# 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:** 1899
**Author:** ![SaneBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SaneBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaneBill)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37962 "2018-06-08T13:12:10Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > The thing is, Melania has to know from first-hand experience just how credible her husband is; I mean, none of us live with him, but we know that nothing he says can be trusted. That’s like an actual fact of her daily life; we just deal with it from afar. Melania knew right from the start how much she can trust trump. When trump cheated on his second wife, Melania witnessed the whole thing. ( And obviously Marla Maples has similar info… ) Giuliani is a moron. “Donald is a trustworthy man of family values. Ask any of his three wives…” Also… I’ve never understood that “selling her body” phrase. It’s RENTING ! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37963 "2018-06-08T14:07:31Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The important thing is that Jeff Sessions gets to make brown people suffer, and that’s practically been his lifelong goal in politics. It’s working - [Iowa high school student murdered within weeks of being returned to Mexico](https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/rekha-basu/2018/06/07/deportation-death-des-moines-high-school-dreamer-daca-mexico-drug-cartels/680234002/). He was brought to America when he was three years old. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37964 "2018-06-08T14:19:04Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Didn’t Donald himself take scantily-clad photos of her on his plane and sell them? I think I saw those on my Yahoo! page sidebar. That was her wasn’t it. Some sort of gold colored negligee that could not be considered clothes in any way, shape, or form. Such class. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37965 "2018-06-08T14:21:57Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I think I saw those on my Yahoo! page sidebar. That was her wasn’t it. Some sort of gold colored negligee that could not be considered clothes in any way, shape, or form. [And at least one in which she’s not wearing anything other than a necklace and bracelets.](http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/donald-trump-melania-trump-knauss-first-lady-erections) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37966 "2018-06-08T14:39:44Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [And at least one in which she’s not wearing anything other than a necklace and bracelets.](http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/donald-trump-melania-trump-knauss-first-lady-erections) Did not look at link. You sure they aren’t handcuffs and a leash? ---
**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:** [June 8, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37967 "2018-06-08T14:45:19Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Did not look at link. You sure they aren’t handcuffs and a leash? You’re probably not serious, but no. She’s cuffed to an attaché case. ---
**Author:** ![SaneBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SaneBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaneBill)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37968 "2018-06-08T14:58:01Z")
And in the attaché case there’s probably the money she got from selling her body for the pleasure of male readers. She’s a real pro. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2018, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37969 "2018-06-08T15:35:22Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > I mean, it makes sense as deterrent, in the same way “we shoot brown people on sight near the rio grande” would work as deterrent. Still pretty awful, though. From the first link its also clear that he is using the kidnapping of children to extort their parents to give up their asylum claims. > [@Satan's elf](#): > > And they are kept close by, and if the person pleads guilty, they would be deported promptly, and they can take their children with them. So I’m quite sure that Homeland Security strongly implies to parents that if they ever want to see their children they will plead guilty. > [@SaneBill](#): > > Also… I’ve never understood that “selling her body” phrase. It’s RENTING ! Although in Melania’s case it seems that Trump exercised the “rent to own” option. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37970 "2018-06-08T16:36:03Z")
She’s already 48. He divorced Ivana when she was 43. And Marla? _In 1996, Trump fired his bodyguard after a police officer found Maples and the bodyguard together under a lifeguard stand on a deserted beach at 4 am. Maples and Trump separated in May 1997 and divorced June 8, 1999._ How dare she be cheating on him when he was busy cheating on her! So honestly, I wouldn’t be at all shocked if they divorce immediately after he leaves office. Regardless of the circumstances of him leaving office. In his mind, he’s probably due for a younger replacement. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37971 "2018-06-12T02:23:08Z")
