# 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:** 11
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/201 "2025-08-08T16:43:54Z")
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**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/202 "2025-08-08T18:06:53Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > **Someone** in this thread is engaging in excessive hyperbole that fundamentally undermines their position, but it’s not who you seem to think it is. Where the fuck is my like button? ---
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/203 "2025-08-08T18:12:34Z")
I’m sorry. Did you scream something? 😁 ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/204 "2025-08-08T18:56:41Z")
I guess I am hysterical. ---
**Author:** ![Frilly\_Heck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90ced4/32.png) [@Frilly\_Heck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frilly_Heck)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/205 "2025-08-08T19:00:50Z")
[Calm down! Get ahold of yourself!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0chd6ZP1p6Y) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/206 "2025-08-08T19:09:04Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I guess I am hysterical. There are more direct ways to ask to be given an orgasm. ---
**Author:** ![Frilly\_Heck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90ced4/32.png) [@Frilly\_Heck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frilly_Heck)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/207 "2025-08-08T19:17:27Z")
When you say things like that, you are trivializing women’s uteruses wandering around their body causing distress and disinterest in marriage. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/208 "2025-08-08T20:43:31Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Also, cite for where Republicans have been harmed in anyway whatsoever by constantly lying their ass off? As I said in the OP, we don’t want to get into a lie fight with the Republicans. They’re a lot better at telling lies than we are. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/209 "2025-08-08T20:46:54Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > Alternate perspective: the Left has been trying to warn you people for nearly fifty years that the GOP was moving toward fascism, and you ignored us until it actually happened. Maybe the problem is you’ve been crying fascism for fifty years so people ignored your warnings when it really happened. ---
**Author:** ![Frilly\_Heck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90ced4/32.png) [@Frilly\_Heck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frilly_Heck)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/210 "2025-08-08T20:48:07Z")
That does indeed sound like a problem, but not cause by the ones doing the warning. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/211 "2025-08-08T20:48:17Z")
“Ignored your warnings”? It’s what they’ve always wanted. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/212 "2025-08-08T20:49:20Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > As I said in the OP, we don’t want to get into a lie fight with the Republicans. They’re a lot better at telling lies than we are. Perhaps, but again, “Trump is gearing up for a genocide,” isn’t a lie - it is, at worst (best?) _mistaken_, but it’s not _dishonest_. ---
**Author:** ![Frilly\_Heck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90ced4/32.png) [@Frilly\_Heck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frilly_Heck)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/213 "2025-08-08T20:57:15Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > As I said in the OP, we don’t want to get into a lie fight with the Republicans. They’re a lot better at telling lies than we are. Do you think that getting into a vibes fight on this message board is more productive? How has it worked for you, so far? Recruited any new fighters? ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/214 "2025-08-08T20:58:27Z")
“It’s your fault because you started warning us _too early_.” ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/215 "2025-08-08T21:06:21Z")
Ahh, the pernicious charge of “premature antifascism" rises from it’s very dusty grave. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/216 "2025-08-08T21:10:53Z")
It would make much more sense to wait until it was too _late_ to do anything, right? ---
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/217 "2025-08-08T21:54:24Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > “It’s your fault because you started warning us _too early_.” Are you familiar with the story of the boy who cried wolf? ---
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/218 "2025-08-08T21:57:36Z")
> [@Frilly\_Heck](#): > > Do you think that getting into a vibes fight on this message board is more productive? How has it worked for you, so far? Recruited any new fighters? Hopefully I’ve convinced a few people that they can fight the Republicans more effectively by telling the truth about the things they’re actually doing rather than telling the wildest thing you can imagine them doing. ---
**Author:** ![Frilly\_Heck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90ced4/32.png) [@Frilly\_Heck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frilly_Heck)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/219 "2025-08-08T22:00:25Z")
I don’t think you have. But maybe someone will chime in to say it worked. Is this your main strategy? Are you doing anything else to fight Trump? Are you looking for things to do? ---
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/220 "2025-08-08T22:03:36Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Hopefully I’ve convinced a few people that they can fight the Republicans more effectively by telling the truth about the things they’re actually doing rather than telling the wildest thing you can imagine them doing. Can you name which specific posters you think are _lying_ about their fears of what Trump is going to do? As opposed to (again) being maybe _wrong_ about it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735.md?page=12)