# Post CF and on-going Trump outrages **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 25, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746 "2021-02-25T21:48:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/361 "2021-05-25T11:14:29Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > They are no more horns than a prominent brow ridge on a human would be. So all those Star Trek aliens have antlers. Who knew?!1!! Not I, that’s for sure. Thank you! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/362 "2021-05-26T05:24:48Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Stags do not have horns. Fighting ignorance in the Pit now are we? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/363 "2021-05-26T13:34:44Z")
The messagebored’s charter is to fight ignorance. Why should and forum be exempt? (And besides, it was not fighting ignorance so much as being pitantic). ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/364 "2021-05-26T14:08:44Z")
Another softball lobbed over the plate… ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/365 "2021-05-26T15:54:19Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Another softball lobbed over the plate… And if you hit it for a home run, people will hate you because you broke one of the many\* unwritten rules of baseball, and dishonored the game, and may cause opposing pitchers to throw at your head. \*How many are there? no one knows, because no one wrote them down. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/366 "2021-05-27T02:02:52Z")
Oh yeah? Then explain staghorn corals, huh??? And staghorn sumacs? They wouldn’t have called them that if stags didn’t have horns because “not-stag horn sumacs” just sounds dumb. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/367 "2021-05-27T03:10:48Z")
People park in a driveway but drive on a parkway. We name things stupid names. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/368 "2021-06-04T18:15:33Z")
> **[National Review Confirms 'Startling' Report On Trump's Current Grasp Of Reality](https://news.yahoo.com/national-review-trump-reinstated-050129462.html)** > > The former president reportedly believes he's returning to the White House this summer... and that's not all. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/369 "2021-06-04T18:40:12Z")
The National Review article linked to there is worth a read, too. > **[Maggie Haberman Is Right | National Review](https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/maggie-haberman-is-right/)** > > Donald Trump really does believe that he, along with two former GOP senators, will be ‘reinstated’ to office this summer. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2021, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/370 "2021-06-04T18:43:02Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > The National Review article linked to there is worth a read, too. Very paywalled. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/371 "2021-06-04T18:46:15Z")
I clicked on it from inside the Huff Post article and got through. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/372 "2021-06-04T18:50:46Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Very paywalled. > [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > I clicked on it from inside the Huff Post article and got through. I also got right through from HuffPo. But here’s a sample: > Just how far out there is Trump’s theory? Consider that, even if it were true that the 2020 election had been stolen — which it is absolutely not — his belief would _still_ be absurd. It could be confirmed tomorrow that agents working for a combination of al-Qaeda, Venezuela, and George Soros had hacked into every single voting machine in the country and altered the totals by tens of millions, and it would remain the case there is no mechanism within the American legal order for a do-over of any sort. In such an eventuality, there would be indictments, an impeachment drive, and a constitutional crisis. But, however bad it got, Donald Trump would not be “reinstated” to the presidency. That is not how America works, how America has ever worked, or how America _can_ ever work. American politicians do not lose their reelection races only to be reinstalled later on, **as might the second-place horse in a race whose winner was disqualified**. The idea is otherworldly and obscene. (bolding mine) I wonder if all this was inspired by the Kentucky Derby winner likely being disqualified … ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/373 "2021-06-04T18:52:08Z")
Thanks for the ‘clip’. May be that my browser doesn’t play well with the NR. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2021, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/374 "2021-06-04T22:58:55Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > (bolding mine) I wonder if all this was inspired by the Kentucky Derby winner likely being disqualified … Nice catch. I bet that’s _exactly_ where this came from! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2021, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/375 "2021-06-05T05:50:55Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > > [@Akaj](#): > > > > The National Review article linked to there is worth a read, too. > > Very paywalled. I got the article with no problem, but with a note that “You have 3 free articles remaining.” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/376 "2021-06-05T17:39:14Z")
The Undead walks… > **[At Once Diminished and Dominating, Trump Begins His Next Act (Published 2021)](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-convention-speech.html)** > > The former president spoke on Saturday to the North Carolina Republican convention as he resumes political speeches and rallies. > … > Mr. Trump, who White House officials said watched with pleasure as his supporters stormed the Capitol and disrupted the Jan. 6 certification of the Electoral College vote, has told several people he believes he could be “reinstated” to the White House this August, according to three people familiar with his remarks. He has been echoing a theory promulgated by supporters like Mike Lindell, the chief executive of MyPillow, and Sidney Powell, the lawyer being sued for defamation by election machine companies for spreading conspiracy theories about the safety of their ballots. > > President Biden’s victory, with more than 80 million votes, was certified by Congress once the Jan. 6 riot was contained. There is no legal mechanism for reinstating a president, and the efforts by Republicans in the Arizona Senate to recount the votes in the state’s largest county have been derided as fake and inept by local Republican officials, who say the result is a partisan circus that is eroding confidence in elections. > … Blahblahblah… ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/377 "2021-06-05T17:41:22Z")
He said reinstated to the White House, not reinstated as president. Maybe secret service just needs a new tackle dummy. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/378 "2021-06-05T17:49:47Z")
FWIW, I browse The National Review semi-regularly - I’m trying to avoid living in the liberal bubble, and it’s interesting to watch them try to thread the needle between conservatism and Trumpism- and I’ve never had to defeat a paywall. BTW, there are parts of the article under discussion that are a little infuriating because they try to pretend that Hillary and the liberal mob denied the election results thing in 2016. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2021, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/379 "2021-06-05T21:39:53Z")
My favourite quote from the NYT article: > [@](#): > > Both of his 2020 campaign managers, Bill Stepien and Brad Parscale, are on Mr. Trump’s payroll and still involved in his world. **But Mr. Trump is episodically enraged with most members of his team.** ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2021, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/380 "2021-06-05T22:08:32Z")
“Episodically enraged”. I love that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746.md?page=20)