# Is my life worth anything anymore? (Venting of emotions from Election Day) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 2024, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764 "2024-11-06T06:43:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/62 "2024-11-08T20:00:09Z")
What he wants will be handed to him on a gold (not silver) platter. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/63 "2024-11-08T20:00:56Z")
> [@WalterBishop](#): > > Trump can’t use legal means to overturn the 22nd Amendment. He doesn’t have the votes. Therefore, to achieve a 3rd term his only option would be to summarily declare himself President for life. Any such declaration would _instantly_ be met with a tsunami of mass civil disobedience so violent and sustained that it’d make the summer of 2020 look like a tiff at a little old lady’s garden party. And _this_ time he can just order the police to open fire on the protestors like he wanted. I fully expect protests; I also expect them to be suppressed with maximum violence. ---
**Author:** ![WalterBishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/64 "2024-11-08T20:29:16Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > And _this_ time he can just order the police to open fire on the protestors like he wanted. I fully expect protests; I also expect them to be suppressed with maximum violence. First of all, not all cops support Trump. Many cops just wouldn’t do it. Second, there are no shortage of armed civilians in this country who’d _love_ an excuse to kill cops. The cops wouldn’t stands a chance. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/65 "2024-11-08T20:31:04Z")
> [@WalterBishop](#): > > There are no shortage of armed civilians in this country who’d _love_ an excuse to kill cops. The cops wouldn’t stands a chance. The civilians would be massacred, real life doesn’t work like the gun nut’s fantasies. ---
**Author:** ![WalterBishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/66 "2024-11-08T20:37:03Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > The civilians would be massacred, real life doesn’t work like the gun nut’s fantasies. This conversation is rapidly approaching the escape velocity for real life. None of this is going to happen. But let’s say it did. What magical force makes guns fired by policemen so much more effective than guns fired by civilians? I’ll concede that policemen may, on average, be slightly better marksmen than civilians, but that isn’t going to help them when they’re outnumbered ten to one. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/67 "2024-11-08T20:43:19Z")
> [@WalterBishop](#): > > What magical force makes guns fired by policemen so much more effective than guns fired by civilians? Organization. ---
**Author:** ![WalterBishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/68 "2024-11-08T20:46:31Z")
Let’s just agree to disagree. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/69 "2024-11-08T20:56:24Z")
Oh, yeah. The “good” cops. The ones that stand aside and not get in the way. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/70 "2024-11-08T21:09:01Z")
I know better than to fight against the paranoid fantasies of some on the board but here goes. Trump said that this would be his last campaign, no matter what. Of all the things he said this is the only thing I believe to be true. He’s old he’s tired. He couldn’t stand being seen as a loser so he had to run again, but now that he won, he has no interest in being president longer than he has to. I also think some of you have never met anyone who voted for Trump. They still believe in America. They are still counting on elections in four years. They don’t want a dictatorship no matter what you think of them. They just think the left was wrong. I know that’s hard to believe but it’s true. You look at the crazies that throw themselves in front of a camera and think that’s all 70 million of them. It’s not. Most would not tolerate having the constitution being thrown out. Bad things are gonna happen that you don’t like in the next four years, but it will still be the United States. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/71 "2024-11-08T21:11:56Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Most would not tolerate having the constitution being thrown out. Then they shouldn’t have voted for that. Buyer’s regret on their part won’t matter. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/72 "2024-11-08T21:12:00Z")
Remember when Trump coming back and taking power was just a paranoid fantasy? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/73 "2024-11-08T21:17:48Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > > [@Loach](#): > > > > Most would not tolerate having the constitution being thrown out. > > Then they shouldn’t have voted for that. Buyer’s regret on their part won’t matter. Yes I get that you would say that. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/74 "2024-11-08T21:19:04Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Remember when Trump coming back and taking power was just a paranoid fantasy? He didn’t take power. He has been given power by a free and open election by a majority of voters. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/75 "2024-11-08T21:22:57Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Most would not tolerate having the constitution being thrown out. They tolerated him doing it on January 6th enough to vote for him again in 2024. ---
**Author:** ![WalterBishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/76 "2024-11-08T21:24:47Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > They tolerated him doing it on January 6th enough to vote for him again in 2024. They don’t believe that that’s what happened. Mostly, they think January 6th was just a protest that got out of hand. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/77 "2024-11-08T21:25:37Z")
> [@WalterBishop](#): > > They don’t believe that that’s what happened. Mostly, they think January 6th was just a protest that got out of hand. Tolerating it because they are delusional or just liars is still tolerating it. ---
**Author:** ![WalterBishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/78 "2024-11-08T21:29:33Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Tolerating it because they are delusional or just liars is still tolerating it. True, but that’s very weak evidence for the conjecture that they’d stand idly by as Trump declared himself President for life. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/79 "2024-11-08T21:30:30Z")
They are full of shit though, aren’t they? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/80 "2024-11-08T21:33:07Z")
> [@WalterBishop](#): > > True, but that’s very weak evidence for the conjecture that they’d stand idly by as Trump declared himself President for life. I’m sure most of them _would_ cheer that, along with a declaration that he’s now God-King of America, non-whites are all being expelled from the country, non-Christians executed, and women being stripped of citizenship. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764/81 "2024-11-08T21:48:01Z")
> [@WalterBishop](#): > > They don’t believe that that’s what happened. And they’ll believe Trump when he tells them he’s only suspending elections “until we can figure out what’s going on.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-life-worth-anything-anymore-venting-of-emotions-from-election-day/1009764.md?page=5)