# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1195
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23882 "2015-08-28T21:31:05Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Texas Gov. vetoes mental health bill after getting advice from Scientologists.](http://www.greenvillegazette.com/fb/texas-governor-vetoes-mental-health-bill-because-he-doesnt-believe-mental-illness-is-real-2/) > > Note that the headline of the article isn’t substantiated by the article, but it could be a conclusion drawn based on who is advising him. Is there some new development here, or is this just an older article? See Post #23063 in this very thread, dated just over a month ago (July 17, 2015): > [@eschereal](#): > > [Texas Governor vetoes bill that would have given mental health professionals more power to deal with dangerous individuals – because Scientologists hate psychiatrists (Xenu used them for evil)](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/dont-mess-with-xenu-scientologists-convince-texas-governor-to-veto-mental-health-bill/). ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23883 "2015-08-28T21:43:10Z")
Sorry, I didn’t notice the date. It just showed up in my feed today. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23884 "2015-08-28T22:41:06Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > That’s probably an effective way to shut him down. “What, you sayin’ American’s not great?! America’s FUCKIN’ great! Fuck you!” Then repeat. It’ll be a modern “four legs good, two legs bad!” chant. I don’t know, that might be too Canadian. Hey, can we trade bozos? We’ll take Steve Harper (he can’t run for President here, at least) if you take Trump. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23885 "2015-08-28T22:44:10Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > If I read these correctly, and am not getting fooled by a double negative…then there are these, at least, where I can agree with him! > > I bet a pickle there’s a double negative here, and he’s 100% wrong on the whole damn list. Well said, and I agree. I mean, I think it’s believable that he holds those two positions. But yeah, those were the clear outliers. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23886 "2015-08-28T22:56:21Z")
I have called Ted Cruz the present-day Joe McCarthy. Apparently that title more properly belongs to Frank Gaffney. But he’s attaching himself to Cruz. Or Cruz is attaching himself to Gaffney. > **[‘Creeping Sharia’ Conspiracy Group Set To Sponsor Joint Cruz-Trump Rally In DC](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/frank-gaffney-cruz-trump-iran-rally)** > > A think tank founded by a notorious anti-Muslim activist is planning to co-sponsor an upcoming rally against the Iran deal headlined by Republican presidential candidates Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and… > [@](#): > > A think tank founded by a notorious anti-Muslim activist is planning to co-sponsor an upcoming rally against the Iran deal headlined by Republican presidential candidates Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Donald Trump. > [snip] > The Center for Security Policy is an anti-Muslim think tank founded by former Reagan administration official Frank Gaffney, who often speaks about the threat of creeping Sharia law and has accused Republican and Democratic officials alike of being Muslim Brotherhood plants in the U.S. Cruz spoke via video link to an event Gaffney’s organization put on last month in the first-in-the-nation primary state, the New Hampshire National Security Action Summit. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23887 "2015-08-28T23:42:55Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Whenever someone mentions Trump, I think “Trumpy”. I want to somehow make it where Trumpy shows up in any feed acknowledging Trump. Hey, most for his followers believe in Trumpy Magic! > > [http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=35U255Si7C0](http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=35U255Si7C0) Trump says that Asian negotiators talk funny: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/k6zk31iNtHs/maxresdefault.jpg "Trump Mocks Asian Negotiators: "We Want Deal"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6zk31iNtHs) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23888 "2015-08-29T01:58:41Z")
[Variety:](http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/website-crashes-for-tiny-tv-network-in-advance-of-its-donald-trump-interview-1201581012/) > [@](#): > > A website for a small cable network that will feature Sarah Palin talking with Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush crashed hours before the interviews were set to take place. > > Little-known One America News Network acknowledged the outage at 3:45 p.m. PT on Friday, citing widespread anticipation in the interviews. Teh crazy has the power to crash the interwebs. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23889 "2015-08-29T22:31:01Z")
