# I'm gonna have to pit all you butt-hurt snowflakes **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 15, 2017, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203 "2017-01-15T03:22:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/221 "2017-01-16T16:58:47Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > What Obama has been for you, you mean. You do understand that there are many people who disagree with the direction in which Obama was leading the nation? It’s called politics. If Trump can do as effective a job for the right as Obama has done for the left then I will be a happy man. Name 3 things that you want Trump to do to correct the direction of the nation and how it will benefit all concerned. I urge you to think through the consequences of these 3 course corrections to their logical conclusion and impact on people, economics, climate, etc. Be specific. “Make America Great” is not an acceptable answer. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/222 "2017-01-16T17:06:18Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > What Obama has been for you, you mean. You do understand that there are many people who disagree with the direction in which Obama was leading the nation? It’s called politics. If Trump can do as effective a job for the right as Obama has done for the left then I will be a happy man. Unemployment going down, deficit going down, crime rates going down, stock market going up,… What direction would you like these things to be going? ---
**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:** [January 16, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/223 "2017-01-16T17:17:51Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Name 3 things that you want Trump to do to correct the direction of the nation … It was all right there in his campaign. Allow me: 1. Build a wall. (It just got 10 feet higher) 2. Lock her up 3. Hi, Opal! ---
**Author:** ![UberArchetype](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/2bfe46/32.png) [@UberArchetype](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UberArchetype)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/224 "2017-01-16T17:30:03Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Being a bigot is like being a child molester. Just because you’re defective doesn’t mean society has to tolerate your defect. Perhaps “society” is not the living, breathing thinking organism you think it is. Maybe there’s just this “thing” called society comprised of a bunch of people, most of which don’t tolerate anything they don’t understand, on an individual level. A tiny, tiny few of the more bellicose with similar opinions are even presumptuous enough to believe they represent “society.” Thanks for clearing that up! > [@aurora\_maire](#): > > …adhere to those traditions - the peaceful transition of power, respecting the office of President - and then get all upset when we don’t. Fuck that. You’re doing an excellent job representing your segment of political society - keep up the good work! We’ll re-visit again in another three years or so and see if your approach is working yet. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > But (assuming that “shitty dinner B” is a proxy for Trump and “shitty dinner A” is a proxy for Clinton), the proposition is so patently, inarguably opposite to reality that treating it as factual can only plausibly be explained by drooling stupidity or active hatred of the United States. It’s good to keep your understanding of complex matters like this on the simpler side. It will help ease your frustration if/when the patently obvious reality ever sinks in. > [@Kimstu](#): > > If you don’t like people criticizing and complaining about Trump, well, that’s too bad for you, but we’re not going to stop just because you pout and stamp and demand that we “suck it up”. Again - keep up the good work! You are already making inroads to the next election, just not in the way you might think. > [@Ale](#): > > It’s bizarre, this self defeating beheaviour. Why people insist that the best way to deal with the situation is to wrestle with a pig in the mud… -Not to people with a basic understanding of human nature. Some will learn from it, most will not. The resultant hysteria fuels their return to the breech for the next cycle. With regard to mocking Trump: > [@Kimstu](#): > > It’s about giving everybody else the chance to see how Trump’s lack of maturity and dignity constantly leads him to make a horse’s ass of himself. Your benevolent, egalitarian attitude reeks with dishonesty and frustration. The sooner you realize “everybody else” is never going to agree with you, the sooner you can move forward into adult life where mature, rational people focus more on things other than mockery and insults. > [@Kimstu](#): > > Trump doesn’t actually have all that many genuine supporters, as in people who seriously trust and respect him. Trump’s howler-monkey tantrums may not repulse his cadre of committed supporters, but they’re turning off everybody else. What a presumtuous little twit you must be, speaking for “everybody else.” Trump has proven he does not need what you call “genuine supporters.” The candidate’s “genuine supporter” label is reserved for politically blind Clintonites, whose limited cognitive abilities are more suitable to blindly following