# 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:** 1451
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29002 "2016-05-09T18:31:19Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > While it’s been nicknamed the Bathroom Bill, the bill did more than regulate bathrooms. It also makes it illegal for NC cities to have anti-discrimination regulations, other than for employment by the city government. I know. Not sure how that’s involved in the federal suit though. That simply reserves the power to the state instead of local governments. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29003 "2016-05-09T20:20:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Donald proves once again that he doesn’t understand how macroeconomics works; > > Apparently, on whatever parallel Earth Trump comes from, Zimbabwe has the yuuuugest economy in the world. " As president, I promise to make EVERYone a millionaire! We’ll all be winners!" ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29004 "2016-05-09T20:36:43Z")
I dunno, The Donald could make history. As the first US President deliberate fragged by our allies. “Mistuuur Ttttrrrrump, vy don’t you valk up de hill fur ein better view of de artillery?” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29005 "2016-05-09T21:51:46Z")
> [@](#): > > …" As president, I promise to make EVERYone a millionaire! We’ll all be winners!" … There’s precedent! In the Weimar Republic, millionaires abounded! You could tell who was a millionaire, they just bought a loaf of bread. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29006 "2016-05-09T21:53:40Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I dunno, The Donald could make history. > > As the first US President deliberate fragged by our allies. > > “Mistuuur Ttttrrrrump, vy don’t you valk up de hill fur ein better view of de artillery?” Having our troops speak with a comic-opera German accent would be a nice touch! ---
**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:** [May 9, 2016, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29007 "2016-05-09T22:57:17Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > The 'Pub-controlled Alabama House of Representatives doesn’t want any of its five remaining family planning clinics to be less than 2,000 feet away from public schools, because the protestors outside bear signs that scare the kiddos. Well, they will just have to relocate those schools. Put them on the far outskirts of every town, where they will be inconveniently difficult to get to. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29008 "2016-05-10T15:51:29Z")
Lovely, lovely Michelle Fiore, > [@"\[KNTV](#): > > ([http://www.ktnv.com/news/michele-fiore-explains-comment-about-pointing-a-gun-at-law-enforcement](http://www.ktnv.com/news/michele-fiore-explains-comment-about-pointing-a-gun-at-law-enforcement))"]In a recent interview, Fiore said if it’s a choice between her life and another life, she’s going to choose her own life, even if the other person is an officer. > … > > She told 13 Action News she was referring to federal Bureau of Land Management agents, like the ones involved in the 2014 Cliven Bundy standoff. > … > > Fiore calls (BLM agents) “unofficial wannabes,” but the U.S. Department of the Interior website says differently. > … > > “Police in this state know me and know me well so for them to ever just jump off the bridge and go, ‘Oh, she’s anti-cop,’ like really?” she said. “I’m sorry but they better check themselves before they wreck themselves.” Fiore says she has an “unofficial romantic friend” on the force, but would not elaborate on that. So much stupid in one person. ---
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29009 "2016-05-10T15:59:11Z")
> [@euphonious polemic](#): > > no shit. > > It’s deja vous all over again. Hillary will not just do a poor job, she will destroy the very fabric of the nation!!!. Hillary does not have disagreements over policies, she is the literal antichrist!!! > > Actually, they’ve already used the antichrist one. They need to up the ante. Anyone have ideas? double-secret antichrist! ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29010 "2016-05-10T16:04:43Z")
Wait, was King Solomon the antechrist? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29011 "2016-05-10T16:14:07Z")
> [@OffByOne](#): > > double-secret antichrist! Yeah, but she’s on probation. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29012 "2016-05-10T17:21:35Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > The suit is going to be epic. This is such a weird issue because the fundamental thing they’re all arguing about is a system of segregation. We have segregated restrooms and locker rooms for the different genders. Fitting a civil rights issue on top of that is torturous for both sides. It’s a bit like arguing over whether biracial people can have their choice of whites-only or blacks-only restrooms. It’s bizarre, no matter which side you’re on. This isn’t a segregation-only issue. Its a civil rights issue where you are either forced by the state to live a lie or be allowed the dignity of choosing your lifestyle. Where it touches upon segregation is more like the forced exclusion of blacks from water fountains and lunch tables than the voluntary one between sexes for bathrooms. As long as you continue to see trans men as not men, or trans women and not women, you’ll never get it ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29013 "2016-05-10T17:43:32Z")
[Republican Congressman (and former MTV Real World participant) Sean Duffy wants to lower the minimum wage in Puerto Rico to $4.25 an hour.](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/05/10/1525033/-Republican-rep-introduces-Promesa-to-Puerto-Rico-bill-cuts-minimum-wage-by-almost-half) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29014 "2016-05-10T18:22:25Z")
I was on an airplane once, it only had one bathroom. Are they gonna have to have six now, or just not fly over N. Carolina? 'Course, Greyhounds don’t have bathrooms at all, so I guess that’s still OK. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29015 "2016-05-10T18:24:26Z")
Greyhounds have bathrooms. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29016 "2016-05-10T18:56:15Z")
Really? I thought they just shit on bushes. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29017 "2016-05-10T19:30:06Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Wait, was King Solomon the antechrist? No, that was the Poker Jesus. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29018 "2016-05-10T19:35:09Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > 'Course, Greyhounds don’t have bathrooms at all, so I guess that’s still OK. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Greyhounds have bathrooms. > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Really? I thought they just shit on bushes. Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29019 "2016-05-10T19:44:49Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! Your sense of humour is remora-kable. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29020 "2016-05-10T19:55:40Z")
[Senate Republicans want to investigate whether there’s enough “conservative news” trending on Facebook.](http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/10/technology/facebook-news-senate/index.html) Freedom of the press? What’s that? ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29021 "2016-05-10T20:06:17Z")
Isn’t that whole “Facebook is a private enterprise that can decide what it does and does not do” a Republican value? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1450) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1452)