# Smirky McDouchebag lawsuit dismissed **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 26, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686 "2019-07-26T20:59:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [July 27, 2019, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/41 "2019-07-27T18:49:33Z")
Oh, that’s a damn shame! The poor bastard went to Washington with his group of MAGA hat wearing douchebag friends because their school and or parents wanted to pump up the number of participants in an anti-abortion protest, and he didn’t get to collect his quarter of a billion hard earned dollars! Boo to the fuckin hoo, as the hip kids say. ---
**Author:** ![Unreconstructed\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/76d3ee/32.png) [@Unreconstructed\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unreconstructed_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/42 "2019-07-27T18:53:40Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Is there ever going to be a time when the right doesn’t use identity politics as a shield for their own inadequacies and transgressions? You’re not making a point. You’re just lazily slinging buzzwords around. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/43 "2019-07-27T18:57:07Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > He’s in the news again for being a whiny bitch snowflake. Bullying kids is sort of pathetic. Strive to be a better person. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/44 "2019-07-27T19:37:11Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I have to admit, when I saw the name “Smirky McDouchebag”, my first thought was [this guy](https://content.fortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/508360902.jpg), not the Covington kid. Damnit I did not to see that all over my screen. > [@digs](#): > > Yeah, I had to open the thread just to figure out who it was about (I was hoping it was another British boat)… > That’s needlessly annoying. > > And for the OP to dismiss other posters when they call you on it is, well, being a jerk. Come to think of it, it had the attitude of "C’mon, why should I care what I do _here?"_ So it disrespected a whole forum. Look, I had no idea who this OP was about until I did some reading. Yes, that annoying. I don’t see how it disrespects the Pit. It’s the Pit. It’s where threads go to be disrespected. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/45 "2019-07-27T19:41:14Z")
> [@Unreconstructed\_Man](#): > > Yes. The fact that Sandman’s parents filed a ridiculous lawsuit doesn’t have anything to do with the genuinely unhinged reaction of the progressive left. For a bunch of people who have created their own version of reality they can live in, you guys sure like to throw around the word “unhinged”. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/46 "2019-07-27T19:43:59Z")
> [@Unreconstructed\_Man](#): > > You’re not making a point. You’re just lazily slinging buzzwords around. Hint: Because you don’t understand what he says doesn’t mean he’s not making a point or slinging around buzzwords. (Isn’t it funny how the right grabs onto terms thrown at them and then tries to use them without a clear grasp of what they really mean or why they were used against them? Seriously, you people are like Sovereign Citizens in your lack of understanding of English and your belief that using specific phrases as magic words and talismans without regard to their real meaning actually accomplishes something.) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/47 "2019-07-27T19:59:37Z")
> [@Unreconstructed\_Man](#): > > And even if it _was_ (which it isn’t), the kid’s a fucking _kid_. Making a child internet enemy number one for a whole week because he wore the wrong hat is nobody’s idea of sane. He’s 17 and can be tried as an adult. Or given the death penalty by (generally Republican) governments so inclined. And it wasn’t all about the hat. You’re lying and/or quoting right wing media misinformation on that. Which is probably why you think the left is ‘unhinged’ in their reactions, since you think it’s all about the hat. No, it’s about some smirking dumbass kid acting like a jackass and getting called out for it. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/48 "2019-07-27T20:06:59Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > No, it’s about some smirking dumbass kid acting like a jackass and getting called out for it. And, in the process, becoming a stand-in for _every_ smirking dumbass kid who’s ever acted like a jackass. ---
**Author:** ![Unreconstructed\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/76d3ee/32.png) [@Unreconstructed\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unreconstructed_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/49 "2019-07-27T20:07:34Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Hint: Because you don’t understand what he says doesn’t mean he’s not making a point or slinging around buzzwords. > > (Isn’t it funny how the right grabs onto terms thrown at them and then tries to use them without a clear grasp of what they really mean or why they were used against them? Seriously, you people are like Sovereign Citizens in your lack of understanding of English and your belief that using specific phrases as magic words and talismans without regard to their real meaning actually accomplishes something.) See? This is the kind of lunacy I’m talking about. Even the briefest, laziest, most cursory perusal of my posting history would reveal that I’m a liberal who despises Trump. But just because I have an ounce of sympathy