# 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:** 1909
**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:** [July 5, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38162 "2018-07-05T21:12:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Yet another Republican candidate for Congress who’s a Nazi. > [GOP House candidate went on neo-Nazi podcast to promote Holocaust denial – ThinkProgress](https://thinkprogress.org/gop-candidate-for-congress-california-neo-nazi-be57ad1be109/) 😕 The thinkprogress link says Fitzgerald received 36,279 primary votes, but Ballotpedia places the number at [20,354](https://ballotpedia.org/Mark_DeSaulnier#Elections) (while having the incumbent at 54,786, so it looks like the seat is probably safe).\* Wonder what’s the reason for the discrepancy? \*Scroll down to “Top-Two Primary” ---
**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:** [July 5, 2018, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38163 "2018-07-05T22:58:40Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Or, just possibly, two people came up with the same obvious joke. It really is low-hanging fruit. If you say something two hours before I do, then I say it having never heard you, did I steal it? And please don’t say, “but it’s on Twitter”; I read dozens of messages a day, but the people I follow tweet hundreds to thousands of times. > [@wguy123](#): > > I’ve been hearing jokes about not getting over her emails for weeks (maybe months). I’ve even seen them posted on this very board. It wasn’t new those two hours before. > [@SaneBill](#): > > I decided to google if it was on STMB, found this: [post 4](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=850287) ( also 7, 8, 9, 19, 24 and 32 ) - close enough 😃 All true. It could be that no one writing in that specific ‘nineteenth-century-Ken-Burns-doco’ style for the Twitter SecondCivilWar hashtag, had copied someone else. Or it could be that some copying occurred. It does happen. In any case, the hashtag does have a large number of truly hilarious entries. (Not sure if this write-up has been linked: [#SecondCivilWar: how a wild conspiracy theory became a July 4th Twitter meme - Vox](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/5/17536556/second-civil-war-conspiracy-theory-july-4-twitter-meme) There are some good ones, as well as a discussion of the Alex Jones origins of the meme.) (Nice research, SaneBill!) ---
**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:** [July 6, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38164 "2018-07-06T15:54:06Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Yet another Republican candidate for Congress who’s a Nazi. > [GOP House candidate went on neo-Nazi podcast to promote Holocaust denial – ThinkProgress](https://thinkprogress.org/gop-candidate-for-congress-california-neo-nazi-be57ad1be109/) Well, true, the Reppublicans are putting forth a self declared Nazi who is campaigning on the belief that there is a [vast Jewish conspiracy to pollute the white race with multicultrualism](http://johnfitzgeraldforcongress.com/why-are-jewish-elitists-jewish-organizations-and-democrat-politicians-primarily-pushing-multiculturalism-and-race-mixing-in-america-and-europe-through-immigration-policies-and-advertising/), but the other side is putting forth a self declared socialist who supports medicare for all. I think we can safely say that both sides do it. :smack: ---
**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:** [July 6, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38165 "2018-07-06T17:33:39Z")
On the 4th of July, Senator Steve Daines of Montana tweeted, “Hearing the sound of fireworks all around us, celebrating freedom!” > He was in Moscow. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38166 "2018-07-06T17:52:17Z")
Later in the thread, Daines posted this: > [@](#): > > Did you consider the possibility of flying on Delta Airlines, departing Moscow early on the 4th, via AMS and DTW, arriving DCA at around 6 pm on same day…in time for fireworks? 🙂 Which looks doable, so I’m guessing he was actually back. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38167 "2018-07-06T18:09:06Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Later in the thread, Daines posted this: > > Which looks doable, so I’m guessing he was actually back. “Doable” and “done” are not synonyms, and I thought they were supposed to be there through the fifth? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38168 "2018-07-06T19:36:08Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > “Doable” and “done” are not synonyms, and I thought they were supposed to be there through the fifth? I’m as big a GOP bashing fan as the next guy, but I really don’t think even a below average intelligence GOP senator would be stupid enough to post an itinerary of their route if they actually hadn’t flown it. Presumably somebody would see him in either Moscow or DC, so the risk would be too great for any one other than the Great Teflon Prevaricator, President PantsOnHead. He probably figured out the bad optics of being in Russia on the 4th and found a way home. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38169 "2018-07-06T19:40:29Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Later in the thread, Daines posted this: > > Which looks doable, so I’m guessing he was actually back. But he says he left early on the 4th. Weren’t the meetings with Putin’s boys during the day? Not early morning? ---
