# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Leo\_Krupe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/121 "2015-08-18T00:45:02Z")
If he were to either buy my vote outright as others have suggested, or start up some sort of concentration camp and tattoo my arm–those are the only ways I’d vote Donald Turdface. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/122 "2015-08-18T00:46:26Z")
Since _pendejo_ literally means pubic hair, I guess I’ll have to leave it at home. Sad because it just rolls off your tongue. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/123 "2015-08-18T00:46:27Z")
> [@XT](#): > > Oh yeah, you are good. I used pendejo because this was still in GD. It means something like moron, idiot, with a tinge of calling him an asshole. Pretty mild. Now, since we are in the Pit, I’d probably call him something like pinche puto and tell the him that I cago en la leche de tu puta madre and that he can pegarlo en el culo and besarme el culo marron peludo…or something along those lines. I’m just trying to foment the OPs cultural exchange, of course. > > (You have to say the Spanish phonetically, since, sadly, I never learned how to read or write in Spanish…the gringos got me when I was young and impressionable, and my dad, once we came to this country, was death on speaking Spanish at home…he’s a total US fanatic. I would disrecommend saying any of this to your impressionable and most likely meek and retiring hispanic ladies in your office though. Especially if they have knives…) Living in Southern California, one learns all the “good” Spanish words first. I actually followed what you were saying there. You pretty much touched all the bases. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/124 "2015-08-18T01:03:11Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > That’s a thing? > > (note: No, evidently it’s not. I checked. God help me.) Perhaps that’s where our disappeared OP has gone… to fill a need. You might be able to find this on Reddit by in the morning. [Made ya look! :p] > [@Guinastasia](#): > > Even if this were true, why should it matter? Is there something wrong with being a minority? :dubious: God, one can only hope that bigots who think like that are in the minority. If so, I suggest we celebrate. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/125 "2015-08-18T01:14:26Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > This “pendejo” word; is it polite enough to use at work, like “putz” when I worked in Skokie, or should I use something milder? I don’t wish to shock the nice Mexican ladies–practically girls–I sit near. > > The middle-aged Jewish ladies from Skokie were happy I was making an effort to speak their language. > Don’t put it in the crazy, bro. > [@XT](#): > > Oh yeah, you are good. I used pendejo because this was still in GD. It means something like moron, idiot, with a tinge of calling him an asshole. Pretty mild. Now, since we are in the Pit, I’d probably call him something like pinche puto and tell the him that I cago en la leche de tu puta madre and that he can pegarlo en el culo and besarme el culo marron peludo…or something along those lines. I’m just trying to foment the OPs cultural exchange, of course. > > (You have to say the Spanish phonetically, since, sadly, I never learned how to read or write in Spanish…the gringos got me when I was young and impressionable, and my dad, once we came to this country, was death on speaking Spanish at home…he’s a total US fanatic. I would disrecommend saying any of this to your impressionable and most likely meek and retiring hispanic ladies in your office though. Especially if they have knives…) Indeed, careful with that word if you are not friends with others already. > **[Spanish profanity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_profanity#Pendejo)** > > The Spanish language employs a wide range of swear words that vary between Spanish speaking nations and in regions and subcultures of each nation. Idiomatic expressions, particularly profanity, are not always directly translatable into other languages, and so most of the English translations offered in this article are very rough and most likely do not reflect the full meaning of the expression they intend to translate.\[c\] > In Spanish, as in most languages, swear words tend to come from semant... > [@](#): > > Pendejo (according to the Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española, lit.: "a pubic hair’[16] is, according to the Chicano poet José Antonio Burciaga, “basically describes someone who is stupid or does something stupid.”[16] Burciaga said that the word is often used while not in polite conversation.