# Will I give Donald Trump a chance? Pit version! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 19, 2017, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-give-donald-trump-a-chance-pit-version/777532 "2017-01-19T10:00:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-give-donald-trump-a-chance-pit-version/777532/41 "2017-01-19T21:54:21Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > My suggestion that all flags fly at half-staff throughout CA on 1/20/2017 was rejected. or ignored, by my state. And they say they listen to us. “Listen” and “comply” are different. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-give-donald-trump-a-chance-pit-version/777532/42 "2017-01-19T22:04:13Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Could be raining! 🙂 If only that would help… All we are Saying, is Give Piss A Chance…! ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-give-donald-trump-a-chance-pit-version/777532/43 "2017-01-19T22:07:35Z")
Sure, why not? I’ve given him a couple of hundred already, so what’s one more? I’m not holding my breath that the outcome is going to be different this time, though. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-give-donald-trump-a-chance-pit-version/777532/44 "2017-01-19T22:40:01Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > If only that would help… > All we are Saying, > is Give Piss A Chance…! Visualize Whirled Piss. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-give-donald-trump-a-chance-pit-version/777532/45 "2017-01-19T22:41:10Z")
America is the frog and trump is the scorpion ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-give-donald-trump-a-chance-pit-version/777532/46 "2017-01-19T22:57:08Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Visualize Whirled Piss. I think that there’s a good chance of rain. Yeah… I heard people say that happened when they crucified Jesus too… So, do we know anybody who could open a bag of marbles on the stage during the swearing in? That and if only Justice Roberts could pull up the bible at the last minute as they are floundering on stage and say, [Little Rascals]“No, Boys! Not. You.”[/Little Rascals] ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-give-donald-trump-a-chance-pit-version/777532/47 "2017-01-19T23:31:09Z")
I gave him a chance after the election. Then he said another arms race would be fun!!!1!1! He lost it ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-give-donald-trump-a-chance-pit-version/777532/48 "2017-01-20T02:17:58Z")
> [@Donald\_Rump](#): > > Now, obstructing Trump may well be best for the _country_. But I’m not sure it’s best for the Democratic party winning elections. It worked for the Republicans, dinnit? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-give-donald-trump-a-chance-pit-version/777532/49 "2017-01-20T05:01:27Z")
> [@Donald\_Rump](#): > > Politically speaking, I’m not sure that’s true. If Dems make a public show of going along with Trump in the manner you described–“We don’t like your idea, but we’ll give it a chance out of respect and open-mindedness”–and everything goes to shit, who gets more pummeled electorally? Dems get to take the high ground and say, “We genuinely tried it your way, it was a disaster, now it’s our turn.” On the contrary; they’ll look weak and ineffectual and their own supporters will stay home, just as they did last election. Why vote for a doormat? Why support the Democrats if they keep caving in to the Republicans, like they have for decades? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-give-donald-trump-a-chance-pit-version/777532/50 "2017-01-20T18:57:30Z")
The main chance I’m giving him is to not replace Scalia with another textualist nor someone even more conservative. Though, ironically, once he does that, I have absolutely zero use for him, and would prefer he be removed from office. Even if he wanted to be good, I don’t think he could accomplish it. He just has no skills in that area, and he’s put a lot of not-so-good people in power who would run over him if he tried. Still, if he could actually turn good, I’d consider him a person and start caring about his well being. Right now, I want him hurt in whatever way I am still allowed to express on this board. ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-give-donald-trump-a-chance-pit-version/777532/51 "2017-01-20T19:05:20Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > To do what? > > Rape me like a 13-year-old girl being held captive on one of his buddies’ boats? > Do to the infrastructure of even more of this country what was done to Flint, Michigan? > Turn himself into a sort of funhouse-mirror Hugo Chavez? You know, without even the love for the common man. > Remove the senior officials of the entire government and replace them with his sycophants? > Proceed then to loot the whole country? > Possibly, maybe, who knows, open the country to invasion and nuclear devastation by his ‘friends’ in Russia while he tries to stop even the military from defending us? > > He is a mobster and a monster; and worse, he is an old man with the mind of a spoiled child, a true American psycho. Giving him a chance is asking to be assaulted and robbed. It’s national suicide. > > And worse even then that, the monstering horror that pretends to be the Grand Old Party is chasing a twisted mash-up of apocalyptic Christianity and the joking motto that, “He who dies with the most toys wins.” They will burn and poison this country that they may turn to Jesus H. Cthulhu when he ascends from R’lyeh and show that they have almost all the golden talents like good and faithful servants, so surely they should get even more. Damned fools the lot. > > No, sir, we are at war so long as both this administration of dunces and this party of devils share power. You are an idiot. Slee ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-give-donald-trump-a-chance-pit-version/777532/52 "2017-01-20T23:47:50Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > He has a four year chance whether I want to give it to him or not. > > If you’re asking me to withhold any criticism for his actions just because he’s new – then, no. Of course not because those actions will still affect the nation (and me). This. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-give-donald-trump-a-chance-pit-version/777532.md?page=2)