# 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:** 1927
**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:** [August 9, 2018, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38522 "2018-08-09T03:08:37Z")
Devin Nunes tells Republican donors that they need to shut down Mueller and get Sessions not to recuse, or “all of this goes away”. [Devin Nunes Tells Donors GOP Must Keep Obstructing Mueller Or 'All Of This Goes Away' | Crooks and Liars](https://crooksandliars.com/2018/08/devin-nunes-tells-donors-gop-must-keep)? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38523 "2018-08-09T03:21:39Z")
Could Sessions “unrecuse” himself or is that something that once stated becomes binding? ---
**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:** [August 9, 2018, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38524 "2018-08-09T04:51:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The official Arizona GOP Twitter account: > “The U.S. has witnessed 94 consecutive months of job growth. This proves that President Trump’s bold vision for our nation is working, and opportunities are back for American families. We must keep Arizona red to continue this momentum!” > [https://twitter.com/AZGOP/status/1026577916128362497](https://twitter.com/AZGOP/status/1026577916128362497) > > 74 of those months happened before Trump became President. But the 6 years of growth under Obama only happened because the market was anticipating Donald Trumps election. Come on, work with me here! It all makes sense if you use Republican logic. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2018, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38525 "2018-08-09T09:28:49Z")
Okay, I get that math is hard (as is attention to detail), but if we want to point and laugh at the Pubbies, we should try to avoid careless errors. The America-hating fuckstick had his inauguration on 01/20/2017. 07/20/2018 (a bit less than three weeks ago marked the end of his 18th month in office. He doesn’t get even technical credit for twenty months of job growth; it’s eighteen. And seventy-six for Obama. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2018, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38526 "2018-08-09T10:08:41Z")
[Representative Chris Collins slapped down for insider trading](https://newrepublic.com/article/150557/congress-makes-corruption-easy). The sheer degree of corruption here is rather mind-boggling. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38527 "2018-08-09T14:36:19Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > The sad part is I don’t think Cruz really should need the help but is worried the Trumpetistas may sit it out and make it look bad. > > How’s them “New York values” workin’ for ya, Lyin’ Ted? The really sad part is that Cruz almost certainly would have won the nomination if he’d given Cadet Bone Spurs a fat lip for insulting his wife. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38528 "2018-08-09T14:48:20Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > 43% of Republicans think Trump should have the power to shut down media outlets. > [https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/americans-views-media-2018-08-07](https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/americans-views-media-2018-08-07) That’s disturbing! ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38529 "2018-08-09T14:51:24Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [The EPA is now allowing asbestos to be used in building materials again.](https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/) > > We’ve reached the point where our country is literally run by the villains from Captain Planet. Aw, holy fuck! Utterly insane! ---
**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:** [August 9, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38530 "2018-08-09T15:49:12Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > The really sad part is that Cruz almost certainly would have won the nomination if he’d given Cadet Bone Spurs a fat lip for insulting his wife. AND his father. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38531 "2018-08-09T18:59:54Z")
Senator Joni Ernst, lying a number of times: “They (the NRA) do not give us money. That would be illegal and I’d be driving a nicer car.” Of course they give her money, she reports it to the FEC. And is she saying that she uses campaign contributions for her personal use? > ---
**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:** [August 9, 2018, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38532 "2018-08-09T23:00:32Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Senator Joni Ernst, lying a number of times: > “They (the NRA) do not give us money. That would be illegal and I’d be driving a nicer car.” > > Of course they give her money, she reports it to the FEC. And is she saying that she uses campaign contributions for her personal use? > [https://twitter.com/IowaMFOL/status/1027403863303876609](https://twitter.com/IowaMFOL/status/1027403863303876609) Hey, anything goes in the wonderful new world into which Trump has ushered the GOP. > [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > [Representative Chris Collins slapped down for insider trading](https://newrepublic.com/article/150557/congress-makes-corruption-easy). The sheer degree of corruption here is rather mind-boggling. And the apologists are OUTRAGED that Collins is facing any consequences at all, because he didn’t sell his OWN stock!!!1!!! No matter that he passed insider information (on camera!) to his son, who, along with other family members, saved themselves from a cool three-quarter-million dollars in losses. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38533 "2018-08-10T03:27:50Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [The EPA is now allowing asbestos to be used in building materials again.](https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/) > > We’ve reached the point where our country is literally run by the villains from Captain Planet. I proofread deposition transcripts for a living. I read a lot of plaintiff and expert witness depos in asbestos cases. May everyone who played a part in making this abomination possible be afflicted with mesothelioma. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38534 "2018-08-10T05:44:23Z")
Boils, incontinence, impotence, and any of the known sexual diseases of the camel should be sufficient. I am a genial and forgiving person. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2018, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38535 "2018-08-10T06:00:47Z")
