# 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:** 1677
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33522 "2017-04-18T13:11:58Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > [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: I pit the media. Neither Lester Holt nor Anderson Cooper have made a single same-sex “Snap-On Tool” joke. ---
**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, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33523 "2017-04-18T14:01:36Z")
Gutter Slut [discontinues Obama-era student loan protections](http://depauliaonline.com/2017/04/17/devos-discontinues-obama-era-student-loan-protections/). ---
**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, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33524 "2017-04-18T19:40:39Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > [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: I guess Sean Spicer didn’t get the memo. “Snap-on is a prime example of a company that builds American-made tools with American workers for U.S. taxpayers,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer said. ---
**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, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33525 "2017-04-18T19:47:55Z")
Yet again another Northern California Congressman, Dough LaMalfa, had a town hall meeting yesterday. He got mad at the people who showed up to call him out and asked, “Do you yell in church?” To which the participants replied, “Do you lie in church?” ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33526 "2017-04-18T20:09:23Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > [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: Given that the majority of Snap On’s hand tools, power tools, and tool boxes are made in the good ol’ USA, and most China junk is using the Snap On brand through licensing, a la Trump everything, I’m gonna ask for a cite for that. If you buy it in the store, it’s not made by Snap On. ---
**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, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33527 "2017-04-18T20:17:49Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > Given that the majority of Snap On’s hand tools, power tools, and tool boxes are made in the good ol’ USA, and most China junk is using the Snap On brand through licensing, a la Trump everything, I’m gonna ask for a cite for that. > > If you buy it in the store, it’s not made by Snap On. Sure **Chisquirrel** Snap-on anticipated the visit would focus on manufacturing. [The Kenosha headquarters has engineers, technicians and other office employees but is no longer a manufacturing facility.](http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/04/18/kenosha-ready-president-donald-trump-visit-tuesday-afternoon/100595832/) I used to live not far from Kenosha and remember when the plants were closing. ---
**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 18, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33528 "2017-04-18T20:43:49Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Sure **Chisquirrel** > > Snap-on anticipated the visit would focus on manufacturing. [The Kenosha headquarters has engineers, technicians and other office employees but is no longer a manufacturing facility.](http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/04/18/kenosha-ready-president-donald-trump-visit-tuesday-afternoon/100595832/) > > I used to live not far from Kenosha and remember when the plants were closing. I note that the last lines of the linked article are: > [@](#): > > Trump’s plans and pledges to boost the manufacturing sector in places like Kenosha were met with skepticism from Randy Bryce, a board member of Workers Local 8, which represents area construction workers. > > “I didn’t buy what he’s selling then, and I’m not buying it now,” Bryce said. “The place where he chose to speak once had a thriving manufacturing base right across the street. Those jobs have moved up the road, leaving just the headquarters in its place.” Although I suppose “up the road” could mean “across the ocean”, it doesn’t sound quite right. A quick look through internet sites shows stories from circa 2008 about Snap-On moving manufacturing to China. Certainly it has closed plants, but the company claims it’s still manufacturing tools for the American market in the USA. The Wikipedia entry on snap-On supports this: > **[Snap-on](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap-on)** > > Snap-on Incorporated is an American designer, manufacturer, and marketer of high-end tools and equipment for professional use in the transportation industry including the automotive, heavy duty, equipment, marine, aviation, and railroad industries. Headquartered in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Snap-on also distributes lower-end tools under the brand name Blue-Point. Their primary competitors include Matco, Mac Tools, and Cornwell Tools. > Snap-on Inc. operates plants in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Elizabethton... > [@](#): > > Their quality is highly regarded but their prices are also among the very highest. Snap-on currently operates plants in various states and cities such as Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Elizabethton, Tennessee, which manufacture hand tools. Pneumatic tools are currently manufactured in Murphy, North Carolina. > > In 1975, Snap-on opened a manufacturing plant in Johnson City, Tennessee and closed the plant 32 years later in 2007. The Murphy, North Carolina plant was named as one of the top 10 plants in North America by Industry Week.[4] In 1999, Snap-on acquired Bahco, a Swedish hand tool brand. Bahco hand tools are designed and manufactured by SNA Europe, the European manufacturing subsidiary of Snap-on Incorporated. I don’t have an opinion one way or the other about this, but I haven’t seen convincing proof that Snap-On is being mostly if not completely manufactured in China. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33529 "2017-04-18T20:45:10Z")
Nobody posted this yet? My day is made. Il Douche’s armada to frighten NK wasn’t headed to the Korean Peninula. Not even close. **Despite talk of a military strike, Trump’s ‘armada’ actually sailed away from Korea** > **[Despite talk of a military strike, Trump’s ‘armada’ actually sailed away from...