# 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:** 1750
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34982 "2017-09-05T16:34:27Z")
Osteen claims he was waiting for the authorities to ask him. My favorite Twitter response: “Jesus asked you 2000 years ago.” ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34983 "2017-09-05T16:48:27Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Osteen claims he was waiting for the authorities to ask him. My favorite Twitter response: “Jesus asked you 2000 years ago.” It’s not like prosperity gospel fuckwads believe in Matthew 25:35-40 in the first place. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34984 "2017-09-05T17:24:23Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > It’s not like prosperity gospel fuckwads believe in Matthew 25:35-40 in the first place. Fake Gospel. ---
**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 5, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34985 "2017-09-05T18:45:08Z")
Republican candidate for mayor of Charlotte wants the voters to know that she’s the white candidate. [https://theintellectualist.co/republican-candidate-mayor-reminds-people-shes-white/](https://theintellectualist.co/republican-candidate-mayor-reminds-people-shes-white/) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34986 "2017-09-05T18:59:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) > We’re not going back to health care. We’re in tax now. As far as I’m concerned, they shot their wad on health care and that’s the way it is. I’m sick of it. That’s because the goat fuckers of the GOP have already voted to cut funding. The GOP has already killed the ACA, it’s just going to take a while for it to bleed out. ---
**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 5, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34987 "2017-09-05T19:19:24Z")
Disgusting Steve King is at it again. Once DREAMers are deported, they can go back to their home countries and teach them how civilized people behave. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?visual=false&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F340999600&show_artwork=true&maxheight=166 ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34988 "2017-09-05T20:52:55Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Republican candidate for mayor of Charlotte wants the voters to know that she’s the white candidate. > [https://theintellectualist.co/republican-candidate-mayor-reminds-people-shes-white/](https://theintellectualist.co/republican-candidate-mayor-reminds-people-shes-white/) Surely, hopefully, she’s been hacked. Because that’s too much for me to accept that that will be normalized behavior for “mainstream” candidates. ---
**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 5, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34989 "2017-09-05T21:09:08Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Presuming that you’re talking about “The Last Line of Defense” website, here is the text of their disclaimer: > > > [@](#): > > > > DISCLAIMER: America’s Last Line of Defense is a satirical publication that may sometimes appear to be telling the truth. We assure you that’s not the case. We present fiction as fact and our sources don’t actually exist. Names that represent actual people and places are purely coincidental and all images should be considered altered and do not in any way depict reality. > > > > In other words, if you believe this crap you’re a real dumbass. > > The “About Us” page goes on to say: > > > [@](#): > > > > In a cynical world where the news of the day often seems fake, The Last Line of Defense offers today’s busy conservative a place to go to read things they’ll enjoy and congregate with a bunch of people they agree with. So while everything on this site is a satirical work of fiction, we are proud to present it to those who will have called it real anyway. It’s the bit on “About Us,” combined with the name of the site, that make me think this is a fake news site deliberately playing into conservative paranoia, with a caterpillar-eaten fig leaf of “deniability.” ---
**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 5, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34990 "2017-09-05T21:20:18Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > He’s also _she_, you dork. Uh, thanks I guess? But really, the generic “he” is appropriate enough in this context. I’m pretty gender-ambiguous online anyway. I wanted to ignore this, but it just seems\* weird\* today to find my gender argued about like a word in a Romance language. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34991 "2017-09-05T21:38:15Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Your girlfriend? You tell me. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34992 "2017-09-05T21:46:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Disgusting Steve King is at it again. > Once DREAMers are deported, they can go back to their home countries and teach them how civilized people behave. > [Stream Breitbart News Daily - Rep. Steve King - September 5, 2017 by Breitbart | Listen online for free on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/breitbart/breitbart-news-daily-rep-steve-king-september-5-2017) Is there some place we can send King? Some place really hot, with sulfur and pitch forks? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34993 "2017-09-05T21:51:13Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Fake Gospel. I’m honestly surprised they didn’t try to pull out the “mistranslated” idea. But I guess then they’d have to accept that the homosexuality clobber passages might be mistranslated. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34994 "2017-09-05T21:51:59Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > Surely, hopefully, she’s been hacked. Because that’s too much for me to accept that that will be normalized behavior for “mainstream” candidates. I’m afraid it IS becoming the “new normal”. The rise of the so called “alt right”, the resurgence of the Klan and the neo-nazis, Drumpf talking about “many fine people” and “on both sides”, people defending Nazis, etc etc etc. This is the new normal. ---
**Author:** ![SaneBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SaneBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaneBill)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34995 "2017-09-05T22:17:26Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Drumpf talking about “many fine people” and “on both sides” I’m sure he didn’t want to say that. Actually he thought that the fine people were really on one side only… - Edit. as an afterthought… anyone knows what those Neo-Nazis thought about the name Hitlery ?\* ---
**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:** [September 6, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34996 "2017-09-06T01:50:24Z")
Rush Limbaugh (remember him?) says [Hurricane Irma is a liberal hoax intended to make people believe global warming is real.](http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/rush-limbaugh-suggests-hurricane-irma-is-a-liberal-hoax/) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34997 "2017-09-06T01:56:14Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Is there some place we can send King? Some place really hot, with sulfur and pitch forks? A farm in east Texas? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34998 "2017-09-06T01:58:32Z")
Awesome. I hope his listeners in Florida believe him and make no preparations. Even assuming they don’t take him seriously, I wonder how his fans will explain away this one. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34999 "2017-09-06T02:54:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Republican candidate for mayor of Charlotte wants the voters to know that she’s the white candidate. > [https://theintellectualist.co/republican-candidate-mayor-reminds-people-shes-white/](https://theintellectualist.co/republican-candidate-mayor-reminds-people-shes-white/) I figured - why not sign up with these hooligans, and copy, here, the comment I wrote there: **BiliousAwfulGuy** : > [@](#): > > "Wow - so rich: "an expression of Democratic behavior.” If only this white male was as smart and traditional as she seems to be. Pity she wasn’t at the right place at the right time when James Alex Fields was. > [@SaneBill](#): > > _Edit. as an afterthought… anyone knows what those Neo-Nazis thought about the name Hitlery ?_ I think they’re internalizing it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35000 "2017-09-06T06:11:10Z")
Lets just make sure we don’t slander perfectly legitimate white nationalists with with wild accusations of racism. ---
**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 6, 2017, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35001 "2017-09-06T06:38:34Z")
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