# 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:** 1742
**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:** [August 19, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34822 "2017-08-19T03:21:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Hannity and Limbaugh have both breathlessly discovered that the Antifa and protesters in Charlottesville were actors, hired through a casting call. In Charlotte, North Carolina. Which is not Charlottesville, Virginia. > [http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/sean-hannity-has-been-dumpster-diving-conspiracy-theorists-again](http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/sean-hannity-has-been-dumpster-diving-conspiracy-theorists-again) So were Richard Spencer and David Duke in on this? Have they just been playing characters for the last several decades? ---
**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:** [August 20, 2017, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34823 "2017-08-20T03:11:39Z")
The Governor of Kentucky is a fucking moron. The link is to Right Wing Watch, but it has a link to the radio show where he made these ignorant comments. [Kentucky Gov. Links Charlottesville Violence To Removal Of Bible Study From Schools](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kentucky-gov-links-charlottesville-violence-to-removal-of-bible-study-from-schools/) ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34824 "2017-08-20T12:57:56Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > So were Richard Spencer and David Duke in on this? Have they just been playing characters for the last several decades? Maybe somebody ought to start a rumor that they are FBI informants. They would probably be hunted down by their own group of idiots. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34825 "2017-08-20T14:15:38Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Governor of Kentucky is a fucking moron. > The link is to Right Wing Watch, but it has a link to the radio show where he made these ignorant comments. > [Kentucky Gov. Links Charlottesville Violence To Removal Of Bible Study From Schools](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kentucky-gov-links-charlottesville-violence-to-removal-of-bible-study-from-schools/) I fucking hate that man. Between this, his support for Ken Ham and the Creation Museum, and his call for wandering prayer groups to solve the crime problem, he’s stupid and dangerous in a Mike Pence kinda way. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34826 "2017-08-20T14:38:34Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > Maybe somebody ought to start a rumor that they are FBI informants. They would probably be hunted down by their own group of idiots. You think you’re being funny, but in fact, a lot of the Nazis are now claiming that the guy who organized this “Unite the Right” demonstration is, in fact, a mole working for the Leftists, and of course, Soros himself. > **[Alt-Right Turns Against 'Unite the Right' Organizer Jason Kessler, Labels Him...](https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/08/17/jason-kessler-soros-deep-state-plant/)** > > In the aftermath of the violence-plagued Charlottesville rally, former white nationalist allies peddled a conspiracy theory suggesting Kessler is a left-wing provocateur. You can’t make up shit stupid enough that there isn’t a real Conspiracy Theorist out there who honestly believes it. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34827 "2017-08-20T14:43:12Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > You think you’re being funny, but in fact, a lot of the Nazis are now claiming that the guy who organized this “Unite the Right” demonstration is, in fact, a mole working for the Leftists, and of course, Soros himself. > > [Alt-Right Turns Against 'Unite the Right' Organizer Jason Kessler, Labels Him 'Soros/Deep State Plant' | Snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com/2017/08/17/jason-kessler-soros-deep-state-plant/) > > You can’t make up shit stupid enough that there isn’t a real Conspiracy Theorist out there who honestly believes it. Use their conspiracy mentality against them. Make them think that there are moles everywhere. The only reason I can see any right thinking person to join a white supremacist movement is to act as a mole, whether for leo or journalism reasons. They know that too. If they can never gather in groups larger than a few without them being suspicious that one of the group is a mole, then they can no longer effectively organize. They’re paranoid, and those who are out to get them can use that against them. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34828 "2017-08-20T15:00:20Z")
The old joke about how to tell if a Communist Party USA member was an FBI agent: his Party dues are paid up in full. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34829 "2017-08-20T15:06:32Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Governor of Kentucky is a fucking moron. > The link is to Right Wing Watch, but it has a link to the radio show where he made these ignorant comments. > [Kentucky Gov. Links Charlottesville Violence To Removal Of Bible Study From Schools](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kentucky-gov-links-charlottesville-violence-to-removal-of-bible-study-from-schools/) I went to school in C-ville and we had Bible study. Okay, it was a Catholic school so it wasn’t directly from the Bible, just an interpretation of it, but I still ended up on the side of the angels in this dispute, so he may be right. Just not in the way he meant. 😃 > [@Horatius](#): > > You can’t make up shit stupid enough that there isn’t a real Conspiracy Theorist out there who honestly believes it. Have you created a new Rule of the Internet? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34830 "2017-08-20T15:09:13Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > You can’t make up shit stupid enough that there isn’t a real Conspiracy Theorist out there who honestly believes it. > [@dropzone](#): > > Have you created a new Rule of the Internet? Someone has already formulated it. