# I forget, do we have a general HurricaneDitka Pit thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 6, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952 "2018-01-06T00:15:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 27
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/521 "2018-09-20T18:29:30Z")
HD is really tripling down on this ridiculous Cory Booker comparison. I really, really hope his daughter learns about sexual assault from someone other than him. She could be in even more danger than girls already are in this society if she learns this stuff from her dad. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/522 "2018-09-20T19:07:35Z")
He’s singlehandedly gotten me to quit that thread on Kavanaugh–I can’t stay there and be civil to him. Other folks in that thread I disagree with–Ultravires, Shodan, F-P–are saying terrible wrong things, but nobody else is as purely revolting as he’s being. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/523 "2018-09-20T19:26:16Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Is that dumber than this Spartacus stuff that he’s giggling to himself about? Undeniably stupid, but I cut him some slack. Conservative “jokes” are rarer than hen’s teeth, so when they’re handed one, they have to pound it flat like a chicken cutlet. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/524 "2018-09-20T21:02:08Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > He’s singlehandedly gotten me to quit that thread on Kavanaugh–I can’t stay there and be civil to him. Other folks in that thread I disagree with–Ultravires, Shodan, F-P–are saying terrible wrong things, but nobody else is as purely revolting as he’s being. Ultravires is coming up strong. I had no idea he was so mean-spirited until very recently. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2018, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/525 "2018-09-20T21:16:12Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Ultravires is coming up strong. I had no idea he was so mean-spirited until very recently. In my defense I’ve mostly quit reading that thread (although I just got sucked back in, damn my low willpower). So I’ve probably missed Ultravires’s idiocy. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/526 "2018-09-20T21:34:52Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Tell us, O Shit Bird of Wisdom, how \*should \*a woman go public with her story of attempted rape? Walk us through what is acceptable to _you_. OK, first you have a democrat attempt to rape you… ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/527 "2018-09-20T22:18:24Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Ultravires is coming up strong. I had no idea he was so mean-spirited until very recently. Yeah, fuck that guy. He was the one pissing me off the most.:mad: ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/528 "2018-09-20T23:31:43Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Ultravires is coming up strong. I had no idea he was so mean-spirited until very recently. Ugh, yeah, fuck that guy. Isn’t he a lawyer? He’s among the worst, most disingenuous debaters out there, and I’ve tangled with **doorhinge**. I knew he was an idiot, but, holy shit, the guy sounds like he would practically cheer on some rape. Fuck that whole thread, while you’re at it. It’s bringing out such an ugly side in the guys defending Kavanaugh. It’s really disgusting. That thread has already turned off someone from the Dope for several months, maybe longer ( **Tired and Cranky** maybe?), and it’s doing the same to me. It’s hard to be a part of a board when members as ugly as **Shodan** , **Ultravires** , and of course **HD** are there. I really have to stop reading it – I’ll have to get my updates from actual news sources. Of course then I’ll miss the random bullshit tweet that **HD** brings in just to smear Dr. Blasey. (While **Ultrashitstain** claims that she’ll be treated with kid gloves) ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/529 "2018-09-21T08:06:16Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I’ve posed him a simple arithmetic riddle in another thread. Before letting him [make a fool of himself](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21208938&postcount=112), I even tried to help him figure it out, writing “D+R total.” _Nobody help him now please!_ He’ll probably just double down, and whine that it’s a Wikipedia vs Septimus dispute. In the unlikely event that he’s numerate enough to figure out the point, he’ll be caught in a dilemma: (1) Continue to pretend he’s innumerate, (2) Make a fool of himself defending his error. > > The 3rd choice — “Oh, I see. Good point!” — is beyond the capability of a right-winger. Their philosophy has nothing to do with reason, reality, or even simple arithmetic truth, so an admission of mistake would be logically impossible. Whatever slime oozes from one of Trump’s orifice (or from one of their own) is “Truth” for them. I guessed right again. 🙂 > [@They're coming for us ... what will you do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-for-us-what-will-you-do/817507/117): > > “the standard benchmark”? > > Why then, pray tell does [Wikipedia choose to use a non-standard benchmark in reporting the election results](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2016)? Is it possible this “standard benchmark”, while certainly one valid way to analyze at election results, is not the only way? Perhaps it’s not quite as “standard” as you two imagine? Had **Ditka** said “Aha; yes that makes sense!” I’d have increased respect for him. I have no doubt that if correct arithmetic would support the stupid partisan post he was trying to make he’d recall enough of his 3rd-grade arithmetic to get the correct answer. Yet he clings to his mistake tenaciously. Is he really so dim-witted? Or, perhaps, he does have an IQ of 95 or so when discussing areas outside politics, but his IQ effectively drops 15 points when politics are involved. Anyway, he missed a chance. Had he said “Aha; that makes sense” we could imagine he was not beyond salvation. Now there’ll be no further dispute about how much attention we should pay to his “ideas.” ETA: If anyone is confused about whether it is **Ditka** or **septimus** who has the better grasp of simple arithmetic, kindly compare our participation when someone poses a math question in GQ. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/530 "2018-09-21T09:42:26Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Ugh, yeah, fuck that guy. Isn’t he a lawyer? He’s among the worst, most disingenuous debaters out there, and I’ve tangled with **doorhinge**. I knew he was an idiot, but, holy shit, the guy sounds like he would practically cheer on some rape. > > Fuck that whole thread, while you’re at it. It’s bringing out such an ugly side in the guys defending Kavanaugh. It’s really disgusting. > > That thread has already turned off someone from the Dope for several months, maybe longer ( **Tired and Cranky** maybe?), and it’s doing the same to me. It’s hard to be a part of a board when members as ugly as **Shodan** , **Ultravires** , and of course **HD** are there. I really have to stop reading it – I’ll have to get my updates from actual news sources. Of course then I’ll miss the random bullshit tweet that **HD** brings in just to smear Dr. Blasey. (While **Ultrashitstain** claims that she’ll be treated with kid gloves) I have to agree with all of this. I really do need a break. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/531 "2018-09-21T10:13:40Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > (While **Ultrashitstain** claims that she’ll be treated with kid gloves) …After she was doxxed. Seriously, I keep thinking we’ve reached the bottom of the barrel, but no, we just keep digging through the floorboards. It’s astonishing. I thought that’d be the low point of the thread, but then I was wrong. Then I thought people arguing that delaying to investigate was unreasonable would be the low point… _but I was wrong_. Jesus christ. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/532 "2018-09-21T11:23:54Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > I have to agree with all of this. I really do need a break. A break from the board? Because of that nimrod? How about a break from that thread, instead? (And a break from those who respond to every damn thing he says.) ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/533 "2018-09-21T13:55:12Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > A break from the board? Because of that nimrod? How about a break from that thread, instead? (And a break from those who respond to every damn thing he says.) Definitely a break from that thread, but I don’t know- maybe the board, too. There are quite a few nimrods on the board. But right now I’ll just expand my ignore list. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/534 "2018-09-21T14:45:59Z")
Yeah, I stopped looking at that thread. I also stop looking at any thread once HD and the rest of the gang climbs out of the clown car. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/535 "2018-09-21T19:42:39Z")
I haven’t put **HurricaneDitka** on Ignore because it’s educational to look into the “mind” of a Trumpist/Republiopath on various issues. He’s not really a moron — his 95 IQ is probably higher than that of most Trumpists — but the way he doubles down on even blunders of simple arithmetic is enlightening. _ **No attempt whatsoever to apply his brain.** _ Instead … alternative facts are as good as real facts. That is what we’re up against, and we’d best understand that. Or perhaps I keep **HD** around out of masochism (or sadism :)). The girls in San Francisco used to charge $100/hour & Up, but HD provides, _for free_, all the torture we can tolerate! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/536 "2018-09-21T19:48:18Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Ultravires is coming up strong. I had no idea he was so mean-spirited until very recently. Oh, you missed out on all of the same-sex marriage threads, you lucky duck. I kinda hate you right now! ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/537 "2018-09-28T23:59:52Z")
Morally bankrupt person HD didn’t find Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony “compelling”: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21237329&postcount=5030](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21237329&postcount=5030) Very sad that his daughters will have to grow up with such a misogynistic asshole for a dad. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/538 "2018-09-29T00:04:44Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Morally bankrupt person HD didn’t find Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony “compelling”: > > [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21237329&postcount=5030](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21237329&postcount=5030) > > Very sad that his daughters will have to grow up with such a misogynistic asshole for a dad. The fuck? Even Trump said it was compelling. Trump! ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/539 "2018-09-29T00:28:33Z")
> [@wonky](#): > > Oh, you missed out on all of the same-sex marriage threads, you lucky duck. I kinda hate you right now! I forgot that was him. ☹ I hate me too. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2018, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/540 "2018-09-29T02:03:37Z")
The thing that I don’t understand (maybe someone will explain it to me) is why people continue to engage with him. It’s nothing but a waste of time. He is not going to change his mind, and these pointless [del]exchanges[/del] hijacks can go on endlessly. It’s a cheeseless tunnel. Why do people do it? HD is one of a handful of posters that it is totally useless to reply to. Period. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952.md?page=28)