[16] It may be translated as “dumbass” or “asshole” in many situations, though it carries an extra implication of willful incompetence, or innocent gullibility that’s ripe for others to exploit. That does match what I do remember how it was used in the old country, it can be very insulting unless you do know very well the one that you are launching the word at. All this did remind me of the “Scientific classification of the Pendejos” from the classic “Picardia Mexicana” by Armando Jiménez (I’m mostly paraphrasing a few definitions from the satiric book about types of politicians, these can be directed at Trump and his followers: ) "THE LUCKY PENDEJO They are the opposite of those described above; they live happy because the heavens, the “votes” or their privileged situation according to them, has made them achieve small successes that only they deserve, other PENDEJOS and others less privileged like them consider those successes to be giant wins. THE OPTIMISTIC PENDEJO Are the salt and pepper of humanity: naive, cheerful and talkative, prone to seek treasures, mining and groundwater; they buy whole series of lottery tickets, bet everything they have in casinos, believe in the truthfulness of wrestling and that voting is fair. THE PENDEJO WITH INITIATIVE Has a mania for big projects; sometimes they are eloquent and manage to persuade many people. Beware, if you are convinced, it is that you are more PENDEJO than they are." 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/126 "2015-08-18T01:20:48Z")
**XT** and **GIGO** … thank you for bringing your culture with you to the United States. If you could, please, help make it part of what it means to be an American. I’m glad you’re here, it makes our nation stronger. Alas, I’m a whitie … how do you pronounce _pendejo_? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/127 "2015-08-18T01:38:46Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > **XT** and **GIGO** … thank you for bringing your culture with you to the United States. If you could, please, help make it part of what it means to be an American. I’m glad you’re here, it makes our nation stronger. > > Alas, I’m a whitie … how do you pronounce _pendejo_? Don’t fret…my wife is white as the new fallen snow (German/Irish ancestry, 3rd generation Americans) and my kids speak zero Spanish. You pronounce it pen-day-ho, depending on how you pronounce English phonetically. There is probably a Youtube video or some such where you can hear the term used, since, basically, it’s one of the most used curse or swear words, at least in my own circles and when I’m back home in the old neighborhood. Depending on who you are saying it to and how you say it will determine whether the knives come out or if your buddy says something equally rude but well meant back at you. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/128 "2015-08-18T01:42:00Z")
The OP came in after 10 years just to mention that fuckwad Trump?!? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/129 "2015-08-18T01:47:19Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Living in Southern California, one learns all the “good” Spanish words first. I actually followed what you were saying there. > > You pretty much touched all the bases. 🙂 Well, I was going for colorful at least. Spanish is funny, since depending on the region swear or curse words change. I’m from Sonora originally, and my family pretty much lives in Arizona and Sonora still, so pretty much the same as Southern California. Other regions there are differences, especially other Spanish speaking countries (and Spain of course is a whole 'nother thing). IMHO, Spanish is THE best language to curse in though…much more colorful than English. The only problem is, a lot of the really juicy swear words are known now in the US, so you have to be careful. Even if someone doesn’t know exactly what you are saying, they know they are being insulted…and in a lot of cases, a loud tu madre! or Chinga madre! will get a raised eyebrow these days. Gone are the days when you could say such in a mild, happy voice and have people smile back at you as if nothing were wrong. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/130 "2015-08-18T01:54:14Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > **XT** and **GIGO** … thank you for bringing your culture with you to the United States. If you could, please, help make it part of what it means to be an American. I’m glad you’re here, it makes our nation stronger. > > Alas, I’m a whitie … how do you pronounce _pendejo_? The wikidictionary reports that it is already a word, borrowed indeed. [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pendejo](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pendejo) > [@](#): > > Pronunciation > > ``` > IPA(key): /pen.ˈde.xo/ > > ``` With the xo sounding more like “ho” But it is better to hear it as **XT** mentions it: (NSFW kid’s profanity) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uITym6x4B8M) The original was such a big meme among Hispanics that the makers of the “Roman Emperor” Chocolate financed the revenge for the kid that did fall. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IwyNPo5lE-Y/hqdefault.jpg "La Caida de Edgar (Emperador)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwyNPo5lE-Y) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/131 "2015-08-18T01:59:21Z")
> [@XT](#): > > You pronounce it pen-day-ho, depending on how you pronounce English phonetically. I was afraid of that … so I should be mad at my Mexican neighbors? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/132 "2015-08-18T02:47:38Z")
