Are all the Trump threads diminishing the Straight Dope Brand?

[aldiboronti]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

The record “backs it up” if you look at the single narrow number that Rasmussen cites to support their claim (the final spread). But if you look at the overall figures, the closest pollster was… Fox News. They were within 1 point on all four candidates, except Trump who they were 1.9% off on. Rasmussen was three points off on both major candidates, apparently because they had a higher share of undecided/other voters.

Point taken and it’s a good one.

By the way this thread is starting to look like a Trump thread itself. It certainly seems to have left ATMB territory long ago.

[Guest-starring_Id]

fuck

OOOOOPS.

yeah I’ll try to keep this ‘correct thread’ shit a bit more sorted out in the future.

@Clothahump

**Are all the Trump threads diminishing the Straight Dope Brand?
**

Let’s be realistic. SDMB has been a continuous train wreck for many, many years. The Trump posts are simply a few more cars going off the track. SDMB used to be a place with clever, witty writers that were a pleasure to read. They’re all gone.

And it’s sad. This board used to have such potential. Now…we are just watching it circle the drain. Eventually, it will die and we will raise a glass in memory of what it tried to be.

Oh - hi!
So - which clever, witty writers, then? Anyway glad to see you back to restore the board’s potential to keep it from going the down the drain, then.

[VinylTurnip]

Clothahump is a hair clog of hope for our survival.

[Calatin]

@Clothahump

**Are all the Trump threads diminishing the Straight Dope Brand?
**

Let’s be realistic. SDMB has been a continuous train wreck for many, many years. The Trump posts are simply a few more cars going off the track. SDMB used to be a place with clever, witty writers that were a pleasure to read. They’re all gone.

And it’s sad. This board used to have such potential. Now…we are just watching it circle the drain. Eventually, it will die and we will raise a glass in memory of what it tried to be.

Honest question: If you think the board is circling the drain, why are you still here? You seem to express the belief that there’s no coming back from this decline, but in posting, you’re just keeping it alive.

[Bryan_Ekers]

I’m willing to entertain the remote possibility that every other message board in the world has a restraining order against him.

[Bone]

Everyone - Knock off the personal editorializing towards other posters. It’s not appropriate for this thread or this forum.

[/moderating]

[River_Hippie]

“A casual visitor might well look at the Dope and decry us as bigoted moonbats.”

Or…think “Thank God, an island of sanity in an ocean of derp.”

[CatandMouse]

The anti Trump threads are the reason I joined.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@CatandMouse

The anti Trump threads are the reason I joined.

Welcome aboard, rational person.

[CatandMouse]

@Bryan_Ekers

Welcome aboard, rational person.

Thank you!

[tomndebb]

@D_Anconia

Political “analysis” is, by definition, opinion, not factual. One cannot (or at least shouldn’t) attempt to “cite” opinions as if they were facts.

Your moving the goalposts out to the parking lot are further noted.

You tried to dismiss a statement by attacking the fact that one legislator had been quoted in that statement. You ignored the point that that legislator was not the only source for that opinion (in other words, you engaged in cherry picking), and you ignored evidence provided by a linked article that quoted both Bannon and his co-workers at his media outlet promoting white nationalist rhetoric (making your attack on the Pelosi reference irrelevant).

Doubling down on your irrelevant original point is silly.

[kaylasdad99]

@kaylasdad99

Here is what I hope turns out to be an ATMB-appropriate post:

Where on this Message Board will I find a thread about Chex cereal that brings up Donald Trump? Would someone be good enough to link to it?

TIA

@Bryan_Ekers

Just start a thread about Chex cereal and someone will bring up Trump sooner or later.

Uhh, hard pass, thanks. Chex cereals are delicious, and I wouldn’t want my thread about them to be befouled by discussion of that fuckstick. It could give me unwelcome mental associations, and kill my appetite for them.

[Bryan_Ekers]

I used to love kittens, until I started a thread about them…

[Projammer]

@Dewey_Finn

What would the OP have us do? Have no threads about Trump? Have a quota for Trump-related threads? And I’d like to see some backup for the idea that the Trump threads are “unwarranted attacks” on him.

I came into ATMB to suggest creating a sub-forum off the Pit for all the Trump threads there. Maybe call it the Trump Dump or something. That way everyone that wants to start up their own Trump is a twit thread has a place to play and the rest of us who have heard enough don’t have to slog through it to find something relevant.

[Clothahump]

@Eddie The Horrible

Oh - hi!
So - which clever, witty writers, then? Anyway glad to see you back to restore the board’s potential to keep it from going the down the drain, then.

Thank you. As far as the writers, we have numerous who are either no longer here or don’t post very much. There have been a bunch of “recap” threads over the years. This is just one of them; when you read some of the threads, you’ll bust a gut. You just don’t see stuff like that any more.