# 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:** 1747
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34922 "2017-08-30T21:30:38Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I’m seeing reports, unfortunately not from any reliable sources, that Trump fans are floating all over the Internet asking, “Where was Obama during Katrina? Oh, right, golfing.” As if Obama was President during Katrina. And there is one report of a Trump fan holding up a sign asking “Where was Michelle Obama three days after Katrina? Shopping.” Including a picture of … Condoleezza Rice. I could _swear_ there was a major US effort, years ago, to reduce lead contamination in everyday objects and surroundings. Guess I dreamed it…? ---
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34923 "2017-08-30T23:11:30Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Don’t forget that Katrina Pierson claimed (on CNN!) that Obama and H. Clinton changed the rules of engagement in Iraq resulting in Captain Khan’s death. In 2004. Don’t you get it, sheeple ?! Obama’s so tricksey, he managed to fool you into believing he hasn’t been President for life since the seventies. This is why we need to make Trump President for life. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34924 "2017-08-31T12:26:36Z")
Yeah, this makes a lot of sense. :rolleyes: **House GOP eyes cutting $1 billion in disaster funds to finance wall** [https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAqZ1PK?m=en-us](https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAqZ1PK?m=en-us) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is promising billions to help Texas rebuild from Harvey-caused epic flooding, but his Republican allies in the House are looking at cutting almost $1 billion from disaster accounts to help finance the president’s border wall. > > The pending reduction to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief account is part of a massive spending bill that the House is scheduled to consider next week when lawmakers return from their August recess. The $876 million cut, which is included in the 1,305-page measure’s homeland security section, pays for roughly half the cost of Trump’s down payment on the U.S.-Mexico border wall that the president repeatedly promised Mexico would finance. > > It seems sure that GOP leaders will move to reverse the disaster aid cut next week as floodwaters cover Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, and tens of thousands of Texans have sought refuge in shelters. There’s only $2.3 billion remaining in federal disaster coffer… (Emphasis added.) Don’t be too sure. Even if there hadn’t been a hurricane, taking this wall thing seriously is just ludicrous. ---
**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 31, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34925 "2017-08-31T12:38:11Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Yeah, this makes a lot of sense. :rolleyes: > > **House GOP eyes cutting $1 billion in disaster funds to finance wall** > [https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAqZ1PK?m=en-us](https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAqZ1PK?m=en-us) > (Emphasis added.) > > Don’t be too sure. > > Even if there hadn’t been a hurricane, taking this wall thing seriously is just ludicrous. **Build the Wall!** The sea wall, to keep the rising ocean and storm surges out of the city. ---
**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 31, 2017, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34926 "2017-08-31T13:11:30Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > **Build the Wall!** > > The sea wall, to keep the rising ocean and storm surges out of the city. What about the dome to keep out the rain? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34927 "2017-08-31T16:50:56Z")
The water in Houston’s street isn’t safe to drink. Maybe not safe to touch. Tomorrow, day after, not safe to look at. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34928 "2017-08-31T17:25:36Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > “Now is not the right time to talk about my voting against funding for relief for Hurricane Sandy.” > > I hope the right day does come, and your feet roast as they are held to the fire. ANY time is a good time to roast that son of a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34929 "2017-08-31T17:26:42Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I’m seeing reports, unfortunately not from any reliable sources, that Trump fans are floating all over the Internet asking, “Where was Obama during Katrina? Oh, right, golfing.” As if Obama was President during Katrina. And there is one report of a Trump fan holding up a sign asking “Where was Michelle Obama three days after Katrina? Shopping.” Including a picture of … Condoleezza Rice. > [x.com](https://twitter.com/AnnieKleynjans/status/902282826158006273) > [x.com](https://twitter.com/GoBlue1131/status/902109305167589377) > [x.com](https://twitter.com/VermillionShawn/status/902271277477584896) > > [http://news.groopspeak.com/trump-fan-gets-obliterated-for-post-asking-where-michelle-obama-was-after-hurricane-katrina/](http://news.groopspeak.com/trump-fan-gets-obliterated-for-post-asking-where-michelle-obama-was-after-hurricane-katrina/) Stupid is as stupid does. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34930 "2017-08-31T20:27:52Z")
It’s [Puzzle Time with Unca Mark (Levin)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0zlugeFIkE): **Q:** What do Aristotle, Archimedes, Galileo, Tesla, Newton, Einstein & Edison have in common? **A:** Not one of them wrote about man-made climate change. Why is that? Because climate change is not about science, evidence, knowledge or facts. It’s about an ideology, which was imported into America from Europe ---
