# 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:** 1693
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33842 "2017-05-14T20:16:01Z")
In all fairness, those counties clearly need it more. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33843 "2017-05-14T20:19:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Scott Adams, the “Dilbert” cartoonist, went full-on Trump crazy during the election, but he pretty well kept it on his blog and out of his comic strip, until today, when he went climate change denial. > > [http://assets.amuniversal.com/97ed9410fd89013486fb005056a9545d](http://assets.amuniversal.com/97ed9410fd89013486fb005056a9545d) Damn. I used to think Johnny Hart was bad. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33844 "2017-05-14T20:53:50Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > They chanted “Russia is our friend” > [Torch-wielding protesters gather at Lee Park](http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/torch-wielding-protesters-gather-at-lee-park/article_201dc390-384d-11e7-bf16-fb43de0f5d38.html) Yet another example of Nazis’ strong grasp of history. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33845 "2017-05-14T21:04:31Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > … a group of torch-wielding white supremacists from showing up to show their support for the Confederacy, Russia, and the Nazis. They chanted “Russia is our friend” and “Blood and soil”, which was a Nazi phrase. … Patriots. Uh huh. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33846 "2017-05-14T23:12:57Z")
Jerry Falwell Jr. wouldn’t know a good speech if it was delivered via megaphone directly to his ear by Martin Luther King Jr. > **[Falwell: Trump gave ‘best commencement speech Liberty has ever had’](https://thehill.com/homenews/news/333361-falwell-trump-address-best-commencement-speech-liberty-has-ever-had/)** > > Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, on Sunday praised President Trump, saying his address was the “best commencement speech Liberty has ever had.”  “Falwell, who endorsed Trump during his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, said he’s heard positive feedback for the speech.“The feedback I’ve gotten from the Liberty community is that it was the best commencement speech Liberty has ever had and we’ve had a lot of good, just phenomenal commencement speakers over the last 44 years,” Falwell said. “And I think it will go down in history as one of the greatest commencement speeches ever.” …” The depths of Republican stupidity are scary and unfathomed. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33847 "2017-05-15T02:54:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The city of Charlottesville, Virginia is planning on removing a statue of Robert E. Lee from a city park, although there is a temporary injunction to keep them from doing it for now. But that didn’t stop a group of torch-wielding white supremacists from showing up to show their support for the Confederacy, Russia, and the Nazis. They chanted “Russia is our friend” and “Blood and soil”, which was a Nazi phrase. > [Torch-wielding protesters gather at Lee Park](http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/torch-wielding-protesters-gather-at-lee-park/article_201dc390-384d-11e7-bf16-fb43de0f5d38.html) You’d think Nazis would know from history that Russians aren’t their friends. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2017, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33848 "2017-05-15T03:02:45Z")
Ha. The white supremacists picketing at the Robert E Lee statue in Charlottesville were carrying citronella torches. 🙂 How bourgeois. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33849 "2017-05-15T04:28:23Z")
[Unity Was Emerging on Sentencing. Then Came Jeff Sessions](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/14/us/politics/jeff-sessions-criminal-sentencing.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news) > [@](#): > > …In an increasingly rare achievement, conservatives and liberals had come together on the issue [of excessive incarceration], putting them on the verge of winning reductions in mandatory minimum sentences and creating new programs to help offenders adjust to life after prison. Given the success shown by similar changes at the state level, bipartisan majorities in the House and the Senate seemed eager to move ahead on the issue last year. > … > Mr. Sessions, who as a senator from Alabama supported legislation that would have made a second marijuana trafficking conviction a capital crime… I guess it’s cheaper than locking them up. And let’s re-institute public hangings, too. That’ll put the fear of God into people. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2017, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33850 "2017-05-15T05:26:12Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > You’d think Nazis would know from history that Russians aren’t their friends. You’d think the Russians would know that too, and yet they keep propping them up these days. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33851 "2017-05-15T06:09:09Z")
Those were the Communist Russians. The modern Russian is a devout capitalist, even fanatical. We helped! When the Soviet Union collapsed, those Republicans who were not too busy dancing on its grave sent advisers to Moscow, to help them understand the mechanics of private property. Seems they took to the whole “privatization” thing with great enthusiasm. I assume that all this is by way of thanks. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33852 "2017-05-15T18:06:18Z")
