# I pit over-the-top Anti-Trump hysteria **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [August 5, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735 "2025-08-05T18:11:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 107
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2308 "2026-07-15T03:22:31Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Tell people that they’re not good enough to be Democrats and some of them are going to decide not to support the party. Isn’t that let much what you’ve been doing in this whole thread? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2309 "2026-07-15T13:42:28Z")
No, of course not. I’ve been doing the opposite. I’ve been consistently telling people that they should tolerate people who have opinions they disagree with if those people are opposing Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2310 "2026-07-15T14:40:22Z")
…and they certainly shouldn’t, say, start a whole pit thread criticizing those people. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2311 "2026-07-15T14:51:10Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > …belonging to the Democrat party Zing! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2312 "2026-07-15T15:37:46Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > …and they certainly shouldn’t, say, start a whole pit thread criticizing those people. This is how I started this thread: > Let me be clear on this point; I am not defending Donald Trump. He is both evil and stupid. He is a terrible human being and he is the worst President this country has ever had. He, along with the Republican party, are trying to destroy democracy. He has committed numerous serious crimes and should be in prison. As a criticism of the Democratic party and its supporters, it’s pretty off-target. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2313 "2026-07-15T15:42:46Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Let me be clear on this point; I am not defending Donald Trump. He is both evil and stupid. He is a terrible human being and he is the worst President this country has ever had. He, along with the Republican party, are trying to destroy democracy. He has committed numerous serious crimes and should be in prison. This is correct. What are you going on about? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2314 "2026-07-15T15:48:21Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > This is correct. What are you going on about? That we should be focused on defeating Trump and the Republicans. We should not be driving away people who are opposed to Trump by espousing outlandish conspiracy theories or by arguing over differences in opinions or by making personal attacks against them. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2315 "2026-07-15T15:52:52Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > That we should be focused on defeating Trump and the Republicans. > > We should not be driving away people who are opposed to Trump by espousing outlandish conspiracy theories or by arguing over differences in opinions or by making personal attacks against them. Well, yeah. The entire hysteria highjack totaly ruined the thread, I stopped reading it because it was so rediculous. What outlandish conspiracy theories? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2316 "2026-07-15T16:13:35Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > What outlandish conspiracy theories? You know-The outlandish conspiracy theories that nobody here defends _because nobody in this thread makes them._ Keep on fighting the good fight, @Little_Nemo. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2317 "2026-07-15T16:54:51Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > What outlandish conspiracy theories? I mentioned three examples in the OP. Trump is planning on committing genocide. Trump is planning on restoring slavery. Trump is planning on starting a nuclear war. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2318 "2026-07-15T18:02:01Z")
Since this is in the BBQ Pit, could you possibly name the people here that are making those accusations? ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2319 "2026-07-15T18:10:51Z")
Here are a couple from today: > [@POLL: Yea, Nay, or Something else- Trump will bulldoze the entire White House to the ground](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/59): > > The Republicans have been blatantly evil for a long time; anyone who votes for them is an enemy of humanity. They vote Republican because they want to hurt everyone else as much as possible, as often as possible, because that’s what the Republicans stand for. And there won’t be any recovery, ever. Never happen. Either they kill or enslave all of us (and then start on the rest of humanity), or we suppress them hard enough to keep them from doing too much damage in the future. Probably the for… > [@POLL: Yea, Nay, or Something else- Trump will bulldoze the entire White House to the ground](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/62): > > No, it’s a simple statement of what the Right has always wanted. A major reason why we are in our present situation is that so many people have tried so hard to deny that. To pretend that they are well meaning, reasonable people we can “compromise” and be “bipartisan” with. And again and again they’ve taken advantage of that delusion to gain more power and hurt people, because that is what they care about. They want a “[Day of the Rope](https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/day-rope)” where they can kill us all. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2320 "2026-07-15T18:20:40Z")
Sooo… @Der_Trihs? Don’t they already have a Pit thread? ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2321 "2026-07-15T18:22:19Z")
Probably. I was just taken aback when I posted that I think reconciliation and building bridges post-Trump is the way forward, and I got an answer that the Republicans literally want to kil and enslave people. That’s a wild-ass, crazy, probably mentally ill conspiracy theory for sure. And when those people speak for the Left/Democratic side of things, it more than likely turns off way more people than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2322 "2026-07-15T18:25:11Z")
“These people”? _What_ “people”? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2323 "2026-07-15T18:27:47Z")
> [@bump](#): > > That’s a wild-ass, crazy, probably mentally ill conspiracy theory for sure. How is accusing fascists of aspiring to be genocidal tyrants a “conspiracy theory”? Much less “mentally ill”? "But Hitler will surely not kill the Jews no matter what he says, the Germans are _civilized."_ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2324 "2026-07-15T18:31:02Z")
Did you know that you speak for the Left and/or Democrats? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2325 "2026-07-15T18:36:09Z")
It’s amazing how much power I secretly have, I control both of them from my hidden volcano lair. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2026, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2326 "2026-07-15T18:40:20Z")
Many people are saying that what you say turns them off from voting Democratic. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/2327 "2026-07-15T18:52:57Z")
Or maybe some people are using him as a weak excuse not to do what they had no intention of doing in the first place? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735.md?page=106) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735.md?page=108)