# Clinton v Trump - The Stretch Run Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 30, 2016, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277 "2016-09-30T11:21:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 234
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4665 "2016-11-04T22:50:08Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > **Mangetout** got irked at me once for implying that he’d eat anything just becasue of his user name. But I was implying it admiringly. I can tell you that newly emerged cicadas taste vaguely of asparagus and can be quite nice. Unfortunately, I’ve since read that their body concentrates the toxins they absorb during their long underground sojourn, so eating them may not be wise. But they do taste good. > > Crickets are similar, but they’re more chitinous. I seem to recall a thread where **Mangetout** said he was looking into trying some insects, but I may be misremembering. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4666 "2016-11-04T23:01:26Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Rick Perry. Hey! We Texas resident molluscs object. . ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4667 "2016-11-04T23:09:31Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > Hey! We Texas resident molluscs object. You just don’t even know how happy this thread hijack has made me. ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4668 "2016-11-04T23:18:39Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > OK, but what kind of bug? If it’s just one of those little gnats and it flies in oyur mouth and you swallow it you’re like “ew” but it happens. If Trump gets over 240 EVs, I want Mr. It’s All Over, Don’t Mind All The Polls Saying It’s Not, Everyone Else Is a Hobbyist to eat a big bug, something you gotta chew. LMGDMFAOl!! Better yet, and as happy as I’d be to see Hillary win TX, let’s just hope that next Tuesday turns out to be the day the quants are predicting it will be, and none of us will have to eat any bugs!! ---
**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:** [November 4, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4669 "2016-11-04T23:23:56Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Juju bees. Or boo bees. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4670 "2016-11-04T23:43:38Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Or boo bees. Is that you, Donald? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4671 "2016-11-04T23:54:08Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > Is that you, Donald? For chrissake, get your mind [out of the gutter.](http://mr1eyedtatertot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/boo-bees-small.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4672 "2016-11-05T01:02:47Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The important thing to be clear on is that “the People” only includes R voters. Those other people may live here, but they aren’t Real Americans. That’s true. Compared to those hippie commie Democrats, Republicans are more patriotic, more self-reliant, have higher morals, are stronger, braver, and have much more common sense. Most of all, they hate liberals, because liberals think they are better than other people. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4673 "2016-11-05T01:05:29Z")
Don’t know if this was posted yet, but…who’s in the legal hot seat now? [![](http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161105/fe8c6f2069b07a3fe92fa4e27926e7af.jpg) ](http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161105/fe8c6f2069b07a3fe92fa4e27926e7af.jpg) [![](http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161105/e244c039f640ff39f190130c063edaf0.jpg) ](http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161105/e244c039f640ff39f190130c063edaf0.jpg) > **[A judge just issued a restraining order against Donald Trump](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/civil-rights-lawyer-tweets-voter-suppression-hearing-donald-trump/)** > > It aims to prevent voter intimidation. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4674 "2016-11-05T01:10:51Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Actually, the day Clinton is inaugurated they can still say “The next president should choose because the Will of the People!”. There will be a next president. And their hope springs eternal that he’ll be R. > > OTOH, if Trump should win then the mantra becomes “The People have spoken”. > > The important thing to be clear on is that “the People” only includes R voters. Those other people may live here, but they aren’t Real Americans. They don’t count. I think the line of thinking is: We’re the Great White Christians, and this is Our Country. All you people who disagree with us (and think you can make heads or tails of the unintelligible gibberish in the 1st Amendment, something about “Congress shall make no law…”, I really can’t follow it beyond that) are hereby labeled _Liberals_, and formally Disfellowshipped from Real America. Therefore, y’all don’t count. You’re out! So- zip it until y’all come around! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4675 "2016-11-05T01:17:47Z")
A Federal judge in North Carolina has also pushed back against GOP vote-suppression: [http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/04/politics/north-carolina-naacp-voter-registration/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/04/politics/north-carolina-naacp-voter-registration/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4676 "2016-11-05T01:24:08Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > A Federal judge in North Carolina has also pushed back against GOP vote-suppression: [http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/04/politics/north-carolina-naacp-voter-registration/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/04/politics/north-carolina-naacp-voter-registration/index.html) It’s that thinking people are seeing through all the BS. Intimidation does not inspire. And the US and A is need of inspiration. A woman for President may be reason enough. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4677 "2016-11-05T01:50:20Z")
Yet another defeat for the vote supressors: US court blocks Arizona ban on groups collecting ballots. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/us-court-blocks-arizona-ban-on-groups-collecting-ballots/2016/11/04/d43c9cae-a2f0-11e6-8864-6f892cad0865\_story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/us-court-blocks-arizona-ban-on-groups-collecting-ballots/2016/11/04/d43c9cae-a2f0-11e6-8864-6f892cad0865_story.html) > [@](#): > > PHOENIX — Democrats fighting two Arizona laws that they say hinder minorities from voting received a major victory and a temporary setback from a federal appeals court Friday, just days before a tightening election in the traditionally red state. > > The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a new state law that makes it a felony for groups to go door to door to collect early ballots and deliver them to the polls. It is an especially effective tactic in minority communities, and Democrats and some voters allege the law hurts minorities’ ability to vote. > > The 11-judge panel said it was preserving the status quo for Tuesday’s election, which could come down to the wire in Arizona as Democrats spend heavily to get out the vote from Latinos and others angered by Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant comments. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4678 "2016-11-05T01:53:59Z")
Another [amusing story](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/us/a-militia-gets-battle-ready-for-a-gun-grabbing-clinton-presidency.html?_r=0) about the shit for brains crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4679 "2016-11-05T01:56:49Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > What’s the state bug of Texas? Fire ant? Cockroach? Scorpion? Louie Gohmert? ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4680 "2016-11-05T02:01:40Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > You just don’t even know how happy this thread hijack has made me. And you won’t tell us how happy that makes you? . That’s very shellfish. . ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4681 "2016-11-05T02:05:01Z")
Be careful; **weasel** s aren’t that different from otters. And would probably enjoy a fine mollusc-based meal just as otters do. Yipes :eek: ! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4682 "2016-11-05T02:06:54Z")
[Jane Doe has dropped her case against Trump](http://theslot.jezebel.com/the-woman-who-accused-trump-of-raping-her-at-13-just-dr-1788603598). ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4683 "2016-11-05T02:09:32Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > With is it with faux tough guys and Putin? Friend’s mom was a Chicago cop. While making a movie Seagal was assigned to her for a ridealong. “I know Tae Kwan Do. I’ll be here to help you.” “You know how to choreograph movie fight scenes. Stay in the car.” Him, Putin, and Trump were made for esch other. > [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > War is peace. Slavery is freedom. Ignorance is strength. Arbeit macht frei. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/4684 "2016-11-05T02:18:10Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > [Jane Doe has dropped her case against Trump](http://theslot.jezebel.com/the-woman-who-accused-trump-of-raping-her-at-13-just-dr-1788603598). In an unrelated story, an anonymous woman has just purchased a villa in the south of France. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277.md?page=233) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277.md?page=235)