# 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:** 1598
**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:** [December 12, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31942 "2016-12-12T00:51:57Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > [Washington proposes bill allowing guns into stadiums - Sports Illustrated](http://www.si.com/nfl/2016/12/10/washington-guns-stadiums-bill-seahawks-mariners) > > Conservative legislators in Washington state are proposing a bill that would allow fans to bring guns into sports stadiums including Safeco Field and CenturyLink Field in Seattle. > > “…potentially arming fans in stadiums, where alcohol runs freely and emotions often run high, seems like a risky idea, to say the least.” What’s interesting to me is that MLB has a “no gun” policy for its players (they cannot bring any weapon to any MLB-affiliated function or activity), and all venues were supposed to be gun-free zones by the 2015 season. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31943 "2016-12-12T01:27:11Z")
These are privately operated businesses. And Republicans are trying to prohibit them from excluding a category of people. I guess the bright spot is that Republicans now agree that anti discrimination laws are an appropriate use of government power. Like anyone who’s recently adopted a new philosophy, they’re a little unclear on the nuances. But, hey, baby steps ---
**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:** [December 12, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31944 "2016-12-12T01:45:51Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > What’s interesting to me is that MLB has a “no gun” policy for its players (they cannot bring any weapon to any MLB-affiliated function or activity), and all venues were supposed to be gun-free zones by the 2015 season. If only Reggie Jackson hadn’t tried to kill the Queen, and ruined it for everyone else. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31945 "2016-12-12T02:41:41Z")
Quote: > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by raventhief View Post > Is that the trumpling that tweeted the skittles pic? > [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > No, that was Donald, jr. Which one is Uday and which Qusay? ---
**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:** [December 12, 2016, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31946 "2016-12-12T04:32:53Z")
John Bolton, who is being touted for a State Department post, says that the hack of the DNC was a false flag action performed by the Obama White House. > **[Bolton suggests DNC hack was Obama administration 'false flag'](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bolton-suggests-dnc-hack-was-obama-administration-false-flag)** > > Former UN Ambassador John Bolton suggested Sunday that the hacking of the Democratic National Committee may have been a "false flag" operation by the Obama administration. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2016, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31947 "2016-12-12T05:03:12Z")
Rand Paul has said that he’s going to do everything he can to keep Bolton out of the State Department. > [@](#): > > But the Kentucky senator had strong warnings about former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton, who is a possible contender for secretary of state or deputy secretary of state. > > “I’ll do anything to try to prevent John Bolton from getting any position because I think his world view is naive,” Paul said. “He still believes in regime change. He’s still a big cheerleader for the Iraq War. He’s promoted a nuclear attack by Israel on Iran. He wants to do regime change in Iran.” > > “John Bolton doesn’t get it,” Paul said. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31948 "2016-12-12T05:04:58Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Rand Paul has said that he’s going to do everything he can to keep Bolton out of the State Department. How is this a stupid Republican idea? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31949 "2016-12-12T05:39:57Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > How is this a stupid Republican idea? Rand Paul is a walking Republican Stupid Idea. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2016, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31950 "2016-12-12T05:48:55Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Rand Paul is a walking Republican Stupid Idea. At this point he’s the sane one. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31951 "2016-12-12T06:23:25Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > John Bolton, who is being touted for a State Department post, says that the hack of the DNC was a false flag action performed by the Obama White House. > > [http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bolton-suggests-dnc-hack-was-obama-administration-false-flag/article/2609395](http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bolton-suggests-dnc-hack-was-obama-administration-false-flag/article/2609395) Another source reporting on the same event suggests that Bolton was long on insinuation, spare with specifics, a cloud of ambiguity. Could easily have been an indictment of the White House or some other entity all together, maybe even a third country. Anyway, so, somebody who is not the Russians cooked up this scheme. Somebody who is smart enough to not only do the hacking, but leave behind damning cyber-evidence what would convice investigators that it was the Russians. I’d almost say it was so crazy ass nobody could believe it, but this is John Bolton we are talking about. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2016, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31952 "2016-12-12T07:03:21Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > These are privately operated businesses. No. The Mariners, Seahawks, Sounders, _et al_, are privately operated businesses that lease the stadiums from the county, which owns them. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2016, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31953 "2016-12-12T07:09:38Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > How is this a stupid Republican idea? It isn’t. I just thought that I would include it as the lone voice of reason. We’ve had other posts in this thread to either compliment or contrast with previous posts. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31954 "2016-12-12T09:32:31Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > No. The Mariners, Seahawks, Sounders, _et al_, are privately operated businesses that lease the stadiums from the county, which owns them. As a resident of the greater Seattle area, I’d just like to say that the idea of giving guns to Seahawks fans _terrifies_ me. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31955 "2016-12-12T15:14:08Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > As a resident of the greater Seattle area, I’d just like to say that the idea of giving guns to Seahawks fans _terrifies_ me. Better them than Eagles or Raiders fans, _c’est possible?_ ---
**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:** [December 12, 2016, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31956 "2016-12-12T15:22:08Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > These are privately operated businesses. And Republicans are trying to prohibit them from excluding a category of people. No-The _people_ are perfectly welcome to enter. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31957 "2016-12-12T15:34:51Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > No. The Mariners, Seahawks, Sounders, _et al_, are privately operated businesses that lease the stadiums from the county, which owns them. Ah, right you are. Thanks. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > No-The _people_ are perfectly welcome to enter. I know. I was straining to snark. It didn’t come out very well. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31958 "2016-12-12T16:05:09Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > Ah, right you are. Thanks. > I know. I was straining to snark. It didn’t come out very well. The quality of snarking is not strained…or something like that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31959 "2016-12-12T17:45:40Z")
It falls from Heaven like the ruthless reign… ---
**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:** [December 12, 2016, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31960 "2016-12-12T21:48:54Z")
SOMEbody who refuses to take credit for it, posted a meme on Allen West’s Facebook page showing Mad Dog Mattis with the caption “Fired by Obama to please the Muslims, Hired by Trump to exterminate them”. And now West is meeting with the West transition team to see what positiion he can fill with them. Chief Muslim Exterminator, maybe? [https://thinkprogress.org/allen-west-trump-team-genocide-muslims-7750799d9eea#.qijhbdfyj](https://thinkprogress.org/allen-west-trump-team-genocide-muslims-7750799d9eea#.qijhbdfyj) ---
**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:** [December 13, 2016, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31961 "2016-12-13T02:51:11Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > As a resident of the greater Seattle area, I’d just like to say that the idea of giving guns to Seahawks fans _terrifies_ me. Well, you know, if that _other_ QB is playing too well … I mean, the stadium is already known for being very loud, which would make for excellent cover. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1597) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1599)