# 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:** 1876
**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:** [April 27, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37502 "2018-04-27T18:23:46Z")
Someone for whom it would be a shame for something to happen to, no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37503 "2018-04-27T19:05:35Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A report I read this morning said the Evangelicals among the House Republicans didn’t want a Catholic priest as chaplain, they’re calling for a pastor with a family. Brings to mind all the people who draw a distinction between Catholic and Christian, and see them as disjoint sets: You can be a Catholic, and popish, and in thrall to the Whore of Babylon, or you can be a Christian. ---
**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 27, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37504 "2018-04-27T20:15:00Z")
House Republican “Intelligence” Commitee really shakes their index finger at Trump for his oopsies regarding Russian interference in the Presidential election: > **[Analysis | 3 ways the House Republicans’ Russia report directly contradicts...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/04/27/3-ways-that-the-house-republicans-russia-report-directly-contradicts-the-intelligence-community/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d602c6b24863)** > > "You say maybe collusion, I say no collusion”: House Republicans to Robert S. Mueller III, basically. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37505 "2018-04-27T20:32:29Z")
Richard Spencer is begging for money to hire a lawyer to represent him in a federal lawsuit over the Charlottesville rally. > **[Richard Spencer Is Begging For Money To Fight Lawsuit Against Him | Right...](https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/richard-spencer-is-begging-for-money-to-fight-lawsuit-against-him/)** > > Richard Spencer, who was once a leading figurehead of the racist alt-right movement, is begging his followers for $25,000 to help him fight off a federal ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37506 "2018-04-27T21:32:40Z")
Appointing a man famous for misogynistic tweets to be U.S. Ambassador to Germany, which has a woman Chancellor. :smack: [Cite.](https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/openly-gay-u-s-ambassador-germany-makes-republican-history-n869641) Of course, appointing an openly-gay person is a not-stupid Republican idea, but Trump & Company had other choices than this guy. :dubious: ---
**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 28, 2018, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37507 "2018-04-28T04:10:20Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Paul Ryan just fired the House chaplain. Nobody is really sure why. > [House chaplain forced out by Ryan](http://thehill.com/homenews/house/385035-house-chaplain-forced-out-by-ryan) > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A report I read this morning said the Evangelicals among the House Republicans didn’t want a Catholic priest as chaplain, they’re calling for a pastor with a family. > [@Derleth](#): > > Brings to mind all the people who draw a distinction between Catholic and Christian, and see them as disjoint sets: You can be a Catholic, and popish, and in thrall to the Whore of Babylon, or you can be a Christian. Just another call out to “some very fine people” on the pale side in the Charlottesville white supremacy rally. After the blacks/browns/mooslems are dealt with; they are coming for the “sleepy eyes” and the Catholics. Ryan and evangelicals sink ever lower; fascinating in the archaic definition of the verb sense. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2018, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37508 "2018-04-28T04:51:43Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > Appointing a man famous for misogynistic tweets to be U.S. Ambassador to Germany, which has a woman Chancellor. :smack: [Cite.](https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/openly-gay-u-s-ambassador-germany-makes-republican-history-n869641) Of course, appointing an openly-gay person is a not-stupid Republican idea, but Trump & Company had other choices than this guy. :dubious: My god, I wish Quisling T. Angelo (the President of the Delusional Gay Conservatives) would shut the fuck up… ---
**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:** [April 28, 2018, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37509 "2018-04-28T05:35:33Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Paul Ryan just fired the House chaplain. Nobody is really sure why. > [House chaplain forced out by Ryan](http://thehill.com/homenews/house/385035-house-chaplain-forced-out-by-ryan) He probably kept bugging Ryan to consent to an exorcism. ---
**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 28, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37510 "2018-04-28T14:51:03Z")
[delightful](http://thehill.com/homenews/house/385169-gop-lawmaker-planning-to-nominate-trump-for-nobel-peace-prize): _Rep. Luke Messer (R-Ind.) is pressing colleagues to support President (SCOA (Shit-Caked Oozing Asshole)) for the Nobel Peace Prize. Messer says it would recognize Trump for his role in the new peace talks between North and South Korea._ Because “We will nuke your little country into a glass parking lot!” is clearly worthy of that. After all, Al Nobel invented dynamite, and that has been used for non-peaceful enterprises. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37511 "2018-04-28T14:58:27Z")
