# 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:** 1696
**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:** [May 18, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33902 "2017-05-18T14:10:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Missouri state legislator said there’s a ‘distinction between homosexuality and just being a human being’ > [http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article149595284.html?fb\_comment\_id=fbc\_1677900092223401\_1678946095452134\_1678946095452134](http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article149595284.html?fb_comment_id=fbc_1677900092223401_1678946095452134_1678946095452134) It’s statements like this that make it hard for my wife to convince my gay son that he should stay in Missouri. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33903 "2017-05-18T14:23:02Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > I think the English language as I use it and whatever these folk speak have diverged, because I really thought this was going to be another GOP lawmaker making excuses for embarrassing homosexual behavior. Just wait for the pattern to play out. When a right-wing politician reveals that he devotes so much of his limited thought process to Teh Gay, it’s only a matter of time before somebody captures him and his luggage-lifter on camera. ---
**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 18, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33904 "2017-05-18T20:15:30Z")
Lindsay Graham, _ **today** _: “[But her emails](http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/05/18/lindsey-graham-i-believe-clinton-campaign-emailed-justice-department)”. ---
**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 19, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33905 "2017-05-19T18:24:23Z")
Bob Beckel, co-host of “The Five” on Fox, has been fired for making racist comments to a black co-worker. [http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Fox-News-Fires-Bob-Beckel-For-Making-Racist-11158874.php](http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Fox-News-Fires-Bob-Beckel-For-Making-Racist-11158874.php) ---
**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:** [May 19, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33906 "2017-05-19T21:36:10Z")
Thought he was a Democrat? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33907 "2017-05-19T22:02:12Z")
He worked for Mondale but that was a long time ago. Sent from my SM-G920P using Tapatalk ---
**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:** [May 19, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33908 "2017-05-19T22:25:56Z")
More from Derplahoma. Employees fresh off the bus from corporate headquarters to protest/lobby against an increase in the gas/oil gross production tax. **Paid protesters** obviously per Agent Orange, whoa, except these are pushing the Republican agenda so this must be okay. [Continental Resources sent Hamm Lemmings to protest at the Capitol... - The Lost Ogle](https://www.thelostogle.com/2017/05/19/continental-resources-sent-hamm-lemmings-to-protest-at-the-capitol/) Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm is a big Trump booster, advisor, and contributor. Oklahoma is desperately short of money in the budget and has cut services and education for several years [school weeks shortened to 4 days, teachers without any type of raise for nearly a decade, school closures, deferred road/bridge maintenance to point of collapse, etc…]. But why raise the production tax, it’ll hurt the industry? The oil lobby got the tax cut from 7% to 2% a few years back (a few billion in profits). Sane politicians and oil men have advocated raising the tax back to the average rate for neighboring states. [George Kaiser has a logical, reasonable plan to tackle the state budget crisis... - The Lost Ogle](https://www.thelostogle.com/2017/05/16/george-kaiser-has-a-logical-reasonable-plan-to-tackle-the-state-budget-crisis/) And just two days ago, the oil and gas industry held a party for state legislators to celebrate a failure to pass a budget and to remind the paid stooges to stand pat against any attempt to raise the production tax. > **[Oil and Gas Association is throwing a party for Oklahoma lawmakers... - The...](https://thelostogle.com/2017/05/17/oil-and-gas-association-is-throwing-a-party-for-oklahoma-lawmakers)** > > The State House GOP finally got around to releasing a budget yesterday, and as expected, it didn’t receive any Democratic support and failed. As a result, expect a special session of the legislature to try to resolve the budget. The problem Democrats... Hell, I don’t even live there anymore [I get feeds from remaining state inmates] and I’m still pissed. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33909 "2017-05-19T22:54:24Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > And just two days ago, the oil and gas industry held a party for state legislators to celebrate a failure to pass a budget and to remind the paid stooges to stand pat against any attempt to raise the production tax. > [Oil and Gas Association is throwing a party for Oklahoma lawmakers... - The Lost Ogle](https://www.thelostogle.com/2017/05/17/oil-and-gas-association-is-throwing-a-party-for-oklahoma-lawmakers/) > > Hell, I don’t even live there anymore [I get feeds from remaining state inmates] and I’m still pissed. They don’t even \*bother \*to hide the corruption, do they? Just let it all hang out - we’ll do whatever the fuck we want. ---
