# 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:** 32
**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:** [January 23, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/621 "2017-01-23T20:18:06Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > I’ll bite. Let’s remind you of your own quote. > > Can you find where I said that? Of course you can’t, because you pulled it out of thin air, like you normally do. It’s a **complete** fabrication-- a lie. > > But moving on. Nope. Your follow-up shows you were indeed aware that birtherism existed (i.e. my reference to it doesn’t catch you by surprise), so when you said: [INDENT]“But you know as well as I do that there was no coordinated effort against Obama from the right in the way of mass protests or trying to get the election overturned”[/INDENT] …you were clearly lying. Did birtherism come “from the right” ? Was it an effort to “get the election overturned” ? > [@](#): > > No, Bryan. I’m not playing those games with you anymore. I’m sure you can find someone to chase that rabbit, and it’s not going to be me. When your counter point devolves to, “Well, it depends on what you mean by \”, you’ve got no real argument. Those were efforts on my part to be _generous_ to you - that you might have a specific definitions of “coordinated” and “mass” in mind, such that recent Democrat efforts qualify but eight years of birtherism and the gatherings of people brandishing nooses for Obama do not. My generosity was clearly wasted. > [@](#): > > Right after you remind leftists that “elections have consequences” and “Trump won”. So now you recognize that both sides are involved? Finally. It was your claimed innocence of the right that was your comically blatant lie. I don’t have to (and did not) accuse you of supporting birtherism, but I can casually and with the evidence of your own words accuse you of being conveniently forgetful that a lot of people on the right did indeed support birtherism and for a very long time. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/622 "2017-01-23T20:18:39Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Asterisk? What asterisk? Clearly the will of the people! Compromise is for losers who don’t get a negative three million mandate. Now you take the country, pick it up and shake it till all the poors fall out, and then drop it on them. Its _good_ for them, it builds character and self-reliance. It’s such a crying shame that the Democrat Party stole Hillary’s other national popular vote win from her at their 2008 Democrat Party Convention. But Hillary is used to losing elections according to the rules. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/623 "2017-01-23T20:22:51Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I have made it a point to live in a manner that will ensure confusion for my biographers. 'Cause fuck 'em! You realize this makes you responsible for the factional discord that will erupt into the Third Asteroid Belt War in 2671, between the “Elucidator the Holy One Shopped On Wednesdays” cult and the “Thursday Firsters” coalition? It’ll be a brief war, though. Both sides will be hampered by centuries of inbreeding and religious disinformation and just repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/624 "2017-01-23T20:31:35Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > It’s such a crying shame that the Democrat Party stole Hillary’s other national popular vote win from her at their 2008 Democrat Party Convention. But Hillary is used to losing elections according to the rules. That’s right, Hillary lost. Very good, **doorhinge** , you were paying attention. If someone can help remove your mouth guard, I’ll give you a nice cookie for being such a well-behaved and clever boy. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/625 "2017-01-23T20:35:21Z")
He’ll say those are raisins. Don’t trust him. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/626 "2017-01-23T20:35:54Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > You mean [these](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/4b/2a/f6/4b2af65ba35377c17d879a48a78fe251.jpg) [guys](http://latinalista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/tea-party-0009.jpg)? Good catch. There was a LOT of that, at all levels… from Mitch McConnell on down to the Tea Baggers. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/627 "2017-01-23T20:38:06Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > It hasn’t yet. But I’m only 32 and plan on living to 126, so there’s time. > Come on, man. I feel like I’ve said this many, many, many times already. > > I’ve never denied there were people on the right who didn’t like Obama. I don’t even deny there are people who are racist on the right. But you know as well as I do that there was no coordinated effort against Obama from the right in the way of mass protests or trying to get the election overturned as leftists have done this year. In Congress we had The Party Of No. On the streets we had the Tea Party. So, bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/628 "2017-01-23T20:40:42Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, now I’m curious - is there any reason to demand Obama’s birth certificate if _not_ to challenge his election? Was there a sudden uptick in obsessive-compulsive disorder among Republicans in the last decade who had to be constantly reassured of Obama’s birthplace strictly in the interests of historical accuracy? Sure… an appeal to all the closet racists. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/629 "2017-01-23T20:42:48Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > It’s such a crying shame that the Democrat Party stole Hillary’s other national popular vote win from her at their 2008 Democrat Party Convention. But Hillary is used to losing elections according to the rules. Unlike your boy, she didn’t start yammering about fixed elections and “second amendment solutions”. She also didn’t have the stink of Russian interference on her. