# 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:** 393
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7850 "2020-05-06T14:10:51Z")
Trust me, it was not a first draft on either. I was trying to persuade, not vent. I’ll not make the mistake of assuming she’s ‘my’ senator again. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7851 "2020-05-07T03:26:54Z")
Who would know better what’s going on out today as to mask availability, a community-health nurse or POTUS? Three guesses: [Trump contradicts nurse he's honoring over PPE availability | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/06/politics/donald-trump-nurse-ppe-coronavirus/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7852 "2020-05-07T04:05:02Z")
When I saw that clip my first thought was: that’s the definition of “sporadic”, you moron. Some places have what they need and some don’t. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7853 "2020-05-07T11:15:41Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > When I saw that clip my first thought was: that’s the definition of “sporadic”, you moron. Some places have what they need and some don’t. He probably thinks it means it stops virus spores or something. “Your PPD’s are sporadic, that’s great! (why do they seem to be complaining)” I’m completely serious. He is such an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7854 "2020-05-14T17:22:26Z")
Back in early February I sent [an email](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22130509&postcount=7483) to my senator, Martha McSally. This week I actually got back a reply. I’m thinking she’s not liking her poll numbers. > [@McSally](#): > > Thank you for contacting me regarding the dismissals of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman and Former US Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland. I appreciate your thoughts on this important matter. > > As you may know, the President has the authority to recall civil servants with or without cause at any time. Rest assured that should legislation regarding these dismissals come before the Senate for a vote, I will consider it with your thoughts in mind. > > As the 116th Congress addresses the many challenges facing our nation, I hope you will continue to share your thoughts and concerns. To keep up with my work in Congress, you can follow me on Twitter and Facebook, or visit my website at [mcsally.senate.gov](http://mcsally.senate.gov) where you can sign up to receive my e-newsletter. Again, thank you for sharing your concerns. Please continue contacting my office regarding issues that you feel are important to you and Arizona. You’ll note that the only thing of substance in her response was addressing what I said in the fourth paragraph. I guess she thinks I was stupidly burying the lede. I’m still concocting a response; I’m vacillating on whether ‘mealy-mouthed’ is imflamatory or not. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7855 "2020-05-14T17:56:00Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Back in early February I sent [an email](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22130509&postcount=7483) to my senator, Martha McSally. This week I actually got back a reply. I’m thinking she’s not liking her poll numbers.You’ll note that the only thing of substance in her response was addressing what I said in the fourth paragraph. I guess she thinks I was stupidly burying the lede. **I’m still concocting a response; I’m vacillating on whether ‘mealy-mouthed’ is imflamatory or not.** Not nearly enough. How about “gutless and a disgrace to the vows she took as a member of the armed forces and the vows she took when she was sworn into office”? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7856 "2020-05-14T20:19:25Z")
Cadet Bone Spurs [compares doctors and nurses to soldiers running into enemy fire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2rjnUpZnMY), as if he’d have the slightest clue about either. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7857 "2020-05-15T00:58:20Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Cadet Bone Spurs [compares doctors and nurses to soldiers running into enemy fire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2rjnUpZnMY), as if he’d have the slightest clue about either. The thing is, that this is actually a pretty powerful analogy\* but in his subsequent stream of consciousness improv over it totally ruins its effect. I was imagining how a competent orator like Obama could have brought it home, only to realize that his doing so would instantly be jumped on by Republicans as being a slam against our troops. - He clearly didn’t write it himself. You can tell from his bored singsong drone at the beginning of the clip that he always settles into when is reading something someone else wrote. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7858 "2020-05-15T01:01:17Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Cadet Bone Spurs [compares doctors and nurses to soldiers running into enemy fire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2rjnUpZnMY), as if he’d have the slightest clue about either. And thanks to him they are running into that fire damn near completely unprotected. ---
**Author:** ![MulderMuffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldermuffin/32/2862_2.png) [@MulderMuffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MulderMuffin)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7859 "2020-05-15T04:06:36Z")
From a speech in Allentown, PA today: > [@](#): > > And don’t forget: We have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing. When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases. They don’t want to write that. It’s common sense. – Trump If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases. It’s common sense. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases. It’s common sense. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases. It’s common sense. Is he brain damaged in some way? How on Mother Hubbard’s green shoe does he spew this bullshit with a straight face? How are reporters not asking him what in the ever loving hell he is smoking? How does he still have any support? I spend way too much time letting Trump infuriate me to the point of needing medical intervention. This was a whole separate level of foaming at the mouth fury that this sick piece of garbage is in charge of this country. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7860 "2020-05-15T05:26:09Z")
