# "Is it that the Dems don't understand white, working-class America?" No, that's not it **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 28, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-that-the-dems-dont-understand-white-working-class-america-no-thats-not-it/773291 "2016-11-28T16:35:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 44
**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 27, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-that-the-dems-dont-understand-white-working-class-america-no-thats-not-it/773291/861 "2017-01-27T15:43:33Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > And yet every day the news suggests that the "“butthurt snowflakes” are closer to reality than those who think the Trump administration won’t be so bad. Seen the fun and games at the EPA recently? I think Trump’s administration will be bad, I think just about any Republican administration would be bad. I also think there are a shitload of butthurt snowflakes. > [@](#): > > While “Manchurian candidate” is perhaps hyperbolic, “way too friendly with Russia, to the point of being a genuine serious security risk” is not. Just ask the US security agencies. Or Israel. Or indeed Theresa May. > > Forget it, Jake. It’s Trihstown. Sure if you wave away all the butthurting from the snowflakes, then it looks like there aren’t very many butthurt snowflakes. AFAICT, Trihs has a lot of company. Hell he has a lot of company on my facebook feed. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-that-the-dems-dont-understand-white-working-class-america-no-thats-not-it/773291/862 "2017-01-27T18:10:50Z")
The talk about how a vote for Trump was a vote for plague, ignorance, poverty and war reminds me of how in the late 1700s(?) some folks said that if Jefferson were elected, there would be blood and “children writhing on the pike and halberd.” ---
**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 27, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-that-the-dems-dont-understand-white-working-class-america-no-thats-not-it/773291/863 "2017-01-27T19:22:08Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > I suppose, even retards have a first language. > > Do you still think that Trump will be a Russian puppet tbecause he owes some russians money and the russian mafia will threaten his family with physical violence? > > Other than being incredibly embarassing and saying stupid shit, what has he done that just about any other republican wouldn’t do? > > SDMB is frequently a source of information for me. The citation requirements combined with the application of critical thought (even here in the pit) makes it a more reliable source of information than pretty much any for profit news outlet. Even taking into account the significant liberal bias of SDMB, its still more reliable than anything other than maybe CSPAN and NPR Interesting that SDMB is a primary source of information for you and yet you are often seen here yelling out “Retard.” What’s up with that? Do you know what reaction formation is? Your posts advertise a deeply uninformed world you inhabit. Good luck with that. ---
**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 27, 2017, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-that-the-dems-dont-understand-white-working-class-america-no-thats-not-it/773291/864 "2017-01-27T20:36:59Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > Interesting that SDMB is a primary source of information for you and yet you are often seen here yelling out “Retard.” What’s up with that? Do you know what reaction formation is? I mostly only call you a retard. And in the beginning I was only calling your ideas about the russian mafia controlling Trump retarded but it soon became apparent it wasn’t just your ideas that were retarded. > [@](#): > > Your posts advertise a deeply uninformed world you inhabit. Good luck with that. You’re a retard, its becoming clear to pretty much everyone that you are a retard. Not a clinical retard who (though no fault of their own) suffers from mental retardation but the sort of retard that suffers from self inflicted retardedness. The kind of retardedness that requires daily effort to maintain. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-that-the-dems-dont-understand-white-working-class-america-no-thats-not-it/773291/865 "2020-09-19T17:42:17Z")
Hey Dummy! How do you like those Russian bounties on Amerians that donnie doesn’t have nerve to mention to Putin. > [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > I was only calling your ideas about the russian mafia controlling Trump retarded You have been massaging this point for the whole twitler administration and it keeps getting worse for you. What’s your interest in the whole “Russia is derangement!” ploy? You made all kinds of illogical and unreal assertions that ternp is “beyond influence” which makes anyone asserting that one exists “delusional” and “retarded.” Wow you learned how to write english on a keyboard. He is beyond influence, is he? That’s a religious position I guess, but what possible form of faith would it be? ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-that-the-dems-dont-understand-white-working-class-america-no-thats-not-it/773291/866 "2020-09-19T19:10:42Z")
So you reanimated a 4yo thread just to throw chum under the bridge? ---
**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:** [September 19, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-that-the-dems-dont-understand-white-working-class-america-no-thats-not-it/773291/867 "2020-09-19T19:14:52Z")
Yeah. But I am seeing it for the first time now. Ever since the new format came out it happens occasionally. We’ll survive. Also I felt it needed an answer. 4 years is the length of an administration after all. Russia hasn’t gone away, and the gaslighting has not either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-that-the-dems-dont-understand-white-working-class-america-no-thats-not-it/773291.md?page=43)