# 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:** 33
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/641 "2017-01-24T00:27:29Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > 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? Hey hey. What party rolled over for Trump? The best and brightest (hahahahahahaha) got crushed by an orange retard. Clean your own damn house. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/642 "2017-01-24T00:30:48Z")
Johnny LA wrote: “What is the Democrat party?” Democrat Party: (n) A fictitious organization dedicated to the destruction of America. This is to be accomplished in a variety of methods. Some of these are the taking away of your guns and giving them to gay Muslims, the putting of Fluoride in the water supply, sapping your precious bodily fluids, and the setting up of internment camps in Alaska or closed Wallmarts. The Democrat Party was created by AM radio hosts, right-wing websites, Fox news and all-caps emails from your drunk uncle. It is not to be confused with the actual Democratic Party. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/643 "2017-01-24T00:32:52Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Johnny LA wrote: “What is the Democrat party?” > > Democrat Party: (n) A fictitious organization dedicated to the destruction of America. This is to be accomplished in a variety of methods. Some of these are the taking away of your guns and giving them to gay Muslims, the putting of Fluoride in the water supply, sapping your precious bodily fluids, and the setting up of internment camps in Alaska or closed Wallmarts. The Democrat Party was created by AM radio hosts, right-wing websites, Fox news and all-caps emails from your drunk uncle. It is not to be confused with the actual Democratic Party. You forgot the Death Panels. For shame, for shame. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/644 "2017-01-24T00:36:58Z")
Used to have a death panel truck, still would if not for the duct tape famine of '84. ---
**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 24, 2017, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/645 "2017-01-24T00:37:19Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Johnny LA wrote: “What is the Democrat party?” > > Democrat Party: (n) A fictitious organization dedicated to the destruction of America. This is to be accomplished in a variety of methods. Some of these are the taking away of your guns and giving them to gay Muslims, the putting of Fluoride in the water supply, sapping your precious bodily fluids, and the setting up of internment camps in Alaska or closed Wallmarts. The Democrat Party was created by AM radio hosts, right-wing websites, Fox news and all-caps emails from your drunk uncle. It is not to be confused with the actual Democratic Party. > [@SteveG1](#): > > You forgot the Death Panels. For shame, for shame. Ah. So when someone says ‘Democrat Party’, they can be disregarded because they’re a mindless drone that is parroting the Party Line. ---
**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 24, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/646 "2017-01-24T00:41:06Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > 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? What a silly double standard. ---
**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 24, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/647 "2017-01-24T00:49:24Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > What a silly double standard. Your post is a non-sequitur. How is my post a ‘double standard’? ---
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/648 "2017-01-24T01:14:05Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > 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”? Now you’re being **highly** disingenuous and you know it. You’re not even trying anymore. Do you recall the mass protests and rioting after Obama won in 2008 or 2012? No, you don’t, because it didn’t happen. Do you recall Republicans calling for, and funding, a recount after Obama won and hoping that the recount produced a different outcome in 2008 or 2012? No, you don’t, because it didn’t happen. Do you recall Republicans flooding the electoral college voters with phone calls, emails and death threats asking them to vote for someone other than Obama after Obama won in 2008 or 2012? No, you don’t, because it didn’t happen. Do you recall Republicans deciding to march the day after Inauguration Day after Obama in 2008 or 2012? No, you don’t, because it didn’t happen. :rolleyes: “But, but, but… birthers!” isn’t a valid response. It’s nothing more than deflection, especially given the fact that was no concerted effort on the right to have Obama thrown out of office on the grounds of not being born in the US. > [@](#): > > 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. No. That was, as per usual, your attempt at deflection. But we’ve been on this rodeo so many times before, and I’m not keen on playing it. > [@](#): > > So now you recognize that both sides are involved? Finally. **It was your claimed innocence of the right that was your comically blatant lie**. What’s with you and blatant straw men? Do they not teach you have to form a coherent argument in Canadese