# 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:** 1480
**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:** [June 13, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29582 "2016-06-13T16:50:13Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > [Donald Trump slyly suggests a connection between Obama and the Orlando shooting.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/13/donald-trump-suggests-president-obama-was-involved-with-orlando-shooting/) > > What a worthless piece of shit. The good news for me is that the news are more likely now to also report how deceiving Trump is. > [@](#): > > For months, Trump has slyly suggested that the president is not Christian and has questioned his compassion toward Muslims. Years ago, Trump was a major force in calls for the president to release his birth certificate and prove that he was born in the United States. On the campaign trail, Trump has repeatedly stated as fact conspiracy theories about the president, his rivals and Muslims, often refusing to back down from his assertions even when they are proven to be false. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29583 "2016-06-13T21:38:56Z")
Trump: the Orlando shooter was [“born in Afghan”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyOo81Tf-iE). He was, in fact, [born in Queens](https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/742425472471044097/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) - same as Trump. I, for one, propose a temporary ban on anyone from Queens running for president until we can figure out what is going on. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2016, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29584 "2016-06-13T21:47:39Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trump: the Orlando shooter was [“born in Afghan”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyOo81Tf-iE). > > He was, in fact, [born in Queens](https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/742425472471044097/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) - same as Trump. > > I, for one, propose a temporary ban on anyone from Queens running for president until we can figure out what is going on. Does The Donald even give two tiny shits about the truth? He just blurts out whatever he feels like, safe in the knowledge that his “base” will simply believe whatever spews out of his pie-hole. If anyone tells him he was wrong, he just insults them, and his “base” eats that shit up with a spoon. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29585 "2016-06-14T14:57:47Z")
[Profiles In Cowardice](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-terror-republicans-orlando-224288) (and in stupidity, if they actually think these responses are going to make the problem go away): > [@](#): > > …Hill Republicans were muted in response to Trump’s remarks. Texas Sen. John Cornyn refused to respond to questions about the GOP standard-bearer’s handling of the response to the Orlando attacks. “There you go again, asking about Trump,” he said. > > Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan said he had no thoughts on Trump’s call for Obama’s resignation and reiterated his critique of Trump’s immigration ban. > > “It’s not a good one,” he said. > > Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker, who’s helming the GOP effort to keep control of the Senate, also declined to comment. “I’m not gonna make a career out of responding to every comment and every tweet,” he told reporters after a leadership meeting… ---
**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:** [June 14, 2016, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29586 "2016-06-14T19:29:03Z")
Republicans are going out of their way not to say the attack in Orlando was on gay people. [Scott Brown specifically refused to call it an attack on gay people.](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/06/14/3788372/scott-brown-orlando-shooting/) [Rudy Giuliani won’t say “gay” until Obama says the magic words “radical Islamic terrorism” .](https://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/cnns-chris-cuomo-nails-rudy-giuliani-on-his-islamophobia-why-would-you-give-isis-what-they-want/) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29587 "2016-06-14T19:44:19Z")
[Florida gov: Obama hasn’t called me since shooting.](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/283379-florida-gov-obama-hasnt-called-me) > [@](#): > > Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) says President Obama has not yet called him in the wake of a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando. > > “He has not called us,” Scott said Tuesday on “Fox and Friends.” > > “A staffer has called, but no, he has not called.” I guess that’s all he’s good for is waiting by the phone for instructions. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2016, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29588 "2016-06-14T19:51:17Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Florida gov: Obama hasn’t called me since shooting.](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/283379-florida-gov-obama-hasnt-called-me) > > I guess that’s all he’s good for is waiting by the phone for instructions. And for committing fraud. He’s good for that, too, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29589 "2016-06-14T20:00:23Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Republicans are going out of their way not to say the attack in Orlando was on gay people. > > [Scott Brown specifically refused to call it an attack on gay people.](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/06/14/3788372/scott-brown-orlando-shooting/) > > [Rudy Giuliani won’t say “gay” until Obama says the magic words “radical Islamic terrorism” .](https://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/cnns-chris-cuomo-nails-rudy-giuliani-on-his-islamophobia-why-would-you-give-isis-what-they-want/) Not to worry. A Baptist pastor from Natomas was perfectly willing to admit that gays were targeted. [He’s just sad the shooter didn’t finish the job.](http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article83693667.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:** [June 14, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29590 "2016-06-14T20:27:51Z")
And Pat Robertson said the gays and the Islamists should be allowed to kill each other off. And Theodore Shoebat condemned the “vigilante” because it’s the government’s business to kill off all of the gays. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29591 "2016-06-14T20:32:27Z")
Why must people leave the money quote behind? > [@](#): > > {…} At the start of his sermon, Roger Jimenez of Verity Baptist Church explains that he had intended to preach on another subject the morning of June 12, but after hearing news of what happened in Orlando, felt compelled to instruct Christians on “the biblical response” to the Pulse nightclub massacre, which also left 53 people wounded. > > “There’s no tragedy,” Jimenez said. “I wish the government would round them all up, put them up against a firing wall, put a firing squad in front of them, and blow their brains out.” {…} and just to preempt any claim that maybe he didn’t mean LGBT people, > [@](#): > > {…} He’s said he doesn’t intend to incite people to violence against LGBT people, but said he believes the God has “put a death penalty” on them. > > “All I’m saying is that when people who deserve to die, die, it’s not a tragedy,” he said. {…} Nope, no reason to think that Christians could ever return that dark time too many Muslims still inhabit . . . no reason at all. :dubious: CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29592 "2016-06-14T21:47:29Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Republicans are going out of their way not to say the attack in Orlando was on gay people. Well, it was Latino Night at the Pulse . . . ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29593 "2016-06-14T22:02:48Z")
Only terrible, terrible Christians make the news. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29594 "2016-06-14T22:06:02Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Republicans are going out of their way not to say the attack in Orlando was on gay people. But you know it’s there. Gays, Hispanic immigrants, \*and \*a Muslim terr’ist \*all \*dead? What’s not to like? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29595 "2016-06-14T22:33:39Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > But you know it’s there. Gays, Hispanic immigrants, \*and \*a Muslim terr’ist \*all \*dead? What’s not to like? :rolleyes: You forgot a native-born citizen exercising his 2nd Amendment rights as well. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29596 "2016-06-14T22:39:30Z")
[A compendium of tweets from NRA employees in Congress.](https://www.good.is/articles/our-thoughts-and-prayers-are-really-with-the-nra?utm_content=inf_10_81_2&utm_source=TSE&utm_medium=FB&utm_campaign=pd&tse_id=INF_582079a0324e11e69519013b248da655) You know what they say without even clicking. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29597 "2016-06-14T22:56:58Z")
**Elvis** , I’m trying to stay sane and sober, don’t make me choose. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29598 "2016-06-14T23:02:55Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > You forgot a native-born citizen exercising his 2nd Amendment rights as well. Ruthlessly shot down in the prime of life by a jackbooted thug of the tyranny. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29599 "2016-06-14T23:14:39Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > **Elvis** , I’m trying to stay sane and sober, don’t make me choose. Sanity is over-rated. Wild Turkey is cheap. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29600 "2016-06-14T23:19:40Z")
This last page of posts is exactly why I don’t think Trump or the Republicans are going to get much political mileage out of this. They have to be too sensitive to the kind of people who go to Verity Baptist, and it’s too obvious when they have to dance around the hate crime aspect. If anything, it just shows their true colors to an electorate that generally sees homosexuality as something that does not deserve any legal censure, much less the death penalty. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29601 "2016-06-14T23:38:50Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [A compendium of tweets from NRA employees in Congress.](https://www.good.is/articles/our-thoughts-and-prayers-are-really-with-the-nra?utm_content=inf_10_81_2&utm_source=TSE&utm_medium=FB&utm_campaign=pd&tse_id=INF_582079a0324e11e69519013b248da655) You know what they say without even clicking. Are _you_ Igor Volsky? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1479) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1481)