whatever trash and lies their listed party affiliation calls for. > [@GIGObuster](#): > > The same people and a good number from the right too are saying that Trump will not be good either. The sooner people start separating good and bad into actual definable events, the sooner they may realize there is no over-arching good/bad anything in politics. Most will simply prefer the easy “Trump bad” attiude. It makes great Dope-Pit material, so WTH. And an equally inept subset from the right will just keep saying “Clinton badder” until he-she-it fades from memory. > [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > We won’t shut up. Big fucking surprise, right there. > [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > Simple. He’s a complete and utter moron. What a person “is” and what they “do” are related, yet distinct concepts. To insinuate a moron can be elected President of the U.S. seems to me, a reflection on the country, as a whole. May we also expect you will revel in the utterly total and complete failure of our government as well? That would be consistent with a moron being in control and your attitude on the topic. Enjoy the frustration stemming from your little name-calling tirade. It’s bound to get worse, as you creep deeper and deeper into denial. > [@Procrustus](#): > > The mere fact that he got elected is an affront to all we value in this country, or at least I would have thought so. That pretty clearly illustrates the extent of your knowledge on the topic. Thanks for the insight! ---
**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:** [January 16, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/225 "2017-01-16T17:30:55Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > [Huh](http://s33.photobucket.com/user/Clothahump/media/Misc/13392096_1775440262692031_1588815421231902655_o1_zpsmc2zs19a.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1). Do you lack [all self-awareness](http://s33.photobucket.com/user/Clothahump/media/Political/IMourn.jpg.html?sort=3&o=12)? > [@iiandyiiii](#): > > LOL. Is anyone surprised that Clothahump is a complete and utter hypocrite? > > Any explanation for your hypocrisy, Clothahump? [Anatomy of an internet troll.](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/YpG-b4au4miLIcCu-QAp98zAnMvgYceFm8SNbdHdv3bAp_wpjuHSSt141o0LsKjQWvWyeCsnFtKETVg0Mka7D2HJS8fPa7c5JYSl947b_0Y0uuRZekpeIIUJknOJkg) ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/226 "2017-01-16T17:43:32Z")
> [@UberArchetype](#): > > The sooner you realize “everybody else” is never going to agree with you Not everybody else is **expected** to agree with me. The point is that mocking Trump exposes his numerous major shortcomings for everybody else to see, if they choose to look. [QUOTE=UberArchetype] Trump has proven he does not need what you call “genuine supporters.” [/quote] Well, he’s proven he doesn’t need a whole lot of them, at least. It’s the “everybody else” who voted for him without really sincerely supporting him who are in for a severe bout of buyer’s remorse. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/227 "2017-01-16T17:45:43Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > But the “direction” of the nation has been objectively fine recently. Steady, intelligent and competent leadership is a bipartisan value. The opposite should be rejected by all. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Unemployment going down, deficit going down, crime rates going down, stock market going up,… > > What direction would you like these things to be going? > [@QuickSilver](#): > > Name 3 things that you want Trump to do to correct the direction of the nation and how it will benefit all concerned. > > I urge you to think through the consequences of these 3 course corrections to their logical conclusion and impact on people, economics, climate, etc. > > Be specific. “Make America Great” is not an acceptable answer. Answers to these are the only reason I keep reading this thread (that, and finding out which posters I’ve never heard of before are Trumpistas). Even at work here, in real life, some people say how bad it was under Obama. What are they talking about? Answers, people! What was so bad under Obama? America WAS already great! I hope it will be great again. The next four years, I’m not so sure. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/228 "2017-01-16T17:51:09Z")
> [@UberArchetype](#): > > Perhaps “society” is not the living, breathing thinking organism you think it is. Maybe there’s just this “thing” called society comprised of a bunch of people, most of which don’t tolerate anything they don’t understand, on an individual level. A tiny, tiny few of the more bellicose with similar opinions are even presumptuous enough to believe they represent “society.” Thanks for clearing that up! I’d respond more directly but I have no idea what you’re trying to say here. Are you defending bigotry? Are you defending child molesting? Both? Neither? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/229 "2017-01-16T18:03:53Z")
> [@UberArchetype](#): > > …-Not to people with a basic understanding of human nature… Mostly, I’ve found that the guy who says your goals are impossible because of “human nature” is the guy who really just wants you to stop trying. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/230 "2017-01-16T18:04:03Z")