schools? Can you find me where I ever this? Point to the post number and sentence, please. Otherwise pleas refrain from making shit up. > [@](#): > > I don’t have to (and did not) accuse you of supporting birtherism… Which I never said you did, not that it matters to you. What I said was-- and I will quote myself with your words in brackets-- “Can you find where I said [it’s okay if Republicans do it and not okay if Democrats do it]?” The answer is no you cannot, because you made that claim up. You pulled it out of thin air and have proceeded to argue a complete-- and nonsensical-- strawman. In other words, you’re straight up lying. Which, again, is par for the course with you. > [@](#): > > …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. Which, oddly enough, no one denied (please show quote me stating otherwise). Go figure! > [@QuickSilver](#): > > Demonstrating once more that you are incapable of original thought and the best you’ve got is to re-phrase the cogent arguments posed to you into the delusional word salad you posted above. > > This is nothing but your fearless leader’s version of, “NO, YOU ARE!” > > Really, why do you bother? It would be far less embarrassing for you if you’d just fuck off. For those of us with calendars and who know how to count, 2009 is before 2010. Yeah, McConnell did say it was his goal to make Obama a one term president-- over a year and a half (closer to two) after Obama claimed “Elections have consequences” and “I won”, and proceeded to engage in his year long victory tour where he showed absolutely no desire to compromise with anyone. But don’t let facts get in the way of your delusions! ---
**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:** [January 24, 2017, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/649 "2017-01-24T01:43:24Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Protesting is always okay, and there’s no event that should be exempt from protest (though certain kinds of protests, like if they are disrespectful at a funeral, are highly obnoxious at best). I think these protests were about Trump, his statements, and his policies, and not about a peaceful transfer of power. When you also question the legitimacy of the new President, then its more than that. When there is violence during the protest of the inauguration, then it is more than that. > [@](#): > > I have little doubt that there might be a few more violent assholes among groups that skew younger and poorer than groups that skew older and wealthier. I don’t think is a revelation of any kind, nor does it tell us anything about the character or reasonableness of these protests, considering that the vast majority are non-violent. Do you know how hard it is to defend the protests after videos of rioters smashing in windows and burning cars surfaced? [http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inauguration-protests-idUSKBN1540J7](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inauguration-protests-idUSKBN1540J7) People just write the whole thing off. Non-violence should be much more central to all these protests than they are. We have recently seen a lot more violence coming from the left than the right. I know others are going to come along and try to explain away the violence and justify it somehow but those explanation will only fly in a liberal echo chamber like this board. The folks who are on the fence are getting shoved to the other side. Minimizing the effect of the violence is not doing your side any favors. > [@](#): > > Police solidarity (which is a problem when it reaches blue wall proportions, such that cops are influenced to not turn in or report on other cops even if they behave badly) is absolutely closely related to police corruption and police brutality – the latter cannot exist in any significant way without the former. You can easily have the former without the latter and Serpico was about the latter, not the former. Your complaint is about the former. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/650 "2017-01-24T01:44:37Z")
I really think \*\* OMG\*\* doesn’t see the giant crack in his political savior’s head. How could anyone possibly miss all the writing on that orange wall or pretend it never happened? ---
**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:** [January 24, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/651 "2017-01-24T01:45:43Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Trump said that he “will lock her up” \*\*after the FBI already had said that indeed the idea of locking her up for that was imaginary. \*\* cite. I thought I had listened to the entire Comey speech and I didn’t hear him say that the concerns about her were imaginary. In fact Comey was concerned enough to re-open the investigation when they discovered more emails. