# 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:** 1831
**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:** [February 13, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36602 "2018-02-13T19:10:01Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Which is the point of the whole enterprise. Hey Nabisco, how would you like Nutter Butters to be included in the Box o’ Nutrition we are sending out. All it takes is a $20 million contribution to my superpac. And we’ve all heard the nutritional makeup of a snickers really satisfies, that’s gotta mean it’s good for you. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36603 "2018-02-13T19:46:37Z")
It’s got what plants crave! ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36604 "2018-02-13T19:57:42Z")
Am I the only one who thinks they’ll cut the food stamps, and then not bother making the delivery program even work? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36605 "2018-02-13T20:26:06Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > Am I the only one who thinks they’ll cut the food stamps, and then not bother making the delivery program even work? Not at all. Making such a huge change to the system would involve thousands of people to make it work. If it could work at all. trump is so, so stupid. Just where is this food going to come from? Just where are you going to deliver it to? What about people that only have PO Boxes, just how clogged up will that make the local post office? The additional bureaucracy of such a system would double the cost of food stamps. And so it won’t happen. “Because, we tried to feed people, but it was too costly”. Another excuse that he tried to help, but fucked over those less fortunate. Not that that isn’t the republicans plan. Another one of trumps grand ideas that can be shot down in 2 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36606 "2018-02-13T20:55:14Z")
Got to be a penalty for being poor, otherwise, people wouldn’t sacrifice time and dignity to avoid it. And then the whole system breaks down. You gotta suffer to sing the blues. And even if you don’t particularly want to sing the blues, you still got to suffer. But now, you can sing the blues. So it all evens out in the end. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36607 "2018-02-13T21:00:34Z")
How much sugar is going to be in these care packages and which of Trump’s friends owns the nonexistent company that’s going to get the juicy contract to distribute them? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36608 "2018-02-13T21:05:52Z")
Everybody who has tried to do something like this has failed miserably. Therefore, the contract should go to someone who has no experience whatsoever. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2018, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36609 "2018-02-13T21:07:01Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > You gotta suffer to sing the blues. And even if you don’t particularly want to sing the blues, you still got to suffer. But now, you can sing the blues. So it all evens out in the end. Fuck that. Imma sing industrial grindcore. I suffer, you suffer. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36610 "2018-02-13T21:24:18Z")
“Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve suffered for my art. Now it’s your turn.” - Neil Innes w Monty Python. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36611 "2018-02-13T21:38:36Z")
Sean Hannity calls the Obama portrait sexually perverted because it contains images of sperm cells. Then he deleted the claim. Oh, and he got the idea from 4chan. > **[Sean Hannity Promotes, Then Deletes Bonkers Obama Portrait ‘Secret Sperm’...](https://www.thedailybeast.com/sean-hannity-promotes-then-deletes-bonkers-obama-portrait-secret-sperm-conspiracy-theory/?source=TDB&via=FB_Page)** > > Hours after publishing, the Fox News host deleted a tweet and article about ‘inappropriate sexual innuendo’ in Obama’s official portrait. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36612 "2018-02-13T21:40:26Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > … The additional bureaucracy of such a system would double the cost of food stamps. And so it won’t happen. “Because, we tried to feed people, but it was too costly”. Another excuse that he tried to help, but fucked over those less fortunate.… Of course, once the effort fails and is shut down, all the people on food stamps will be getting half as much as they had been but with no other offset. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36613 "2018-02-13T22:04:08Z")
“Nobody knew feeding millions of people could be so complicated!” ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36614 "2018-02-13T22:05:01Z")
None of that matters. This will play well with the base because someone’s uncle’s cousin’s neighbor once saw someone buy lobster with a SNAP card. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36615 "2018-02-13T22:36:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Sean Hannity calls the Obama portrait sexually perverted because it contains images of sperm cells. Then he deleted the claim. > Oh, and he got the idea from 4chan. > [Sean Hannity Promotes, Then Deletes Bonkers Obama Portrait ‘Secret Sperm’ Conspiracy Theory](https://www.thedailybeast.com/sean-hannity-promotes-then-deletes-bonkers-obama-portrait-secret-sperm-conspiracy-theory/?source=TDB&via=FB_Page) I thought sperm cells were a _normal_ part of sex. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36616 "2018-02-13T22:43:43Z")
Pervert! Pervert! _Get him_! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36617 "2018-02-13T22:52:24Z")
It’s a damned vein in his forehead. Check that portrait closeup on the Daily Beast link to [this picture here](https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/fashion/daily/2017/12/04/04-obama.w710.h473.jpg). But you already knew Hannity was a moron. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36618 "2018-02-13T23:03:16Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > How much sugar is going to be in these care packages and which of Trump’s friends owns the nonexistent company that’s going to get the juicy contract to distribute them? > [@elucidator](#): > > Everybody who has tried to do something like this has failed miserably. Therefore, the contract should go to someone who has no experience whatsoever. I know a one person company that provided [del]millions [/del] a few meals to Puerto Rico after the hurricane that could handle this distribution. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36619 "2018-02-14T00:44:12Z")
Somebody [get the butterfly net](http://www.newsweek.com/sean-hannity-obama-portrait-artist-805650): > [@](#): > > Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday offered what was perhaps the most bizarre assessment yet of former President Barack Obama’s official portrait by suggesting an artist included “sexual innuendo” in his depiction of the 44th president. > > A now-deleted post on Hannity’s website claimed the portrait, painted by Kehinde Wiley, featured “secret sperm cells,”… ---
**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:** [February 14, 2018, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36620 "2018-02-14T00:49:23Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Somebody [get the butterfly net](http://www.newsweek.com/sean-hannity-obama-portrait-artist-805650): > > > [@](#): > > > > A now-deleted post on Hannity’s website claimed the portrait, painted by Kehinde Wiley, featured “secret sperm cells,”… Sounds like a window into Hannity’s obsessions. If anyone was wanting one. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36621 "2018-02-14T01:05:10Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Somebody [get the butterfly net](http://www.newsweek.com/sean-hannity-obama-portrait-artist-805650): See my post two above yours for a one picture explanation of the entire issue. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1830) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1832)