> [@UberArchetype](#): > > The sooner people start separating good and bad into actual definable events, the sooner they may realize there is no over-arching good/bad anything in politics. Most will simply prefer the easy “Trump bad” attiude. It makes great Dope-Pit material, so WTH. And an equally inept subset from the right will just keep saying “Clinton badder” until he-she-it fades from memory. I would say that attempting to ignore what the Republicans and conservatives opposed to Trump said is a good idea. Unless you want to make the point that most of those conservatives were inept. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/231 "2017-01-16T18:25:18Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > …Even at work here, in real life, some people say how bad it was under Obama. What are they talking about? Answers, people!.. Gee, I wonder what it is about Obama that triggered such irrational hatred by some people, what could it have been? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/232 "2017-01-16T18:33:23Z")
> [@UberArchetype](#): > > The sooner people start separating good and bad into actual definable events, the sooner they may realize there is no over-arching good/bad anything in politics. Most will simply prefer the easy “Trump bad” attiude. It makes great Dope-Pit material, so WTH. And an equally inept subset from the right will just keep saying “Clinton badder” until he-she-it fades from memory. Dang, need more coffee, I mean to say: I would **not** say that attempting to ignore what the Republicans and conservatives opposed to Trump said is a good idea. Unless you want to make the point that most of those conservatives were inept, and you will be wrong too. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/233 "2017-01-16T18:47:26Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Well! He couldn’t close Guantanamo, and he couldn’t send troops to Syria, and he couldn’t even get a Supreme Court Justice nominated! I think [Sonia Sotomayor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor) and [Elena Kagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Kagan) would beg to differ with your third complaint. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/234 "2017-01-16T18:48:04Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > We don’t have such a society. When has this happened? A large protest that is successful doesn’t mean that there was any “threat of violence”. You can’t be serious. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/235 "2017-01-16T18:52:07Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > **Kimstu** , your post demonstrates perfectly the threat of the right in American politics, they are not just re-writing history through the Texas board of education, they are not just perverting science by denying climate change, they are also trying to re-write current events. A piece of shit like Yiannopoulos writes a fake narrative and then dumb asses like **Octopus** and **Clothahump** dutifully repeat it and soon Fox News is reporting it as fact. As long as the new narrative taps their fears of blacks and the better educated (and often their terror of those incredibly complicated and intimidating vaginas they never really understood) they will repeat whatever bullshit they are told to repeat. Fear of blacks? Need to imply bigotry when there is none expressed can be summed up in a single word. Sad. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/236 "2017-01-16T18:53:55Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Gee, I wonder what it is about Obama that triggered such irrational hatred by some people, what could it have been? It’s almost as though many people’s opinion of the man was colored from the outset. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/237 "2017-01-16T18:54:40Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Fear of blacks? Need to imply bigotry when there is none expressed can be summed up in a single word. Sad. God, you even parrot his fucking twitter style. Get more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/238 "2017-01-16T18:59:41Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > It’s almost as though many people’s opinion of the man was colored from the outset. Well, there was a dark side to him that caused some disquiet. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/239 "2017-01-16T19:20:21Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > You can’t be serious. I surely am. I know that occasional assholes make threats (which certainly aren’t confined to any particular side), but what speech is routinely shut down by threats of violence in the US? ---
**Author:** ![UberArchetype](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/2bfe46/32.png) [@UberArchetype](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UberArchetype)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/240 "2017-01-16T19:34:32Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Are you defending bigotry? Are you defending child molesting? Both? Neither? No, sorry - just explaining your lack of understanding WRT the concept of “society.” It is affirmed once again, by your lack of understanding in your response. Thanks for coming clean on that point! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203.md?page=13)