# Nov 9 headline: "You're Fired!!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 26, 2016, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757 "2016-10-26T07:07:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/1 "2016-10-26T07:07:53Z")
When the election results are in, this will be the obvious thing to say. My question is: who will say it first? Web blogs and messageboards don’t count. 🙂 I want to see it in print, or on a major network TV. Which mainstream news organization will publish a front-page cartoon with this phrase as the caption, or a front-page article with this phrase as the headline? For the NY Times, I can see this as a smaller thing, on the editorial page. But somebody, somewhere will print it in big, bold letters. I predict… John Oliver will be the first. But he’s a comedian…what about professional journalists? ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/2 "2016-10-26T07:25:52Z")
On the other hand, the joke may seem so obvious that some media will shy away from it in order not to have the same headline as everyone else. I don’t know; it will be interesting to see. I actually thought I had a good headline for any debate that Clinton was generally agreed to have won: **Debate Results: C+ and D-** To the best of my knowledge, nobody used that, though. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/3 "2016-10-26T07:28:43Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > I actually thought I had a good headline for any debate that Clinton was generally agreed to have won: > > **Debate Results: C+ and D-** > > To the best of my knowledge, nobody used that, though. I heard someone on TV say Trump was an F but Hillary was a solid D. Forget who. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/4 "2016-10-26T07:34:33Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I heard someone on TV say Trump was an F but Hillary was a solid D. Forget who. F\*\*ker and Democrat? ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/5 "2016-10-26T08:07:30Z")
“Stone-cold B!” - SNL last week ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/6 "2016-10-26T09:03:51Z")
You know, to get fired, you have to have been hired first. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2016, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/7 "2016-10-26T10:09:44Z")
Sure sounds like a New York Post headline. Could they Resist? ---
**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:** [October 26, 2016, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/8 "2016-10-26T10:30:02Z")
New York Daily News. Obviously. C’mon, this is so far in their wheelhouse their heads are stuck in the spokes. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/9 "2016-10-26T10:46:38Z")
He’s not fired, he’s just not hired. He will give new meaning to Biggest Loser, though. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/10 "2016-10-26T11:33:40Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > He’s not fired, he’s just not hired. He will give new meaning to Biggest Loser, though. The line comes from The Apprentice (obviously), where none of the contestants have been hired either - until the final one, where his line was “You’re hired”. So it works. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/11 "2016-10-26T11:54:28Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > You know, to get fired, you have to have been hired first. He was “hired” as the GOP nominee. Works for me. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/12 "2016-10-26T12:12:27Z")
And if the impossible happens and he wins who will write _Donald Trumps Hillary_? ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/13 "2016-10-26T12:17:58Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > And if the impossible happens and he wins who will write > > _Donald Trumps Hillary_? _‘Go to jail’_ With a picture of Hillary on a Monopoly board, courtesy of the NY Post. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/14 "2016-10-26T12:20:58Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > And if the impossible happens and he wins who will write > > _Donald Trumps Hillary_? If Clinton wins, I can see, “Hillary Trumps The Donald”. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/15 "2016-10-26T12:32:56Z")
If the Donald does win, the lead story on Last Week Tonight will probably be _Deportation proceedings, as experienced first Hand by John Oliver_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/16 "2016-10-26T13:05:01Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Sure sounds like a New York Post headline. Could they Resist? The Post has been pro-Trump. > [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > New York Daily News. Obviously. C’mon, this is so far in their wheelhouse their heads are stuck in the spokes. That was my thought. They’ve been extremely anti-Trump. But it may not be insulting enough for them. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/17 "2016-10-26T17:43:19Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > He’s not fired, he’s just not hired. He will give new meaning to Biggest Loser, though. Wouldn’t that be Bigly Loser? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/18 "2016-10-26T18:23:58Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Sure sounds like a New York Post headline. Could they Resist? As said above, right style, wrong politics. Try The Daily News. But no one is going to use that headline. It’s lame. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/19 "2016-10-26T18:27:55Z")
The headline should not be about Trump, it should be about Hillary. Something simple like “Historic Clinton Landslide” ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757/20 "2016-10-26T18:56:31Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > The headline should not be about Trump, it should be about Hillary. Something simple like “Historic Clinton Landslide” It might not be a landslide though. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nov-9-headline-youre-fired/769757.md?page=2)