# 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:** 1840
**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:** [February 24, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36782 "2018-02-24T14:07:57Z")
I love how an organization that supports physical guns gives an award to someone for being brave enough to face metaphysical bullets. Why not give it to someone who was actually shot at? How about the coach who tried to protect students in Florida with his body and who died for it, the way that people do when they really have to display courage under actual fire? ---
**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 24, 2018, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36783 "2018-02-24T17:48:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > One of the kids from Parkland said they should rename AR15s “Marco Rubio” because they’re so easily bought. > [@Bayard](#): > > That’s genius, and I’m going to repeat it at my first opportunity. [How’s this?](https://imgur.com/a/VxGsM) ---
**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 24, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36784 "2018-02-24T18:35:13Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > [How’s this?](https://imgur.com/a/VxGsM) I like [this one better](https://www.facebook.com/ProuDemocrat/photos/a.1776190499331636.1073741829.1695168340767186/2106985032918846/?type=3&theater); it’s easier to read AND it gives credit for the phrase. ---
**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 24, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36785 "2018-02-24T22:05:53Z")
> [@wonky](#): > > I love how an organization that supports physical guns gives an award to someone for being brave enough to face metaphysical bullets. > > \*\*Why not give it to someone who was actually shot at? \*\*How about the coach who tried to protect students in Florida with his body and who died for it, the way that people do when they really have to display courage under actual fire? It would be nice to see the NRA and CPAC decision-makers put on the spot with this question. Talk about ‘alternate realities’…metaphysical bullets, _really_? ---
**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 25, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36786 "2018-02-25T00:40:32Z")
> [@wonky](#): > > I love how an organization that supports physical guns gives an award to someone for being brave enough to face metaphysical bullets. > > Why not give it to someone who was actually shot at? How about the coach who tried to protect students in Florida with his body and who died for it, the way that people do when they really have to display courage under actual fire? Hey, man, that coach was a numbnuts. He should have had a gun. Then he could have taken the shooter down. And maybe not be dead. They give awards to bullet-throwers, not bullet-catchers. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36787 "2018-02-25T03:22:03Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Hey, man, that coach was a numbnuts. He should have had a gun. Then he could have taken the shooter down. And maybe not be dead. They give awards to bullet-throwers, not bullet-catchers. Ah. Courage while firing awards. ---
**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 25, 2018, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36788 "2018-02-25T22:35:39Z")
Curt Schilling is pushing his stupid conspiracy theories again, this time about the Parkland shooting. > **[Curt Schilling is peddling conspiracy theories surrounding the Parkland shooting](https://sports.yahoo.com/curt-schilling-peddling-conspiracy-theories-surrounding-parkland-shooting-013811657.html)** > > Curt Schilling retweeted a conspiracy theory claiming a Parkland shooting survivor is actually a crisis actor. a is still stirring up controversy on social media. (AP) ---
**Author:** ![Batano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@Batano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batano)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36789 "2018-02-26T06:48:03Z")
Has this been mentioned yet: > [@](#): > > Florida schools must display ‘In God We Trust’ under bill passed in state House > **[Florida schools must display 'In God We Trust' under bill passed in state House](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/02/23/florida-schools-must-display-god-we-trust/366521002/)** > > "When we remove God, we remove hope," Rep. Kimberly Daniels said. ETA: And Oklahoma had followed suit. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36790 "2018-02-26T17:03:24Z")
> [@wonky](#): > > The CPAC head of communications apparently said “We elected Mike Steele as chairman because he was a black guy, that was the wrong thing to do.” > > Yep, communicatin’ like crazy. The thing is that Ian Walters is 100% factually correct in this case. Steele was hired based on pure tokenism because he was a black guy, and it was the wrong thing to do. Because: a) Tokenism doesn’t work, monorities see right through it and instead of just looking bigoted, you end up looking bigoted and condescending. b) Steele was incompetent. Which doesn’t have anything to do with his being black, except for possibly the fact that any black person who supports the Republicans can’t be all that perceptive. ---