for someone _you_ don’t think deserves it, I have to justify myself to lazy fucksticks like you. Because I think it’s gross and messed up that a child, a fucking _child_ for Christ’s sake, was made the target of a gleeful internet hate campaign for wearing the fucking wrong hat, I simply _have_ to be a goddamned MAGA Chud. There’s literally no other explanation, is there? It can’t be that I just don’t like bullies, or that public shaming is cruel and often (_especially_ in this case), _deeply_ disproportionate to the “offence”. Nope. That’s too easy. I simply _must_ have some right wing ulterior motive. You have literally no sense of perspective, and no idea how completely fucking _deranged_ it is to yuk it up because a bullying victim’s _parents_ lawsuit failed, or to leap to the conclusion that anyone who might have a problem with it can only be a Trump supporter. Not only are you a shithead, not only are you a bully, you’re also fucking _nuts_. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/50 "2019-07-27T20:11:37Z")
If a 17 year old smirking kid wearing a ‘fuck racism’ hat got in the face of, say, the Proud Boys, or Open Carry fanatics, he’d have been beaten down. Then people like UM, their shitbag president and politicians and their media would simply go “Well of course, what did he expect would happen? Nothing to see here!” and move on. Maybe use it as a springboard to attack the left for the behavior. NOWHERE would they denounce the behavior and “overreaction” of the people who did the violence. No, they’d be laughing, making cartoons glorifying it and calling for more of the same. Yet when a kid on their side does this sort of thing and simply gets called out for his idiotic behavior, they whine and cry like the little pussies they are about how mean everyone is being to the kid. Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Unreconstructed\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/76d3ee/32.png) [@Unreconstructed\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unreconstructed_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/51 "2019-07-27T20:15:27Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > He’s 17 and can be tried as an adult. Or given the death penalty by (generally Republican) governments so inclined. > > And it wasn’t all about the hat. You’re lying and/or quoting right wing media misinformation on that. Which is probably why you think the left is ‘unhinged’ in their reactions, since you think it’s all about the hat. He’s 17 now. He was 16 then. And _of course_ it was all about the hat! Take the hat away and there’s literally nothing left. > [@](#): > > No, it’s about some smirking dumbass kid acting like a jackass and getting called out for it. You never did anything stupid when you were a teenager? You never mouthed off to anyone? Never put a foot wrong? Never offended anyone? Never acted inappropriately? Fuck off. Like every one of the full grown adults shitting on this _child_, you almost certainly did _way_ worse stuff when you were his age. You were just lucky enough to live before Twitter, before your misdeeds could be broadcast to every self-righteous jerk-off from here to the fucking moon. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/52 "2019-07-27T20:15:47Z")
> [@Unreconstructed\_Man](#): > > See? This is the kind of lunacy I’m talking about. You’re not a liberal if you resort to far right tactics and buzzwords. You’re a fucking liar. The line you claimed was just buzzwords was calling out right wing identity politics, which does exists, and puts everyone into distinct identity classifications while claiming that not only they don’t, but it is only the other side that does so. Calling everyone loonies and crazies and unhinged if they disagree with you is also a sure marker of being far right. If you want any actual respect, you won’t do this. Now go completely fuck off with this nonsense. I’ll be adding your sorry UNHINGED ass to my ignore list. ---
**Author:** ![Unreconstructed\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/76d3ee/32.png) [@Unreconstructed\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unreconstructed_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/53 "2019-07-27T20:18:29Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > If a 17 year old smirking kid wearing a ‘fuck racism’ hat got in the face of, say, the Proud Boys, or Open Carry fanatics, he’d have been beaten down. > > Then people like UM, their shitbag president and politicians and their media would simply go “Well of course, what did he expect would happen? Nothing to see here!” and move on. Maybe use it as a springboard to attack the left for the behavior. > > NOWHERE would they denounce the behavior and “overreaction” of the people who did the violence. No, they’d be laughing, making cartoons glorifying it and calling for more of the same. > > Yet when a kid on their side does this sort of thing and simply gets called out for his idiotic behavior, they whine and cry like the little pussies they are about how mean everyone is being to the kid. > > Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican. Repeatedly calling me a Republican doesn’t make it true you dumb cunt. ---
**Author:** ![Unreconstructed\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/76d3ee/32.png) [@Unreconstructed\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unreconstructed_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/54 "2019-07-27T20:20:08Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Now go completely fuck off with this nonsense. I’ll be adding your sorry UNHINGED ass to my ignore list. I’ll try not to cry myself to sleep. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/55 "2019-07-27T20:32:20Z")
> [@Unreconstructed\_Man](#): > > Yes. The fact that Sandman’s parents filed a ridiculous lawsuit doesn’t have anything to do with the genuinely unhinged reaction of the progressive left. And that only shows how ignorant talking points from the right percolate. The real big picture showed that originally this was an ugly confrontation\*\* among extreme anti abortion groups\*\*. It was the Black Hebrew Israelites that began harassing the white kids for one reason that many right wingers try their damnest to ignore: Those hats and clothing are like troll beacons and reminded the extremist BHI about the most ugly things the pussy grabber in chief represented and they insulted the kids about it and also tossed other insults. (Here I have to mention that I only understand why they reacted that way, not that I support them, this note is here also because many right wingers or centrists that fall for talking points just can not do nuanced things.) Speaking of ‘unhinged’, more than one Catholic father from the place the kid came from, noticed how sad it was to see their kids wear hats and clothing supporting a cad. That only demonstrated complete ignorance about a president that is causing unnecessary pain to asylum seekers at the border. Just about the opposite of what Catholics should be for. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/56 "2019-07-27T21:31:35Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > And that only shows how ignorant talking points from the right percolate. > > The real big picture showed that originally this was an ugly confrontation\*\* among extreme anti abortion groups\*\*. It was the Black Hebrew Israelites that began harassing the white kids for one reason that many right wingers try their damnest to ignore: Those hats and clothing are like troll beacons and reminded the extremist BHI about the most ugly things the pussy grabber in chief represented and they insulted the kids about it and also tossed other insults. (Here I have to mention that I only understand why they reacted that way, not that I support them, this note is here also because many right wingers or centrists that fall for talking points just can not do nuanced things.) > > Speaking of ‘unhinged’, more than one Catholic father from the place the kid came from, noticed how sad it was to see their kids wear hats and clothing supporting a cad. That only demonstrated complete ignorance about a president that is causing unnecessary pain to asylum seekers at the border. Just about the opposite of what Catholics should be for. And the unhinged part is extreme leftists here and in social media who advocate violence over choice of clothing. Sad. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/57 "2019-07-27T22:06:17Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > And the unhinged part is extreme leftists here and in social media who advocate violence over choice of clothing. Sad. The MAGA hat and support for Trump is Germany in 1935. It’s a real shame that people didn’t stand up to that. About [75-80 million people would probably agree.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties) People that identify with a racist asshole that only cares about himself, might want to look at why they support him. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/58 "2019-07-27T22:08:46Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > The MAGA hat and support for Trump is Germany in 1935. It’s a real shame that people didn’t stand up to that. About [75-80 million people would probably agree.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties) No it’s not. Ridiculous hyperbole like that is partially responsible for the far left being considered unhinged loons. ---
**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/59 "2019-07-27T22:10:45Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I have to admit, when I saw the name “Smirky McDouchebag”, my first thought was [this guy](https://content.fortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/508360902.jpg), not the Covington kid. And my first reaction was, “What lawsuit did Mitch McConnell file?” I mean, if you hear Smirky McDouchebag, why wouldn’t you think of Moscow Mitch? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/60 "2019-07-27T22:13:04Z")
As I already pointed out elsewhere; If a kid wearing a ‘fuck racism’ got in the face of the Proud Boys, or some right wing militia guys, or people at a Trump rally, they’d beat the ever loving fuck out of that kid. Then the right wing media and their politicians (and even Herr Trumpenfuhrer) would be claiming that he had it coming, that it was the natural consequences of their actions, that the kid was a moron and there was nothing to see here. Then their media would be filled with opinion pieces, cartoons and memes making fun of the kid and portraying the same thing happening to other Democrats. Yet if Smirky McLawsuit had been popped in the face by ANYONE, those same people would be pulling a Monty Pythonesque “come and see the violence inherent on the LEFT!” and calling for congressional hearings and more laws. Like Mr. Octopus here, they’re total fucking hypocrites when it comes to this sort of thing. Glorifying and excusing their own violence and their own violent words while reacting with terror and outrage when fuck all nothings like this happen to their own people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686.md?page=4)