# 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:** 1697
**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, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33922 "2017-05-22T19:47:21Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > 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. > > [Twitter responded accordingly.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tomi-lahren-snowflakes-job_us_59223a33e4b03b485cb25fc8) My first thought was, “Why is she talking about holding down a job? Didn’t she just get fired?” ---
**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, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33923 "2017-05-22T20:28:16Z")
Well, she knows what she’s talking about. Voicing your earnest opinion WILL get you fired. ---
**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, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33924 "2017-05-22T20:40:38Z")
Republicans in the Missouri state legislature voted to rescind the $10 minimum wage the city of St. Louis approved. [https://thinkprogress.org/missouri-lawmakers-vote-to-undo-st-louis-minimum-wage-raise-that-just-took-effect-ca596ef17c7](https://thinkprogress.org/missouri-lawmakers-vote-to-undo-st-louis-minimum-wage-raise-that-just-took-effect-ca596ef17c7) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33925 "2017-05-22T20:48:53Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Well, she knows what she’s talking about. Voicing your earnest opinion WILL get you fired. She’s letting potential overlords know that she’s learned her lesson. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33926 "2017-05-22T21:05:20Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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. **Officer:** “Sir, I need you to stand on one foot and count to 20.” **Driver:** “Pfft! What? I can’t even do that when I’m sober!!” ---
**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 22, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33927 "2017-05-22T21:08:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Republicans in the Missouri state legislature voted to rescind the $10 minimum wage the city of St. Louis approved. > [https://thinkprogress.org/missouri-lawmakers-vote-to-undo-st-louis-minimum-wage-raise-that-just-took-effect-ca596ef17c7](https://thinkprogress.org/missouri-lawmakers-vote-to-undo-st-louis-minimum-wage-raise-that-just-took-effect-ca596ef17c7) Fucking poor people. They should get off their lazy asses and work harder. ---
**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 22, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33928 "2017-05-22T21:31:02Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Fucking poor people. They should get off their lazy asses and work harder. They should just jolly well stop being poor! I mean, I stopped being poor as a small child, so it can’t be that hard! ---
**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 22, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33929 "2017-05-22T22:24:30Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > They should just jolly well stop being poor! > > I mean, I stopped being poor as a small child, so it can’t be that hard! Being poor proves that God doesn’t like them. God shows that God likes you by showering you with riches. Duh. > [@](#): > > The “[prosperity gospel](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/opinions/outlook/worst-ideas/prosperity-gospel.html),” an insipid heresy whose popularity among American Christians has boomed in recent years, teaches that God blesses those God favors most with material wealth. So if God doesn’t even like them, then we certainly don’t have to care. ---
**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 22, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33930 "2017-05-22T22:41:21Z")
Why should we help them, if they don’t even have the gumption to go and ask their daddy for a no-interest forgivable loan to start a business? I mean, it’s not hard - just go and ask for the money for God’s sake! ---
**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 23, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33931 "2017-05-23T01:55:18Z")
So, according to right wing commentators, the Manchester attack was the fault of: 1-[Obama](https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/05/22/watch-shepard-smith-shut-down-former-trump-adviser-who-uses-manchester-attack-blame-obama/216599) 2-[immigrants](https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/05/22/cnn-guest-immediately-links-manchester-explosion-two-plus-million-refugees-have-come-europe/216597) ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33932 "2017-05-23T02:40:50Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > So, according to right wing commentators, the Manchester attack was the fault of: > 1-[Obama](https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/05/22/watch-shepard-smith-shut-down-former-trump-adviser-who-uses-manchester-attack-blame-obama/216599) > 2-[immigrants](https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/05/22/cnn-guest-immediately-links-manchester-explosion-two-plus-million-refugees-have-come-europe/216597) Regarding your first link. Shepard Smith has been pushing back against the Fox party line reporting a lot lately. > **[Shepard Smith shoots down Judge Napolitano's 'commentary,' says Fox News has...](https://www.businessinsider.com/shepard-smith-fox-news-napolitano-trump-wiretapping-gchq-2017-3)** > > Fox News could not confirm an analyst's report that said President Barack Obama sought help from British intelligence to spy on then-candidate Donald Trump. I wouldn’t be surprised if he jumps ship and ends up at CNN. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2017, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33933 "2017-05-23T02:53:40Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Republicans in the Missouri state legislature voted to rescind the $10 minimum wage the city of St. Louis approved. > [https://thinkprogress.org/missouri-lawmakers-vote-to-undo-st-louis-minimum-wage-raise-that-just-took-effect-ca596ef17c7](https://thinkprogress.org/missouri-lawmakers-vote-to-undo-st-louis-minimum-wage-raise-that-just-took-effect-ca596ef17c7) This article got to me, for some reason. I say “for some reason”, because with all the fan-(_and_ far!)