# How "Deplorabe" are you? Do you fit in hilliarry' basket? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 14, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956 "2016-09-14T19:19:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/41 "2016-09-14T22:17:31Z")
I’m a life long Democrat. As a kid, I campaigned on my bike for Jimmy Carter. I have been just as mean to the Republicans as they have been to the Democrats. I have not been “a gentleman”. I have rooted for her, behind the scenes, because I didn’t want anything that I’d ever do to reflect on her. I have occasionally, when angry, said some things I’m not proud of. I often try to rationalize that by saying, “yeah, but you have no idea what they’ve done to me/mine or for how long”. I’ve bought neither her nor Bill’s book… but I did once buy a tasty white wine from “Clinton Vineyards”. 😃 * * * Its true: if any of my support leads to any repercussion, The Former Secretary my Disavow any knowledge of my actions. (Good Luck, Hillary…!) (Tickets to one of the inaugural balls gratefully accepted) ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/42 "2016-09-14T22:30:38Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > Let’s see, I’m “deplorable” because… > > I’m a firearm owner > I’m a strong defender of the 2nd amendment > I own some “scary” semiautomatic “weapons of war” > And I _WILL NOT_ give them up. > > I hate _ALL_ religions > I believe _illegal_ immagration is a problem, _but_ have no problem with _legal_ immigration > I believe laws apply equally to _everyone_, even politicians, break the law, pay the penalty, no special treatment for the rich/famous/well connected. > > How “deplorable” are you? I have no reason to believe you are a racist of any particular stripe, and nothing you said in this post makes me think that. So it seems you may be the other type of Trump supporter that Clinton talked about: folks who are just generally angry and frustrated. > [@Clothahump](#): > > Hell, I’m a charter member of the club, and proud of it! Yeah, you’re probably just a deplorable. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/43 "2016-09-14T22:44:56Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > I have no reason to believe you are a racist of any particular stripe, and nothing you said in this post makes me think that. So it seems you may be the other type of Trump supporter that Clinton talked about: folks who are just generally angry and frustrated. I would also add that the OP is a danger to himself and everyone around him, both directly (because of all the guns) and indirectly (because of his promotion of them, and of the NRA, and the delusional, paranoid fear that any kind of non-lunatic progressive is automatically coming to take them away). Very much in the pattern of the paranoid minority-hating knee-jerk uneducated blue-collar Trump supporter, even if he claims he’s not voting for him. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/44 "2016-09-14T22:45:17Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Zenophobia A fear of [paradoxes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes)? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/45 "2016-09-14T23:00:45Z")
> [@desertmonk](#): > > Haha, you don’t know what xenophobia is! I do. Xenon is my absolutely least favorite element. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/46 "2016-09-14T23:12:48Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > A fear of [paradoxes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes)? Fear of [late Roman emperors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno_(emperor)). > [@Biggirl](#): > > Is it? Or are you just saying that so I think there’s something wrong with my computer? Just looked that way on my browser at home for some reason - weird, since it looks like the exact same URL. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/47 "2016-09-14T23:24:38Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Actually, while often not accurately reported, the full quote was: > > “Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.” > > I don’t know the OP, so I’ll leave it to him as to whether any of those particular shoes fit. Membership drives for the Trump party machine must be fun: > [@](#): > > **Hedley Lamarr:** Qualifications? > **Applicant** : Gun ownership, racism, homophobia, and gun ownership. > **Hedley Lamarr** : You said gun ownership twice. > **Applicant:** I like gun ownership. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/48 "2016-09-14T23:27:41Z")
You’re probably not deplorable, but it does appear you are clinging to your gun. Right idea, but off by 8 years on the election rhetoric! ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/49 "2016-09-14T23:59:26Z")
Ah, but how much does he pay in taxes? Maybe he is a deplorable, clinging, 47%er. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2016, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/50 "2016-09-15T00:16:30Z")
