# 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:** 1659
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33162 "2017-03-21T00:53:44Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Or a shovel. Or a [rope](http://shconline-com.3dcartstores.com/532x50-Blk-Paracord_p_6314097.html). Less money, less work. 30’ Wall…Billions of dollars. 50’ of Rope…Less than $4. Knowing that your entire country is being led by A Fucking Moron…Priceless ---
**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:** [March 21, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33163 "2017-03-21T02:09:47Z")
Just for yuks, I tuned in to watch Trump give a rally speech in Louisville (I got tired of waiting for him to do one in Nuremberg). Here is a [highlights clip](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/20/trump-tells-louisville-rally-gop-health-bill-is-chance-to-end-obamacare-catastrophe.html). WARNING: This is a link to the most truthful news organization web site in the world. What struck me afterwards was how gullible the audience was. After doing some digging I can now understand one of the reasons as to why Trump went to Kentucky for his rally. “Forty percent of Kentucky’s working age population ages 16 to 64 functions at the two lowest levels of literacy—not being able to read at all or having very limited to moderate reading ability. Statewide averages mask the reality that large numbers of Kentucky counties have levels of literacy comparable only to those of developing nations—not other states.” [cite.](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/lrcpubs/rr296.pdf) See page 4 and 5 or knock yourself and read the whole depressing thing. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33164 "2017-03-21T03:16:45Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > See page 4 and 5 or knock yourself and read the whole depressing thing. I would, but I’m from Kentucky. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33165 "2017-03-21T03:30:35Z")
Right wingnut Tomi Lahren was on The View Friday, and she actually said something NotCrazy; “I can’t sit here and be a hypocrite and say I’m for limited government but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies.” [Now Daily Caller is saying she’s being leaving Glenn Beck’s “news” site because her fellow right wingers are pissed at her.](http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/18/tomi-lahren-likely-on-her-way-out-at-the-blaze/) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33166 "2017-03-21T03:47:26Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > “Forty percent of Kentucky’s working age population ages 16 to 64 functions at the two lowest levels of literacy—not being able to read at all or having very limited to moderate reading ability. Statewide averages mask the reality that large numbers of Kentucky counties have levels of literacy comparable only to those of developing nations—not other states.” > > [cite.](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/lrcpubs/rr296.pdf) See page 4 and 5 or knock yourself and read the whole depressing thing. That explains something that I found very odd back in the mid-80s. I spent a summer driving throughout the USA, mostly on back roads. On a dirt road in Kentucky I spent a few hours helping a fellow with his gas station’s paperwork, getting him set up to accept credit cards (I had tried to pay for my gas with a credit card only to be told that he had the papers). I was wondering how a person with a gas station could get by without accepting credit cards, but it did not occur to me that he could barely read until we started going through the paperwork. That in turn got me wondering how a person could run a gas station while barely knowing how to read. The report to which you linked has answered my long unanswered query. How very sad. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33167 "2017-03-21T04:11:16Z")
Betsy DeVos, Education Secretary - Kentucky - this won’t go well. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33168 "2017-03-21T04:44:41Z")
that’s their model for the entire country. Poor, uneducated, Republican. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2017, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33169 "2017-03-21T04:48:40Z")
We drove highway 627 from Winchester to Paris, and in the first twelve or fifteen miles, both sides of the road were endlessly lined with horse fences. The pall of wealth seemed almost overwhelming. Kentucky has the full range of toothless hillbillies to julep-sipping colonels, but it looks to be exactly the highly stratified type of society that Republiopathic policies are aimed toward, so the Devosiate ethos of education starvation is precisely suited to the goal of national kentuckification. Also, the smallest three-house town has a church (where I am from, by contrast, the smallest three-house town has a tavern). ---
