# 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:** 1621
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32402 "2017-01-24T04:15:54Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Spicer is using alternative facts. So it’s all good. > > In other news, today is banatuesday, and American astronauts have landed on Mars! What, again? Did they leave something behind? Probably the excitement of Trump capturing El Chapo. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32403 "2017-01-24T04:22:02Z")
It’s all true… from a certain point of view… ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32404 "2017-01-24T05:32:41Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > A Facebook friend of mine posted a link to a story about the ND law, with the comment, “I hope we get a law like this in Missouri soon.” The person who posted this is a high ranking officer in a large local police force. ☹ Ooh, can we run down cops with it? Turn police chases into demolition derby? _Well, we’ll be able to in my version!_ Now, where’s that ALEC number? ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32405 "2017-01-24T17:24:27Z")
Resisting arrest now a hate crime in Louisiana. [http://www.katc.com/story/34310586/st-martinville-police-hope-change-comes-with-states-new-hate-crime-law](http://www.katc.com/story/34310586/st-martinville-police-hope-change-comes-with-states-new-hate-crime-law) ---
**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:** [January 24, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32406 "2017-01-24T17:31:08Z")
> [@C3](#): > > Resisting arrest now a hate crime in Louisiana. > > [http://www.katc.com/story/34310586/st-martinville-police-hope-change-comes-with-states-new-hate-crime-law](http://www.katc.com/story/34310586/st-martinville-police-hope-change-comes-with-states-new-hate-crime-law) In similar news, firemen in that city will now take on the additional duty of burning censored books. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32407 "2017-01-24T20:59:06Z")
[Glenn Beck thinks the Women’s March was organized by George Soros and radical Islamic groups.](http://www.salon.com/2017/01/24/glenn-becks-latest-conspiracy-theory-womens-march-was-george-soros-radical-islam-astroturf_partner/) And tomorrow he’s going to prove it. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32408 "2017-01-24T21:28:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Glenn Beck thinks the Women’s March was organized by George Soros and radical Islamic groups.](http://www.salon.com/2017/01/24/glenn-becks-latest-conspiracy-theory-womens-march-was-george-soros-radical-islam-astroturf_partner/) > > And tomorrow he’s going to prove it. Damn. My kids participated and paid for everything themselves. I wonder if Mr. Beck would provide a Soros website my kids could go to in order to be reimbursed for their expenses. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32409 "2017-01-24T21:45:25Z")
I thought Beck had recaptured his sanity. Reports were premature, it seems. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32410 "2017-01-24T22:03:47Z")
And over in the federal government, employees of, more specifically, scientists who work at, the EPA and the Department of Agriculture have been told that [they are not allowed to talk to the press or the public](http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/24/14372940/trump-gag-order-epa-environmental-protection-agency-health-agriculture) I wonder if they’re also not allowed to talk to colleagues? ETA: The Post has more [in-depth information](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/24/usda-science-researchers-ordered-to-stop-publishing-news-releases-other-documents/?utm_term=.a07628b94c25). ---
**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:** [January 24, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32411 "2017-01-24T23:19:54Z")
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX); [don’t watch the news, because Donald Trump is the only source you need for absolute truth.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/lamar-smith-trump-liberal-media) This would be comical if it weren’t so frightening. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32412 "2017-01-24T23:39:53Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I thought Beck had recaptured his sanity. Reports were premature, it seems. Just because he’s right about Trump doesn’t mean he’s right about anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32413 "2017-01-24T23:40:28Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > [South Dakota Legislature Ethics Panel defeats rule prohibiting any sexual contact with legislative interns or pages.](http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/11/lawmakers-vote-against-barring-sexual-contatct-interns/96448914/) > > And they didn’t even have the guts to vote against it – instead they voted to defer it until the day after the legislative session ends. > > They claimed it was already prohibited under another rule, but that other rule prohibits ‘sexual harassment’, not just sexual contact, and only a member of the legislature can report violations, not the intern or page. Apparently a very stupid idea; publicity over this has made at least 2 interns angry enough to contact the news media in South Dakota. And this has made one Republican Legislator resign rather than face an investigation. Probably more to come. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32414 "2017-01-24T23:55:46Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > Apparently a very stupid idea; publicity over this has made at least 2 interns angry enough to contact the news media in South Dakota. And this has made one Republican Legislator resign rather than face an investigation. > > Probably more to come. Wow, my state of birth hits an all new low. Defeating a measure prohibiting sexual contact with legislative interns and HIGH SCHOOL PAGES. ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32415 "2017-01-25T00:30:13Z")
