# My final position on the election. Non-herd mentality. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 21, 2016, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632 "2016-11-21T09:15:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OriginalGangster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ea5d25/32.png) [@OriginalGangster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OriginalGangster)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/1 "2016-11-21T09:15:10Z")
Trump was controlled opposition from day 1. Trump was supposed to lose. He knew this. Let’s be honest, he loves the camera & probably wishes he were a “big league” actor. Somewhere in the home stretch about to cross the finish line, there was a plot twist. The public does not know what this is yet, but they will soon. Could be that the election was in fact nothing but a shuck-and-jive routine, Trump won’t be president, more occult stuff, imminent civil war, basically a never-ending revolving door of theories. Where we’re at right now. Trump wins. Popular/electoral vote split. Protests. Blaming Soros. It’s all diversion. The past few days there’s been a rising “fake news narrative”. Maybe they can call it FNN. There is a reason for this. It’s simply been introduced at a very odd time. The “fake news” will be used as a buffer from now on for anything the mainstream doesn’t like or prefers isn’t known by the public, even when it’s known by the public, they will declare it fake. The fake news narrative could also be used to keep the public in control during anything deemed too controversial. There’s a good chance we’re all being trolled by the elites. Enjoy the vaudeville. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/2 "2016-11-21T09:20:02Z")
Every single thread you’ve started has presented an opinion about the election with is mutually contradictory with every single previous thread. Would you please pick a conspiracy theory and **stick** with it? ---
**Author:** ![OriginalGangster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ea5d25/32.png) [@OriginalGangster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OriginalGangster)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/3 "2016-11-21T09:22:23Z")
Must have been a different OG. ---
**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 21, 2016, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/4 "2016-11-21T10:52:17Z")
> [@OriginalGangster](#): > > Trump was controlled opposition from day 1. Trump is too erratic to be controlled by anyone, including himself. From what I’ve been reading even the Russians are having buyer’s remorse; they helped push him into office and are realizing they can’t rely on him for anything. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/5 "2016-11-21T11:46:11Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Every single thread you’ve started has presented an opinion about the election with is mutually contradictory with every single previous thread. > > Would you please pick a conspiracy theory and **stick** with it? > [@](#): > > “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. > > Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. > > Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes of morans.” CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/6 "2016-11-21T12:00:26Z")
This guy seems deplorably stupid. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/7 "2016-11-21T12:34:56Z")
Some of your OP post suggests you are in the state of denial which is a normal reaction to something bad in one’s life. Final stage is acceptance. IMHO Trump just played the crowd to get the, mainly, ‘redneck’ vote out. Not being politically correct, saying some very harsh stuff but stuff many rednecks would want to see in a President. Now, all along Trump knows, Trump is no dummy, that most everything he says he can’t do, so now as Pres elect he appears much softer, he played the population like a fiddle to get exactly what he wanted. Well played Donald, well played. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/8 "2016-11-21T14:10:43Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > This guy seems deplorably stupid. He’s a basketful of stupid all by himself! ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/9 "2016-11-21T14:20:47Z")
When there is no more room in hell, the trolls will walk the earth. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/10 "2016-11-21T14:41:39Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Trump is too erratic to be controlled by anyone, including himself. > > From what I’ve been reading even the Russians are having buyer’s remorse; they helped push him into office and are realizing they can’t rely on him for anything. This is the heart and soul of the problem. Trump is fueled by an ego the size of Texas. I log on to CNN every morning with my fingers crossed to see the words _Trump_ and _heart attack_ in the same sentence. I have this feeling that I will see this fairly soon. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/11 "2016-11-21T14:57:01Z")
> [@OriginalGangster](#): > > Must have been a different OG. Split-personality disorder is no excuse. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/12 "2016-11-21T15:00:02Z")
Still, I’m sure many of us are relieved to have OG’s final and definitive opinion. ---
**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 21, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/13 "2016-11-21T15:35:19Z")
There’s something mysterious going on, and you’re “in the know”. Got it. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/14 "2016-11-21T16:00:12Z")
Is this your\* final \*answer?.. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/15 "2016-11-21T18:02:44Z")
> [@OriginalGangster](#): > > Must have been a different OG. Shouldn’t you be **UnoriginalGangster** , then? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/16 "2016-11-21T18:26:56Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Split-personality disorder is no excuse. Wouldn’t that imply that one of his identities actually _had_ a personality? ---
**Author:** ![OriginalGangster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ea5d25/32.png) [@OriginalGangster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OriginalGangster)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/17 "2016-11-21T18:54:27Z")
Trump’s appointing of Stormfront-approved cabinet picks is nothing but diversion as well. The public is being trolled. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/18 "2016-11-21T19:24:08Z")
Since you’re so enlightened, why not whip off your tinfoil hat and actually say something, as opposed to this sad excuse for mysterious and cryptic? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/19 "2016-11-21T19:44:45Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Since you’re so enlightened, why not whip off your tinfoil hat and actually say something, as opposed to this sad excuse for mysterious and cryptic? Because lizard pod people listening everywhere… ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-final-position-on-the-election-non-herd-mentality/772632/20 "2016-11-21T19:45:47Z")
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