# 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:** 1889
**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:** [May 20, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37762 "2018-05-20T01:32:45Z")
A former Dallas judge who’s now running in a GOP runoff for local commissioner has admitted to setting up a living trust that rewards his children for marrying white, Christian spouses of the opposite sex. > **[GOP Candidate Sets Up Trust To Pay His Kids For Marrying White People](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vickers-cunningham-pays-kids-for-marrying-white_n_5aff9cfee4b0a046186baa8d)** > > Even his own mom calls him a bigot, but former judge Vickers Cunningham insists his opposition to interracial and same-sex marriage didn't affect his rulings. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37763 "2018-05-20T01:38:38Z")
Oh dear god. The crazy lady started filling our mutual friend’s page with anti-abortion propaganda and claiming that Liberals are evil. :smack: I blocked her and apologized to my friend. I’m not going to argue politics with you on someone else’s page. I’m certainly not going to help you Gish Gallop yourself into a frenzy. ---
**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 21, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37764 "2018-05-21T03:09:41Z")
Oliver North: School shootings are caused by Ritalin. > **[Incoming NRA president: ‘Disease’ is violence, not the Second Amendment](https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/388500-incoming-nra-president-disease-is-violence-not-the-2nd-amendment/)** > > Incoming National Rifle Association President Oliver North said in a Sunday show interview that the problem facing America is a culture of violence rather than the Second Amendment. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37765 "2018-05-21T03:22:17Z")
Or, as I’ve said elsewhere; Oliver North, convicted felon who directly violated an act of congress. He’s already shown that he has no character, honor or shame. This is all about the money for him and it is strangely fitting that an illegal arms dealer should be lead a corrupt organization of arms dealers and owners who are more than willing to accept foreign money and slander victims of violence. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37766 "2018-05-21T03:47:33Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Or, as I’ve said elsewhere; > > Oliver North, convicted felon who directly violated an act of congress. He’s already shown that he has no character, honor or shame. This is all about the money for him and it is strangely fitting that an illegal arms dealer should be lead a corrupt organization of arms dealers and owners who are more than willing to accept foreign money and slander victims of violence. Our next door neighbour knew North when both worked at the Pentagon. He said that everyone was scared of North, that he was a real loose cannon. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37767 "2018-05-21T04:29:02Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Oliver North: School shootings are caused by Ritalin. > [http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/388500-incoming-nra-president-disease-is-violence-not-the-2nd-amendment](http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/388500-incoming-nra-president-disease-is-violence-not-the-2nd-amendment) Oh? I thought it was a “heart problem” (someone always says this when there is a mass shooting, because God has to be readmitted into the schools and more prayers must be offered up, and then nobody would be shooting anybody). ---
**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:** [May 21, 2018, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37768 "2018-05-21T16:31:25Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > Wouldn’t it cause a fire hazard to reduce the number of doors and windows that could serve as exits in case of an emergency? I guess the would-be school shooter can just start a fire in the building instead of procuring and using a gun. Yay! School shootings solved! :smack: The death toll goes up, sure, but at least it shuts up those liberals going on and on about gun control every two weeks. At first when I heard this guy, I assumed that he must be only talking about reducing the number of entrances into the building, making everything else fire doors locked from the inside that turn on an alarm when opened. But no, he specifically said to reduce the number of exits. What a moron. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2018, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37769 "2018-05-21T16:41:56Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Oh? I thought it was a “heart problem” (someone always says this when there is a mass shooting, because God has to be readmitted into the schools and more prayers must be offered up, and then nobody would be shooting anybody). > [@](#): > > “You’re not going to fix it by taking away the rights of law-abiding citizens,” North said. “But I’m sure that puling a wild theory out of my ass will help.” ---
**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 21, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37770 "2018-05-21T19:48:58Z")
Hugh Hewitt thinks schools should ban trench coats. > **[Hugh Hewitt suggests schools ban trench coats after Texas shooting](https://thehill.com/homenews/media/388657-hugh-hewitt-suggests-schools-ban-trench-coats-after-texas-shooting/)** > > MSNBC host and conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt on Monday suggested that schools ban trench coats days after a gunman reportedly wearing a trench coat opened fire at a Santa Fe, Texas, high sch… ---
