# The snowflakes are out in force **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 19, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182 "2016-12-19T21:11:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/41 "2016-12-20T01:16:03Z")
Enough snowflakes and you get a blizzard. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/42 "2016-12-20T01:34:34Z")
I didn’t realize the SDMB had a cohort of mindless right-wing kool-aid drinkers. It really has declined over the years. Remember this day, because everyone will rue it, not only the rest of the world, but the blind Trumpites as well. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/43 "2016-12-20T01:53:21Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I think it was Georgia who managed to pretty much empty the state of illegal workers. > Many crops rotted in the fields that year. > Apparently, Americans _won’t_ work for $5 a day. Well how is it that able bodied people get state aid while jobs remain unfilled? How does that make sense other than to empower politicians who promise such aid? ---
**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:** [December 20, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/44 "2016-12-20T02:03:52Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Well how is it that able bodied people get state aid while jobs remain unfilled? How does that make sense other than to empower politicians who promise such aid? You seem to forget the growers don’t want to pay even minimum wage. The reason the crops went unpicked was the insanely low wages and (possibly) illegal working conditions. You got a cite for all those able bodied people on state aid? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/45 "2016-12-20T02:13:13Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I dunno, there’s plenty of room for disaster resulting from a winner who is corrupt, inexperienced and incompetent. I honestly fear for what this corrupt, pathological, narcissistic, inexperienced, incompetent nincompoop will do to this country. It’s so clear to me that he’s going to totally mishandle any situation that requires calm, deliberation, while lying to the US about what really is happening. We’ll never know as he screws us over. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/46 "2016-12-20T02:13:36Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Well how is it that able bodied people get state aid while jobs remain unfilled? How does that make sense other than to empower politicians who promise such aid? So do we require those employers using “illegal aliens” to employ State Aid recipients instead? Do we then require employers to pay the State Aid recipients the same amount that they would have received otherwise? Would the employers be able to pay that much? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/47 "2016-12-20T02:16:19Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > You got a cite for all those able bodied people on state aid? He’s counting the 2 - 8 year olds. Damn them, not one of them has a job. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/48 "2016-12-20T02:19:04Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > You seem to forget the growers don’t want to pay even minimum wage. > > The reason the crops went unpicked was the insanely low wages and (possibly) illegal working conditions. > > You got a cite for all those able bodied people on state aid? [http://www.serviceandinclusion.org/index.php?page=basic](http://www.serviceandinclusion.org/index.php?page=basic) [http://www.statisticbrain.com/welfare-statistics/](http://www.statisticbrain.com/welfare-statistics/) 24 million have a severe disability assuming 100% honesty. 49 million have some disability. We are a wrecked up nation it seems. 68 million receiving some form of welfare. Even if 100% of the severely disabled were on welfare that still leaves 44 million difference. 20 million difference if we count some form of disability. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/49 "2016-12-20T02:20:07Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > He’s counting the 2 - 8 year olds. Damn them, not one of them has a job. Don’t you have a rebellion to organize? ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/50 "2016-12-20T02:21:53Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > He’s counting the 2 - 8 year olds. Damn them, not one of them has a job. Hey, if Trump and his toadies in Congress can gut the EPA, Education, FDA, etc., he can kill the Fair Labor Standards Act. Easy-peasy. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/51 "2016-12-20T02:22:35Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > [http://www.serviceandinclusion.org/index.php?page=basic](http://www.serviceandinclusion.org/index.php?page=basic) > [http://www.statisticbrain.com/welfare-statistics/](http://www.statisticbrain.com/welfare-statistics/) > > 24 million have a severe disability assuming 100% honesty. > 49 million have some disability. We are a wrecked up nation it seems. > 68 million receiving some form of welfare. > > Even if 100% of the severely disabled were on welfare that still leaves 44 million difference. 20 million difference if we count some form of disability. Georgia has a population of 10.1million. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/52 "2016-12-20T02:30:06Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > [http://www.serviceandinclusion.org/index.php?page=basic](http://www.serviceandinclusion.org/index.php?page=basic) > [http://www.statisticbrain.com/welfare-statistics/](http://www.statisticbrain.com/welfare-statistics/) > > 24 million have a severe disability assuming 100% honesty. > 49 million have some disability. We are a wrecked up nation it seems. > 68 million receiving some form of welfare. > > Even if 100% of the severely disabled were on welfare that still leaves 44 million difference. 20 million difference if we count some form of disability. By the way, neither of those say how many are getting aid who are able-bodied. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/53 "2016-12-20T02:48:13Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > [Getting their last-minute whine on.](http://ijr.com/2016/12/759497-watch-how-leftists-react-when-wisconsins-10-presidential-electors-unanimously-vote-for-trump/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=owned&utm_campaign=ods&utm_term=ijamerica&utm_content=politcs) Please tell me, do you ever get up in the morning, and while you’re shaving, look at the face in the mirror and say to yourself, “You know, I seem to be angrier than most people. I wonder why that is?” ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/54 "2016-12-20T03:20:41Z")
President Trump is now the Grinch that stole the snowflakes’ Christmas. ETA: Hopefully both parties will have learned something going into the next presidential election. Both the republicans who couldn’t get their act together enough to bring someone competent to the polls and the democrats who put up the only woman in the party who couldn’t beat trump. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/55 "2016-12-20T04:18:57Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Please tell me, do you ever get up in the morning, and while you’re shaving, look at the face in the mirror and say to yourself, “You know, I seem to be angrier than most people. I wonder why that is?” He’s exactly as angry as all the people on right-wing radio tell him to be, and unfortunately for him he’s not smart enough to figure out how to change the station (turn the dial, you fucking retard!). ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/56 "2016-12-20T04:25:26Z")
Admittedly Hillary was a lousy choice, but I can not understand the “logic” of punishing the people who gave you a lousy choice by making an abysmal one, especially by people who purport to love their country. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/57 "2016-12-20T04:33:04Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > [Tell me about it](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/us/politics/political-divide-on-campuses-hardens-after-trumps-victory.html). Libruls are such woosies. I thought THEY thought that safe spaces and political correctness was for the OTHER guys, you know, the pussies and whiners. Meh. The Wisconsin recount says Trump won the state. So he won the state. End of story. But whining about whining is par for the course. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/58 "2016-12-20T04:34:46Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > That’s because you’re a fucking troll. Ding ding ding we have a winner! ---
**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:** [December 20, 2016, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/59 "2016-12-20T04:35:56Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Georgia has a population of 10.1million. That’s lovely. And not disabled means what? If you can subtract you can figure out difference. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182/60 "2016-12-20T04:36:05Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > How is that different than the Tea Party showing up to congressional speeches? Because those are HIS whiners [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-snowflakes-are-out-in-force/775182.md?page=4)