Lindsay Graham files a resolution before the Senate allowing Trump to declare war if the Korea talks don’t go to his liking. [http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/391726-rand-paul-lindsey-graham-a-danger-to-the-country-for-seeking-military](http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/391726-rand-paul-lindsey-graham-a-danger-to-the-country-for-seeking-military)? Republican NJ candidate for Congress calls diversity "a bunch of crap and un-American > **[GOP congressional candidate: Diversity is 'a bunch of crap and un-American' |...](https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/11/politics/republican-new-jersey-diversity/)** > > A Republican running for New Jersey's 2nd Congressional District thinks diversity is "a bunch of crap and un-American," according to comments he made in a video posted to YouTube by a progressive super PAC. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37972 "2018-06-12T02:52:20Z")
Welp, I wouldn’t have expect to agree with Rand Paul over Lindsay Graham, but there it is. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2018, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37973 "2018-06-12T02:58:47Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Lindsay Graham files a resolution before the Senate allowing Trump to declare war if the Korea talks don’t go to his liking. > [http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/391726-rand-paul-lindsey-graham-a-danger-to-the-country-for-seeking-military](http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/391726-rand-paul-lindsey-graham-a-danger-to-the-country-for-seeking-military)? Remind me again why it was so awful for Clinton to have voted for the Iraq War. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2018, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37974 "2018-06-12T08:10:52Z")
Because Bush wasn’t really trying to find WMD’s. The war was designed to depose a secularist and destroy a nationalist government so that religious fanatics could take over and the country be plunged into a nightmare of sectarian violence for generations. Saddam appeared to be a vicious cult-of-personality tyrant, an egoist more blatantly murderous than Putin only inasmuch as he’d have you killed in the same room he was in; but he was also a force for tolerance and relative stability. That’s why. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37975 "2018-06-12T14:50:42Z")
“The GOP plunges toward its own special place in hell” (Washington Post) > **[Opinion | The GOP plunges toward its own special place in hell](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-pompous-gop-credo-was-a-sham-all-along/2018/06/11/0b700636-6db4-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html?utm_term=.66ad2408e2f3)** > > Just listen to what Mitch McConnell told evangelical Christians last week. > [@](#): > > Are you old enough to remember when the Republican Party had principles and a backbone? It seems so long ago. > > If you do recall that bygone time, you might expect that said principles and backbone will assert themselves, sooner or later, against President Trump. Stop waiting, because it’s not going to happen. The pompous GOP credo was apparently a sham all along. > > Trump has completely overturned what once was hallowed Republican orthodoxy on free trade. He has blithely ignored what used to be GOP holy writ about fiscal restraint. He mocks the party’s traditional foreign policy stance, enjoying better rapport with dictators than with the democratically elected leaders of nations that for decades have been our closest allies. He refuses even to pay lip service to the notion of universal human rights. He lies, constantly and shamelessly, to the people he is sworn to represent. In both his public and private lives, he acts as if he believes that personal responsibility — which Republicans so love to preach about — is for losers. > > If a Democratic president acted this way, he or she would already have been impeached by the GOP-controlled Congress. … Nuttin’ new, but a good summary. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37976 "2018-06-12T15:51:07Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “The GOP plunges toward its own special place in hell” (Washington Post) > [https://tinyurl.com/yc7ulsxh](https://tinyurl.com/yc7ulsxh) > > > [@](#): > > > > Are you old enough to remember when the Republican Party had principles and a backbone? It seems so long ago. Pre-Nixon, certainly. I know, I know, Ronald Wilson Reagan, King Of Kings, is a _Statesman_ now, and not to be questioned, and AIDS can just slink back to the 1990s where it _belongs_, never mind the fact the Reagan GOP ignored the public health emergency of the era because it affected gays, Blacks, and some poor hemophiliacs who were gonna die anyway, right? And nobody remembers James Watt, saying bad things about Ollie North or Iran-Contra makes you a rabid