# Would you vote for Donald Trump for POTUS? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 17, 2015, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054 "2015-08-17T06:08:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/281 "2015-08-23T12:08:49Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > You appeared to respond to it in all seriousness. > > You also appeared to not comprehend the meaning of “whoosh.” I recognized all the words in Trinopus’s post, but still can’t tease out a meaning from “King hell of the whooshes.” Especially since the joke was a rather lame on, and not a big whoosh. Is there a typo in there? And extra word? > [@Colibri](#): > > If you understood it was a joke, your responses were idiotic. I ignored the fact that there was an attempt at a joke and made a simple correction that took less than 30 seconds. If you want to call that idiotic, knock yourself out. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/282 "2015-08-23T12:14:27Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > Maybe you’re just ribbing but I meant tje women he FUCKS. So, you mean half the population if he became president, amirite, guys? ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/283 "2015-08-23T12:16:47Z")
[https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=parsec&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=parsec&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) Han Solo said it. Or am I missing the actual “Joke?” ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/284 "2015-08-23T12:26:31Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > [parsec - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=parsec&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) > Han Solo said it. Or am I missing the actual “Joke?” I think we both are. Because it wasn’t very funny. I googled “Kessel run” when I saw it, and saw that it was a Star Wars reference. I didn’t see it as being funny or insulting, or some kind of whoosh, so I just ignored the attempt at humor and made the simple correction. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/285 "2015-08-23T12:40:55Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > I think we both are. Because it wasn’t very funny. I googled “Kessel run” when I saw it, and saw that it was a Star Wars reference. I didn’t see it as being funny or insulting, or some kind of whoosh, so I just ignored the attempt at humor and made the simple correction. Knock, knock. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/286 "2015-08-23T12:53:22Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Knock, knock. (This is where _you_ say, “who’s there”. Then _I_ reply, “shut the fuck up”. You then retort that that’s not the way the joke typically goes, providing cites from [JokeTheory101.com](http://JokeTheory101.com). Then someone else replies, “Just shut the fuck up”. _You_ then start another thread asking what just happened.) ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/287 "2015-08-23T14:37:35Z")
I’m just skimming and am afraid I’ve lost the thread of the thread. Is the claim that Don Trump is like Han So-Low (their names have the same number of letters) and is going to save us from the Evil Libtard Empire? Anyway, he’s got my vote. 🙂 ETA: > [@kayaker](#): > > [JokeTheory101.com](http://JokeTheory101.com) BTW, did you know the word [Gullible](http://gullible.com/) is not in the dictionary? ---
**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:** [August 23, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/288 "2015-08-23T15:11:40Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > I don’t know anyone who supports him who IS a stupid asshole. > > But I do know a lot of stupid assholes who don’t. 😉 So you don’t support him? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/289 "2015-08-23T15:16:15Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > Of course, [Trump never said the “lazy blacks bit”](http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fusion-misattributes-racist-quote-to-donald-trump/article/2567872). As usual, you only get half the story. Read the Playboy interview where Trump didn’t deny making the statement. You have something in common with Trump other than the first letter of your name. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/290 "2015-08-23T15:53:34Z")
Would I vote for Donald Trump for President of the United States? - Only if I was anxious for the world to end. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/291 "2015-08-23T15:56:43Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Of course, that would include many of the republicans in the SDMB that already told you that you are indeed supporting an asshole. I wouldn’t usually describe him as an asshole. I might say: - ego-maniacal, narcissistic demagogue - shit flinging monkey screeching incoherently from his tree penthouse - prolapsed rectum of a man spewing angry verbal diarrhea - poster child for the toxic leaders club - coarse, vulgar, classless, trucker hat wearing fucktard - populist anger troll It’s best not to confuse Trump with the garden variety, common asshole. > [@](#): > > Keep up the good work of pushing many members of the GOP into becoming the future voters for the coming Democratic presidential candidate. Don’t overstate the effect as applying regardless of who the Republican nominee is. Sanders, for my politics, would likely be the worst candidate the Democrats gave the nomination to since I started voting. He even spends time dangling his legs in the same angry populism pool Trump inhabits. Trump just did the full on belly flop in the deep end and doesn’t seem to want to ever get out. Watching the Trump fiasco, assuming he doesn’t get the nomination, isn’t enough to not make a rational choice based on who’s actually on the general election ballot. Trump bad != GOP bad or DNC good. If we do nominate the Hilter-wannabe, genital wart of a candidate named Trump though… I’m feeling the Bern. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/292 "2015-08-23T16:15:12Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > I think we both are. Because it wasn’t very funny. I googled “Kessel run” when I saw it, and saw that it was a Star Wars reference. I didn’t see it as being funny or insulting, or some kind of whoosh, so I just ignored the attempt at humor and made the simple correction. In “Star Wars,” when Ben and Luke are trying to get to Alderaan, they meet with Han Solo. They ask if his ship is fast. He says, “it’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.” So, George Lucas got the wrong word/meaning. But it’s been kinda fan-wanked into a “Solo said that on purpose, to see if they caught that. Since they didn’t, they’re kinda rubes, and so he could overcharge them for the trip” kinda thing. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/293 "2015-08-23T16:35:52Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > Of course, [Trump never said the “lazy blacks bit”](http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fusion-misattributes-racist-quote-to-donald-trump/article/2567872). That isn’t what your cite says; why would you mischaracterize something like that? Trump might not have said it, but then again he might have. Either way, what you wrote was completely inaccurate. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/294 "2015-08-23T18:35:24Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I’ll thank you to not tell me what I meant, you fucking troll. > [@magellan01](#): > > Hahahahaha. Not even you believe that. > > :eek: > > Try again. Even I think/believe you’re a troll and I’m a mod…so, what now? Either you’re literally delusional in how many posters on here you THINK think of you as a troll or you’re just lying to yourself/acting like it isn’t really the case. ETA: Okay, maybe “troll” is too harsh of a term. There’s a chance you may not be, I fully admit. You could just be a huge, ignorant, racist asshat. But you’re one of those two things, definitely. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/295 "2015-08-23T20:53:25Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > [No, it’s a measure of distance, not time.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec) > [@Trinopus](#): > > King hell of the whooshes. [Actually, the World Cup of whooshes…](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/WC-2014-Brasil.svg/820px-WC-2014-Brasil.svg.png) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/296 "2015-08-23T22:25:46Z")
The Tour de France of whooshes? The Tour de Sicily? The Tour de Menorca? Would you believe the Tour de Bledsoe Island? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/297 "2015-08-24T05:26:06Z")
Which of those also has a logo that looks like a facepalm? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/298 "2015-08-24T07:07:47Z")
Oops. Did I whoosh? (“Groo the Wanderer” voice. “Did I err?”) ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/299 "2015-08-24T07:15:00Z")
I was in Canada this week and told them that while no American will admit to wanting to vote for Trump, he is saying what most of us secretly agree with. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/300 "2015-08-24T18:33:36Z")
Trump handles debate question, as imagined by Don Imus: Moderator: \*“Who’s the president of Zimbabwe, Mr. Trump?” Trump: “‘Who gives a ----?’”\* Thunderous applause. Hahahaha!! Probably so. Give 'em hell, Donald! [Cite](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/lupica-trump-didn-lose-article-1.2335118) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054.md?page=16)