# 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:** 1837
**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 22, 2018, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36722 "2018-02-22T06:02:31Z")
We have to dispense them before they do it to us. ---
**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 22, 2018, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36723 "2018-02-22T06:09:40Z")
in Soviet Union, semi-automatic weapons ban you ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36724 "2018-02-22T06:27:42Z")
> [@N.Y. Times](#): > > Representative Claudia Tenney, a first-term Republican from Central New York, said in a radio interview on Wednesday that “so many” mass murderers “end up being Democrats.” … ---
**Author:** ![SaneBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SaneBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaneBill)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36725 "2018-02-22T06:47:39Z")
Wait, does she mean that first they are Republicans and after committing those mass murders they repent and finally end up being Democrats ? I mean to me it seems pretty clear that she says they are not Democrats before or while their rampage. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36726 "2018-02-22T09:19:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > There’s a bill before the South Carolina legislature to rename same sex marriages as “Parody marriages”, based on “the religion of Secular Humanism” > [2017-2018 Bill 4949: Marriage and Constitution Restoration Act - South Carolina Legislature Online](http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess122_2017-2018/bills/4949.htm) Perhaps we could propose a bill to rename Republicans “Parody Humans”. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2018, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36727 "2018-02-22T12:53:25Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > More like a despicable Republican idea of the day: > “It’s interesting that so many of these people that commit the mass murders end up being Democrats. But the media doesn’t talk about that.” > [GOP Rep: Most Mass Shooters ‘End Up Being Democrats’](https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-rep-most-mass-shooters-end-up-being-democrats) I saw this just now on my news feed. This might be the farthest-off-the-deep-end of anything I’ve heard so far, possibly ever in my entire, long life. Words fail me. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36728 "2018-02-22T13:13:05Z")
> [@wonky](#): > > #BotsandPrayers This hash tag needs more love ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36729 "2018-02-22T13:35:32Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > More like a despicable Republican idea of the day: > “It’s interesting that so many of these people that commit the mass murders end up being Democrats. But the media doesn’t talk about that.” > [GOP Rep: Most Mass Shooters ‘End Up Being Democrats’](https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-rep-most-mass-shooters-end-up-being-democrats) She probably willingly fell for this bit of garbage: > [@](#): > > In 1865 a Democrat shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. > In 1881 a left wing radical Democrat shot James Garfield, President of the United States – who later died from the wound. > In 1963 a radical left wing socialist shot and killed John F. Kennedy, President of the United States. > In 1975 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at Gerald Ford, President of the United States. > In 1983 a registered Democrat shot and wounded Ronald Reagan, President of the United States. > In 1984 James Hubert, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 22 people in a McDonalds restaurant. > In 1986 Patrick Sherrill, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 15 people in an Oklahoma post office. > In 1990 James Pough, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 10 people at a GMAC office. > In 1991 George Hennard, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 23 people in a Luby’s cafeteria in Killeen , TX. > In 1995 James Daniel Simpson, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 5 coworkers in a Texas laboratory. > In 1999 Larry Asbrook, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 8 people at a church service. > In 2001 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at the White House in a failed attempt to kill George W. Bush, President of the US … > In 2003 Douglas Williams, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people at a Lockheed Martin plant. > In 2007 a registered Democrat named Seung – Hui Cho, shot and killed 32 people in Virginia Tech. > In 2010 a mentally ill registered Democrat named Jared Lee Loughner, shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed 6 others. > In 2011 a registered Democrat named James Holmes, went into a movie theater and shot and killed 12 people. > In 2012 Andrew Engeldinger, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people in Minneapolis. > In 2013 a registered Democrat named Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people in a school in Newtown , CT. > As recently as Sept 2013, an angry Democrat shot 12 at a Navy ship yard. > Clearly, there is a problem with Democrats and guns. > \*Not one \*NRA member, Tea Party member, or Republican conservative was involved in any of these shootings and murders. > _SOLUTION:_ \*It should be illegal for Democrats to own guns.\*Best idea I’ve heard to date! -[Snopes](https://www.snopes.com/democrat-shooters-list/) ---
**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:** [February 22, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36730 "2018-02-22T20:59:34Z")
Here’s a stupid idea: extort a teenage page for sex. Here’s another: take illicit nude pics of girlfriends and then send them to 3rd parties. Here’s the guy who not only had these stupid ideas, he ran with them as well: [Rhode Island state senator Nicholas Kettle (R)](https://apnews.com/be4a1d7fe2a44b5b9cc751b35cefa3b2/Lawmaker-facing-sex-extortion-charges-announces-resignation). > [@](#): > > Kettle, 27, was arrested last week and charged with extorting a male page for sex on two occasions in 2011 and with video voyeurism that involved trading nude photos of his ex-girlfriend and a New Hampshire woman taken without their consent. > > His lawyer has denied wrongdoing. > > The page would have been 16 or 17 years old at the time of the alleged extortion. > [@](#): > > Republican Nicholas Kettle said in a letter Thursday that he has “determined that it is in my best interest to resign and concentrate on the unfounded allegations against me.” > > The move comes a day after Senate leaders, including Democratic Senate President Dominick Ruggerio and Republican Minority Leader Dennis Algiere, took the extraordinary step of introducing a resolution to expel Kettle, the Senate’s minority whip. No Rhode Island lawmaker has been expelled in 175 years since the state constitution went into effect in 1843. > > A hearing on that legislation had been scheduled for Tuesday. ---