anti-NRA liberal now, and noticing that rabid privatization and deficit-hawking was, on the whole, a _bad_ thing is utterly disallowed. > **[Opinion | The GOP plunges toward its own special place in hell](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-pompous-gop-credo-was-a-sham-all-along/2018/06/11/0b700636-6db4-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.78776fd03bbf)** > > Just listen to what Mitch McConnell told evangelical Christians last week. I mean, take this: > [@](#): > > The crowd of Bible-thumping hypocrites — I don’t know what else to call them — applauded. > > Sorry, but I simply don’t understand how politically active evangelicals can reconcile devout Christian faith with uncritical support of Trump. Should all of his behavior be excused because he appoints judges who will restrict abortion and same-sex marriage rights? Then tell me, what is pro-family about a policy of forcibly separating asylum-seekers from their young children at the border? Where in the New Testament does it say that blessed are the cruel? How is any of this meaningfully different from what the Evangelicals have applauded since they came into the GOP during the Reagan Revolution? Ronald Reagan created no-fault divorce when he was governor of California, he destroyed social programs and expanded the Cold War, and he ignored the most marginalized and destitute. But since some of those marginalized and destitute were gay, well, _that_ makes it all better. Bashing Trump by defending the Purity And Virtue of the Modern GOP only makes them look like they have absolutely no knowledge of history. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37977 "2018-06-13T06:54:07Z")
Listening to the republicans in congress talk about Trump praising Kim is utterly cringeworthy. > **[We asked 9 Republican senators if it was appropriate for Trump to praise Kim...](https://www.vox.com/2018/6/12/17448858/trump-kim-summit-praise-north-korea-republicans)** > > Senate Republicans are trying to avoid the fact that Trump effusively praised a brutal dictator. > [@](#): > > Tara Golshan > Did you find it appropriate for the president to say that the people of North Korea love their leader and support him with fervor? > > David Perdue > Well, I haven’t talked to the president yet since he’s going to get back tonight. So I’m not going to comment on anything that reporting said. > > Tara Golshan > Okay, he said that to the press. > > David Perdue > Yeah. Thank you. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37978 "2018-06-13T12:31:29Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > She’s already 48. > > He divorced Ivana when she was 43. > > And Marla? > > _In 1996, Trump fired his bodyguard after a police officer found Maples and the bodyguard together under a lifeguard stand on a deserted beach at 4 am. Maples and Trump separated in May 1997 and divorced June 8, 1999._ > > How dare she be cheating on him when he was busy cheating on her! Yeah, pretty sure that if their pre-nup has an infidelity clause, it’s probably not reciprocal. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37979 "2018-06-13T19:23:19Z")
Steve King retweets a self-avowed Nazi on immigration. TPM can’t find a single Republican who will condemn him for it. > **[Republican Leaders Silent Full Day After Congressman Retweets Neo-Nazi](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/republican-leaders-silent-full-day-after-congressman-retweets-neo-nazi)** > > Rep. Steve King (R-IA) retweeted a neo-Nazi on Tuesday morning. He has faced no consequences for the tweet, and the leaders of his party have so far remained silent. Mark Collett, whom King retweeted… ---
**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:** [June 13, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37980 "2018-06-13T19:30:03Z")
The Republicans of Virginia, in their infinite wisdom, have nominated a neo-Confederate whom Trump enthusiastically endorses. The National Republican Senatorial Committee has said they will not support him, nor campaign for him. > **[Senate GOP campaign arm has no plans to endorse Republican nominee in Virginia](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/392064-senate-gop-campaign-arm-has-no-plans-to-endorse-republican-candidate-in/)** > > The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has no plans to endorse Corey Stewart, the party’s Senate nominee in Virginia, the group’s chairman said Wednesday. “We ha… ---
**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:** [June 13, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37981 "2018-06-13T23:11:58Z")
Did illuminati assassins try to kill Larry Kudlow with a heart attack gun? > **[Right-wing pastor: ‘Did Illuminati assassins target Larry Kudlow with a...](https://deadstate.org/right-wing-pastor-did-illuminati-assassins-target-larry-kudlow-with-a-heart-attack-gun/)** > > Paul Begley's unintentional comedy show will never jump the shark. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1898) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1900)