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34831 "2017-08-20T15:26:41Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Someone has already formulated it. Yeah, I’ve been using this one for years. At least since [9/11 Truther Morgan Reynolds](http://screwloosechange.blogspot.ca/2006/08/morgan-reynolds-endorses-onions-single.html) endorsed [The Onion’s “Single Plane Theory”](http://www.theonion.com/article/new-oliver-stone-911-film-introduces-single-plane--2017). ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34832 "2017-08-20T16:16:04Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > They’re paranoid, and those who are out to get them can use that against them. I just wanted to say that I really like this sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Hocus\_Pocus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/41988e/32.png) [@Hocus\_Pocus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hocus_Pocus)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34833 "2017-08-20T16:52:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Governor of Kentucky is a fucking moron. > The link is to Right Wing Watch, but it has a link to the radio show where he made these ignorant comments. > [Kentucky Gov. Links Charlottesville Violence To Removal Of Bible Study From Schools](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kentucky-gov-links-charlottesville-violence-to-removal-of-bible-study-from-schools/) Someone is trying to give Maine Gov. Paul LePage a run for Most Stupid Governor. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34834 "2017-08-20T16:53:37Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > They’re paranoid, and those who are out to get them can use that against them. > [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > I just wanted to say that I really like this sentence. If I may suggest a slightly more efficient rewording: They’re paranoid and their enemies can use this. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2017, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34835 "2017-08-21T13:06:31Z")
well, THIS is depressing: > [@](#): > > Hugh Hewitt, a conservative pundit who hosts an MSNBC weekend show, added on Twitter the other day that he spoke to a group of influential California Republicans, and he came away convinced that Trump’s support “has increased” within the party in the wake of the president’s racially inflammatory comments. > > … > … > > Trump presented the GOP base with qualities no one else offered: nationalism, racism, and old-fashioned, unapologetic nativism. The party’s voters, generally unconcerned with the size of government, swooned. The deeper Trump descended into the fever swamp – attacking a judge of Mexican descent because he’s Latino, calling for a ban on Muslims entering the country – the stronger his hold on the nomination became. > > So, yes, Trump praised the “very fine people” among the racist activists in Charlottesville, and faced an immediate backlash, but to assume that much of the Republican base was troubled by any of this is to lose sight of what made Trump appealing to those voters in the first place. > … > > …a CBS News poll last week found most Americans disapproved of Trump’s response to Charlottesville, but by a four-to-one margin, Republicans said the opposite. The rest of the country and much of the world may have been repulsed, but GOP voters are watching events unfold through very different eyes. > **[GOP base comfortable with Trump's racially inflammatory posture](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-base-comfortable-trumps-racially-inflammatory-posture-msna1014271)** > > Much of the American mainstream was repulsed by Trump's racially inflammatory rhetoric last week, but there's fresh evidence his GOP base approved. ---
**Author:** ![Galanthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Galanthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galanthus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34836 "2017-08-21T13:35:44Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > If I may suggest a slightly more efficient rewording: > > They’re paranoid and their enemies can use this. Better English but much less fun. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34837 "2017-08-22T01:59:29Z")
Jim Bakker: [The eclipse is God’s punishment for the Obama years](http://bizstandardnews.com/2017/08/19/bakker-eclipse-is-gods-punishment-for-obama-years/). ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34838 "2017-08-22T02:02:21Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Jim Bakker: [The eclipse is God’s punishment for the Obama years](http://bizstandardnews.com/2017/08/19/bakker-eclipse-is-gods-punishment-for-obama-years/). How the hell is that a punishment? Is God too lazy to send a tsunami or even a real good lightning storm? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34839 "2017-08-22T02:05:20Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Jim Bakker: [The eclipse is God’s punishment for the Obama years](http://bizstandardnews.com/2017/08/19/bakker-eclipse-is-gods-punishment-for-obama-years/). God: You elected Obama, so I will send you impressive and beautiful demonstrations of once-in-a-lifetime cosmic events that will make you go ooh! The People: The 22nd Amendment is garbage! ---
**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:** [August 22, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34840 "2017-08-22T02:29:45Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > How the hell is that a punishment? > > Is God too lazy to send a tsunami or even a real good lightning storm? For that matter, how does that even make _sense_? It was known decades if not centuries ago that this eclipse would happen - anyone with knowledge of the movements of the planets and a sufficient understanding of mathematics could have predicted it. Sounds like satire to me. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34841 "2017-08-22T02:37:12Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > For that matter, how does that even make _sense_? It was known decades if not centuries ago that this eclipse would happen - anyone with knowledge of the movements of the planets and a sufficient understanding of mathematics could have predicted it. > > Sounds like satire to me. That sounds like you need science, which isn’t exactly a strong suit of the modern Republican party. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1741) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1743)