# 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:** 1676
**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:** [April 14, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33502 "2017-04-14T23:05:44Z")
Ahh, congressman Markwayne Mullin, the least educated and possibly least intelligent member of that august body. I remember him running on a theme of, “the government handouts and programs are ruining this country. The giveaways are driving honest small businessmen like me out of business - bullshit”. Standard teapot stuff. Turns out our simple man-of-the-people plumber (yes, another famous plumber) was getting approximately 60% of his business from government programs through the local indian reservations. He had married into enough Indian blood to qualify his business as indian owned and was able to bid on available contracts. Sounds like cold-blooded hypocrisy doesn’t it? Actually no, he honestly didn’t know that these contracts were government “handouts”. Not a troll/true believer like Gohmert or King, he really is/was that dumb. This isn’t his first run-in at townhall meetings. When first elected on his scorched earth policy, he had his hat handed to him by local powers. His section of Oklahoma is/was heavily subsidized by Federal and State government. Most of the population is on some sort of government assistance. McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, Big Mac state prison, Boeing, other prisons, indian reservations all were present and vocal about what he could do with his plans. This is another example of people who are too dumb to realize they are voting against their best interests. And Obama. He’s gone on to distinguish himself with more stupid shit like this but the white trash keep returning him to congress while cashing their welfare/SocSec/etc… checks. I’m pretty sure Rick and I have brought him up before in this thread. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33503 "2017-04-16T15:18:54Z")
Wisconsin hayseed sez, [using the Internet is a choice](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-sensenbrenner-web-privacy-20170415-story.html). ---
**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:** [April 16, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33504 "2017-04-16T15:20:58Z")
Shit for brains ponders, [‘Who paid for’ rallies seeking release of tax returns](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/tax-day-demonstrators-in-us-take-on-trump-his-supporters/2017/04/15/6d904592-223d-11e7-bb59-a74ccaf1d02f_story.html?utm_term=.255af6195a69) ---
**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:** [April 16, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33505 "2017-04-16T16:50:01Z")
That’s at the same time a fantastic, a very American, and a very _unAmerican_ way to dismiss opposition. It’s very American because hey, a buck is a buck, and any way to get paid is to be lauded especially when it hinges on someone else’s stupidity. It’s fantastic because it really doesn’t happen. And it’s unAmerican because you’ve got all these private property, self-enterprise, capitalism rah-rah bastards essentially clamouring that having money talking is a big no-no, even as they supported Citizens United and similar “corporate money deserves a voice !” laws. Which in itself was extremely American. It really is a thing of beauty. You know, an ironic, ugly as sin beauty. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33506 "2017-04-16T17:31:52Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Shit for brains ponders, [‘Who paid for’ rallies seeking release of tax returns](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/tax-day-demonstrators-in-us-take-on-trump-his-supporters/2017/04/15/6d904592-223d-11e7-bb59-a74ccaf1d02f_story.html?utm_term=.255af6195a69) [QUOTE=Cheeto in Chief] I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again? [/QUOTE] Back in 2012 when for a few hours it looked that Obama, wile winning the electoral vote may had lost the popular vote (He did not later in the official count): > [QUOTE=El Trompo] The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33507 "2017-04-16T23:23:48Z")
[Pastor Kevin Swanson,](https://wonkette.com/615578/pastor-fears-beauty-and-the-beast-is-slippery-slope-to-co-ed-naked-lady-bison-orgies) who may have been mentioned here before, thinks the new _Beauty and the Beast_ will inspire pubescent young females to wander out into the Great Plains in search of buffalo dick. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33508 "2017-04-17T00:20:16Z")
> [@A big fat liar](#): > > I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Mmm-hmm. It’s impossible for the Republicans to win the Electoral College, when the College is arranged so that it gives excessive power to Republican areas. That’s why the only cases of winning the Electoral College without also winning the popular vote in living memory have both been Republicans. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2017, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33509 "2017-04-17T01:44:26Z")
Benjamin Harrison and Rutherford B. Hayes were also Republicans. At least, that is what they were called in those days. I doubt they would at all resemble a Republican of today. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33510 "2017-04-17T02:01:52Z")
Certainly not with those beards. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2017, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33511 "2017-04-17T11:35:52Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [Pastor Kevin Swanson,](https://wonkette.com/615578/pastor-fears-beauty-and-the-beast-is-slippery-slope-to-co-ed-naked-lady-bison-orgies) who may have been mentioned here before, thinks the new _Beauty and the Beast_ will inspire pubescent young females to wander out into the Great Plains in search of buffalo dick. Now I kinda want to do that. Maybe pick up some chicks, too. ETA : > [@](#): > > Swanson notes that the very idea of inter-species breeding was not a thing until “Star Trek” happened in the ’80s and ’90s Europa would be most surprised by this statement. Even more than by the surprise bullsecks I mean. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33512 "2017-04-17T14:14:53Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Now I kinda want to do that. Maybe pick up some chicks, too. > > ETA : > > Europa would be most surprised by this statement. Even more than by the surprise bullsecks I mean. Forget Europa. Read up some time about Queen Pasiphae of Crete and how the Minotaur was conceived. Then there’s all those other times that Zeus transformed himself – Leda and the Swan, Danae and the Golden Shower… ---
**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:** [April 17, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33513 "2017-04-17T14:17:50Z")
The original ST featured a main character who was a product of inter-species breeding so the man seems to be ignorant on one additional count. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33514 "2017-04-17T19:05:45Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Europa would be most surprised by this statement. So would Francis, the talking mule. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33515 "2017-04-17T19:27:19Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Certainly not with those beards. With all of the anti-LGBT stances that the GOP has, I would imagine that a lot of Republican politicians have beards. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33516 "2017-04-17T21:07:30Z")
Alex Jones and his ex-wife are in the middle of a custody battle. J[ones’s lawyer said in court that the judge should not base Jones on his statements made on his show, because he’s just playing a character.](http://www.mystatesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/travis-county-custody-case-jury-will-search-for-real-alex-jones/rnbWzMHnFCd5SOPgP3A34J/) His ex wife disagrees. She also says he broadcasts from home, where the kids watching him ranting and raving. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33517 "2017-04-18T00:24:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Alex Jones and his ex-wife are in the middle of a custody battle. J[ones’s lawyer said in court that the judge should not base Jones on his statements made on his show, because he’s just playing a character.](http://www.mystatesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/travis-county-custody-case-jury-will-search-for-real-alex-jones/rnbWzMHnFCd5SOPgP3A34J/) > > His ex wife disagrees. She also says he broadcasts from home, where the kids watching him ranting and raving. Kids - or [Fish Babies?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzNeg9D-EZ4) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33518 "2017-04-18T03:32:52Z")
“I am not a crook.” ---
**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:** [April 18, 2017, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33519 "2017-04-18T05:05:17Z")
At a town hall meeting tonight, Congressman Jeff Denham of California was asked if he would ask Trump to release his tax records, and he said he would never ask Obama to release his birth certificate, so why should he ask Trump to release his tax records. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33520 "2017-04-18T06:19:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > At a town hall meeting tonight, Congressman Jeff Denham of California was asked if he would ask Trump to release his tax records, and he said he would never ask Obama to release his birth certificate, so why should he ask Trump to release his tax records. Apparently that’s now a major plank for the Republicans: “We’re no longer going to talk about Obama being a foreigner; we’re just going to insinuate it.” ---
**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:** [April 18, 2017, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33521 "2017-04-18T13:07:30Z")
[Trump visits Kenosha today to tout manufacturing message](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-donald-trump-kenosha-visit-morning-spin-story.html) at a company that offshored its manufacturing to China. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1675) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1677)