CJD would satisfy me. And it would be comparatively humane. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2018, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38536 "2018-08-10T06:43:45Z")
We don’t have a thread on the Indiana senate race between Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly and his Republican opponent, multimillionaire businessman Mike Braun, but [this fits here too](https://apnews.com/46b17a69a15548d684520af6aa684f4c/APNewsBreak:-Indiana-candidate's-brand-markets-Chinese-parts): > [@](#): > > The off-road accessory was shipped in a box emblazoned with the logo of an auto parts brand owned by Mike Braun, a multimillionaire businessman who often rails against foreign outsourcing in his bid to become Indiana’s next senator. > > The words “Made in China” were stamped across the packaging. > > Braun frequently criticizes his opponent, vulnerable red-state Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly, for once owning stock in a family business his brother runs that operates a factory in Mexico. However, the Republican nominee’s own parts brand, Promaxx Automotive, sells products that were similarly manufactured abroad, according to a review by The Associated Press. > > It has been well documented that Braun’s national auto parts distribution company, Meyer Distributing, ships and sells other companies’ goods that are made outside of the U.S. Such practice doesn’t leave him vulnerable to charges of hypocrisy, he argues, because as a distributor he only resells the parts and has no control over where the companies make them. > > But the revelation about the Chinese origin of much of his own products line, which Meyer trademarked with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, draws into question some of Braun’s statements on the campaign trail, where he seldom — if ever — mentions Promaxx. > > Braun’s campaign would not say what percentage of Promaxx parts are made in America. Spokesman Josh Kelley issued a statement Thursday suggesting it was a distraction from “Donnelly’s record of profiting from outsourcing.” The AP seems to have done a pretty thorough job of looking into this and they detail quite a few ways that Mr. Braun’s comments don’t match with what they found. Kinda stupid to spout off like he did, eh. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2018, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38537 "2018-08-10T07:10:35Z")
As if Pizzagate wasn’t bad enough, the right-wing CT paranoids have now decided that Portland’s Voodoo Doughnut is [also part of Crooked Hillary’s interplanetary Satanic pedophile ring.](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/portlands-famed-voodoo-doughnut-center-new-far-right-conspiracy-theory/) It’d be laughable if it weren’t so stupid and offensive and potentially dangerous to the bakery, its employees, and its customers. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38538 "2018-08-10T13:30:36Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Okay, I get that math is hard (as is attention to detail), but if we want to point and laugh at the Pubbies, we should try to avoid careless errors. The America-hating fuckstick had his inauguration on 01/20/2017. 07/20/2018 (a bit less than three weeks ago marked the end of his 18th month in office. > > He doesn’t get even technical credit for twenty months of job growth; it’s eighteen. And seventy-six for Obama. Yes but they’ll claim: 1. the market naturally recovered on its own 2. the market recovered thanks to the Tea Party, which kept Obama under control. 3. Obama’s market & job growth are weaker than Trump’s Technically, there are kernels of truth there, but it glosses over the fact that Obama stabilized a very unstable economy, and that Trump is coming in at what is likely to be the end stages of this economic hot streak. Moreover, some of his blunders are going to lead us into a Trump recession (which he will blame on newly-elected Democrats) and some of his other blunders will make the recession even worse than it would otherwise be (again, Democrats are to blame) ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38539 "2018-08-10T13:33:32Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > That’s disturbing! And I suspect that this poll was taken before the Alex Jones smack down. It’s probably even higher now. The Republican and conservative base is appealing to fewer people, but those who remain in its ranks are blatantly and unapologetically authoritarian – and racist. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38540 "2018-08-10T13:38:19Z")
And here we finally have it, Laura Ingraham clearly saying what most Trump viewers are feeling: > [@](#): > > “In some parts of the country it does seem like the America we know and love doesn’t exist anymore,” Ingraham continued. “Massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the American people. And they’re changes that none of us ever voted for and most of us don’t like. [http://thehill.com/homenews/media/401044-laura-ingraham-america-as-we-know-it-doesnt-exist-anymore-due-to-demographic](http://thehill.com/homenews/media/401044-laura-ingraham-america-as-we-know-it-doesnt-exist-anymore-due-to-demographic) ---
**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:** [August 10, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38541 "2018-08-10T13:44:12Z")
That example should be taken to the Jeong thread and used as an example of a white person spouting clearly racist bullshit and not being fired. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1926) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1928)