Today, Thrump eased the way for the two controversial pipelines. One, the Dakota, would seem to have some economic sense – cheaper and safer than trucking or rail of oil from Dakota to the midwest refineries – even though some cultural problems are caused, and the pipeline still has to be closely monitored for leakage, of course… But…why should we, desiring energy independence, subsidize the Canadian Shale Oil industry? They are competing with our own companies, helping drive down the price of crude, etc. etc…and besides that, the extraction of oil from Canadian shale is a dirty and polluting business that probably has to be subsidized by the Canadian people to make it viable… In either event, the amount of jobs associated with building the pipelines is significant, but only for a short time, then the number of people employed in decent jobs to move the oil is far less with a pipeline than with rail or truck movement… Just sayin’, seems like a political stunt mostly, that rubs both ways. If done right, I could support the Dakota line. But the Canadian one? Nope. ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32416 "2017-01-25T00:33:30Z")
Repeal of the ACA is also just a political stunt that proves nothing, because it is taken on faith, now, that the replacement will contain most of the features of the ACA. It would be so much easier and more acceptable to both sides of the issues to either 1) revise and improve the ACA after debate and public input, or, 2) scrap the whole thing and go to the best option, single payer. Either way, if Thrump wants to make me a partial believer, he should pressure the congress to give up many of their perks, including the comprehensive free and thorough health care package they enjoy. Whatever they contrive to serve the public should also be applied to their benefit package. ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32417 "2017-01-25T00:37:46Z")
Pruitt as much as admitted in his testimony today that everyone questioning his ethical standards were participants in the same hypocritical methods of obtaining wealth while serving in congress – finding out ahead of time which companies will benefit from measures they enact and buying their stock beforehand, often with the assistance of lobbyists. Time honored hypocritical behavior, and they all should burn in hell. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32418 "2017-01-25T00:38:36Z")
The only reason I’m against the two pipelines is because of local opposition. I think the tar sands would find their way to market somehow anyway so the CO2 is out of the equation for me. And at the same time the oil isn’t going to the United States but destined for other countries, and the jobs added are slim. So this is one of the times when I defer to the free market. The oil companies can’t buy the rights to the pipeline on the free market so they are trying to force the owners to sell. Aren’t the Republicans against the federal government seizing peoples own land from them? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32419 "2017-01-25T00:42:53Z")
“Cultural problems”? The whole protest there is at least partly, if not greatly, about water safety and water rights, not just the concept of sacred land. That sounds a bit more serious than “cultural problems.” ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32420 "2017-01-25T01:06:49Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The latest from the Minister of Propaganda: [the women’s march wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, and they weren’t protesting Trump anyway.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sean-spicer-womens-not-against-anything) [QUOTE=Spicer] There were people that came to the mall, as they do all the time, Sometimes in smaller numbers. [/QUOTE] Maybe they were all just tourists. There is a new orchid exhibit in the botanical gardens, maybe 500,000 women decided to choose Saturday to come down town to see it. I hear women like flowers. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32421 "2017-01-25T01:16:24Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Maybe they were all just tourists. There is a new orchid exhibit in the botanical gardens, maybe 500,000 women decided to choose Saturday to come down town to see it. I hear women like flowers. Somebody told them there was a new Ladies’ Room there and they all went together. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1620) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1622)