# 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:** 1637
**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, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32722 "2017-02-25T23:36:11Z")
The guy Fox News brought on to talk about violence and terrorism in Sweden is unknown to the Swedish government or to Swedish security personnel. However, he does have a record in the US for assault on a police officer and public drunkenness. > **[Fake Sweden expert on Fox News – has criminal convictions in US, no...](https://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/fake-sweden-expert-on-fox-news-has-criminal-convictions-in-us-no-connection-to-swedish-security/)** > > Fox News continues to focus on the debate about how immigration is breaking Sweden. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32723 "2017-02-26T01:40:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The guy Fox News brought on to talk about violence and terrorism in Sweden is unknown to the Swedish government or to Swedish security personnel. However, he does have a record in the US for assault on a police officer and public drunkenness. > [Fake Sweden expert on Fox News – has criminal convictions in US, no connection to Swedish security - DN.se](http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/fake-sweden-expert-on-fox-news-has-criminal-convictions-in-us-no-connection-to-swedish-security/) But let’s all trust Faux News 'cause 45 loves it. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2017, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32724 "2017-02-26T02:21:27Z")
“Clearly Sweden is lying. It’s prolly because they’ve already been taken over by godless Muslim terrorists. Hopefully President Trump is sending troops to invade Sweden _stat_ so we can save them, because we’re the good guys and they’re the bad hombres. What would John Wayne do?” 😛 ---
**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 26, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32725 "2017-02-26T03:20:20Z")
I don’t know about the Duke, but I know what [Bob Hope](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059298/) would do. ---
**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 26, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32726 "2017-02-26T03:43:23Z")
Kellyanne Conway said that she can’t be a feminist, because “It’s difficult for me to call myself a feminist in the classic sense because it seems to be very anti-male and it certainly is very pro-abortion, in this context.” So Merriam-Webster dictionary tweeted in response, “[‘Feminism’ is defined as "the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunitie](https://twitter.com/MerriamWebster/status/834806087371071491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)s.” ---
**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 26, 2017, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32727 "2017-02-26T04:29:01Z")
OK, so those pro-life feminists that were being so controversially excluded from (officially co-sponsoring) the Women’s March now can be snubbed and defined as non-existent by the White House? I’m not even a pro-lifer, and I find myself thinking, _How about all of you go jump in the Potomac?_ ---
**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 26, 2017, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32728 "2017-02-26T04:36:12Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I don’t know about the Duke, but I know what [Bob Hope](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059298/) would do. And we all know what [Brian Boitano](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNJmfuEWR8w) would do. ---
**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 26, 2017, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32729 "2017-02-26T12:45:37Z")
Hey Ben, yeah you, [Ben Stein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Stein), you Fucking Cunt. I liked your [game show](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win_Ben_Stein's_Money) but in the end you’re just another Nixonian cock sucking whore. [Fuck you Ben](http://www.mediaite.com/online/ben-stein-slams-cnn-on-cnn-you-are-hoping-to-do-to-trump-what-you-did-to-nixon/), ya fuk’in jag-off. And take that half ass co-host of yours, that donkey felching Jimmy (Hi! I’m missing a chromosome.) Kimmel, with you. God Damned republican Prick. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32730 "2017-02-26T12:59:57Z")
I’ll join in the chorus on that one, **Little Pig** : fuck you, Ben Stein. Nixon was a crook and a danger to the country, as close as we’ve yet come to having someone actually seize all power for himself. He hated the Constitution and wanted to circumvent it or do away with it and he deserved far more punitive measures than he actually recieved. History should judge him harshly and should also judge his cronies harshly for cheering him on and enabling his jackassery. Fuck you, Ben Stein. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32731 "2017-02-26T13:10:08Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Hey Ben, yeah you, [Ben Stein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Stein), you Fucking Cunt. I liked your [game show](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win_Ben_Stein's_Money) but in the end you’re just another Nixonian cock sucking whore. [Fuck you Ben](http://www.mediaite.com/online/ben-stein-slams-cnn-on-cnn-you-are-hoping-to-do-to-trump-what-you-did-to-nixon/), ya fuk’in jag-off. And take that half ass co-host of yours, that donkey felching Jimmy (Hi! I’m missing a chromosome.) Kimmel, with you. God Damned republican Prick. Kimmel mocks Trump ten times per monologue. What’s your beef with him? ---
**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:** [February 26, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32732 "2017-02-26T14:52:06Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Kimmel mocks Trump ten times per monologue. What’s your beef with him? That’s it’s not eleven? There’s never enough Trump mocking. ---
**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 26, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32733 "2017-02-26T19:29:33Z")
[Rick Santorum thinks people getting health care who have pre-existing conditions are scammers stealing health care.](http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/rick-santorum-millions-of-americans-with-preexisting-conditions-are-scammers-stealing-health-care/) ---