[The trials (literally) and tribulations of Texas’s Attorney-General](http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/08/28/ken_paxton_anti_gay_texas_attorney_general_is_in_legal_trouble.html) ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23890 "2015-08-29T22:33:16Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23891 "2015-08-29T22:55:17Z")
[Donald Trump doesn’t believe women who love their husbands can keep government secrets.](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/08/29/donald_trump_criticizes_huma_abedin_calls_anthony_weiner_a_perv.html) ---
**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:** [August 30, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23892 "2015-08-30T00:07:50Z")
Sorry, big guy, 1984 was more than 30 years ago. > [@"\[Reuters](#): > > ([Republican Christie proposes tracking immigrants like FedEx packages](http://news.yahoo.com/republican-christie-proposes-tracking-immigrants-fedex-packages-233109536.html))"]… Chris Christie said on Saturday if he were elected president he would combat illegal immigration by creating a system to track foreign visitors the way FedEx tracks packages. Christie (said) that he would ask FedEx Chief Executive Officer Fred Smith to devise the tracking system. > … > > “At any moment, FedEx can tell you where that package is. It’s on the truck. It’s at the station. It’s on the airplane,” Christie told the crowd in Laconia, New Hampshire. “Yet we let people come to this country with visas, and the minute they come in, we lose track of them. We need to have a system that tracks you from the moment you come in, and then when your time is up … however long your visa is, then we go get you. We tap you on the shoulder and say, ‘Excuse me. Thanks for coming. Time to go.’” ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23893 "2015-08-30T00:17:11Z")
Chris Christie will be remembered as the pioneer of the Global Birth RFID Initiative - the greatest game of tag ever played ! Brown ? You’re (an) IT ! ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23894 "2015-08-30T00:52:41Z")
Maybe the chips could be supplemented with tattoos, wait, it’s been done. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23895 "2015-08-30T01:17:18Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Maybe the chips could be supplemented with tattoos, wait, it’s been done. Tattooed bar codes on every forehead. Bar code scanners on every street corner. Bar code scanners at every entrance to every government (federal and state) building. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23896 "2015-08-30T01:18:41Z")
I think we are seeing the hilarious effects of Trump-induced political hypoxia, that giddy, loopy feeling candidates get when one of them sucks up all the oxygen in the room. This causes the rest to try to out-crazy each other in a vain attempt to catch a last gasp of media air before the donor vacuum causes them to pass out. Look, Chris Christie is already turning blue! ---
**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 30, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23897 "2015-08-30T02:31:32Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Tattooed bar codes on every forehead. Bar code scanners on every street corner. Bar code scanners at every entrance to every government (federal and state) building. It’s not new. Revelation Chapter 13 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23898 "2015-08-30T03:15:11Z")
Oh, my word! Immigration and Customs Enforcement is the Great Beast! How did I miss this? I may need to tell my mom this. Possibly also Jack Chick. ---
**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 30, 2015, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23899 "2015-08-30T06:53:15Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Oh, my word! Immigration and Customs Enforcement is the Great Beast! How did I miss this? > > I may need to tell my mom this. Possibly also Jack Chick. Forget about telling Jack. Donald’s gonna have him head up DHS. ---
**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 30, 2015, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23900 "2015-08-30T08:08:26Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [The trials (literally) and tribulations of Texas’s Attorney-General](http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/08/28/ken_paxton_anti_gay_texas_attorney_general_is_in_legal_trouble.html) Wow! I clicked the link and read, amazed. Does that “Attorney General” even have a law degree? If I didn’t already think of Texas as just one big sick joke, that article would have convinced me. BTW, am I the only one who finds that facial characteristics often correlate with character? Just looking at the smirk in Paxton’s booking photo I might guess he was a right-wing asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23901 "2015-08-30T08:15:58Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > It’s not new. > > Revelation Chapter 13 > 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: > 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Thank you. Blaring Iron Maiden in earbuds now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1194) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1196)