# Other than the obvious, who is screwed by a Trump win? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 9, 2016, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138 "2016-11-09T06:06:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![squidfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@squidfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squidfood)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/41 "2016-11-09T17:46:24Z")
> [@ataraxy22](#): > > Federal employee here. Me. I expect my job will be gone. I work in the life sciences field. Anything sciences (except maybe NASA). NSF funding, those evil vaccines, higher education… if there’s anything about the coming wave, it’s an anti-intellectual one. ---
**Author:** ![inscrutable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a88e4f/32.png) [@inscrutable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inscrutable)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/42 "2016-11-09T17:47:05Z")
> [@ataraxy22](#): > > Federal employee here. Me. I expect my job will be gone. I work in the life sciences field. > > Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk Yeah, might be a good time to peruse openings at Meade. Could you qualify for a clearance? ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/43 "2016-11-09T17:47:33Z")
This thread is interesting only for seeing people’s “_die on the sword_” issues. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/44 "2016-11-09T17:49:17Z")
Society’s moochers and leeches certainly got the short end of the stick. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/45 "2016-11-09T17:50:49Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Are you kidding me? Baldwin may become a regular on SNL over the next 4 years. Do you think SNL will be \*allowed \*to continue with their treasonous behaviour any longer? President Trump does not like to be mocked. ---
**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 9, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/46 "2016-11-09T17:58:35Z")
> [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](#): > > Society’s moochers and leeches certainly got the short end of the stick. Oh, _please_ do elaborate, I beg you. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/47 "2016-11-09T18:59:32Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > All the banks that refused to fund him when he was in private industry. Possibly. On the other hand, he’s promised to repeal or weaken Dodd-Frank, which is going to screw everybody who isn’t a banker. Any hope for net neutrality is probably gone. Abortion, and probably various types of birth control Republicans don’t like are going to become unavailable or illegal. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/48 "2016-11-09T19:18:21Z")
> [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](#): > > Society’s moochers and leeches certainly got the short end of the stick. You mean the elderly who collect more welfare than anyone? They supported Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/49 "2016-11-09T19:20:44Z")
As an outsider I have to wonder just how confusing Americans find their own electoral system. Half of you don’t vote. That’s ridiculous. And of those that do just listened to a guy who had “Drain the swamp” as a motto and proceeded to re-elect the party that has controlled the Senate and House through most of the worst economic times in the past 25 years. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/50 "2016-11-09T19:25:53Z")
I’m very concerned about changes to health insurance. In particular, bringing back exclusions for previous conditions would be catastrophic. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/51 "2016-11-09T19:27:55Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Do you think SNL will be \*allowed \*to continue with their treasonous behaviour any longer? President Trump does not like to be mocked. If I had a dollar for all the ludicrous exaggerations I’ve read on this board today I’d have made a tidy sum by now. This is yet another. ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/52 "2016-11-09T19:38:20Z")
> [@Barbarian](#): > > As an outsider I have to wonder just how confusing Americans find their own electoral system. > Half of you don’t vote. That’s ridiculous. > > And of those that do just listened to a guy who had “Drain the swamp” as a motto and proceeded to re-elect the party that has controlled the Senate and House through most of the worst economic times in the past 25 years. I understand our electoral system, I just think it’s stupid. The same for people who voted for trump because they don’t like Hillary. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/53 "2016-11-09T19:45:51Z")
I weep mostly for the planet’s environment. Trump and Pence both are climate change and science deniers. ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/54 "2016-11-09T19:46:43Z")
> [@Nansbread1](#): > > Huh…wikileaks did a lot for the Trump campaign. You think he wants revenge for what happened years ago. I predict a pardon and a triumphant homecoming. No, not Julian Assange (Wikileaks), but Edward Snowden. The one who probably did commit a crime in the U.S. by running away with state secrets, and who both major parties explicitly want to put on trial. I don’t think he really intervened in this campaign at all. There’s now a possibility, in my view, that Putin would have him delivered to the U.S. embassy in Moscow as a gesture of good will. ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/55 "2016-11-09T20:55:27Z")
Other than the obvious, who is screwed by a Trump win? These (read on Al Jazeera TV today): European stocks plunge Asian stocks drop Mexican peso falls U.S. dollar sinks Global markets tumble Nasdaq dips Crude oil futures plunge Dow futures fall ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/56 "2016-11-09T21:58:40Z")
> [@Barbarian](#): > > —snip— > > And of those that do just listened to a guy who had “Drain the swamp” as a motto and proceeded to re-elect the party that has controlled the Senate and House through most of the worst economic times in the past 25 years. What part of 'drain the swamp" don’t you understand? :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [November 9, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/57 "2016-11-09T22:00:12Z")
> [@Nansbread1](#): > > Its not going to be a happy christmas at the Sturgeon dinner table. Theresa May, our Prime Minister, had to do a bit of grovelling today. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/58 "2016-11-09T22:01:44Z")
As a Federal employee, I worry a lot about my benefits, especially retirement. The House Republicans keep wanting to reduce and eliminate our benefits and now with a Republican president, they have more of a chance to do so ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/59 "2016-11-10T04:26:13Z")
Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138/60 "2016-11-10T04:29:47Z")
> [@Heracles](#): > > Given the mutual admiration between Trump and Putin, could Edward Snowden be in danger of extradition? More like a pardon, especially maybe for services rendered in the recent e-mail hacks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-the-obvious-who-is-screwed-by-a-trump-win/771138.md?page=4)