# Donald Trump doesn't need to be in \*every\* thread, does he? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 14, 2019, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237 "2019-09-14T22:33:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/1 "2019-09-14T22:33:46Z")
I’m starting this thread reluctantly because I know I’m going to be attacked because of it and I really hate confrontation, online or in real life, but its affecting my enjoyment of the SD and I’m sure also other peoples. Yes you don’t like Donald Trump, we get it, I don’t like him either, but does he have to put in an appearance in so many threads? Even those with basically no connection in any sense to politics somehow have to have him shoe-horned in there usually with a ‘clever’ comment or reference. Personally I’m tired of opening an interesting looking thread and it being once again side-tracked by references and remarks about Trump, for me at least it breaks ‘suspension of disbelief’ for want of a better phrase. I come to the SD at least partially to get away from politics and to come across politically references again and again in so many threads and discussions is jarring at best, a complete thread kill at worst. I recall someone giving the advice ‘don’t let other people live inside your head’, meaning don’t keep thinking and obsessing about people who have wronged you, because you can be certain they aren’t thinking about you. Well the SD is obsessed with Donald Trump, and its a lot less fun and pleasant place to be as a result. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/2 "2019-09-14T22:38:54Z")
> [@Atomic\_Alex](#): > > Well the SD is obsessed with Donald Trump, and its a lot less fun and pleasant place to be as a result. This also describes America and the planet Earth as well, IMO. I’m sick of him too. But when he’s hurting so many people and institutions, it’s not surprising that he’s part of so many conversations. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/3 "2019-09-14T23:05:10Z")
There is always the game threads and CS? Also I don’t believe he’s popped up in the Market Place yet. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/4 "2019-09-14T23:58:09Z")
And is THIS thread really necessary? I had happily forgotten about Trump until the OP reminded me. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/5 "2019-09-15T00:05:55Z")
He’s just really _that_ bad. It needs to be hammered on until he’s gone. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/6 "2019-09-15T00:14:33Z")
There’s General Questions. No political commentary allowed there. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/7 "2019-09-15T00:14:37Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Also I don’t believe he’s popped up in the Market Place yet. 😉 Now that you mention it, I _have_ been meaning to offload that copy of _Trump: The Board Game_ that I got as a gag present several years ago… ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/8 "2019-09-15T00:21:32Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Now that you mention it, I _have_ been meaning to offload that copy of _Trump: The Board Game_ that I got as a gag present several years ago… Sadly, that game isn’t too bad. Played and had quite a bit of fun with it. Though seeing his face or name on just about everything in/on that box is was nauseating even back in the 90s. We got it as a goof at Big Lots. It was $5 marked down from $50. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/9 "2019-09-15T00:28:27Z")
> [@Atomic\_Alex](#): > > I’m starting this thread reluctantly because I know I’m going to be attacked because of it and I really hate confrontation, online or in real life, but its affecting my enjoyment of the SD and I’m sure also other peoples. > > Yes you don’t like Donald Trump, we get it, I don’t like him either, but does he have to put in an appearance in so many threads? Even those with basically no connection in any sense to politics somehow have to have him shoe-horned in there usually with a ‘clever’ comment or reference. > > Personally I’m tired of opening an interesting looking thread and it being once again side-tracked by references and remarks about Trump, for me at least it breaks ‘suspension of disbelief’ for want of a better phrase. I come to the SD at least partially to get away from politics and to come across politically references again and again in so many threads and discussions is jarring at best, a complete thread kill at worst. > > I recall someone giving the advice ‘don’t let other people live inside your head’, meaning don’t keep thinking and obsessing about people who have wronged you, because you can be certain they aren’t thinking about you. > > Well the SD is obsessed with Donald Trump, and its a lot less fun and pleasant place to be as a result. It is a real obsession bordering on a disorder to be so fixated where one needs to post compulsively about him. You’d think after a few years the novelty would’ve worn off. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/10 "2019-09-15T00:40:25Z")
The “novelty” won’t wear off until at least January 20, 2021 and probably not for some years thereafter. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/11 "2019-09-15T00:45:22Z")
Beats youtube, eg, where you cannot watch a single retro cartoon without someone bringing up Hillary Clinton, CNN and SJWs in the comments. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/12 "2019-09-15T01:10:54Z")
Trump invented the internet so he gets to be in all the threads if he wishes. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/13 "2019-09-15T01:12:36Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > It is a real obsession bordering on a disorder to be so fixated where one needs to post compulsively about him. You’d think after a few years the novelty would’ve worn off. This is easy to say if Trump’s policies aren’t directly harming you or those you care about. But if they are, then it’s kind of hard to not be thinking about him quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/14 "2019-09-15T01:22:57Z")
Wish OPs would be allowed to have threads titled: “Trump-free” and the mods would clamp down on anyone who tries to derail such a thread by putting Trump content. Problem is, you couldn’t look at such a thread title without immediately thinking Trump. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/15 "2019-09-15T02:08:23Z")
I just hit "New Posts. Here are the five threads above this one: Arkansas murder spree - 1987 Going to permanent Daylight Saving Time Tell me about your CPAP What is a discord server? California Schools not allowed to ban students, your opinion? And here are the five threads after this one: 6-Letter Word-Change one or two letters make a new word WTC7 collapse, new numerical results UBI in the US (from the Andrew Yang thread in Elections) Made up band names A-Z How would you break down the life cycle? As far as I can tell, that’s zero out of ten that are about Trump. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/16 "2019-09-15T02:47:01Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Going to permanent Daylight Saving Time I made a relevant post about Trump in that one. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/17 "2019-09-15T02:58:15Z")
> [@DinoR](#): > > I made a relevant post about Trump in that one. 😉 And amazingly, it wasn’t a negative comment. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/18 "2019-09-15T02:59:50Z")
```auto I had a real cool weekend. Met with an old friend I've know for 30 years. Best buds. She happens to live in Central City Colorado. And this was going on. - [Hot Rod Hill Climb](http://hotrodhillclimb.com/) Cool classic cars from Model T's to Ford roadsters. Beers, pizza and poker afterword's. (It's a gambling town, lost $10, but beers were free). Doesn't get much better than that. (don't quite know how to talk about something that someone doesn't want to talk about. So...) ``` ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/19 "2019-09-15T03:29:16Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > This is easy to say if Trump’s policies aren’t directly harming you or those you care about. But if they are, then it’s kind of hard to not be thinking about him quite a bit. It’s easy to say if one has any sense of socialization. You really think it’s normal or evidence of proper mental health to shoehorn Trump into _ **every** _ conversation? It can’t be. Trump is literally living in a sizable portion of the population’s brains rent free. Sure think about Trump all you like but if you order an ice cream cone his name probably shouldn’t be part of that conversation. That said… I do understand that we live in nutty times but the problem isn’t Trump. He’s only a symptom and fixating on the symptom is counterproductive. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237/20 "2019-09-15T06:01:26Z")
> [@Atomic\_Alex](#): > > I’m starting this thread reluctantly because I know I’m going to be attacked because of it and I really hate confrontation, online or in real life, but its affecting my enjoyment of the SD and I’m sure also other peoples. I was surprised to see this thread title because there is no Trump in most of the threads _I_ read. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-doesnt-need-to-be-in-every-thread-does-he/840237.md?page=2)