# If Donald Trump interferes with air travel I’m going to be pissed as hell. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 8, 2019, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-interferes-with-air-travel-i-m-going-to-be-pissed-as-hell/827434 "2019-01-08T23:38:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-interferes-with-air-travel-i-m-going-to-be-pissed-as-hell/827434/1 "2019-01-08T23:38:24Z")
Not sure whether to include this in the very long general Donald Trump pissed thread. However: I have a bunch of important trips scheduled in the next few months. If he interferes with them with his cockamamie shutdown I’m going to be so angry. Not that I liked him before. But this is interfering with my life on a personal level. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-interferes-with-air-travel-i-m-going-to-be-pissed-as-hell/827434/2 "2019-01-08T23:41:08Z")
Existing thread: Airports and the Government Shutdown: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=868460](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=868460) ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-interferes-with-air-travel-i-m-going-to-be-pissed-as-hell/827434/3 "2019-01-08T23:47:42Z")
You need to follow the evolving plot. Trump declared that he “[would be proud to shut down the government](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2018/dec/11/donald-trump-government-shut-down-chuck-schumer-white-house-video)” over his fucking wall. Now that there’s backlash over it, [it’s all the Democrats’ fault](https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/03/politics/government-shutdown-blame-game-donald-trump/index.html). To be a Trumpster, one either has to have no memory (the best approach, since the blowhard contradicts himself in the space of even a few minutes) or else a brain so feeble that its cognitive capabilities pale compared to those of a head of lettuce. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-interferes-with-air-travel-i-m-going-to-be-pissed-as-hell/827434/4 "2019-01-09T00:04:09Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > You need to follow the evolving plot. Trump declared that he “[would be proud to shut down the government](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2018/dec/11/donald-trump-government-shut-down-chuck-schumer-white-house-video)” over his fucking wall. > > Now that there’s backlash over it, [it’s all the Democrats’ fault](https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/03/politics/government-shutdown-blame-game-donald-trump/index.html). > > To be a Trumpster, one either has to have no memory (the best approach, since the blowhard contradicts himself in the space of even a few minutes) or else a brain so feeble that its cognitive capabilities pale compared to those of a head of lettuce. He also said that Obama should be fired when he allowed the shutdown. …and complained about Obama playing too much golf… ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-interferes-with-air-travel-i-m-going-to-be-pissed-as-hell/827434/5 "2019-01-09T01:11:15Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Existing thread: Airports and the Government Shutdown: > [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=868460](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=868460) The existing thread doesn’t contain the vitriol I want to express. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-interferes-with-air-travel-i-m-going-to-be-pissed-as-hell/827434/6 "2019-01-09T02:01:52Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > You need to follow the evolving plot. Trump declared that he “[would be proud to shut down the government](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2018/dec/11/donald-trump-government-shut-down-chuck-schumer-white-house-video)” over his fucking wall. > > Now that there’s backlash over it, [it’s all the Democrats’ fault](https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/03/politics/government-shutdown-blame-game-donald-trump/index.html). > > To be a Trumpster, one either has to have no memory (the best approach, since the blowhard contradicts himself in the space of even a few minutes) or else a brain so feeble that its cognitive capabilities pale compared to those of a head of lettuce. I think Mr Eric Blair was [prescient](http://orwelltoday.com/doublethink.shtml) on this one: > [@](#): > > **Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them**. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt. Another principle which I feel applies is _crimestop_, which he defines as “The faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. In short … protective stupidity.” ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-interferes-with-air-travel-i-m-going-to-be-pissed-as-hell/827434/7 "2019-01-09T03:29:10Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > …and complained about Obama playing too much golf… Please, please, please, Tan the Conman, go play even one hole of golf before the shutdown is completed. Go now. Heck, take one day of vacation. I’d dearly love to see how your supporters parlay that into some semblance of decency and competency. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-interferes-with-air-travel-i-m-going-to-be-pissed-as-hell/827434/8 "2019-01-10T03:39:34Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > The existing thread doesn’t contain the vitriol I want to express. I’m the OP of that thread, which was overtaken by the sudden onset of a horrible cold which caused me to cancel the trip. At the same time the thread changed direction enough that it was closed.