**MacTech** –you’re playing the jackass. Really. This is bad comedy. Go home, & take a nap. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/51 "2016-09-15T00:22:35Z")
I honestly still don’t understand how non Trump supporters are insulted by this. I really don’t. I mean, I’ve read the arguments, but none of them are compelling to me, so I suppose I understand, but I don’t UNDERSTAND. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/52 "2016-09-15T01:10:40Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > And you _do not_ want to know what’s down the guy’s throat. GAY MARRIAGE! IT’S GAY MARRIAGE WHAT’S BEING SHOVED DOWN HIS THROAT!! Transgender bathrooms, too! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/53 "2016-09-15T01:13:08Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > God, what a fucking idiotic thread, and I don’t just mean the stupid spelling errors in the title. Yeah, what’s “deplo rabe?” Is it like “legitimate rabe” ? ---
**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, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/54 "2016-09-15T01:16:13Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Yeah, what’s “deplo rabe?” Is it like “legitimate rabe” ? It’s part of Trump’s secret plan to keep Muslims out of America by deploying rabbis along our borders. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/55 "2016-09-15T01:36:03Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Yeah, what’s “deplo rabe?” It’s like [broccoli rabe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapini), only 20x more bitter. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/56 "2016-09-15T01:51:27Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > **MacTech** –you’re playing the jackass. > Really. > This is bad comedy. > Go home, & take a nap. Or put Cooper back on. His arguments make a bit more sense. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/57 "2016-09-15T01:59:36Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I honestly still don’t understand how non Trump supporters are insulted by this. I really don’t. I mean, I’ve read the arguments, but none of them are compelling to me, so I suppose I understand, but I don’t UNDERSTAND. Well, since something like a third of Clinton supporters fall into this “deplorable” category, I think she meant that she didn’t want their votes and they should vote for Trump. ---
**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, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/58 "2016-09-15T02:02:40Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Well, since something like a third of Clinton supporters fall into this “deplorable” category Cite? ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/59 "2016-09-15T02:03:03Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Well, since something like a third of Clinton supporters fall into this “deplorable” category, I think she meant that she didn’t want their votes and they should vote for Trump. I have no idea how you get that. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956/60 "2016-09-15T02:10:32Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > Let’s see, I’m “deplorable” because… > > I’m a firearm owner > I’m a strong defender of the 2nd amendment > I own some “scary” semiautomatic “weapons of war” > And I _WILL NOT_ give them up. > > I hate _ALL_ religions > I believe _illegal_ immagration is a problem, _but_ have no problem with _legal_ immigration > I believe laws apply equally to _everyone_, even politicians, break the law, pay the penalty, no special treatment for the rich/famous/well connected. > > How “deplorable” are you? My acid test for who is more anti-gun is based on their reaction to the Sandy Hook shootings. Trump called for an assault weapons ban. Hillary maintained radio silence and her husband told the gun control folks to slow their roll. Don’t get me wrong, she is no friend of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America but I doubt she will do much about it. > **[Bill Clinton Warns Democrats Against Overreaching On Gun Debate](https://outsidethebeltway.com/bill-clinton-warns-democrats-against-overreaching-on-gun-debate/)** > > Bill Clinton has a warning for his fellow Democrats. PLUS being a gun enthusiast is not on her list of horribles: I think I am guilty of some of the things on her list. Racist? Yes. I try not to be but I find myself getting more nervous around a bunch of loud unruly black teens and just annoyed by loud unruly white teens. Sexist? A teeny tiny bit but having been a real misogynistic prick in my younger years has made me much less sexist in my older years. Homophobic? No, I don’t think so. I don’t have a lot of gay friends now that I live in suburbia but I did when I was younger. We partied at a lot of the same places. Places like Vertigo and China Club. Xenophobic? No. If anything I am too eager to meet people from foreign cultures. islamaphobic? I am pretty ignorant about islam. I know a lot of my acquaintances are muslim but its not a central feature of our relationship. I don’t feel comfortable bringing it up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-deplorabe-are-you-do-you-fit-in-hilliarry-basket/765956.md?page=4)