# 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:** 1636
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32702 "2017-02-24T01:58:01Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > It’s hard to come up with an excuse for not showing up at a town hall that’s even lamer than the ones that have already been offered, but [today’s Profile in Cowardice](http://thehill.com/homenews/house/320778-gop-rep-invokes-giffords-shooting-as-reason-not-to-hold-town-hall) is up to the challenge: > > > [@](#): > > > > Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) on Thursday invoked the 2011 shooting of former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) at a constituent event as a reason not to hold a public town hall… My boy Louie, always good for a laugh. How in the world did Trump miss appointing him Secretary of Agriculture, where he could guard all the asparagus? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32703 "2017-02-24T02:37:50Z")
I swear, Steve Bannon thinks he’s John Galt! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32704 "2017-02-24T03:35:47Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I swear, Steve Bannon thinks he’s John Galt! If only. I’d pay the guy to remove himself from the ungrateful, needy company of the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32705 "2017-02-24T03:41:53Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Didn’t you hear your President just the other day, when he revealed that lots of things are done with uranium, including some bad things? I wonder what he had in mind. I think he’d be all for depleted uranium shells. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2017, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32706 "2017-02-24T07:58:52Z")
Ted Cruz predicts another Supreme Court vacancy this summer, and it would prompt those insane leftists to go [“Full Armageddon Meltdown.”](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-supreme-court-justice-conservative_us_58af1b05e4b060480e05b948) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32707 "2017-02-24T09:23:13Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Ted Cruz predicts another Supreme Court vacancy this summer, and it would prompt those insane leftists to go [“Full Armageddon Meltdown.”](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-supreme-court-justice-conservative_us_58af1b05e4b060480e05b948) [It finally remembered where I saw Ted Cruz as a child.](http://imgur.com/gallery/iq3pwME/comment/478114029) ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32708 "2017-02-24T12:16:30Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Ted Cruz predicts another Supreme Court vacancy this summer Was he gently stroking a high-powered rifle at the time, or something ? How the fuck would he know ? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32709 "2017-02-24T17:07:44Z")
[Russian Trump flags waved at CPAC.](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/320997-cpac-attendees-seen-waiving-russian-flags) Or, as it should now be called CCCPAC. Was it a troll, a protest or incompetence? A false false flag flag operation? I can’t be the only one who finds this hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32710 "2017-02-24T17:24:42Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > The German Fascists only CALLED themselves Socialists. It was a marketing ploy because socialism was a POPULAR philosophy at the time. Kind of like today’s American Fascists call themselves CONSERVATIVES. > > Or as when East Germany or North Korea call themselves Democratic Republics. Like Rule of Acquisition 239 says: “Never be afraid to mislabel a product.” You’re applying logic to a Republican claim. I’ll let you figure out at what point the entire thing went wrong. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32711 "2017-02-24T18:06:20Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > [Russian Trump flags waved at CPAC.](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/320997-cpac-attendees-seen-waiving-russian-flags) Or, as it should now be called CCCPAC. Was it a troll, a protest or incompetence? A false false flag flag operation? > > I can’t be the only one who finds this hilarious. REPUBLICANS CONFISCATE PRIVATE PROPERTY IN FALSE FLAG OPERATION would be a completely honest headline. ---
**Author:** ![Kiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kiber/32/317_2.png) [@Kiber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiber)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32712 "2017-02-24T19:43:36Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > [Russian Trump flags waved at CPAC.](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/320997-cpac-attendees-seen-waiving-russian-flags) Or, as it should now be called CCCPAC. Was it a troll, a protest or incompetence? A false false flag flag operation? > > I can’t be the only one who finds this hilarious. One wonders if anything would’ve been confiscated if they’d been waving a Russian made [Makarov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makarov_pistol) instead of a Russian flag. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2017, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32713 "2017-02-25T07:02:41Z")
Speaking of cpac, one of the prime stupid ideas was to let Bannon talk. Colbert put up a snippet of this, > [@"\[Time](#): > > ([CPAC: Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus' Interview Transcript | TIME](http://time.com/4681094/reince-priebus-steve-bannon-cpac-interview-transcript/))"]And – and Reince is indefatigable I mean, it’s low key, but … his job is, by far, one of the toughest jobs I’ve ever seen in my life. To make it run every day and to make the trains and you only see the surface. (that bit is about 80%+ of the way down the page) “Trains”? What? ---
**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:** [February 25, 2017, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32714 "2017-02-25T08:13:10Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Speaking of cpac, one of the prime stupid ideas was to let Bannon talk. Colbert put up a snippet of this, > > (that bit is about 80%+ of the way down the page) > > “Trains”? What? I assume he was comparing Reince’s workload to that of his political idol Benito. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32715 "2017-02-25T16:19:21Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Speaking of cpac, one of the prime stupid ideas was to let Bannon talk. Colbert put up a snippet of this, > > (that bit is about 80%+ of the way down the page) > > “Trains”? What? [This](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=train)is what he was talking about. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32716 "2017-02-25T16:52:51Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > [This](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=train)is what he was talking about. A girl? Not a boy? ---
**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:** [February 25, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32717 "2017-02-25T17:32:53Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > [This](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=train)is what he was talking about. You mean > [@](#): > > 6 > **train** > Doing two lines of cocaine simultaneously, one in each nostril. Also known as “riding the rails” or “skiing” > > _Man, I did a train a few minutes ago and now I’m jacked to the fucking gills!_ ? ---
**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:** [February 25, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32718 "2017-02-25T17:59:09Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > [This](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=train)is what he was talking about. He makes the train for others to ride, no wonder he’s exhausted. > [@eschereal](#): > > You mean? No, in that case, they’d be getting something done. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32719 "2017-02-25T18:06:18Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > No, in that case, they’d be getting something done. Is that really true? If they were doing that, would they be energetic and focused or mere energetic (i.e., scattershot)? I mean, when I tried that stuff, it seemed like all it did was make me want to do more of it. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32720 "2017-02-25T23:29:19Z")
Congressman Mike Burgess, who is a doctor: “If the number [of people with health insurance coverage] drop[s], I would say that’s a good thing, because we’ve restored personal liberty in this country, and I’m always for that.” > **[GOP congressman: More uninsured people means more freedom](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/cpac-obamacare-mike-burgess-health-insurance/)** > > Republicans are already making excuses for the drop in insurance coverage they might cause. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32721 "2017-02-25T23:33:58Z")
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