**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:** [March 21, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33170 "2017-03-21T04:53:00Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I would, but I’m from Kentucky. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33171 "2017-03-21T05:00:57Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I would, but I’m from Kentucky. How do you get your computer to work with a hand-cranked phone? “Hello Central, give me the Internet?” ---
**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:** [March 21, 2017, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33172 "2017-03-21T06:17:21Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > that’s their model for the entire country. Poor, uneducated, Republican. Sad but true. Half of the country now gets it’s news from the equivalent of the crazy guy on the corner who shouts about contrails controlling his brain, while pissing himself. This is who they listen to now. Anything else is “fake news”. They just listen to whichever crazy corner screamer shouts the loudest. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33173 "2017-03-21T13:07:47Z")
> [@](#): > > A Republican congressman from Pennsylvania claims that God is a polluter. > Rep. Scott Perry was asked at a town hall in Red Lion on Saturday if he supported President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency in light of Pennsylvania’s “history of environmental problems.” > “Don’t we need a stronger EPA to protect the environment?” the questioner asked. > Perry, who has worked to restrict and limit the EPA’s abilities, didn’t directly answer the question. > Instead, he spoke of the Chesapeake Bay strategy, which he said was “forced on” the state and “left some violators out.” > Then he added: > > “And by the way, some violators ― if you believe in, if you’re spiritual and you believe in God ― one of the violators was God, because the forests were providing a certain amount of nitrates and phosphates to the Chesapeake Bay.” > The crowd can be heard shouting in disbelief as Perry spoke. > “Oh, c’mon,” one person cried out. > At least one local religious leader took issue. > Rev. Mitch Hescox, head of the Evangelical Environmental Network, told PennLive that while some pollutants are naturally occurring, most are from fertilizers and chemicals. [GOP Rep. Scott Perry Says Chesapeake Bay Pollution Is God's Fault | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/god-polluter-scott-perry_us_58d0923ee4b0be71dcf773f5)? ---
**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:** [March 21, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33174 "2017-03-21T16:23:06Z")
Republicans have been [accusing trees of causing pollution for decades](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Trees_cause_pollution), probably out of jealousy of the trees’ superior intellect. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33175 "2017-03-21T16:54:39Z")
Their bark, worse than their bite. And if you’ve seen one redwood tree, you’ve seen them all. Which will be _literally_ true rather soon. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33176 "2017-03-21T18:22:15Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > [GOP Rep. Scott Perry Says Chesapeake Bay Pollution Is God's Fault | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/god-polluter-scott-perry_us_58d0923ee4b0be71dcf773f5)? Well that only means that the EPA must impose stronger regulations on God(s). ---
**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:** [March 21, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33177 "2017-03-21T20:37:38Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > [GOP Rep. Scott Perry Says Chesapeake Bay Pollution Is God's Fault | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/god-polluter-scott-perry_us_58d0923ee4b0be71dcf773f5)? [Bat Shit For Brains](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Perry_(politician)) is also a “Brigadier General” in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33178 "2017-03-21T21:16:42Z")
Trump’s Fox News source regarding wiretapping [gets his balls cut off](https://www.yahoo.com/tv/fox-news-pulls-judge-andrew-napolitano-over-trump-011410694.html). ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33179 "2017-03-21T21:59:48Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > [Bat Shit For Brains](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Perry_(politician)) is also a “Brigadier General” in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. Love that link. He ended up in diversion after lying about shit. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33180 "2017-03-21T22:02:27Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Trump’s Fox News source regarding wiretapping [gets his balls cut off](https://www.yahoo.com/tv/fox-news-pulls-judge-andrew-napolitano-over-trump-011410694.html). This is like a bad dream. Trump can pick up the phone and have any of a number of intelligence agencies tell him exactly what is happening, but instead he relies on rumors from people that even Fox News can’t abide. How long before he wants to drop a nuke on Kansas because he read a _National Enquirer_ story about aliens landing in a cornfield? What would you do if you were a military officer responsible for executing that order? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33181 "2017-03-21T22:16:55Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Trump’s Fox News source regarding wiretapping [gets his balls cut off](https://www.yahoo.com/tv/fox-news-pulls-judge-andrew-napolitano-over-trump-011410694.html). Is Fox News actually developing some semblance of journalistic integrity? These are truly extraordinary times in which we live. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1658) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1660)