# Fuck Joe the Plumber and his anger **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 11, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783 "2008-12-11T22:59:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/61 "2008-12-12T18:05:23Z")
> [@MovingTarget](#): > > Originally posted by **pseudotriton ruber ruber** > > But see, this is why people are pissed off, JTP isn’t a close colleague, or public official, or Senator, or national public figure really. He’s just some dumbass schmuck that happened to be in the right place at the wrong time and got swept up into this whole shit storm of politics. He should be listened to no more than that crazy neighbor that lets their lawn grow and keeps all the garden gnomes all over the place. > > And I do tend to agree that the media is deserving more of the hatred and contempt than JTP, but he’s still an asshole idiot. You do end up in the same place as **prr** (if I’m reading him correctly), but it looks like you’re being whooshed along the way. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/62 "2008-12-12T18:24:45Z")
See, what I get out of this is that **Weirddave** thinks that Obama tells nothing but lies, except when he says he’s a Socialist. And then he accidentally slips and tells the truth. And only **Weirddave** can tell the difference. _I’ve squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises All lies and jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest_ ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/63 "2008-12-12T18:29:15Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > _I’ve squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises > All lies and jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest_ _::fingers in ears::_ “_La-la-la, la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la, la-la-la!_” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/64 "2008-12-12T18:45:47Z")
> [@Weirddave](#): > > I just have a simple, natural urge not to get involved in discussions with people who are not looking to an honest debate (which could have happened on this site 10 years ago), but to browbeat anyone who disagrees with them. This might actually mean something if it weren’t coming from a person whose first words in this thread were, “I seriously think you people are deranged.” ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/65 "2008-12-12T20:03:08Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > You do end up in the same place as **prr** (if I’m reading him correctly), but it looks like you’re being whooshed along the way. Plead guilty to second-degree subtlety, Your Honor 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/66 "2008-12-12T20:06:40Z")
> [@5-4-Fighting](#): > > _::fingers in ears::_ “_La-la-la, la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la, la-la-la!_” that should be “lie-lie-lie, lil-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie, lil-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie lie-lie-lie!” ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/67 "2008-12-12T20:27:03Z")
> [@5-4-Fighting](#): > > [hijack]Somebody had to do it. > > I’m tired of all the sore losers “calmly” and “with dignity, class and tolerance” deciding it’s time to talk about something else and telling everybody else to just move on simply because they’re seething at their lose and can’t hardly (intentional sic) stand anything that keeps that fact in their face. > > Well, the “calmly” and “with dignity, class and tolerance” may not have been present in this particularly case, but you know what I mean.[/hijack] > > SCREW JOE! You are killing me!! Heee! Hey! I like to picture them trying to look all [like this](http://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/p-4909.jpg)when they do it! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/68 "2008-12-12T20:36:11Z")
… Judy judy judy judy YOW! ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/69 "2008-12-14T05:20:56Z")
Look, I’m a raving loon from Toledo of the leftist variety, I knows em when I sees em. Joe thinks he’s a REAL MAN. They have a complex, a peculiar complex, a cruel and unfeeling complex. Joe is every sociopathic Republican from Toledo I have ever known, there is a dearth. They think they are the salt of the earth and eat up every propaganda from the right wing that they can consume from Limbaugh and Fox… they don’t think beyond themselves, they truly are the greediest. They have given up thinking, really. Joe is a subordinate taken to offical orders, but only if they agree with his imbedded coldness and cruelty. Unthinking Joe. I’m as bad as Joe, but I just have Ruth. It’s up to you, take his or mine…you are a fool either way. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/70 "2008-12-14T06:15:50Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > Look, I’m a raving loon from Toledo of the leftist variety, I knows em when I sees em. Joe thinks he’s a REAL MAN. They have a complex, a peculiar complex, a cruel and unfeeling complex. Joe is every sociopathic Republican from Toledo I have ever known, there is a **glut**. They think they are the salt of the earth and eat up every propaganda from the right wing that they can consume from Limbaugh and Fox… they don’t think beyond themselves, they truly are the greediest. They have given up thinking, really. Joe is a subordinate taken to offical orders, but only if they agree with his imbedded coldness and cruelty. > > Unthinking Joe. > > I’m as bad as Joe, but I just have Ruth. It’s up to you, take his or mine…you are a fool either way. I was unthinking and misspoke there… there is a **glut** , not a **dearth** of the Manly Men. Joe is not a rare creature, rather the common spotted overcompensator with a chip on his shoulder. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/71 "2008-12-14T14:52:33Z")
> [@Weirddave](#): > > Dio, what you’re lying about, and attempting to obscure with your disingenuous comments about taxes and Ronald Reagan, is the fact that Obama is a Socialist. He is, always has been, and always will be. _From his own writings and statements_ it is obvious that European style Democratic Socialism is the system of government that he favors. Never mind that, I have a question of higher importance: Can you make pasta with those mushrooms? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/72 "2008-12-15T17:59:56Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > Never mind that, I have a question of higher importance: Can you make pasta with those mushrooms? Ya know, this to me would be a far far more important subject. I care about the quality of my food. I don’t give a damn about this Joe Plumber guy. If more people acted that way, the idiot would dry up and blow away. He (Joe) is a standard garden variety attention whore. Ignore him. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/73 "2009-03-04T19:03:13Z")
On the heels of Joe the Plumber’s wrath, now who’s all hot-and-bothered at Obama? [Tonya Harding!](http://www.buzzfeed.com/eliot/tonya-harding-slams-obama-26q) ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/74 "2009-03-04T19:08:32Z")
> [@Dob](#): > > From CNN: > [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28160772/](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28160772/) > > It seems Joe is angry at McCain for backing the 700 billion dollar and I quote: All I can keep thinking is, “Who the hell gives a flying flaming fuck what that asshole thinks”. He had his five minutes of “fame”. Now it’s time for him to STFU and GTFO. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/75 "2009-03-04T22:34:46Z")
Rush + JTP In 2012! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/76 "2009-03-04T23:01:05Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > On the heels of Joe the Plumber’s wrath, now who’s all hot-and-bothered at Obama? [Tonya Harding!](http://www.buzzfeed.com/eliot/tonya-harding-slams-obama-26q) Does she still have some kind of act? Maybe skating aroung hitting people with hammers? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/77 "2009-03-04T23:46:35Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Does she still have some kind of act? Maybe skating aroung hitting people with hammers? Saw her on the last **Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel**. Jebus, what a loser. She can’t accept responsibilty for _anything_. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/78 "2009-03-05T00:25:38Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > Saw her on the last **Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel**. > > Jebus, what a loser. She can’t accept responsibilty for _anything_. Yup, **ArchiveGuy’s** post had a link to that interview. But she mentions that people will pay to come see her becaue Barack Obama mentioned her name, and I gotta wonder WTF is she selling? ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/79 "2009-03-05T02:44:23Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Rush + JTP In 2012! > > 😃 And Jindal as Secretary of State. 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783/80 "2009-03-05T04:15:54Z")
Zombie thread! Must kill it before it eats any brains! Also, while we allowed “fuck” and variants in thread titles in the past, we don’t any longer. Lynn For the Straight Dope [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-joe-the-plumber-and-his-anger/476783.md?page=3)