**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 19, 2017, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33910 "2017-05-19T23:35:25Z")
Yeah, sub-zero fucks being given there. Amazing. And no one \*else \*gives a shit ?! No plucky circuit judge or ambitious assistant DA or even a billionaire vigilante ? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33911 "2017-05-20T00:10:35Z")
This is where the wall needs to go: around Oklahoma. ---
**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 21, 2017, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33912 "2017-05-21T23:51:10Z")
What took 'em so long? “Gingrich spreads conspiracy theory about slain DNC staffer” [http://wapo.st/2qLlvaM](http://wapo.st/2qLlvaM) > [@](#): > > Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, a stalwart supporter of President Trump, used aSunday-morning appearance on “Fox and Friends” to spread theconspiracy theory that former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was killed last year to cover up the true story of how WikiLeaks obtained tens of thousands of hacked Democratic Party emails. > > “We have this very strange story now of this young man who worked for the Democratic National Committee, who apparently was assassinated at 4 in the morning, having given WikiLeaks something like 53,000 emails and 17,000 attachments,” Gingrich said. > > “Nobody’s investigating that, and what does that tell you about what’s going on? Because it turns out, it wasn’t the Russians. It was this young guy who, I suspect, was disgusted by the corruption of the Democratic National Committee. He’s been killed, and apparently nothing serious has been done to investigative his murder. So I’d like to see how [Robert S.] Mueller [III] is going to define what his assignment is.” > … Who needs an investigation? No doubt Crooked Hillary did it. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33913 "2017-05-22T00:39:20Z")
It would be interesting if someone leaked Bob Mueller’s opinion of Newt Gingrich. Also, how about the heads of the 17 US intelligence agencies who determined it was the Russians–what might they have to say to Mr. G about his little theory? That, too, would be interesting. ---
**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 22, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33914 "2017-05-22T03:03:19Z")
Tomi Lahren, who was fired for expressing her political opinion, thought it would be appropriate to criticize the graduates who walked out on Mike Pence during his commencement speech. > [@](#): > > [Snowflakes think this kind of crap will fly in the real world? Good luck holding a job, kids!](https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/866449573421514753) [Twitter responded accordingly.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tomi-lahren-snowflakes-job_us_59223a33e4b03b485cb25fc8) ---
**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 22, 2017, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33915 "2017-05-22T09:29:01Z")
More Republicans who can’t sleep due to to insane bathroom fixations, Texas edition: [http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/texas-set-pass-transgender-bathroom-law-schools-47553226](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/texas-set-pass-transgender-bathroom-law-schools-47553226) ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33916 "2017-05-22T10:35:13Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > More Republicans who can’t sleep due to to insane bathroom fixations, Texas edition: > [http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/texas-set-pass-transgender-bathroom-law-schools-47553226](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/texas-set-pass-transgender-bathroom-law-schools-47553226) Texas has always had a stick-your-chest-out brand of conservatism but I remember a time not long ago when Lone Star politicians were still relatively sane. But I am beginning to think that Gov. Abbot has come down with rabies – he makes Rick Perry look like a damn statesman. I know some people hate Texas but it’s actually a cool state with good people and it’s sad to think that it is being hijacked by kooks and infected with the same virulent strain of conservatism that has destroyed Kansas and will destroy Oklahoma. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33917 "2017-05-22T13:59:47Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Also, how about the heads of the 17 US intelligence agencies who determined it was the Russians If anyone can lose a truth telling contest to Trump, it’s U.S. intelligence agencies. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33918 "2017-05-22T18:17:08Z")