Imagining myself a fly on that wall. “Yeah, but didn’t Elton John come up with _Rocket Man_ first?” ---
**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 28, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37512 "2018-04-28T16:26:15Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > [delightful](http://thehill.com/homenews/house/385169-gop-lawmaker-planning-to-nominate-trump-for-nobel-peace-prize): > _Rep. Luke Messer (R-Ind.) is pressing colleagues to support President (SCOA (Shit-Caked Oozing Asshole)) for the Nobel Peace Prize. Messer says it would recognize Trump for his role in the new peace talks between North and South Korea._ > > Because “We will nuke your little country into a glass parking lot!” is clearly worthy of that. After all, Al Nobel invented dynamite, and that has been used for non-peaceful enterprises. Oh, puh-leeeese…don’t let the Nobel people go for this. Surely they won’t. :eek: ---
**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:** [April 28, 2018, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37513 "2018-04-28T16:33:19Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Oh, puh-leeeese…don’t let the Nobel people go for this. Surely they won’t. :eek: Well, Kissinger and Arafat both won the Peace Prize, so it’s not like there’s no precedent. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37514 "2018-04-28T16:56:02Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Oh, puh-leeeese…don’t let the Nobel people go for this. Surely they won’t. :eek: Possible. They’re Norwegians, who have a gift for droll and subtle irony second only to the Germans. ---
**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 28, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37515 "2018-04-28T19:08:27Z")
If Korean talks spawn a Peace Prize, won’t it go to the South Korean pol who’s been pushing for cooperation? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37516 "2018-04-28T19:49:22Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > If Korean talks spawn a Peace Prize, won’t it go to the South Korean pol who’s been pushing for cooperation? That’s what makes the “Trump as Nobel Laureate” push look SO stupid. Wouldn’t anyone besides “his base” see proof after proof of the Republicans’ idiocy (and moral wishy-washy-ness), and say “Enough of this stupidity!” I’m waiting… but I think I see glimmers of hope. ---
**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 28, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37517 "2018-04-28T19:52:05Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > If Korean talks spawn a Peace Prize, won’t it go to the South Korean pol who’s been pushing for cooperation? Oh wouldn’t that be awesome! That would push him over the edge. ---
**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 28, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37518 "2018-04-28T21:29:32Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Oh, puh-leeeese…don’t let the Nobel people go for this. Surely they won’t. :eek: > [@elucidator](#): > > Possible. They’re Norwegians, who have a gift for droll and subtle irony second only to the Germans. … o\_o \>\_\< o\_0 But – but – they have the presentation ceremonies in Stockholm. In Sweden. Shouldn’t they hold those in Oslo, if they’re Norwegians? Or are all Scandinavians basically the same? ---
**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 28, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37519 "2018-04-28T21:35:16Z")
The Peace Prize actually is done in Oslo: > [@](#): > > By the terms of Alfred Nobel’s will the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 1901. Alfred Nobel left no explanation as to why the prize for peace was to be awarded by a Norwegian committee while the other four prizes were to be handled by Swedish committees. [https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel\_prizes/peace/prize\_awarder/](https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/prize_awarder/) ---
**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 28, 2018, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37520 "2018-04-28T21:51:54Z")
Senator Luke Messer must be getting ready to hit up the Short-Fingered Vulgarian for some sort of favor. This sort of oozing, unctuous flattery is the best method for greasing up the old fart. ---
**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 28, 2018, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37521 "2018-04-28T22:04:12Z")
Alabama GOP congressman Mo Brooks thinks many Republicans are retiring from Congress because they fear being [assassinated by liberals.](http://www.newsweek.com/mo-brooks-fear-assassination-left-wing-violence-leading-gop-lawmakers-quit-904986) > [@](#): > > “One of the things that’s concerning me is the assassination risk may become a factor,” Brooks said, as first reported by Roll Call. > > … > > He also said the “socialist Bernie Sanders wing of society” was pushing for a revolution that would lead to Maoist level of violence. > > “There are a growing number of leftists who believe the way to resolve this is not at the ballot box but through threats and sometimes through violence and assassinations,” he said. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1875) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1877)