# 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:** 1712
**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:** [June 12, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34222 "2017-06-12T19:57:00Z")
Let me see, how many Americans have been killed by Shi’ites? ---
**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:** [June 12, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34223 "2017-06-12T20:35:56Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Let me see, how many Americans have been killed by Shi’ites? Here is a [scholarly article](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9545755)about people who have been killed by shits. What’s that? Shi’ites? Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34224 "2017-06-12T21:04:38Z")
Like father, like daughter? [Ivanka thinks](http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/ivanka-trump-mistakes-judaism-as-one-of-the-worlds-largest-religions/) that Judaism is one of the three largest religions in the world. ([This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9UtV56Q34E) is _probably_ not footage of her visit to the Wailing Wall.) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34225 "2017-06-12T21:44:40Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Like father, like daughter? [Ivanka thinks](http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/ivanka-trump-mistakes-judaism-as-one-of-the-worlds-largest-religions/) that Judaism is one of the three largest religions in the world… Well, she used to live in New York City. (Counting on fingers) “Let’s see…there’s my accountant, my lawyer, my dentist, my dry cleaner…” ---
**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:** [June 12, 2017, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34226 "2017-06-12T22:15:25Z")
Agent Orange’s wall is on it’s way to completion. First layer was driving out actual media and building a foundation of Breitbart, Infowars, Rush/Fox. Next layer is surrounding himself with worshiping syncopants. "At Monday’s Cabinet meeting — the first President Trump had held with everyone on board — White House chief of staff Reince Priebus spoke up to thank Trump “for the opportunity and blessing that you’ve given us to serve your agenda and the American people.” Priebus said he was offering words on behalf of everyone in the room. But one by one, pretty much everyone else seated around the table took the opportunity to lavish their leader with praise, too, as the media looked on." > **[Praise for the chief: Trump’s Cabinet tells him it’s an ‘honor’ and...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/praise-for-the-chief--trumps-cabinet-tells-him-its-an-honor-privilege-blessing-to-serve/2017/06/12/ddd3919e-4fa4-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.html?utm_term=.ed93246194ef)** > > Monday was the first Cabinet meeting with all members present. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2017, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34227 "2017-06-12T22:52:31Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > …everyone else seated around the table took the opportunity to lavish their leader with praise, too, as the media looked on." > > … No doubt with their mouths hanging open. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34228 "2017-06-12T22:55:18Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Agent Orange’s wall is on it’s way to completion. > First layer was driving out actual media and building a foundation of Breitbart, Infowars, Rush/Fox. Next layer is surrounding himself with **worshiping syncopants**. :eek: Trump has legions of simultaneously prostrating trousers?\* 😕 - by Wham-O! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34229 "2017-06-13T01:10:58Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > No doubt with their mouths hanging open. Pretty much everyone outside that room looked on with jaws dropped to knees. Can’t wait to see what Steve Colbert, Seth Meyers, etc., have to say about it. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34230 "2017-06-13T01:24:16Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > But one by one, pretty much everyone else seated around the table took the opportunity to lavish their leader with praise, too, as the media looked on." They looked like hostages. Hostages with unseen guns to the back of their heads. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34231 "2017-06-13T02:53:45Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Agent Orange’s wall is on it’s way to completion. > First layer was driving out actual media and building a foundation of Breitbart, Infowars, Rush/Fox. Next layer is surrounding himself with worshiping syncopants. > > "At Monday’s Cabinet meeting — the first President Trump had held with everyone on board — White House chief of staff Reince Priebus spoke up to thank Trump “for the opportunity and blessing that you’ve given us to serve your agenda and the American people.” > > Priebus said he was offering words on behalf of everyone in the room. But one by one, pretty much everyone else seated around the table took the opportunity to lavish their leader with praise, too, as the media looked on." > > [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/praise-for-the-chief--trumps-cabinet-tells-him-its-an-honor-privilege-blessing-to-serve/2017/06/12/ddd3919e-4fa4-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f\_story.html?utm\_term=.ed93246194ef](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/praise-for-the-chief--trumps-cabinet-tells-him-its-an-honor-privilege-blessing-to-serve/2017/06/12/ddd3919e-4fa4-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.html?utm_term=.ed93246194ef) If only there were an SNL episode this week … ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34232 "2017-06-13T03:00:13Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > They looked like hostages. Hostages with unseen guns to the back of their heads. I posted somewhere else that the Secret Service was in the next room with all their kids and dogs and Zippo lighters, waiting for someone to decline to kiss the ring. