# 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:** 1932
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38622 "2018-08-16T23:47:32Z")
They don’t remember Queen of Soul. I think they’re crazy, their viewers growing old… ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38623 "2018-08-17T00:29:34Z")
This is perfect: Fox News Apologizes! [https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1030225297461923840](https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1030225297461923840) ---
**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 17, 2018, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38624 "2018-08-17T07:52:13Z")
Tucker Carlson shouts at a Univision reporter that [tacos aren’t Mexican food.](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/fox-news-host-tucker-carlson-repeatedly-claims-tacos-american-food-confused-mexican-journalist/) > [@](#): > > “What do you mean, ‘their food?’ It’s American food! It’s American food!” Carlson said. “What do you think, you own tacos now, or something?” I feel like [I own them] they’re an American food and I’m going to keep eating them even though I agree with Jeff Sessions.” > > Acevedo was stunned and said again that we should all celebrate each other’s cultures. > > “What do you mean each other’s cultures? It’s an American food, it’s an American food—you’re not going to appropriate my culture,” Carlson said. “I’m from San Diego, man. Those are my tacos. Mine!” As a native San Diegan, I will acknowledge that we have pretty awesome tacos, but you’d have to be dumber than a sack of hammers to think they were _invented_ there. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38625 "2018-08-17T09:11:17Z")
That is THE FIRST time I’ve ever watched this Carlson guy. Really? He has a news job? I’ve only read about him, but great fuck. What the Univision broadcaster said hits home more: This is what a divided country looks like. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2018, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38626 "2018-08-17T09:21:43Z")
Jon Stewart was right about Carlson all those years ago: he’s hurting America. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2018, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38627 "2018-08-17T09:22:02Z")
Like San Diego didn’t use to be Mexico. Does he think Ward Cleaver invented tacos in 1955 or something? ---
**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:** [August 17, 2018, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38628 "2018-08-17T11:02:50Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Tucker Carlson shouts at a Univision reporter that [tacos aren’t Mexican food.](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/fox-news-host-tucker-carlson-repeatedly-claims-tacos-american-food-confused-mexican-journalist/) > > As a native San Diegan, I will acknowledge that we have pretty awesome tacos, but you’d have to be dumber than a sack of hammers to think they were _invented_ there. He probably only knows the hard shell taco. Which _was_ invented in the US. [Wiki.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taco#Hard-shell_tacos) > [@](#): > > Non-traditional variations > Hard-shell tacos > > Beginning from the early part of the twentieth century, various types of tacos have become popular in the United States and Canada.[14] An early appearance of a description of the taco in the United States in English was in a 1914 cookbook, California Mexican-Spanish Cookbook, by Bertha Haffner Ginger.[15] The most common type of taco in the US is the hard-shell, U-shaped version, first described in a cookbook, The good life: New Mexican food, authored by Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert and published in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1949.[16] These types are sold by restaurants and by fast food chains, while kits are readily available in most supermarkets. Even non-Mexican oriented fast food restaurants have sold tacos. **Mass production of this type of taco was encouraged by the invention of devices to hold the tortillas in the U-shape as they were deep-fried. A patent for such a device was issued to New York restaurateur Juvencio Maldonado in 1950, based on his patent filing of 1947 (U.S. Patent No. 2,506,305**).[17][18] Such tacos are crisp-fried corn tortillas filled with seasoned ground beef, cheese, lettuce, and sometimes tomato, onion, salsa, sour cream, and avocado or guacamole.[19] ---
**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 17, 2018, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38629 "2018-08-17T11:41:39Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > He probably only knows the hard shell taco. Which _was_ invented in the US. If he’s from San Diego, he oughta know that a San Diego taco is made of chuck roast stewed with tomatoes, peppers, and onions, shredded, folded into a corn tortilla, fried until crispy, and garnished with shredded cheddar, lettuce, and hot sauce. And he also oughta know that the _only_ places you can get one of those are owned, operated, and staffed by Mexicans. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38630 "2018-08-17T14:50:33Z")
Most San Diegans (well, everyone in Southern Calif., really) under the age of 40 probably only knows (or wants) “Tijuana street style” tacos, and probably only gets tacos with fried shells at Jack-in-the-Box. Even most people over 40 prefer the “street” taco style, unless they’re from some totally isolated suburb. But it doesn’t really matter–Carlson is a complete douche. One of humanity’s most embarrassing specimens. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38631 "2018-08-17T16:20:53Z")
**running coach @38621:** That’s fascinating AND horrifying information. So those awful crispy taco shells were foisted on the innocent mid 20th century U.S. populace _in order to sell machines that make_ awful crispy taco shells…? ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38632 "2018-08-17T17:12:15Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > Most San Diegans (well, everyone in Southern Calif., really) under the age of 40 probably only knows (or wants) “Tijuana street style” tacos, and probably only gets tacos with fried shells at Jack-in-the-Box. > > Even most people over 40 prefer the “street” taco style, unless they’re from some totally isolated suburb. > > But it doesn’t really matter–Carlson is a complete douche. One of humanity’s most embarrassing specimens. Seriously. Every once in a while I jones for a Taco Bell taco, but I NEVER think of them as real tacos. They’re just junk food. When I want a taco it’s an embarrassment of riches…with nary a hard shell in sight. ---
**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 17, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38633 "2018-08-17T19:10:56Z")
Kellyanne Conway [has a baffling question](https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/tv/news/kellyanne-conway-why-is-everybody-so-obsessed-with-the-president-video/ar-BBM3oxL) for the White House press corps: > [@](#): > > “Why is everybody so obsessed with the president of the United States that they can’t even begin or finish a sentence without mentioning his name five times,” she told the media after facing questions outside the White House. “It’s kind of weird.” ---
