# 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:** 1661
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33202 "2017-03-22T18:32:44Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > Old news that’s resurfaced recently: Whack job Trump advisor Roger Stone has a tattoo of Nixon on his back. I guess that was easier than always retaping the “kick me” sign. > > [Does Roger Stone Have a Tattoo of Richard Nixon on His Back? | Snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com/roger-stone-nixon-tattoo/) > > Stone is a loony, but props to him for being in such good shape at his age. Good triceps. So… Did he lose a bet or something? ---
**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 22, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33203 "2017-03-22T19:15:43Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > So… Did he lose a bet or something? Nope. He brags that he’s the only man with a dick on either side. Actual true story. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33204 "2017-03-22T19:39:11Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > So… Did he lose a bet or something? From Bayard’s link: > [@](#): > > Stone told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that he admired Nixon’s resilience and that the tattoo was a daily reminder that “when you get knocked down, when things don`t go your way, when you`re defeated, you got to get up and fight again. It`s simply that.” It’s on his back! How often do any of us see our backs? How can something be a daily reminder on his back? ---
**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:** [March 22, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33205 "2017-03-22T19:42:22Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > From Bayard’s link:It’s on his back! How often do any of us see our backs? How can something be a daily reminder on his back? It’s there as scenery when he puts his head up his ass. ---
**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 22, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33206 "2017-03-22T20:39:27Z")
Congressional Republicans are upset that Mad Dog Mattis is hiring Democrats to fill positions in his Department. > **[Hill Republicans say they're growing frustrated with Mattis](https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/mattis-defense-hill-republicans-obama-236329)** > > The Marine general was welcomed as a moderating force in the Trump administration, but his moves to name Obama veterans to Pentagon posts are irritating allies in key committees. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33207 "2017-03-22T20:51:39Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > From Bayard’s link:It’s on his back! How often do any of us see our backs? How can something be a daily reminder on his back? Well, and Nixon resigned. That seems like he got knocked down and stayed the fuck down. ---
**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 22, 2017, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33208 "2017-03-22T20:55:14Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > From Bayard’s link:It’s on his back! How often do any of us see our backs? How can something be a daily reminder on his back? Shouldn’t it rather be a reminder that “when you get knocked down, when things don`t go your way, when you`re defeated, you slink away from public light and quietly die off, then [someone pisses on your grave](http://www.wnd.com/images2/nixongrave.jpg)” ? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33209 "2017-03-22T21:41:16Z")
Hard to believe that Tricky Dick went and got himself planted somewhere everyone could just haul off and piss on him. Or maybe Pat arranged it because she always hated the fucker. In any case, I’m shocked there’s any grass on that plot at all. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33210 "2017-03-23T00:07:17Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Hard to believe that Tricky Dick went and got himself planted somewhere everyone could just haul off and piss on him. Or maybe Pat arranged it because she always hated the fucker. Pat pre-deceased him, so I don’t think it was her decision. They are both buried at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, CA. It’s been a while since I’ve been there, but yeah, the grave is pretty accessible. But there’s usually a few docents or security guards around, so I don’t think many people would be brave enough to take a piss. It’s also a _very_ republican city. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2017, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33211 "2017-03-23T00:16:10Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Well, and Nixon resigned. That seems like he got knocked down and stayed the fuck down. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > From Bayard’s link:It’s on his back! How often do any of us see our backs? How can something be a daily reminder on his back? > [@Bayard](#): > > Old news that’s resurfaced recently: Whack job Trump advisor Roger Stone has a tattoo of Nixon on his back. I guess that was easier than always retaping the “kick me” sign. > > [Does Roger Stone Have a Tattoo of Richard Nixon on His Back? | Snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com/roger-stone-nixon-tattoo/) > > Stone is a loony, but props to him for being in such good shape at his age. Good triceps. Great…you all (including Stone) now have embedded “Tubthumping” in my head. ---
**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 23, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33212 "2017-03-23T02:38:25Z")
Former Colorado Republican Party head, who claimed that only Democrats commit voter fraud, charged with voter fraud. > **[Ex-Colo. GOP chair charged with voter fraud](https://www.denver7.com/news/politics/former-colorado-gop-chairman-steven-curtis-charged-with-voter-fraud)** > > The former chairman of the Colorado Republican Party is charged with forgery and voter fraud for allegedly forging his wifes mail-in ballot from last years election, according to court records and sources. ---
**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 23, 2017, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33213 "2017-03-23T04:42:08Z")
SOMEbody with access to Elaine Chao’s (Mrs. Mitch McConnell, Trump’s Transportation Secretary) Twitter account, in response to Representative Maxine Waters’s call for impeachment, tweeted “SUE HIS VERY SOUL MAXINE!!!” from Chao’s account. > **[Trump's Transportation Secretary Swears She Doesn't Want To 'Sue His Very Soul'](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elaine-chao-trump-sue-his-very-soul_n_58d2f026e4b02d33b7486151?section=politics)** > > She's likely looking for a new social media manager, though. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33214 "2017-03-23T10:00:11Z")
Other potential tattoos to reflect resilience after hardship: Gloria Gaynor, the band Chumbawamba, Princess Poppy from _Trolls_. ---