> **[In Israel, Trump denies intel claim he was never accused of](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/israel-trump-denies-intel-claim-he-was-never-accused-msna990761)** > > Instead of keeping silent about an international incident, Donald Trump managed to make a bad situation worse in Israel today. > [@](#): > > We learned last week that Trump, for reasons that remain unclear, decided to share highly classified intelligence with his Russian guests. The sensitive secrets were provided to the United States by a third, unnamed country, and when the Republican passed the intel on to the Russians, it sent shockwaves through the international community. > > With this in mind, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, standing alongside the American president earlier, was asked at a brief press conference if he has any concerns about intelligence cooperation with the United States. He said he did not. At that point, the leaders were poised to be whisked off to their next event, but Trump stopped everyone because he had something to declare: > “Just so you understand, I never mentioned the word or the name ‘Israel.’ Never mentioned that during that conversation. They were all saying I did, so you have another story wrong. Never mentioned the word ‘Israel.’” > > To put it mildly, that’s not what Trump was supposed to say. Reminds of these lines from Anthony Shaffer’s play **Sleuth** : Inspector Doppler: I never said that, sir. Andrew Wyke: Oh, come on, Inspector. You can’t trip me up with that old one! …Wyke as Inspector Doppler: Garrotted? Might I ask how you knew her ladyship was _garroted_? …Wyke as suspect: Why, surely _you_ told me, Inspector! …Wyke as Inspector Doppler: No, sir, I never mentioned the word. > [@](#): > > Trump appeared to be effectively saying, alongside Netanyahu, “Sure, I divulged secrets to Russia, but don’t worry, I didn’t tell them that I received the secrets from Israel.” > > Watching the clip, you can almost hear Netanyahu thinking, “Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up….” ---
**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 22, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33919 "2017-05-22T18:31:20Z")
Mississippi state Rep calls for lynching anybody who takes down Confederate monuments. And that includes state officials in other states. > **[GOP Lawmaker: Lynch Anyone Who Takes Down Confederate Monuments](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/karl-oliver-confederate-lynch_n_59224866e4b094cdba54eece?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009)** > > Karl Oliver later removed the Facebook post and apologized for his remarks. ---
**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 22, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33920 "2017-05-22T18:36:07Z")
I know we’re all busy repeatedly smashing our heads on our desks because of Trump, but we should not forget the [other people on the right side of history](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/334526-miss-lawmaker-leaders-should-be-lynched-for-taking-down-confederate). > [@](#): > > Karl Oliver, a Republican state representative in Mississippi, last week said leaders in Louisiana who have removed Confederate statues and monuments from public property should be “lynched.” > > “If the, and I use this term extremely loosely, ‘leadership’ of Louisiana wishes to, in a Nazi-ish fashion, burn books or destroy historical monuments of OUR HISTORY, they should be LYNCHED! Let it be known, I will do all in my power to prevent this from happening in our State,” Oliver wrote in a Saturday [Facebook post](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1773191672992696&set=a.1561680847477114.1073741829.100009056403271&type=1&theater). This little outburst was, of course, prompted by New Orleans removing a monument celebrating the defenders of white supremacy[_in these words_](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/One_side_of_the_monument_erected_to_race_prejudice_New_Orleans_Louisiana_1936.jpg). ETA : oh daln you, \*\*Rick \*\*! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33921 "2017-05-22T19:45:49Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I know we’re all busy repeatedly smashing our heads on our desks because of Trump, but we should not forget the [other people on the right side of history](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/334526-miss-lawmaker-leaders-should-be-lynched-for-taking-down-confederate). > > This little outburst was, of course, prompted by New Orleans removing a monument celebrating the defenders of white supremacy[_in these words_](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/One_side_of_the_monument_erected_to_race_prejudice_New_Orleans_Louisiana_1936.jpg). > > ETA : oh daln you, \*\*Rick \*\*! 🙂 “I will do all in my powr to prevent this from happening in our State.” They already did it, ya jackass. Glad we’re bringing up these monuments, white supremacy, and lynching. It makes it clear where you stand, and that you should be planted in Mar-A-Lago’s sinkhole instead. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1695) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1697)