# 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:** 1715
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34282 "2017-06-17T14:03:01Z")
Fat Head moron Newt Gingrich forgets he voted to impeach Clinton for obstruction of justice and perjury. [Technically, the President of the United States cannot obstruct justice.](http://us.cnn.com/2017/06/16/politics/gingrich-defends-trump-again/index.html) I love it when these idiots don’t even try to hide their utter lack of principles and hypocrisy. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34283 "2017-06-18T18:47:05Z")
Taking his cue from the blowhard-in-chief, Kentucky governor Matt Bevin has blocked many of his constituents from his social media accounts, especially if they disagree with him. Let me state that, for the record, I’m firmly convinced that, if someone is being abusive and/or threatening to Bevin or his family, he absolutely should be allowed to block people, and possibly have the authorities look into the situation. But if he’s blocking people merely because they disagree with him, then that’s a bush league, pussy move. Not everyone is going to agree with you all the time. And, in many occasions, the voices of opposition can cause you to look at a problem with a different perspective. Cooperation and comprise are what politics are about. ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34284 "2017-06-18T18:59:58Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > …Cooperation and comprise are what politics are about. Have you been in a coma or something for the past eight years? Lost in the Outback? Taken by the Greys and held in their big base on the far side of the moon? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34285 "2017-06-18T19:55:22Z")
Nah. Just a “still wet behind the ears, from a small town in Indiana, naive and unjaded” kind of guy Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34286 "2017-06-19T08:32:54Z")
Caitlyn Jenner: [Making transgender Americans look bad since 2015!](http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/caitlyn-jenner-gop-baseball-shooting-shows-that-liberals-cant-even-shoot-straight/) > [@](#): > > The Washington Examiner reported that Jenner made the remarks during a speech to the College Republican Foundation of Virginia… > > “As far as the people that were injured, it’s an absolute shame. You just want them to recover,” Jenner went on. “Fortunately the guy was a really bad shot… liberals can’t even shoot straight.” People are fighting for their lives and you want to use it for cheap shots against the only people in this country who are fighting _for_ the rights of people like you who didn’t have the luxury of being rich and famous, while you support candidates who’d be perfectly OK with _you_ being denied emergency medical care by a doctor who doesn’t approve of your “lifestyle”. I guess you can’t fix stupid. ---
**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 19, 2017, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34287 "2017-06-19T08:58:38Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Fat Head moron Newt Gingrich forgets he voted to impeach Clinton for obstruction of justice and perjury. > > [Technically, the President of the United States cannot obstruct justice.](http://us.cnn.com/2017/06/16/politics/gingrich-defends-trump-again/index.html) > > I love it when these idiots don’t even try to hide their utter lack of principles and hypocrisy. Gingrich also railed on Clinton for infidelity, a subject in which Gingrich is somewhat of an expert himself. Principles are for losers. > [@Smapti](#): > > Caitlyn Jenner: [Making transgender Americans look bad since 2015!](http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/caitlyn-jenner-gop-baseball-shooting-shows-that-liberals-cant-even-shoot-straight/) I get gallows humor but this was just stupid, given the implication that if a “real American/conservative had been there, he’d have killed \*\*lots \*\*more people - and with fewer bullets too!” I don’t think it’s reasonable to insist that Jenner be a Democrat just because she’s transgender, but it’d be nice if she at least wasn’t such an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34288 "2017-06-19T11:20:59Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I don’t think it’s reasonable to insist that Jenner be a Democrat just because she’s transgender, but it’d be nice if she at least wasn’t such an asshole. These are two completely contradictory statements. Well, okay, let’s be fair, she could be an independent. So only mostly contradictory. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34289 "2017-06-19T12:53:39Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I get gallows humor but this was just stupid, given the implication that if a “real American/conservative had been there, he’d have killed \*\*lots \*\*more people - and with fewer bullets too!” It’s a nastier comment than you’ve realized. She didn’t say “Liberals can’t shoot straight”, she said “Liberals can’t _even_ shoot strait” – in other words, liberals cannot shoot strait, in addition to being unable to do anything else straight. It’s a homophobic insult. So she can fit in with her Republican buddies. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34290 "2017-06-19T14:23:51Z")
Brad Carver, Chairman of the Republican Party in the 11th Congressional District “[I’ll tell you what: I think the shooting is going to win this election for us](https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/06/19/daily-202-congressional-shooting-clouds-final-days-of-georgia-special-election/5946e314e9b69b2fb981dd76/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark),” He said that out loud. In front of other people. Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34291 "2017-06-19T14:54:45Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > It’s a nastier comment than you’ve realized. She didn’t say “Liberals can’t shoot straight”, she said “Liberals can’t _even_ shoot strait” – in other words, liberals cannot shoot strait, in addition to being unable to do anything else straight. > > It’s a homophobic insult. So she can fit in with her Republican buddies. I would disagree. The “even” is an emphatic. “Liberals can’t \*\*even \*\*shoot straight.” “That doesn’t \*\*even \*\*make sense.” Same usage. The statement is asinine on its own. It doesn’t need the additional help. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34292 "2017-06-19T19:07:27Z")
