# I pit the USA **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 9, 2016, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170 "2016-11-09T08:44:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/101 "2016-11-10T10:37:41Z")
> [@Scribble](#): > > I hope he gets impeached. Quickly. Oh, and I’d like Pence to be wished into the cornfield or otherwise become unable to take Trump’s place. The 2018 midterms will give the House back to the Democrats, Trump will fire Pence in a fit of pique, then quit in a fit of pique, and Speaker Pelosi will step up… ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/102 "2016-11-12T01:34:16Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > :smack: > > Well, I hope you weren’t looking to get married. > > Or vote in 2020. Considering that the poster in question is a person of color, he might want to pay attention to [what’s been happening in North Carolina lately](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/north-carolina-gop-brags-about-how-few-black-people-were-able-vote-early). Republicans have shown that they like to develop ‘model legislation’ to be copied in other states…I’m expecting to see this issue get much worse. ---
**Author:** ![fervour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@fervour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fervour)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/103 "2016-11-12T04:09:44Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > The 2018 midterms will give the House back to the Democrats, Trump will fire Pence in a fit of pique, then quit in a fit of pique, and Speaker Pelosi will step up… I love you Bryan, I really do. You are so fucked. I wish you weren’t. I’m trying to convince my husband that we have to move. He’s still like, “No that didn’t happen, did it?!?” ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/104 "2016-11-12T04:53:29Z")
> [@fervour](#): > > I love you Bryan, I really do. You are so fucked. I wish you weren’t. I’m trying to convince my husband that we have to move. He’s still like, “No that didn’t happen, did it?!?” Well, **Bryan** has already moved to Canada (the French part, no less), but I admit that is still awfully close to the Glorious Trumpist Motherland. Maybe New Zealand would be better? …or Mars? Proxima b? ---
**Author:** ![fervour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@fervour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fervour)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/105 "2016-11-12T05:02:47Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > Well, **Bryan** has already moved to Canada (the French part, no less), but I admit that is still awfully close to the Glorious Trumpist Motherland. Maybe New Zealand would be better? > > …or Mars? > > Proxima b? If only----- I was born Bahamian when it was a British colony. But apparently I’m still fucked. No posibility of claiming British citizenship. Stuck with the narcissistic sociopath. At least I’m not broke. Maybe we can find somewhere that will take us. ---
**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 12, 2016, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/106 "2016-11-12T08:13:47Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > Well, **Bryan** has already moved to Canada It was a fairly short move - I didn’t even bring any stuff from my old place. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/107 "2016-11-12T18:17:26Z")
I’m not proud to have an American President who enrages me And I won’t forget his solemn pledge to deport Miguel and Ali And I’d gladly roll back The twenty second if Barack would win today Cause there’s ain’t no doubt we’ve stepped in it I pit the USA! ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/108 "2016-11-12T19:00:55Z")
I just hope that partisan cunt Ginsburg moves to New Zealand like she said she would to free up a spot on the court. Because a died in the wool partisan democrat cunt like her should not be on the court. Fucking partisan cunt. I grant you all politicians are evil cunts but there shouldn’t be one on the court who are supposed to be neutral and not just evil cunty lap dogs of another branch of the government. What the fuck happened to checks and balances? They’re all Cunty McCunty MacCunts who are cunts. Politicians are the worst people on the planet besides murders and rapists. And if America can’t hack that then we are all doomed. The entire fucking planet is doomed. We’re doomed, Doomed, **DOOMED!!!** But really, fuck partisanship. There are times when demos are good to have in power and there are times when its good to have repubs in power. But not on the fucking court. The court should be neutral, always and forever. So fuck her and fuck you USA, right in the butthole of your consciousness. ---
**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 12, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/109 "2016-11-12T19:26:53Z")
You’re really getting desperate for attention, aren’t you. ---
