police-say/?utm\_term=.0b9a03c56d4d I also appreci… --- ## ["The Health Care Plan Trump Voters Really Want"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-health-care-plan-trump-voters-really-want/776469)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-health-care-plan-trump-voters-really-want/776469 "2017-01-06T22:46:25Z")
Source All bolding is mine. Like the rest of us, they have some sensible, legitimate concerns: Though many who post here will say this is a lie, in fact: However (not surprisingly), Furthermore, Here’s the kick… --- ## [Half of Trump's voters believe in pizzagate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-of-trumps-voters-believe-in-pizzagate/775777)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 90\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-of-trumps-voters-believe-in-pizzagate/775777 "2017-01-06T15:13:03Z")
Neat. Pizzagate is the theory that Hillary Clinton is involved in a satanic pedophile ring operating out of a pizza parlor. A Right wing extremist went there with an assault rifle to ‘investigate’ recently. I was rea… --- ## [Country is 36 % Conservative 26% Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-is-36-conservative-26-liberal/776230)
**Author:** [@Donpeyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donpeyote)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2017, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-is-36-conservative-26-liberal/776230 "2017-01-06T12:03:50Z")
Per Gallup poll (Story on Drudge now) , my guess is this Forum/Boards political makeup is the reverse of that … --- ## [Fuck Nixon all over again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-nixon-all-over-again/776120)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-nixon-all-over-again/776120 "2017-01-06T01:31:51Z")
New information reveals that Nixon, before he was ever elected, actively sabotaged Johnson’s '68 peace accord talks that would have been brokered by the Soviets. This was always suspected, but until recently there was no… --- ## [Microsoft: Take your Xbox One, and your paperclip, and stick them both UP YOUR FUCKING ASS!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-take-your-xbox-one-and-your-paperclip-and-stick-them-both-up-your-fucking-ass/775764)
**Author:** [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2017, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-take-your-xbox-one-and-your-paperclip-and-stick-them-both-up-your-fucking-ass/775764 "2017-01-04T10:51:17Z")
I’ve enjoyed my day playing NBA2K17 on my year old XBOXOne yesterday afternoon and early this morning, and God forbid, made the decision to change from that game t NHL2K16. This, like you would imagine MOST video game co… --- ## [Can Clinton top 400 electoral votes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-clinton-top-400-electoral-votes/776284)
**Author:** [@Calico\_Jack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calico_Jack)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-clinton-top-400-electoral-votes/776284 "2017-01-04T00:42:07Z")
Larry Sabato, an election guru for years, predicts Clinton with 352. This includes Arizona, largely due to the Mexican American population. This suppose Ohio, but other battleground states have been solid for a while. H… --- ## [So what are all the safe space kids whining about Trump...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-all-the-safe-space-kids-whining-about-trump/776194)
**Author:** [@Calico\_Jack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calico_Jack)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-all-the-safe-space-kids-whining-about-trump/776194 "2017-01-04T00:30:52Z")
…on this forum gonna do when they find out they can’t find a $70,000 a year job with their “womyn’s studies” or “liberal arts” degrees, and there aren’t any more ‘safe spaces’ at Waffle Shop when they finally are forced … --- ## [Screw this hater of his own race](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-this-hater-of-his-own-race/775670)
**Author:** [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2017, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-this-hater-of-his-own-race/775670 "2017-01-03T09:03:48Z")
Professor under fire for tweet that appeared to support ‘white genocide’ You know, I almost fell for that explanation until I read the next paragraph Fuck you, you racist piece of shit. You’re as bad as the people yo… --- ## [Dumbest Trump election protesters thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-trump-election-protesters-thread/776197)
**Author:** [@Calico\_Jack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calico_Jack)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2017, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-trump-election-protesters-thread/776197 "2017-01-03T04:39:26Z")
Just a thread for funny videos of stupid or crazy people going bananas over the election results, I’ll start. --- ## [Fittingly, Obama votes "present"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fittingly-obama-votes-present/775593)
**Author:** [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Replies:** 111\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fittingly-obama-votes-present/775593 "2017-01-02T18:51:28Z")
In probably his last major act as President, Obama directed the US to abstain on a vote to condemn settlements in the West Bank. What a cowardly act. He could have at least voted with the majority if that’s how he feels … --- ## [Thoughts on the Koran](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-the-koran/775771)
**Author:** [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-the-koran/775771 "2017-01-02T09:49:42Z")
I’m starting the thread here advisedly, discussions about religion tend to get a little heated. OK, first things first. I’m an atheist and I don’t believe any of the so-called holy books are divinely inspired. But it’s … --- ## [Pit Bulls (continued)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-bulls-continued/670714)
**Author:** [@cougar58](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cougar58)\ **Replies:** 1259\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-bulls-continued/670714 "2017-01-02T04:52:30Z")
Just a follow up, to the latest DBRF fatal pit mauling in the USA, where the child was killed after being dropped off at the baby sitters house. I jumped to the conclusion that this was the 3rd child killed by a baby si… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=103) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=105)