# 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:** 1485
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29682 "2016-06-21T03:10:20Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > Yes, they fast all day during Ramadan, then gorge on a gormet lutefisk & lefsa banquet! 🙂 > Actually, Keith was a good catholic boy until he converted during college. And remember what famous Jesuit St. Francis Xavier said: . Ah, yes. I believe he was quoting the Gospel of [Jeffrey Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Jones#Arrests). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29683 "2016-06-21T06:09:08Z")
[Florida GOP candidate to give away semi-automatic rifle.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-congressional-candidate-announces-ar-15-giveaway-211148840.html) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29684 "2016-06-21T06:23:04Z")
From above cited article: > [@](#): > > …The custom-built AR-15 rifle, which the Evers campaign says is the “Homeland Defender” collector’s edition,… was made in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, and displays the Second Amendment on a metal plate on the right side near the trigger guard… Offered without comment. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29685 "2016-06-21T11:39:59Z")
Do you think they included the part about the well regulated Militia (or just the parts they like)? ---
**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 21, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29686 "2016-06-21T19:07:55Z")
[Senator Roy Blunt (Idiot, Missouri) tweeted that his campaign opponent, Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander is soft on terrorism because he refuses to use the magic words, “Radical Islamic terrorism”.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/two-simple-sentences-humiliate-gop-senator-who-accused-afghan-war-veteran-of-being-soft-on-terror/) Kander tweeted back, “I volunteered in Afghanistan to fight radical Islamic terrorism. Think before you tweet.” Blunt got draft deferments and never served in the military. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29687 "2016-06-21T19:13:46Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > [Florida GOP candidate to give away semi-automatic rifle.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-congressional-candidate-announces-ar-15-giveaway-211148840.html) He’s just a candidate? And only one AR-15? How cute. [Tennessee Lawmaker Receives Threats for AR-15 Giveaway](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tennessee-lawmaker-receives-threats-ar-15-giveaway-39849815) > [@](#): > > Before the shootings happened, Republican state Rep. Andy Holt had offered the AR-15 as a door prize at a fundraiser scheduled for later this month. **When he was heavily criticized following Sunday’s shootings, he said he would give away a second one as well.** That’s the _Tennessee_ way. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29688 "2016-06-21T19:15:25Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Do you think they included the part about the well regulated Militia (or just the parts they like)? Or the part where it is specified (like several other amendments) as “the right of the people”? :dubious: ---
**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 21, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29689 "2016-06-21T20:23:08Z")
[Governor Paul LePage (Evil, Maine) wants the USDA to spend millions of dollars to make lists of good foods and bad foods so that he can tell people on SNAP to only eat the good stuff. And if the USDA doesn’t do that, he will shut down the SNAP program altogether in Maine.](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3PYp5sROj_1ZmYtWHdRTGdZQ2NtY2lScVptcDIyZFN0c1RJ/view) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29690 "2016-06-21T20:29:16Z")
Poor people just have it too easy. If you make it tougher to be poor, they’ll stop doing it. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29691 "2016-06-21T20:29:35Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Governor Paul LePage (Evil, Maine) wants the USDA to spend millions of dollars to make lists of good foods and bad foods so that he can tell people on SNAP to only eat the good stuff. And if the USDA doesn’t do that, he will shut down the SNAP program altogether in Maine.](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3PYp5sROj_1ZmYtWHdRTGdZQ2NtY2lScVptcDIyZFN0c1RJ/view) I hope the feds cut off his highway funds, and any other federal subsidies subject to executive action. ---
**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 21, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29692 "2016-06-21T21:37:39Z")
Cool! One step closer toCOKE V With 7 Essential Vitamins and Minerals!CMC fnord! ---
**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 21, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29693 "2016-06-21T22:05:29Z")
[Steve King introduces legislation to block Harriet Tubman from being on the $20.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gop-lawmaker-tubman-attempts-block) > [@](#): > > Rep. Steve King of Iowa has offered an amendment to a spending bill barring the use of funds to redesign any Federal Reserve note or coin. It wasn’t immediately clear why King opposed the redesign, and his office did not immediately respond to messages… > > King is a conservative Republican known for his outspoken criticism of U.S. immigration policy. His Democratic opponent in Iowa, Kim Weaver, said it’s “a headline-grabbing piece of stunt legislation.” > > “And what chance does this meaningless and mean-spirited gesture have of actually passing? Just like most measures introduced by Steve King, none,” she said. What an ass. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29694 "2016-06-21T22:15:53Z")
She was breaking the law, wasn’t she? A felon? She could have worked within the system for change! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29695 "2016-06-22T02:12:25Z")
Another black woman, working for change. While the plantation masters kept the folding money for themselves. ---
**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 22, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29696 "2016-06-22T02:54:13Z")
[The Trump campaign had Secret Service agents escort a black man from his Atlanta rally because there was “no room” for him.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/06/21/trump-had-this-black-republican-removed-from-a-campaign-event/) He happens to be the Vice Chair of the Georgia Republican Party. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29697 "2016-06-22T03:08:59Z")
Snerk! Way to get the support of the party, fuckhead. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2016, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29698 "2016-06-22T06:17:00Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Cool! > One step closer toCOKE V > With 7 Essential Vitamins and Minerals!CMC fnord! Any good brand of hair shampoo has that. I always wondered if I was supposed to actually wash my hair with it, or take two teaspoons every day. ---
**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 22, 2016, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29699 "2016-06-22T07:23:23Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Any good brand of hair shampoo has that. I always wondered if I was supposed to actually wash my hair with it, or take two teaspoons every day. Fortunately, I was never confused about the purpose of my 'poo . . . but [my hair started drinking long before my liver did](https://www.google.com/search?q=body+on+tap+shampoo&num=100&newwindow=1&biw=1067&bih=453&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAltO0jLvNAhXCaD4KHbpdAVQQ_AUIlAMoAA)! CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29700 "2016-06-22T16:06:20Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [The Trump campaign had Secret Service agents escort a black man from his Atlanta rally because there was “no room” for him.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/06/21/trump-had-this-black-republican-removed-from-a-campaign-event/) He happens to be the Vice Chair of the Georgia Republican Party. Well, he’s already got [“his African American”](http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/03/politics/donald-trump-african-american/) what would he need two for? ---
**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 22, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29701 "2016-06-22T16:53:26Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [The Trump campaign had Secret Service agents escort a black man from his Atlanta rally because there was “no room” for him.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/06/21/trump-had-this-black-republican-removed-from-a-campaign-event/) He happens to be the Vice Chair of the Georgia Republican Party. This doesn’t sound right. I was under the impression that he doesn’t get Secret Service protection until he gets the party nomination. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1484) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1486)