# The REAL victim in Charlottesville **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 23, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455 "2017-08-23T13:09:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/21 "2017-08-23T19:54:12Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Huey Logan wrote: “OH MY GOD!!! TRUMP IS JUST LIKE SADDAM HUSSEIN!!!” > > Have you ever seen them together? Don’t be silly. Saddam had full head of rich, luxurious hair. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/22 "2017-08-23T20:26:04Z")
With all the crazy things Trump said last night, this one seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle. > [@](#): > > The media can attack me. But where I draw the line is when they attack you, which is what they do. When they attack the decency of our supporters. See, Trump doesn’t really mind when the media goes after him. He’s got thick skin. It’s like water off a duck’s back. It’s when the media goes after his supporters that he takes offense. He delivered that line like he believed it, and the audience applauded like they believed it. It’s as if no one in the room was there for the entire rest of the speech. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/23 "2017-08-23T20:31:57Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > With all the crazy things Trump said last night, this one seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle. > > See, Trump doesn’t really mind when the media goes after him. He’s got thick skin. It’s like water off a duck’s back. It’s when the media goes after his supporters that he takes offense. > > **He delivered that line like he believed it, and the audience applauded like they believed it. It’s as if no one in the room was there for the entire rest of the speech.** Or for the last two years. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/24 "2017-08-23T20:42:43Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > …snip… > He delivered that line like he believed it, and the audience applauded like they believed it. It’s as if no one in the room was there for the entire rest of the speech. That’s been a standard thing for a while. He contradicts himself constantly, sometimes as quickly as two consecutive sentences. He’ll throw out multiple defenses against an accusation that are mutually exclusive (and all lies). His acolytes choose the one they like and ignore the rest. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2017, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/25 "2017-08-23T20:56:09Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > Do you suppose the REAL victim in Charlottesville has heard of Wittgenstein? If Trump ever heard anyone refer to Wittgenstein, he probably figured he was some NRA guy. You know, Vit “Gun” Stein. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/26 "2017-08-23T21:03:14Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > That’s been a standard thing for a while. He contradicts himself constantly, sometimes as quickly as two consecutive sentences. He’ll throw out multiple defenses against an accusation that are mutually exclusive (and all lies). His acolytes choose the one they like and ignore the rest. Like spaghetti; he throws everything at the wall and hopes some of it will stick. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/27 "2017-08-23T22:20:51Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > With all the crazy things Trump said last night, this one seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle. > > See, Trump doesn’t really mind when the media goes after him. He’s got thick skin. It’s like water off a duck’s back. It’s when the media goes after his supporters that he takes offense. > > He delivered that line like he believed it, and the audience applauded like they believed it. It’s as if no one in the room was there for the entire rest of the speech. But but but You don’t even have to attack him, all you have to do is not kiss his ass well enough. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/28 "2017-08-23T22:30:50Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Wittgenstein never heard of the Dope. But if he had, he’d talked the whole time about it. ---
**Author:** ![Renz\_Medicinal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Renz\_Medicinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renz_Medicinal)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/29 "2017-08-23T23:17:45Z")
I think the only victim is General Lee and those who admire him. They could transfer the statue to West Point at least. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/30 "2017-08-24T00:21:41Z")
To those who came by this post in BBQ, I originally posted this in MPSIMS. I wasn’t trying to slip this is in or hide my intentions. I couldn’t rev myself up for a full BBQ post so I posted a quick link in MPSIMS. Loach’s swipe at me was regrettable but nothing I’m going to die on a hill about. As far as MPSIMS posts go it was par for the course. Trump is a dick and the link speaks for itself. It’s not like he doesn’t have a history of this shit. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/31 "2017-08-24T17:44:34Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > To those who came by this post in BBQ, I originally posted this in MPSIMS. I wasn’t trying to slip this is in or hide my intentions. I couldn’t rev myself up for a full BBQ post so I posted a quick link in MPSIMS. Loach’s swipe at me was regrettable but nothing I’m going to die on a hill about. As far as MPSIMS posts go it was par for the course. Trump is a dick and the link speaks for itself. It’s not like he doesn’t have a history of this shit. If you want to discuss it further feel free to take it to ATMB. What I said wasn’t a swipe nor was it intended to be. Your OP was a rant. A brief one but a rant. It belonged here where such things go. No more or less. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/32 "2017-08-24T17:47:56Z")
> [@Renz\_Medicinal](#): > > I think the only victim is General Lee and those who admire him. They could transfer the statue to West Point at least. Somehow I don’t think Lee thought too much of or about statues either. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/33 "2017-08-24T18:02:56Z")
Also he’s dead now. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/34 "2017-08-24T18:09:58Z")
> [@lemur866](#): > > also he’s dead now. huge if true ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/35 "2017-08-24T18:13:14Z")
His legacy will be forever honored in _Dukes of Hazzard_ reruns. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/36 "2017-08-24T18:16:42Z")
> [@HeweyLogan](#): > > I love that the article after the one quoted above is “Donald Trump’s Mansions and Saddam Hussein’s Palaces Are Basically the Same” > > OH MY GOD!!! TRUMP IS JUST LIKE SADDAM HUSSEIN!!! > > LOL. > > It doesn’t help much that they show a picture of essentially two grand staircase that… really don’t look alike. > > [Donald Trump’s Mansions and Saddam Hussein’s Palaces Are Basically the | Vanity Fair](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/photos/2016/03/donald-trump-mansions-saddam-hussein-palaces) > > Thanks for the laugh Lucas. I did not know that Saddam Hussein had much better taste than Donald Trump, not that that’s a high bar. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/37 "2017-08-24T18:34:10Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > I did not know that Saddam Hussein had much better taste than Donald Trump, not that that’s a high bar. Better hair, too. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/38 "2017-08-24T18:36:16Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Better hair, too. Saddam wasn’t a customer at Don Jon’s Turf Shop. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/39 "2017-08-24T18:45:51Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > I did not know that Saddam Hussein had much better taste than Donald Trump, not that that’s a high bar. > [@running\_coach](#): > > Better hair, too. Well, of course Saddam had better hair – if anyone had tried to sell _him_ a toupee weaved from human ass hairs, they would have ended up as a minesweeper on the Iranian front. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/40 "2017-08-24T18:47:25Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > His legacy will be forever honored in _Dukes of Hazzard_ reruns. We should all get a legacy like that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455.md?page=3)