# 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:** 1540
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30782 "2016-08-22T15:00:47Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Here’s the latest (and strangest) conspiracy theory the right is in love with; [Obama is sending “lesbian farmers” and “transgender hillbillies” to infiltrate and conquer red states.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/conservatives-panic-lesbian-and-transgender-hillbillies-are-coming-to-take-over-red-states/) “Mr. Drysdale, Jethro says he wants to have one of those thar sex-change operations.” ---
**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:** [August 22, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30783 "2016-08-22T16:01:32Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I really hope he just whooshed you. Because the alternative (that he was serious) is just sad. > [@Chimera](#): > > “Librul” shows you’re a mental lightweight. Your complaint does too. > [@Procrustus](#): > > Palin doesn’t read “all” magazines. No one does. She meant “none of them.” > > _All_ the polls show Trump losing. > > Where is the bias? > [@jsgoddess](#): > > Or, you know, it could show that he’s making a joke. I guess my reputation on this board as a dyed in the wool Trump hater isn’t as strong as I thought it was. ☹ Or at least not enough to overcome Poe’s law. So since it wasn’t clear, yes woosh. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30784 "2016-08-22T16:20:34Z")
[Texas judge](http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/08/22/texas_judge_blocks_obama_transgender_school_guidance.html) blocks Obama’s trans-friendly school guidance. A federal Texas judge, defying the 4th Circuit who has already ruled the rules were legal, issued an injunction _ **nationwide** _ to ban Obama’s rules allowing students who are trans to use the bathroom of their gender identity. Typically, cries of “activist judge” are overblown, a code for a ruling you don’t like, but this judge actually went above the 4th circuit and did it for jurisdictions outside of his represented state. Its a textbook example of judicial activism, ironic since Texas textbooks are so full of religious crap they are hardly worth the paper its printed on. Like the article says, conservatives seem to be purposefully grinding the government to a halt using a handful of extremist right-wing judges in safe red states ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30785 "2016-08-22T16:30:44Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I guess my reputation on this board as a dyed in the wool Trump hater isn’t as strong as I thought it was. ☹ > > Or at least not enough to overcome Poe’s law. So since it wasn’t clear, yes woosh. Had yer back: > [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > So when an interviewer is asked what polls Turmp is behind in and responds “all of them” that is seen as a good response, but when Palin is asked what magazines she reads and responds “all of them” she is castigated as light weight. That just shows the bias of the Librul media. > > Be careful when looking into the eyes of Poe’s Law. Don’t say I didn’t warn you! 😛 ---
**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 22, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30786 "2016-08-22T18:31:38Z")
[The Republican Party of Hawaii has officially disendorsed their party candidate for the 2nd Congressional District after she said that a vote for her opponent, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who is Hindu, is a vote for Satanism.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/hawaii-gop-disavows-their-bigoted-candidate-for-launching-a-holy-war-against-hindu-rep-tulsi-gabbard/) ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30787 "2016-08-22T18:40:53Z")
[This Is Not A Drill: Trump Turns To Bachmann For Foreign Policy Advice](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bachmann-advising-trump-on-foreign-policy) Personally, I would have gone with an “I shit you not” opener. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30788 "2016-08-22T19:33:15Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > I don’t care when most people mistake a father/daughter portrait for a couple, but a journalist/political cartoonist (who should have some grounding in art) should know better. I don’t see how the cartoon is inconsistent with the painting. The father in the painting has died, say, and his unmarried daughter inherits the house and since free of his puritanical control, has come out and married her true love, who to some possibly Freudian extant slightly resembles her father. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30789 "2016-08-22T19:39:32Z")
Eh, I have a now very elderly aunt who lived her entire life with her ‘partner’ on a farm in north central Minnesota. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30790 "2016-08-22T19:56:12Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [The Republican Party of Hawaii has officially disendorsed their party candidate for the 2nd Congressional District after she said that a vote for her opponent, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who is Hindu, is a vote for Satanism.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/hawaii-gop-disavows-their-bigoted-candidate-for-launching-a-holy-war-against-hindu-rep-tulsi-gabbard/) C’mon, that’s a _smart_ Republican idea! ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30791 "2016-08-22T20:11:35Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [The Republican Party of Hawaii has officially disendorsed their party candidate for the 2nd Congressional District after she said that a vote for her opponent, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who is Hindu, is a vote for Satanism.