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/despite-talk-of-a-military-strike-trumps-armada-was-a-long-way-from-korea/2017/04/18/e8ef4237-e26a-4cfc-b5e9-526c3a17bd41_story.html?utm_term=.e4bc459e3de6)** > > Chinese media said South Korea was “tricked badly,” but talk of the carrier may have been psychological warfare. Heh. Excuse please, I must clear a place on the floor for rolling upon. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33530 "2017-04-18T21:06:12Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Sure **Chisquirrel** > > Snap-on anticipated the visit would focus on manufacturing. [The Kenosha headquarters has engineers, technicians and other office employees but is no longer a manufacturing facility.](http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/04/18/kenosha-ready-president-donald-trump-visit-tuesday-afternoon/100595832/) > > I used to live not far from Kenosha and remember when the plants were closing. And I worked in the Algona plant, which is not only going strong as the largest Snap On manufacturing facility in the USA, but almost bursting at the seams after absorbing the production of a Canadian factory a few years ago. They moved the manufacturing from Kenosha to other US plants, not China. In fact, every plant I’ve worked at has either absorbed or passed off manufacturing to other plants - some of them doing both at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33531 "2017-04-18T22:13:39Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > Given that the majority of Snap On’s hand tools, power tools, and tool boxes are made in the good ol’ USA, and most China junk is using the Snap On brand through licensing, a la Trump everything, I’m gonna ask for a cite for that. > > If you buy it in the store, it’s not made by Snap On. Then where do you buy something made by Snap On? ---
**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:** [April 18, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33532 "2017-04-18T22:16:08Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Then where do you buy something made by Snap On? If I remember, Snap-On is sold out of a truck/van that makes regular stops at auto dealers and repair shops. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33533 "2017-04-18T22:17:13Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > If I remember, Snap-On is sold out of a truck/van that makes regular stops at auto dealers and repair shops. Well, buying stuff out of a van sounds like a great way to avoid Chinese knock-offs. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33534 "2017-04-18T22:42:08Z")
Chinese don’t do tacos, right? ---
**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:** [April 18, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33535 "2017-04-18T23:11:03Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Chinese don’t do tacos, right? Only the melamine specials. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33536 "2017-04-18T23:25:50Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > 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. Someone slipped a reference into one of Dubya’s SOTU speeches warning against making “human-animal hybrids” in the laboratory. I wonder if we’re missing a bigotwhistle here - is mixing the species actually code for mixing the races? ---
**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:** [April 19, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33537 "2017-04-19T01:41:30Z")
> [@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. “Buffalo Dick” sounds like a western hero, or maybe one of Lester Girls’s friends. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2017, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33538 "2017-04-19T01:54:07Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Chinese don’t do tacos, right? They do, but you have to be careful of the _el plomo_ content. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33539 "2017-04-19T02:02:54Z")
[Nevada Secretary Of State Says She Has Evidence Of Voter Fraud In Presidential Election](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nevada-voter-fraud_us_58f663b2e4b0da2ff863e0d8) > [@](#): > > **The Nevada secretary of state has accused her state’s Department of Motor Vehicles of facilitating voter fraud** and said she has evidence non-citizens voted in last year’s presidential election. > > Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske (R) wrote in a letter Friday to DMV Director Terri Albertson that DMV workers had been accepting voting applications from non-citizens and forwarding them to the secretary of state’s office. Cegavske said she had evidence non-citizens voted in the presidential election, but didn’t elaborate. > > The Nevada DMV director responded to Cegavske’s allegation with a strongly worded letter on Saturday that said the secretary of state’s office had signed off on the DMV’s voter registration procedures. > > **“Your letter comes as a complete surprise as you and your office have reviewed, contributed to, and approved the processes you are expressing concerns about,” DMV director Albertson wrote.** > > Albertson noted that DMV officials would flag suspect applications for further review by a county clerk or registrar to determine voting eligibility. > > The ACLU of Nevada said in a statement on Monday that election officials, not the DMV, had the burden of verifying the eligibility of voters. > > **Under the National Voter Registration Act, the DMV “cannot make determinations regarding voter eligibility” and must send voter registration applications to state election officials for a judgement, the ACLU said.** Wow. Just wow. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33540 "2017-04-19T02:04:25Z")
“We have met ACORN, and it is us!” ---
**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 19, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33541 "2017-04-19T16:20:22Z")
After using n-word in front of black colleagues, Florida state senator [faces calls to resign](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-florida-state-senator-n-word-20170419-story.html). What a freak’in moron. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1676) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1678)