# 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:** 1530
**Author:** ![da\_pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ba0ec/32.png) [@da\_pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/da_pope)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30582 "2016-08-12T00:22:10Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > It’s amazing how easy it is to read those lines and hear them in Brannigan’s voice. > > Someone get me Billy West’s phone number and see if we can’t make a deal. [Billy West Reads Donald Trump Quotes In The Voice Of Zapp Brannigan From 'Futurama' | HuffPost Entertainment](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zapp-brannigan-donald-trump_us_57ac2c08e4b0db3be07d3fc2)? ---
**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:** [August 12, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30583 "2016-08-12T00:29:14Z")
That almost makes me want to join twitter. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk ---
**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 12, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30584 "2016-08-12T01:59:12Z")
[Fox News thinks female athletes should wear makeup to look more beautiful.](http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/08/11/fox_news_show_sports_court_discussed_a_usa_today_article_about_female_athletes.html) ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30585 "2016-08-12T04:00:02Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Fox News thinks female athletes should wear makeup to look more beautiful.](http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/08/11/fox_news_show_sports_court_discussed_a_usa_today_article_about_female_athletes.html) Although they seem inseparable, stupid Fox news goes in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=667548) thread, not the stupid Republican thread. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30586 "2016-08-13T01:08:16Z")
Despite her being up by 10% in the state, Trump says the only way Clinton wins Pennsylvania is if she cheats. [http://m.koat.com/politics/trump-if-clinton-wins-pennsylvania-she-cheated/41181972](http://m.koat.com/politics/trump-if-clinton-wins-pennsylvania-she-cheated/41181972) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30587 "2016-08-13T02:12:44Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Despite her being up by 10% in the state, Trump says the only way Clinton wins Pennsylvania is if she cheats. He’s going to “go down to certain areas” to watch if voter fraud is being committed. Gee, I wonder which “certain areas” he means? ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30588 "2016-08-13T03:00:11Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > He’s going to “go down to certain areas” to watch if voter fraud is being committed. > > Gee, I wonder which “certain areas” he means? He wants to make sure the black people are being forced to wait in long lines at understaffed polling stations, and being checked for certain specific kinds of ID that are difficult to get if you don’t have a birth certificate, while white voters in conservative Republican suburbs get fully staffed polling stations with extended hours and can get by with a gun or fishing license or something. Those black people voting, it’s probably fraudulent. Everyone knows they’re criminals, not all of them, I’m sure many are very nice people… ---
**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 13, 2016, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30589 "2016-08-13T03:47:24Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Despite her being up by 10% in the state, Trump says the only way Clinton wins Pennsylvania is if she cheats. > > [No Longer Available](http://m.koat.com/politics/trump-if-clinton-wins-pennsylvania-she-cheated/41181972) From that story, > [@](#): > > At his first rally of the day, Trump put his dislike of the media in harsher terms than usual … “They are the lowest form of humanity.” I mean, that sounds a tad risky. If journalists actually ran news organizations, his coverage would start to show up on page 5, next to the Miracle Weight Loss ads. Lucky for him, the media are businesses, run by people who probably feel much the same way about journalists. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30590 "2016-08-13T04:12:52Z")
> [@da\_pope](#): > > [Billy West Reads Donald Trump Quotes In The Voice Of Zapp Brannigan From 'Futurama' | HuffPost Entertainment](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zapp-brannigan-donald-trump_us_57ac2c08e4b0db3be07d3fc2)? This is perfect. Zap Brannigan really _is_ Donald Trump. Well, not _really_, but you know what I mean. They’re two of a kind. Both of them are extreme narcissists with no filter. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30591 "2016-08-13T05:10:18Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > Everyone knows they’re criminals, not all of them, I’m sure many are very nice people… I think Trump would say ‘some are’ , not ‘many are’ . ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30592 "2016-08-13T05:12:22Z")
Actually he is more of a ‘some might be very nice people’ kind of guy. . ---
**Author:** ![aliensshow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@aliensshow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aliensshow)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30593 "2016-08-13T05:21:20Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Daily Beast thought it appropriate to out a bunch of Olympic athletes, including those from countries with onerous laws concerning gay people. > The current version of the article has been re-written, but Wonkette gives us highlights of the original post: > [How Is The Daily Beast Being A Raging Dumpster Fire Today?](http://wonkette.com/605425/how-is-the-daily-beast-being-a-raging-dumpster-fire-today) Yes we’re well aware of how homophobic Muslim-majority countries are, the mere mention of which sends the hysterical idiots on the left into conniption fits. ---
**Author:** ![aliensshow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@aliensshow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aliensshow)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30594 "2016-08-13T05:23:09Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > He wants to make sure the black people are being forced to wait in long lines at understaffed polling stations, and being checked for certain specific kinds of ID that are difficult to get if you don’t have a birth certificate, while white voters in conservative Republican suburbs get fully staffed polling stations with extended hours and can get by with a gun or fishing license or something. > > Those black people voting, it’s probably fraudulent. Everyone knows they’re criminals, not all of them, I’m sure many are very nice people… Yeah, liberals are always yelling that black people are too stupid to get photo IDs. Has your hood arrived back from the cleaners yet? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30595 "2016-08-13T06:07:21Z")
> [@aliensshow](#): > > Yeah, liberals are always yelling that black people are too stupid to get photo IDs. Has your hood arrived back from the cleaners yet? Aw, you brought your own stupid Republican idea of the day instead of pulling it down from some news site. I’m sure everyone appreciates the effort. ---
**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 13, 2016, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30596 "2016-08-13T10:50:36Z")
From the Put the Shovel Down Dept.: Trump New York campaign co-chair: Khizr Khan doesn’t deserve the gold star title. > [@](#): > > “I mean, if he’s a member of the Muslim Brotherhood or supporting the ISIS type of attitude against America there’s no reason for Donald Trump to have to honor this man,” said Carl Paladino of Khizr Khan, who rhetorically asked Trump if he’d read the Constitution. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30597 "2016-08-13T17:29:15Z")
Paladino is kind of a prick. He was Trump or LePage before they were cool and he got stomped in the New York gubernatorial race thanks to stuff like this: > **[NY Gubernatorial Candidate Carl Paladino’s Racist and Sexist Email History -...](https://wnymedia.net/paladino/)** > > It’s been written countless times that Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is something of a walking contradiction. But let’s take him at his Sent from my SM-G920P using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30598 "2016-08-13T17:47:11Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > From the Put the Shovel Down Dept.: > > Trump New York campaign co-chair: Khizr Khan doesn’t deserve the gold star title. > > > [@](#): > > > > “I mean, if he’s a member of the Muslim Brotherhood or supporting the ISIS type of attitude against America there’s no reason for Donald Trump to have to honor this man,” said Carl Paladino of Khizr Khan, who rhetorically asked Trump if he’d read the Constitution. For non-New Yorkers, Paladino was the GOP nominee for governor in 2010. So not some mere local party chair making silly noises. He’s also a teahaddist. Per Wiki: > [@](#): > > Paladino’s campaign platform emphasized regressive fiscal reform in Albany and gutting of the state’s educational system. He lost in a landslide. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30599 "2016-08-13T18:09:05Z")
His habit of emailing horse bestiality porn to staffers helped sink him, too. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30600 "2016-08-13T18:14:04Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > His habit of emailing horse bestiality porn to staffers helped sink him, too. I thought that was Palamino ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30601 "2016-08-13T20:29:51Z")
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