# I don't think I can say this in the Elections forum **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 10, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297 "2016-11-10T00:33:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/21 "2016-11-10T01:22:15Z")
There’s something fundamental about this election that some of the Trump-supporting jackasses don’t get, so I’ll do my best to put it in terms they might understand, by [quoting the only remaining Republican comic](http://www.npr.org/2016/05/09/477339063/conservative-author-pj-orourke-reluctantly-backs-clinton): > [@PJ O'Rourke](#): > > I am endorsing Hillary, and all her lies and all her empty promises. It’s the second-worst thing that can happen to this country, but she’s way behind in second place. She’s wrong about absolutely everything, but she’s wrong within normal parameters. Trump’s not just wrong, he’s wrong outside of normal parameters. If Romney had won, if McCain had won, our country would have been significantly shittier–but shittier within normal parameters. Trump? I haven’t be so uneasy about the state of the globe since 9/11. I suspect my concern there was overblown, lacking context; this time, I have had months to understand the context. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/22 "2016-11-10T01:22:42Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > If it does, it won’t be because of Trump. And considering you’re probably a part of the economically illiterate contingent who thought Obamacare was actually going to lower premiums and bend the cost curve downwards, excuse me for taking your doom and gloom with a half a grain of salt. Look, I know you’re a troll, but as should have been obvious, I’m not in the U.S., so trying that Obamacare shit won’t work. Luckily, I’m in a country that at least values the principle of universal healthcare. Think about the 45% tariff on Chinese goods and go from there if you want to talk about being “economically illiterate”. ---
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/23 "2016-11-10T01:24:10Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Hey, you’re not the only one celebrating. Putin is very happy too. He has his useful [del]tool[/del] fool to fuck with for 4 years. Russian will be a required language in elementary school in no time. Putin prefers the non war hawk to the war hawk? That’s shocking! > [@Lobot](#): > > Look, I know you’re a troll, but as should have been obvious, I’m not in the U.S., so trying that Obamacare shit won’t work. Luckily, I’m in a country that at least values the principle of universal healthcare. > > Think about the 45% tariff on Chinese goods and go from there if you want to talk about being “economically illiterate”. I dunno where you live, so that’s that. And there won’t be a 45% tariff on Chinese goods. And, no. No, I’m not. I’m very real and very darkish Brown. ---
**Author:** ![DoggyDunnit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@DoggyDunnit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoggyDunnit)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/24 "2016-11-10T01:26:49Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > Y so salty? _double-checks my browser_ Hm. Sure 'nough, I ain’t accidentally stumbled upon 4chan. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/25 "2016-11-10T01:29:15Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > Let me preface this by saying… > > IT’S S GREAT DAY FOR AMERICA! Certainly a great day for reactionary assholes, I’ll grant you that. > [@](#): > > Get a hold of yourselves! We survived Obama; you’ll survive Trump. I seem to recall you, in particular, moaning incessantly about Obama. Now no one’s allowed to say anything negative about Trump? fuck that noise. And that’s all the feeding I’ll be doing in this thread. _blows lengthy raspberry_ ---
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/26 "2016-11-10T01:37:32Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > I seem to recall you, in particular, moaning incessantly about Obama. Now no one’s allowed to say anything negative about Trump? fuck that noise. > > And that’s all the feeding I’ll be doing in this thread. > > _blows lengthy raspberry_ Oh, Obama sucks, and you can certainly criticize Trump. I, however, wasn’t all “Obama is Satan and is gonna bring in the apocalypse!”. But hey, what do I know? Continue with the gnashing of teeth! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/27 "2016-11-10T01:37:44Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > You know what would be great? If everyone who voted for Trump yesterday committed suicide today. Every single one of them. [Moderating] There’s a rule against wishing harm on other posters, which can get a little squishy when you’re wishing harm against a group that may or may not be reading the thread. However, given that the OP of the thread is a Trump supporter, I’m going to have to ask you to dial it back on the “dead Trump voter” imagery. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/28 "2016-11-10T01:42:28Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Have you met Donald Trump? > > What’s up with you conservative fucksticks who think it’s funny that you’ve elected this ridiculous clown to the presidency? You know he’s a conman. You know he’s devoid of empathy and humanity. You know he has the attention span of a goldfish. > > And that’s what you assholes like about him! He’s finally going to start kicking the liberals in the balls! Doesn’t matter what happens to the country, as long as the liberals are complaining. You’re like the guy who finds a genie’s lamp, but finds out that whatever you wish for, your neighbor will get twice as much. So you wish for the genie to beat you half to death. [Or that the genie beats him half to death.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE0miV8YBBw&t=0m50s) ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/29 "2016-11-10T01:44:48Z")
Wait a minute. You guys had an election? Huh, who won? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/30 "2016-11-10T01:50:10Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > Wait a minute. You guys had an election? Huh, who won? Despair. ---
