# People need to stop making stuff up to make Trump look bad **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 3, 2017, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887 "2017-02-03T07:46:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/61 "2017-02-03T21:34:07Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > A couple of things **Doorhinge** : I noticed that she made her “mistake” on national TV, but her correction on Twitter. Also, didn’t she mercilessly criticize a journalist for making a mistake that he apologized for? And finally, and I can’t believe I have to point this out to you: a representative of the nation’s president speaking on policy issues on tv should be held to a higher standard than a guy on a message board. The fact that you literally can’t seem to make that distinction is very telling. I notice that you’re still too stupid to spell my nom de plume correctly. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/62 "2017-02-03T21:36:01Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Fake news is fake news. Wouldn’t it be great if there were some organizations that we the people could count on to provide us with all of the facts, and only the facts. You know, something like the main stream media outlets we have now, but truthful, honest, and unbiased. Fake news can only exist in a society that allows it’s media to help spread fake news instead of providing accurate, and honest reporting. > > Billy was impeached for lying under oath, AND he lost his law license. That doesn’t seem to matter to the Hillary supporters. Or maybe they don’t want to remember it. :rolleyes: > > \*On April 12, 1999, Wright found Clinton in contempt of court for “intentionally false” testimony in Jones v. Clinton, fined him $90,000, and referred the case to the Arkansas Supreme Court’s Committee on Professional Conduct, as Clinton still possessed a law license in Arkansas. > > The Arkansas Supreme Court suspended Clinton’s Arkansas law license in April 2000. On January 19, 2001, Clinton agreed to a five-year suspension and a $25,000 fine in order to avoid disbarment and to end the investigation of Independent Counsel Robert Ray (Starr’s successor). On October 1, 2001, Clinton’s U.S. Supreme Court law license was suspended, with 40 days to contest his disbarment. On November 9, 2001, the last day for Clinton to contest the disbarment, he opted to resign from the Supreme Court Bar, surrendering his license, rather than facing penalties related to disbarment.\* > > [Lost Law Licenses: Presidents Obama, Clinton, and Nixon - LewRockwell](https://www.lewrockwell.com/2012/09/gary-north/lost-law-licenses-presidents-obama-clinton-and-nixon/) > > The investigations into Hillary’s activities may, or may not, be over. Personally, I don’t believe the U.S. Congress is thru with her yet. [A piece of sage advice for you. 🙂](https://memegenerator.net/instance/52636986) ---
**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:** [February 3, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/63 "2017-02-03T21:45:34Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > I notice that you’re still too stupid to spell my nom de plume correctly. Ohhh, BURN! You win the whole argument. And bonus points for digging up the ole “Clinton lied about a blowjob” meme. Nice nostalgia trip. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/64 "2017-02-03T21:53:34Z")
> [@Blinkyandpinky](#): > > Any Republican that is not for Trump is not needed anymore. You know, the two of you will eventually _also_ be not needed anymore. I mean if you think you’re needed now, or ever have been (sorry that you’re probably wrong), by the time the world you think you want happens, you’ll be just so much surplus baggage, and you’ll be yelling at the sky about how good a supporter you were, stupidly forgetting how you worked for a world in which “supporters” (first Republican, then American, then, just, anybody) were not needed anymore. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/65 "2017-02-03T22:05:45Z")
Liberals gotta stop making shit up! Take this whole “Trump orders Redwood Forests to be clear cut!” Well, just look at this picture from the California Redwoods. Says right there, “California Redwood Forest”. See that there? That little bush like thing, next to that big ass tree? That’s a cedar tree! Small, yeah, just getting its growth, but it is _not a redwood_! So, this isn’t, strictly speaking, a redwood forest, now is it! So maybe he’s just gonna cut down the redwoods, and it will be a cedar forest! Something wrong with cedar trees? ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/66 "2017-02-03T22:23:57Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Ohhh, BURN! You win the whole argument. And bonus points for digging up the ole “Clinton lied about a blowjob” meme. Nice nostalgia trip. I didn’t introduce the ole “Clinton lied about a blowjob” meme. But you have no way of knowing that. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/67 "2017-02-03T22:29:59Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > [A piece of sage advice for you. 🙂](https://memegenerator.net/nstance/52636986) Sage is an herb. I may have mentioned that I was not the one who introduced Billy’s blowjobs into this thread. Perhaps you meant to address that poster? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/68 "2017-02-03T22:49:21Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > I notice that you’re still too stupid to spell my nom de plume correctly. You’re more of a knob than a hinge. > [@doorhinge](#): > > Sage is an herb. > > I may have mentioned that I was not the one who introduced Billy’s blowjobs into this thread. Perhaps you meant to address that poster? [Sage](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sage) > [@](#): > > Sage1 > noun > 1. > a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom. > 2. > someone venerated for the possession of wisdom, judgment, and experience. > adjective, sager, sagest. > 3. > wise, judicious, or prudent: > sage advice. > Sage2 > [seyj] > noun > 1. > any plant or shrub belonging to the genus Salvia, of the mint family. > 2. > an herb, Salvia officinalis, whose grayish-green leaves are used in medicine and for seasoning in cookery. > 3. > the leaves themselves. > 4. > sagebrush. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/69 "2017-02-03T22:56:11Z")