**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 21, 2018, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37771 "2018-05-21T19:54:44Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Hugh Hewitt thinks schools should ban trench coats. > [http://thehill.com/homenews/media/388657-hugh-hewitt-suggests-schools-ban-trench-coats-after-texas-shooting](http://thehill.com/homenews/media/388657-hugh-hewitt-suggests-schools-ban-trench-coats-after-texas-shooting) But then only criminals will have trench coats! Wait, maybe it’s a good idea then - Arrest anyone wearing a trench coat. ---
**Author:** ![anomalous1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@anomalous1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anomalous1)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37772 "2018-05-21T20:07:33Z")
Not worried about hidden guns, worried about the Mopery! ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37773 "2018-05-21T20:27:14Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > But then only criminals will have trench coats! > > Wait, maybe it’s a good idea then - Arrest anyone wearing a trench coat. Jesus, the nerve on that guy. > [@](#): > > Hewitt noted that while it’s unclear why the gunman chose to carry out the shooting, there are “patterns” in shootings.“There’s a pattern, pattern recognition is important here. And people need to put down the rhetoric and pick up the study,” I, too, have noticed a pattern. In every mass shooting out there, the criminal had routine access to a fucking gun and a shit ton of ammunition. Here, I cracked the case wide open for you, you picklefaced arse. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37774 "2018-05-21T21:02:44Z")
Wait, what about Chuck Norris? [![](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/615aDTV8w8L._SX466_.jpg) ](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/615aDTV8w8L._SX466_.jpg) Columbo? [![](https://wynstep.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/fig07-23_columbo19761010.jpg) ](https://wynstep.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/fig07-23_columbo19761010.jpg) Wesley Snipes? [https://www.black-leatherjacket.com/image/cache/data/Wesley-snipes-blade-trench-leather-coat/blade-trench-coat-900x900.jpg](https://www.black-leatherjacket.com/image/cache/data/Wesley-snipes-blade-trench-leather-coat/blade-trench-coat-900x900.jpg) Bogart? [![](https://i1.wp.com/journal.styleforum.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/PastedGraphic-13.jpeg?fit=800%2C1032&ssl=1) ](https://i1.wp.com/journal.styleforum.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/PastedGraphic-13.jpeg?fit=800%2C1032&ssl=1) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37775 "2018-05-21T21:17:07Z")
Chuck Norris just stares at high school kids, and they shoot themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37776 "2018-05-21T22:36:47Z")
Not since the alzheimer’s crept up on him and caught him by surprise. Still waiting for that 1,000 years of darkness because we re-elected Obama. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37777 "2018-05-21T23:20:16Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Still waiting for that 1,000 years of darkness because we re-elected Obama. It started in 2016, in early November. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37778 "2018-05-22T00:28:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Hugh Hewitt thinks schools should ban trench coats. > [http://thehill.com/homenews/media/388657-hugh-hewitt-suggests-schools-ban-trench-coats-after-texas-shooting](http://thehill.com/homenews/media/388657-hugh-hewitt-suggests-schools-ban-trench-coats-after-texas-shooting) When I was a kid, a trench coat was part of the official school uniform. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37779 "2018-05-22T00:37:07Z")
I see now that hoodies are also part of the uniform. How times have changed. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2018, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37780 "2018-05-22T01:26:53Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > I see now that hoodies are also part of the uniform. How times have changed. Hoodies and torn jeans are the uniform at my kids’ school. It’s not official, but it might as well be. Which was the point a (Republican) friend made to my son when he refused to wear his Scout uniform. “What do ALL your friends wear? You DO realize you’re already wearing a uniform, right? So why not suck it up and wear the gear?” (Luckily, his boss the Leftie Scoutmaster just shrugged and said “Okay, no problem, as long as that hood doesn’t get in the way of you listening to instructions.”) ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37781 "2018-05-22T01:30:15Z")
Here’s a new one. > [@](#): > > Vickers Cunningham, a Republican candidate for the county commission, had received an endorsement from The Dallas Morning News. But after telling the paper he wanted to reward his children for marrying straight white people, he found himself at the center of a controversy accusing him of being a racist. > The Dallas Morning News reported that Cunningham said he had set up a trust that encouraged his children to marry individuals who were “white, Christian and the opposite sex.” > “I strongly support traditional family values,” Cunningham said, according to the paper. "If you marry a person of the opposite sex that’s Caucasian, that’s Christian, they will get a distribution [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1888) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1890)