# How has the disgraced, CONVICTED FELON, former but once again President Trump pissed you off today? (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [February 6, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964 "2025-02-06T18:32:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 128
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2549 "2025-10-28T19:28:06Z")
Did anyone else immediately think of this? [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W-Xe85dPvFI/hqdefault.jpg "The Simpsons - Homer sells love potions") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Xe85dPvFI) ---
**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:** [October 29, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2550 "2025-10-29T01:23:34Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I really believe that RFK Jr. has no ulterior motives. The man actually believes every insane thing he says. Why? Because he’s crazy. And also he and some of his pals have made money off of litigating the crazy. > **[Kennedy’s Ties to Ally Leading Vaccine Lawsuits Raise Ethical Concerns -...](https://www.center4research.org/nyt-rfk-siri-vaccine-conflicts-of-interest/)** > > New York Times, Oct. 3, 2025: This NYT investigation shows how RFK Jr’s lawyer and long-time colleague Aaron Siri benefits financially from his influence over RFK and HHS, resulting in vaccine policies and other decisions that harm U.S. patients.... It will undoubtedly be easier to convince juries to accept that Tylenaol is to blame for your client’s ailments if you can point out that the FDA agrees with you. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2551 "2025-10-29T01:43:32Z")
Ethical concerns? We don’t need no stinking ethical concerns! ---
**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:** [October 29, 2025, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2552 "2025-10-29T03:17:53Z")
Well, you can _have_ them, but there’s no reason they have to keep you from grifting! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2553 "2025-10-29T14:38:23Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Ethical concerns? We don’t need no stinking ethical concerns! [‘I’ve Had Enough’: Veteran GOP Strategist Resigns Over Trump](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-ve-had-enough-veteran-gop-strategist-resigns-over-trump/ar-AA1PnTXW) > Bruner added, “At every step along the way, I rationalized, compartmentalized, and found excuses to stay tethered to the party, even as I grew to believe it was undermining the foundations of our constitutional republic. But over the last few months, the compartmentalization and coping stopped working to silence my conscience. And now, after more than a decade, I have decided I have finally had enough.” ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2554 "2025-10-29T14:49:58Z")
It took 10 years though… OK. Well better than nothing. I wonder if my BIL is still a Trump supporter. He did at least agree that the J6 attempt to overthrow the government was a bad thing. He has probably forgotten about that though. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2555 "2025-10-29T15:33:32Z")
Too little, too late, bud. Screaming after you’ve fallen off of the cliff is easy. The trick is to stop before you do. To mix metaphors, that ship sailed ten years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2556 "2025-10-29T15:39:23Z")
Screaming once you’ve fallen off the cliff might induce others to not jump off the cliff. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2557 "2025-10-29T15:40:18Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Too little, too late, bud. Screaming after you’ve fallen off of the cliff is easy. The trick is to stop before you do. To mix metaphors, that ship sailed ten years ago. Well said, H.L. Mencken would say that. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2558 "2025-10-29T15:42:37Z")
It will induce the GOP to follow “Looks like fun, SEE he’s halfway down and still alive!” ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2559 "2025-10-29T15:44:52Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Bruner added, “At every step along the way, I rationalized, compartmentalized, and found excuses to stay tethered to the party, even as I grew to believe it was undermining the foundations of our constitutional republic. To paraphrase, - “My wife shot me 3 times, and then I thought I should probably leave her”. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2560 "2025-10-29T15:49:13Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > It’s all going to shit. > > Maybe it has to. Maybe that’s the only way we get out of this. That’s the feeling I have. Like the passage in LotR where Sam is close to despair, and he tells himself (paraphrased) _If there’s a road back to the Shire, it goes through Mount Doom._ > [@Atamasama](#): > > Trump pardoned the money launderer and founder of Binance, Changpeng Zhao days ago. Surprised he hasn’t gotten around to Madoff yet. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2561 "2025-10-29T16:06:53Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Surprised he hasn’t gotten around to Madoff yet. Not sure how that would benefit Trump given that Madoff died 4 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2562 "2025-10-29T16:07:53Z")
Fake news! ---
**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:** [October 29, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2563 "2025-10-29T16:12:24Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Bobby K’s Famous Whale Brain Juice Extract is an invaluable remedy for the speedy relief of all that ails you, an all-purpose agent of release for chronic rheumatism, palsy, numbness, gout, lumbago, lumps, bumps, night sweats, sprains, pains, chilblains, and that rash you got at Daytona Beach during Spring Break ‘09. It’ll cure your ills and clear your complexion, clean your gums and bleach your anus, loosen joints and tighten your scrotum. Try _Jeremiah Peabody’s Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills_. (Ray Stevens song title) ETA: Those were only $1.98, though. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2564 "2025-10-29T16:31:56Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Try _Jeremiah Peabody’s Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills_. I needed some fictitious products at a former job, so I put Gleemonex labels on some pill bottles and filled them with m&m’s (and a cotton ball on top). ---
**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:** [October 29, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2565 "2025-10-29T16:35:53Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > That’s the feeling I have. Like the passage in LotR where Sam is close to despair, and he tells himself (paraphrased) _If there’s a road back to the Shire, it goes through Mount Doom._ “_When you’re going through hell, keep going_” – attributed to Winston Churchill ---
**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:** [October 29, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2566 "2025-10-29T16:36:41Z")
Yeah, that too. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2567 "2025-10-29T16:38:06Z")
And attributed to Robert Frost, “The only way out is through.” ---
**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:** [October 29, 2025, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2568 "2025-10-29T18:09:40Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Well said, H.L. Mencken would say that. Actually it was Isaac Asimov. Talking about climate change. Back in 1970. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964.md?page=127) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964.md?page=129)