# 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:** 1893
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37842 "2018-05-29T06:00:37Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > At this point, I’m not sure why anyone thinks Trump does anything with his base in mind. If he really is as invincible a god to them as everyone says, why does he have to expend the least bit of effort to speak to them or satisfy them? He could make abortion a federal right and ban the Second Amendment and they’d excuse hm, so what’s the point? Trump is not some clever master criminal. He’s a disturbed character who enjoys having his ego stoked. ---
**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 29, 2018, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37843 "2018-05-29T06:42:09Z")
Speaking of which, someone should really tell him he’d be the greatest ever if he managed to enact gun control with some teeth in it. Or that Obama said he would never federally fund abortion clinics across the land. Hell, tell him he can build them with Trump Co. and line his pockets with free money from the government while doing so, so it’s win-win. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37844 "2018-05-29T13:31:27Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Trump is not some clever master criminal. He’s a disturbed character who enjoys having his ego stoked. Just think of him as six years old. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37845 "2018-05-29T16:54:34Z")
[Feel the love!](https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/29/politics/rudy-giuliani-booed-yankees-game/index.html) > [@](#): > > It was not a warm home team welcome for former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. > Giuliani, an avid Yankees fan, was back in the Bronx for a game on Memorial Day in celebration of his 74th birthday. > “The New York Yankees wish a very happy birthday to Mayor Giuliani,” an announcer said over the loudspeaker during the game. The birthday greeting was greeted by loud and sustained boos throughout the crowd… ---
**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:** [May 29, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37846 "2018-05-29T17:12:01Z")
It figures Rudy would be a Yankee fan. > **[Yankees Fans Pack Stadium For Asshole Heritage Night](https://www.theonion.com/yankees-fans-pack-stadium-for-asshole-heritage-night-1826328296)** > > NEW YORK—Selling out the entire venue and filling the standing room to capacity, thousands of fans flocked to Yankee Stadium Friday to proudly celebrate asshole heritage night. “Today, we honor the contributions and history of the many jackasses who... ---
**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:** [May 29, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37847 "2018-05-29T17:16:28Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > At this point, I’m not sure why anyone thinks Trump does anything with his base in mind. If he really is as invincible a god to them as everyone says, why does he have to expend the least bit of effort to speak to them or satisfy them? He could make abortion a federal right and ban the Second Amendment and they’d excuse hm, so what’s the point? That is the whole point, that it doesn’t matter what it is, it will endear him to his base. Most people would look at what giuliani is doing, and think that it reflects poorly upon the president at least that he would choose someone so incompetent to speak for him, but to his base it doesn’t matter. It will either be justified or dismissed as “fake news”. ---
**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 29, 2018, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37848 "2018-05-29T17:29:25Z")
Roseanne Barr is going even more crazy than usual on Twitter today, making racist comments about Valerie Jarrett, claiming Chelsea Clinton is married to George Soros’s nephew, claiming that Soros turned his fellow Jews in to the Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37849 "2018-05-29T17:42:08Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [Feel the love!](https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/29/politics/rudy-giuliani-booed-yankees-game/index.html) Fake Noise!!!11@ ---
**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:** [May 29, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37850 "2018-05-29T18:24:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Roseanne Barr is going even more crazy than usual on Twitter today, making racist comments about Valerie Jarrett, claiming Chelsea Clinton is married to George Soros’s nephew, claiming that Soros turned his fellow Jews in to the Nazis. [Roseanne’ Canceled at ABC](http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/roseanne-canceled-abc-1202824211/) ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37851 "2018-05-29T18:38:05Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > [Roseanne’ Canceled at ABC](http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/roseanne-canceled-abc-1202824211/) The Trumpublicans can’t even swing a TV show on a broadcast TV network? They can’t even save a show on the medium which is, at this point, catering exclusively to the older-middle-age and senior citizen market? Yeah… I can see why absolutely nobody gives two shits when they threaten to boycott something. The next decade is going to be a series of rude fucking awakenings for those morons, or at least the ones who survive that much longer. Welcome to Permanent Minority Status, fucknuggets! ---
**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:** [May 29, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37852 "2018-05-29T18:38:15Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > [Roseanne’ Canceled at ABC](http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/roseanne-canceled-abc-1202824211/) Almost sad. Can’t they do a “No Roseanne?” I actually like pretty much the entirety of the rest of the cast. It’s a fun show when she’s not on the screen. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37853 "2018-05-29T18:45:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Roseanne Barr is going even more crazy than usual on Twitter today, making racist comments about Valerie Jarrett, claiming Chelsea Clinton is married to George Soros’s nephew, claiming that Soros turned his fellow Jews in to the Nazis. Roseanne Barr is _not_ a Republican. She’s a Trump supporter, but she ran for the Green Party nomination previously and she has typically supported Democratic (or at least leftist) causes. Why she supports Trump is beyond me (though why anyone does it beyond me). ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37854 "2018-05-29T18:49:52Z")
Yeah that one (Roseanne) is not really a “Republican” idea. She has been into asshattery for its own sake for a long time. ---
**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 29, 2018, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37855 "2018-05-29T20:46:34Z")
The embodiment of sound and fury. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2018, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37856 "2018-05-30T01:13:53Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Trump is not some clever master criminal. He’s a disturbed character who enjoys having his ego stoked. ^This. He longs for his next rally, where cheers will fill that black hole inside him for a few precious moments. > [@Kobal2](#): > > Speaking of which, someone should really tell him he’d be the greatest ever if he managed to enact gun control with some teeth in it. Or that Obama said he would never federally fund abortion clinics across the land. Hell, tell him he can build them with Trump Co. and line his pockets with free money from the government while doing so, so it’s win-win. Wouldn’t work because the rally people wouldn’t cheer for any of it. Left-wing people would like it but won’t go to his rallies and won’t cheer. Just telling him that his rally people would cheer if he enacts gun control won’t fool him, because he’s had too much experience of them cheering when he says (or implies) that there will never be gun control on his watch. ---
**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 30, 2018, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37857 "2018-05-30T06:52:01Z")
Tennessee lawmaker says pornography is a ‘root cause’ of school shootings Republican Rep. Diane Black of Tennessee And it’s on grocery store shelves (probably at the checkout) …“Pornography. It’s available. It’s available on the shelf when you walk in the grocery store. Yeah, you have to reach up to get it, but there’s pornography there,” Black says in the audio. “All of this is available without parental guidance.” > **[Tennessee lawmaker says pornography is a 'root cause' of school shootings |...](https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/29/politics/diane-black-school-shootings-pornography/index.html)** > > Republican Rep. Diane Black of Tennessee recently cited pornography, along with the deterioration of the family and violent movies, as a contributing factor to gun violence in schools. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2018, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37858 "2018-05-30T08:16:50Z")
I take it that Rep. Black has never _been_ to a grocery store. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37859 "2018-05-30T11:45:16Z")
Or there are some truly fine grocery stores in her district… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37860 "2018-05-30T11:49:21Z")
Someone should buy her one of those long-handled grabbers so she doesn’t have to stretch to reach the top shelves. Or maybe a step-stool ---
**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 30, 2018, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37861 "2018-05-30T11:51:16Z")
The stores she frequents carry lube and butt plugs also. Groceries, not so much. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1892) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1894)