**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:** [August 17, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38634 "2018-08-17T19:12:53Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Kellyanne Conway [has a baffling question](https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/tv/news/kellyanne-conway-why-is-everybody-so-obsessed-with-the-president-video/ar-BBM3oxL) for the White House press corps: Those aren’t the questions. Those are the voices in her head. ---
**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 17, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38635 "2018-08-17T19:49:24Z")
The Boston Globe gets a bomb threat after Trump criticizes them for their role in the coordinated editorializing against Trump. > **[Threat made against Boston Globe after editorial condemning Trump](https://thehill.com/homenews/media/402237-threat-made-at-boston-globe-after-editorial-condemning-trump/)** > > A threat was reported at The Boston Globe on Thursday, the same day the newspaper spearheaded a campaign to publish coordinated editorials at multiple papers condemning President Trump’s atta… ---
**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:** [August 17, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38636 "2018-08-17T19:57:54Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Kellyanne Conway [has a baffling question](https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/tv/news/kellyanne-conway-why-is-everybody-so-obsessed-with-the-president-video/ar-BBM3oxL) for the White House press corps: That’s to get and hold his attention in case he’s watching. ---
**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 17, 2018, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38637 "2018-08-17T20:24:46Z")
Erik Prince and his plans to privatize the Afghanistan war. > **[Trump eyes Erik Prince plan to privatize U.S. war in Afghanistan](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/officials-worry-trump-may-back-erik-prince-plan-privatize-war-n901401)** > > "I know he's frustrated," Blackwater founder Prince said of the president. "He gave the Pentagon what they wanted. And they haven't delivered." Does he think he can siphon more money out of the Department of Defense and the country they rampage through better than Dick Cheney did? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38638 "2018-08-17T20:50:06Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Kellyanne Conway [has a baffling question](https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/tv/news/kellyanne-conway-why-is-everybody-so-obsessed-with-the-president-video/ar-BBM3oxL) for the White House press corps: “Why aren’t you talking about what I want you to talk about? How can I make you ask questions which burnish Trump, instead of poking holes in literally everything he fucks up?” “Why do you feel compelled to pry into criminality? Is it newsworthy to you? I’ll tell you what’s newsworthy: Me accusing you of doing something stupid which you never do.” ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38639 "2018-08-17T22:06:15Z")
[Medical Marijuana Violates Muh Ruhlijuhns!](https://www.ksl.com/?sid=46377313&nid=148&title=new-lawsuit-claims-medical-marijuana-initiative-violates-religious-freedoms) > [@Mormontopia](#): > > A new Drug Safe Utah lawsuit against the lieutenant governor argues the medical marijuana initiative should be kept off the November ballot in part because it violates constitutional protections of religious freedom. > > [snip] > > The lawsuit argues that the initiative — which generally allows people with certain illnesses to get a medical cannabis card from their physician — also includes language that “mandates that LDS (Church) members would have to open their homes and personal property to tenants who possess and consume mind-altering substances, which is a direct affront to their deeply held religious beliefs.” You mean… they might have to rent to people who _ **drink coffee!!!lebbentyONEZZZ!!!** _ Nah, here’s the text: > [@](#): > > The legal complaint was making reference to a section of the initiative that states: “No landlord may refuse to lease to and may not otherwise penalize a person for the person’s status as a medical cannabis card holder, unless failing to do so would cause the landlord to lose a monetary or licensing-related benefit under federal law.” Oh no. They can’t use their religion to end-run state law to fight Culture War battles. Oh the horrors. ---
**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 18, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38640 "2018-08-18T01:42:42Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > Most San Diegans (well, everyone in Southern Calif., really) under the age of 40 probably only knows (or wants) “Tijuana street style” tacos, and probably only gets tacos with fried shells at Jack-in-the-Box. I’m slightly under 40 and I’d rather have a 'Berto’s-style fried shell taco, as I described above, than a street taco. The Jack in the Box taco is basically a dirt cheap imitation of the original San Diego crunchy taco. ---
**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 18, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38641 "2018-08-18T02:40:28Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > [Medical Marijuana Violates Muh Ruhlijuhns!](https://www.ksl.com/?sid=46377313&nid=148&title=new-lawsuit-claims-medical-marijuana-initiative-violates-religious-freedoms)You mean… they might have to rent to people who _ **drink coffee!!!lebbentyONEZZZ!!!** _ > > Nah, here’s the text:Oh no. They can’t use their religion to end-run state law to fight Culture War battles. Oh the horrors. Wouldn’t this lawsuit mean they could discriminate against people in a multiracial relationship? Or have sex outside of marriage? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1931) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1933)