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/652 "2017-01-24T02:03:52Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > When you also question the legitimacy of the new President, then its more than that. > When there is violence during the protest of the inauguration, then it is more than that. > > Do you know how hard it is to defend the protests after videos of rioters smashing in windows and burning cars surfaced? > > [http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inauguration-protests-idUSKBN1540J7](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inauguration-protests-idUSKBN1540J7) > > People just write the whole thing off. Non-violence should be much more central to all these protests than they are. We have recently seen a lot more violence coming from the left than the right. > > I know others are going to come along and try to explain away the violence and justify it somehow but those explanation will only fly in a liberal echo chamber like this board. The folks who are on the fence are getting shoved to the other side. Minimizing the effect of the violence is not doing your side any favors. > > You can easily have the former without the latter and Serpico was about the latter, not the former. Your complaint is about the former. Dimmy, you at it again? The violence may be wrong, but the questioning has legitimacy. (And they are not always done by the same people I would feel safe in saying.) It’s fact based and contextual. And appropriate to anyone who reads. Why should people accept donnies mental problems, business conflicts, and plutocratic schemes into _ **their White House** _? He is not an emperor. And we are not an authoritarian state, yet. You must have a short memory about the last 20 years. So you are shot out of the water with your crypto republican swill, once again. You simply swoon over all things donnie, don’t you? Being a smart conservative poster is going to demand a lot from you. And you have to give up on donnie. He will bring you down. (And forget Hillary, and and all that blame shifting strategy. It’s going nowhere) ---
**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 24, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/653 "2017-01-24T02:20:19Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > Now you’re being **highly** disingenuous and you know it. You’re not even trying anymore. Oh, I’m trying… Anyway, by now you’ve slathered on so many layers of indignant deflection (while accusing me of being the deflector) that the point of original conflict may be lost, so I’ll quote it here: [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] This is just blatantly, stupidly wrong. Let’s break down the clauses: 1. “there was no coordinated effort against Obama from the right in the way of mass protests” Well, I’m tired of waiting for you to define “mass”, so I’ll do it. A “mass” protest is one that attracts 5,000 protesters to a single event or, say… 20,000 protesters to a coordinated set of events (possibly in different cities) with a unified purpose over a short period of time, say… within one month. If you have other numbers or other definitions, present them. There were indeed anti-Obama and anti-governmental protests from 2010-2016, many of them related to the Tea Party. How many were “massive”, as per the above definition? At least a few, I’m sure. I don’t know offhand if all of them put together over those seven years add up to even half or a quarter of the total number of anti-Trump protesters over the last few days but… so what? Peaceable assembly and protest are constitutional rights. 1. “there was no coordinated effort against Obama from the right in the way of… trying to get the election overturned” Bullshit. The Birther movement, whether you personally participated or supported it or not, was a sustained (if quixotic) effort to challenge the legitimacy of Obama’s elections. What did you think the birthers’ end-goal _was_? To celebrate that a child born in Kenya could one day become President of the United States? Now, maybe you _weren’t_ blatantly lying. Maybe you just didn’t make the connection. Now is your chance to modify your original statement to say “there was _some_ coordinated effort from the right to get the election overturned, i.e. birtherism”. If you absolutely will not, then the only reasonable conclusion is that you are lying by suggesting your original statement was not a mistake. The rest of your screed is either feigned shock that Americans would protest (implying that they’re wrong to do so) or just trying to deflect attention from your mistaken “my side never does it” by stressing “the other side does it a lot”, when the correct version is ultimately “both sides do it a lot, sometimes with good motivations, sometimes not.” > [@](#): > > “But, but, but… birthers!” isn’t a valid response. It’s nothing more than deflection, especially given the fact that was no concerted effort on the right to have Obama thrown out of office on the grounds of not being born in the US. What do you think the birthers actually _wanted_? Was their effort not “concerted”? Were they not by-and-large “on the right”? You accuse me of semantics but haven’t mastered basic grammar. > [@](#): > > Can you find me where I ever [claimed innocence of the right]? Point to the post number and sentence, please. Otherwise pleas refrain from making shit up. I’ve already quoted you on this, including earlier on in this post. Nothing in my argument is made up. I’m willing to entertain different interpretations, including: 1. You lied. 2. You were honestly mistaken. 