# Butt-Hurt Trump Takes to Twitter Again (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 19, 2016, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428 "2016-11-19T15:52:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 399
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7962 "2019-10-11T00:43:54Z")
Got damn. You make Liz sound fucking _awesome._ ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7963 "2019-10-11T00:44:22Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > "From the day I announced I was running for President, I have NEVER had a good @FoxNews Poll. Whoever their Pollster is, they suck. " > [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1182281834970980352](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1182281834970980352) The MAGA people are losing their shit too. Turning against FOX, not Trump. They’re talking about switching to OANN and how FOX is in Paul Ryan’s pocket and he’s a RINO, a Democrat shill. It’s stunning in its derangement. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7964 "2019-10-11T00:45:01Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Got damn. You make Liz sound fucking _awesome._ Seriously. I was uncertain before but now she has my support. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7965 "2019-10-11T00:59:14Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > As for who on the Democratic side I would consider better: Biden, Buttigieg, Tulsi Gabbard, maybe a couple of others. Certainly not Sanders and Warren - both of them have policy positions that come straight from crazy town, and which would wreck the economy. This is exactly what I’m talking about, Sam. They disagree with you. That doesn’t make them crazy town. This sort of stupid equivocation led to a lot of Republicans equating Trump and Clinton, and look where that got us. You really need to distinguish between rational people you disagree with, and irrational people. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7966 "2019-10-11T04:09:30Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Her wealth tax will cause the biggest capital flight you’ve ever seen. Good. Let the America-hating greedfucks see how well they do in a country like Somalia that has no such thing as a “common good”. Lots of right-to-property legislation in Somalia, no? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7967 "2019-10-11T08:30:46Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Her wealth tax will cause the biggest capital flight you’ve ever seen. Will that be like the profit flight where offshore tax havens are home to bazillions of USD? 😃 Seriously, I’m not seeing anything in your description of her ‘manifesto’ **Sam Stone** to make me think that any of it has a downside. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7968 "2019-10-11T12:26:31Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Her wealth tax will cause the biggest capital flight you’ve ever seen. I’ve always found it odd how Republicans trip all over themselves to thank people who risk their lives to defend the country, but God forbid they expect the rich to give up some _money_. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7969 "2019-10-11T12:40:08Z")
Before ACA passed, we had [similar apocalyptic predictions about how it would tank the economy.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-predicted-an-obamacare-apocalypse-it-hasnt-happened/2016/09/30/7fa2c6c6-8709-11e6-a3ef-f35afb41797f_story.html) Instead, it’s survived, despite the best efforts of the ruling political power to get rid of it, and been part of the longest economic expansion in US history. > [@WaPo](#): > > Remember that talk of Obamacare forcing employers to cut back on workers’ hours and even “phase out full-time work”? > > Didn’t happen. A thorough study by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation found that the law’s impact was, if anything, toward more full-time work. > > Remember the talk about the “job-killing government takeover of health care”? > > The U.S. economy has added 15.1 million private-sector jobs over the past 78 months. > > Remember how “30 million people” were going to lose their employer-based health insurance and be thrown into the Obamacare exchanges? > > The number of people insured by employers, about 150 million, has hardly budged. > > The alarms about Obamacare adding trillions to deficits? > > Deficits are down, and Medicare cost increases are below forecasts. > > As for Obamacare driving up the cost of health care, premium increases in employer-based insurance were just 3 percent for 2016 — the latest in a string of historically low annual increases. So when Sam Stone predicts falling skies over Warren’s proposals, I’ll just ask people to compare the success of conservative predictions about government programs to the success of the programs themselves. It may be that one side is irrational here, I’ll grant that. I disagree over which side that is. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7970 "2019-10-11T12:58:03Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’ve always found it odd how Republicans trip all over themselves to thank people who risk their lives to defend the country, but God forbid they expect the rich to give up some _money_. You libtards know nothing about economics. The poor spend their money on food — with very low profit margins for Job Creators — or crack cocaine — imported from Latin America. Sure the rich buy caviar from Belarus, superyachts from Italy, and import their whores from Asia and Eastern Europe, but it all trickles back to create American jobs. With greater prosperity, foreign countries can buy expensive weapons from good American companies like Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman. The imported hookers will spend oodles eating at American restaurants, or bribing ICE officials. And rich foreign tourists are now flocking to New York to see the Statue of Liberty before it’s torn down. This obsession to steal caviar at gunpoint from Job Creators just to feed hungry babies is confused Marxist thinking. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7971 "2019-10-11T15:13:11Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > This is exactly what I’m talking about, Sam. They disagree with you. That doesn’t make them crazy town. This sort of stupid equivocation led to a lot of Republicans equating Trump and Clinton, and look where that got us. > > You really need to distinguish between rational people you disagree with, and irrational people. I am strongly for Warren and Sanders progressive policies. But I fear Sam Stone isn’t wrong about the likely market reaction. The wealthy class in America has no sense of loyalty or social responsibility to the society that has given them their extraordinary wealth. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7972 "2019-10-11T15:15:08Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > I am strongly for Warren and Sanders progressive policies. But I fear Sam Stone isn’t wrong about the likely market reaction. The wealthy class in America has no sense of loyalty or social responsibility to the society that has given them their extraordinary wealth. Perhaps Sam wasn’t one of the people predicting a market meltdown in response to ACA, too. Rich people don’t sulk, taking their balls and going home. They don’t John Galt, for the simple reason that they can’t. They need use plebes to make money off of. They sulk, and then they maximize their profit under the new rules, just like always. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7973 "2019-10-11T15:59:39Z")
Dotard in Chief retweeted a couple dozen stupid tweets in the last hour or so. My senile, 80 year old dad is exactly like him. He gets out his tablet and reposts (FB) every stupid item he sees (a lot) and that’s the only thing he knows to do on his tablet. You can tell when the battery dies. The country is in great, small hands. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7974 "2019-10-11T16:00:47Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > And rich foreign tourists are now flocking to New York to see the Statue of Liberty before it’s torn down. Actually, tourism to the US is down. The Spanish tourist industry and luxury shops are kind of very grateful to the Orange Alien but don’t want to say it too loud in case he decides to hit our food exports to the US with more tariffs. (We’ve surpassed the US in number of foreign tourists and now stand second only to France). ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7975 "2019-10-11T16:47:14Z")
Good to know that libertarians are apoplectic about Warren’s policies, therefore they must be sound. Donald is fading, support for impeachment is growing, and the leakage into his ship has rendered it certain to sink. These next two months are going to get uglier by the day. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7976 "2019-10-11T17:35:24Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Actually, tourism to the US is down. The Spanish tourist industry and luxury shops are kind of very grateful to the Orange Alien but don’t want to say it too loud in case he decides to hit our food exports to the US with more tariffs… Yeah, we on the east coast of Amerikee are going to paying a lot more for your wine soon, ditto with France and Italy. It still won’t be as high as the grossly high intracontinental taxes we pay if we want to drink California, Oregon, or Washington wine. I’ll have to weather out the rest of the Trump Administration with bourbon whiskey, which is produced within 500 miles of here. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7977 "2019-10-11T21:17:19Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I’ll have to weather out the rest of the Trump Administration with bourbon whiskey, which is produced within 500 miles of here. The Brooklyn distilleries are getting pretty near releasing their first true NY bourbon batch, if they haven’t already. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7978 "2019-10-11T23:59:46Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > The Brooklyn distilleries are getting pretty near releasing their first true NY bourbon batch, if they haven’t already. Yeah, you can get all kinds of locally-distilled booze around here now, but it’s just not the same if it doesn’t have that fine, clear, Kentucky hill stream water that the milk cows shat in. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7979 "2019-10-12T00:23:13Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Yeah, you can get all kinds of locally-distilled booze around here now, but it’s just not the same if it doesn’t have that fine, clear, Kentucky hill stream water that the milk cows shat in. These past few years have been rough, motherfucker. Don’t you ruin bourbon for me. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7980 "2019-10-12T01:14:04Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > whores from Asia and Eastern Europe I support your statement as a whole, but could we leave out the generalizing epithet of women as “whores”? I’ve personally known several “whores,” both Filipina and Indonesian, and while there were opportunistic, shallow individuals among them, others were trying to escape abuse or provide for impoverished families. (Sorry if I seem overly PC. It’s just that your characterization of women who partner with foreign men for economic reasons is so at odds with the reality I know that I can’t help myself. I firmly believe you meant no offense.) . ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7981 "2019-10-12T01:33:49Z")
I don’t think he was talking exclusively about those who manage to get married for traditional reasons, even if they were included. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=398) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=400)