# 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:** 1553
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31042 "2016-09-05T21:17:36Z")
Trump met a Mexican, didn’t get raped, robbed or stabbed. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2016, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31043 "2016-09-05T21:39:50Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > This Stupid Liberal Idea that we want our politicians to lie, as long as we think we’re in on the deception and only the rubes are being fooled, really needs to be retired. Many Republicans that know better do so, it seems that you are _ **so** _ ignorant that you even ignore it when Trump and the Republicans go for deception and are willing to fool the rubes: > **[As Election Year Unfolds, Climate Concern Rises](https://thinc.blog/2016/03/17/as-election-year-unfolds-climate-concern-rises/)** > > Gallup: Americans are taking global warming more seriously than at any time in the past eight years, according to several measures in Gallup’s annual environment poll. Most emblematic is the … > [@](#): > > **Woman’s question** : “I’m a volunteer with a leading conservation voters group and we want to know about what your plan is to reduce pollution that is driving climate change and endangering public health.” > > **Trump** : “That’s an interesting question. Let me ask you a question… Ok, so we have global, let me ask you this, ok to [hissing and some boos from the crowd] take it easy… How many people, how many people here believe in global warming? [Turns around looks for hands up] You believe in global warming? > Who believes in global warming? > Who believes in global warming? > Raise your hand, nobody? > **One person** …” This is worse than ignorance, it is malpractice. Even professional “skeptics” tell us that global warming is happening, but is natural; so the answer should had been **yes** , but not even that :smack: What fake skeptics deny is the climate change that that warming brings and that it is human caused. And I have seen a few places in the internet where Trump followers (I think it was in Reddit’s Trump group) do report to “know” that Trump knows that the issue is serious but he will continue with the deception. A lot of votes depend on that. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31044 "2016-09-06T03:08:19Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Trump met a Mexican, didn’t get raped, robbed or stabbed. Of course. Mexico sent them all here. Then he went to Mexico. Where crime is now non-existent ---
**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:** [September 6, 2016, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31045 "2016-09-06T19:28:16Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > I was going to vote for her anyway, but thanks, Michelle. It’s Michele. Leave off the last L for loony. Oh, and Bachmann has two N’s. Add one for nutty. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31046 "2016-09-06T19:55:14Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > It’s Michele. Leave off the last L for loony. > > Oh, and Bachmann has two N’s. Add one for nutty. Add several million for nutty. ---
**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 7, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31047 "2016-09-07T18:54:07Z")
[Republican candidate for a local New Jersey township council quits the race after even the local Republican Party condemned him for tweeting that he hoped a reporter got raped by a Syrian refugee.](http://trofire.com/2016/09/07/n-j-gop-er-quits-race-wishing-rape-female-reporter/) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31048 "2016-09-07T19:14:07Z")
[Trump supporters show their support for whatever he says…even if he doesn’t really say it, and it is really, _really_, _ **really** _ stupid.](http://trofire.com/2016/08/16/hilarious-horrifying-triumph-insult-comic-dog-shows-fake-trump-ads-supporters2/) Absolutely horrifying/hilarious. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31049 "2016-09-07T19:15:33Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > No, lying is a lot worse than believing in irrational things. That’s the corollary to the previous Stupid Liberal Idea: better to be smart than to be moral. > > One of these days a lot of your friends will die because you supported a self-interested liar over someone of real faith. So you must really dislike Trump. He lies many times more often than Hillary as every fact checking outlet has proved. His first campaign TV ad had seven lies in 30 seconds. That’s one every 4.5 seconds which has to be close to a world record. Hillary may be duplicitous, evasive and has a lawyerly approach the truth. However, she doesn’t perjure herself. She’s too smart for that. I’ll concede she occasionally skips the light fandango around the truth. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31050 "2016-09-07T19:30:24Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [Trump supporters show their support for whatever he says…even if he doesn’t really say it, and it is really, _really_, _ **really** _ stupid.](http://trofire.com/2016/08/16/hilarious-horrifying-triumph-insult-comic-dog-shows-fake-trump-ads-supporters2/) > Absolutely horrifying/hilarious. Jesus. I bailed at about 4 minutes. It’s all too depressing. ---
**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 7, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31051 "2016-09-07T19:46:48Z")
[The DOJ claims that the state of Texas is violating the court order which overturned their voting ID law, by continuing to enforce it.](https://thinkprogress.org/doj-catches-texas-violating-the-court-order-against-its-voter-suppression-law-d0f750460c23#.9tf5p4l21) ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31052 "2016-09-07T21:40:42Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [Trump supporters show their support for whatever he says…even if he doesn’t really say it, and it is really, _really_, _ **really** _ stupid.](http://trofire.com/2016/08/16/hilarious-horrifying-triumph-insult-comic-dog-shows-fake-trump-ads-supporters2/) Stupid in YOUR opinion. I happen to agree with the lady who said you should get casino chips only with your first abortion. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31053 "2016-09-07T23:21:25Z")
From stupid to the downright evil department: The Obama administration sought $1.9 billion in emergency funding to combat [mosquitos the Zika virus](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/david-jolly-mosquitoes-congress_us_57d040c6e4b03d2d4597bce9?section=). > [@](#): > > The Senate passed a compromise measure in May for $1.1 billion, but Republicans in the House insisted on adding riders to that bill targeting Planned Parenthood, the Clean Water Act and Obamacare, as well as protecting the display of the Confederate flag. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31054 "2016-09-09T17:11:22Z")
[Louie Gohmert says Clinton in mentally impaired.](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-rep-calls-clinton-mentally-impaired/ar-AAiHfZi) Louie Fucking Gohmert says Clinton in mentally impaired. Goddamned Idiot Louie Fucking Gohmert says Clinton in mentally impaired. Goddamned Idiot Louie Fucking Crazy as a Shithouse Rat Gohmert says Clinton in mentally impaired. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31055 "2016-09-09T17:38:12Z")
Eh, why not. Republicans, led by Donald Trumpf, have done nothing but project their own weaknesses and failings on Democrats this year. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31056 "2016-09-09T17:43:28Z")
Every cycle Republicans and conservatives lower the bar of what is or isn’t too sleezy to use an attack. ---
**Author:** ![TheStake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@TheStake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheStake)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31057 "2016-09-09T17:54:46Z")
I think both sides do it. Two party system sort of sucks. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31058 "2016-09-09T17:59:35Z")
Bull and shit. Both sides most assuredly do not do it to the extremes that the Republicans have tunneled down to. Random examples, sure. Systemic lying, cheating and general disdain for the democratic process and democratic ideals that are the hallmarks of the Republican Party? No. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31059 "2016-09-09T18:09:15Z")
> [@TheStake](#): > > I think both sides do it. Two party system sort of sucks. Both sides engage in mudslinging, but it seems to me it’s Republicans and Conservatives that set the new lower standard each time. Dems will stoop to the new low occasionally, but they aren’t the ones who went there first. ---
**Author:** ![TheStake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@TheStake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheStake)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31060 "2016-09-09T18:10:20Z")
I know this is a mostly liberal board so I concede that I won’t sway anybody. All I am saying is that both sides say stupid ass things. Sadly that’s a big part of politics here. ---
**Author:** ![TheStake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@TheStake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheStake)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31061 "2016-09-09T18:11:23Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Both sides engage in mudslinging, but it seems to me it’s Republicans and Conservatives that set the new lower standard each time. Dems will stoop to the new low occasionally, but they aren’t the ones who went there first. Actually you worded it much better than I. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1552) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1554)