# The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making Part Deux (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083 "2020-06-22T03:36:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 294
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5880 "2020-11-05T01:34:22Z")
OK, I memed it. > ---
**Author:** ![Ziberian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/919ad9/32.png) [@Ziberian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ziberian)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5881 "2020-11-05T01:50:19Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > That’s undeniably true. There is some large fraction of all humans who are attracted to bullies. > > The aspect that no one predicted before 2015 was that they could be attracted to a bully who is clearly insecure and cowardly. “Stupid” was okay—born-toadies have toadied for stupid bullies before. But before Trump, no one knew that absurdly incompetent bullies could attract toadies. Every bully I’ve ever met is insecure and cowardly – it’s the underlying cause for the bullying, trying to be brave and tough in all the wrong ways. Those attracted to bullies are insecure cowards who just don’t quite have the balls to **be** a bully so they can only satellite around them. It somewhat explains why these folks genuinely believe Trump is a tough guy, because compared to them, he is. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5882 "2020-11-05T02:19:31Z")
Good meme. You could also work with “Under the Goldwater Rule, psychologists aren’t allowed to say it–but they can think it.” ---
**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:** [November 5, 2020, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5883 "2020-11-05T02:32:00Z")
all i can say is that I am very proud of our men and women in the deep state - if it weren’t for them, we’d be well and truly fucked. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5884 "2020-11-05T04:45:22Z")
> [@simster](#): > > all i can say is that I am very proud of our men and women in the deep state SHH! The first rule of the deep state is - don’t talk about the deep state! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5885 "2020-11-05T05:22:31Z")
Yeah, I just applied for a job there, and right on the application it says that if I work for DS•inc. (dba The Deep State), they want a 2-yr. commitment, and they warned me that I can’t tell anyone, and that I will have a two year gap in my resume. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5886 "2020-11-05T13:15:41Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Good meme. You could also work with “Under the Goldwater Rule, psychologists aren’t allowed to say it–but they can think it.” Under the rules due to go into effect if the Clusterfuck continues, no one is allowed to think. Period. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5887 "2020-11-05T13:28:02Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > SHH! The first rule of the deep state is - don’t talk about the deep state! Well, I for one, wish to register a complaint. I voted for the first time in my life Democratic for president and I have yet to see my check from George Soros. ---
**Author:** ![SoToasty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sotoasty/32/2803_2.png) [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5888 "2020-11-05T13:37:19Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Well, I for one, wish to register a complaint. I voted for the first time in my life Democratic for president and I have yet to see my check from George Soros. If I may channel my inner Republican… “You can see it in two weeks.” Now, please come back every week for the next four years and re-read this post. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5889 "2020-11-05T13:40:01Z")
It’s the one with the Ovaltine decoder ring enclosed, right? ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5890 "2020-11-05T15:15:59Z")
I did not know that. ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5891 "2020-11-05T15:47:28Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > In 2020 he is no longer an unknown. Yet 60+ million people want four more years of this unrelenting shitstorm. I cannot fathom it. I do not know this country any more. No kidding. Women, Hispanics, Blacks and LGBQT endured four years of his personal state-sanctioned scorn, and he _increased_ his support from all these groups. [https://www.essence.com/news/politics/55-percent-white-women-trump-election-2020/](https://www.essence.com/news/politics/55-percent-white-women-trump-election-2020/) I honestly don’t want to live in the US any more. We are not the country I was told we are in school, not even close. I’m beginning to think the pandemic might be a good thing, god help me. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5892 "2020-11-05T15:54:13Z")
> [@bobsmom101](#): > > I honestly don’t want to live in the US any more. We are not the country I was told we are in school, not even close. I’m beginning to think the pandemic might be a good thing, god help me. Unless your school ignored slavery, the extermination of indigenous people, the Civil War, Jim Crow laws, voter suppression and gerrymandering, laws against inter-racial marriages, the legalization of hate/discrimination against LGBTQ+ peoples, anti-immigration, and white nationalism, this election should not come as a surprise at all. And you should not be surprised at all that this kind of willful ignorance and hate is the true face of the Republican party. ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5893 "2020-11-05T16:09:48Z")
Also internment of Japanese Americans in WWII. Yeah, I know we’ve done some awful things. But I always believed we acknowledged the wrongs and aspired to do better, you know, “with liberty and justice for all.” At least half of us are not trying to right past wrongs, but are actively supporting those who would create new ones. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5894 "2020-11-05T16:21:05Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Unless your school ignored slavery, the extermination of indigenous people, the Civil War, Jim Crow laws, voter suppression and gerrymandering, laws against inter-racial marriages, the legalization of hate/discrimination against LGBTQ+ peoples, anti-immigration, and white nationalism, this election should not come as a surprise at all. My schools implied (or stated) that these were things our great country overcame and put behind us. (other the LGBTQ issues, which weren’t in the textbooks when I was in school) I’m also gravely disappointed in my fellow citizens. I live in a nice area, and don’t interact with any known Trump voters, so I think I’ll just do what I can for my family and community and try to ignore the enormous mass of bigotry and ignorance that surrounds us. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5895 "2020-11-05T16:27:48Z")
I was so disgusted with the human race yesterday that I could barely speak to anyone, but then I found out that in this red state, our county was one of the few that went blue. About 2/3 of the people I come in contact with are probably _not_ deplorables. I’m holding on to that. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5896 "2020-11-05T16:28:57Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > My schools implied (or stated) that these were things our great country overcame and put behind us. “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5897 "2020-11-05T17:26:12Z")
I’ve been hearing news anchors say that Joe Biden has received more votes for president than anyone else in American history. That implies that more people voted against Donald Trump than anyone else in American history. Take such consolation as you will from that fact. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5898 "2020-11-05T17:29:59Z")
Counting the ways Trump is turning America into a shithole country… > ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5899 "2020-11-05T17:38:47Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’ve been hearing news anchors say that Joe Biden has received more votes for president than anyone else in American history. > > That implies that more people voted against Donald Trump than anyone else in American history. Take such consolation as you will from that fact. Yeah, but in this election Trump has also received more votes for president than anyone in American history except Joe Biden and Barack Obama, and he’s a pretty good shot to surpass Obama’s 2008 tally by the times counting is over. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=293) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=295)