# 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:** 1560
**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 12, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31182 "2016-09-12T15:53:13Z")
> [@TheStake](#): > > No I am not. > > That was towards fear btw. Then you are not “en-scoped” in anything. She didn’t characterize Republicans in general, only Trump supporters. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31183 "2016-09-12T16:01:32Z")
> [@TheStake](#): > > … I’m done here. … Not my fight, but I have to ask: Done, like, in what fashion? Done, like, “I’m going to pop in every few posts and say dumb shit” done? ---
**Author:** ![TheStake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@TheStake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheStake)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31184 "2016-09-12T16:04:30Z")
Hey bobot! Thanks for adding to the conversation. I really enjoyed your enlightened thoughts about the subject matter. Go take a long walk off a short pier. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31185 "2016-09-12T16:19:41Z")
Its not so much about what Clinton said as to how it will be spun. Fact is, Trump has shit on so many people about so many things that its barely worth mentioning now. That’s his schtick and the media has played that out. Clinton hasn’t said much offensive stuff about anyone, so when she says it, its a story because its unique. That gives it legs. If she says something even remotely offensive, you blow that story up for a few days which leads to recanting which leads to apologies which leads to more stories to fill up the news cycle. Then the talking heads can engage in their favorite pastime pontificating about “what it means” Hopefully, if MSNBC and those news organizations are as liberal as conservatives accuse them of, they’ll realize its a non-story after a couple days and drop it, because it really is a non-story. Trump’s supporters are racists, sexist, greedy deplorables and they want to drag the country down to their level. But in the interest of “sounding fair”, I’m sure the networks will spend too much time on this making it into a bigger deal than it actually is. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31186 "2016-09-12T16:33:21Z")
Well Mr. TheStake, your inability to answer questions of any kind, your insistence on insults over substance and your inability to actually discuss anything rather limits your potential as a human being. I don’t know what you think you’re arguing, but the process isn’t showing you in a good light. Perhaps you should step back, think about what point you’re actually trying to make, the responses so far and how they may actually include productive responses to you, and rethink whether or not you’re intelligent enough to make a point or if you’re just being humiliated by your own treacherous brain. ---
**Author:** ![TheStake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@TheStake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheStake)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31187 "2016-09-12T16:38:30Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Well Mr. TheStake, your inability to answer questions of any kind, your insistence on insults over substance and your inability to actually discuss anything rather limits your potential as a human being. > > I don’t know what you think you’re arguing, but the process isn’t showing you in a good light. Perhaps you should step back, think about what point you’re actually trying to make, the responses so far and how they may actually include productive responses to you, and rethink whether or not you’re intelligent enough to make a point or if you’re just being humiliated by your own treacherous brain. Fair enough. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31188 "2016-09-12T16:53:12Z")
> [@TheStake](#): > > Two party system dude. You get ALL of the liberal bullshit, or you get ALL of the republican bullshit. I’m pretty much okay with all the liberal bullshit. There isn’t that much of it, in terms of legislation. Concern for the environment? Concern for workers? Equal rights? Yeah, pretty much okay with that. A lot of liberal voters can be pains in the ass, but they’re not the lawmakers I’m voting for. Republicans and conservatives pass anti-environment, anti-worker, anti-rights laws. That’s not extra bullshit you have to put up with. That is the platform. All of it. ---
**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 12, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31189 "2016-09-12T17:12:27Z")
[Jebus, what a whiny ass coward.](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-protests-format-for-presidential-debates/ar-AAiNyvU) ---
**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 12, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31190 "2016-09-12T18:30:35Z")
Oh, c’mon. You knew he was going to do it. Lower expectations, then slink away when the mean old moderator calls him on his bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31191 "2016-09-12T19:05:38Z")
Still think he’s angling for a plausible excuse to bail on debates. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31192 "2016-09-12T19:27:42Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Still think he’s angling for a plausible excuse to bail on debates. Yet in our election threads, there are people claiming that women will swoon over his debating skills and change sides! Ok, maybe one person. ---
**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 12, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31193 "2016-09-12T22:53:25Z")
[Governor of Kentucky suggests the need to shed the blood of tyrants if Hillary is elected.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ky-gov-matt-bevin-election-hillary-clinton-may-call-shedding-blood-tyrants-and-patriots) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31194 "2016-09-12T23:02:11Z")
Do it. Go ahead, do it. Watch how fast we slap you fuckers down. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31195 "2016-09-12T23:02:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Governor of Kentucky suggests the need to shed the blood of tyrants if Hillary is elected.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ky-gov-matt-bevin-election-hillary-clinton-may-call-shedding-blood-tyrants-and-patriots) That is batshit crazy. What exactly do they think Mrs. Clinton would do? Jesus, that’s fucked up. ---
**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 12, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31196 "2016-09-12T23:06:34Z")
I love the way the RWNJs keep calling Obama and Hillary “tyrants,” when their guy is a proven fascist. Yeah, try to shed the blood of those “tyrants.” I dare you. You’ll see a purge of the Right so large it will make the St. Valentine’s Day massacre look like a kindergarten party. ---
**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 12, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31197 "2016-09-12T23:20:50Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Do it. Go ahead, do it. > > Watch how fast we slap you fuckers down. And it wouldn’t even make us bad people. Self defense! ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31198 "2016-09-13T00:09:34Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Governor of Kentucky suggests the need to shed the blood of tyrants if Hillary is elected.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ky-gov-matt-bevin-election-hillary-clinton-may-call-shedding-blood-tyrants-and-patriots) So, treason and a new Civil War? That’ll be fun.\* \*Note for the sarcasm impaired, that is TOTALLY sarcasm. I don’t think it’d be fun at all. But I do think the elected governor of Kentucky has just suggested he and others are willing to commit treason, and he needs to be slapped down for it, hard and fast. ---
**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 13, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31199 "2016-09-13T00:13:33Z")
> [@TheStake](#): > > I said both sides do it. I said both sides should not. My point was I said that I felt that repubs got broad brushed. You said no that does not happen. > > So wtf? **TheStake** , can you cite where a Republican candidate was threatened with violence, bloodshed or ‘2nd Amendment solutions’ or had their picture imposed on a target? Any Democrats, in your memory, who have threatened political opponents or reporters with harm? ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31200 "2016-09-13T03:31:52Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > That is batshit crazy. What exactly do they think Mrs. Clinton would do? Duh. Outlaw guns, and turn the country over to the UN. Just like Obama did. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31201 "2016-09-13T13:25:10Z")
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