# Rude 2026 Election Night Party Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 4, 2026, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389 "2026-11-04T04:02:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**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:** [November 6, 2026, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/221 "2026-11-06T01:38:08Z")
The anti-Muslim bigotry in Michigan (and directed at Michigan) is still going strong. “You forgot 9/11” - No you bigoted piece of shit. I just haven’t spent the last 25 years masturbating about it, quite unlike your perpetual victimhood and recreational grief. “Here comes the hijabs and Sharia law”. Oh yes, it says right in the Constitution that when Muslims in the US reach 2% of the population and 1% of the Senate that they get to rule everyone else and demand that they conform to their customs. “Democrats started this by eliminating the McCarran-Walter Act which barred Muslims from holding public office.” The law did no such thing. End of story. “Look at the hellhole that Dearborn is.” If your definition of hellhole is that it has a lot of people that are different than you, I suppose for you it would be. For decent open-minded folks, it is not. I’m glad that on Tuesday the better angels of our nation turned out and voted. I hope that this is the first nail in the MAGA coffin and that this tsunami will break the cult. It won’t finally be over for probably 80 years until the last MAGA shithead lies stinking in the earth. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/222 "2026-11-06T01:43:29Z")
I think I’m just going to continue driving around blasting this song out as much as possible from my car’s speakers. It’s my anthem this week - [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/68ugkg9RePc/hqdefault.jpg "Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) [Gabry Ponte Ice Pop Mix] (Original Video with subtitles)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc) ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/223 "2026-11-06T01:50:38Z")
I have square danced to that song. But I don’t think I’ve ever really listened to the words, and I’m sure I’ve never seen that video. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/224 "2026-11-06T01:53:41Z")
I’ve linked it before in one of our “guilty pleasure” song threads, it is peak 90s. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/225 "2026-11-06T01:53:58Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I’d always heard it was a good film, so I watched it out of curiosity and I was absolutely blown away by it. Ditto. It was based in part by [Traudl Junge’s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traudl_Junge) memoirs. She was Hitler’s last private secretary and in the bunker. In the clip she’s the one in the light green sweater who comforts the crying secretary in the passage outside. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/226 "2026-11-06T01:55:22Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > I think I’m just going to continue driving around blasting this song out as much as possible from my car’s speakers. What a crap time for my computer’s speakers to be non-functioning! I’ll have to remember to listen to it when they’re fixed. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/227 "2026-11-06T02:14:45Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > because they turn their noses up at the film. I enjoyed and laughed at the clip that was posted but I have never turned my nose up at the film. With that said, I haven’t ever watched it but in my defense I only watch a few films a year. I see that it is easy to find streaming so I will add it to my list for the next time I do watch a movie. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/228 "2026-11-06T02:34:31Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > From andy’s link, Alex Jones opined: > > > "I’m gonna say it right now: I think he’s a Democrat,” Jones said. “I have tried to salvage Trump. I haven’t been sure. I’ve invested so much. Maybe I was blind to it. I think Trump is the ultimate Democrat sleeper cell and he works for them — he was a Democrat before I’ve [predicted it over and over](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/165), and I think it may be happening: > [@Kimstu](#): > > Time for [one of my periodic reminders](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-5-2020-trump-says-this-is-a-great-day-for-george-floyd/855106/19) that > > > [@Kimstu](#): > > > > I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if and when we see right-leaning media starting to refer to him as “longtime Democrat Donald Trump”, we’ll know he is permanently down the golden toilet. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/229 "2026-11-06T03:00:04Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > I disagree. I don’t think it is being made light of at all. I gotta say, once I saw the film, the memes became a lot less funny. It’s no longer “Look how funny an angry Hitler is” but is “I remember what a grindingly brutal scene this was”. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/230 "2026-11-06T03:41:41Z")
Is Nostradamus in your family tree? ---
**Author:** ![RAWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@RAWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RAWDuke)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/231 "2026-11-06T03:50:25Z")
Stole that one! ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/232 "2026-11-06T04:21:23Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Is Nostradamus in your family tree? In the context of _“repeating predictions incessantly for a long time before something happens that can be seized upon as fulfilling the prediction”_, maybe so! ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/233 "2026-11-06T04:24:56Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > “You forgot 9/11” - No you bigoted piece of shit. I just haven’t spent the last 25 years masturbating about it, quite unlike your perpetual victimhood and recreational grief. No, I fucking haven’t. I haven’t forgotten for a second how absolutely shitty people were to Muslims for no fucking reason at all. Witnessing that bigotry in the aftermath of the collective horror of 9/11 made the whole experience even worse. Ever since then, it’s like watching a slow-motion train wreck. > [@BobLibDem](#): > > “Look at the hellhole that Dearborn is.” Do they have any fucking idea how good the food is? Maybe that will turn them around. I’ve lived in other states and their food sucked. I had no idea how good we had it and we have it that good _because of immigrants._ > [@BobLibDem](#): > > “Here comes the hijabs and Sharia law”. Every accusation is a confession. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/234 "2026-11-06T10:06:53Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > “Here comes the hijabs and Sharia law”. Sharia law isn’t so bad. I live in the UK, so I should know. Sarcasm, in case it wasn’t obvious. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/235 "2026-11-06T11:53:05Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > It’s IMHO a genuine acting tour de force by Bruno Ganz (the pretty famous German actor who plays Hitler). Well worth it just to watch him. Small nitpick: Bruno Ganz was Swiss. But yeah, one of the best German language actors ever. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/236 "2026-11-06T12:25:57Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Has anyone actually seen it? It’s one of those movies that will never leave you. A must see, I’d say. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/237 "2026-11-06T12:45:50Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > > > I know it’s a joke but I always thought this movie looked pretty good. Has anyone actually seen it? > > It’s a must-see movie…moving, gripping, and interesting insight of those involved then. > > Alas, one of my pet-peeves is how many people only know of that film through that scene of Hitler’s rant, usually subtitled to fit whatever attempt at humor the poster of some youtuber or social media site is trying to make. It’s a shame that such a great work is made light of. ( glad I got _that_ off of my chest 🙂 ) > [@Tamerlane](#): > > I disagree. I don’t think it is being made light of at all. Rather I think it’s a testament to the sheer force of Ganz in that scene that makes it work as THE universal unhinged rant. > [@BrickBat](#): > > I agree about Ganz’s acting, but I mean “make light of” in the sense that it seems nobody cares to see that scene within the actual context of seeing the film because they turn their noses up at the film. > [@DesertDog](#): > > > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > > > I’d always heard it was a good film, so I watched it out of curiosity and I was absolutely blown away by it. > > Ditto. It was based in part by [Traudl Junge’s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traudl_Junge) memoirs. She was Hitler’s last private secretary and in the bunker. In the clip she’s the one in the light green sweater who comforts the crying secretary in the passage outside. > [@wguy123](#): > > I enjoyed and laughed at the clip that was posted but I have never turned my nose up at the film. With that said, I haven’t ever watched it but in my defense I only watch a few films a year. I see that it is easy to find streaming so I will add it to my list for the next time I do watch a movie. > [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > I gotta say, once I saw the film, the memes became a lot less funny. It’s no longer “Look how funny an angry Hitler is” but is “I remember what a grindingly brutal scene this was”. Interesting turn re: the film _Downfall_ and reactions to the meme clip I posted. I agree with Tamerlane’s take-- I don’t think that the memes made from that particular clip take away from, or make light of, the movie or the actual events that the movie is about at all. The clip is just such a perfect vehicle to parody a man who has Godwinized himself. Here’s a man who clearly has deep emotional insecurities alongside malignant narcissism and delusions of granduer, who claws his way to power despite being massively unqualified to lead, and surrounds himself with lickspittle lackeys willing to sell their souls to do anything he tells them to do, no matter how wrong. Then, when he experiences blowback from his terrible decisions, he rants and raves while his terrified subordinates try to break bad news in a way that will not make them the sacrificial messenger. Who did I just describe? And, I don’t think that to parody a bad thing is to make light of it in a way that is dismissing the badness of it. I think we’ve often used parody to highlight and criticize the badness of that thing in sometimes the only way we have to do so. Humor can be an effective weapon when the power balance is asymmetrical. I haven’t seen the whole movie, but I have seen that particular clip with the actual subtitles, and it is indeed a very gripping, well acted, moving scene. that’s clear from the tone and body language of the actors alone, even not knowing the actual dialogue. I had meant to seek out the movie and watch it when that meme was popular in trump’s first term, but never got around to it, and then the meme faded out. Until now. I’ll make a point to watch _Downfall_, maybe tonight-- I see it’s ‘free with ads on Plex’. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2026, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/238 "2026-11-06T13:11:45Z")
This almost deserves a new thread (here, in the Pit), but, tl;dr, where are all the efforts at massive voter suppression? The death of our democracy? Yes I know about the purging of voter rolls and such, and if the Dems overcame that, then, awesome. But all summer and fall all I heard was talk about large groups of ICE vote supressors blocking access to polling places all across the land. Trump trying to decertify elections, with the Supreme Court backing him up. Some reddit posts about glitched if not hacked voting machines, the specter of millions of votes being canceled or flipped. Martial law being declared in the election’s wake. A possible civil war, bloodbaths in the streets as dft’s goon militias finally made their move, assault rifles at the ready… Come Wednesday, and all of that has vanished like farts in the wind. The Supremes actually stood up against dft’s lame attempts, no martial law declared. If there were attempts at voter intimidation they quickly and quietly got quashed by local officials who properly did their jobs. If voting machines were hacked they had a minimal effect on the outcome. No homies trying to start a 2nd civil war. You’d almost think that these stories and notions were the efforts of a small but concerted band of “concerned” citizens (and we have had more than a few here) constantly crying about the sky falling down, speading fear, uncertainty, and doubt wherever they could. Maaaybe our democracy will indeed die one day. But it wasn’t this day. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/239 "2026-11-06T13:19:24Z")
Administration officials would not _not_ say that federal agents would be deployed. With the history of Jan. 6, straight up fake electors, the ninja recount, the efforts to breach ballot box security and everything else that these psychos have done, I say that none of the above mentioned fears were irrational. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389/240 "2026-11-06T13:22:30Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > This almost deserves a new thread (here, in the Pit), but, tl;dr, where are all the efforts at massive voter suppression? The death of our democracy? Yes I know about the purging of voter rolls and such, and if the Dems overcame that, then, awesome. I’ve been thinking about that, too. And I’ve never been happier to be wrong. I think the D gains in this election may be ephemeral, as the economy still sucks, and i don’t know if Congress can do much to stop Trump’s worst excesses, like the war in Iran. But … This election cements the right to vote in the US. And I’m really glad about that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-2026-election-night-party-thread/1034389.md?page=13)