# The Omnibus Republican Snowflake Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 12, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786 "2017-06-12T17:27:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/1 "2017-06-12T17:27:04Z")
I’ll start this off with a rousing cheer to our Snowflake-in-Chief! Apparently Britain [has to be a safe space](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/us/politics/trump-uk-visit.html) if Trump’s gonna go over there. Poor thing won’t go somewhere where there might be big protests, it might hurt his precious feelings. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/2 "2017-06-12T17:31:37Z")
Trumpelina is all in a tizzy about how gosh-darn MEAN people can be. > **[Ivanka Trump Says 'Viciousness' Toward President 'Blindsided' Her](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ivanka-trump-viciousness-interview_n_593e9761e4b0c5a35ca13a9d?y1c=&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009)** > > Really? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/3 "2017-06-12T17:33:23Z")
And the Senate Republicans [aren’t going to let people see their draft health care bill](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/senate-gop-bill-not-release-cbo-score), the one that the CBO will be scoring, because people might say mean things about it. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/4 "2017-06-12T17:37:18Z")
Fortunately, Trump has one place where he can create a space with enough praise for himself so that he can feel safe: [a meeting of his Cabinet.](http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/06/trump-leads-televised-praise-session-for-himself/) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/5 "2017-06-12T17:47:32Z")
I’d read the transcript, but there no way I’m watching footage of that asslicking parade. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/6 "2017-06-12T17:47:54Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Trumpelina is all in a tizzy about how gosh-darn MEAN people can be. > > [Ivanka Trump Says 'Viciousness' Toward President 'Blindsided' Her | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ivanka-trump-viciousness-interview_us_593e9761e4b0c5a35ca13a9d?y1c&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009) This is my favorite from that piece: > [@](#): > > “There is a level of viciousness that I was not expecting” - Ivanka Trump > > Really? Good thing some of us don’t have amnesia. [pic.twitter.com/NmURPEM8B7](https://twitter.com/NeilJacobs/status/874255459791904768/photo/1) > > — Neil Jacobs (@NeilJacobs) June 12, 2017 ETA: The pic is mildly NSFW, perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/7 "2017-06-12T17:58:04Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Trumpelina is all in a tizzy about how gosh-darn MEAN people can be. > > [Ivanka Trump Says 'Viciousness' Toward President 'Blindsided' Her | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ivanka-trump-viciousness-interview_us_593e9761e4b0c5a35ca13a9d?y1c&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009) In her little world everyone LOVES the emperor. If she could only read minds. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/8 "2017-06-12T18:02:27Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Fortunately, Trump has one place where he can create a space with enough praise for himself so that he can feel safe: [a meeting of his Cabinet.](http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/06/trump-leads-televised-praise-session-for-himself/) I can’t view videos at work. Highlights, please? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/9 "2017-06-12T18:13:34Z")
42 minutes of Trump pretending he’s the president in a room full of people too afraid to disagree with him. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/10 "2017-06-12T18:25:40Z")
I think I posted this before but worth repeating: [Mo Brooks flees “canceled” town hall](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/2/10/1632190/-Watch-a-GOP-Congressman-and-supporters-scatter-when-constituents-find-him-at-canceled-town-hall). He’s my representative, and my wife and I were planning to attend his town hall meeting. A few days before the event, he canceled it. Some of our friends went anyway and, surprise, he was there! But he ended the meeting as soon as word got out and more liberals started to show up. A few weeks later he held another [“public” meeting.](http://leftinalabama.com/al-05-mo-brooks-holds-public-meeting-for-tea-party-adds-media-to-his-list-of-fears/) But it was only open to Tea Party members. No media allowed. Incidentally, you may know him as the Congressman who said the new health care reform bill would [“[reduce] the cost to those people who lead good lives”](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mo-brooks-meadows-macarthur-amendment-cost-sicker-good-lives). He’s also now running for Jeff Sessions’ former Senate seat. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/11 "2017-06-12T20:14:15Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > 42 minutes of Trump pretending he’s the president in a room full of people too afraid to disagree with him. Even worse: most of them were apparently [almost creepy with the praise](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/06/12/trump-touts-amazing-progress-basks-in-praise-of-his-cabinet/?utm_term=.87720674c28b): > [@](#): > > “We thank you for the opportunity and blessing . . . to serve your agenda,” White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said in remarks that were echoed by other senior members of the administration. > > Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services, also lavished Trump with praise, saying “what an incredible honor it is” to lead his department “at this pivotal time under your leadership.” > > “I can’t thank you enough for the privileges you’ve given me and the leadership that you’ve shown,” Price said. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/12 "2017-06-12T21:56:10Z")
We have elected Idi Amin. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/13 "2017-06-12T22:23:35Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > We have elected Idi Amin. Does the short-fingered vulgarian keep the heads of his enemies in a Frigidaire? Next to his jeroboam of ketchup? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/14 "2017-06-12T22:23:38Z")
I seem to be running into a lot of this these days; 1\> Post something racist, islamophobic or otherwise derp. 2\> When I make a comment about it being that, I get told that I need to condemn whatever they were condemning in the article posted, as Silence Implies Assent! 3\> When I point out that I’m not being silent, they tell me I’m “squashing discussion”. So apparently, right wingers are such special snowflakes that they can only tolerate discussion of their ideas within the context of following the herd. I’m sure someone will be along shortly to say the same thing about the left. I don’t care, you’re the people screaming about ‘snowflakes’ and then being one. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/15 "2017-06-12T22:41:29Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I seem to be running into a lot of this these days; > > 1\> Post something racist, islamophobic or otherwise derp. > 2\> When I make a comment about it being that, I get told that I need to condemn whatever they were condemning in the article posted, as Silence Implies Assent! > 3\> When I point out that I’m not being silent, they tell me I’m “squashing discussion”. > > So apparently, right wingers are such special snowflakes that they can only tolerate discussion of their ideas within the context of following the herd. > > I’m sure someone will be along shortly to say the same thing about the left. I don’t care, you’re the people screaming about ‘snowflakes’ and then being one. Trump filed for the 2020 election almost as soon as he took office. Not only does that keep all that sweet donation cash rolling in(while he works out how to keep it) but his rallies are campaign rallies and he can control who gets in. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/16 "2017-06-12T23:12:08Z")
If Jim Comey had agreed to do this he would still have a job. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/17 "2017-06-12T23:25:08Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > I’ll start this off with a rousing cheer to our Snowflake-in-Chief! > > Apparently Britain [has to be a safe space](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/us/politics/trump-uk-visit.html) if Trump’s gonna go over there. Poor thing won’t go somewhere where there might be big protests, it might hurt his precious feelings. Poor baby! I thought he was s’posed to be the Tough Guy, the Alpha male, the best bad ass that ever was. What a fuckin’ pussy. I wish he’d go somewhere and STAY THERE. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/18 "2017-06-13T02:11:37Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Does the short-fingered vulgarian keep the heads of his enemies in a Frigidaire? Next to his jeroboam of ketchup? Since he can’t legally have real heads, he uses Mr. Potato Heads and labels them Clinton, Yates, Flynn, Bharara and Comley. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/19 "2017-06-13T02:35:11Z")
Sigh. He won, people. [Get over it.](http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/Clothahump/15401153_1007921692646526_8764059935336559599_n1_zpsr7i5a1et.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786/20 "2017-06-13T02:41:49Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Sigh. He won, people. [Get over it.](http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/Clothahump/15401153_1007921692646526_8764059935336559599_n1_zpsr7i5a1et.jpg) Is there anything that can come out of the investigations that would cause you to change your mind? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-republican-snowflake-thread/788786.md?page=2)