# 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:** 1904
**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:** [June 23, 2018, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38062 "2018-06-23T23:36:56Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Just throwing away the dog whistles and going full-on racist, eh, Mike? > > (You have to wonder, presuming Huckabee actually is a theist, how he pictures his God reacting to his little foray into hatemongering.) Look on the bright side : this time around it won’t be blacks or Muslims being The Problem. The GOP is embracing the diversity and multi-cultural yadda yadda of this great nation ! Plus it keeps you guessing, which is a staple of good TV. Who’ll be the next mortal threat to white people everywhere ? Will it be Koreans, Ukrainians, the Irish ? You don’t know ! ---
**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 24, 2018, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38063 "2018-06-24T00:10:52Z")
The Chairwoman of the state of Minnesota Republican Party is fed up with Republican party leaders making racist and sexist comments about her (She’s Korean, adopted by American parents). > **[Minnesota GOP chairwoman accuses state party leaders of racist insults](https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/393796-minnesota-gop-chairwoman-accuses-party-leaders-of-racist-insults/? __twitter_impression=true&__ twitter_impression=true)** > > The chairwoman of the Minnesota Republican Party on Friday accused fellow Republicans in the state of making racist and sexist comments about her.Jennifer Carnahan, who was born in South Korea and … ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38064 "2018-06-24T00:23:02Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > The goalpost for ‘dangerous’ was set at killing or hurting _people_, where Antifa’s main target for their destructive tendencies seems to be _property_ I have a cite from an antifa leader saying otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38065 "2018-06-24T00:24:02Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > That’s a good reminder of how old you are when someone hands you their phone to take a picture and you instinctively hold it up to look through the viewfinder. I’m 34, and people hold their phones up to their faces so they can see the screen. Which, I suppose, _is_ a viewfinder on a phone camera. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38066 "2018-06-24T00:25:27Z")
[You know who _else_ was a violent antifa?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower) ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38067 "2018-06-24T00:42:43Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > [You know who _else_ was a violent antifa?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower) That’s clever and funny and all that, but it’s worth pointing out that “Antifa” wasn’t a civilian political movement in Ike’s time, and that his antipathy towards the right wing in the US, before during and after his time as POTUS, never included advocacy of violence against persons or property. Just sayin’. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2018, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38068 "2018-06-24T05:08:16Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > I have a cite from an antifa leader saying otherwise. I have a death from a neo-nazi showing results of his actions. Besides: [White Supremacists Killed More People in US in 2017 Than Muslims, Antifa and Kneeling NFL Players Combined](https://www.theroot.com/white-supremacists-killed-more-people-in-2017-than-musl-1822193008) > [@](#): > > 2017 was a banner year for white supremacists. The Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Extremism reports that right-wing extremists were responsible for 71 percent of all extremist-related deaths in the U.S. last year. > > Of the 34 extremist-related murders, most (18) were committed by white supremacists, including the death of Richard W. Collins III, a Bowie State University student killed hours before his graduation by Sean Urbanski, and the fatal stabbing of two people by Jeremy Christian during a racist rant aboard a Portland train. > [@](#): > > Despite the hype of conservatives around the country, many of last year’s nominees failed miserably. Black Lives Matter, a group that many whites want so badly to be considered a terrorist organization, failed to kill a single individual in 2017, as it has during every year of its existence. Antifa, which President Donald Trump condemned as one of the groups in Charlottesville, Va., that had very bad people “on both sides,” did not cause a death last year. More tragically, the Anti-Defamation League could not find anyone who died or was even critically injured by a professional football player who kneeled during the national anthem. ---
**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 24, 2018, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38069 "2018-06-24T05:44:29Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I have a death from a neo-nazi showing results of his actions. > > Besides: [White Supremacists Killed More People in US in 2017 Than Muslims, Antifa and Kneeling NFL Players Combined](https://www.theroot.com/white-supremacists-killed-more-people-in-2017-than-musl-1822193008) I’m sure some of them were flagged for personal fouls, though. Both sides do it! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38070 "2018-06-24T06:21:27Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Chairwoman of the state of Minnesota Republican Party is fed up with Republican party leaders making racist and sexist comments about her (She’s Korean, adopted by American parents). > [http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/393796-minnesota-gop-chairwoman-accuses-party-leaders-of-racist-insults?\_\_twitter\_impression=true&\_\_twitter\_impression=true](http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/393796-minnesota-gop-chairwoman-accuses-party-leaders-of-racist-insults? __twitter_impression=true&__ twitter_impression=true) She’s missing the tree for the forest. Her final quote in that store: > [@](#): > > If I thought [Trump] was a racist or that anything he did was stoking racial divisions, I wouldn’t want to work on his behalf because I’ve had to deal with racism my entire life. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2018, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38071 "2018-06-24T08:38:52Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I have a death from a neo-nazi showing results of his actions. > > Besides: [White Supremacists Killed More People in US in 2017 Than Muslims, Antifa and Kneeling NFL Players Combined](https://www.theroot.com/white-supremacists-killed-more-people-in-2017-than-musl-1822193008) I’m sure the SG will be signing the giant posters of the grieving families real soon. The’re just in line behind the families involved in the other 32,000 gun deaths in the past year. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38072 "2018-06-24T21:08:11Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I have a death from a neo-nazi showing results of his actions. > > Besides: [White Supremacists Killed More People in US in 2017 Than Muslims, Antifa and Kneeling NFL Players Combined](https://www.theroot.com/white-supremacists-killed-more-people-in-2017-than-musl-1822193008) Eh, only shows that Antifa (that philosophy which a major leader defined to be explicitly violent) hasn’t seen as many openings to kill people yet. Probably because, for all their whining, the police _are_ generally on their side. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38073 "2018-06-24T23:11:58Z")
Because if the police were against them they’d have more chances to kill people? ---
**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 25, 2018, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38074 "2018-06-25T09:37:51Z")
I’m not sure “they’re actually more violent because they’d hypothetically be killing more people” constitutes a compelling argument (or indeed an argument at all). ---
**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:** [June 25, 2018, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38075 "2018-06-25T10:21:50Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I’m not sure “they’re actually more violent because they’d hypothetically be killing more people” constitutes a compelling argument (or indeed an argument at all). No but see, people who haven’t harmed anybody are worse than actual murderers because my hypothetical ! ---
**Author:** ![SaneBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SaneBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaneBill)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38076 "2018-06-25T10:36:33Z")
Good people are far more dangerous than bad people because there’s more of them. Think about the potential ! And of course the worst are people who don’t give a damn about anything. They are the actual majority and many cops are on their side :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38077 "2018-06-25T12:36:56Z")
> [@SaneBill](#): > > Good people are far more dangerous than bad people because there’s more of them. Think about the potential ! People have said nearly that on this MB with regards to mildly racist people versus outright racists. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38078 "2018-06-25T13:19:10Z")
We’re getting into [Poe’s Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law) territory here - can’t tell the parody from the real thing. ---
**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 26, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38079 "2018-06-26T17:46:47Z")
Congressman Andy Biggs of Arizona has introduced a resolution in the House calling for Maxine Waters to apologize to the White House and resign. (Warning: Link is to Fox News) > **[Republican lawmaker introduces motion asking for Maxine Waters' resignation](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republican-lawmaker-introduces-motion-asking-for-maxine-waters-resignation)** > > A Republican Congressman on Monday introduced an initiative to censure California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters and ask for her resignation after she encouraged others to confront Trump administration officials. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38080 "2018-06-26T18:07:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Chairwoman of the state of Minnesota Republican Party is fed up with Republican party leaders making racist and sexist comments about her (She’s Korean, adopted by American parents). > [http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/393796-minnesota-gop-chairwoman-accuses-party-leaders-of-racist-insults?\_\_twitter\_impression=true&\_\_twitter\_impression=true](http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/393796-minnesota-gop-chairwoman-accuses-party-leaders-of-racist-insults? __twitter_impression=true&__ twitter_impression=true) > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > She’s missing the tree for the forest. Her final quote in that store: > > > [@](#): > > > > If I thought [Trump] was a racist or that anything he did was stoking racial divisions, I wouldn’t want to work on his behalf because I’ve had to deal with racism my entire life. ANd this part: > [@](#): > > “Some (sadly) Republican Party leaders/executive committee members around this state have made racist comments about me, and to me calling me — ‘dragon lady, a c----k, a stupid Asian not even born in America’ and other awful racial slurs,” she wrote, **adding, “Not sure how these people still maintain their roles.”** > > In the post, Carnahan wrote that the “daily” emails and social media posts from people, in addition to the comments from other party leaders, are “starting to get to” her. > > The post also pays tribute to her father, who she says told her to “always be polite and respectful to others, no matter what.” “Not sure how these people maintain their roles”??? IT’S BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE YOU KEEP THEIR FUCKING MOUTHS SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEAKING UP WHEN OTHER PEOPLE ARE BEING ASSHOLES! This is NOT a good way to conduct oneself in life: > [@](#): > > “First they came for the immigrants, but I did not speak up because speaking up seems rude and uncivil and I wouldn’t want to be perceived as divisive.” Speaking up because others are rude or uncivil is not rude or uncivil and FFS being rude and uncivil is already being divisive; calling it out is unifying. This lady has been too silent for too long, IMO. ---
**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 26, 2018, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38081 "2018-06-26T18:08:05Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Congressman Andy Biggs of Arizona has introduced a resolution in the House calling for Maxine Waters to apologize to the White House and resign. > (Warning: Link is to Fox News) > [Republican lawmaker introduces motion asking for Maxine Waters' resignation | Fox News](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/26/republican-lawmaker-introduces-motion-asking-for-maxine-waters-resignation.html) Yeah. :smack: That will fix this whole freakin’ mess. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1903) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1905)