-flung shite that’s barraged us for the past couple months, I was getting inured to all of it, wondering how the next bedcrap could out-shit the one before that. I guess this one caught me in a more reflective kinda mindspace, or something like that. Curious if any conservative posters here can back up my bolded part from the article: > [@](#): > > **Republicans in favor of preemption argued that it would be harmful to have different minimum wages in different parts of the state.** But Nasheed doesn’t buy that argument, given that none of them took her up on her bill to increase the entire state’s minimum wage to $9 an hour. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33934 "2017-05-23T04:35:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Mississippi state Rep calls for lynching anybody who takes down Confederate monuments. And that includes state officials in other states. > [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/karl-oliver-confederate-lynch\_us\_59224866e4b094cdba54eece?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/karl-oliver-confederate-lynch_us_59224866e4b094cdba54eece?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009) Well lookie here **Rick Kitchen** , it appears Republican state Rep. Karl Oliver has found Jesus. [Mississippi lawmaker apologizes for calling for lynching](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/mississippi-lawmaker-apologizes-for-calling-for-lynching/2017/05/22/06b39b10-3f4f-11e7-b29f-f40ffced2ddb_story.html?utm_term=.f04d6ab118f8). “Oliver is a funeral director and first-term lawmaker who represents a district that includes the tiny town of Money, where black teenager Emmett Till was kidnapped before being lynched in 1955.” ---
**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 23, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33935 "2017-05-23T20:53:15Z")
Paul LePage has ordered all road signs to Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument be taken down in order to facilitate the shutting down of the national monument designation. > **[Maine's Governor Bans Road Signs For National Monument Out Of "Spite"](https://www.iflscience.com/maines-governor-bans-road-signs-for-national-monument-out-of-spite-41790)** > > Maine's Governor Bans Road Signs For National Monument Out Of "Spite" ---
**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 23, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33936 "2017-05-23T21:13:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Paul LePage has ordered all road signs to Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument be taken down in order to facilitate the shutting down of the national monument designation. > [Maine's Governor Bans Road Signs For National Monument Out Of "Spite" | IFLScience](http://www.iflscience.com/environment/maines-governor-bans-road-signs-for-national-monument-out-of-spite/) Because nobody in the US has a phone with a map app on it. dumbshit ---
**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:** [May 23, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33937 "2017-05-23T22:32:59Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Paul LePage has ordered all road signs to Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument be taken down in order to facilitate the shutting down of the national monument designation. > [Maine's Governor Bans Road Signs For National Monument Out Of "Spite" | IFLScience](http://www.iflscience.com/environment/maines-governor-bans-road-signs-for-national-monument-out-of-spite/) Yeah, Governor Paul LePage of Maine is a flaming asshole. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2017, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33938 "2017-05-24T03:19:03Z")
Gov. Scott “I’m missing a chromosone” Walker of Wisconsin and fellow Wisconsin Republicans [announced the formation of a new public policy center](http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article152143937.html) at University of Wisconsin-Madison, promising that it will serve as a bridge between the academic and political worlds and bring in speakers to campuses across the state. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) said Tuesday that the center … will be dedicated to “maximum free speech.” :dubious: Scot Ross, director of the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, accused Vos of “bullying students, faculty and administrators” by creating a conservative think tank to spread “Republican propaganda as widespread on campuses as possible.” ---
**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 24, 2017, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33939 "2017-05-24T10:57:34Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Paul LePage has ordered all road signs to Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument be taken down in order to facilitate the shutting down of the national monument designation. > [Maine's Governor Bans Road Signs For National Monument Out Of "Spite" | IFLScience](http://www.iflscience.com/environment/maines-governor-bans-road-signs-for-national-monument-out-of-spite/) Careful. Next he’ll put them back, pointing to a cliff face with a tunnel painted on 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:** [May 24, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33940 "2017-05-24T16:56:14Z")
Nut job Paul Ryan says James Comey [is not](http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/24/politics/nut-job-trump-james-comey-paul-ryan/) a nut job. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33941 "2017-05-24T17:02:03Z")
Probably the nicest thing Comey’s heard in a year, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1696) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1698)