[NJ Congressman outs political activist to her employer.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rawstory.com/2017/05/woman-resigns-from-job-after-gop-lawmaker-targets-her-political-beliefs-in-letter-to-her-employer/amp/) > [@](#): > > The trouble for Avelenda began when one of the bank’s board members received a fundraising letter from Frelinghuysen’s office that warned of “organized forces — both national and local — who are already hard at work to put a stop to an agenda of limited government, economic growth, stronger national security.” After this sentence, there was a handwritten note on the side that claimed “one of the ringleaders works in your bank!” ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33853 "2017-05-15T18:21:11Z")
Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, tweeted a picture of his college aged daughter in lingerie. When other Twits called him creepy, he responded like a juvenile bozo. For example, Cohen called his critics “a-holes” and “haters” and asked if one critic was “jealous”. Cohen has defended Trump against allegations of sexual assault and harassment. No word on whether Trump has weighed in with comments on whether Cohen’s daughter is attractive enough to date or grab by the pussy. > **[Trump attorney Michael Cohen tweets photo of his college-aged daughter in...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/15/trump-attorney-michael-cohen-tweets-photo-of-his-college-aged-daughter-in-lingerie/?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.4d1ebe7291af)** > > "It's cool to take pride in your daughter, but weird to be posting her underwear photos honestly,” one user tweeted. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33854 "2017-05-15T18:23:31Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](#): > > [NJ Congressman outs political activist to her employer.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rawstory.com/2017/05/woman-resigns-from-job-after-gop-lawmaker-targets-her-political-beliefs-in-letter-to-her-employer/amp/) Answer… Find that little old man that runs a candy store, with the numbers operation in the back. Make a few hints to him that “Someone’s been talking too much to the cops about your operation” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33855 "2017-05-15T18:27:23Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, tweeted a picture of his college aged daughter in lingerie. When other Twits called him creepy, he responded like a juvenile bozo. For example, Cohen called his critics “a-holes” and “haters” and asked if one critic was “jealous”. > > Cohen has defended Trump against allegations of sexual assault and harassment. No word on whether Trump has weighed in with comments on whether Cohen’s daughter is attractive enough to date or grab by the pussy. > > [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/15/trump-attorney-michael-cohen-tweets-photo-of-his-college-aged-daughter-in-lingerie/?tid=sm\_fb&utm\_term=.4d1ebe7291af](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/15/trump-attorney-michael-cohen-tweets-photo-of-his-college-aged-daughter-in-lingerie/?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.4d1ebe7291af) Christ on a cracker. ☹ ---
**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:** [May 15, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33856 "2017-05-15T18:59:22Z")
[Top White House staffers provided Trump with fake news: report](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/top-white-house-staffers-provided-trump-with-fake-news-report/ar-BBBar17?li=BBnb7Kz) What the everloving fuck??? Lets leave aside for a moment that this shows a complete lack of respect for the Cheeto In Chief by his staff, but isn’t a crime to knowingly mislead the President? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33857 "2017-05-15T19:14:20Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, tweeted a picture of his college aged daughter in lingerie. When other Twits called him creepy, he responded like a juvenile bozo. For example, Cohen called his critics “a-holes” and “haters” and asked if one critic was “jealous”. Given who has him on retainer, this is par for the course. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33858 "2017-05-15T19:31:19Z")
Sears stock drops after Sears CEO (and Ayn Rand fanboy) goes on a rant against one of their suppliers and claims the media is lying about Sears market value. [https://www.thestreet.com/story/14131462/1/sears-stock-crashes-a-day-after-its-ceo-goes-on-a-bizarre-rant-against-the-media.html](https://www.thestreet.com/story/14131462/1/sears-stock-crashes-a-day-after-its-ceo-goes-on-a-bizarre-rant-against-the-media.html)? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33859 "2017-05-15T20:53:13Z")
Republican NJ Congressman leaves a personal note in a fundraising letter to a bank board member noting that one of the ‘ringleaders’ of a PAC that opposes him works at said bank. Sadly, this might be legal, albeit morally reprehensible. > **[GOP Congressman Frelinghuysen Targets Activist in Letter to Her Employer |...](https://www.wnyc.org/story/frelinghuysen-targets-activsts-letter-boss/)** > > The most powerful member of the New Jersey congressional delegation sent a fundraising letter to a board member of a bank — and called attention to a "ringleader" who worked there. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33860 "2017-05-15T21:11:31Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](#): > > [NJ Congressman outs political activist to her employer.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rawstory.com/2017/05/woman-resigns-from-job-after-gop-lawmaker-targets-her-political-beliefs-in-letter-to-her-employer/amp/) Note to Okrahoma: In case you were wondering, this is what neo-McCarthism looks like. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33861 "2017-05-15T21:15:45Z")
Given the deplorable nature of this pos, I heartily endorse a re-post! It turns out that he’s my sister’s representative. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1692) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1694)