# 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:** 1879
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37562 "2018-05-01T12:41:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Mike Huckabee, Saturday morning: > “If you lack sense of humor, get “offended” by slights you create, or just can’t bring yourself to tolerate those you disagree with the DO NOT watch my show 2nite! You will be triggered and will need a pony, popsicle, and Playdough to cope!” > [x.com](https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/990179696863309829) > > Mike Huckabee, Sunday morning: > “The WHCD was supposed to celebrate the 1st Amendment. Instead they celebrated bullying, vulgarity, and hate. They got all dressed up so they would look nicer when they had a hired gun savagely attack their guests. Do they really wonder why America has no respect for them? Sad!” > [x.com](https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/990557547210989568) This is fantastic! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37563 "2018-05-01T12:47:10Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Mike Huckabee, Saturday morning: > “If you lack sense of humor, get “offended” by slights you create, or just can’t bring yourself to tolerate those you disagree with the DO NOT watch my show 2nite! You will be triggered and will need a pony, popsicle, and Playdough to cope!” > [x.com](https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/990179696863309829) > > Mike Huckabee, Sunday morning: > “The WHCD was supposed to celebrate the 1st Amendment. Instead they celebrated bullying, vulgarity, and hate. They got all dressed up so they would look nicer when they had a hired gun savagely attack their guests. Do they really wonder why America has no respect for them? Sad!” > [x.com](https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/990557547210989568) I assume he was twitterbombed with pictures of ponies, Popsicles, and Play-Doh within minutes. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37564 "2018-05-01T19:23:32Z")
Candidate for Governor of Georgia runs an ad in which he points a gun at a teenager. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4ABRz_epvic/maxresdefault.jpg "Jake") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ABRz_epvic) ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37565 "2018-05-01T19:28:08Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Candidate for Governor of Georgia runs an ad in which he points a gun at a teenager. > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time\_continue=2&v=4ABRz\_epvic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=4ABRz_epvic) That has got to be some sort of joke. ---
**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37566 "2018-05-01T19:39:45Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > That has got to be some sort of joke. You could say the same thing about Trump. And pretty much anyone or anything associated with the Trump administration. And the entire modern Republican party. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37567 "2018-05-01T20:17:50Z")
> [@PigArcher](#): > > … And the entire modern Republican party. Please fail to use inappropriate adjectives. “Contemporary” would be acceptable; there is absolutely nothing at all “modern” about them. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37568 "2018-05-01T20:48:13Z")
The number one polling Republican in the primary to oust Dianne Feinstein as Senator from California is an anti-Semite who wants a Jew-free America. > **[An Overt Anti-Semite Wants to Be California's Senator](https://www.newsweek.com/republican-senate-candidate-free-jews-904652)** > > Patrick Little has followed a trend of candidates running for office on an anti-Semitic platform. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37569 "2018-05-01T20:55:32Z")
AJ Delgado, who is mired in a custody fight with Jason Miller, has just been fired from Trump’s PAC without explanation after Miller came out with a diatribe against her. > > > Yashar Ali 🐘 یاشار @yashar ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37570 "2018-05-01T21:00:21Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > AJ Delgado, who is mired in a custody fight with Jason Miller, has just been fired from Trump’s PAC without explanation after Miller came out with a diatribe against her. > [x.com](https://twitter.com/AJDelgado13/status/991121608340398080) Isn’t she getting child support from “Tiny Face” Miller? Or is he following his mentor’s lead on financial obligations? ---
**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:** [May 1, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37571 "2018-05-01T21:54:31Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Isn’t she getting child support from “Tiny Face” Miller? Or is he following his mentor’s lead on financial obligations? I see that she tweeted an article that relates that, according to his financial filings, he spends more on his car payments and on take-out food than he does on his son. And I love some (many) of the replies she’s getting on Twitter: > [@](#): > > My sympathy for Ms. Delgado is somewhat limited by the fact that she sided with these sleazeballs in the first place. > > * * * > > Think about all the other single moms out there who this happens to who aren’t famous and didn’t go to Harvard Law. You’ve always been opposed to helping them. > > * * * > > Sorry that scorpion stung you, Ms. Frog. > > * * * > > You