# 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:** 1847
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36922 "2018-03-05T15:18:50Z")
No mention of the global banking conspiracy, though. Maybe he just forgot. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36923 "2018-03-05T15:23:54Z")
The Base can’t wrap its brains around something as complex as the global banking conspiracy. Don’t forget that Nunes still thinks like a cow farmer. (No offense to cow farmers. I’m friends with one who holds both an MD and a PhD from Columbia. [He’s Jewish]) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36924 "2018-03-05T16:52:47Z")
Siri says its Obama’s fault, but Cortana blames the Jews. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36925 "2018-03-05T16:59:02Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Don’t forget that Nunes still thinks like a cow farmer. It was the cows that taught him the racism. “Jooooooooooos” [sub]trying to remember who told that joke…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36926 "2018-03-05T17:08:39Z")
> [@anomalous1](#): > > Utilitarianism is absolutely pandering to the Middle Class, but the left has not done this in a long time. Only more punishment for those who feel they work the hardest. The left (clarification; not “classical liberals”, but the bastard children **progressives** dominating the party) seems to only want to cater to the disenfranchised to secure their vote and don’t realize if you leave the movers and shakers behind(Middle Class), everybody loses. If you secure the middle class and those who provide the most fluid economic stimulus, you are practicing Utilitarianism. The administration is office is absolutely pandering to this idea, I think it’s great. > > If that makes me exist is La La land, thats fine. [King Arthur] You make me sad [KA] So La La Land it is. Because nowhere do you deal with the clear examples that even the WSJ reported are not going to benefit most of the middle class, such as trade wars. As Mark Shields said: “This is a civil war in a leper colony.” And you are not even like the Dark Night from the Holy Grail, that was like a leper that is dropping an arm with no action from an enemy and still claims that “it’s only a flesh wound!”. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36927 "2018-03-05T17:53:43Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > It is useful when we get a “conservative” here willing to answer questions and help us understand the “conservative” mentality. (I put “conservative” in quotes because there is a vast gulf between traditional right-wing intellectuals and the sort of right-winger on display today.) mentality (menˈtalədē) - noun: the capacity for intelligent thought. I think you could have put “mentality” in quotes as well. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36928 "2018-03-05T17:54:38Z")
“Use your mentality … Wake up to reality …” - Frank Sinatra ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36929 "2018-03-05T19:17:16Z")
So if you have a fire drill, like prudence (and the law) says you have to, and some time later there’s a fire, apparently it’s a fake. Or that’s the logic a Georgia county GOP officer would have you believe. [Link](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/georgia-gop-official-shares-video-claiming-parkland-students-rehearsed-massacre-fake-shooting/). Parkland had “active shooter drills,” so therefore the “active shooting” was rehearsed and fake. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36930 "2018-03-05T19:23:31Z")
> [@anomalous1](#): > > … The left (clarification; not “classical liberals”, but the bastard children **progressives** dominating the party)… Nobody classifies “classical liberals” as part of the Left. They are basically glibertarians. In much of the rest of the world, “liberal” means right-wing. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36931 "2018-03-06T04:28:59Z")
[GOP’s Nunes identifies a political ‘danger’: Stephen Colbert](http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gops-nunes-identifies-political-danger-stephen-colbert?cid=sm_fb_maddow) ---
**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:** [March 6, 2018, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36932 "2018-03-06T04:52:01Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > So if you have a fire drill, like prudence (and the law) says you have to, and some time later there’s a fire, apparently it’s a fake. Or that’s the logic a Georgia county GOP officer would have you believe. > > [Link](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/georgia-gop-official-shares-video-claiming-parkland-students-rehearsed-massacre-fake-shooting/). > > Parkland had “active shooter drills,” so therefore the “active shooting” was rehearsed and fake. Wow; he’s completely incoherent: > [@Cobb County Republican Party Vice Chairman Michael Davis](#): > > Maybe 11Alive should focus on the fact these so-called ‘student lead’ protests are anything but with left winged organizations from the ACLU to the SCLC just in Cobb County when it opens the door legally for outside political organizations using students to disrupt the school day when the US is already ranked near the bottom in education among industrialized nations. If a school district opens the door to one, then under Equal Protection they must allow any group of students to stage walkouts. What will this do to education in America? ---
**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:** [March 6, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36933 "2018-03-06T06:50:34Z")
You know what disrupts the school day even worse than student walkouts? Mass shootings. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2018, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36934 "2018-03-06T09:15:01Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > So if you have a fire drill, like prudence (and the law) says you have to, and some time later there’s a fire, apparently it’s a fake. Or that’s the logic a Georgia county GOP officer would have you believe. > > [Link](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/georgia-gop-official-shares-video-claiming-parkland-students-rehearsed-massacre-fake-shooting/). > > Parkland had “active shooter drills,” so therefore the “active shooting” was rehearsed and fake. Using that logic:dubious:, having fire drills will mean any subsequent fires are fake and rehearsed. That will save alot on insurance and rebuilding costs. Don’t make me go into spelling drills. Does this guy have an actual job? Is he allowed to drive? So many questions. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36935 "2018-03-06T12:19:47Z")
Rarely is the question asked…is our children wearing full body armor? ---
**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:** [March 6, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36936 "2018-03-06T14:01:53Z")
Reading the comments on a different RawStory article, I see where someone has coined the name “Tweety Amin” to refer to President Snowflake. I may have to incorporate that into my stable of terms. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36937 "2018-03-06T14:36:15Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > You know what disrupts the school day even worse than student walkouts? > > Mass shootings. Not if you arm teachers. Duh. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36938 "2018-03-06T19:20:50Z")
The New York Congresswoman who claimed that mass shooters all turn out to be Democrats walked away from an interview yelling “Fake news!” > **[Congresswoman Who Said Most Mass Shooters Are Democrats Cuts Off Interview](https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-apos-fake-news-apos-222116211.html)** > > “Bye. Done. It’s ridiculous.” ---
**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:** [March 6, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36939 "2018-03-06T19:27:13Z")
The stupid Republican idea: West Virginia Republicans tried to low-ball the 5% raise that the Governor negotiated with striking public school teachers by approving a 4% raise. The result: Teachers told the GOP lawmakers to go fuck themselves, stayed on strike and today won 5% raises not just for themselves but also school service personnel and for state troopers! Congratulations to the teachers, troopers and other public employees who stayed strong and got what they wanted! Live better: work union! > **[West Virginia teachers cheer pay hike deal to end walkout](https://apnews.com/50bbbb160df44549a3d331ebb4f10c33/West-Virginia-leaders-reach-deal-to-end-teachers-strike)** > > CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's striking teachers cheered, sang and wept joyfully Tuesday as lawmakers voted to give them a 5 percent raise, ending a nine-day walkout that closed schools across the state... ---
**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:** [March 6, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36940 "2018-03-06T19:33:56Z")
The money’s coming out of Medicaid. Hooray for reducing health care for poor kids! Maybe this is part of a plan to reduce class sizes. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36941 "2018-03-06T19:52:45Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > The money’s coming out of Medicaid. Hooray for reducing health care for poor kids! Maybe this is part of a plan to reduce class sizes. I’m sorry, I’m a tetch unclear here. Are you blaming the teachers for the GOP’s Snidely Whiplash impression? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1846) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1848)