# 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:** 1549
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30962 "2016-08-30T21:07:11Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > If you haven’t paid attention it’s not surprising you haven’t seen anything. Yeah, I don’t read the right wing hate sites that spread these lies. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30963 "2016-08-30T21:33:08Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Yeah, I don’t read the right wing hate sites that spread these lies. :rolleyes: Ah, ok, I read the Hot Air site, against my better judgement. Like I said, these sites are where you get this bullshit. Reporter makes a face and it is blown up and interpreted as being disappointed in America, blown up a little more, patently false assumptions injected to further the narrative, and pretty soon, you have a story about how American is being shamed and the left is apologizing for it, without any basis in fact but a lot of jumping to intentionally misleading or false conclusions to further the narrative that the left is constantly apologizing for America. When that whole narrative is nothing more than right wing smoke and bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30964 "2016-08-30T23:47:53Z")
If a dozen people say you did something once, that doesn’t mean that you did it a dozen times. Hell, it doesn’t even mean that you actually did it even once. ---
**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 31, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30965 "2016-08-31T01:10:09Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > If you haven’t paid attention it’s not surprising you haven’t seen anything. I still don’t understand what you are on about. Please explain it to me in small words. ---
**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 31, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30966 "2016-08-31T01:14:50Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > … The shaming and hate is all over the place. He’s everything we’re supposed to hate. Seems a bit extreme to me… It _would_ seem a bit extreme to a person such as yourself, who has the emotional capacity of a barley seed. For many of us, it is possible to criticize, even revile, another person’s irresponsible or reckless acts without having to resort to hatred of that person. Believe it or not. It is kind of a hallmark of your “SJWs”. Sorry that you lack that flexibility, but you really need to stop projecting your shortcomings on people you struggle to understand. ---
**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 31, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30967 "2016-08-31T01:24:57Z")
Kellyanne Conway: [“Rape would not exist if women were as strong as men.”](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/trump-campaign-manager-kellyanne-conway-rape-would-not-exist-if-women-were-strong-enough/) I’m not really sure what she’s trying to say there, but I guess she’s never heard of men being raped. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30968 "2016-08-31T01:51:12Z")
[One of the 1% of blacks who support Trump says:](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/nc-pastor-for-trump-wants-to-end-joblessness-by-returning-blacks-to-africa-to-build-roads/) > [@](#): > > A North Carolina pastor who has endorsed Donald Trump explained his job plan on Tuesday, which calls for the “return” of black Americans to Africa to build roads and bridges. > > Apostle Thomas Rodgers, Sr. of Antioch Road to Glory International Ministries in North Carolina told CNN host Carol Costello that black Americans should receive “dual citizenship” so that they could find jobs in Africa. I thought Trump was for creating jobs here in America. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30969 "2016-08-31T02:33:20Z")
Well of course the candidate of the white racists would support a movement to have black people voluntarily ‘repatriate’ to Africa. I’m sure the KKK supports the same thing. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2016, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30970 "2016-08-31T03:36:10Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > I thought Trump was for creating jobs here in America. Only if you’re from America. Everyone else has to go back where they came from. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2016, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30971 "2016-08-31T04:14:54Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [One of the 1% of blacks who support Trump says:](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/nc-pastor-for-trump-wants-to-end-joblessness-by-returning-blacks-to-africa-to-build-roads/)I thought Trump was for creating jobs here in America. Well, then I can see that the Trump followers do like the values that America had when it was great back in the 50’s… The 1850’s, that is. :rolleyes: > **[American Colonization Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Colonization_Society)** > > The American Colonization Society (ACS), initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to encourage and support the repatriation of freeborn people of color and emancipated slaves to the continent of Africa. It was modeled on an earlier British Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor's colonization in Africa, which had sought to resettle London's "black poor". Until the organization's dissolution ... ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30972 "2016-08-31T14:35:15Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Only if you’re from America. Everyone else has to go back where they came from. Only if you’re from America\* - Offer valid for Whites Only. ftfy ---
**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 31, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30973 "2016-08-31T18:20:43Z")
One of our favorites, Governor LePage, > [@"\[Politico](#): > > ([http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/paul-lepage-vows-never-speak-media-227589](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/paul-lepage-vows-never-speak-media-227589))"]… I think that the reporter who put the mic in my face owes the people of Maine an apology … for LePage’s lovely > [@](#): > > … obscenity-laced voicemail on Democratic state Rep. Drew Gattine’s phone after he was told by a reporter that Gattine had called the governor a racist. He ordered Gattine to “prove that I’m a racist” and warned “I am after you.” … LePage expressed his desire to challenge the “snot-nosed little guy from Westbrook” to a duel in which he would point a firearm “right between his eyes, because he is a snot-nosed little runt …" The reporter apparently misrepresented what Gattine said, _forcing_ LePage to act like a crazy hot-head. So, that ain’t happening again. > [@](#): > > “I will no longer speak to the press ever again after today,” LePage said, prompting laughter from reporters. “And I’m serious. Everything will be put in writing. I am tired of being caught — the gotcha moments. You folks live in a seven-second fiction world. I live in 24-hour reality.” Because what he said was _not_ racist, > [@](#): > > LePage, who called black and Hispanic people “the enemy” last week after remarking that most drug dealers in Maine are minorities, denied making any “racially charged” comments. honestly, > [@](#): > > LePage conceded that he may have responded the same way had Gattine’s comment been portrayed accurately “because race bothers me, because I try to help minorities.… And we need to educate people out of poverty and not by throwing money at them, and that’s another area that’s very, very dear to my heart.” So, even though the reported “baited” him, if the question had been phrased differently, he probably would have gone off the reservation anyway. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30974 "2016-09-01T01:26:36Z")
If 1% of blacks support Trump and the margin of error is +or- 3%, does that mean that he might actually have negative support. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30975 "2016-09-01T01:33:39Z")
No. It says that there’s a 95% chance that the actual support is close to 1% but does not define the probability distribution curve within those bounds. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30976 "2016-09-01T01:34:35Z")
The stupidest Republican idea in the history of stupid ideas: Joe Arpaio won his primary election. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30977 "2016-09-01T06:40:34Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The stupidest Republican idea in the history of stupid ideas: Joe Arpaio won his primary election. Why he isn’t Trumpy Wumpy’s running mate, or at least first choice, will always baffle me. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2016, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30978 "2016-09-02T03:05:25Z")
[The Senate “Science” Committee is going to hold hearings on the rights of state Attorneys General to investigate Exxon’s environmental record.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-science-exxon_us_57c885e8e4b0a22de095027f?section=politics) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30979 "2016-09-02T13:41:50Z")
> **[Latinos for Trump founder warns of 'taco trucks on every corner' | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/02/politics/taco-trucks-latinos-for-trump-supporter/)** > > A Latino surrogate for the Trump campaign warned Thursday that without tighter immigration policies from the Republican presidential nominee, "you're going to have taco trucks on every corner." Trump’s latin “guy” claims if Hillary is elected, “We’ll have taco trucks on every corner”. It’s pretty dumb but I’m not actually seeing the downside. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30980 "2016-09-02T13:54:27Z")
Mmmm… tacos… (Drool drool drool) ---
**Author:** ![TheStake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@TheStake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheStake)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30981 "2016-09-02T13:59:24Z")
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