helped hoist this shit filled presidency on all the rest of us, and you expect us to care about how the shittiness affected you? What the hell is wrong with you? > > * * * > > AJ, you’ve made it impossible to have any sympathy for you. You reap what you sow. Were this happening to someone else you wouldn’t give a damn. > > * * * > > Play with fire, gonna get burned. Anyone should know better than to associate themselves with any part of that administration, nothing good will come of it. Use this as an opportunity to go do good in the world and teach your boy a better way. > > * * * > > I wish I could be sympathetic here, but you slept with dogs and you’re suddenly freaked because you woke up with fleas? Good thing your R buddies will provide you with childcare and insurance… oh wait, they won’t. You’ve been had. > > * * * > > But really, you see what these people think of women. He cheated on his wife with you, just like they all cheat on their wives. Women aren’t people to them. > > Did you think you were different? Fuck her. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37572 "2018-05-01T22:00:34Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I see that she tweeted an article that relates that, according to his financial filings, he spends more on his car payments and on take-out food than he does on his son. > > And I love some (many) of the replies she’s getting on Twitter:Fuck her. He already did. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2018, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37573 "2018-05-02T04:31:59Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The number one polling Republican in the primary to oust Dianne Feinstein as Senator from California is an anti-Semite who wants a Jew-free America. > [Republican Senate Candidate, Who Has Called for Country 'Free From Jews,' Could Be Dianne Feinstein's Challenger](http://www.newsweek.com/republican-senate-candidate-free-jews-904652) Has Bibi “Come to Israel! Now!” Natanyahu endorsed him yet? ---
**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37574 "2018-05-02T14:29:21Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Please fail to use inappropriate adjectives. “Contemporary” would be acceptable; there is absolutely nothing at all “modern” about them. You are correct. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37575 "2018-05-02T15:13:53Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Has Bibi “Come to Israel! Now!” Natanyahu endorsed him yet? The article links to a compilation of [his tweetest hits](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/theres-another-neo-nazi-running-for-congress-his-name-is-patrick-little/), from before Twitter shoved his account into the oven. > [@](#): > > As your Senator fromCalifornia I will do everything in my power to give the money we were sending to Israel instead to Hezbollah. > > Hezbollah is America’s natural ally against the terrorist nation of Israel. > > God bless the USA. God bless Hezbollah > > Death to Israel … That should go over well > [@](#): > > We must now, before mobs start hunting Jews, make a database of all ZOG Jews, with their pictures and prints … and I suppose subsidize CSX so that … > [@](#): > > I propose a government that makes counter-semitism central to all aims of the state. A government: > > 1. Of a people, for that people, free from Jews … Sorry, how is this shit even legal? At least Germany has laws against this kind of vile. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37576 "2018-05-02T15:30:17Z")
Freedom of Speech. He can say anything he wants, no matter how vile. However, I would wonder if someone could sue him for inciting violence. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37577 "2018-05-02T15:31:12Z")
The US is pretty far out on the left wingtip by world standards in its free speech protections. That’s how. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2018, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37578 "2018-05-02T16:25:31Z")
Does this clown even count as Republican? I don’t think he’s a threat to the republic. I think he’s just a nigh-powerless, deluded nut. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37579 "2018-05-02T17:09:40Z")
I firmly support the right of a citizen to express unpopular opinions without sanction. Not because tomorrow, it could be me, but because yesterday, it _was_ me. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2018, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37580 "2018-05-02T17:49:12Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Does this clown even count as Republican? > > I don’t think he’s a threat to the republic. I think he’s just a nigh-powerless, deluded nut. If he gets the number two spot in the California open primary, he’ll have the word “Republican” after his name, which will be enough to get all of the wingnuts to vote for him. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37581 "2018-05-02T17:59:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > If he gets the number two spot in the California open primary, he’ll have the word “Republican” after his name, which will be enough to get all of the wingnuts to vote for him. Thank God that wingnuts are distinct minority in California. His presence on the ballot would just ensure more of a Democratic landslide than usual. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1878) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1880)