# How has Former President Trump pissed you off today? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 20, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640 "2017-01-20T17:21:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 212
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4225 "2018-07-24T20:59:39Z")
Not much overlap there, there are some Chinese liberals, but they are confused and disoriented. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4226 "2018-07-24T21:05:18Z")
[Seems we’ve been through this dance before…](https://imgflip.com/i/2empzi) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4227 "2018-07-24T23:28:19Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Not much overlap there, there are some Chinese liberals, but they are confused and disoriented. Bad dog. Bad! ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4228 "2018-07-25T00:23:13Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > …It also means that Trump won’t fade into obscurity. He’ll be remembered in infamy for thousands of years, like Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, etc … > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Jeez, I hope not. Those guys actually _did_ stuff and effectively led their people. Trump will be remembered more in the category of Caligula, Nero, and lamp-post ornament Mussolini. Not as an _Italian_, smart alecks. But as a deranged person whom everyone kowtowed to because they were abject cowards–until they weren’t. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4229 "2018-07-25T02:04:07Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Trump will be remembered more in the category of Caligula, Nero, and lamp-post ornament Mussolini. While I am enjoying the image of Trump hanging in a public square — his lardy ass means his fat head would be ripped off his shoulders at the drop — I’d rather see him on bread and water in solitary confinement for the rest of his life. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4230 "2018-07-25T02:06:35Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > It’s OK because it’s making the right people mad (liberals and Chinese). [Republicans aren’t happy either.](http://time.com/5347827/republicans-fume-at-president-trumps-12-billion-plan-to-aid-farmers/) ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4231 "2018-07-25T02:33:07Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > It doesn’t work like that. If they need a security clearance for whatever job they are going to be doing, they will need to apply for clearance related to their work. Holding an inactive security clearance makes it easier. Having a security clearance does not mean one is cleared for all classified material. One still has to have a “need-to-know” that information. For my work in the USAF (Cryptologic Linguist) I had Top Secret Codeword clearance, but it didn’t mean I could share what I knew with the guys in the adjacent windowless room with the same level clearance or vice versa unless we were working on the same assignment…and then only information related to that assignment. Understood, but I wasn’t trying to suggest that their security clearance covers all branches, agencies, bureaus, etc. of the federal government. If their clearance is revoked on purpose, I wonder how likely it is that they get clearance of any kind. That was what I was getting at. Trump and his supporters (Rand Paul) kinda tipped their hand, committed a Freudian slip, whatever you want to call it - the act of revoking security clearances, if they’re able to do it, is intentionally sending the message that critics of the administration won’t work in the federal government, or in support of it. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4232 "2018-07-25T02:40:00Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > [Republicans aren’t happy either.](http://time.com/5347827/republicans-fume-at-president-trumps-12-billion-plan-to-aid-farmers/) They might be upset, but guess what? They’re on the Trump train now. They’re not getting off until it goes over the fucking cliff. They’re mad and they’re finally expressing concern because they’re beginning to hear it from their constituents, but they have to weigh those constituents with the more important ones: the guys who write their campaign finance checks. I predict Trump will offer to throw more money at the problem. He’ll offer $20, 40, 50 billion – he’ll offer whatever it takes to shut the farmers the fuck up. But here’s the thing that needs to be remembered: **this is already an admission that Trump miscalculated his trade war** – like fucking badly. He thought the Chinese and everyone else were going to cower in a corner with fear. He has hired yes men and ideological cranks who reflect his worldview. He has nobody around him who can educate him because he is uneducable. What does it all mean? It means that if we give Donald Trump another 1-3 years in office…he’s going to completely destroy the economy, and probably everyone one of us (in America) reading this will feel the sting of it somehow. Trumponomics is going to be an unmitigated disaster for all time. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2018, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4233 "2018-07-25T03:53:42Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Yes. > At this point y’all really only have two options. One is to actively vote for ANY DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE WHATSOEVER. No ifs ands or buts. Choose this if you want to state that “yeah, no, democracy might be a shitty system, but it’s the least shitty of them all”. Or you could vote for Trump OR ANY OTHER REPUBLICAN and send the message that “yanno, maybe that Mobutu guy had a point”. Or that Idi Amin. Or that Caesar Augustus. Or that Hitler. It really, but really doesn’t matter beyond the point you say “democracy could be improved upon if only the guy had the top had more power and didn’t take any guff from the opposition”. You’re just fucked forever. At which point everybody _else_ is probably also fucked forever. > So please don’t do that second thing. I think the Republicans are looking to see how the voters react. They don’t care how people feel; they only care how people vote. It doesn’t matter how you say you deplore the things Donald Trump is doing and how you wish somebody better was President. If you vote for the Republicans you’re telling them you’re willing to accept what Donald Trump is doing. And that tells the Republicans they can do any damn thing they want because you’ll vote for them anyway. If they know they own you, they don’t have any reason to respect you. So if you’re a Democrat, vote for Democratic candidates because they’re Democrats. And if you’re a Republican, vote for Democratic candidates this time to tell the Republican party they can’t take your vote for granted. If they want your vote, they have to be better Republicans than this. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2018, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4234 "2018-07-25T04:20:58Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > While I am enjoying the image of Trump hanging in a public square — his lardy ass means his fat head would be ripped off his shoulders at the drop — I’d rather see him on bread and water in solitary confinement for the rest of his life. Well, if you’re using a lamppost, it’s more of a “hoist from the ground” thing than a drop. The head ought to stay attached. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2018, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4235 "2018-07-25T04:39:19Z")
I guess I should add that it’s all academic. Capital punishment is wrong always and everywhere; and so is lynching. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2018, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4236 "2018-07-25T11:47:25Z")
I’m beginning to worry that a guy who paid $290,000 to have sex twice might not be the deal-maker he told us he was. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2018, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4237 "2018-07-25T13:29:18Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I’m beginning to worry that a guy who paid $290,000 to have sex twice might not be the deal-maker he told us he was. I know, right? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4238 "2018-07-25T14:34:18Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I guess I should add that it’s all academic. Capital punishment is wrong always and everywhere; and so is lynching. C’mon, quit trying to Big T our fun. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4239 "2018-07-25T14:38:53Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I’m beginning to worry that a guy who paid $290,000 to have sex twice might not be the deal-maker he told us he was. He claims he didn’t even have sex with them, too, an even worse deal. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4240 "2018-07-25T21:22:19Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I guess I should add that it’s all academic. Capital punishment is wrong always and everywhere; and so is lynching. I agree, but the point of mentioning those particular “leaders” is that they were permitted to do their crazy/destructive/corrupt thing for quite a while–until their subjects decided that ‘respecting the leader’ was no longer a principle worth upholding, since it meant watching the nation go to ruin. The ruled have their limits, and rulers who assume their power is absolute, sometimes find out they were mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4241 "2018-07-25T21:47:08Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I’m beginning to worry that a guy who paid $290,000 to have sex twice might not be the deal-maker he told us he was. Oh, I’m so tempted to change my signature… ---
**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:** [July 25, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4242 "2018-07-25T22:18:00Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > He claims he didn’t even have sex with them, too, an even worse deal. So Humpty Dumpty Trumpy paid $300,000 for two cases of the blue balls? Put me in the “officially worried” camp, then! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4243 "2018-07-25T22:24:22Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > So Humpty Dumpty Trumpy paid $300,000 for two cases of the blue balls? Put me in the “officially worried” camp, then! 😉 nah - its easy to explain - the only way to make his dick look big is if he puts it in his tiny hands. Anyone elses hands and it simply disappears. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4244 "2018-07-25T22:24:35Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I’m beginning to worry that a guy who paid $290,000 to have sex twice might not be the deal-maker he told us he was. > [@k9bfriender](#): > > He claims he didn’t even have sex with them, too, an even worse deal. Trump doesn’t pay a prostitute for sex, he pays her to go away beforehand. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=211) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=213)