# The Democrats will win their election **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 15, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652 "2016-10-15T22:43:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/21 "2016-10-16T07:55:06Z")
> [@williambaskerville](#): > > That struck me too. God finally decides to speak, and all he he can demonstrate is that he reads Nate Silver and Sam Wang ? Is God a frequentist or a Bayesian? Or does He actually know what a ‘propensity’ is? ---
**Author:** ![williambaskerville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@williambaskerville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williambaskerville)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/22 "2016-10-16T10:20:07Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Is God a frequentist or a Bayesian? Or does He actually know what a ‘propensity’ is? These are profound questions. We should found a religion, and then a schism, over them. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/23 "2016-10-16T10:24:03Z")
> [@Mr\_Quatro](#): > > … > The exact word of knowledge was simply this: “The democrats will win their election, but then comes the knife”. > > … _Five’ll get ya ten old Macky’s back in town… …_ ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/24 "2016-10-16T11:52:46Z")
Some posts just lead me to use SDMB’s search engine. The last time **Mr. Quatro** [started a thread in GD was three years ago, almost to the day.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=705109) Was it worth the wait? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/25 "2016-10-16T12:17:28Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > How do you know it was the Lord and not Satan? How does he know it wasn’t [Lordi?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAh9NRGNhUU) ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/26 "2016-10-16T12:28:08Z")
Or Lorde. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/27 "2016-10-16T12:57:34Z")
> [@up\_the\_junction](#): > > That’s great your imaginary friend talks to you about topics you’re interested in. Did your friend know pollsters rate HRC’s chance at 85% and that she has never not been in the lead? > > It’s curious how religion and the threat of violence go so often together. I don’t think it is a threat … more of a promise, a division, something big is going to happen after her party wins. I hear the voice of the Lord, but if this wasn’t God I will have to re-think my position on everything. Jesus is not an imaginary friend. Hillary talks to a imaginary friend Eleanor Roosevelt: [http://www.weekendcollective.com/hillary-clinton-talked-dead-people-7-insane-things-2016-presidential-candidates/](http://www.weekendcollective.com/hillary-clinton-talked-dead-people-7-insane-things-2016-presidential-candidates/) > [@](#): > > When Hillary Clinton talked to imaginary friends in the White House. While she was the first lady, Hillary Clinton used to pretend to talk to … Bill Clinton said back in 2012 during the dedication of Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park: > [@](#): > > “A special thanks to the members of the Roosevelt family who are here. And the one who is not, Eleanor, who made sure that the four freedoms were included in the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948”. > > “I know that because, as all of you famously learned when I served as president, my wife, now the secretary of state, was known to commune with Eleanor on a regular basis. And so she called me last night on her way home from Peru to remind me to say that. That Eleanor had talked to her and reminded her that I should say that”. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/28 "2016-10-16T13:01:22Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > How does he know it wasn’t [Lordi?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAh9NRGNhUU) This one’s better - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HppogSt1uHo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HppogSt1uHo) (theme appropriate) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/29 "2016-10-16T13:40:02Z")
[Hot knife (or knives)](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hot%20knife) are used to vaporize certain recreational drugs, including the performance enhancing pharmaceuticals Ms Clinton has been obviously using. Her dependence on pharmacological assistance will catch up with her. So let it be written. So let it be done. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/30 "2016-10-16T17:29:39Z")
> [@Mr\_Quatro](#): > > I hear the voice of the Lord, but if this wasn’t God I will have to re-think my position on everything. I hate to break this to you, but it wasn’t. But I doubt very much you will rethink your position on anything. > [@](#): > > Jesus is not an imaginary friend. Yes, he is. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/31 "2016-10-16T18:08:16Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > > [@Mr\_Quatro](#): > > > > Jesus is not an imaginary friend. > > Yes, he is. Ha! Not if he’s an imaginary _enemy_! Betcha didn’t think of that, didja? Zing! 😛 ---
**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:** [October 16, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/32 "2016-10-16T18:54:04Z")
Not trying to be disrespectful, but does OP have a history of psychotic mental illness? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/33 "2016-10-16T19:55:52Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Not trying to be disrespectful, but does OP have a history of psychotic mental illness? That’s enough of that, right there. This is the forum for witnessing and I judged that this counts as a witnessing thread. Slams at the poster witnessing are not a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/34 "2016-10-16T20:40:38Z")
‘\*their \*election’, how petulant. Like ‘not _my_ president’. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/35 "2016-10-16T20:54:54Z")
> [@Mr\_Quatro](#): > > I don’t like it, but I’ve just received a word from the Lord **(please don’t make fun of the Lord)** that the Democrats will win the next election. Sorry, this is America. We don’t have Lords. Or Earls, or Counts, or Viceroys, or Princes, or Dukes, or Kings. ETA: Oops, I told a fib. We apparently _do_ have [Viceroys…](http://www.cigarettesretailer.com/312-home_default/viceroy-red.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/36 "2016-10-16T20:58:05Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Not trying to be disrespectful, but does OP have a history of psychotic mental illness? > [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > That’s enough of that, right there. This is the forum for witnessing and I judged that this counts as a witnessing thread. Slams at the poster witnessing are not a good idea. Yeah, I was going to say, because it’s not in the Pit, the only one we _can_ make fun of is the “Lord.” ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/37 "2016-10-16T21:17:09Z")
Honestly I do not read Wesley’s post as making fun of him at all but as a not inappropriate expression of concern. Maybe I am confused but I always thought of witness as expressing how accepting God has changed someone’s life, or how someone has witnessed God by seeing something miraculous. Stating that God has spoken or written to me in this specific and precise words about this election? That’s witnessing? ---
**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:** [October 16, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/38 "2016-10-16T21:40:54Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > That’s enough of that, right there. This is the forum for witnessing and I judged that this counts as a witnessing thread. Slams at the poster witnessing are not a good idea. Virtually every reply has been an insult to his religion. I notice you didn’t respond to any of them. Rather than make fun of the OP like virtually everyone else in this thread, I ask in all seriousness if OP is having a psychotic break and you claim I’m the one insulting him. Thinking god is talking to you and giving you secret information is a sign of a psychotic episode. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/39 "2016-10-16T21:47:15Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Virtually every reply has been an insult to his religion. Not mine! ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652/40 "2016-10-16T21:49:37Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Virtually every reply has been an insult to his religion. I notice you didn’t respond to any of them. . . . God isn’t a member of the SDMB. Also, hey, God is tough. He can take it. God will not be mocked. You can talk trash about him, and, next thing you know, your cat runs away, or you get arthritis in your great toe. God just laughs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-will-win-their-election/768652.md?page=3)