[Data on 198 million voters exposed by GOP contractor](http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/338383-data-on-198-million-us-voters-left-exposed-to-the-internet-by-rnc-data) One wonders how much of this the Russians have seen and downloaded. > [@](#): > > If its records are accurate, the Deep Root Analytics exposure contains information on more than half of the American population. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34293 "2017-06-19T19:12:20Z")
[Senate Republicans are getting ready to admit they don’t care about deficits after all](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/19/15819364/tax-cuts-scoring-window) > [@](#): > > The only problem with changing the rules to allow for what amounts to an indefinite, deficit-increasing tax cut is that it will massively increase the national debt. Once upon a time, Republicans almost uniformly claimed that large and growing loads of debt were an urgent economic crisis that required immediate action. But of course, back then, Obama was president. Back during the Bush years, the GOP took the view that “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.” And the growing momentum for rules change in the Senate indicates that with Trump in the White House, Republicans are back to not caring. ---
**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 19, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34294 "2017-06-19T20:06:40Z")
After the ridiculousness over the Shakespeare in the Park performance of a Trump lookalike as Julius Caesar being stabbed in a production, Trumpists are randomly threatening Shakespeare companies all over the country. [http://www.alternet.org/culture/trump-supporters-are-now-harassing-random-theaters-bear-shakespeares-name](http://www.alternet.org/culture/trump-supporters-are-now-harassing-random-theaters-bear-shakespeares-name) ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34295 "2017-06-19T22:08:37Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > After the ridiculousness over the Shakespeare in the Park performance of a Trump lookalike as Julius Caesar being stabbed in a production, Trumpists are randomly threatening Shakespeare companies all over the country. > [http://www.alternet.org/culture/trump-supporters-are-now-harassing-random-theaters-bear-shakespeares-name](http://www.alternet.org/culture/trump-supporters-are-now-harassing-random-theaters-bear-shakespeares-name) Is it too late to revise the play? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34296 "2017-06-19T22:20:55Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > After the ridiculousness over the Shakespeare in the Park performance of a Trump lookalike as Julius Caesar being stabbed in a production, Trumpists are randomly threatening Shakespeare companies all over the country. > [http://www.alternet.org/culture/trump-supporters-are-now-harassing-random-theaters-bear-shakespeares-name](http://www.alternet.org/culture/trump-supporters-are-now-harassing-random-theaters-bear-shakespeares-name) Well, that Shakespeare guy shouldn’t have written a play about Donald Trump then, should he? ---
**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:** [June 19, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34297 "2017-06-19T22:43:18Z")
Of course there was a great deal less outrage, corporate as well as pundit, when it was an _Obama_-like figure getting stabbed: > [@](#): > > On Sunday, Delta Air Lines yanked its sponsorship of a controversial performance of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in New York City, which depicts the titular emperor as a Trump-like figure. The corporate protest took specific issue with the play’s famous assassination scene, which was criticized by Fox News for “appear[ing] to depict President Trump being brutally stabbed to death by women and minorities.” > > But in 2012, Delta Air Lines took no issue with sponsoring an Obama-inspired Julius Caesar performance in Minneapolis, Broadway World has discovered. From a review of that performance: > " …Because Caesar is cast as a tall, lanky black man, the Obama inference is a bit too obvious…" > **[Delta once sponsored a production of Julius Caesar where the emperor looked...](https://theweek.com/speedreads/705338/delta-once-sponsored-production-julius-caesar-where-emperor-looked-like-obama)** > > The latest Speed Read,/speed-reads,,speed-reads, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at The Week Funny how _that_ was okay… ---
**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 19, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34298 "2017-06-19T23:29:55Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > After the ridiculousness over the Shakespeare in the Park performance of a Trump lookalike as Julius Caesar being stabbed in a production, Trumpists are randomly threatening Shakespeare companies all over the country. > [http://www.alternet.org/culture/trump-supporters-are-now-harassing-random-theaters-bear-shakespeares-name](http://www.alternet.org/culture/trump-supporters-are-now-harassing-random-theaters-bear-shakespeares-name) As I recall, Wllie the Shake used the phrase “_kill the messenger_” in a play or two, so his acolytes rightly deserve whatever they get. ---
**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 20, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34299 "2017-06-20T00:59:37Z")
I can’t believe Trump hasn’t invited Shakespeare to the Oval Office for a good dressing-down. Uppity Brit! Who does he think he is? ---
**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:** [June 20, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34300 "2017-06-20T03:23:28Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I can’t believe Trump hasn’t invited Shakespeare to the Oval Office for a good dressing-down. Uppity Brit! Who does he think he is? Shakespeare way over rated talentless hack! Nobody likes is plays! Total loser!!! ---
**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:** [June 20, 2017, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34301 "2017-06-20T07:07:56Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Funny how _that_ was okay… Free speech is OK, long as you don’t say shit I don’t like. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1714) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1716)