**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:** [August 31, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34931 "2017-08-31T20:34:08Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > It’s [Puzzle Time with Unca Mark (Levin)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0zlugeFIkE): > > **Q:** What do Aristotle, Archimedes, Galileo, Tesla, Newton, Einstein & Edison have in common? > > **A:** Not one of them wrote about man-made climate change. Why is that? Because climate change is not about science, evidence, knowledge or facts. It’s about an ideology, which was imported into America from Europe OMFG. To state the sadly-obvious: Levin’s listeners find his argument plausible **because they have no idea whatsoever of when any of those scientists lived**. For all they know, Aristotle, Archimedes, Galileo, Tesla, Newton, Einstein and Edison are all sciencing-away today, spiffy in their white lab coats, in a lab somewhere in some super-sciency place. And none of them believe in climate change! So there! ☹ ---
**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:** [August 31, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34932 "2017-08-31T20:39:49Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > OMFG. > > To state the sadly-obvious: Levin’s listeners find his argument plausible **because they have no idea whatsoever of when any of those scientists lived**. For all they know, Aristotle, Archimedes, Galileo, Tesla, Newton, Einstein and Edison are all sciencing-away today, spiffy in their white lab coats, in a lab somewhere in some super-sciency place. > > … > ☹ Having lunch with Frederic Douglass. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34933 "2017-08-31T20:45:13Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Yeah, this makes a lot of sense. :rolleyes: > > **House GOP eyes cutting $1 billion in disaster funds to finance wall** > [https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAqZ1PK?m=en-us](https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAqZ1PK?m=en-us) > (Emphasis added.) > > Don’t be too sure. > > Even if there hadn’t been a hurricane, taking this wall thing seriously is just ludicrous. I just saw a Polandball cartoon of that and I thought it was a dumb joke. ☹ [![](https://i.imgur.com/7iOCDHF.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/7iOCDHF.png) ---
**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 31, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34934 "2017-08-31T20:51:15Z")
David Clarke has resigned as Sheriff of Milwaukee County. I wonder what position he will fill in the Trump administration. > **[Milwaukee Co. Sheriff David Clarke has resigned](https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/milwaukee-county-sheriff-david-clarke-has-resigned)** > > County clerk confirms sheriff's resignation. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34935 "2017-08-31T21:09:53Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Having lunch with Frederic Douglass. 😃 New footage of a focus group has been shown on MSNBC recently; it’s made up of Trump voters and Clinton voters. At one point the moderator asks the members to briefly state their impression of Robert Mueller–and to say ‘don’t recognize’ (I think) if they’ve never heard of him. Most of the Trump voters say ‘don’t recognize.’\* Seems unbelievable–but apparently Fox News is just _omitting to mention_ the investigation, rather than bad-mouthing it. \*There is video from the focus group in several places, and I’m still looking for the “comment on Mueller” bit. I’ll add a link that covers just that when I find it. From the focus group: > **[Trump voters: 'He is his own worst enemy'](https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/trump-voters-he-is-his-own-worst-enemy-1036239427926)** > > Deadline panels reacts to focus group of Trump voters in PA > **[Trump Voters 'Disappointed' In President](https://www.msnbc.com/mtp-daily/watch/trump-voters-disappointed-in-president-1036209731695)** > > A focus group with Trump voters in Pittsburgh shows that some of his supporters are disappointed with the president. Pollster Peter Hart and NBC's Carrie Dann discuss. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34936 "2017-09-01T01:05:18Z")
…of course he won’t resign (yet). > **[GOP Lawmaker Said Confederate Statue Vandal Should Be 'Hung from a Tall Tree'](https://www.vice.com/en/article/599a4z/gop-lawmaker-said-confederate-statue-vandal-should-be-hung-from-a-tall-tree-vgtrn)** > > Leaders in the Missouri House of Representatives have called on the legislator to resign. > [@](#): > > After someone splattered red paint all over a Confederate monument this week in Springfield, Missouri, state representative Warren Love hopped on Facebook to offer his thoughts on how the situation should be handled. > > “This is totally against the law,” Love wrote on Thursday, according to the Associated Press. “I hope they are found & hung from a tall tree with a long rope.” > Missouri senator Claire McCaskill, several members of the state House of Representatives, and other political leaders have since called for Love’s resignation, which he’s expressed no intention of handing in. > > “This is a call for lynching by a sitting State Representative,” Missouri Democratic Party chairman Stephen Webber wrote on Twitter. “Calls for poltical [sic] violence are unacceptable. He needs to resign.” > [@](#): > > Love adamantly insisted he wasn’t a racist, telling the paper he has “a better relationship with the minorities than anybody up there at the Legislature.” But he’s been criticized for his controversial actions in the past, like when he shared a blog post calling Abe Lincoln the “greatest tyrant and despot in American history,” or used the phrase “the black Negro” at a House meeting in January, according to the Post-Dispatch. > > “In calling for the lynching of those who vandalized a Confederate statute in Springfield, state Rep. Warren Love invoked a form of political violence used throughout the South to keep African Americans subjugated for generations following the fall of the Confederacy,” House minority leader Gail McCann Beatty told the Post-Dispatch. “For that he must resign.” [Maybe he was just joking around, as has been posited for this cop](http://www.ajc.com/news/local/cobb-leaders-address-public-over-only-shoot-black-people-remark/I3RAuy3GVMmoM4WsXBGN7H/)? ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34937 "2017-09-01T02:35:39Z")
Steve King: Immigrant children should turn in their parents to immigration officials. > **[Racist congressman Steve King attacks immigrant children for not turning in...](https://americanindependent.com/racist-congressman-steve-king-attacks-immigrant-children-for-not-turning-in-their-parents/)** > > The Iowa congressman says the children of undocumented immigrants should be turning their parents over to law enforcement. Reminds me of the good ol’ days of Communism when kids were expected to turn in their parents for traitorous speech. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34938 "2017-09-01T02:59:39Z")
I didn’t even think we had Confederate statues in SW Mo. It’s not like the secession actually went through. Well, I guess there is that old battlefield by Springfield. \_ Also, Steve King is a jerk, but that’s particularly stupid. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34939 "2017-09-01T03:51:40Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > David Clarke has resigned as Sheriff of Milwaukee County. I wonder what position he will fill in the Trump administration. > [http://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/milwaukee-county-sheriff-david-clarke-has-resigned](http://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/milwaukee-county-sheriff-david-clarke-has-resigned) No sooner said than done. “Report: Former sheriff Clarke expected to join Trump administration” [https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAr3RkB?m=en-us](https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAr3RkB?m=en-us) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34940 "2017-09-01T04:46:01Z")
I’m still really hoping he’s expecting a position and then it’ll get yanked, like back in the spring (Sure, he said “withdrew his name from consideration”, but everyone in Milwaukee thought otherwise). But this time he’ll be unemployed. Hey, I can hope! ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34941 "2017-09-01T17:12:08Z")
What follows ia a pure, screaming rant. You have been warned. Apropos of the title of this thread, I can’t think of any Republican/Trump idea that 1) isn’t stupid and 2) pretends to give a fuck about the good of the country. As I flipped through the Washington Post today, one story after another screamed, “Trump and Congress don’t give one rat’s ass about anything except tax cuts for the wealthy!” In fact, there was an opinion piece on it: [“Republicans have only one idea. And Trump’s pitch for it is a doozy.”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-have-only-one-idea-and-trumps-pitch-for-it-is-a-doozy/2017/08/31/560a3b9c-8e87-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.6ec2b40873af) > [@](#): > > Republicans have one idea and one idea only: That we should cut taxes for the rich. The only thing that changes is the sales pitch. > > And the latest pitch, offered by President Trump on Wednesday, is a bit of a doozy… I won’t summarize, but it’s likely to make your eyes roll back in your head. And I won’t give cites for all of these (so don’t ask), because you well-informed Dopers will know what I’m talking about, but here’s just a short list of the destructive and damaging policies and actions that Trump & Co. are promoting: eliminating DACA\*, harping on the stupid stupid stupid border wall, rolling back EPA regulations, eliminating protections on National Parks, engaging in a dick-measuring contest with North Korea and Russia, pulling out of the Paris Treaty, making an enemy out of Cuba again (cause that worked so well for the past 50 years), reducing advertising that directs people to sign up for Obamacare… and on and on. Feel free to add to the list. Nothing but destruction, turning back the clock (I’m lookin’ at you, Jeff Sessions!), destroying people’s lives. Not helping or building anything except that MF wall. And now Trump wants to spend $6 BILLION on Harvey relief?? Where the fuck does he think that money comes from? From taxes, you big orange doofus! I hope New York continues to raise a big stink about the hypocrisy of Ted Cruz. And votes for relief money because THAT’S WHAT GOVERNMENT IS FOR. I’m about to bust a blood vessel, so I’ll take a xanax and go quietly away to weep in a corner while holding a cat on my lap. \*The group of attorneys general that is threatening to sue over DACA is doing it SOLELY to punish Obama after the fact. They say the Obama overreached and therefore the law is unconstitutional. Mother. Fuckers. Get. Over. It. So 800,000 students and workers are in danger of being sent back to a country where they have never lived over a grudge against the Kenyan-born Muslim uppity Harvard-educated black man. :mad: The Statue of Liberty must be weeping. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1746) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1748)