> [@MulderMuffin](#): > > If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases. > It’s common sense. Nobody tell Trump about, say, New Zealand having tested over 200,000 people for COVID and having had fewer than 2000 confirmed cases (and no new cases for days now). Meanwhile, the US has tested fewer than 10.5 million people and had over 1.5 million confirmed cases. Test/case ratio in NZ: \>100 Test/case ratio in US: \<10 Hmmm, maybe it’s not actually how much testing you do that determines how many cases you have, after all. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2020, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7861 "2020-05-15T11:04:19Z")
> [@MulderMuffin](#): > > … > I spend way too much time letting Trump infuriate me to the point of needing medical intervention. … You and me both! > [@Kimstu](#): > > Nobody tell Trump about, say, New Zealand having tested over 200,000 people for COVID and having had fewer than 2000 confirmed cases (and no new cases for days now). > > Meanwhile, the US has tested fewer than 10.5 million people and had over 1.5 million confirmed cases. > > Test/case ratio in NZ: \>100 > Test/case ratio in US: \<10 > > Hmmm, maybe it’s not actually how much testing you do that determines how many cases you have, after all. Numbers? Don’t do numbers. Only do big numbers if there’s a dollar sign involved. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7862 "2020-05-15T13:04:24Z")
> [@MulderMuffin](#): > > From a speech in Allentown, PA today: > – Trump > > If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases. > It’s common sense. > > If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases. > It’s common sense. > > If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases. > It’s common sense. > > Is he brain damaged in some way? How on Mother Hubbard’s green shoe does he spew this bullshit with a straight face? How are reporters not asking him what in the ever loving hell he is smoking? How does he still have any support? > > I spend way too much time letting Trump infuriate me to the point of needing medical intervention. This was a whole separate level of foaming at the mouth fury that this sick piece of garbage is in charge of this country. It’s just like how you have very few cockroaches as long as you never turn the kitchen lights on at night. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7863 "2020-05-15T13:57:24Z")
ETA: time out dup post. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7864 "2020-05-15T14:18:45Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > It’s just like how you have very few cockroaches as long as you never turn the kitchen lights on at night. Or turn on Fox News. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7865 "2020-05-15T18:08:52Z")
> [@MulderMuffin](#): > > From a speech in Allentown, PA today: > – Trump > > If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases. > It’s common sense. > > If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases. > It’s common sense. > > If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases. > It’s common sense. > > Is he brain damaged in some way? How on Mother Hubbard’s green shoe does he spew this bullshit with a straight face? How are reporters not asking him what in the ever loving hell he is smoking? How does he still have any support? > > I spend way too much time letting Trump infuriate me to the point of needing medical intervention. This was a whole separate level of foaming at the mouth fury that this sick piece of garbage is in charge of this country. And here’s how that bit of breathtaking stupidity will be spun: **The only reason the US has by far the most Covid-19 cases in the world is because the USA is #1 in testing. The USA tests more people than anywhere else in the world. MAGA** :rolleyes: And y’all are dumbasses for thinking Great Leader said something stupid. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7866 "2020-05-15T19:05:04Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > And here’s how that bit of breathtaking stupidity will be spun: > > **The only reason the US has by far the most Covid-19 cases in the world is because the USA is #1 in testing. The USA tests more people than anywhere else in the world. MAGA** > > :rolleyes: > > And y’all are dumbasses for thinking Great Leader said something stupid. Whenever i hear this I want to scream “DOES THE PHRASE ‘PER CAPITA’ MEAN NOTHING TO YOU PEOPLE?!??” Yes, we’re doing a lot of testing. whoop de shit…we have a lot of people. how are we doing on tests per capita? or even more important: on the number of tests per month compared to the number that all epidemiologists _say_ we should be doing? Not so good ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7867 "2020-05-15T19:09:49Z")
There was an interesting story about Vietnam. Relatively few tests, but concentrated where most effective. Aggressive contact tracing and quarantining (prob much more than we would accept or pay for in US). Good covid control, zero deaths. Can’t find link just now. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7868 "2020-05-15T23:05:03Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Whenever i hear this I want to scream “DOES THE PHRASE ‘PER CAPITA’ MEAN NOTHING TO YOU PEOPLE?!??” > > Yes, we’re doing a lot of testing. whoop de shit…we have a lot of people. how are we doing on tests per capita? or even more important: on the number of tests per month compared to the number that all epidemiologists _say_ we should be doing? Not so good Yup. That and it’s completely fucking useless to ‘test’ a bazzillion people if it takes three weeks to get a result. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7869 "2020-05-16T00:32:41Z")
And I’d like to add that testing does jack shit if you don’t have an infrastructure in place to contact trace. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=392) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=394)