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34233 "2017-06-13T03:00:22Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > They looked like hostages. Hostages with unseen guns to the back of their heads. Maybe Trump got their loyalty oaths in writing. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34234 "2017-06-13T03:58:26Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Maybe Trump got their loyalty oaths in writing. He probably is holding members of their family in seclusion. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34235 "2017-06-13T04:03:38Z")
Mike Pence was the worst. My god, that man looked like he was going to burst into tears at any second. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34236 "2017-06-13T05:32:30Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > He probably is holding members of their family in seclusion. Or maybe anyone who refused had a trapdoor open beneath their chair, dumping them into a shark tank or something. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34237 "2017-06-13T06:14:47Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Or maybe anyone who refused had a trapdoor open beneath their chair, dumping them into a shark tank or something. Into a shark tank? _Into?_ More like out of. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34238 "2017-06-13T08:36:49Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Or maybe anyone who refused had a trapdoor open beneath their chair, dumping them into a shark tank or something. I believe we’re all thinking the same thing… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5XIwUxmtX5U/maxresdefault.jpg "Thunderball") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XIwUxmtX5U) (Or maybe it’s just the Bond marathon on Ion.) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34239 "2017-06-13T08:43:35Z")
Sharks with frickin’ lasers on their heads! > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Like father, like daughter? [Ivanka thinks](http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/ivanka-trump-mistakes-judaism-as-one-of-the-worlds-largest-religions/) that Judaism is one of the three largest religions in the world. ([This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9UtV56Q34E) is _probably_ not footage of her visit to the Wailing Wall.) To be fair-ish, Judaism is in the top three in the US (in fact it might be #2). I too tend to forget how small the worldwide Jewish population is, given its relative size and prominence within the US. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34240 "2017-06-13T11:16:09Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > To be fair-ish, Judaism is in the top three in the US (in fact it might be #2). Looks like it [is](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States#Statistics) #2. (Provided that you aren’t one to break Protestant and Catholic into separate groups, and you don’t count “nones” as being a group.) Of course that 2.1 percent is a national average. I’m betting that where I live (in rural South Carolina) it is waaaaaay below that. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34241 "2017-06-13T12:57:41Z")
That Cabinet meeting was embarrassing to watch and listen to. I was reminded of Stakin’s “Cult of Personality” > [@](#): > > Thank you, Stalin. Thank you because I am joyful. Thank you because I am well. No matter how old I become, I shall never forget how we received Stalin two days ago. Centuries will pass, and the generations still to come will regard us as the happiest of mortals, as the most fortunate of men, because we lived in the century of centuries, because we were privileged to see Stalin, our inspired leader … Everything belongs to thee, chief of our great country. And when the woman I love presents me with a child the first word it shall utter will be : Stalin > **[Joseph Stalin's cult of personality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin%27s_cult_of_personality)** > > Joseph Stalin's cult of personality became a prominent feature of Soviet popular culture. Historian Archie Brown sets the celebration of Stalin's 50th birthday on 21 December 1929 as the starting point for his cult of personality. For the rest of Stalin's rule, the Soviet propaganda presented Stalin as an all-powerful, all-knowing leader, with Stalin's name and image appearing everywhere. > The building of the cult of personality around Stalin had to proceed judiciously, as British historian Ian... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1711) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1713)