# The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 7, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070 "2016-12-07T00:25:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/21 "2016-12-07T14:55:32Z")
“Still better than that bitch Hillary,” croaked the blind mutant as he rummaged the still-smoking slag for a morsel of irradiated rat meat. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/22 "2016-12-07T15:00:32Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > “Still better than that bitch Hillary,” croaked the blind mutant as he rummaged the still-smoking slag for a morsel of irradiated rat meat. “Oh happy day! This is a mommy rat, with some yumsies wittle rat pups in her tummy!”—After the Bomb Chris Christie ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/23 "2016-12-07T15:53:23Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > … Circus Peanut-elect, … [Here ya go](http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2015/07/20/trump-b-1801_custom-fefb9a73f5d4a9d4386ba5d2ec259c656afec19c-s900-c85.jpg). ---
**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:** [December 7, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24 "2016-12-07T15:59:41Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Wall Street doesn’t agree with Thelma Lou. I thought Trump was supposed to stand up for the little guy against the fat cats on Wall Street? I guess that’s not going to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25 "2016-12-07T16:18:01Z")
Maybe we’ve been wrong about Trump. _Time_ just gave him Person of the Year. That’s a relief. They wouldn’t give that to an authoritarian or a white supremacist, surely. (Is _Time_ the “liberal media”? I’ve lost track of who’s in the club.) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26 "2016-12-07T16:20:04Z")
You know who else Time gave Man\* of the Year? 😃 \*It wasn’t “person” back then. ---
**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 7, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27 "2016-12-07T16:22:08Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > You know who else Time gave Man\* of the Year? 😃 > > \*It wasn’t “person” back then. Godwin? ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28 "2016-12-07T16:23:51Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > I also enjoy the ThemlaLou political threads. > > I am starting to look forward to a Trump presidency. I don’t support him, and I think he is incompetent, but I realize some things are going to go really bad and I’m eager to find out how they go bad. > > My fear is that after a year or so and Trump has not only not made anything better, but made things worse, his narcissism refuses to let him accept responsibility. So he looks for a scapegoat and his voters are eager to blame someone/anyone else for why Trump can’t make america great again. > > Not to sound melodramatic (it won’t be that bad here obviously) but in China after Mao totally fucked everything up in the 60s, and he was put out to pasture he got enraged and started the cultural revolution. I could see Trump and his followers trying something similar. Going on an angry rampage against academics, intellectuals, the media, liberals, minorities, republicans who do not fall in line, etc. because they will blame them for blocking progress on ‘making america great again’. When I say an angry rampage I’m sure there will be violence here and there but nothing that’ll shatter the fabric of society. Probably random shootings by right wing extremists combined with some government surveillance and oppression. > > I guess that is a major fear I have of a Trump presidency. He will encourage both legal repression and extra judicial violence against scapegoats when he is forced to confront that there are no easy answers to our problems. I share your fears. I’ve already had one now former friend, Trump supporter go ballistic on me because I would not agree with her that reason she may lose her medical insurance (obtainable only because of the Obama administration’s health care legislation) was because of the “liberals” and “media elites”. Apparently being calmly informed that while she is entitled to her own opinion, she is not entitled to her own facts was too much for the Trump train brain. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29 "2016-12-07T16:26:28Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > You know who else Time gave Man\* of the Year? Hmmm. Maybe. Was he an authoritarian and a white supremacist? ---
**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:** [December 7, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30 "2016-12-07T16:31:30Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > Hmmm. Maybe. Was he an authoritarian and a white supremacist? He was the archetype, the _uber_-supremacist. The leader. What the German word for that? I can’t remember. “Trump”? No. Help me out here. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/31 "2016-12-07T16:31:34Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > Hmmm. Maybe. Was he an authoritarian and a white supremacist? Naw. Just misunderstood by “the elite”. He was just making Germany Great Again! ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/32 "2016-12-07T16:38:32Z")
Oh, good, \*another \*Trump thread by ThelmaLou. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33 "2016-12-07T16:44:07Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > And his supporters are still in massive denial about the damage their candidate has already inflicted…and he’s not even President yet. :smack: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/aVlHZh5dvbA/maxresdefault.jpg "Whining Crying Rioting - Hillary Millennial Theme Song - Dana Kamide") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVlHZh5dvbA) ---
**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:** [December 7, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34 "2016-12-07T16:56:19Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Quantity can dilute quality. I’m all for free speech and posting what you wish. But every tiny thing being the end of the world or Hitler or racist or cheetoesque or whatever and impact is diminished to 0. I take your point, but to me it’s more like the [scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idle_UTEAvs)from Gone with the Wind, when Scarlett O’Hara goes to the train yard where the wounded soldiers have been laid out. It starts with a close-up of her walking among a few soldiers, but as the camera backs up and moves vertically up, the scene gets wider and wider until Scarlett is just a speck and the wounded [fill the entire movie screen.](http://media.jrn.com/images/gone2_8460066_ver1.0_640_480.jpg) I may post one or two articles every few days, but I’m choosing from among dozens and dozens in just the few publications that I read. The number of articles, opinion pieces, editorials, op-eds, letters to the editor expressing dismay and disgust at Trump’s behavior, etc. is vast. The stuff I post is (to coin a phrase) the tip of the iceberg… the iceberg that many (including me) fear the Ship of State is headed into. Will there be lifeboats for all? I think not. Like I said before, if you’re weary of reading the stuff I cite from elsewhere, don’t click into my threads. And I \*will \*try to cut back. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35 "2016-12-07T17:13:01Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Seriously. I’m about ready to petition the mods for a ThelmaLou Rule. Seconded, Either get a fucking blog or create an omnibus “ThelmaLou Bitches About Everything Donald Trump Might Do” thread rather than create a million threads all of which boil down to “I think Donald Trump is yukky” or shut the fuck up. Any of those three will do fine. You’re actually rivaling Reeder with your obsessive thread starting. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/36 "2016-12-07T17:37:04Z")
Last week’s SNL opening skit was a riff on how Trump can’t stop himself from tweeting. He promises to cut back, but then \<10 seconds later\> he’s tweeting again. That was pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37 "2016-12-07T18:08:18Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > He was the archetype, the _uber_-supremacist. The leader. What the German word for that? I can’t remember. “Trump”? No. Help me out here. I can’t remember either but he did stir up quite a furor. ---
**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:** [December 7, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38 "2016-12-07T18:39:48Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > Seconded, > > Either get a fucking blog or create an omnibus “ThelmaLou Bitches About Everything Donald Trump Might Do” thread rather than create a million threads all of which boil down to “I think Donald Trump is yukky” or shut the fuck up. Any of those three will do fine. > > You’re actually rivaling Reeder with your obsessive thread starting. Geez, keep talking like that and I’m going to stop paying you to read my threads. :rolleyes: But actually, that’s a good idea (I’m overlooking the unnecessarily rude tone). I’ll stop opening threads willy-nilly, and this will be my personal omnibus Trump thread, and you and the others who don’t like to read this stuff can avoid it like the plague. Deal? ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39 "2016-12-07T18:59:19Z")
Deal–I don’t care how much you talk about Trump, I care that the constant flow of new TRUMP!!! OUTRAGE!!! threads are killing any other BBQ Pit non-Trump content. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40 "2016-12-07T19:32:07Z")
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