**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 22, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36731 "2018-02-22T21:34:15Z")
“His lawyer has denied wrongdoing.” Thats one selfish lawyer, isn’t he supposed to be looking out for his client? ---
**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 22, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36732 "2018-02-22T21:53:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Republican Nicholas Kettle said in a letter Thursday that he has “determined that it is in my best interest to resign and concentrate on the unfounded allegations against me.” I guess dealing with some unspecified “unfounded allegations” is easier than addressing the sex scandals. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36733 "2018-02-22T21:56:57Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > “His lawyer has denied wrongdoing.” > Thats one selfish lawyer, isn’t he supposed to be looking out for his client? Maybe we should get a lawyer for his lawyer so he can deny his clients wrongdoing while his lawyer denies his wrongdoing. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2018, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36734 "2018-02-22T22:33:48Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > > [@bobot](#): > > > > “His lawyer has denied wrongdoing.” > > Thats one selfish lawyer, isn’t he supposed to be looking out for his client? > > Maybe we should get a lawyer for his lawyer so he can deny his clients wrongdoing while his lawyer denies his wrongdoing. It’s wrongdoing all the way down. (I could have helped myself, but I chose not to.) ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36735 "2018-02-22T22:47:32Z")
Missouri Governor Eric Greitens was indicted today for felony invasion of privacy. > [@St. Louis Post Dispatch](#): > > The indictment apparently stems from allegations made in media reports last month that, during the course of an extramarital affair, he took a photograph of his bound and partially nude lover and threatened to publicize it if she exposed the affair. > **[Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens indicted for felony invasion of privacy](https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/government-politics/missouri-gov-eric-greitens-indicted-for-felony-invasion-of-privacy/article_3599554f-fcc4-551e-a0ae-b83368208a30.html)** > > Greitens was under investigation after accusations he tied up and blindfolded his lover, took a compromising photograph of her without her permission and then threatened to release it if she ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36736 "2018-02-23T00:35:36Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > -[Snopes](https://www.snopes.com/democrat-shooters-list/) It’s hilarious that that list covers over 150 years, only has 18 entries (fewer than the number of mass shootings in a given year), and STILL had to lie (or, at best, speculate wildly) about the political affiliation of most of them. ---
**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 23, 2018, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36737 "2018-02-23T00:46:15Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > It’s hilarious that that list covers over 150 years, only has 18 entries (fewer than the number of mass shootings in a given year), and STILL had to lie (or, at best, speculate wildly) about the political affiliation of most of them. And I don’t quite get the division between the list’s “registered” Democrats and “disgruntled” Democrats. No doubt there’s some deep meaning behind the dichotomy, but I admit it’s escaping me. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36738 "2018-02-23T01:06:58Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > It’s hilarious that that list covers over 150 years, only has 18 entries (fewer than the number of mass shootings in a given year), and STILL had to lie (or, at best, speculate wildly) about the political affiliation of most of them. Heck, with the one tepid exception of describing Lee Harvey Oswald as “a radical left wing socialist” (not a Democrat, though the president he shot _was_ a Democrat, something the list fails to note), Snopes declared the entire list “false” or “unproven.” I’m a little surprised the list didn’t invoke Leon Czolgosz (assassin of McKinley) or Giuseppe Zangara (attempted assassin of Pres-Elect FDR and assassin of Anton Cernak, mayor of Chicago). I guess “anarchist” in each case was a little too specifically not-Democrat. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36739 "2018-02-23T01:23:09Z")
There’s one aspect of that I don’t believe. That is that the list has been revised to remove the ones that have been proven false. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36740 "2018-02-23T02:37:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Just over a week after 17 people were killed at Parkland, Fla., high school, National Rifle Association executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre gave a fiery, defiant speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference… > [@](#): > > “We must immediately harden our schools. Every day, young children are being dropped off at schools that are virtually wide open, soft targets for anyone bent on mass murder,” LaPierre argued. Maybe we wouldn’t have to lock down every public space if we didn’t gleefully arm every fuck who wants a gun :smack: > **[NRA Leader Warns Conservatives Of 'Socialist Wave' In Wake Of Shooting](https://www.npr.org/2018/02/22/587911457/nra-leader-warns-conservatives-of-socialist-wave-in-wake-of-shooting)** > > NRA executive Wayne LaPierre gave a defiant speech about "elites" taking advantage of last week's Florida shooting to foster socialism at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday. ---
**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 23, 2018, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36741 "2018-02-23T02:44:07Z")
La Pierre’s aim is to arm _all_ the teachers. Teachers who do not want to train with and carry a gun are the wrong sort, who should be put out of work. This will help fix that troublesome liberal bias the schools have. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1836) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1838)