# 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:** 1862
**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:** [April 6, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37222 "2018-04-06T22:07:56Z")
Stupid? Republican? Sean “Dumbest Fuck Of The Fucks” Hannity decides that it’s a good idea to pick a fight with Jimmy Kimmel. I bet he doesn’t think it’s a good idea for long. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9mpwlkc2a5s/maxresdefault.jpg "Jimmy Kimmel Responds to Sean Hannity’s Vicious Attacks") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mpwlkc2a5s) ---
**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:** [April 6, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37223 "2018-04-06T22:16:56Z")
[quote=“bobot, post:37222, topic:490897”] Stupid? Republican? Sean “Dumbest Fuck Of The Fucks” Hannity decides that it’s a good idea to pick a fight with Jimmy Kimmel. I bet he doesn’t think it’s a good idea for long. [/QUOTE] Yeah, Kimmel’s got at least thirty IQ points on him. Possibly more. I was wondering: what did people like Sean Hannity do back before cable TV? (I mean people who were about his age, pre-1970.) They weren’t on television. I gather there was some ‘talk radio’ from the 1960s and even earlier, so I suppose that’s where people like Hannity—non-journalist hatemongers—worked. Anyway, as long as Hannity wants to keep it up, Kimmel will go on eating his lunch. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37224 "2018-04-06T22:32:16Z")
[quote=“Rick\_Kitchen, post:37211, topic:490897”] Montana Republican candidate for Senate ad. Apparently attacking his opponent because … he plays the trumpet? [/QUOTE] I, for one, want to see more jazz trumpet players in the Congress…along with saxophonists, trombonists, pianists, bassists, drummers, etc. One long jam session. Also, folks who can blow jazz are less likely to be America-hating fucksticks. Also also, quicker legalized reefer. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2018, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37225 "2018-04-06T22:34:29Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > I was wondering: what did people like Sean Hannity do back before cable TV? (I mean people who were about his age, pre-1970.) They weren’t on television. I gather there was some ‘talk radio’ from the 1960s and even earlier, so I suppose that’s where people like Hannity—non-journalist hatemongers—worked. I think most of them were employed mopping up the toilets down at the John Birch Society clubhouses. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37226 "2018-04-06T23:20:20Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I, for one, want to see more jazz trumpet players in the Congress…along with saxophonists, trombonists, pianists, bassists, drummers, etc. One long jam session. > > Also, folks who can blow jazz are less likely to be America-hating fucksticks. > > Also also, quicker legalized reefer. Not sure if that would make C-SPAN more or less tolerable to watch. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37227 "2018-04-07T00:52:20Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Not sure if that would make C-SPAN more or less tolerable to watch. Only if they focus more on the Senate and it is full of bluesmen. I get what jazz is about, but it makes me edgy after about 5 or 6 minutes. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37228 "2018-04-07T00:59:13Z")
Okay, squares, let me introduce you to the new delegation from New Orleans, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Memphis, Nashville, New York, and Chicago. (All bona fide jazz towns, believe it or not). I defy you not to groove to this. Also it would make Trumpster and his stooges melt like Blue Meanies before an assault by Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/WFkXBvL9odI/hqdefault.jpg "Wild Man Blues Henry Red Allen") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFkXBvL9odI) ---
**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:** [April 7, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37229 "2018-04-07T01:06:17Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Only if they focus more on the Senate and it is full of bluesmen. I get what jazz is about, but it makes me edgy after about 5 or 6 minutes. I feel the same way about the reefer ---
**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:** [April 7, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37230 "2018-04-07T01:16:55Z")
Oh, man. If we leftists can’t get together on the subjects of jazz and marijuana, we may as well just give the whole country over to the Republicans. Uh, like we did. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2018, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37231 "2018-04-07T01:36:25Z")
Actually, jazz would be great is that was their vote-counting system. Ayes play a riff, Nays counter with several bars, and it goes on like that until one side concedes. I would watch that. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37232 "2018-04-07T01:40:49Z")
[South Carolina Congressman brandishes loaded handgun at constituent meeting](https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/u-s-rep-ralph-norman-pulls-out-loaded-gun-in/article_ea97bda0-39d3-11e8-b120-3b253f2be91e.html) > [@](#): > > U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, R-Rock Hill, told The Post and Courier he pulled out the weapon and placed it on a table for several minutes in attempt to make a point that guns are only dangerous in the hands of criminals. > > “I’m not going to be a Gabby Giffords,” Norman said afterward, referring to the former Arizona Democratic congresswoman who was shot outside a Tucson-area grocery store during a constituent gathering in 2011. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37233 "2018-04-07T02:20:02Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Republican Congressman Mo Brooks of Alabama thinks National Guardsmen deployed at the Mexican border must be allowed to use whatever force is necessary to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the US:[Rep. Mo Brooks: National Guard Must ‘Be Allowed To Use Whatever Force Is Necessary’ On Border | People For](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rep-mo-brooks-national-guard-must-be-allowed-to-use-whatever-force-is-necessary-on-border/) > [@Slash1972](#): > > National Guardsmen shooting poor children will make great news ☹ > [@jayjay](#): > > Why is all of the Right-Wing imagery of undocumented aliens coming across the border violent and militaristic? They act like these rag-tag border-crossers are all wearing bandoliers and toting AR-15’s…oh, wait. That’s the Minutemen… Esequiel Hernandez Jr. Murdered by US Marines. US citizen tending his goats; he was 18 when four poorly trained and briefed Marines shot him. They (the Marines) had the same crazy pep talk that Dotard and these other chickenhawks have been dishing out. “Major drug route, gangs, heavily armed, etc..”; none of which were true then or now. Please read - forward to your representative in congress. I know for a lot of folks, that’s worthless but they are on record for knowing consequences of previous border actions. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/04/06/how-the-tragic-killing-of-an-american-teenager-halted-the-military-border-presence-in-1997/?utm\_term=.0fbed49bc068](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/04/06/how-the-tragic-killing-of-an-american-teenager-halted-the-military-border-presence-in-1997/?utm_term=.0fbed49bc068) ---
**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:** [April 7, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37234 "2018-04-07T13:32:21Z")
More fun from South Carolina: [SC Republicans introduce bill to consider secession over gun rights](http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/382003-south-carolina-house-republicans-introduce-bill-to-consider-secession) > [@](#): > > A group of Republican state legislators in South Carolina introduced a measure Thursday that would allow the state to secede from the United States if the federal government began to seize legally purchased firearms in the state. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37235 "2018-04-07T13:53:36Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > More fun from South Carolina: > > [SC Republicans introduce bill to consider secession over gun rights](http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/382003-south-carolina-house-republicans-introduce-bill-to-consider-secession) That works for me. But terminate all federal highways/maintenance at the state line. Start charging foreign postal rates. Impose tariffs on water and electricity coming into the state from The Other 49. In fact, just build a freaking Border Wall around the whole state and require passports to enter the USA. What a bunch of idiots. When will the grownups take over the gummint again? ---
**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:** [April 7, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37236 "2018-04-07T15:40:28Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [South Carolina Congressman brandishes loaded handgun at constituent meeting](https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/u-s-rep-ralph-norman-pulls-out-loaded-gun-in/article_ea97bda0-39d3-11e8-b120-3b253f2be91e.html) > > > [@](#): > > > > U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, R-Rock Hill, told The Post and Courier he pulled out the weapon and placed it on a table for several minutes in attempt to make a point that guns are only dangerous in the hands of criminals. > > > > “I’m not going to be a Gabby Giffords,” Norman said afterward, referring to the former Arizona Democratic congresswoman who was shot outside a Tucson-area grocery store during a constituent gathering in 2011. [Two good responses](https://apnews.com/d4145e9194f8470da3219411d76bc686/South-Carolina-congressman-draws-gun-at-constituent-meeting): > [@](#): > > Giffords’ husband, retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, said in a statement that Norman is “no Gabby Giffords” and noted that his wife has dedicated her life to ending gun violence. > > “Americans are increasingly faced with a stark choice: leaders like Gabby, who work hard together to find solutions to problems, or extremists like the NRA and Congressman Norman, who rely on intimidation tactics and perpetuating fear,” Kelly said. > [@](#): > > School teacher Lori Carter of Charlotte, North Carolina, said she thought the move was contradictory because Norman didn’t know if someone there had mental health issues. > > “What was to prevent me from leaning across the table to take that gun?” she said. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37237 "2018-04-07T15:51:00Z")
Well, she would be taking the gun away from somebody with mental health issues. “Fucking stupid” is a mental health issue. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37238 "2018-04-07T21:53:47Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > More fun from South Carolina: > > [SC Republicans introduce bill to consider secession over gun rights](http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/382003-south-carolina-house-republicans-introduce-bill-to-consider-secession) > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > That works for me. But terminate all federal highways/maintenance at the state line. Start charging foreign postal rates. Impose tariffs on water and electricity coming into the state from The Other 49. In fact, just build a freaking Border Wall around the whole state and require passports to enter the USA. > > What a bunch of idiots. When will the grownups take over the gummint again? If I ever get my time machine, I’m gonna go back to the Constitutional Convention and persuade the FFs to put in an article with a procedure for expelling a state. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2018, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37239 "2018-04-07T22:04:39Z")
EPA head Scott Pruitt wants a bulletproof car. Among other things. > **[Report: EPA head Scott Pruitt asked for bulletproof vehicle and more](https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2018/04/07/report-epa-head-scott-pruitt-asked-bulletproof-vehicle-and-more/33635159/)** > > President Trump is defending Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt who is under fire for allegedly spending a lot of taxpayer money. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2018, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37240 "2018-04-07T22:45:10Z")
Scott Pruitt is so evil he does everything he can to protect himself from reprisals. I think he’s now more blatantly a super-villain than was Henry Kissinger. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37241 "2018-04-07T22:46:54Z")
Someone should take him aside and sympathize, and agree that, for his own safety, it’s best that he go back to the private sector. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1861) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1863)