3. You misspoke. …but the more indignant you get, the more confident I get in option (1), or at least a combination of (1) and (2) where you were mistaken first, then are trying very hard to lie your way out of admitting your mistake. > [@](#): > > Which I never said you did, not that it matters to you. What I said was-- and I will quote myself with your words in brackets-- “Can you find where I said [it’s okay if Republicans do it and not okay if Democrats do it]?” That isn’t what you said. What you said was not “it’s okay if Republicans do it”, but that “Republicans _don’t_ do it”. Since Republicans _do_, the result is that you’re just ignoring their actions or defining their actions in such a way that Republican actions don’t count. The ultimate effect is the same. ---
**Author:** ![jshore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jshore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jshore)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/654 "2017-01-24T02:44:33Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > 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. Another important thing about the vote for the authorization for the war that seems to be forgotten about is that the Bush presented it as the best way to keep the peace. I.e., “You have to vote for this authorization to convince Saddam we are serious so that he will allow inspectors in.” And, in fact, in that sense it worked…Saddam did allow the inspectors in and they were conducting very intrusive inspections. And, what the inspections showed was that the U.S. intelligence about where there was supposedly WMDs was garbage: [Inspectors Call U.S. Tips 'Garbage' - CBS News](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/inspectors-call-us-tips-garbage/) And, then Bush invaded anyway. But now to get back to the original OP, the irony of it is getting a bit overwhelming as I just saw a clip oon CNN of today’s press briefing with Spicer where he was explaining (apparently in an attempt to justify why he could come out and lie to the press about the size of the crowds) how their feelings were hurt when, after all their excitement about the inauguration, the mean, very bad, bullying press had the gall to actually show pictures comparing the crowd to Obama’s inauguration. Which leads me to ask: Who are the “butt-hurt snowflakes” now? [And at least we don’t use our hurt feelings as an excuse to go around spouting falsehoods like there’s no tomorrow!] ---
**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 24, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/655 "2017-01-24T03:03:41Z")
> [@jshore](#): > > Another important thing about the vote for the authorization for the war that seems to be forgotten about is that the Bush presented it as the best way to keep the peace. I.e., “You have to vote for this authorization to convince Saddam we are serious so that he will allow inspectors in.” And, in fact, in that sense it worked…Saddam did allow the inspectors in and they were conducting very intrusive inspections. And, what the inspections showed was that the U.S. intelligence about where there was supposedly WMDs was garbage: [Inspectors Call U.S. Tips 'Garbage' - CBS News](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/inspectors-call-us-tips-garbage/) > > And, then Bush invaded anyway. My understanding at the time, and my recollection now, is that the war powers were intended to allow Bush to go to war as a ‘last resort’. But, as you say, he used it as a first resort. ---
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/656 "2017-01-24T03:10:48Z")
Yeah, ain’t no one got time to respond to all of that. Paraphrase, please. ---
**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 24, 2017, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/657 "2017-01-24T03:12:23Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > Yeah, ain’t no one got time to respond to all of that. Paraphrase, please. You made a mistake, but are now lying when when you claim it wasn’t a mistake, mixed in with a lot of irrelevant attempts at deflection. ---
**Author:** ![jshore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jshore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jshore)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/658 "2017-01-24T03:17:47Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > My understanding at the time, and my recollection now, is that the war powers were intended to allow Bush to go to war as a ‘last resort’. But, as you say, he used it as a first resort. Exactly. ---
**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 24, 2017, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/659 "2017-01-24T03:41:13Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > cite. > > I thought I had listened to the entire Comey speech and I didn’t hear him say that the concerns about her were imaginary. In fact Comey was concerned enough to re-open the investigation when they discovered more emails. Nope, I was right, Comey never said that there were grounds to lock her up, only that she did not do things right but not felonies. What you need to get through your thick skull is that Comey did not re-open the investigation. [https://thinkprogress.org/the-fbi-directors-letter-about-the-clinton-emails-says-a-lot-less-than-the-media-wants-you-to-aa61e81e5a97#.jhyhfd2kd](https://thinkprogress.org/the-fbi-directors-letter-about-the-clinton-emails-says-a-lot-less-than-the-media-wants-you-to-aa61e81e5a97#.jhyhfd2kd) > [@](#): > > The