**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 26, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32734 "2017-02-26T20:14:09Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Rick Santorum thinks people getting health care who have pre-existing conditions are scammers stealing health care.](http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/rick-santorum-millions-of-americans-with-preexisting-conditions-are-scammers-stealing-health-care/) I’m sure that if he had a child with a congenital condition, he’d be just fine with no insurance company being willing to insure that child. Juuust fine… ---
**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:** [February 26, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32735 "2017-02-26T21:05:02Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I’m sure that if he had a child with a congenital condition, he’d be just fine with no insurance company being willing to insure that child. Juuust fine… Am I being whooshed? He does have a disabled daughter. She has something called Trisomy 18, a very rare genetic disorder that usually kills before the first birthday (she’s six or seven now, I think). I believe his family has the income to get her the needed treatment, however, something a lot of people don’t have. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32736 "2017-02-26T21:05:09Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Rick Santorum thinks people getting health care who have pre-existing conditions are scammers stealing health care.](http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/rick-santorum-millions-of-americans-with-preexisting-conditions-are-scammers-stealing-health-care/) > [@jayjay](#): > > I’m sure that if he had a child with a congenital condition, he’d be just fine with no insurance company being willing to insure that child. Juuust fine… Not a defense of Santorum, but that doesn’t appear to be what he’s raising concerns about, despite the way the headline is written. He appears to be talking about a scam where, due to a loophole in the rules about cancelling a health insurance policy, a person can stop paying premiums for three months, during which time, if they have a pre-existing condition, they cannot be dropped (even for defaulting on premiums), and can freely buy insurance again when the next open season period starts. I cannot say, of my own knowledge, if the scheme he describes is a real workable thing. Santorum offered no evidence that anyone, let alone millions of people, have engaged in such a scam. The article does not mention if he was asked to provide any. ---
**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 26, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32737 "2017-02-26T21:06:07Z")
House Republicans have passed a new law making all Congressional records the private property of the members, therefore preventing them from being available for investigations. (pdf file): > **[BILLS-115hres5-PIH-FINALv2.pdf](https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20170102/BILLS-115hres5-PIH-FINALv2.pdf)** > > 112.97 KB ---
**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 26, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32738 "2017-02-26T21:17:37Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Not a defense of Santorum, but that doesn’t appear to be what he’s raising concerns about, despite the way the headline is written. > > He appears to be talking about a scam where, due to a loophole in the rules about cancelling a health insurance policy, a person can stop paying premiums for three months, during which time, if they have a pre-existing condition, they cannot be dropped (even for defaulting on premiums), and can freely buy insurance again when the next open season period starts. > > I cannot say, of my own knowledge, if the scheme he describes is a real workable thing. Even if they were, that’s not a “scam”, that’s taking advantage of the rules as they are set up (temporarily - good luck getting new insurance after pulling that stunt). Trump did it a million times - be it taking advantage of bankrupcy laws, tax laws, zoning codes, dodgy contracts… But when the little people start doing it too, my, that’s some moral hazard ! ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32739 "2017-02-26T21:21:39Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Not a defense of Santorum, but that doesn’t appear to be what he’s raising concerns about, despite the way the headline is written. > > He appears to be talking about a scam where, due to a loophole in the rules about cancelling a health insurance policy, a person can stop paying premiums for three months, during which time, if they have a pre-existing condition, they cannot be dropped (even for defaulting on premiums), and can freely buy insurance again when the next open season period starts… Assuming that this scam has any reality at all, it sounds like a simple problem with a simple fix. The Republioturds have been frequently invited to participate in amending ACA to avoid such glitches. Their preference, however, has always been to _rejoice_ in whatever glitches exist, so they can appear on #FakeNews with their constipated rants about how evil the Teleprompter Emperor and the other crypto-Islamist socialists were. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32740 "2017-02-26T21:55:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > House Republicans have passed a new law making all Congressional records the private property of the members, therefore preventing them from being available for investigations. > > (pdf file): > [http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20170102/BILLS-115hres5-PIH-FINALv2.pdf](http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20170102/BILLS-115hres5-PIH-FINALv2.pdf) The number of links you post is astounding, especially since so many of them are shite and don’t actually say what you say they say. In this case, could you at least give us a page number to look at so we don’t all have to read the whole 35 page document? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32741 "2017-02-26T21:58:25Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > He makes the train for others to ride, no wonder he’s exhausted. > > No, in that case, they’d be getting something done. And yes he’s [all lit up again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cABZfkRcQ6A). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1636) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1638)