# US-Americans, I Pit you! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 4, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-americans-i-pit-you/924745 "2020-11-04T13:49:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-americans-i-pit-you/924745/181 "2020-11-07T20:41:31Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > I’m looking forward to a boring administration and not wondering what damn fool, dangerous and destructive thing the President said\*. I know you’re not advocating for complacency here… I too am glad not to worry about Trump’s booger-picking finger on the nuclear button every day. But the problem was more than Trump. Senate Repubs need to be under the microscope more than ever. The judiciary needs to be under the microscope. They’ve proven they are dangerous partisans who value nothing but power. McConnell is probably breathing a sigh of relief today. Don’t let him. They’ll be even more dangerous if we take our eye off them. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-americans-i-pit-you/924745/182 "2020-11-07T21:07:05Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Half the voters in America apparently are happy to support white supremacy in exchange for a tax cut, or just for its own sake. Oh, they would be happy without the tax cut. It’s not like the overwhelming vast majority of his voters actually benefited from it. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-americans-i-pit-you/924745/183 "2020-11-07T21:10:33Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Donald Trump serves us Red Bull – WAY too much Red Bull. More like Four Loco, before they got rid of the caffeine. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-americans-i-pit-you/924745/184 "2020-11-07T21:51:43Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Oh, they would be happy without the tax cut. > > It’s not like the overwhelming vast majority of his voters actually benefited from it. Well yeah, but remember, they’re “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”. Joe the Plumber thinks the reason he isn’t a millionaire is because billionaires have to pay 41% on their billionth dollar, otherwise it would surely be trickling directly into his pocket. ---
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-americans-i-pit-you/924745/185 "2020-11-08T15:59:31Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > I Pit you all, one half of you for voting for this monster, the other half for letting it happen. If the other half is so ignorant, why did you not educate them? If the other half is so stupid, how could they outsmart you? How could you let them cheat you? Gerrymander you? Vote supress you? Sure. Blame the victim. “Why don’t you educate him that beating you up isn’t nice?” “Why can’t you outsmart him and trick him into not beating you?” “How could you let him kick you, punch you, slap you?” IOW, what did you do to deserve your beating? Democrats always have to be the good ones. The perfect ones. And they don’t just get it from the right, either. And just like battered spouses, whenever a Republican is sort of nice to them, they fall all over them. BTW, I have no idea how to defeat them except just keep getting out the vote and hope we can get enough numbers to reverse some of the gerrymandering and destroy the EC. Otherwise, we’re stuck with this forever. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-americans-i-pit-you/924745/186 "2020-11-08T16:12:51Z")
> [@Tfletch1](#): > > And just like battered spouses, whenever a Republican is sort of nice to them, they fall all over them. And unlike battered spouses, there is no recourse. There are no shelters for battered citizens, there is no divorce court, there are no restraining orders to be had. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-americans-i-pit-you/924745/187 "2020-11-09T00:14:46Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > Appeal to the caveman brain that apparently controls half of America… They want to see strength. At least let our strength be guided by intelligence, unlike the last four years. I hold myself as uniquely qualified to comment on this. We are Noble Savages, we cavemen! ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-americans-i-pit-you/924745/189 "2020-11-12T13:18:23Z")
I say broad, non-specific, overly bland statements should be left to Meyer-Briggs or the daily horoscope. ETA: Or poorly designed bots, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-americans-i-pit-you/924745/190 "2020-11-12T20:00:54Z")
The Cheeto-Faced Extraterrestrial-Ferret-Wearing ShitGibbon has been credibly accused of sexual assault, possibly even actual rape, and yet, somehow, the nation is taken off guard to find that he is trying to force himself upon us. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-americans-i-pit-you/924745/191 "2020-11-12T21:07:27Z")
Yes, that is why I Pit this nation. Well, I am growing soft in my old age: [Greg Palast](https://www.gregpalast.com/) is OK. There are good ones, granted. Too few and far between, and too powerless, unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-americans-i-pit-you/924745/192 "2020-11-12T21:43:22Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Too few and far between 75 million and counting. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-americans-i-pit-you/924745/193 "2020-11-12T21:45:57Z")
Yes, and 7 Million disenfranchised, and they got away with it. No wonder they refuse to concede: it is unbelievable. They should have won, they stole it fair and square! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-americans-i-pit-you/924745.md?page=9)