**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 12, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/110 "2016-11-12T19:55:54Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Because a died in the wool partisan democrat cunt like her should not be on the court. Maybe she actually died in the clover instead? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/111 "2016-11-12T20:01:09Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I’m not proud to have an American > President who enrages me > And I won’t forget his solemn pledge > to deport Miguel and Ali > And I’d gladly roll back > The twenty second if Barack would win today > Cause there’s ain’t no doubt we’ve stepped in it > I pit the USA! Brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/112 "2016-11-12T21:06:53Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Because a died in the wool partisan democrat cunt like her should not be on the court. Fucking partisan cunt. Alito and uncle Thomas are partisan cunts as well. We know Thomas is a cunt because he drinks Coke from cans decorated with cunt hairs. Roberts is a bit of a twat, as well. Those guys, though, they just keep their bloody cuntiness to themselves, most of the time. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/113 "2016-12-06T04:16:39Z")
> [@DoggyDunnit](#): > > Hillary has given no indication she’s any different (that is, less sleazy) than Mr. Sexual Relations himself, so many of us either stayed home, voted for Jill Stein or another real progressive, or protest-voted for Trump - because another damn Bill was not what we needed. It represents the continuation of the status damn quo. Fuck that noise. And I hope you are FUCKING PROUD of yourselves, now that you’ve had your little temper tantrum and consigned us all to what may well turn out to be a generation or more of reactionary rule. Unfortunately, we didn’t need an ethical paragon. What we needed, and what HRC could have been as well as anyone else, was someone to hold their finger in the dam, so to speak, and keep SCOTUS at least divided at worst, or move it in a progressive direction at best, and defend the progress that has been made. Now we don’t have that, in face of an impending avalanche of SCOTUS vacancies; those vacancies will not be filled by Jill Stein (as if), but by Donald Trump and a Republican controlled Senate. > [@](#): > > Whether Trump turns out to be a decent progressive president - the possibility is distinct - And how’s that working out so far? ---
**Author:** ![Bouncer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@Bouncer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bouncer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/114 "2016-12-06T19:20:33Z")
> [@DoggyDunnit](#): > > I ain’t the only black and/or gay guy who has been done this way and who refused to support Clinton. I know several others who voted for Stein, as well as one who voted for Trump, and another who wrote in Soltysik. I am curious why you didn’t consider Johnson/Weld. Arguably Weld has done more concrete things for the LGBT community than any of the other candidates. They were both actual Governors and Weld made gay marriage legal well ahead of the majority of the nation. > [@](#): > > It ain’t like things’d have gotten any better with Clinton in office - which is what y’all’re acting like. Well they had plans. And those plans were upset. And so now they’re upset. And it’s your fault for them running a campaign that didn’t give two shits about the blue collar workers and middle class. Groups that Obama did bother to say “Hi!” to and won twice. But nope, your fault. Regards, -Bouncer- ---
**Author:** ![Bouncer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@Bouncer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bouncer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/115 "2016-12-06T19:36:09Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > And I hope you are FUCKING PROUD of yourselves, now that you’ve had your little temper tantrum and consigned us all to what may well turn out to be a generation or more of reactionary rule. Maybe you should consider not running a complete shit candidate and expect us to go along with it because the other candidate is just as fucking bad. She lost to Donald-Goddamn-Trump, literally the SECOND worst Presidential Candidate ever. You know what that makes her? THE WORST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE EVER. That’s who YOU fucking ran. Own that shitty-shit-shit. OWN it! And stop blaming the rest of us in the middle to refusing to go along with someone who steamrolled the entire goddamn Democratic primary process by pre-gaming the shit out of it for six fucking years. Fuck Her. Fuck the DNC and fuck all of you who worked to defeat the democratic process so you could crown your Princess. > [@](#): > > Unfortunately, we didn’t need an ethical paragon. What we needed, and what HRC could have been as well as anyone else, was someone to hold their finger in the dam, so to speak, and keep SCOTUS at least divided at worst, or move it in a progressive direction at best, and defend the progress that has been made. Now we don’t have that, in face of an impending avalanche of SCOTUS vacancies; those vacancies will not be filled by Jill Stein (as if), but by Donald Trump and a Republican controlled Senate. Blah fucking blah. You coulda’ had all of that with Biden, with Chaffee, with O’Malley hell even with a goddamn non-registered socialist named Bernie Sanders. Instead, you wanted the fix to be in. Well fucking shock, a lot of us don’t like the fix to be in, and if you try that shit again, we’ll vote third party or for the other guy (who at LEAST won his nomination fair and square) AGAIN. > [@](#): > > And how’s that working out so far? Better than you and the DNCs attempt to thwart fucking democracy. Seriously, shittiest candidate ever is what YOU brought. Shittiest. Ever. Lost to a goddamn blowhard fuckhead REALITY TV STAR. THAT FUCKING BAD. Regards, -Bouncer- ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/116 "2016-12-06T19:39:24Z")
As bad as the US is, only a full-fledged social democracy like Germany would elect a chief executive who wants to ban religious attire. I’m glad the US is not as “progressive” as the Euro shitholes. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/117 "2016-12-06T21:18:05Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > And I hope you are FUCKING PROUD of yourselves, now that you’ve had your little temper tantrum and consigned us all to what may well turn out to be a generation or more of reactionary rule. > > Unfortunately, we didn’t need an ethical paragon. What we needed, and what HRC could have been as well as anyone else, was someone to hold their finger in the dam, so to speak, and keep SCOTUS at least divided at worst, or move it in a progressive direction at best, and defend the progress that has been made. Now we don’t have that, in face of an impending avalanche of SCOTUS vacancies; those vacancies will not be filled by Jill Stein (as if), but by Donald Trump and a Republican controlled Senate. > > And how’s that working out so far? Your main complaint seems to be that we elected a Republican and not Trump in particular. As far as Republicans go, Trump at least has some chance of breaking from Republican orthodoxy on the issue of Supreme Court nominations. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/118 "2016-12-06T21:43:45Z")
> [@Bouncer](#): > > Better than you and the DNCs attempt to thwart fucking democracy. Seriously, shittiest candidate ever is what YOU brought. Shittiest. Ever. Lost to a goddamn blowhard fuckhead REALITY TV STAR. THAT FUCKING BAD. > > Regards, > -Bouncer- It’s amazing to think that with all the antipathy and apathy, she lost with popular vote lead of more than 2M. Sent from my SM-G900P using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/119 "2016-12-06T21:49:34Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > It’s amazing to think that with all the antipathy and apathy, she lost with popular vote lead of more than 2M. > Sent from my SM-G900P using Tapatalk If the popular vote had any relevance you’d have a point. ---
**Author:** ![Bouncer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@Bouncer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bouncer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170/120 "2016-12-06T22:34:09Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > It’s amazing to think that with all the antipathy and apathy, she lost with popular vote lead of more than 2M. It’s not really surprising at all. Look, the D’s ignored the middle ground states and the middle class. They chased minorities, trannies and any other “oppressed” they could find along with the elites. Surprise, these people (while I am sure they are all fine individuals) do NOT make up the majority of the people in the US. And in point of fact, even if they are LGBTWTFBBQMOUSE they STILL aren’t going to behave like a mouse in a maze chasing a piece of cheese. They’re not going to perform for the DNC because it pretends to care like a fucking monkey on a string. You know what I saw in SoCal on the bridge over the I-5 near Sea World the weekend before the election? A crowd of people holding up “Vote Trump” signs (which amazed me because SoCal)… and here’s the important part, one of them was a young gentlemen waving a rainbow colored sign that said “GAYS FOR TRUMP!” I am not making that shit up. The DNC needs to stop thinking they “own” the votes of the gays or anyone else. They need to approach the next election not counting on anyone as being in their pocket. That’s what Trump did, and it fucking worked. The second point I’d like to make is that between gary Johnson and Jill Stein, they abso-fucking-lutely cost HRC the presidency. They went from something around 1.2M total votes last cycle to around 6M votes this time around. Given they were going to keep the ones from the last cycle, that’s still a 400% increase in new voters for them. 400%. Four. Hundred. Percent. In one cycle. Holy fucknuts Batman. The DNC’s chosen one actually managed to not only NOT get the votes Obama got, she managed to drive MILLIONS of people off into the Libertarian/Green wilderness. It’s staggering. They need to take the lesson to heart. The “darling” of the DNC leadership should NOT be given a gigantic fucking head start on the rest of the field, in effect subverting the process and making it a coronation. To do so, is to field an inherently flawed candidate who exists in a bubble and cannot exist (or win) outside of that bubble. And if you don’t believe me, consider that she lost to a living bobblehead FFS. That’s how bad she was. Regards, -Bouncer- [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-usa/771170.md?page=7)