# Mae West on the 2016 Presidential election **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 24, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mae-west-on-the-2016-presidential-election/766747 "2016-09-24T16:47:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mae-west-on-the-2016-presidential-election/766747/1 "2016-09-24T16:47:52Z")
“Given the choice of two evils, I’ll take the one I’ve not tried before.” Sums up this year very nicely, doesn’t it? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mae-west-on-the-2016-presidential-election/766747/2 "2016-09-24T16:52:40Z")
“No! Don’t shoot! That is NOT a pistol in my pocket!” ---
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mae-west-on-the-2016-presidential-election/766747/3 "2016-09-24T17:03:29Z")
Well, if Trump were to win, an appropriate tabloid headline would be AMERICA SAYS FUCK IT! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mae-west-on-the-2016-presidential-election/766747/4 "2016-09-24T17:46:19Z")
[Her](http://www-scf.usc.edu/~lewisal/itp104/imgs/ann.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mae-west-on-the-2016-presidential-election/766747/5 "2016-09-24T17:49:56Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > “Given the choice of two evils, I’ll take the one I’ve not tried before.” > > Sums up this year very nicely, doesn’t it? 🙂 \*One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government. \* Donald Trump ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mae-west-on-the-2016-presidential-election/766747/6 "2016-09-24T20:41:23Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > “Given the choice of two evils, I’ll take the one I’ve not tried before.” > > Sums up this year very nicely, doesn’t it? 🙂 Not really, in that one of the candidates is perfectly normal politician and the other is a performance artist. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mae-west-on-the-2016-presidential-election/766747/7 "2016-09-24T20:49:21Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > “Given the choice of two evils, I’ll take the one I’ve not tried before.” . . . Okay, behind this door is “kinky sex” and behind this other door is “suicide by drinking bleach,” and I know you’ve done kinky sex before. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mae-west-on-the-2016-presidential-election/766747/8 "2016-09-24T20:53:36Z")
Hilary is not evil. For being an uppity woman she has received the most biased press coverage of any public figure I can recall. Undeserved coverage, I might add. I just got my absentee ballot yesterday and am about to fill it out. Will happily vote for Tammy Duckworth too and, hopefully, for an unknown Democratic candidate for HR. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mae-west-on-the-2016-presidential-election/766747/9 "2016-09-24T21:09:29Z")
More MPSIMS than anything else. Off we go! ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mae-west-on-the-2016-presidential-election/766747/10 "2016-09-24T23:57:56Z")
They told me in America, anyone can become president. Really scary when you discover how true that is.