Well, since this is the pit a special mention should go to poster **Chen019** (that just came to support Trump here and elsewhere) who is [one of the current resident scientific racists of the SDMB](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=644631)([brazil84](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=705945) is also one of them) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18609896&postcount=80](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18609896&postcount=80) Why that does not hold, from the not liberal Chamber of Commerce: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18609985&postcount=81](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18609985&postcount=81) Chen, you are a pendejo indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/133 "2015-08-18T03:16:17Z")
I’m not gonna read all of this shit, I just dropped by to remark that the OP’s California doesn’t have anything to do with the state I live in and love. And really, some Walmarts just need trashing. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/134 "2015-08-18T03:27:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by XT: > How do you think your ancestors got here, pendejo? Did they just magically arrive? Mine showed up in the 1600s looking for freedom from religious oppression in England. They found it, and promptly started to oppress other people in the name of religion. I kid. My ancestors were Quakers, not Puritans. But still, the point remains that Anglos weren’t exactly invited to move into the neighborhood. They just didn’t think of it that way because the current residents of the new country were, you know…brown. And heathens. And talked funny. So \*obviously \*they needed the white folks to colonize the country and teach them the ways of god and so on. Oh, and steal all the good land. Style points for calling the OP _pendejo_, BTW. > [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > And really, some Walmarts just need trashing. I hear you. I can’t get too upset about trashed Walmarts. I mean, they’re Walmarts. ETA: to answer the OP’s question, I will vote for Donald Trump when hell freezes over, monkeys fly out of my butt, and the sun sets in a blazing red sky in the east. All on the same day. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/135 "2015-08-18T03:41:31Z")
Sure. Let’s introduce a little anarchy into the system. What else are you gonna do, vote Hillary? And then what? Wear a seat belt on the drive home and have safe sex in the missionary position? Live a little. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/136 "2015-08-18T03:58:02Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > You are a liar. I might have been a liar if Palin had not told Charles Gibson, > [@](#): > > “They’re our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska” in the context of explaining her knowledge about Russia. However, she did say that in that context, which means that your false accusation makes you the liar, (as usual). ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/137 "2015-08-18T04:03:01Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Since _pendejo_ literally means pubic hair, I guess I’ll have to leave it at home. Sad because it just rolls off your tongue. Perhaps [this will help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_cleaner). 😃 ---
**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 18, 2015, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/138 "2015-08-18T04:07:55Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Since _pendejo_ literally means pubic hair, I guess I’ll have to leave it at home. Sad because it just rolls off your tongue. I thought it meant [“my real good friend”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2G3x0CF74I). ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/139 "2015-08-18T04:08:52Z")
> [@XT](#): > > Don’t fret…my wife is white as the new fallen snow (German/Irish ancestry, 3rd generation Americans) Have you noticed that Trump and certain other morons (such as the OP) don’t gripe about immigrant populations from Germany or England? They’re hung up on people they can visually decide “aren’t really Americans” or “don’t really belong in America” no matter how many generations the target’s family has been in the US, and sometimes the target’s family has been in the US longer than the griper’s. ---
**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 18, 2015, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054/140 "2015-08-18T04:46:49Z")
Give Trump credit for one thing. Many GOP politicians deliberately pander to the same racism that Trump does, but they use codes (subtleties or indirections) so they can disclaim. Trump is willing to address the GOP base on its own level. This is why I’m rooting for the impossible November: Sanders -vs- Trump! Many progressives view Hillary as a flawed imitation of a liberal. And Bush and the other goblins are only a pale reflection of the fears and disgusts driving the right-wing. _Why not give the American electorate the choice it really wants?_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-vote-for-donald-trump-for-potus/728054.md?page=8)