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/31 "2016-11-10T01:51:24Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Despair. That’s not how you spell “hope and change”. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/32 "2016-11-10T01:57:42Z")
Actually, ‘‘all the liberals’’ here didn’t gloat with the other wins, some of us reached out to our conservative friends to hear their concerns, and your insistence on painting all of us with a broad brush makes you look like a serious fucking asshole. I’ve really never heard you say anything that indicated any degree of respect or empathy for anyone on this board, and I can’t fathom why you think anyone gives a shit what your rude ass has to say about anything. Take some fucking class lessons from the other conservatives here - **Bricker** ’s a great example. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/33 "2016-11-10T02:12:43Z")
I admit, I was an asshole in 2012 - because I had every reason to be. I was so disgusted with the way the republicans treated the nation’s first black president and I got sick of reading people post their conspiracy theories and their thinly-veiled shots at his ethnicity. So yeah I admit I was a douchebag on election night 2012. I would have been less so this time around because I was so ready for this election to be over. And in that sense, I am relieved. The anticipation is finished. We know the result. You guys won. Hope you’re happy knowing that the least qualified person in history represents your party. FWIW, I will support Trump to the extent I possibly can. I suspect that won’t last long but I will give it the college try. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/34 "2016-11-10T02:29:13Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > Plus, he won’t trying to instigate WW3 with Russia, which is always nice. He’s good peeps in my book! He’ll be far too busy sucking Putin’s dick. Remember “Peace in our time”. That went well :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [November 10, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/35 "2016-11-10T02:31:01Z")
Huh, for some reason I thought the OP had left this board. He certainly seemed to be flying under my radar for a while, there. ---
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/36 "2016-11-10T02:31:36Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Actually, ‘‘all the liberals’’ here didn’t gloat with the other wins, some of us reached out to our conservative friends to hear their concerns, and your insistence on painting all of us with a broad brush makes you look like a serious fucking asshole. I’ve really never heard you say anything that indicated any degree of respect or empathy for anyone on this board, and I can’t fathom why you think anyone gives a shit what your rude ass has to say about anything. Take some fucking class lessons from the other conservatives here - **Bricker** ’s a great example. Bricker gets all kind of flack, and has been for as long as I’ve been here, what are you talking about? Anyway, the victor go the spoils. I don’t have to be gracious-- especially not after 2012. We won. We’ve got Congress, the Presidency and hopefully 2 or more SCOTUS picks. You can bet I’m thrilled! > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Huh, for some reason I thought the OP had left this board. He certainly seemed to be flying under my radar for a while, there. I didn’t leave. Just lurked 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/37 "2016-11-10T02:32:42Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > Let me preface this by saying… > > Hahahahahaha to all the smug liberals now crying the tastiest of tears. The sheer despair of watching the liberal sheep in Hollywood, the media, on social media, on this board and in real life makes voting for Donald the mother fucking man Trump so goddamn fucking with it! Cry more, please! Show me your anguish, your pain and your fears. > > IT’S S GREAT DAY FOR AMERICA! > > _ahem_ > > Now with that out of the way, holy hell people. I was upset when Romney lost, but some of these people are taking the cake. Not everyone who voted the way you didn’t wish is guilty of \. No, Black folk aren’t going to be shot wholesale. No, all Hispanics aren’t getting deported. No, we’re not gonna round Muslims up and put them in concentration camps. No, it wasn’t a “Whitelash” against a HALF Black president. No, Trump isn’t going to start WW3, etc… Get a hold of yourselves! We survived Obama; you’ll survive Trump. You’re not a smart person. But that’s okay. \<3 ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/38 "2016-11-10T02:35:41Z")
It’s like someone whooping it up while driving a car over a cliff… and we’re all the passengers. “Faster, you say? Fuck yeah!” ---
**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:** [November 10, 2016, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/39 "2016-11-10T02:38:12Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Take some fucking class lessons from the other conservatives here - **Bricker** ’s a great example. Heh, possibly my first genuine post-election chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![tenacious\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenacious\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenacious_j)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/40 "2016-11-10T02:41:01Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > That depends. Are you running as a D or an R? I’m posing as a republican this week to get elected. > [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Certainly a great day for reactionary assholes, I’ll grant you that. > I seem to recall you, in particular, moaning incessantly about Obama. Now no one’s allowed to say anything negative about Trump? fuck that noise. > > And that’s all the feeding I’ll be doing in this thread. > > _blows lengthy raspberry_ I sense we’ll be back to “The Dixie Chicks suck because they said a bad thing about our president” real frickin’ soon. All the smack talk about Obama will be swept under the rug of course. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297.md?page=3)