# 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:** 1725
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34482 "2017-07-05T19:30:27Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > If that’s true—and a search of the NPR Twitter account suggests that it is—then I can sort of see why some Trump supporters might interpret it as a dig at the President. > > After all, Twitter has been a “thing” for quite a while now. NPR began tweeting in 2007, and has accumulated over 122,000 tweets over the last ten years. That’s an average of over 30 posts per day. And yet, before this year, it has never seen fit to tweet the full Declaration. > > It seems like a bit more than a coincidence that they chose to do this for the first time now that we have a President who is both a petulant child AND obsessed with Twitter. I reckon, even if only subconsciously, there was some Trump-trolling going on here. > > Doesn’t change the stupidity of the Trump supporters who took the bait, of course. I don’t know that it is coincidence, but I also don’t think that it was nefarious or trolling. President WTF has been using twitter a little bit, and has elevated that into the spotlight as a place in which to easily disseminate or receive news and information. So, while it may be because trump is a twitter fan that prompted NPR to add twitter to the ways it communicates its fourth of july message, it was not really so much a dig at him, as much as a way to get more viewership. I doubt that even the latte sipping arugula eating producers of NPR’s morning edition were cynical enough to think that trump supporters would see the declaration of independance, and think it to be an unAmerican screed. Though, if they really were trolling, they’d have done it on the 2nd, the actual signing day of the DOI. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34483 "2017-07-05T19:47:03Z")
If it wasn’t on purpose, it should have been. Make the right piss on the Declaration of Independence. And call them on it at every instance. You don’t think the converse would have been in motion had Fox “News” posted the Declaration of Independence during the Obama administration and \*anybody \*on the left criticized them for it in the slightest? Call them freedom hating traitors for all I care. Whats good for the goose and all that shit. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34484 "2017-07-05T19:52:14Z")
Rightwingnut commentator Liz Crokin claims that Congressman Scalise was specifically targeted for a hit because he’s investigating Pizzagate. > **[Liz Crokin Says Scalise Shooting Was 'A Hit' Orchestrated By The Pizzagate...](https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/liz-crokin-says-scalise-shooting-was-a-hit-orchestrated-by-the-pizzagate-sex-trafficking-ring/)** > > Liz Crokin is a right-wing columnist, commentator and conspiracy theorist who has been heavily promoting the right-wing "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34485 "2017-07-05T20:02:57Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Rightwingnut commentator Liz Crokin claims that Congressman Scalise was specifically targeted for a hit because he’s investigating Pizzagate. > [Liz Crokin Says Scalise Shooting Was 'A Hit' Orchestrated By The Pizzagate Sex Trafficking Ring | Right Wing Watch](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/liz-crokin-says-scalise-shooting-was-a-hit-orchestrated-by-the-pizzagate-sex-trafficking-ring/) Oh God, I had completely forgotten what “Pizzagate” was! Had to click on the link to refresh my memory. The level of ‘crazy" there is fuckin’ unbelievable! Yeah, I’m sure Scalise is getting far too close to the unnerving horrifying “truth”, and must be taken down. Holy Cow! How udderly ridiculous… ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34486 "2017-07-05T20:23:05Z")
That’s why Hillary had NASA move the operation to Mars. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34487 "2017-07-05T20:57:57Z")
And I still haven’t gotten my cheese to get the martian pizza oven operational. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34488 "2017-07-05T21:12:23Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > Oh God, I had completely forgotten what “Pizzagate” was! Had to click on the link to refresh my memory. The level of ‘crazy" there is fuckin’ unbelievable! Yeah, I’m sure Scalise is getting far too close to the unnerving horrifying “truth”, and must be taken down. Holy Cow! How udderly ridiculous… That “horrifying truth” involved pineapple. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34489 "2017-07-05T23:14:02Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Yeah **Rick Kitchen**. NPR tweets out Declaration of Independence, [Trump supporters mistake it as call to overthrow president](http://www.metro.us/news/politics/npr-tweets-declaration-independence). :smack: > > As George Carlin [said](http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/43852-think-of-how-stupid-the-average-person-is-and-realize), “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” They must be the same idiots who freaked out at the soft drink commercial with people singing _America the Beautiful_ in various languages. The idiots freaking out thought that song is the national anthem. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34490 "2017-07-06T00:33:43Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > [Auschwitz Memorial Slams GOP Congressman For Recording Video Inside Gas Chamber | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clay-higgins-auschwitz_us_595c9960e4b0da2c7325cb9d) > > Using the actual, literal gas chambers of Auschwitz as a back drop, Rep. Clay Higgins brings us a message of peace through fear. > > I have an abundant supply of snark vocabulary and scathing vitriol to apply as needed. In this case, wholly inadequate, be like hunting rhino with a Nerf bat. Where curses fail, perhaps a blessing… > > May the sweet Baby Jesus shut your mouth and open your mind. Amen. Let me be the first to condemn these words and say, instead, that this screed is NOT representative of my faith, or Christianity as a whole, except for a small sect of violence-loving fundamentalists who use small excerpts of our shared holy book out of context in order to justify their hatred and bigotry. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34491 "2017-07-06T01:40:58Z")
Do we have evacuation plans in case Trump gives Alaska to Putin? ---
**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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34492 "2017-07-06T02:02:34Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > That “horrifying truth” involved pineapple. [8 June 2017: Sam Panopoulos, Canadian inventor of Hawaiian pizza, dies at 82.](http://www.cbc.ca/news/hawaiian-pizza-sam-panopoulos-1.4155044) ---
**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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34493 "2017-07-06T02:29:00Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > [8 June 2017: Sam Panopoulos, Canadian inventor of Hawaiian pizza, dies at 82.](http://www.cbc.ca/news/hawaiian-pizza-sam-panopoulos-1.4155044) I saw that (I’m in the Death Pool). I didn’t realize exactly how deep the conspiracy went, though. Look all around you, sheeple! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34494 "2017-07-06T03:03:39Z")
First you heard of pineapple on pizza, you didn’t immediately think “Canada”? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34495 "2017-07-06T03:52:35Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Do we have evacuation plans in case Trump gives Alaska to Putin? I don’t know. How quickly do you think we can get all the Republicans to Alaska? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34496 "2017-07-06T05:09:45Z")
Suppose that a lot of Alaskans will want to relocate to Minnesota, for climate. May have to get some bigger mosquitoes. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34497 "2017-07-06T06:13:19Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Suppose that a lot of Alaskans will want to relocate to Minnesota, for climate. May have to get some bigger mosquitoes. That would appeal to my sense of symmetry, since the Matanuska-Susitna area — Sarah P’s stompin’ ground — was settled to a great extent by transplants from Minnesota and Wisconsin during the Great Depression. The idea was to create a farming colony, and it was generally successful; it also explains why Sarah sounds like she came from Minneapolis. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34498 "2017-07-06T06:24:14Z")
You know who used to run the PLO office in St. Paul? Yassir Youbetcha! ---
**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:** [July 6, 2017, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34499 "2017-07-06T07:48:20Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > First you heard of pineapple on pizza, you didn’t immediately think “Canada”? Nope. I thought “stupid hippies.” Then I tried it. And it’s not bad, in a “drinking Red Bull and dry-humping all night” kinda way. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2017, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34500 "2017-07-06T11:03:58Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > First you heard of pineapple on pizza, you didn’t immediately think “Canada”? No, but I’ve always wondered why canonical Hawaiian pizza requires “Canadian” bacon. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2017, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34501 "2017-07-07T04:21:04Z")
You know the guy who has been collecting ancient artifacts since 2009 and is building an $800 million [Bible museum in Washington D.C.](https://www.museumofthebible.org/) ? Yeah, [that asshole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Green_(entrepreneur)), who is founder of Hobby Lobby. He just [got pinched](http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-hobby-lobby-smuggling-20170706-story.html) for dealing in stolen artifacts of antiquity. I guess he forgot about “Thou shalt not steal”. Prick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1724) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1726)