# 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:** 34
**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 24, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/661 "2017-01-24T15:18:16Z")
Speaking of our thin-skinned president, he’s still talking about the election: in a meeting with Congressional leaders, he spent ten minutes mouthing off that [“illegals” cost him the popular vote](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-lawmakers-illegals-cost-me-popular-vote-n711136). His ego won’t tolerate losing, in even the slightest way. ---
**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, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/662 "2017-01-24T16:13:00Z")
Its kind of forward=leaning, with an eye to the future. If you were to opine about the politics of sixteen-year=old citizens and call them “voters”, that would be technically incorrect, as they are not old enough. But they will be, so there is a nugget of alt=truth there. By the same token, “Americans” who voted against Trump are not, precisely, “illegal” voters. Yet. ---
**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, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/663 "2017-01-24T16:15:35Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > 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) I don’t think anyone knows what you are talking about or trying to say. more importantly I don’t think anyone cares. We have enough long standing liberals who try to mindlessly enforce liberal orthodoxy on this board, we don’t really need another one. ---
**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, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/664 "2017-01-24T19:01:38Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > 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) I’m sorry. Can you highlight where he uses the word “imaginary” or anything like it in reference Hillary’s breach of regulations on email use? And you’re right, the FBI didn’t technically re-open the case, they never technically closed it but for all intents and purposes, they were done, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/us/politics/comey-clinton-email-justice.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/us/politics/comey-clinton-email-justice.html) “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” "By law, though, agents and prosecutors in the Clinton investigation could not immediately read the new emails without court authority. The authorities decided only recently to seek that approval. They do not know whether the emails contain classified information or, if they do, whether that would change their determination that nobody should be charged with mishandling it." And that’s the New York Times, the Washington Times call it a reopening or renewing of the investigation. Why would they get court approval to examine emails on an imaginary issue? I just can’t get that through my think skull. 🆒 > [@](#): > > 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](http://www.mediaite.com/online/heres-the-letter-james-comey-sent-to-fbi-employees-explaining-clinton-letter/) > > 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) Did he say Hillary WOULDN’T be going to prison (Answer: No, although I don’t think any reasonable prosecutor would insist on jail time if Hillary pled to a deal) Your pedantic differentiation between continuing an ongoing case versus re-opening the case is not very compelling for anyone outside the “Ready for Hillary” bubble. > [@](#): > > [PolitiFact | Fact-checking Donald Trump on FBI probe into Clinton emails](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/nov/01/donald-trump/fact-checking-donald-trump-fbi-probe-clinton-email/) > > 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. “On one level, this is a bit of **semantic quibbling**. Former FBI officials told us “reopening” is an imprecise word choice, but it gets at the gist of the latest development. It is likely that the FBI had not administratively closed the Clinton case, though it was no longer an active investigation.” So you’re basically engaging in semantic quibbling. But maybe my skull is too think to understand the nuance that you are trying to point out in your semantic quibbling. ---
**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 24, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/665 "2017-01-24T19:10:56Z")
This thread has a rather different flavor now that **Clothahump** has admitted to trolling. ---
**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, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/666 "2017-01-24T20:10:16Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Why would they get court approval to examine emails on an imaginary issue? I just can’t get that through my think skull. 🆒 Again, nowhere it was said that Hillary was going to be arrested. Comey had said early that Hillary was not. The last letters were referring to the ongoing investigation that already had told us that they were not going to even recommend an indictment. And based on what took place, the \*\*supplement \*\*to the whole investigation was referring to the fact that the investigation was not closed but the part of the investigation regarding Hillary was done or not it was not mentioned by the FBI that anything was going to change about what they had concluded already, who else had access to the emails was still an issue. ---
**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, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/667 "2017-01-24T20:15:07Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > Speaking of our thin-skinned president, he’s still talking about the election: in a meeting with Congressional leaders, he spent ten minutes mouthing off that [“illegals” cost him the popular vote](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-lawmakers-illegals-cost-me-popular-vote-n711136). His ego won’t tolerate losing, in even the slightest way. Well, at least he _acknowledges_ that he [del]cut the tow line[/del] lost the popular vote. That’s progress, of a kind. ---
**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, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/668 "2017-01-24T20:21:53Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > This thread has a rather different flavor now that **Clothahump** has admitted to trolling. I hope the doofus learned that the next time he’s asked anything at all, his best answer is “I need a lawyer.” ---
**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, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/669 "2017-01-24T20:27:03Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Again, nowhere it was said that Hillary was going to be arrested. Comey had said early that Hillary was not. The last letters were referring to the ongoing investigation that already had told us that they were not going to even recommend an indictment. > > And based on what took place, the \*\*supplement \*\*to the whole investigation was referring to the fact that the investigation was not closed but the part of the investigation regarding Hillary was done or not it was not mentioned by the FBI that anything was going to change about what they had concluded already, who else had access to the emails was still an issue. But where dos he say that her crimes are imaginary? Oh wait, I get it now, you think her incarceration is imaginary. Perhaps you need to read the post that we are both talking about. The one where HotFlungWok says: “the presidential candidate screaming that he’s going to lock Hillary up for her imaginary crimes” Do you want to rephrase your comments in light of the fact that we are talking about the imaginary nature of her crimes and not the imaginary nature of her incarceration. I agree that even if she were indicted, she would not serve time in jail. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/670 "2017-01-24T21:14:19Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Hey hey. What party rolled over for Trump? The best and brightest (hahahahahahaha) got crushed by an orange retard. Clean your own damn house. Some in the Democrat collective are currently suggesting/demanding that the electoral college-style voting be abandoned at the national, and state, level. As a show of good faith, maybe the DNC should change the way they chose their party’s candidate? Of course, if a popular vote was in place in 2008, that would have meant that Obama would have lost the DNC primary. ---
**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, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/671 "2017-01-24T21:24:07Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > But where dos he say that her crimes are imaginary? Comey referred to rules being broken, not crimes. You still need a cite for what crimes she was in the end accused by the FBI. > [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Oh wait, I get it now, you think her incarceration is imaginary. > > Perhaps you need to read the post that we are both talking about. The one where HotFlungWok says: > > “the presidential candidate screaming that he’s going to lock Hillary up for her imaginary crimes” > > Do you want to rephrase your comments in light of the fact that we are talking about the imaginary nature of her crimes and not the imaginary nature of her incarceration. I agree that even if she were indicted, she would not serve time in jail. Again, finding that a crime was committed leads to recommend an indictment. You need a cite for either. Trump claimed that a crime was committed even after Comey had said that that was not the case with Hillary. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/672 "2017-01-24T21:30:27Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Trump claimed that a crime was committed even after Comey had said that that was not the case with Hillary. As we have recently been told by his press secretary, all that is required is that Mr. Trump believes a thing, and then it becomes a fact. He does not need to provide evidence or facts. His word is enough. ---
**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, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/673 "2017-01-24T21:36:56Z")
Is Hillary the new Emmanuel Goldstein, with references to her pending arrest trotted out whenever Trump feels like inspiring a frenzy of support and/or distracting the public from one of his failures? ---
**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, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/674 "2017-01-24T21:43:06Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > I don’t think anyone knows what you are talking about or trying to say. more importantly I don’t think anyone cares. We have enough long standing liberals who try to mindlessly enforce liberal orthodoxy on this board, we don’t really need another one. Well I’m certainly not going to sit back and let conservatives deflect from their humiliating fate cleaning up behind donnie with a shovel. You try sticking hillary into every conversation, normalizing the plutocrat/thief in chief. Just to gain a little self respect I get it. You have lost at every level, by the public policy debates, and you will lose by demography. And now you have been taken over by the creeping id that was supposed to be under wraps and not spoken aloud. Of course you don’t understand that. It’s you. ---
**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, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/675 "2017-01-24T22:07:19Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > 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. None of this is true, but hey. Whatever you want to believe, pal. ---
**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, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/676 "2017-01-24T22:15:06Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > As we have recently been told by his press secretary, all that is required is that Mr. Trump believes a thing, and then it becomes a fact. He does not need to provide evidence or facts. His word is enough. It’s like that in North Korea too. There everyone believes him, not just his 46.1% of the vote. ---
**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, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/677 "2017-01-24T22:38:22Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > None of this is true, but hey. Whatever you want to believe, pal. The evidence in my support is right here in the thread for all to see, buddy. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/678 "2017-01-24T22:43:53Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > None of this is true, but hey. Whatever you want to believe, pal. You do realize that there is a record of your past posts on this board, that once they go off the page, we can still access them, right? This isn’t a your word vs. his, this is your own words, that you now flatly deny ever having posted. I guess this is the alternate reality of alternative facts now. ---
**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 24, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/679 "2017-01-24T22:49:05Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > You do realize that there is a record of your past posts on this board, that once they go off the page, we can still access them, right? > > This isn’t a your word vs. his, this is your own words, that you now flatly deny ever having posted. > > I guess this is the alternate reality of alternative facts now. OMG’s behavior is almost…Trumpian. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/680 "2017-01-24T22:52:58Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > OMG’s behavior is almost…Trumpian. How do we know it’s not really the big Cheeto himself in blackface? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203.md?page=35)