# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588 "2023-07-04T21:42:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 69
**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:** [September 29, 2023, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1361 "2023-09-29T06:28:28Z")
[Republican members of the oversight committee do not agree Trump should be held accountable for his crimes if he is convicted.](https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1707461196247425294) Par for the course. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1362 "2023-09-29T06:47:03Z")
The Malaysian fascist who has never set foot in the US but spends all his free time pandering to idiots who would probably hate him if they knew that is being weird again. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7KkNnvXAAAvS0l?format=jpg&name=900x900) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7KkNnvXAAAvS0l?format=jpg&name=900x900) ---
**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:** [September 29, 2023, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1363 "2023-09-29T10:34:34Z")
Is the caption “Ian Cheong dreaming he’s AOC. Again.”? ---
**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:** [September 29, 2023, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1364 "2023-09-29T11:09:57Z")
[**Tim Scott Suggests Slavery Wasn’t as Bad as Welfare for Black Americans**](https://www.yahoo.com/news/tim-scott-suggests-slavery-wasn-031522161.html) > During the debate Scott [argued](https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1707215477422883215?s=20) that welfare assistance was harder than slavery for Black Americans. > > “Black families survived slavery!” he exclaimed. “We survived poll taxes and literacy tests.” > > “We survived discrimination being woven into the laws of our country,” he added, in a line that for a moment sounded like he might actually be acknowledging systemic racism. > > “What was hard to survive was Johnson’s Great Society, where they decided to put money—where they decided to take the Black father out of the household to get a check in the mail.” One of the commenters on that article referred to Scott as _Clayton Bigsby in the flesh_. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1365 "2023-09-29T11:14:46Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > One of the commenters on that article referred to Scott as _Clayton Bigsby in the flesh_. Nah. Clayton Bigsby had the advantage of not knowing he was black. Scott is more of an Uncle Ruckus. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2023, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1366 "2023-09-29T11:33:59Z")
“Black families survived slavery!” Well, some of them did. And not always as families. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1367 "2023-09-29T11:42:19Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > So there is real reasons for the UAW to fear electric vehicles since the companies could fire a large amount of their workforce. But that doesn’t mean that Trump’s not an asshat. Agree completely on both points. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1368 "2023-09-29T13:01:41Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > “Black families survived slavery!” > > Well, some of them did. And not always as families. Well, yeah, but at least they learnt useful skills. /s ---
**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:** [September 29, 2023, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1369 "2023-09-29T13:03:09Z")
“Surviving” is a useful skill, to be sure. Those that didn’t learn it weren’t able to pass those skills on. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1370 "2023-09-29T13:08:58Z")
> [@](#): > > “What was hard to survive was Johnson’s Great Society, where they decided to put money—where they decided to take the Black father out of the household to get a check in the mail.” Who is this _they_ Tim? Attaching onerous conditions to charity is holy writ to both your ideology and political party. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2023, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1371 "2023-09-29T13:19:51Z")
I would love to know what in the hell he is talking about. How can he say this with a straight face? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1372 "2023-09-29T17:24:55Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > How can he say this with a straight face? Because he really truly believes it, that’s how. It’s an article of faith in his tribe. > [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I would love to know what in the hell he is talking about. It seems pretty clear to me. Per official Reactionary Wacko Traitor canon: > All the Great Society welfare programs directly caused the breakup of the black nuclear family. > > Because once Momma could get money to live on without putting up with baby Daddy, she promptly tossed his worthless ass out on the street so she could qualify for that sweet, sweet generous check from Uncle Sam. Well actually from hard working American white people via Uncle Sam. > > And because these programs did not pay for baby Daddies to just sit round, and they are useless as laborers, they immediately all became criminals. Everything bad about current US (black) society is a direct result of “welfare”. It’s pure racist garbage of course. But they lurves them some racist garbage, the purer the better. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1373 "2023-09-29T19:11:10Z")
If you’re a Federal worker, a government shutdown is one of the sacrifices you occasionally have to make in an otherwise gravy job. So says Roger Marshall, junior Senator from my red state of Kansas. > “I think when you take a job with the federal government, you realize that there’s pros and cons and this is one of the cons of it, that every five or 10 years, there’s a government shutdown,” Marshall said. “They have incredible pay, they have easy hours, only a fourth of them are actually back working in the office right now. So we all have to, you know, sacrifice.” > **[Marshall to federal employees on brink of shutdown: ‘We all have to, you...](https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article279893944.html)** > > “They have incredible pay, they have easy hours, only a fourth of them are actually back working in the office right now. So we all have to, you know, sacrifice,” said Sen. Roger Marshall. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1374 "2023-09-29T19:15:09Z")
Yeah, his federal job is so onerous and don’t you admire the sacrifice he’s making regarding his federal pay? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1375 "2023-09-29T19:15:57Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > It’s pure racist garbage of course. But they lurves them some racist garbage, the purer the better. It goes back to Reagan’s bullshit “Welfare Queen” trope in 1976, and probably before that. Tim Scott was 11 years old then, and has been steeping in this garbage ever since. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1376 "2023-09-29T19:23:18Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > his federal job is so onerous and don’t you admire the sacrifice he’s making regarding his federal pay? I just emailed his office and told him that he should not accept a paycheck during the shutdown. I also told him that he should go to Fort Riley and personally tell the troops there that missing a paycheck is what they signed up for. I’m not expecting a response. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1377 "2023-09-29T20:01:21Z")
There is a possibly apocryphal story that back in the bootlegging gangster days when military payroll was paid in cash greenbacks every week, some gangster guys got the bright idea of hijacking the military pay armored car. On base. A USMC base. To say they were shown the error of their ways was an understatement. Each was buried in a small pail; there wasn’t much more identfiable as ever having been human, much less part of a particular human. Senator Marshall may enjoy a little historical re-enactment. So-called “conservatives” supposedly prefer the old ways of the old days. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1378 "2023-09-29T20:07:17Z")
I just sent Andy Ogles the same sort of note. I’m not holding my breath. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1379 "2023-09-29T23:17:57Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Fort Riley and personally tell the troops there that missing a paycheck is what they signed up for. “…but you _did_ sign up for getting shot at!” \>pulls out AR-15\< You know it would get him votes. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2023, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1380 "2023-09-30T00:57:13Z")
It’s all of a piece with “When my family was on welfare, the government didn’t do a thing to help us!”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=68) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=70)