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/hawaii-gop-disavows-their-bigoted-candidate-for-launching-a-holy-war-against-hindu-rep-tulsi-gabbard/) Jesus, that Republican candidate is well above the mean level of crazy, even for the Republican Party. Check out the Facebook post she made about Japanese. It’s in [this article](http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/32805595/republican-congressional-candidate-apologizes-for-incendiary-comments-toward-japanese-people), on the left, with the profanity and racial slurs blacked out. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30792 "2016-08-22T20:37:25Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Jesus, that Republican candidate is well above the mean level of crazy, even for the Republican Party. Check out the Facebook post she made about Japanese. It’s in [this article](http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/32805595/republican-congressional-candidate-apologizes-for-incendiary-comments-toward-japanese-people), on the left, with the profanity and racial slurs blacked out. The racist bigotry is bad, but it’s not even the meanest part of her campaign: > [@](#): > > She had previously said she was running for the seat occupied by late U.S. Rep. Mark Takai, who later lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. Her signs proclaimed she was “healthy and cancer free.” ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30793 "2016-08-22T21:22:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [The Republican Party of Hawaii has officially disendorsed their party candidate for the 2nd Congressional District after she said that a vote for her opponent, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who is Hindu, is a vote for Satanism.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/hawaii-gop-disavows-their-bigoted-candidate-for-launching-a-holy-war-against-hindu-rep-tulsi-gabbard/) This confused me, until I read the article and learned that the shithead was born in Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30794 "2016-08-22T21:23:13Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > This confused me, until I read the article and learned that the shithead was born in Texas. So all she needs to do is move back there and run in 2018? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30795 "2016-08-23T01:15:12Z")
In _Hawaii_, of all states, she ranted against Japanese people? ---
**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 23, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30796 "2016-08-23T02:18:18Z")
It’s not called a _ **stupid** _ Republican idea for nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30797 "2016-08-23T02:31:24Z")
Big surprise, she’s a Trumpist. After googling, she has much more crazy to offer. For example, one of the prime ideas espoused on her ugly website is [“Advance a Plan for Hawaiian Sovereignty”](http://www.kaaihue4congress.com/) Apparently she’s had some mental issues, poor lady. ---
**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 23, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30798 "2016-08-23T02:45:50Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > [Texas judge](http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/08/22/texas_judge_blocks_obama_transgender_school_guidance.html) blocks Obama’s trans-friendly school guidance. > > A federal Texas judge, defying the 4th Circuit who has already ruled the rules were legal, issued an injunction _ **nationwide** _ to ban Obama’s rules allowing students who are trans to use the bathroom of their gender identity. Typically, cries of “activist judge” are overblown, a code for a ruling you don’t like, but this judge actually went above the 4th circuit and did it for jurisdictions outside of his represented state. Its a textbook example of judicial activism, ironic since Texas textbooks are so full of religious crap they are hardly worth the paper its printed on. > > Like the article says, conservatives seem to be purposefully grinding the government to a halt using a handful of extremist right-wing judges in safe red states Judicial activism. ---
**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 23, 2016, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30799 "2016-08-23T02:59:48Z")
[Ron Johnson doesn’t think colleges need to hire professors (and therefore having them corrupt innocent children), students can just watch internet videos.](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/08/22/1562705/-Ron-Johnson-genius-doesn-t-understand-why-we-have-college-professors?detail=facebook) ---
**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 23, 2016, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30800 "2016-08-23T08:03:45Z")
To be fair, most of college learning is reading dozens of books a week before finals and dodging courses for beer runs in the meantime. Dodging internet videos doesn’t make much a difference :). ---
**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 23, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30801 "2016-08-23T14:35:29Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Big surprise, she’s a Trumpist. After googling, she has much more crazy to offer. For example, one of the prime ideas espoused on her ugly website is [“Advance a Plan for Hawaiian Sovereignty”](http://www.kaaihue4congress.com/) Apparently she’s had some mental issues, poor lady. Could someone with better technical analysis chops than I possess estimate the vintage of that website? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1539) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1541)