relevant paragraph in this brief letter is the middle one, where Comey writes that the FBI “has learned of the existence” of emails that it previously did not review. In response to this new information, the FBI will now “allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information.” > > The FBI, in other words, is not reexamining its previous findings. It is not questioning its previous legal conclusion that “no reasonable prosecutor” could determine that charges are warranted. Based on the letter, it appears that the FBI will simply provide the same scrutiny to these newly uncovered emails as it previously applied to the emails it already reviewed when it determined that criminal charges are not warranted. > > Though the initial narrative to emerge from this new letter — a narrative pushed by Republican House Oversight Chair Jason Chaffetz — is that the FBI has “reopened” the case against Clinton, several reporters did acknowledge on Twitter that this narrative is not true. And one big reason I do think that is correct is for a very pedantic reason: (Besides seeing no news that Clinton is being indicted at all) that a well seasoned lawyer like Comey resorted to that “supplement” word. Comey did before refer to politicians misinterpreting him, but I do think he was referring mostly about the Republicans. That word (like “is” for former President Clinton) clearly was his scape hatch if later (as it happened) a lot of people would wonder if he had been putting th finger in the scale. Comey not only used it in the new letter to congress, but he used it again in his “clarification” > **[Here’s the Letter James Comey Sent to FBI Employees Explaining Clinton Letter](https://www.mediaite.com/online/heres-the-letter-james-comey-sent-to-fbi-employees-explaining-clinton-letter/)** > > FBI Director James Comey sent out a letter today about new emails potentially connected to their Hillary Clinton investigation, but he also sent out an internal letter to explain the public letter. > [@](#): > > I also think it would be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record. At the same time, however, given that we don’t know the significance of this newly discovered collection of emails, I don’t want to create a misleading impression. Now, what would happen if they had come very hard on Comey for supporting the Republicans on the email issue? Simple, he would had pointed out what the word supplement means in the context: As the FBI explained: **the case was never closed.** only that the part dealing with if Clinton should be sent to the pokey was going to happen (answer then: no) Did Comey said anywhere that Clinton now was going to prison regarding the Weiner emails? (Answer: No) > **[Fact-checking Donald Trump on FBI probe into Clinton emails](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/nov/01/donald-trump/fact-checking-donald-trump-fbi-probe-clinton-email/)** > > Donald Trump sounded off a scary Halloween message about Hillary Clinton and the latest developments in her email contro Only that there could had been more evidence about of how irresponsible Clinton had been. Not mention at all to change the early conclusion (that Clinton was not going to go to jail for this). And as it turns out, that was the case. The “supplement” was referring to reporting a loose end, that referred to who else could have had access to the information. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/660 "2017-01-24T11:44:00Z")
_ **I suddenly realize why you butt-hurt snowflakes are a serious threat to America.** _ When Obama was President and he and his wife were called apes, and jokes were made about them serving watermelons at state banquets and his daughters dressing like sluts, the First Family knew this was all just playful banter and not racist. When his enemies gave speeches (from teleprompters!) complaining that he was the Teleprompter President who thought he was Emperor Jesus, and that being made Editor of the Harvard Law Review was just a fratboy’s joke perpetrated on the dim-witted affirmative-action boy, the Obamas took it in stride. When I think of how well Barack and Michelle took the abuse that was heaped upon them, it’s no exaggeration to say they have the patience of saints. Contrast this with Trump. Hold a simple protest sign and he encourages his goons to beat you up. Tell a joke on TV and he hangs up on his friend Vladimir to send a flurry of tweets at 4:00 in the morning. _I think you butt-hurt snowflakes better stop picking on this thin-skinned sociopath._ Rile him too much and he’ll turn off the Medicare spigots in the blue states just out of spite. Attack his heterosexual values (grabbing pussy) and he’ll ban gays from the federal workforce. And, heaven forbid, impugn his virility and he may feel the need to show off his surrogate penis — an 18-meter LGM-30G Minuteman III delivered to explode in North Korea or China, just so we all know his _ejaculations are yuuuuge!_ You butt-hurt snowflakes better stop bad-mouthing the Brat-in-Chief. Coddle and pamper him; keep him happy! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203.md?page=34)