# How Many and Which Newspapers have "YOU'RE FIRED!" Headline on Nov 4th **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 29, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841 "2020-09-29T22:28:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/1 "2020-09-29T22:28:07Z")
If (when) Donnie Death loses the election I think it goes without saying that some newspaper somewhere will run the headline: “YOU’RE FIRED!” What I wonder is, how **many** newspapers will run this same headline? How many will run a variation of it? I would have made a poll but–yep–I don’t know how. When has a headline ever been as predictable as this one? The very idea of this amuses me greatly. Part of my wishes that hundreds of papers would loosely plan to all run the same thing when he loses. I would love seeing the world littered with those worlds. OTOH, it’s _reeeaaaaally_ predictable and obvious so that’s… kinda lame? But it’s such perfect, pithy, poetic justice. Turnabout being fair play and all… At least a few of the tattler rags will splash it, no doubt, but how 'bout the Times, the Post, Trib, LA Times and other biggies? ---
**Author:** ![urbanredneck2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/5f8ce5/32.png) [@urbanredneck2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urbanredneck2)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/2 "2020-09-29T22:43:17Z")
Why is this not under “Politics”? ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/3 "2020-09-29T22:54:38Z")
I don’t know how big a paper it is, but I expect the Philadelphia Daily News to do this. The cover story is always something salacious, often with a pun in the title. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/4 "2020-09-29T22:56:41Z")
Hopefully, all of them. Worldwide. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/5 "2020-09-29T23:01:34Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Hopefully, all of them. Worldwide Indeed. I’m trying to look at it from the editors’ point of view, too. I think many will be tempted for a second or two but ultimately go with something else only because it’s so predictable and thus, not particularly creative. Still, what else can you say? 🤣 > [@urbanredneck2](#): > > Why is this not under “Politics”? I thought of this as something of a poll and definitely about opinions. I put it where I thought best. You can move it if you’d like to become a moderator just to do so. Failing that you can ask a mod to move it. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/6 "2020-09-29T23:23:54Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > At least a few of the tattler rags will splash it, no doubt, but how 'bout the Times, the Post, Trib, LA Times and other biggies? What would be more amusing, indeed more creative, is what would those same mastheads have as their headline if Trump wins? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/7 "2020-09-29T23:26:31Z")
WE”RE F\*\*KED! (I swear Discourse can be irritating as hell. I had to had this line before it would let me post). ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/8 "2020-09-29T23:29:53Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > What would be more amusing, indeed more creative, is what would those same mastheads have as their headline if Trump wins? In that case I imagine the rioting, self-immolation, gnashing of garments, dogs & cats signing leases, etc. will be the lede. The election will get pushed to page seven. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/9 "2020-09-30T00:01:40Z")
None on November 4th. Hopefully all of them on January 20th. I think we’re going to be in for a nasty 2 1/2 months in between. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/10 "2020-09-30T01:59:29Z")
I would rather see “Lock him up!” ---
**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:** [September 30, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/11 "2020-09-30T01:59:50Z")
I think a one word headline would be better. Here are my top suggestions: - FIRED! - BROKE! - BANKRUPT! - DISMISSED! Okay, maybe a three word one, keeping it short enough to also be a tweet: - OUT OF OFFICE! ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/12 "2020-09-30T02:19:14Z")
These few years have been such a disaster for this country that I think the weak joke just doesn’t cut it. If he had been kicked off the board of some corporation for incompetence or corruption the headline “you’re fired” might work. But the people saw fit to elect this loser leader of the _country_. It was funny in The Simpsons, it’s not funny in real life. “Fuck off and crawl down a sewer you incompetent narcissistic corrupt lying traitor” would be more the tone I’d look for in a headline. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/13 "2020-09-30T03:28:22Z")
Headline in La Prensa (Mexico City) **AHÍ VA EL BARRIO** `(There goes the neighbourhood)` ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/14 "2020-09-30T03:47:26Z")
I thought they learned their lesson with DEWEY WINS. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/15 "2020-09-30T04:12:17Z")
I was slightly serious about this question just because I think it’s interesting in an odd behavioral sort of way. It would have come together better if I could have done it as a poll. And if I had been smart enough to construct a poll it would have gone just a li’l like this: _If it’s widely known by midnight on November 3/4 that Trump has clearly lost the election, how many English-language newspapers++ will in their next paper run the_ _headline_: **"YOU’RE FIRED!"** (any combo of caps and LC) A) none B) One C) 2-3 D) 3-10 E) 11-50 C) over 80% of them It’s really silly, I know, but I’m interested in the way it shakes out. Don’t ask me why. Personally I don’t have any idea but if I had the proverbial gun to the proverbial head I would say D) 3-10. * * * ++ with a circulation over… ummmm… 100,000. Though who knows what that number even means anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/16 "2020-09-30T04:37:49Z")
I believe only one newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, ran a YOU’RE HIRED headline after Trump won in 2016. So they might be the only one to say YOU’RE FIRED. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/17 "2020-09-30T13:22:36Z")
Back in 2016, I started a thread with the same theme: > [@Nov 9 headline: "You're Fired!!"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757): > > When the election results are in, this will be the obvious thing to say. My question is: who will say it first? Web blogs and messageboards don’t count. slight_smile I want to see it in print, or on a major network TV. Which mainstream news organization will publish a front-page cartoon with this phrase as the caption, or a front-page article with this phrase as the headline? For the NY Times, I can see this as a smaller thing, on the editorial page. But somebody, somewhere will print i… It just seemed so obvious that he would lose. Now, I’m not so sure 🙁 ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/18 "2020-09-30T14:40:29Z")
If headlines allowed for four lines, I’d like to see, in ever larger type: na na na na na na na na hey hey hey GOODBYE! ---
**Author:** ![ThisIsTheEnd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisistheend/32/4713_2.png) [@ThisIsTheEnd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisIsTheEnd)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/19 "2020-09-30T14:59:33Z")
It’s a tabloid headline and I can only think of one mildly liberal tabloid off the top of my head - The NY Daily News. But it’s too obvious, and I don’t know how good the chances are that it’ll be decided in time for them to print it on the Nov 4 edition unless they put out a late one. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841/20 "2020-10-01T13:16:13Z")
YES!!! Good one. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-and-which-newspapers-have-youre-fired-headline-on-nov-4th/921841.md?page=2)