**Author:** ![Batano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@Batano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batano)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36791 "2018-02-26T17:21:17Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > The thing is that Ian Walters is 100% factually correct in this case. Steele was hired based on pure tokenism because he was a black guy, and it was the wrong thing to do. Because: > > a) Tokenism doesn’t work, monorities see right through it and instead of just looking bigoted, you end up looking bigoted and condescending. > > b) Steele was incompetent. Which doesn’t have anything to do with his being black, except for possibly the fact that any black person who supports the Republicans can’t be all that perceptive. A black guy who is incompetent is a token, a white guy who is incompetent is a president. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36792 "2018-02-26T17:49:02Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > b) Steele was incompetent. From his Wikipedia article: > [@](#): > > The RNC broke fundraising records by raising over $198 million during the 2010 Congressional cycle; in November 2010, Republicans won 63 House seats (the biggest pickup since 1938) and retook control of the House. The 2010 midterm elections were successful for Steele and the Republicans, as they also took back six Senate seats, seven governorships, and the greatest share of state legislative seats since 1928 (over 600 seats). Is there some other metric I am missing that demonstrates his incompetence? ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36793 "2018-02-26T18:03:22Z")
To be perfectly honest, the top “Stupid Republican Idea Of The Day” needs to just be a picture of Trump sitting in the Oval Office, every day from now until whenever he’s finally removed from the White House. The daily deluge of lies, distractions, mendacity and cluelessness coming from this administration is just overwhelming, and who do we have to thank for that? The spineless Republican Party, that just sits by and lets it all happen. Can you imagine how quickly articles of impeachment would have been flying if a Democratic president did 1/10th of this shit? Hell, I firmly believe that if Hillary had been elected, the GOP would have started impeachment proceedings January 21, 2017. I mean … who remembers Trump wrote up that blatantly false description of Don Jr’s meeting with the Russians, a description that was immediately exposed as a lie when Don Jr. himself released his emails on the meeting? Who remembers Trump being completely unable to call out white supremacists and neo-Nazis after Charlottesville, with that bizarre press conference in Trump Tower? Who can possibly remember everything this moldy lump of curdled orange juice has done over the past couple of years, because EVERY SINGLE DAY brings another outrageous load of crap spewing from the Oval Office that just erases the previous outrageous truckloads? Today, in the course of attacking the deputy who didn’t go into the Stoneman Douglas school, he has the ridiculous audacity\* to claim he would have personally run into the school, even if he didn’t have a weapon. Say what? You serious, Clark? And this stream of bullshit just washes away all the other bullshit, we move on, and the Republicans in Congress sit on their hands and let the buffoonery continue. (Deep breath.) Sorry for the rant. Why, yes, I did finally finish “Fire And Fury” last night, why do you ask? - Perhaps “The Audacity Of Ridiculousness” would make a good book title for Trump’s (ghostwritten) memoirs. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36794 "2018-02-26T18:20:25Z")
We could reach into the grab bag of Trump-related stupidity, mendacity, corruption and incompetence and randomly pull out something that would be The Defining Scandal of some previous administration and/or grounds for impeachment. This year, it’s just another day at work. ---
**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 26, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36795 "2018-02-26T20:36:36Z")
The Lieutenant Governor of Georgia is threatening to prevent any tax benefits to Delta Airlines for ending their discounts with NRA members. > **[Georgia’s Lt. Governor Threatens Delta for Cutting NRA Ties](https://www.thedailybeast.com/georgias-lt-governor-threatens-delta-for-cutting-nra-ties)** > > “Corporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us not to fight back.” ---
**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 26, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36796 "2018-02-26T20:50:21Z")
These Republicans are so friggin’ entitled. “Do everything the way I want it, otherwise I’m being persecuted.” Fuck this guy. Can you imagine if a Democratic governor had threatened a corporation’s taxes if they didn’t support ACORN or something like that? I hope Delta tells him to pound sand. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36797 "2018-02-26T20:57:20Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Is there some other metric I am missing that demonstrates his incompetence? His race? ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36798 "2018-02-26T21:55:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Lieutenant Governor of Georgia is threatening to prevent any tax benefits to Delta Airlines for ending their discounts with NRA members. > [Georgia’s Lt. Governor Threatens Delta for Cutting NRA Ties](https://www.thedailybeast.com/georgias-lt-governor-threatens-delta-for-cutting-nra-ties) Be a crying shame if corporations started doing business elsewhere than Georgia. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36799 "2018-02-26T22:37:41Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Be a crying shame if corporations started doing business elsewhere than Georgia. The way you phrased that reminded me of Terry Jones and Michael Palin in [this](https://youtu.be/pm5mtpPtW1Q). ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36800 "2018-02-26T22:50:20Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > The way you phrased that reminded me of Terry Jones and Michael Palin in [this](https://youtu.be/pm5mtpPtW1Q). Yeah, the whole premise is silly, and it’s very badly written. ---
**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 26, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36801 "2018-02-26T23:08:05Z")
There was a story in another thread that prompted me to head over to the Moonietimes[sup]\*[/sup] to see if they were covering it. The story up front was about the Public Interest Legal Foundation (bunch of PILFers if you ask me) suing over a hundred thousand alleged non-citizen voters in PA. A state that whatisname carried in the last big election. By a very narrow margin. Sounds like they are treading dangerous ground there. \*no, I will not link to that webshite [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1839) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1841)