# 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:** 1566
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31302 "2016-09-20T19:43:44Z")
> [@](#): > > Donald Trump spent more than a quarter-million dollars from his charitable foundation to settle lawsuits that involved _the billionaire_’s for-profit businesses In fairness, it’s nice of him to risk jail time to bail out somebody else’s bad investments. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31303 "2016-09-20T19:46:43Z")
Oh, come on, guys like the orangetan are _entitled_ to do stuff like that. Do not criticize them for their entitlements, only indigents and liberals may be criticized in that way. ---
**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 21, 2016, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31304 "2016-09-21T02:51:40Z")
[GOP Senator doesn’t think government regulations should require restaurant employees to wash their hands after using the rest room.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/02/gop-senator-let-restaurants-opt-out-of-handwashing-after-toilet-to-reduce-regulatory-burden/) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31305 "2016-09-21T02:58:24Z")
If I ever have the opportunity to prepare food for, or serve food to, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) I will be sure to personally reduce the regulatory oversight on washing my hands. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31306 "2016-09-21T03:04:05Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [GOP Senator doesn’t think government regulations should require restaurant employees to wash their hands after using the rest room.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/02/gop-senator-let-restaurants-opt-out-of-handwashing-after-toilet-to-reduce-regulatory-burden/) He sounds like a 14 year old idjit who had just read Atlas Shrugged and thinks it’s cool. ---
**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 21, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31307 "2016-09-21T03:29:38Z")
Excuse me if I don’t shake your hand, Senator. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31308 "2016-09-21T12:17:04Z")
Having to put up a sign if you “opt out” of a regulation is… still a regulation. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31309 "2016-09-21T12:36:27Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [GOP Senator doesn’t think government regulations should require restaurant employees to wash their hands after using the rest room.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/02/gop-senator-let-restaurants-opt-out-of-handwashing-after-toilet-to-reduce-regulatory-burden/) Didn’t someone once post an amazing thread about what it would take to order a sandwich in Libertarianland? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31310 "2016-09-21T12:37:08Z")
I wonder if his next step would be to make it illegal to sue for food-borne illnesses. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2016, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31311 "2016-09-21T13:46:26Z")
Dunno. Maybe someone could look up any statements he’s made since February, 2015, when he came up with that gem… ---
**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 21, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31312 "2016-09-21T14:23:13Z")
Thom Tillis may be a carpet-bagging, knuckle-dragging moron, but even he’s not dumb enough to say that twice. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31313 "2016-09-21T14:51:42Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Thom Tillis may be a carpet-bagging, knuckle-dragging moron, but even he’s not dumb enough to say that twice. I wonder if any food workers, upon seeing him across from them, said “Hang on a second, I gotta go take a dump. You won’t mind, will you, if I don’t wash my hands before coming back?” ---
**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 21, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31314 "2016-09-21T15:57:37Z")
Just how big of a burden IS it to put a sign saying you gotta wash your hands after using the toilet? ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31315 "2016-09-21T18:00:58Z")
Between this and the transgender dustup awhile back I hadn’t realized Big Toilet had such a powerful lobby. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31316 "2016-09-21T18:27:32Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Just how big of a burden IS it to put a sign saying you gotta wash your hands after using the toilet? Well, you’ve gotta think like a Libertarian here. Clearly, it’s WAY, way easier to put up a sign indicating that you have no handwashing regulations for employees than it is to put up a sign in the washrooms telling employees to wash their hands. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31317 "2016-09-21T18:34:18Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Didn’t someone once post an amazing thread about what it would take to order a sandwich in Libertarianland? Can’t find it, so we may have to re-invent the wheel: 1. Enter sandwich shop, look for certificates of food safety and worker hygiene. 2. Determine which company did the food safety audit. Check your database for this particular company’s track record. Have they done a good job? Have consumers died from food-borne illness after eating at a restaurant they inspected? 3. Look for 3rd party audits of the food inspection company 4. Check your database of corporate ownership - is the sandwich shop chain a subsidiary of the same company that owns the food safety inspection group? 5. Inspect the supply chain certificates for all of the ingredients that you are ordering. Repeat steps 2, 3 and 4 above for ingredients. 6. (optional, if you have a social conscience) Look for certificates of fair wages for workers. Repeat steps 2, 3 and 4 for the company that issues these certificates ---
**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 21, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31318 "2016-09-21T18:36:59Z")
Don’t forge to check the certifications, et. al. of the companies and farms which grew and manufactured the items which make up the sandwich and the companies which transport all of the individual items. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31319 "2016-09-21T18:50:22Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Can’t find it, so we may have to re-invent the wheel: > > 1. Enter sandwich shop, look for certificates of food safety and worker hygiene. > > 2. Determine which company did the food safety audit. Check your database for this particular company’s track record. Have they done a good job? Have consumers died from food-borne illness after eating at a restaurant they inspected? > > 3. Look for 3rd party audits of the food inspection company > > 4. Check your database of corporate ownership - is the sandwich shop chain a subsidiary of the same company that owns the food safety inspection group? > > 5. Inspect the supply chain certificates for all of the ingredients that you are ordering. Repeat steps 2, 3 and 4 above for ingredients. > > 6. (optional, if you have a social conscience) Look for certificates of fair wages for workers. Repeat steps 2, 3 and 4 for the company that issues these certificates Don’t forget to inspect the inspection of their payment scales, for when you pay with specie, you wouldn’t want to accidentally get ripped off. ---
**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 21, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31320 "2016-09-21T18:52:41Z")
You can always rely on barter instead of specie. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31321 "2016-09-21T18:52:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Don’t **forge** to check the certifications, et. al. Freudian slip? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1565) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1567)