# To Trump haters - how would YOU have responded to this? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 24, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-haters-how-would-you-have-responded-to-this/778008 "2017-01-24T03:23:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-haters-how-would-you-have-responded-to-this/778008/41 "2017-01-24T17:47:26Z")
After working as a volunteer police officer, I view anything like that as akin to a domestic dispute. It’s dangerous to step into any confrontation, even in a controlled space like an aircraft. Different story if a weapon appears, but an argument on a plane is an airline crew problem. I do disagree with whomever was out of control. It’s uncivilized and uncalled for, regardless of your beliefs. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-haters-how-would-you-have-responded-to-this/778008/42 "2017-01-24T18:30:16Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Then I’d probably go back to browsing Trump-branded products in _SkyMall_. Trump Q-Tips: “I know what you do with these. It’s disgusting. I don’t want to talk about it.” ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-haters-how-would-you-have-responded-to-this/778008/43 "2017-01-25T17:25:22Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Trump Q-Tips: “I know what you do with these. It’s disgusting. I don’t want to talk about it.” Or he could sell tampons- “To remove, grab them by your pussy” ---
**Author:** ![El\_Famous\_Burrito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_famous_burrito/32/3954_2.png) [@El\_Famous\_Burrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Famous_Burrito)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-haters-how-would-you-have-responded-to-this/778008/44 "2017-01-25T18:38:25Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Yup. I tend to not want to lock myself in a crowded tube for several hours, 39,000 feet up in the air with absolutely no means of safe escape, with _anyone_ who’s going to be a disruptive, combative blowhard, no matter where they fall on the political spectrum or how much might I agree with them or not. Indeed. Look, I’m a full-fledged Trump hater myself, but given the following two options… 1. Be on a plane in which every other passenger was a Trump supporter behaving _quietly_; or 2. Be on a plane in which **any** other passenger was a Trump hater behaving _loudly_… I would happily choose option #1 every time. The Trump hater needn’t even be combative to bother me. Simply being loud – even espousing points on which I might agree – makes one an unwelcome co-passenger. As reported a couple years ago in America’s Finest News Source™: [Report: It’s Not Okay To Just Start Talking To People You Don’t Know](http://www.theonion.com/article/report-its-not-okay-to-just-start-talking-to-peopl-29610) (And that fake report is out of Stanford, so you _know_ it’s good.) ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-haters-how-would-you-have-responded-to-this/778008/45 "2017-01-25T18:42:39Z")
1. The election is so over that the inauguration has taken place. 2. This is an opinion poll, not a debate or discussion. Please pay attention to to the fora in which to post. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-haters-how-would-you-have-responded-to-this/778008/46 "2017-01-25T19:19:53Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > They don’t really believe that God stopped it from raining because He loves Trump so much? That’s just something the Democratic Underground comment section made up, right? I’m needing some reassurance here. Trump was apparently first to claim that God had stopped it raining: > [@](#): > > Claim 1: “The crowd was unbelievable today. I looked at the rain, which just never came, you know, we finished the speech, went inside, it poured then we came outside,” he said. “The helicopter scene was an incredible scene, and then, amazingly it rained—like God was looking down on us.” > Reality: The rain started as Mr Trump began his inauguration speech, as he acknowledged the next day during a speech at CIA headquarters. > > …Claim 4: “The rain should have scared them away. But God looked down and he said, ‘We’re not going to let it rain on your speech.’ In fact, when I first started I said, “Oh no.” First line, I got hit by a couple of drops. And I said, ‘Oh, this is, this is too bad, but we’ll go right through it.’ But the truth is that it stopped immediately. It was amazing. And then it became really sunny, and then I walked off and it poured right after I left.” > Reality: The rain did not stop immediately, leading former President George W Bush to don a plastic poncho. The sun remained behind the clouds following Mr Trump’s speech. > **[Here are all the lies Donald Trump has told since becoming president](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-us-president-false-claims-inauguration-white-house-sean-spicer-kellyanen-conway-press-conference-a7541171.html)** > > They're adding up ---