**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 23, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33215 "2017-03-23T11:36:22Z")
\*\*Oklahoma Republican Says God Can Use Rape And Incest To ‘Bring Beauty From Ashes’ “The Lord uses all circumstances.”\*\* [Oklahoma Republican Says God Can Use Rape And Incest To 'Bring Beauty From Ashes' | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oklahoma-abortion-bill-god-rape-incest_us_58d33663e4b0b22b0d19cb53)? > [@](#): > > A Republican lawmaker in Oklahoma defending an anti-abortion bill claimed that rape and incest could be part of God’s will. > The bill by state Rep. George Faught would ban abortion due to genetic abnormalities or Down syndrome, with no exceptions for cases of rape and incest. > Democrats challenged him on that in a debate on the floor of the state’s House of Representatives. > “Is rape the will of God?” asked Rep. Cory Williams. > “If you read the Bible, there’s actually a couple circumstances where that happened and the Lord uses all circumstances,” Faught replied. “I mean, you can go down that path, but it’s a reality, unfortunately.” > “Is incest the will of God?” Williams asked. > “Same answer,” Faught replied. “Doesn’t deal with this bill.” > Williams fired back that his questions did deal with the bill. > “You won’t make any exceptions for rape, you won’t make any exceptions for incest in this and you are proffering divine intervention as the reason why you won’t do that,” he said. “I think it is very important. This body wants to know, myself personally, whether you believe rape and incest are actually the will of God.” On the one hand, I think I see his mindset, and understand his philosophy, but he clearly doesn’t understand how his words can be abstracted and put in a headline like this. On the other hand, you can’t claim this is “out of context” – the debate is over an abortion bill, and is perfectly _in_ context. If you don’t happen to see everything that happens as the result of some Divine Plan, then rape is a needless and cruel act, and saying that “God can bring beauty from ashes” seems Pollyannish and naïve. ---
**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 23, 2017, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33216 "2017-03-23T12:05:35Z")
**GOP Lawmaker Defends Use Of Japanese-American Camps During WWII** [GOP Lawmaker Defends Incarceration Of Japanese-Americans during WWII | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/colorado-phil-covarrubias-defends-japanese-american-camps_us_58d30379e4b0f838c62f5793)? > [@](#): > > One Republican lawmaker in Colorado appeared to twice defend the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II while debating a bill that would prevent the state from carrying out President Donald Trump’s executive orders that target people based on their race, religious views or immigration status. > “We keep hearing about how things went down with the Japanese people,” state Rep. Phil Covarrubias said Wednesday during a debate over House Bill 1230, also known as the Ralph Carr Freedom Defense Act. > “For anyone that has never been in combat, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and all of that was going on, there’s no time to ask questions and find out who is a citizen and who’s not,” Covarrubias said. > “I hear people saying that we need to respect other people’s rights, and I agree with that, but what about them respecting our rights and our country and our laws?” Yeah! What about all those people of Japanese descent, not respecting our rights by being of Japanese ancestry? And we can’t take any chances – there’s no time to find out who’s a citizen and who’s not! Even though we didn’t round up all the people with German or Italian names! ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33217 "2017-03-23T12:20:57Z")
Heck, Michelle Malkin wrote an entire book directly defending it, then saying, IIRC, that it means we have to put Muslims in camps too. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33218 "2017-03-23T16:05:15Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > **GOP Lawmaker Defends Use Of Japanese-American Camps During WWII** > > [GOP Lawmaker Defends Incarceration Of Japanese-Americans during WWII | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/colorado-phil-covarrubias-defends-japanese-american-camps_us_58d30379e4b0f838c62f5793)? > > Yeah! What about all those people of Japanese descent, not respecting our rights by being of Japanese ancestry? > > And we can’t take any chances – there’s no time to find out who’s a citizen and who’s not! Even though we didn’t round up all the people with German or Italian names! I hope there are some Colorado Asian-Americans on their way down to his office with some eggs. ---
**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 23, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33219 "2017-03-23T16:19:23Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > \*\*Oklahoma Republican Says God Can Use Rape And Incest To ‘Bring Beauty From Ashes’ > > “The Lord uses all circumstances.”\*\* > [Oklahoma Republican Says God Can Use Rape And Incest To 'Bring Beauty From Ashes' | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oklahoma-abortion-bill-god-rape-incest_us_58d33663e4b0b22b0d19cb53)? > > On the one hand, I think I see his mindset, and understand his philosophy, but he clearly doesn’t understand how his words can be abstracted and put in a headline like this. > > On the other hand, you can’t claim this is “out of context” – the debate is over an abortion bill, and is perfectly _in_ context. If you don’t happen to see everything that happens as the result of some Divine Plan, then rape is a needless and cruel act, and saying that “God can bring beauty from ashes” seems Pollyannish and naïve. I think cancer of the balls is also God’s will. Let’s hope Rep. George Faught, whis is A Dick, fully embraces God’s will. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33220 "2017-03-23T18:08:24Z")
[Schadenfreude, Republican Style](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ex-colo-gop-leader-said-only-democrats-committed-voter-fraud-now-he%E2%80%99s-charged-with-voter-fraud/ar-BByzFF4) > [@](#): > > Ex-Colo. GOP leader said only Democrats committed voter fraud. Now he’s charged with voter fraud. > [@](#): > > “It seems to me,” Curtis said in the 42-minute segment, “that virtually every case of voter fraud I can remember in my lifetime was committed by Democrats.” That’s because you are an idiot. And now a criminal. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33221 "2017-03-23T19:04:39Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Heck, Michelle Malkin wrote an entire book directly defending it, then saying, IIRC, that it means we have to put Muslims in camps too. Michelle Malkin, the female version of Ann Coulter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1660) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1662)