# Did this seriously just happen? Warning: Donald Trump being an idiot **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 27, 2016, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226 "2016-11-27T22:21:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/81 "2016-11-28T20:35:56Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > I think the appropriate response to discovering that two candidates of vastly differing political views have questioned the validity of the vote count is to file _amicus curiae_ briefs in all states requesting judicial intervention and a mandate to investigate the electoral process from end to end to ensure that corruption and error have not compromised the vote. In the interim we can appoint [Uggie](https://www.rover.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/uggie.jpg), the dog from _The Artist_ as the President (Sitting, Good Boy); given his qualifications, temperament, and training, as well as a record free of scandal and mischief, he is imminently more qualified than…well, pretty much everyone who was nominated to run this year. In fact, we could just vote him President-For-Life with assurance that we’ll only have to put up with him for another twelve years, fifteen years tops. I hear he also has an excellent energy development policy. Well, at least in comparison to the other contenders. Not that he still wouldn’t make a better Prez than Trump, but alas Uggie has been dead for over a year. ☹ He’s still a good boy, but more rolled-over than sitting now. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/82 "2016-11-28T20:42:41Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > Not that he still wouldn’t make a better Prez than Trump, but alas Uggie has been dead for over a year. ☹ He’s still a good boy, but more rolled-over than sitting now. That thirty-five years of age qualification was clearly targeted against Canine-Americans. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/83 "2016-11-28T21:20:11Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > …Often these days, I’m embarrassed to be a Texan… Don’t fret, plenty of assholes here in Baja Canada. Much less likely to be armed, but they exist. ---
**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 29, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/84 "2016-11-29T01:08:17Z")
Having a deer rifle means you are armed, with a round sized to take out people, too ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/85 "2016-11-29T01:17:39Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Are there no Republicans worthy of even moderate respect, any more? A full day has passed, have any of them spoken up? John McCain? Lindsey Graham? Even the reprehensible Ted Cruz is lining up to give Il Douche a tongue-bath. Not even one? The Republicans are all in lock-step now. Disagreeing with Trump in public was politically acceptable a month ago, when everyone just knew he was going to lose. But no one’s going to say a damned thing now–not when they’re all praying that Trump will invite them to sit at the cool kids table. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/86 "2016-11-29T01:35:07Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Technically, as Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Prebius is the leader of the party. No. The president is, by definition, the leader of his party. This is literally (yes, literally) in textbooks. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/87 "2016-11-29T01:48:31Z")
Politifact’s explanation of Trump’s “sources”: > **[PolitiFact - Donald Trump's Pants on Fire claim that millions of illegal...](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/nov/28/donald-trump/donald-trumps-pants-fire-claim-millions-illegal-vo/)** > > President-elect Donald Trump provoked a firestorm on social media with a series of tweets on Nov. 27 that questioned the ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/88 "2016-11-29T02:15:08Z")
I think the only fair solution is to throw out the entire Presidential election and hold a new election within the next six months. With _all new candidates_. It’s the only way. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/89 "2016-11-29T02:29:54Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > Internet news sites are more than capable of covering Trumps tweets. I’m continually disappointed with real news organizations inability to see past the smoke screens. Do we really need 24 hour coverage and discussion of every stupid thing Trump says? How about they report on what he’s doing? How can they report on what he is doing when they have no access to him? They sit in the lobby of Trump Tower and take pictures of people walking through the lobby. All they have to go on are Trump’s bizarre tweets, Kellyanne Conway’s bizarre public attacks on Romney, and some off-the-record sources. Covering Trump is the same challenge as covering Kim Jung-un’s regime. The press is trying to read tea leaves and divine meaning in the actions of dangerous crazy people. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/90 "2016-11-29T02:45:46Z")
Seems to me a lot of it is they just got lazy, got used to being spoon fed the news for them to report. But lately, at least a couple of guys did their jobs and found out shit. Is it really that hard, or did they just forget how? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/91 "2016-11-29T04:17:24Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > I think the only fair solution is to throw out the entire Presidential election and hold a new election within the next six months. With _all new candidates_. It’s the only way. Oh God, yes, I’m for that! Let’s get a petition going! ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/92 "2016-11-29T04:30:23Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Oh God, yes, I’m for that! Let’s get a petition going! Can we \*summon \*the Giant Asteroid, ya think? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/93 "2016-11-29T05:01:58Z")