**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:** [July 6, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38170 "2018-07-06T19:56:06Z")
You \*cannot \*make this shit up. :smack: **[Tucker Carlson: Dems are ‘plotting a coup’ using immigration protests](http://thehill.com/homenews/media/395842-tucker-carlson-dems-are-plotting-a-coup-through-immigration)** > [@](#): > > Fox News Host Tucker Carlson said on Thursday that Democrats have been “plotting, in effect, a coup” as President Trump continues to face public pressure over his immigration policies. > > “What happened to liberals? Well, a lot of things. One, they lost power, and that drove them off the deep end. They plan to get their power back, no matter what it takes,” Carlson said during his Thursday evening show, before explaining “how the left plans to do it.” > > … > > “They’re going to tell you it’s about civil rights, or about some other principle that they pretend to care about, but they are lying,” Carlson said in reference to Democrats. “It’s about seizing power and holding it. That’s their only aim, they’re deadly serious about it. While you were grilling in the backyard last night, they were plotting, in effect, a coup.” > … ---
**Author:** ![SaneBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SaneBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaneBill)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38171 "2018-07-06T20:03:54Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > You \*cannot \*make this shit up. :smack: It’s NOT made up ?? Well, then 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38172 "2018-07-06T20:07:54Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Later in the thread, Daines posted this: > > Which looks doable, so I’m guessing he was actually back. I would love to know what sort of dirty crooked treasonous deals they made with Putin **this** time around. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38173 "2018-07-06T20:15:27Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > You \*cannot \*make this shit up. :smack: > > **[Tucker Carlson: Dems are ‘plotting a coup’ using immigration protests](http://thehill.com/homenews/media/395842-tucker-carlson-dems-are-plotting-a-coup-through-immigration)** It’s an old Nazi trick… accuse the other side of all the things YOU are doing. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38174 "2018-07-06T20:16:40Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > You \*cannot \*make this shit up. :smack: > > **[Tucker Carlson: Dems are ‘plotting a coup’ using immigration protests](http://thehill.com/homenews/media/395842-tucker-carlson-dems-are-plotting-a-coup-through-immigration)** That boy’s face has had a serious lack of punching done to it throughout his life… ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38175 "2018-07-06T20:23:59Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > That boy’s face has had a serious lack of punching done to it throughout his life… However much he did get, wasn’t enough. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38176 "2018-07-06T20:38:09Z")
Read somewhere in passing that Tucker Tucker Bo Bucker is starting to nibble into Hannity’s market share. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38177 "2018-07-06T21:18:12Z")
GOP governor cuts health care budget to prevent Planned Parenthood funding > [@](#): > > The State reported on Friday that McMaster vetoed nearly $16 million in health care services — a move that came with the goal of defunding abortion clinics such as Planned Parenthood. > … > “As a result of this political move, none of the South Carolinians who rely on Medicaid for their healthcare will be able to access family planning services at any of the state’s 4,000 Medicaid providers.” - [The Hill](http://thehill.com/homenews/395879-gop-governor-cuts-health-care-budget-to-prevent-planned-parenthood-funding) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38178 "2018-07-06T21:35:15Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Read somewhere in passing that Tucker Tucker Bo Bucker is starting to nibble into Hannity’s market share. I guess the amount of insane stupidity in the U.S., while daunting, is indeed finite. ---
**Author:** ![anomalous1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@anomalous1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anomalous1)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38179 "2018-07-06T21:53:04Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Read somewhere in passing that Tucker Tucker Bo Bucker is starting to nibble into Hannity’s market share. They’ll figure something out either by working together or working harder to compete instead of blaming others for their misfortune. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38180 "2018-07-06T23:11:41Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Well, true, the Reppublicans are putting forth a self declared Nazi who is campaigning on the belief that there is a [vast Jewish conspiracy to pollute the white race with multicultrualism](http://johnfitzgeraldforcongress.com/why-are-jewish-elitists-jewish-organizations-and-democrat-politicians-primarily-pushing-multiculturalism-and-race-mixing-in-america-and-europe-through-immigration-policies-and-advertising/), but the other side is putting forth a self declared socialist who supports medicare for all. > > I think we can safely say that both sides do it. :smack: I believe the ‘Medicare for All’ proposal is now supported by a majority of the population. So it hard;ly counts as a radical socialist position, does it? Whereas the Nazi/worldwide-Jewish-Conspiracy is far from mainstream. So I don’t see the equivalence here. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38181 "2018-07-07T01:23:04Z")
Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is accused of groping four women at a party for lawmakers in March. He is refusing to step down. > **[Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill rejects calls to resign in wake of...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/indiana-attorney-general-curtis-hill-faces-calls-to-resign-after-groping-allegations/2018/07/06/ccf6cd38-813e-11e8-b9a5-7e1c013f8c33_story.html?utm_term=.9c1c9e312700)** > > A state lawmaker is one of four women who say Hill drunkenly groped them at a party marking the end of the legislative session in March. Hill on Friday decried the allegations as “vicious and false.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1908) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1910)