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2017, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/630 "2017-01-23T21:46:31Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Sure… an appeal to all the closet racists. Well, I guess closet racists like affirmation, too. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/631 "2017-01-23T22:21:53Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > I’ve never denied there were people on the right who didn’t like Obama. I don’t even deny there are people who are racist on the right. But you know as well as I do that there was no coordinated effort against Obama from the right in the way of mass protests or trying to get the election overturned as leftists have done this year. No coordinated effort? Seriously? Protesting Obama was the whole reason behind the fucking Tea Party, which persists to this day. Or had you forgotten? ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/632 "2017-01-23T22:51:52Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Unlike your boy, she didn’t start yammering about fixed elections and “second amendment solutions”. She also didn’t have the stink of Russian interference on her. Hillary’s got the stank of 2-time Presidential loser on her. And it was only those in the Democrat Party that screwed her in 2008. Maybe the Democrat Party should change their rules BEFORE asking the states to change their rules? Sort of a lead-by-example, kind of thing. But Hillary sure can draw that national popular vote. Almost as if it mattered in any Presidential elections? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/633 "2017-01-23T22:53:39Z")
Just curious: I’ve never heard of the Democrat Party. What is it? I know Clinton is with the Democratic Party, but what’s the Democrat Party? ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/634 "2017-01-23T23:01:15Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > That’s right, Hillary lost. Very good, **doorhinge** , you were paying attention. If someone can help remove your mouth guard, I’ll give you a nice cookie for being such a well-behaved and clever boy. WHAT? Has anyone told her? Is she going to go on one of those relaxing European pastry-sampling tours that Al “is that a cheesecake” Gore went on after he twice conceded defeat for POTUS? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/635 "2017-01-23T23:04:33Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Hillary’s got the stank of 2-time Presidential loser on her. Yes, **doorhinge** , you said that earlier. Very good! Now what other things can we think of to talk about? Why don’t you tell me about your favorite toy? _\_ He’s actually having a pretty good day today, as far as acting out. I think we’re making some real progress. It’s just such a shame that his mother was such a heavy drinker. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/636 "2017-01-23T23:06:42Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > In Congress we had The Party Of No. On the streets we had the Tea Party. > > So, bullshit. In the beginning, it was more difficult for the Party of No when they didn’t have as many seats in the U.S. Congress. Thankfully, the voters corrected that error. In both Houses of Congress. With the help of the Tea Party voters, of course. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/637 "2017-01-23T23:12:33Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Yes, **doorhinge** , you said that earlier. Very good! Now what other things can we think of to talk about? Why don’t you tell me about your favorite toy? > > _\_ He’s actually having a pretty good day today, as far as acting out. I think we’re making some real progress. It’s just such a shame that his mother was such a heavy drinker. Hahahaha. I loved you in the movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. You were played by Steve Martin. _Oklahoma! Oklahoma! Oklahoma! Oklahoma!_ You’re hysterical. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/638 "2017-01-23T23:14:17Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > In the beginning, it was more difficult for the Party of No when they didn’t have as many seats in the U.S. Congress. Thankfully, the voters corrected that error. In both Houses of Congress. Yeah, I remember how delighted you conservatives were back when you got congressional victories in the 2002 elections because it would make it easier for you to invade Iraq, too. The Trump Administration and the 115th Congress are shaping up to be an even yuuuuuger accomplishment than that. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/639 "2017-01-23T23:26:37Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Yeah, I remember how delighted you conservatives were back when you got congressional victories in the 2002 elections because it would make it easier for you to invade Iraq, too. > > The Trump Administration and the 115th Congress are shaping up to be an even yuuuuuger accomplishment than that. You remember that? I wonder if anyone else does? You’re saying that people voted in 2002 because they wanted to invade Iraq? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/640 "2017-01-23T23:40:01Z")
Sure, that was one of Bush’s major campaign schticks in 2002 when stumping for Republicans: the national-security issue, “vote Republican or the Dems will let Saddam Hussein come over here and eat your babies”. That’s a major reason why the administration pushed so hard to have the war authorization vote in October, when many incumbent Democrats were nervous that if they didn’t vote for the invasion, the Republicans would throw them out the following month. And hey, Saddam Hussein didn’t come over here and eat our babies, so the whole enterprise must have been a resounding success! We can look forward to many more similarly resounding successes under Trump and his Republican Congress. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203.md?page=33)