The Brits famously had a _annus horribilis_ in 1992. In honor of Trump, I dub 2016 as our _anus horribilis_. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/94 "2016-11-29T05:29:28Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > Can we \*summon \*the Giant Asteroid, ya think? [April 13, 2029.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/95 "2016-11-29T05:32:01Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > The Brits famously had a _annus horribilis_ in 1992. > > In honor of Trump, I dub 2016 as our _anus horribilis_. That’s the _optimistic_ view; the more likely scenario is that it only gets worse from here on. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/96 "2016-11-29T15:41:07Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > That’s the _optimistic_ view; the more likely scenario is that it only gets worse from here on. Correct. The worst hasn’t happened yet. Not by a long shot. In a couple of years we’re going to look back nostalgically at this time before the Inauguration when there was still a shred of reality to cling to. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/97 "2016-11-29T15:45:10Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Oh God, yes, I’m for that! Let’s get a petition going! Well, you’d sorta have to use the back of the Constitution for it. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/98 "2016-11-29T15:58:44Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Well, you’d sorta have to use the back of the Constitution for it. Well, we prolly won’t be using the front. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/99 "2016-11-29T16:28:10Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > In honor of Trump, I dub 2016 as our _anus horribilis_. My latin is rusty. Does that mean: 'yuge asshole? ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226/100 "2016-11-29T16:47:28Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > From what I know of psychology, people who have an authoritarian streak (aka the base of the GOP) have a strong need for the world to make sense, to be simplistic and to feel safe, for there to be no gray areas, for cognitive closure to occur, etc. As a result they create a fantasy bubble to maintain this necessary delusion they need to fulfill those emotional needs (for the world to be simple, safe and black/white). All news and information is filtered to maintain the delusional bubble, all info that undercuts it is rejected. Substitute Trump for Sideshow Bob and _The Simpsons_ have nailed it again: > [@](#): > > Sideshow Bob: Because you need me, Springfield. Your guilty conscience may move you to vote Democratic, but deep down you long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king. That’s why I did this, to save you from yourselves. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a city to run. > > … > Sideshow Bob: [Bob calls Birch Barlow’s show during a prison riot] I am presently incarcerated, imprisoned for a crime I did not even commit. “Attempted murder,” now honestly, did they ever give anyone a Nobel prize for “attempted chemistry?” > > … > Bart: Oh my God! The dead have risen and are voting Republican. > > … > Bart: We want the truth. > > Sideshow Bob: You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth. No truth-handler, you. Bah! I deride your truth-handling abilities! > > … > Lisa: Bart, we can’t let Bob steal the spotlight like this. We’re gonna have to stoop to the lowest common denominator. > > Bart: I can do that. > > … > Birchibald T. Barlow: [on the radio] I want all of you out there to do everything in your power to see that Bob is set free! > > Moe Szyslak: All right, you heard the man. > > [He takes a box out from under the bar] > > Moe Szyslak: Everybody, one grenade each. > > Barney Gumble: Moe, I think he meant through non-violent, grassroots, poltical action. > > Moe Szyslak: Really? You think? Okay, hand 'em back. Come on, everybody. > > [mad] > > Moe Szyslak: Hey, hey! Who pulled the pin on this one? > > … > Sideshow Bob: No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived to tell about it. > > … > [walking around the cemetary, Lisa and Bart realize that Sideshoe Bob has falsified voting returns with the names of deceased persons] > > Lisa: [sees Snowball I’s gravestone] Oh, my poor dead kitty, not you too! > > [she looks at the voting list: “SNOWBALL I.”] > > Lisa: All right, Bob! NOW it’s personal! > > Bart: Hey! Uh, he did try to kill me. > > … > Birchibald T. Barlow: You know, there are three things we are never going to get rid of here in Springfield. One; the bats in the public library. Two; Mrs. McFierly’s compost heap. And three; our six-term mayor. The illiterate, tax-cheating, wife-swapping, pot-smoking spendocrat, Diamond Joe Quimby. > > Mayor Quimby: [listening to the radio, while watering his marijuana plants] Hey! I am no longer illiterate. > > [Trump probably doesn’t smoke pot, just snorts cocaine] > > … > Kent Brockman: Alright, let’s go live to Bob headquarters now, for Mayor Terwilliger’s victory speech. > > Sideshow Bob: [approaches podium] Ahem. Heh, heh, heh. Hah, hah hah, hah hah! > > [laughter grows progressively more maniacal] > > Sideshow Bob: HA! HA HA HA HA HA! HAAA! HAAA! HAAA! HAAAA! > > Kent Brockman: And just look how happy he is. > > … > Political Commercial Voiceover: Mayor Quimby supports revolving-door prisons. Mayor Quimby even released Sideshow Bob - a man twice convicted of attempted murder. Can you trust a man like Mayor Quimby? Vote Sideshow Bob for Mayor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-this-seriously-just-happen-warning-donald-trump-being-an-idiot/773226.md?page=6)