Hey, he knew one of 'em! C’mon! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/70 "2017-02-03T23:00:18Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Hey, he knew one of 'em! C’mon! I don’t want to encourage him. He might think he’s not a Pakled. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/71 "2017-02-03T23:30:46Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Fake news is fake news. Wouldn’t it be great if there were some organizations that we the people could count on to provide us with all of the facts, and only the facts. You know, something like the main stream media outlets we have now, but truthful, honest, and unbiased. Fake news can only exist in a society that allows it’s media to help spread fake news instead of providing accurate, and honest reporting. > > Billy was impeached for lying under oath, AND he lost his law license. That doesn’t seem to matter to the Hillary supporters. Or maybe they don’t want to remember it. :rolleyes: I notice that you didn’t have any response to any of the questions I asked. Do I need to repeat them? You complained about people lying about shit. Right? So what should be the response to someone claiming that Obama was born in Kenya? And all the other stuff? I guess it’s all just sophistry with you Republicans, right? Truth, falsehood, adultery, assault…none of it matters, none of you actually care about that stuff, the only reason you care is if you can use it as a weapon against America. Trump lies about stuff? You honestly, I mean, you really really really really don’t care. At all. It doesn’t mean anything to you. Bill Clinton lies? OHMIFUCKINGODDDDD! He lied! You scream and set your hair on fire. And his lie about getting a blowjob discredits the entire Democratic party for the rest of time. Because lying is wrong! It’s so, so, so wrong. Very very wrong. Dishonesty! The swamp! Big Government! Bankers! Goldman Sacks! It’s so wrong! We can’t have that! Oh, Trump is filling his cabinet with Goldman Sacks bankers? Zzzzzz. Trump lies for sport? Zzzzzz. You don’t care about that, because you and all the other Republicans never did. It means nothing. All you care about is…well, nothing. It’s pure nihilism. You think you care about winning elections? But why? You don’t care what Republicans do when their in office. So it’s all just smashing shit up because you get that little tingly feeling in your tiny little private parts when other people get shafted. Hey, life is a zero sum game to you and your kind. For you to win, someone else has to lose. And so when you see someone else losing, you figure that means you’re winning. See your neighbor’s house burn down, and you celebrate, because he lost, which means you win, right? Nihilism. Eventually, you’ll die, miserable and alone, but you’ll be happy because everyone else is miserable. So you don’t care about Bill lying. You don’t care about Trump lying. You just like playing the fool, because it annoys people. You know what that makes you? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/72 "2017-02-03T23:49:14Z")
A conservative gadfly who mocks the pretensions and hypocrisies of the left? ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/73 "2017-02-04T08:02:23Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > You sound like the kind of person who will say “Don’t you mean _vulva_?” when someone mentions a vagina. That one is more valid than “The US was never intended to be a ‘democracy’.” ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/74 "2017-02-04T08:08:09Z")
Ok…so, if we stop making stuff up, that will make Trump look bad? Sounds like a deal! Where do I sign up? ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/75 "2017-02-04T08:40:11Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Doesn’t Trump himself tell the bigglyest lies? Whether about crowd or hand size? A good example of the theme of this thread. He actually said big league not bigly but that doesn’t stop people mocking Trump because they didn’t hear him properly. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/76 "2017-02-04T09:07:00Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > A good example of the theme of this thread. He actually said big league not bigly but that doesn’t stop people mocking Trump because they didn’t hear him properly. That’s not why they mock old hamster fists now. That was just the reason to mock him that day. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/77 "2017-02-04T10:40:38Z")
This is pathetic. Like complaining that someone on the Titanic unfairly accused the bartender of watering down his scotch and soda. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/78 "2017-02-04T14:54:15Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > A good example of the theme of this thread. He actually said big league not bigly but that doesn’t stop people mocking Trump because they didn’t hear him properly. We’re mocking him because he doesn’t _speak_ “properly.” Properly not meaning “high class”–he left that one far behind with his boast of pussy grabbing. Trump is piss-poor at verbal communication. His vocabulary is tiny (like his hands) & his ideas incoherent. He was sent to expensive schools–but refused to learn. We’ll continue mocking him as long as he deserves 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:** [February 4, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/79 "2017-02-04T15:26:09Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > A good example of the theme of this thread. He actually said big league not bigly but that doesn’t stop people mocking Trump because they didn’t hear him properly. Can we still mock him for the way he pronounces the word\* industry\*?: \ “inDUStree” \ ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887/80 "2017-02-04T15:39:56Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > A good example of the theme of this thread. He actually said big league not bigly but that doesn’t stop people mocking Trump because they didn’t hear him properly. I heard him just fine. He said “bigly.” Period. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-need-to-stop-making-stuff-up-to-make-trump-look-bad/778887.md?page=5)