**Author:** ![gopachok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@gopachok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gopachok)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-haters-how-would-you-have-responded-to-this/778008/47 "2017-01-26T09:56:15Z")
This video is great on so many levels… The old liberal cunt, eternally pissed off at having to go through life with those mosquito bite titties… The thoroughly beaten husband who is actually just as liberal as his wife, but who wishes she would just shut the fuck up for a minute for once… Every man married to a chick like that looks like that. He’s just sitting there, totally defeated by a lifetime of squawking. She starts her rant and he just resigns himself to waiting it out. He’s gone through this thousands of times before. Even though he agrees with every word she is saying, he is still wishing she would shut the fuck up. But he knows this will never happen. … The “Finger over the Nuclear Button” is verbatim the line the liberal scum used against Reagan back in the 80s… The sense of absolute entitlement (“he’s in my space, he must move his seat”, she tells the stewardess)… The immediate playing of the victim card (the old “His mother just died!” trick), as soon as she realizes they’ll be kicked off the plane… “Gravity is just a theory. DID YOU KNOW That?” Well, dummy, you just proved that gravity kept your ass grounded at the airport… The tolerant liberal husband completely ignoring the female deputy request to get the fuck out, but complying immediately, when the male officers orders him to do the same thing… The middle finger the old cunt flips, as soon as she hears “USA” chant… The applauding passengers, when these liberal douchebags are kicked off the plane (the silent majority does stand with Trump)… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-haters-how-would-you-have-responded-to-this/778008/48 "2017-01-26T10:49:14Z")
Cool story, bro. > [@gopachok](#): > > (the silent majority does stand with Trump)… And yet the voting majority (well, plurality) stood with Clinton. Anyway, the moral of the story remains: don’t be a dick on airplanes. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-haters-how-would-you-have-responded-to-this/778008/49 "2017-01-26T13:29:29Z")
I would’ve been tempted to say something like “Ma’am, would you STFU so your nasty little scene doesn’t delay the flight?”, but I can’t imagine that defusing the situation. Sadly, I probably wouldn’t have been quick enough on the trigger to take a cellphone video, like that time at an infectious diseases conference when a presenter got into a shouting match (and near fistfight) with an audience member in the front row). ☹ ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-haters-how-would-you-have-responded-to-this/778008/50 "2017-01-26T13:40:35Z")
> [@gopachok](#): > > This video is great on so many levels… > > The old liberal cunt, eternally pissed off at having to go through life with those mosquito bite titties… > The thoroughly beaten husband who is actually just as liberal as his wife, but who wishes she would just shut the fuck up for a minute for once… Every man married to a chick like that looks like that. He’s just sitting there, totally defeated by a lifetime of squawking. She starts her rant and he just resigns himself to waiting it out. He’s gone through this thousands of times before. Even though he agrees with every word she is saying, he is still wishing she would shut the fuck up. But he knows this will never happen. … > The “Finger over the Nuclear Button” is verbatim the line the liberal scum used against Reagan back in the 80s… > The sense of absolute entitlement (“he’s in my space, he must move his seat”, she tells the stewardess)… > The immediate playing of the victim card (the old “His mother just died!” trick), as soon as she realizes they’ll be kicked off the plane… > “Gravity is just a theory. DID YOU KNOW That?” Well, dummy, you just proved that gravity kept your ass grounded at the airport… > The tolerant liberal husband completely ignoring the female deputy request to get the fuck out, but complying immediately, when the male officers orders him to do the same thing… > The middle finger the old cunt flips, as soon as she hears “USA” chant… > The applauding passengers, when these liberal douchebags are kicked off the plane (the silent majority does stand with Trump)… Now, we’ve talked about this, remember? You have to put all the checkers neatly back in the box, or you won’t get any banana pudding at break time. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-haters-how-would-you-have-responded-to-this/778008/51 "2017-01-26T13:49:10Z")
I’d keep out of the way and let the trained professionals deal with it - regardless what the nutty ranting idiot was saying and regardless of its notional alignment, or otherwise, to my own views. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-haters-how-would-you-have-responded-to-this/778008/52 "2017-01-26T14:10:49Z")
I would have turned up the volume in my ear buds and gone back to reading my book. I mean, do I look like a friggin stewardess to you? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-haters-how-would-you-have-responded-to-this/778008/53 "2017-01-26T15:30:46Z")
Well… maybe a little. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-haters-how-would-you-have-responded-to-this/778008/54 "2017-01-26T16:28:45Z")
Let’s see him in the heels and skirt first before we decide. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-haters-how-would-you-have-responded-to-this/778008/55 "2017-01-26T16:41:59Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Let’s see him in the heels and skirt first before we decide. I’ve seen him in heels and a pencil skirt. 4 out of 10. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-trump-haters-how-would-you-have-responded-to-this/778008.md?page=2)